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Name: Carina Height: 165cm (5'5) Starting Weight (12/1): 65kg (143lb) Goal Weight (12/31):63.8kg (140.5lb) 12/8: 12/15: 12/22: 12/29: 12/31: I kind of have set my goal date as the 24th - because Christmas Eve and Christmas Day are there to be enjoyed :)

Yeah I have a bladder the size of a peanut, it seems, so I'm preparing for lots of nightly trips to the toilet! It's crazy how the number matters so much, and how despite knowing this is pretty much 100% water weight and weighing myself not as dehydrated as before, I am still bummed out by it.... My goal is still quite a…

I am still waiting for this moment! :( My partner can't really see it because he sees me every day, when I asked him he said he could see it but that doesn't count as I had to ask!

I weigh myself daily. Multiple times a day even, I like to see what fluctuations are there, and to keep me accountable. For me, if I have had an off day and I see the scales go up, it's added motivation to be extra good the next day. I weigh daily and track it in a spreadsheet, but I only record on MFP once a week so that…

Don't guess. Measure. It is definitely that - 10lbs only to lose and 2lbs a week is not a realistic or long term plan. If you are cooking, enter all ingredients into a recipe and split it within the amount of people eating it. Food scales is where it's at. Definitely when you are starting, you need to be accurate. My…

Dominos has pretty good nutrition/calorie info on their website online (UK). Their medium or large slices come in at about 300 for the nice ones (the meaty ones :) ) So yeah, 300 sounds right.

And 100x this. I plan most of my meals out for the whole week, to see how much calories I have to play with for snacks, how my calories are divided in terms of carbs/fat/protein or how many I need to burn to even out at a MFP average of 1000 net calories (eating about 1300-1400, burning 300-400 a day according to MFP,…

Now, I'm by now means claiming to be an expert otherwise I'd have lost all my weight by now, but to me it looks like you may be underestimating what you eat.... There are regular entries of quick add calories, which give no indication of what you have eaten. If you are not sure, enter it in and find the highest calorie…

Feel free to add me! :) Log daily, weigh weekly. Diary is open to friends. 30yr old, UK based. Have been on this journey a few times before this year but this time have gone in proper motivated!

Are you sure you are logging accurately? Measuring/weighing everything? I found when I first started I "guesstimated" a lot and had the same issues, not losing. Then I started weighing everything and once you have a better understanding of what a portion actually looks like, you'll find that you may have been eating much…

Ignore them. My personal favourite pet hate - people who go "oh, but you don't need to lose any weight". Eeerrr - I think I'll decide that for myself, thank you very much. If *I* am not happy with my weight and want to lose it, stop judging it. The reverse would be unthinkable! Don't feel you need to justify it. There's…

Logging it every morning. Recording it every week in MFP for tracking. Tbh, probably multiple times a day to see how much a meal makes me gain.

Glucosamine and Chondroitin. Very common dancer/athlete supplement.

DO NOT use weight loss pills. The only ones that genuinely work are BAD for you and could leave you with long lasting, if not permanent, side effects. I used to take them. I am not proud of it. But this time, I am determined to do it without. I am taking supplements though - protein powder when I do weight training, multi…

I don't hit enough - because I am trying not too eat too much fruit (sugar) and too many veggies up my carbs too much. So I take a fibre supplement of 9grams per day, and then I am pretty much hitting the 20gr.

£19.99 per month (no contract) for TruGym. In the past, I paid £15.99 for Rush Gym (24/7) which was rubbish. In the past, I also paid £69.99 per month for David Lloyd, which was worth every penny. It all depends what you're looking for from a gym. I have a free gym at work which I am allowed to access 24/7 (but it's…

I hear ya! I am desperately trying to treat this now as lifestyle changes too. As in, I am going to have to keep going to the gym, and eat healthily at all times. This is not a diet.

What do you mean? If I put in less calories than I burn, I should be losing weight. Calorie deficit should equal weight loss. At the moment, as far as I can tell I am creating a deficit yet not losing weight. I am not making excuses for myself, I am quite clearly failing miserably at the losing weight part. I am wondering…

I recently went on holiday for 3 weeks and gained about 10lbs! Thinking most of it was carb and alcohol bloat, I expected most of it to come off fairly quickly once back in a normal routine. It didn't, and still hasn't, 5 weeks later, I'm up another lb. It really depends on how you treat the scales. I would rather know…

I'm the wrong person to ask. I run half marathons with no training - bad idea! Just changing the days around shouldn't be an issue, but could you move them the same way? Tue-Mon and Thu-Wed to make sure you give yourself the necessary rest days at the right point in the programme?

Different things work for different people. I try and do 35/30/35 as then I get (ideally) a third of my calories from each and am not excluding a single group. Not saying it works out every day or every week, but I'm aiming for it at least.

I need something that works. I started 2-3 weeks ago in earnest after coming back from a 3 week holiday in the States, and despite busting my gut, I am only gaining weight. Even when drinking gallons of herbal tea to flush out everything.

Thanks everyone. Yeah - I normally track and check the calories of the * entries and ensure the macros are accurate, but don't always bother with the salt/sodium entries. The issue is so many people enter the sodium as salt and then it skews the whole lot. I do not track all my drinks (i.e. flavoured water at 1kcal per…

Thanks guys! I figured as much that it'd be pretty void of functionality due to my heart rate, but everyone is raving about it as being more accurate for burn, so I was keen to find out. I guess the MFP guesstimates are going to be the way to go. They are already generally about 10% below the machine, so I'll deduct…

Wow - thank you everyone for the help and advice. So many options to choose from, it's almost difficult to see what will work for me and how long I need to give each of it a try! I am indeed currently weighing all my food, including cereals, yoghurts, everything. This is hopefully making a difference in accuracy. I guess…

5'5" Highest weight : 66.9kg (148lb / 10 stone and 7 lb) Current weight : 66.6kg (same as above) Goal weight : 62kg (136lb / 9 stone and 10lb) Ideal weight : 58kg (127lb / 9 stone and 2lb) Lord this is depressing!

Thank you for the replies so far! I know there isn't a quick fix. But a plateau of 5 weeks after a pig out holiday is also not normal. I weigh myself every day in the same place (to be honest, multiple times a day anyway) and measure myself every 2-3 weeks. I seemingly hold on to a ridiculous amount of water. I have…