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I'm in! Starting weight: 162 Goal weight: 154 Tuesday 1st: 162 Tuesday 8th: Tuesday 15th: Tuesday 22nd: Tuesday 29th: What can you improve on; Tracking and exercise.

These are all awesome! Especially like 'Don’t cry to give up, cry to keep going. Don’t cry to quit. You’re already in pain, you’re already hurt. Get a reward from it'! Thanks for the extra motivation!

If you attend meeting WW can give you accountability that you may not find on MFP but they are basically the same, fill up on 'free' foods int he same way that if you eat more veg and log it on MFP you can have a great big plate of food for hardly any Calories. I have done both and both worked but MFP was free!

Applied! This looks awesome!

*Liver!

Dried Apricots! When I was pregnant my iron was low but they didn't want me to take a supplement so advised, red meat and live (both gross to me!), spinach and dried apricots. I have spinach in salads with lemon juice, yum! I don't relly like the dried apricots but I could force down one half each day and my iron shot…

I have done the 30 Day Shred twice. I love it, I like that its short, hard and gets results. Not huge amounts of weight loss but I did change shape. I would recommend ANY Jillian DVD's. It is my exercise of choice so I like Ripped in 30 - sort of an advancement on 30 Day Shred. I really like Extreme Shed and Shred. Its…

Thanks everyone!! I do exercise, time permitting (I have a young child and sometimes I am up at all hours with him) and I try to eat back at least 50% of the calories, when I am concentrating. I just wanted to check that I wasn't just trying to find a way to eat more - finding excuses! Thanks again!

Thank you all for your support and help. I mentioned to my husband that I had posted here and he was very supportive too.

How do you do that and stay at 117lbs!!!! Well Done you!!! I agree - who can only eat 1-2 pieces!!!

Thanks Zombieinkpot. I will try to look at my feelings a bit more! I have tried but I can never identify anything going on, I just seem to be greedy and bored! I think you might be right about not eating enough or not being excited about what meal I have planned though - that seems to ring really true. As well as when I…

Ha ha! Love the idea of kicking that little red jerk off your shoulder!!

Its terrible because we have stuff in the house but I know if I eat that then my husband will know so I go out and buy MORE stuff that I then eat and get rid of the packaging so he never knows!!! He is trying to be supportive but I wonder if somewhere deep down I feel like he is interfering so I am sabotaging myself.…

Great! Thank you agartin! So, I just need to try to keep myself busy! Something to focus on for a few days and see how I get on. CAN'T . . . . STOP . . . . . THINKING . . . . .ABOUT . . . . . . FOOD!!!! I'm not even hungry!!!!! That can't be normal!

Thank you italiangirlinva!

Ha ha! That's true! I think one of the issues this week was that I was home alone in the day time. Something that never happens - and in my mind that meant I could have a 'treat' and fill my face!

I love Jillian DVD's. I do Ripped in 30 when I don't have time for a longer work out, I did week 2 this morning - man its hard, got to love a plank move! Enjoy it, its really working for me!

I don't like it either but I feel I should let you know that my husband ate the meal replacement bars for lunch and did LOADS of exercise and lost his weight and kept it off. He didn't follow the full 'slimfast' diet though and he would have lost the same weight having the same amount of calories for lunch in real food. He…

Try dried apricots - they have loads of iron in them! I still have to force them down but better than eating liver in my opinion!

If you like DVD's I pretty much always reach for my Jillian Michael's stuff. 30 Day Shred is hard but if you stick with it you can go on to do them all. She has also just bought out a beginner shred so might be worth a look. A lot of her stuff is on youtube too so you can get it for free if you are able to! If, like me,…

Hi there, not sure if this would help, when I'm boiling the kettle for a cup of tea I walk back and forth in the kitchen, its 9 steps long and I can do it 10 times while the kettle boils. Each time is a extra 100 steps (with the walk to the kitchen and back again. I know that probably only maybe 300 extra steps in the day…

Thanks everyone. Stuck to it yesterday and feeling a little better. I'm about 1st from a healthy BMI (Middle of the range for my height) but a whole 19cm off a healthy waist size! Just seems so unachievable! But like you say, just have to be as healthy as I can and it's not a sign of failure, although that's how it feels!…

I like soup if you are looking for a change. I eat my larger meal during the day and then a smaller meal in the evening - I have only just started doing this and its working really well for me. I don't snack in the afternoon anymore and I have time to fit in exercise in the evening because I'm not cooking a big dinner -…

I started on the 1st - I am on day 12 today - I had one day off in level 1. I have started level 2 - man that's hard!!! I am going to finish it this time!! :smile:

Had both - it was delicious!! :-)

Drink Water for energy! It will hydrate you and give you more energy! No calories and makes you feel full. Good luck!

Thanks! Looks like it's chicken then! I'm going for a walk so might be able to have both!! Yum!

@Roxiegirl2008 you look great and I love you shoes!!! :-)

@Alloutof_bubblegum What exercise are you doing while pregnant? We are trying for our second and I'm worried about putting weight on so want to exercise all the way through but the type of exercise I do I'm not sure is suitable when pregnant - I do mainly Jillian Michaels work out DVD's so there's a lot of core, crunches…

I think it sounds like you binge because you have denied yourself the things you like. Perhaps start out saying I won't have the massive bag of cheetos but if I eat well for the whole day, tonight when I sit down I can have half the bag - or whatever fits in your calorie allowance. I find I can stay on track for the day if…