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I totally feel you. I'm very frustrated at myself for losing weight multiple times and always gaining it back again sooner or later. Like you, quite often the gaining back is triggered by emotional eating. The last time that I gained weight back was when my mum was very ill and I was trying to finish my PhD at the same…

I'm so sorry to hear about your loss! It must be a terrible time for you. If I were you, I wouldn't worry about tracking too much at the moment. Just focus on yourself and your family. You aren't going to gain stones and stones in a few weeks and as long as you can try to make some healthier choices, I wouldn't be too…

Yeah, would love to join in. :)

I capped it because I'm trying to make the challenge as motivating as possible which means giving points for challenge participation and for weight loss. As you can imagine, recording everyone's weight loss every week, coming up with challenges and keeping on top of everyone's participation and awarding everyone points and…

I capped the challenge at 60 and invited the first 60 people who registered interest to the group. However, only 45 members have accepted their invites. I'm going to PM the remaining 15 people and ask if they are still interested, if not, I'll be inviting 15 people from the group who registered interest after I'd capped it…

Thanks for the positivity. To be honest, Slimmer for Summer is just a catchy name. For me, personally, and I'm sure for most of the participants, it doesn't really matter whether I'm at my goal weight in 10 weeks or 10 months and in 10 weeks, it is totally possible to be slimmer. I'm not suggesting that in 10 weeks…

Ok, that's us guys! :) If everyone could have a look on the group at the posts already up, that would be great! Any questions, either reply to one of the threads or PM me. It'll all be kicking off on Saturday and I'll be posting the first challenge ASAP to give you plenty of time to prepare for starting it on Saturday! :)

Right guys, I'll take 2 more but then I'm capping it at 60. :)

Wow guys! There's so many members now. For those who haven't already, have a read at the posts already on the group. I've made a couple of changes to the rules since the numbers have exploded so if you've already read that post, have a scroll to the bottom and read the couple of changes.

Everyone who has registered interest so far should have been invited to the group. If I've missed anyone, let me know via PM.

I'm so pleased to see so many of you interested in joining! Hopefully we can get some more sign ups and have a really vibrant group! I'll set up the group at some point today and start sending everyone invites but the challenge probably wont start for another couple of days to give more people the chance to sign up.

As others say, it would be hugely offensive to comment on her weight as she probably knows about her weight gain but as Bandolin11 says, if you want to help her, befriend her, get to know her. Be genuine and don't see it as a chance to get her just to lose weight. Maybe you'll find out she has problems or issues that have…

Me, please!

As others have said, it depends on individual circumstances and where you live. I'm 28 and still live at home and certainly did not expect that to be the case by this age but it works well in our circumstances. I live in the UK and the plan for both my sister and I was to live at home when we went to University. My mum has…

I'm not a huge fan of veg myself but you can introduce them slowly. Soups are a good idea, also as someone else says, covering them in a sauce or a dip might help you get used to them at first. Some things are less strong tasting than others and every veg has a different texture so just try lots of different types and…

*raises hand* Can I join the club? Same thing. Lost weight and maintained for a year. I was still wanting to lose more but was beginning to feel happy about my body. I then decided to let go a bit over Christmas for a week as my boyfriend was coming over and I hadn't seen him in months. I realised I would put a little bit…

Like you, I am largely a veggie hater! I have 'trained' myself to like some veggies eg. onion and especially red onion. I used to hate it and decided to try to accustom myself to it. Believe it or not, I used to do it by having a tiny little bit with something bland and carby like French fries or a potato and would cut up…

Don't be too disheartened! I was a total couch potato until about 6 years ago when I started going to the gym. I started out doing cardio classes like Body Attack and at first I really struggled and had to take breaks quite often but eventually built up my fitness and could do them no bother. I then took up swimming and…

Yup, same here.....not really following the challenges as same as you, I have my own workout schedule going on, and the food challenges tend to change every day which isn't so good for me....I prefer trying to stick to a food challenge for a week as I tend to find I'll do worse on Day 1 but will improve and nail it as the…

I can't believe I made the list again this week. Woot woot! I'm glad to be losing again after a longgggg time of doing rubbish!

That is so inspiring! I would love to become a runner......my aim is to run at least one marathon in my lifetime! I've tried and failed so many times at running but I've started the couch 2 5k app on my ipod and am determined to stick to it this time! I love hearing stories about people who couldn't run being able to run…

I'm not at maintainance yet but I'm guessing when I am I'll feel a bit like that. To be honest, though, my maintainance calories will be hardly anything more than what I'm eating to lose anyway (I'm only 5 foot and not quite 1 inch tall so will probably be eating around 1400-500 for maintainance on a non work-out day while…

For me, it is probably to play my guitar or piano depending what I'm feeling in the mood for. Playing them takes me off to a happy place where I can't really think about any problems or worries, so works for me :)

I've been into fitness for about 5 or 6 years now, so I vary it to mix things up. When I first started I used to go to Body Attack 3 times a week. Nowadays and average week for me would be something like: Monday - Body Attack Tuesday - Gym Wednesday - Body Attack Thursday - Metafit and Gym Friday - Metafit and Gym or Body…

Woop! I'm in the top 20. Don't think I'll be doing as well this week. Had a few bad days but hopefully that's me back on the waggon.

My experience of this weight loss/fitness thing is that it goes in cycles. You can be totally geared up for a few months.....looking forward to hitting the gym every day. Sometimes finding yourself going to the gym twice in one day just 'cause you love it so much. Seeing results and loving the experience and then at other…

Pushing weight on wheels doesn't tend to burn loads more calories as the wheels/stroller are taking a lot of the weight. If you were going a walk carrying your kid on your back or something, you'd burn more. And although I agree with you that everyday activities burn calories, I also agree with the previous poster who…

I'm Scottish and have quite a broad accent myself. It's really annoying when Americans can't understand a word I say! So yeah, I don't like my accent and I don't really like hearing a Scottish accent on other people. It kinda makes me cringe when there's a Scotsman on TV, particularly if they're from Glasgow (my area!). I…

Wetherspoon's has a low calorie drinks page on it's drink menu (or it did the last time I was in). Wetherspoon's is a tough place to eat out, though, without going over your calories. They do sweet chilli noodles which are quite low cal (I think about 370) or so but most of their meals, even the 'healthy-ish' ones are…

As someone else said, the girl could have forgotten to take her old gym clothes out her bag and then thought that she didn't want to miss her workout and would wear them or whatever. To best honest, musty old sweat smells don't really bother me. Pungent BO smells bother me more but in a gym I just put up with it. I guess…