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Re "personally I would eat the exercise calories back" - will I be too deficient in calorie intake if I don't, possibly putting my body into starvation mode, even though I'm eating say 1400cals?

Welcome aboard, Pam! You'll find everything you need right here, there's so much knowledge and help available. Stick with it and you'll achieve your goals.

I used to drink a lot of beer, at least a few pints every day, which was the main cause of my unhealthy belly. The more you drink, the more you can drink (before you get drunk). It's quite a spiral. However - if you lay off the booze for as long as possible, I find that when you have a drink, you can really taste it and it…

Junk food is out there and it's part of society so you can't just ban it. If cigarettes were invented today, there is no way people would be allowed to start selling them. People still sell them and even though here in the UK the warnings on the packet include gross colour pictures of diseased lungs, people still buy them.…

1kg per week is totally achievable - stick with it and focus on your goals. Come back to MFP to celebrate every success and cope with any challenges. The support here is immense. Welcome!

My favourite dressing is extra virgin olive oil and some freshly squeezed lemon juice, sea salt and fresh ground black pepper, all applied just before serving so the leaves don't get soggy!

I love bread and it has often been my Achilles heal. I could just eat thick slice after thick slice of bread, carved off an 800 gram farmhouse loaf until it was all gone, with butter spread on each one. So - I got myself a plan - I now buy good quality individual roles, usually from the local Sainsbury's where you can pick…

Mmmmm... Twinkie!

Yep

That does sound good... I'll give it a go.

I once heard somebody say "communication... is what the listener does". i.e. It does not matter how appropriate the person talking/writing feels they are being, it is the recipient of their words who feels and decides what is being 'communicated'. In this context, basically, if you think you're writing useful, appropriate…

My first wife lost 56lbs and went down a whole shoe size! As previous replies have said, how much you lose proportionally around your body will vary, but you will lose something everywhere.

My suggestion would be to check your body measurements. I've lost 11lbs but still wear the same size trousers - however, I know that my belly (not my waistband) has decreased thanks to having measured various points around my body before starting. I can't tell visually, but the tape measure is your friend so if you have…

That is good to hear, keep at and focus on how great you will feel when you hit your target weight!

I think different times of the day affect people differently and each person varies how they feel quite often. If I can workout early in the day, I feel energised throughout the whole day, but sometimes I run out of energy and know I didn't achieve half of what I could have if I was working out mid afternoon or later. Most…

Hi and welcome! The big difference that I have found with MFP is it makes it easy and fun to record and adapt your food intake and exercising. Knowing that a brisk walk or half an hour of light gardening can be counted in calories burned, motivates me to do it and record it. Also, the way it counts your nutrition (Vitamin…

Totally agree with original post - my approach is to do two things. Firstly, plan and prepare healthy stuff for my day's eating and break it up into smaller portions so I can have 4 to 5 meals a day. Secondly, in the evening if I feel that evil urge to go and visit the fridge for an unnecessary snack, I'll go out for a…

I have weighed daily (sometimes twice daily) in previous get fit phases of my life and it caused more distraction than anything else, personally. It's amazing how much it can fluctuate. I weigh weekly now, first thing Saturday morning, before breakfast.

Keep yourself busy - go out for a brisk 20 minute walk, call a friend for a chat, do some ironing, stay out of the kitchen, learn to juggle (seriously - absorbs your mind and your hands!). If you have to eat something, don't buy the evil snacks but have something in that won't do you any harm but is satisfying to chew on -…

Thanks for all the advice, people. Also, I stand corrected - no need to add Weight Training to the cardiovascular exercises in MFP as it is already there. It defaults to 162 per half hour, but like bmontgomery87 says - adjust it to how hard and heavy you train and what you're doing. i.e. 30 minutes of squats probably…

A quick research on the web has revealed that weight training burns 340 cal/hour, but intensive weight training can burn double that. I'll count it as 170 / 30 mins or 340 / hour. I'll have to put in the Cardio section as a new exercise for me, but as I go twice a week, I want to make sure I record it.

This is one of the things I love about the MFP app on my Samsung - I log anything that I'm going to be doing for more than 15 minutes. You see all these little things add up and after only 6 days, I'm addicted to it. I'm almost looking for activities to do other than sit at my desk or watch TV... which is incredible!…

Oh - good point - I thought it directly drove the number of calories burned. Thanks!

totally agree with chloeobe - that stuff is vile.

I've used fiber supplements but didn't find them to help really. Are you drinking loads of water? I found that without getting my 8 - 10 cups of water per day, things didn't move along 'regularly'. As long as I do drink loads of it, it's like clockwork.

I don't know anything about this but I can send you a load of quality vegetable seeds (cucumber, cauliflower, celeriac, carrots, quite a variety) that I have (long story) but don't need. Now's the time to be planting them. Send me a message with address details and I'll get them off to you - my treat. Cheers. Ted

Fantastic result - keep it up and post back after this month, too!

GBK main house salad, 489 calories, 12g fat. Is all I could find on Google.

Everything adds up... if you need to go somewhere (and generally, everybody has to go somewhere every day) then walk. If it's a short way away, take a longer route. If it's a bus ride away, get off several stops early and walk the remainder (which also could save you money - always a bonus). Take the lift, not the stairs.…