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Plenty of people would struggle with their relationships with food and restrict etc without MFP. It's been going on for years with or without MFP and always will. I bet you know loads of people in real life who have screwed up relationships with food! As others have said, it's a tool and so it can be open to misuse and may…

While I totally agree with you that the Huffington Post isn't a reliable source of health research and that news articles always cherry pick health research to make an easy headline, I just had to point out that the BMJ is reputable - British Medical Journal, publisher of bona fide medical research.

Not odd things my mum taught me: how to sew (her job was as a sewing machinist so it probably would have been odd for me not to learn from her), to knit, to cook (particularly pastry, which many cooks struggle with but for me it's not a big deal). More unusual things she taught me: to wallpaper, to wire a plug, to swim…

You have described exactly how I am at the end of a workout. I could never be one of those lucky women who is able to just pull her hair back in a ponytail and trot off to work after the gym without needing to wash her hair, I go bright beetroot red and the front and back of my t-shirt is wringing wet too (thank goodness…

It's only deliberate sabotage if she's lacing your food with lard while you're not looking! Seriously, it's probably more to do with her insecurity, and that odd sense of unspoken competition that so many women seem to have. Did you know her when you were both slim? She might not even be aware she's doing it.

The comment OP quoted is very Daily Mail-worthy, but the comments on the Guardian article to me weren't too bad and were a fairly articulate debate. For some reason my computer can't load the comments on the Torygraph article, but I agree with the author Clare's point about some of it being down to a general nastiness and…

I'd never heard of Beyond diet but I just asked google and it simply looks like a gluten free cut out carbs sort of thing? Not sure how that is a balanced diet, but OP if you're determined to part with your money for it, you might find it more useful to find a Beyond Diet forum so then you can ask other mothers how they…

Is he a good friend who you talked about loads of other things with prior to this, or is he more a casual acquaintance? I agree you need to tell him (nicely), but how forceful you can be probably depends on how well you know him. By the way, I feel your pain, I too have created a monster by suggesting that one of my work…

As a general rule, I've read that most people burn about 10 cals a minute when running. My HRM usually shows I burn about 11 calories per minute when running (but I'm about 180lbs at the moment for reference, and have quite a high resting heart rate so I've had to mess with the default settings on my HRM to get it closer…

A sense of complacency because I'm not *that* overweight so I thought I still looked ok even when my weight had started to creep up. I'm tall and have a broad frame so have always been physically bigger than most of the other females I know even when I was slimmer and lighter - this made it easier to be in denial even when…

My typical salad is a base of bulgur wheat with prawns or chunks of chicken for protein, always cherry tomatoes and olives. Then whatever else is in the fridge that I fancy - today I had it with prawns, goat cheese and beetroot added. Sometimes I put in avocado, sometimes leftover roasted veg (usually something like a mix…

Tahini - looks like smooth cashew or peanut butter but tastes like ear wax. Blech. Any commerical mass produced commercial cake - usually looks nice but is just pure sugar icing and tasteless sponge. Occasionally at work someone will buy a giant sized Costco special for a birthday or other celebration, and I never have a…

I tend to use Wetherspoons menu as my guide for pub food. Your estimate isn't too far off IMO judging by their menu. Hope you've stopped stressing out now!

Who are you getting dirty looks from? If you think it's other gym-goers, quite frankly they can go **** themselves as what you do on your workout is none of their business. If it's the trainers, then they should be earning their money by speaking to you and trying to work out a programme with you. But are you sure you're…

"Love Is In The Air" John Paul Young. Or "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go" Wham

Go to a sauna and weigh in immediately afterwards. Of course it will go back on as soon as you re-hydrate, but if you want to see the number on the scale...

Is momscience the same as broscience?

Pretty unrealistic, but can be quite amusing if your intake varies day to day because you pay more attention to your weekly average. One day last week I was using the phone app and managed to hit the complete button by mistake for the following day before even logging any food for that day. MFP still told me what I would…

- 0% fromage frais, not because it's supposed to be fat free but because it has more protein than normal yoghurt and it's cheaper than Greek yoghurt. - reduced fat houmous, as I can't really tell the difference between the 30% reduced fat and the regular, and the protein levels are similar - Diet coke/pepsi or Coke…

Recent motivational purchases that I love: - HRM (Polar FT4) - Weirdly, my new gym bag - my old one was falling to bits and the new one (from Roxy's Sugar Me Up range) is all funky coloured and makes me smile every time I use it. - Kettlebells: bought a cheap 12kg and 7.5kg to use at home - new breathable tank top found…

I'm not sure what you're asking - do you mean you've changed your mind about your goal weight, or you're wondering about adjusting your weight loss rate? MFP automatically adjusts your calories anyway every 10lbs or so, I know it docked me 60 cals a day after I recorded a 10lb weight loss. If you want more cals per day you…

I would resent having to pay for extra food after already paying for catered halls! If I were you I'd get on the university's case and lobby them for healthier catering options, it's not fair to have to pay extra for salad for example.

Marks and Spencer has a decent range of supportive high impact sports bars around £20 and most of which come in cup sizes A-G. Cheaper than Shock Absorbers, especially if you can get hold of any in your size at sale time. I'm not very big busted but I like the fact that their sports bras come in the same sizes as their…

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You look great, well done (cute pups too!)

I'm always mystified why 'cooking - food preparation' is in the exercise database. Unless you're butchering a whole carcass I doubt you'll ever burn very much by food preparation...

Sounds like he's the sort of person who said "see, I told you exercise is bad for you" when Jim Fixx died.

Eat some salad or veg!!!! Whereabouts are you on your hols? I take it you're still in the UK? Have a good time (sounds like you are!), but when you get back home just be aware that you'll probably be carryng quite a lot of water weight as all the meaty, savoury food will be loaded with sodium. Plus the beer calories add up…

This ^^ . This approach has been working ok for me, as I tend to eat out and have a drink at the weekend but most of the time my deficit during the week keeps me going in the right direction. No doubt I would have lost faster had I been stricter with myself at weekends, but doing it this way fits in with my life (and keeps…

Me too, kind of - for me it was when I was weighed at a hospital appointment, as opposed to buying my own scale. I hadn't weighed myself for years, telling myself that I didn;'t bother with the scale because I went by the fit of my clothes and didn't let a number on the scale rule my life. Well that was true for a long…