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Me personally no, I would never have weightloss surgery I know I can do it without. The thing is, its a highly personal choice but in the end both the surgery and using mfp require you making lifelong lifestyle changes for it to be successful. Wouldn't it then be better to do it slowly making small sustainable changes to…

Excellent read I wish there were more articles like this.

Stress always makes me shed hair like no tomorrow, make sure to schedule some relaxation time. I didn't lose any hair when my thyroid decided to stop working, well off my head anyways, it was great not to have to shave my legs very often. But it is a symptom for many. Great advice from everyone so far.

Simplest solution, don't bring money to work, you can buy chips, you can't eat them. Start there, then start bringing your own food for lunches and stay away from the free hot food. Baby steps, maybe also start with a small deficit like 0.5lb a week, once you have the hang of staying at that deficit they slowly lower it to…

^^ I second this ^^ Forget about macros for now and just start the rest will fall into place over time.

I can't have many cereals anymore as they are mainly fortified with iron and unfortunately that means the interfere with the uptake of one of my medications, it would mean I couldn't have breakfast until 10am at the earliest and I would be pretty hangry by then. It leaves me with porridge oats and muesli pretty much and I…

I started at a 38E and I'm now in a 32E/34DD at 77lbs down. I've had myself remeasured at a few intervals when the bra's became uncomfortable and just bought a couple, from the sales rack where possible, once I'm at my goal I will probably invest in a few more but it keeps changing so frequently it doesn't seem worth it at…

If I'm hungry and very few calories left for the day or no food at hand (think last hour at work) I have a cup of tea, that will usually do the trick until the next meal. It also rules out thirst as you can confuse this with hunger.

To me every loss on the scale is a win, I don't see not having reached my goal yet as failure. I weigh less now than I did at 14 (I'm 35) it's a win! I feel better in myself than I have done in years, also a win. The biggest win? Keeping it off once I reached my ideal that is the ultimate goal. Do I need a system for that?…

The first week is always fast and the majority of that loss will have been water weight. Now you have lost that excess of water you will be in fat loss zone which slows down to where you should be. No more than 1% of body weight a week is recommended for healthy loss without losing too much lean body mass. Keept at it but…

Well done for recognising the slippery slope of weight gain and stopping it in its tracks before being back to square one. You are still lighter now than you were at your heaviest. I would recommend getting some help for your depression it is an illness and you need some medical help whether it be counselling or tablets or…

First goal was 84kg from 107.6kg which was a weight goal set by my doctor and got me to a bmi of 29 to qualify for a procedure I needed. From there I set my goal to 73 kg which is a bmi of exactly 25, I'm 75.4kg, a little over my lowest a few weeks ago of 74.3kg, at the moment(I've been on holiday and went a little wild…

Sure, but like @VintageFeline said it's psychological followed by sloppy logging, I'm at a weight now I haven't been in more than 25 years it's hard to keep in the losing mindset and stay consistent as i haven't seen myself look like this in such a long time, but I will reach my goal I'm determined to see it through and…

I do something similar to this ^ Generally I try an resist for as long as possible, it's usually in the afternoon slump (between 3pm and finishing time for me) I get "snacky", by then it's usually all gone, it's a surprise if anything is left at lunch time (my colleagues are like vultures if there's food up for grabs) or…

A bit of advice I can give you is don't look at it as a diet but a lifestyle change. It reads to me as on both occasions you lost what weight you wanted to and then went back to old habits and put it back on, you want to keep it off for life right? Then make small changes over time that you can keep to for life. I have…

A little bit of hunger at some point during the day is normal. But it is going to be a balance between what you find tolerable and what you want to achieve. If you are constantly hungry then the solution would be to reassess your weekly weight loss goal, decide whether you can live with a slower loss a week and up your…

Shape wear is going to be your friend. Just try and lose the weight the best you can and have a trip to debenhams for some underwear that pulls you in you can get underwear that go from just below your bra to the knees if needed. A full stone in 5 weeks is going to be unrealistic, at most you may manage 10lbs but this may…

4.5 lb overnight, I retain a lot of water if I have flown so the day after my holiday I was up 11lb spend the day peeing like mad and whoosh the next day 4.5lb lighter. Lost another 2lbs the day after that hope it carries on but haven't weighed since.

Sushi is a great choice for a meal out when watching calories for 600-800 kcal you can get a decent selection and get pretty full. I tend to go for avocado or cucumber maki (8 pieces) and then some salmon/prawn or tamago nigiri (2-4pieces) and I'm stuffed. Enjoy your meal out!

It may just be that you have reached the lower limit of 1200 kcal that mfp sets to lose less than 0.5kg per week. For example if I set mfp to lose 1kg a week it gives me 1200 kcal, if I set it to 0.75kg a week it gives me the same therefore it stands to reason that with eating alone I wouldn't be able to safely create the…

I don't see what you are saying on the forum personally, yes the advice given is sometimes blunt and to the point but I don't take it as an attack. At the end of the day what I aimed to do was to give some perspective on the risks of losing too fast and within the safe guidelines that mfp advocates. If readers want to take…

Thanks! Glad you think it's helpful :)

On average I probably do eat it once a week and lost just fine. Enjoy your pizza and let the evidence speak for itself, no need to demonise it, it's not bad for you if you moderate.

Don't really like potatoes it won't be the first thing I choose to spend calories on especially not if they are boiled or mashed I will eat a jacket every now and then but chips (fries) I do like but don't have very often at all. Also don't like white rice it's just plain boring, don't mind brown rice but just as happily…

If you make it at home and substitute about 2/3 of mayo with fat free yogurt you can really reduce the calories. My favourite shop bought is about 120 kcal for 40g (a heaped tablespoon) the home made stuff I can eat nearly 200g for the same amount of calories.

First well done for losing 20lbs that's a great loss and pretty fast for 6-7 weeks. Did you lower your cals because you haven't seen any losses in a while? How far have you lowered them 1200 kcal is the bare minimum for women to get adequate nutrition so if you can try not to lower from there unless you are really short.…

300kcal isn't going to impact your loss massively. You could eat 300kcal less the next day or a bit less than usual but I doubt you see a huge impact on the scale. Unless that food was really salty then you may see a little water weight. Try eating a little less and do some exercise to compensate if you want but I…

I never suggested that you should lose weight over the same timescale as you gained it, the phrase you didn't lose the weight fast therefore you can't expect it to lose it fast is a way to point out you can't expect to lose a large amount of weight in a very short amount of time. It's to try and make people's expectations…

Surely with loss your calorie goal went down which means that if you lose your weight slowly you gradually learn how to eat less to maintain your smaller you, if you lose fast you are less likely to stick to those behaviors. Someone said on the forum once: the person why eat the most and still loses weight wins. I think…

It's easy to start put your details in to mfp set a goal, a reasonable rate of loss with which I mean don't make the deficit too big. Start logging what you eat now, a food scale would be good for accuracy. Look at your diary after a week and try and make small changes to hit your deficit. It's not complicated, you don't…