runlilyrun

I would plan ahead to have a 'cheat day' on the day I'm celebrating Thanksgiving (or in my case Christmas - I'm in the UK) with my family - trying to keep the mince pies, chocolate etc in moderation for the rest of the holiday season. What this means for me is that for that day I just don't stress how much I'm eating - I…

This is my philosophy - and since MFP builds in a 500 calorie deficit I try to just not go over maintenance calories on a 'cheat day' - I look at it as keeping my metabolism high and therefore a necessary part of the process!

You can try to stick to things which are a definite portion rather than free-flowing - I'm thinking a piece of chicken or fish rather than a helping of spaghetti bolognaise?

I love snacky foods like that, so I have a 200cal each morning snack and afternoon snack factored into my mental calculations :) I aim for breakfast circa 350 cals, lunch 400 cals, dinner 400-600 cals.

I'm a girl and I struggle with 1,500! My first week or so on MFP I was set at 'sedentary' and was getting like a 1560 calorie goal and I found that really difficult. Then someone said that the categories are really generous so I shifted up to 'Lightly Active,' now have 1760, and manage to lose fairly consistently and never…

UK 14-16. (At the moment) That's a 31ish inch waist and 43ish inch hips. (curvy I know)

For me it helps with weight loss because I take it solidly so I never have periods (or have one every like four months) which means I never have the weeks where I don't want to get on my bike or go for a run because UGH BLOOD.

Exactly - people saying to only do it once per week because of the fluctuations - that makes no sense! I weigh every morning just to get a general idea, but I only write it down on Mondays (or if I miss that for whatever reason I take Sundays or Tuesdays)

I had a customer yesterday who wanted a large Coke and a large Coke Zero. When I said we don't sell Coke Zero any more but could I offer her Diet Coke or Sprite Zero, she just walked off. I was confused more than annoyed.

Wait, why would you even have two kinds of carrier bags available?! And why don't people just bag their own shopping like they do here? I don't understand.

Yesyesyes. Totally this. Also is there an East Asian language without a word for 'please' or 'thank you'? Trying to work out if there's a good reason for today's tourists' rudeness. 'I want a chicken sandwich and a coke'.

You can ask for salt, but I will judge you. Our chips are already salted. (Bear in mind I don't even own salt - I never use it in cooking or at the table) Nothing wrong with having money, I have money too, it's just in a bank account. As well as the potential to piss people off (oh look, the guy I'm serving is holding more…

Oh oh also. If you come to the fast food restaurant I work in and you ask for salt to put on your food, I judge you *so* hard. It's already got a ton in! Also I hate people who have a massssive wodge of notes (UK, so it's not like they could be $1 bills) that they rifle through trying to find one to pay with. Yes, I've…

I get a free meal every shift at the fast food restaurant I work in. Can't get cheaper than that ;) (To be fair, I prove that it's possible to make relatively healthy choices during that free meal - smaller burger & fruit bag)

Are you allowed to take hundred dollar bills? Where I work if we try to take a £50 note (around $80 maybe?) the system refuses and says we have to ask a manager... so we put in that we've been given £49.99 and just give an extra penny in change.

Or for hygiene reasons. At the moment I work in fast food and we get a lot of tradespeople with fairly mucky hands. Often they pay by card which means I don't even have to touch their money, which is good for the next half hour of customers' food health!

I had to give £6 change entirely in 20p pieces yesterday as I'd run our of everything between that and £10 notes - I'd already called my shift manager over to get me more change, and when she saw the inside of my till and I told her what I'd and to do she burst out laughing.

Firstly, 'chemicals' have always existed. Everything is a chemical. You are made up of chemicals. Secondly, the upsurge in cancer rates throughout the 20th century can be put down to the upsurge in life expectancies - quite simply, people didn't live long enough to *get* cancer before.

Are you in a town near Bath? The Chronicle's twitter feed mentioned it.

Agreed - even after a massive wedding meal that dress will still look elegant and beautiful. A sash in the same colour as your bridesmaids' dresses might look nice if you wanted to cinch it in a little - or you could ask a seamstress to take it in a little just around the upper torso.

I pop my popcorn on the stove with a little oil. I like to add a little sugar and cinnamon - nomnomnom

No biggie, just it was about the tenth time I'd read that in as many minutes and I cracked slightly...

No you don't. You want to weigh 130. Weight is not a verb. (Sorry, pet peeve)

I'd love to be at a sub-20 BMI, so that's about 133lbs - which is very light for 5 ft 9. I think 10 stone, or 140 lbs, is slim and lithe for someone with this height, and I'd love to work towards that goal. When I reach about 155, though, I'm going to work more on strength - it may be that that's a good weight to stay at…

A type of chicken wing that was first served in Buffalo, NY, I think - it was mentioned upthread. My favourite American invention is a pizza burger :D

For me it's a BMI with a 1 in front of it - so 19.9 which for me would be about 133 lbs so basically an UGW - or a clothing size with only one digit, so a UK 8 (which is a US 4-6 I think). I started at about 188 lbs so I was always under 200. Incidentally, that's one of the reasons I think why I put off starting this…

As with many others, I only post on FB when I hit milestones - so earlier this week I ran continuously for more than five minutes, which was such a huge achievement for me. Likewise, when I get under 12 stone which I aim to do by the end of this year I maaaay post about it - but that's iffy since one of my best friends is…

Just to chip in - the thing about people always having been skinny - they know what it is to eat healthy and move and so on. They don't, however, know what it is to have to make a change.

I might have to make myself an egg salad sandwich after reading this - nomnomnom!

Politics (for my sins!) and ofc