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-there are also many low cal chocolate sauce/syrup versions that you could eg add to poached fruit or to some banana pieces, eg hershey's sugar free syrup -a couple of sugar free lilly's chocolate chips go a long way

I also have problems with emotional eating..so I might not be the right address, on the other hand side I would support KILLEmALL with the logging as well as with understanding that it is about calories. I just come from a pretty bad binge time but I still got confidence, maybe even more, that the calorie counting will…

Many thanks for all your great advice and for sharing your own problems and strategies around this!! I am at a lower weight end close to maintenance but it is more my family who always finds something to criticize and to try to influence me. They would attack me with words and they would try to cook something really rich…

Many thanks for your useful advice!!

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Hi there, anyone still doing the PaulMcKenna thing? I am very interested in applying it in addition to tracking and need some motivation and opinions, please!

The coffee thing is great!! There are definetly worse things to distract you....I used to go binge shopping instead....not always a good idea ;O)

What are your experiences so far? It has been a while since you posted...

Update : and another binge day this time even 7000 cal plus. It becomes vlear that I have to do somethig against the bingeing!!

Hi, I am thinking about upping my calories and I am also thinking about losing weight zigzgging my calories (either weekly or 3 days at TDEE-15% and one day at TDEE or maybe another method?). Does anyone have experience with that combination or at least with eating more and zigzagging calories? I am a binge eater so my…

Can anyone else write me his or her opinion, please? I really need to know how to move on now!

What I also do is to try to find things I like that fill me up at a low calories level. This often results in things like salads or vegetables or nonfat yoghurt. But I eat them because I like them and they help me to feel satisfied and not hungry all the time within my caorie limit. And they allow me to eat the…

another option would be to use aubergine slices as lasagna plate substitute

I also think it is just calories in and calories out. Bread, rice and pasta have got quite some calories, so if you like to you could try to decrease the amount you eat and/or play around a bit with some "substitutes". You could try out "shirataki" noodles and rice or noodles made from vegetables like zucchini or rice made…

By the way-how did you measure your calorie burn? Using a HRM? Can anyone give me some advice whether it makes sense to buy a HRM and which one, please? (I might also post this somewhere else)

The cycling sounds quite interesting...I also read many different values for cycling. On the one hand side, they were even lower or as low as slow (!) walking, especially for stationary recumbant bikes at a low speed, and on the other hand side you always hear that spinning burns tons of calories, as well as the…

According to MFP I did reach 2045 calories today which equals my 1000 calories that I wanted to reach if devided by two. I am happy about that. More to your questions when I am less tired (because of the time of the day I am feeling also a bit tired because of the exercise but in a positive way).

Thank you crystal. What is a heart rate fitbit? I heard that zumba burns quite a lot...maybe worth trying it out!!

I can exercse many hours a day, I have an excellent body fat percentage and apart from a well muscled body a lot of "ground level" stamina. No point for me to do a 8h uphill hike or to walk 4 hours in a row fast. I am though not a 3 hour sprint runner. But I can easily fit in 8 hours of low impact exercise a day I guess.…

Many thanks also for the great link with the exercise calculators!!

I know it is not the wholy way to work off a poor diet...but I am not going to be perfect. I am just a woman who loves eating and sports and tries to find her way...and if it is like that for a day or so it is fine for me. As I already wrote: I would not exercise if I would feel exhausted or geeting overexercised! Do you…

So do you guys recommend HR monitors? If so-which brands? Or would you recommend fitbits (I heard they are less accurate for exercise though)? How many of your exercise calories are you eating back? 100%? Or less?Or are you using the TDEE method on MFP?

I know a book called "The hunger fix" which is much about eating certain foods and food combinations in order to fix that brain chemistry problem by building the amino acids (but not all of them are buildable through food I heard because some nutrients do not pass the blood-brain-barrier)...anyway I do not want to spread…

Did you or anyone else talk to your GP about possible side effects of taking those amino acids already? Or to the pharmacist (hehe that gives me the idea to go to walgreens and ask there..)?

I also read on some blog on the internet that taking certain amino acids cured the binge eating of a person...unfortunately I do not remember the blog any more... I am also very curious about your experiment! Especially the side effects would interest me as of course no one would like to take these amino acids and get…

I am usually very active. So I guess I could give that burn a try. If it gets too exhausting I would stop of course, because I am an "only for pleasure" exerciser...

Yes, I mean the MFP calorie estimation, which is higher than the real calories I read here several times. Also, many machines like ellipticals in the gym overestimate "real" calorie burn. In addition, I thought that even the calories given by HR monitors etc. are not the real ones because you have to substract your BMR…

Does anyone know how much slow running in place approximately burns?

I would like to work off some overeating and see whether I can make this challenge. It is not intended for everyday! I am in the mood for sports, too. I should maybe add that I prefer doing long low intensity over any high intensity hardcore stuff... Many thanks for all of your help again! By the way-do you all have…

Is it possible to burn that amount?