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No need to give up wine! I have wine most nights (the nights I don't go out and have beer!) and I work it into my calories. Easy peasy. I make sure I do some exercise every day, and the wine often comes out of that. Good luck!
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^^ This. I exercise like a demon when I know I'm going out - then I can drink back my exercise calories :) I really like real ale and nice dry white wine, and I've never really been keen on spirits - I don't want to do a swap, because I won't actually enjoy what I'm drinking. I budget for a few pints, and then switch to…
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Maybe make yourself a 'before and during' picture juxtaposition. It's easy to forget how far you've come! I would format it so there was a blank space on the right for 'after' and have it as my desktop image so I could see it every day. Honestly, I thought I would give up halfway (I've done that before). I thought I'd get…
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Me too! It's incredibly irritating. I reached my weight loss goal, and my arms are about right, my legs are looking good, my neck is looking scrawny, and my belly is sticking out in a ridiculous way. It looks out of proportion to everything else! Sooo, I made a new weightloss goal. I'm going to see if the belly's gone in…
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Aha! My tricks are a little limited - but I'm going to a masterclass with an excellent hooper at the weekend, and hope to learn a few more things! At the mo I can hoop around my waist, thighs, and sometimes shoulders (sometimes not - still working on that one). Can lift hoop off waist and into air so it spins around my…
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Ooohh, OK - so 100 per day every week looks like the way forward! So that'd put me at 1800 in six weeks. I think I was going for 200kcal bumps every month because it'd be easier to work out on the weeks when my bf cooks for me (I don't want to overcomplicate what is already quite a complicated system!), but I could…
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I'm feeling the fear too! Sezxy Stef - I am going to try "reverse dieting" too - at the end of this week I'm upping my calories by 200 per day for the whole of June, then another 200 per day for the whole of July, etc etc. Am interested in the process - did you still lose while you did this? I read a blog post where…
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Pounds are units within a stone. That's like saying "why do you think in metres? Surely centimetres would be less archaic". If modernity is what you want, go metric and think in kilograms. Tut.
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I'm on a 2 stone loss exactly today! I started in mid-August last year, on a 1,200 kcal diet (but eating back all my exercise calories), and had one pound a weeks loss up until about Feb, then it slowed down to about half a pound a week. I'm very close to goal, but I've changed my goal now - it's no longer about the…
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Oh, and sorry - OP - no, I don't think that's very realistic. If you ate hardly anything and exercised all day you might do it, but you'd mess up your metabolism.
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Me too! As an English person, I have to use my computer's calculator when people on here say "I'm 120 lbs", "I'm 186 pounds" etc, and divide it by 14 to make sense of it! I think the guy means "Yo, MAAAN, speak American!"
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Mine was bang smack in the middle of the healthy BMI range for my height. I'm one lb off it now, and I'm re-evaluating. What someone said above - the goal is not a number anymore, but looking in the mirror and approving of what I see! Keep to your goal if you want, re-evaluate it now if you want. I think most people change…
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^^ This. I'm going to work up to maintenance, adding 100 kcal a day every month until I get to whatever my maintenance level is, I'm going to track for a few months once I'm there (or six months or a year or however long it takes until I feel like I've got the knack of it) and then I'm going to fly solo. But keeping an eye…
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In for general advice. OP - Needing protein but disliking meat and eggs sounds to me like a perfect excuse to eat lots of CHEESE! Or, yeah, chickpeas and other pulses are awesome. You need a mixture of veggie if you're not eating animal products, because animal products have complete proteins, and veggies don't - so…
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I get that a lot. I say (in a duh-voice) "I'm going to burn it off". That's enough for most people - if you talk about exercise instead of about food choices then no one feels inclined to argue. Everyone has a different opinion about what foods you should or shouldn't eat, but everyone is agreed that exercise is A GOOD…
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I have two more pounds to go until my original goal (which is halfway in the normal BMI healthy range), but I think I might try to lose a couple more. It's annoying when your goal moves (as it sounds like yours is)! Hoping to get to goal before I go on holiday in a couple of weeks (ROME - so pasta, and pizza, and gelato…
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Oh my God, I do that! Or DID that, I guess. I'm fitter now! :drinker:
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I felt a little deja vu reading your post! For many many many years I was in the healthy BMI range - right at the top, but still in the range - and I was a liitle bit annoyed about my weight, but not enough to motivate me to do anything. It was only when I put on another stone and realised that I was technically…
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This sounds very familiar! Although, to be fair, with me cutting back some of the calories in our evening meal, he'd be invisible from the side if he didn't compensate somewhere! I think I have sabotaged people's weight loss - but a long time ago and without realising it was sabotage (or even really thinking about it at…
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I always take a break when I'm on holiday, and then have a few days of not eating back any exercise calories when I'm back - I soon get back to my previous weight! Despite eating more, I'm always more active when I'm away - walking all day exploring the sights, or swimming in the sea ... oh, now I want a holiday! I am…
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^^ Yup. This doesn't sound like you need nutrition or exercise advice, you need help with your attitude to nutrition and exercise (or rather, the obsession with numbers and weight that it's so easy to fall into).
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Ahhh yes, I know that one! Female friends as well as male ones. Usually it's 'you can just have one more pint: that's not going to ruin the diet'. Everyone does it. I remember doing it myself to other people when I was overweight and in denial! The problem is that no one realises just how difficult it makes things for…
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Just come across this trying to google it! To all the people who said: 'Why bother, just use the dry weight because water has no calories' - the confusion arises because some packets only list the calories for the pasta once it's cooked. So the Sainsbury's Linguine I have in front of me says 'Typical values per 100g…
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I'm only 7lbs away from goal, and only now is my belly starting to shrink! It did actually shrink a little bit before, but not much - and now that there's practically no fat left to lose from anywhere else, the body HAS to take it from the stomach. Very annoying, but there ya go :)
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Bread is my weakness too! I absolutely love warm crusty homemade bread - or proper bakery bread. All the bread! The way I do it is I restrict myself to bread only at weekends - I have a bacon or sausage sandwich in a nice crust roll, or ciabatta, or whatever, and then I don't really eat bread during the week. It's about…
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Haha! You guys would have a fit if you saw my food diary! Three pints is nowt.
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This is what I do. Easy peasy. And sometimes, when it's after midnight and everyone's getting more beer, I think "well, I'll count it as tomorrow". REAL ALE! YEAH!
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^^ This! I hula hoop pretty much every day, with a normal, non-weighted trick hoop - and it burns plenty of calories without having any extra weight! If you buy a weighted hoop you are never going to be able to use if for tricks - hooping around your arms, or over your head, or chest or leg hooping - which seems a shame.…
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I tend to 'save up' for the weekends. During the week I'll only eat back a little bit of my exercise calories, and at the weekend I eat back all of my exercise calories. People say that mfp tends to overestimate calories burned, so I average out at eating back about half. Work for me!
