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Check out agave syrup. I was a honey addict (had mine on toast!) and I switched to agave. It's around 12 calls pet tablespoon depending on the branding. They stock it near the jam/peanut butter in UK supermarkets but it might be with natural sugars like stevia too :)

Pack your own lunch! Make a tasty stir fry maybe? If it has to be packaged, have a look at the Asda 'good for you' range. They do a nice tuna sarnie! Or you could always grab a bag or mixed salad and a tin of tuna, or some olives or an avocado and make a salad on the go pretty easily?

keep celery sticks and carrots in your fridge, they're crisp and you can eat a relatively large amount of them - i make sure there is always a supply in the fridge for those manic 'open the cupboards and search for something to stuff in my face' moments ;)

We have similar starting stats - Female, 23, 5'4. I started at 149lbs on June 16th 2013, and I'm now at 126lbs. Just shy of 3 moths and I've shed 23lbs. The weight fully dropped off me to begin with, i lost the first 10lbs very quickly, within a few weeks. The rest of the weight has been coming off at a 1lb per week…

Firstly, you've lost so much weight - CONGRATULATIONS! Whenever you feel down or bad about yourself, just remind yourself how well you are doing. from 215 to 176 is an incredible achievement. I think everyone on a journey to improve themselves - wether that's weight loss or college or whatever - on every life changing…

Firstly, congratulations!! Secondly, it does happen. The quickest rate of weight loss will always happen at the start of the diet, and at a greater rate for those who have a larger amount of weight to loose. When you started with MFP, was it a shock to your system? By this I mean did you go from eating your previously…

You are a wonderful person for posting this! So helpful, commenting to bookmark!! Thank you for the info.

My allowance is set at maintenance, even though I'm not done with loosing weight yet!! I still log everything I eat, and aim to be around 500 calories under every day, but it changes. I set it at maintenance so that I know that anything I eat under that means I'm still loosing. Sometimes I eat at maintenance level and…

I so glad to see this post! I'm 5'5 and 128ish lbs. my goal is 120 but I started at 149lbs, not a sigificant Amount of weight in comparison to some of The incredible people on here, but I consistently get people telling me that I need to stop, I'm going too far etc. I'm a healthy bmi! I think that a lot of the comments are…

drinks! Smoothies, soups, all sorts. You could keep hot soups in a flask or something throughout the day to sip at if food isnt an option at work?

I find this a really useful tool: http://www.health-calc.com/diet/energy-expenditure-advanced It cuts out all the jargon and i find it easy to understand. Make sure to set it to 'female' as male is the default, i didnt realise the first time i used it. haha. It will calculate how many calories you need to maintain your…

I lost about 12lbs before i could notice. The first thing that i noticed was my jeans not fitting... gradually. I've lost almost 20lbs so far and people have only just started to notice, and i've only just started downsizing my clothes. dont get discouraged, you're doing great!!

Holy Crap lady, your legs go on for MILES. Congratulations you look incredible!

Thank you everyone - I definitely dont want to go into starvation mode! I also find it really weird that the scales are going down but i dont see any change... and yet i put clothes on and the dont fit me... then i look in the mirror and still see no change! Just me?