SteveMFP123 Member

Depression is the killer for me, food has always been my go to when I'm having one of my bad days, and while I'm eating it I do genuinely feel better, but it's not long before the shame and regret kicks in. It's a vicious cycle I will always struggle with I'm sure, I just hope I can win more than I lose.

I'm on 30mg of Citalopram and it has helped me immensely. I wish I had sought help sooner. And thanks for the kind words, everyone.

My Mum says this to me all the time and it's very annoying. I'm quite clearly a good 40 - 50lbs overweight and I need to lose it, but she keeps telling me I look fine and that I'm skinny already. I don't know if she really believes that or is just blowing smoke up my *kitten* to make me feel better, but I know what I am,…

I do a weekly food shop and just avoid buying them, if they're in the house I will eat them all, I've never been able to just have one of anything.

I'm in the breakfast > lunch > dinner camp. And to be fair, those Oreo chocolate bars are made by the devil, they're just so damn good.

Well I've discovered I do not like bananas at all, even in a smoothie so they're gone. I went out and bought some fresh topical fruit and I absolutely adore pineapple, just so nice. Mango is quite nice too, but I hated grapefruit. I'm a grown man who hasn't tried barely any types of fruit so that should tell you just how…

I decided to go all in on the smoothies, grabbed a Breville smoothie maker for £20 and some supplies. I'll be testing it out tomorrow. Coconut water, rice milk, chia seeds, flax seeds, fresh bananas, frozen strawberry and bananas, frozen mango, papaya and pineapple and some ground cinnamon (not pictured).

It's more the texture than the taste, for example I like dried banana. I haven't got a smoothie maker just yet but I tried an Innocent one today and it was really nice, it almost tasted too good to be good for you, so I'm worried it wasn't lol. It was this…

No I'm not, I've thought about seeing the doctor many times but I just never do, I don't really know why. I have what you'd call "situational" depression as opposed to "clinical" depression. There are problems with my life that cause me to be depressed, all of which are fixable, some more easily than others but after so…

I'm laying in bed watching The Blacklist while browsing MFP on my tablet.

It's super interesting but not for me, I couldn't drop all carbs.

Now is the time I tend to struggle, from 6pm onwards. I've just had my dinner (literally half the portion compared to last week, and it didn't feel like too little) but I won't make it to bed time without getting the urge to stuff my face with something, hopefully I can resist. I know from experience the first 1-2 weeks is…

You know it's one of those things I tell myself I'm going to do, I know exercising would help with my depression, it has been proven to do so but I'm in such a rut right now, my life isn't in a good place in general ignoring the weight gain and I'm just really struggling to make positive decisions in general. It does…

If it's in the house I'll eat it, so doing a weekly shop online is really good for me. Plus it's harder for me to walk past snacks than browse past them online. It sounds like we're very similar, I too thought I could maintain without measuring and logging and that was a big mistake, this is going to be a life long…

I'm sorta in this situation now. I lost 100lbs but I've sadly gained 29lbs of it back over Christmas and my birthday. I'm now 5 days into the grind again and it's tough, I'm very hungry like I was when I first started years ago, hopefully I can nip it in the bud before 29lbs turns into the full 100lbs. I have no excuses,…

It's probably the most embarrassing part of the body for us big lads and from my experience it doesn't go away fully after losing all the weight. I wouldn't say no to a quick operation to fix it but it's damn expensive. For the ladies it's basically like your willy is hiding in a flesh cave and just popping its head and…

Oh for sure, I know I can lose the 7lbs, it's just scary how easy it is to gain the weight back if I'm not 100% on top of my diet. I haven't been going crazy, just bigger portions here and there and that was enough. My scales were a bit dusty.....

Yeah she's on meds for it, Armour I think. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U0bhE67HuDY I actually do one of his workouts for my back as I have a lot of pain so I'll show her this one for sure.

Been loving these lately:

Honestly just calorie counting, once I bought a digital scale and started being really honest with everything I ate and drank I started to lose weight.

Definitely, at least in my case it was very accurate. If I stuck to what it told me I lost weight, if I didn't, then I didn't. I had it set to 2lbs/week loss for as long as possible. These days with so little left to lose it's no longer accurate, I seem to gain and lose the same few lbs no matter what I eat which is…

Not really, no. For the first few months I did exercise 5 days a week, though, but from then on I haven't really done anything other than calorie counting, I've just stuck to what MFP tells me to with only a few slip ups along the way. If it's NG, yes! Back pan is the bloody worst, I can't sit or stand very long without…

I get bored at night and I overeat. I always leave calories left over for the inevitable binge.

Love me some wholemeal bread, I tried to cut it out entirely but couldn't, whenever someone made toast it made me crave it so now I just have it. I used to eat white bread but now I'm totally fine with wholemeal.

I actually recently started 5x5 stronglifts, I'm still at the very low weight stage though, and I'm doing it at home so I'm missing things like a squat rack so I'm limited by what I can safely lift over my head, which for now is fine because I'm weak but at some point that will really halt my progress so I'll definitely…

I guess this is more of a wish than a resolution but all I want my back fixed, I currently have a slipped disc pushing on a nerve and I'm in a lot of the pain all the time. I'm seeing a specialist on 13th so that's the first step, it has taken a very long time to get to this point on the NHS. A resolution would be get out…

Looking at your photo I can't see any loose skin at all, obviously you work really hard though for your physique and honestly I'm too lazy to get anywhere close to you. Is the skin on your belly? For me my belly sucks, it's really ugly and feels like dough lol. I know there's still some fat in there as I'm not at my goal…

Come to think of it you're definitely right, I skipped my usual snacks for sure, so that's an easy 200 calories a day saved which basically "paid" for the shortbread.

That's amazing, thanks. You were spot on with the maintenance and daily calories, but you oversold the "bits and beers" as I drink Coors light and the bits were far less, probably around 2000 I'd say, so it would have been even less than 1/2lb gain which makes sense considering I stayed the same! I guess it's easier to…

I want one, but never going to happen with this loose skin :(