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Oh my! Very naughty indeed!

Oh sorry for the confusion! Thanks all- I do use a trendweight app so not too concerned about fluctuations just curious. Just come off the back of three days of hiking 10 miles a day carrying 65lbs of weight and not dropped a sausage so was wondering!

I'm 228 and burn around 1200cals running for 60 minutes at a slowish pace (8kmp/hr). When I weighed 150 it used to take me about 90 minutes at a much faster pace to burn the same. One of the very few advantages of me being this fat!

I use a product called Biofreeze on really tired crampy muscles. I first found it when I was pregnant with my twins!

If you have a smartphone just get a free app- I have Steps and it works fine. Otherwise a pedometer and entering it into MFP under a specific entry (I gave myself a new one called 'General walking (steps)' should work. You could enter the number of steps as minutes and adjust the cals.

I find some of MFP's calorie burns to be very similar to my HRM, which is close to an exercise machine. The big differences tend to come when I'm out hiking. I hike frequently carrying two toddlers and will clock up 50-75 floors a time. For some reason MFP will massively overestimate against my calorie burn but my step…

I like watching sport when I work out on a treadmill! I find it gets my adrenalin going. Athletics or rugby is the best for keeping me focused! I think I did my best ever 10k time watching a rugby match...

Name: JJ Age: 34 Height: 5'8" Start Weight (April 1): 228.4 Goal Weight (May 1): 216.4 Weigh-ins (week of...): April 1: 228.4 April 8: April 15: April 22: April 29: Weight -/+ this week: Weight -/+ this month: Successes/struggles this week: after a tiny loss last week (Easter), I'm hoping to get moving again. I have a…

Two fingers on your wrist (don't use your thumb). Find the midpoint on the inside of your wrist and aim slightly to the left and you should feel your pulse clearly. Count the pulse for 60 seconds when you're in a calm and steady state and that will give you your resting heart rate. You then need to work out your maximum…

Name: JJ Age: 34 Height: 5'8" Start Weight (March 1): 238 Goal Weight (April 1): 223.9 Weigh in March 5: 234.2 March 12: 232.6 March 19: 230.4 March 24 (have to weigh in two days early as going away for Easter): 228.6 April 1: Weight -/+ this week: -1.8lbs Weight -/+ this month: -9.4lbs Successes/struggles this week: I've…

I'm 5'8" and started at 265. Down almost 35lbs so far and not a dicky bird! I've really started to notice the loss myself in the last few lbs so I'm hoping for a couple of nice compliments soon!

70lbs is awesome and you look totally different! Congratulations!

Name: JJ Age: 34 Height: 5'8" Start Weight (March 1): 238 Goal Weight (April 1): 223.9 Weigh in March 5: 234.2 March 12: 232.6 March 19: 230.4 March 26: April 1: Weight -/+ this week: -2.2lbs Weight -/+ this month: -7.6lbs Successes/struggles this week: much better weather all round so was out and about carrying the kids…

I'm going to buck the trend and say yes I do a cheat night on a Saturday night where I deliberately allow myself to eat a main and pudding that are far higher in cals than I usually would. For more it's psychologically very helpful as it means I can simply assign certain things to a possible Saturday night option instead…

You've made a good start for sure! I would say that you'll need to up your calories to a minimum of 1200 a day in order to maintain a steady weight loss as a very low calorie diet can be hard to stick to and difficult for you to maintain your weight when you get to where you're going. I would also add that high blood…

I guess I'd like to improve my cardio fitness and do something that makes me feel like me and not just mum all the time!

I was a 6/7 nights per week drinker, polishing off 1-2 bottles of wine in a sitting. Stopped drinking completely on 4th Jan and haven't had one since. 32lbs down which is partly due to not drinking huge amounts of empty calories and largely due to actually having the motivation to exercise and do stuff now I'm not…

Name: JJ Age: 34 Height: 5'8" Start Weight (March 1): 238 Goal Weight (April 1): 223.9 Weigh in March 5: 234.2 March 12: 232.6 March 19: March 26: April 1: Weight -/+ this week: -1.8lbs Weight -/+ this month: -5.4lbs Successes/struggles this week: One of my kids had an ear infection for most of the week which limited…

Hi! I'm 5'8" and started at 265. I'm down to 233 now but no difference in clothes sizes and nobody has made any comments (except my husband!). From experience I think it'll start becoming really noticeable once I'm close to 200 as I'll drop a clothes size then. I've found that my clothes size goes by stones (18 at 18…

Options- hot chocolate drink for 40 cals. Delicious! Otherwise a couple of squares of dark chocolate if I really need the choccie hit. If it's something savoury I'm craving I find it harder but will sometimes have one piece of toast!

I've not found the pill to affect my weight but I have found when I've gone back on it that I will stall for a week or two until the weight starts to shift again. I think it's water weight mostly. I haven't noticed it increasing my appetite but then I have to take steroids long term anyway and those are a beast for…

I had the flu in February and was sick pretty much the whole month (still have a cough). I had plenty of days where I made crappy food choices and still managed to lose 8lbs. Just look at it in the overall scheme of things. Mark it down to the cold, vow to eat better today (maybe eat a bunch of chicken soup and water!) and…

I purposefully allow myself to eat at or around maintenance on a Saturday by having an 'anything goes' dinner. For me it works psychologically by letting me consider foods I may want during the week as a possible Saturday treat (if there's no way they will fit into my daily cals usually). What happens is that my net cals…

Yep, strength training won't have a calorie burn associated with it in MFP, only cardio. I disagree with not putting your exercise in your diary (just make sure you've got your diary set to sedentary/lightly active if you do add exercise so that you don't double up on your calories). I find it a really useful record to…

It's more about how you felt than the number. I know that if my heart rate goes over about 180 then I genuinely start to feel like I have to stop- I couldn't do more than 45-60 seconds in that range. 160-180 is fine though, just means I'm working hard and I can sustain that. If you started to feel weird prior to noticing…

Look up a site called jogfm (I think!). If you work out what beat you want (it can do it for you on running times but you could choose based on your personal preference), it will then give you a huge list of songs at roughly the same tempo. I've found that massively helpful for really pumping songs over the years!

I bruised my shin bone quite badly (by slamming it into a metal pole that forms my pram's suspension!). The bruise took nearly 3 months to fade completely. It hurt like a mofo for the first month and then ached for another couple. It was still tender to the touch nearly 5 months later! I also fractured my ankle last…

I have a fat pad on the inside of my knee that completely disappears once I start running above about 25kms a week. First my leg goes flat and then as I lose weight and carry on running it actually goes a little hollow! Sounds weird but I kinda like it!

Just to update- I'm now 30lbs down from my start weight of 265 and not a peep! My husband will say nice things but that doesn't count! Strangers/other family/friends etc haven't said a thing. In another 15lbs I'll be the lowest weight I've been in about 3 years (at least!) so I'm hoping for some love then!

I agree with all the points above: - weigh your food if you're not already - Make sure your logging is tight (everything that goes in your mouth goes in your log) - Keep on doing what you're doing - weight often comes off in fits and spurts (I lost nothing last week and 5lbs this week courtesy of TOM) - Keep your mental…