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Nicely done! You should add your pics to the "Photo Only Success Stories" thread. https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1167854/photo-only-success-stories

Or at least a garden variety troll ?

Congrats! That's worth posting on the "What's Your Most Recent NSV" thread. (NSV = Non-Scale Victory)

I can't help you with cigars ... I hate the things ... but I feel you with regards to the Whoppers. For me, the Golden Arches were like a homing beacon; if I was in my car alone, it was as if they had a tractor beam and pulled me into the drive-thru. Next thing I knew, I was in a post-gluttony fog, and there were empty…

I have heard of people going off their CPAP after sufficient weight lose, and like the previous poster I can attest to my snoring lessening considerably after losing weight.

I've torn ankle ligaments twice; both times cycling was recommended as an alternative. More recently, with knee troubles, I found using an elliptical to be easy on my knee and ankle. Good luck.

Just checking that you are actually weighing and not measuring, doing flat measures (not rounded) for teaspoons, etc., and using actual measuring spoons, and not cutlery teaspoons/tablespoons. I found a huge difference in consistency/accuracy when I stopped using measuring scoops and started using a digital scale for…

Been there! I'm in my 50s. I dropped 100 lbs in 2014. I maintained for a year. Over the next 4 years it all crept back. You mentioned comfort food; that was a big part for me. I did a reset about a month ago, and started a "diet" where I eat the number of calories needed to maintain my target weight, working out foods that…

Taking into account your weight and height, thereby calculating your BMR, and adding a burn for the 12k steps, it seems to me like your Fitbit is coming in 500-1000 cals high. A few things to check: - what does Fitbit think you weigh. I plugged in a weight update one morning, and my calories burned went through the roof…

Well done! MFP and Fitbit have been very helpful to me as well.

Back to the OP's question, I'm not "meatless", but I do eat "less meat" than I used to. As you are a vegetarian, cheese and eggs have good amounts of protein. My typical breakfast includes 50g oats, 120 ml (1/2 cup) semi-skimmed milk, 30g peanut butter, 1 banana, totalling 19-20g protein. My afternoon snack is often a mix…

In a word ... YUP!!!

@abilucas912 ... how's the ankle?

There is plenty of data out there. According to http://www.worldatlas.com/articles/29-most-obese-countries-in-the-world.html the US obesity level is 35%, with the UK catching up at nearly 30%.

I've lived - and parented - in both countries. My children went through the same cycle you described. But we never overloaded their plates, and we never forced them to clear their plates. They were only expected to eat all their vegetables, but if they didn't, and if they were "starving" 30 mins later, they had to finish…

All things considered, perhaps it would be better to be slightly "wasteful", than excessively "waistful". Plus, parents should then soon learn to put out a smaller serving, and prevent the waste at the subsequent meals.

When I moved the UK nearly 15 years ago, I would have agreed with you. People walked more, ate better. But since I've been here, I've seen the US (fast food) diet and (lack of) exercise program take root here too, and obesity is surging. I don't think it's my fault, but there is a strong correlation in the timing. Oops.…

First and foremost, get it checked out. Determine whether you've broken something, or torn something, and the extent of the damage. Second, get yourself into a rehabilitation program with a sports-injury physio. I used to be a runner (6-8 miles, 4-5 days per week), and I tore ankle ligaments playing basketball. I was…

Not quite. Slow cardio burns more fat as a percentage of the burn in that exercise, but fast/interval cardio burns more total fat: "Steady-state cardio is aerobic: It requires oxygen and is fueled mostly by stored fat. HIIT, by contrast, is anaerobic: The work intervals don’t rely exclusively on oxygen, and are fueled…

I can't run, due to some knee issues, but I can cycle or use the elliptical. My warm-up/cool-down is quite simple. I have 5 mins at the beginning, where I ramp up my pace very slowly. For example, on my bike, when on the turbo trainer, I start in the lowest gear and the lowest resistance level. After one minute, I notch up…

Can you open your (his) diary, so we can see quantities? The bran muffin, depending on size and how it's made, could be calorie-laden. Likewise the mayo (if regular mayo), the cheese, the oil, etc. Nothing wrong with him eating any of that, it's all a matter of quantity. Are you measuring with a digital scale, or just…

Found it completely vacuous ... one might say "empty of any essential brain calories". Going back to a whole (brain) foods diet of a wider/better variety of shows, with more depth - dare I say "meat" - to them.

Nice one, @TavistockToad ... This should be the top banner of every page of MFP!!! (If everyone understood it, it would probably cut forum posts by 90%)

A mate of mine is an evangelistic low-carber. In one conversation, he noted something called "Atkins Flu", coming from an electrolyte imbalance, often hitting around week 2 or 3.

Could you get a double jog stroller and do modified intervals (normal walk, fast walk, repeat), to add some effort to your walk? or is the baby still too small for a stroller?

I have a Fitbit HR, and after using it for a while, I stopped using the HR function. I found it inaccurate, and it drained the battery quickly (have to charge every other day with HR active, once a week with it off). When I want accuracy, I've gone back to my Polar H7 chest strap, which I have linked to my phone via an app…

I looked up our ossu buco recipe; the wine+broth was only 10% of the total calories. The beef was the predominant contributor. Therefore, I'd say count all the calories, and consider that 10% a little buffer. ETA - To put that into perspective, one serving in our recipe was ~440 cals. Take out 10%, and you're down to just…

I started at 279. With an intake of ~2500 cals, I lost 10 lbs in the first week, 25 lbs in the first month. Given how often I was "going", the majority of that was water weight. After the first month, the weight loss settled down to a more reasonable/expected 1-2 lbs per week. So, given your starting point, I'm not at all…

I can't help you on the vegan side, but I've just wrapped up a 'clean & dry January'. Not drinking made things very easy when it came to a deficit, considering a half liter of ale comes in around 200ish cals. Between the not drinking, the whole foods intake, the slight deficit, and the bump in activity, I feel waaaay…

As I've said to people who continued to act/comment like that to me when I lost weight, "don't let the fact that I'm eating one reasonably sized portion make you feel bad about tucking into your third serving." Sometimes the only way to stop them is to hit them in their own gut ... figuratively speaking.