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They have dieticians on the NHS, and doctors can refer you. I was also hoping to be referred as she basically told me they can do nothing else for my IBS on the NHS either (it has been getting worse, constant bloating, I feel like a balloon all the time). I count my calories, I even have spare batteries for my food scale…

Heya everyone! Thanks for all the advice. I count calories, weigh everything, i don’t log generic but make sure I’m logging the brands. I was anorexic when I was a teenager so have been using a food scale for decades. I’m pretty militant with it. At moment I’m averaging 1650 calories a day (some more some less, try to keep…

Thanks for your replies :) My boyfriend loves my body and everyone thinks it is fine, I used to be anorexic so this mindset has stuck with me to an extent, I have tried changing my workouts (more weights and Pilates to be stronger and more flexible) along with cardio and have tried to recondition my body. I just can't help…

The weighing food thing I've been doing for 5+ years, and it worked for the first three, that's why I'm so baffled it just stopped working two years ago. I haven't put on any weight, logically dropping my daily average should be working?

Yep, I use spray oil, non stick pans and weigh and log butter when I use that. I only drink green tea or ginger tea or peppermint (etc) if I have a cappuccino I log it (once a week max) and helpfully the place I get my groceries has all their nutritional info online so I can get it there if I've chucked the packet out. I…

I am logging food, I use the polar app more for exercises as its automatic and I can check between the two easily ( I usually put the polar info into mfp a couple of times a week). I don't eat back exercise calories.

Monads university has an app for ibs- it traffic lights foods so you know what's bad to what extent- and it has a list of recipes. I've been doing fodmap and have managed to work out a good few (nice) recipes that are OK even on the most restrictive part of the diet. Pm me if you wanna ask any questions :) xxx

Thanks so much you guys. Your replies mean a lot to me. It's hard to talk to my friends about this as they've never been through this kind of thing (all super skinny). I just got terrified I wouldn't be at the point I wanted to on the day and wouldn't be able to look at the pictures after. Gotta work hard! Thanks again

I've gotten worse actually :/. I only got diagnosed a few months ago but had symptoms for about 6 years.

You have to do something, I actually cancelled my membership with a gym (and emailed the account manager I had set up the membership with) after the minimum period and they sent a debt collection agency after me for not calling them to cancel. Apparently the guy hadn't passed the message along (and he hadn't emailed me…

FUPA, Scottish version -> Fanny fat

Where do you get 90% cocoa chocolate? I can only find (lots of different brands of) 85% cocoa. Am now curious about that extra 5%. I do the same, have my 85% cocoa chocolate and work it into my calories. ...Though it would be a lie to say I only eat it when I have PMS

Small Frame? A bit of a shocker... being 5ft9 I always felt pretty sturdy for a girl. Maybe I just have teeny wrists, they do break pretty easily.

Okay, maybe not about my weight but I got a 'Hey, Frozen!' the other day. I was wearing a blue dress? I dunno it was really random. Worst weight one, 'huge *kitten*' by a drunken junkie. Nice.

Can I just throw this in: have you been checked for gallstones? You get massively sick from anything with a bit of fat in it and it doesn't just affect older people, I got them when I was 18. (I now have IBS 6 years later, and am totally fine with fat, though I know IBS affects everyone totally differently).

Yep, every gram. I'm at work most of the time. When I have coffee or tea both are sugarless and black. I am meticulous with it (I was anorexic when I was a teenager so logging food is conditioned into me now)

About 1750-1850. Mfp says I should eat 1720 (that's with the 250 cal deficit)

After having my gallbladder removed my digestion has never really been the same, I am never regular, though I get enough fiber =/water etc. On the diet thing, I was told to avoid fat. Especially eggs! For some reason eggs set gallbladder problems off alot if you have gallstones. Rosemary Connely has a few diet books out, I…

Cover your plate, look them in the eye and growl at them. They'll laugh it off but get the message. If not, a bite or two usually does the trick.

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I have lost weight being a pepsi max junkie, but I have cut it out. I personally cut it as I worried that it would start to affect my teeth. Also, I am trying to cut out a lot of artificial stuff etc, and diet fizzy drinks are just chemicals. Plus it's expensive. I think it's a personal choice? It helped me at first as I…

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HI, had my gallbladder out at 18, so yeah, I know how you feel. I never really had any choice. I was rushed in during an attack, then told they were going to whip the bugger out, my 'gallstones' were like sand apparently, I was told if they got the sand it, it was just going to happen again. And it would probably plague me…

^^ This. I used to be terrified of needles but after having anemia and surgery, with IV drips and multiple blood tests and injections I still faint pretty much every time. But you gotta just grin and bear it, because realistically, you will need something like this at some point, and letting your fear delay you from…

put him in a bag I'm not kidding, my flatmate's cat used to love sitting in paper bags, he's just sit inside one and peep out over the top. I think he did it for attention

I think it may be very hard for small places to do but if there is a chain (even only three or four) of a place then the nutrition should be there. It annoys me when not only chain eateries but but chain pastry shops dont list the nurtition, or only list the nutrition for half their stuff. I mean if they went to the bother…

Have you ever had trouble with your sinuses? I never used to have a problem but yeah, going to bed and in the mornings at the front of the skull (sometimes at the back of the head but most people its the front, behind the nose or eyes or a bit above). If it feels like pressure or throbbing it could be your sinuses. But I'm…

Never in the UK but when I lived in Paris it was constant, never from other joggers but just walkers. One time a guy tried to run beside me (because - funny?) and slipped on ice, fell on his butt and his head smacked on a handrail. I turned around, pointed and laughed and flipped him off. Felt so good. It was mainly guys,…

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Yep, especially the second and third levels, you are in push up/plank for a lot of the time. Could you maybe try one of her other DVDs that maybe has less push up stuff instead? I really screwed up my shoulder doing the 30DS this time (I've done it before and been ok but i must have just pulled it somehow). I havent tried…