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OMG this is an amazing thread! I'm 4'11 and just starting out...185lbs. Want to get down to about 130lbs I guess?

Thanks everyone. Obviously when I said I 'can't' control portions of rice/pasta etc it meant that I don't - it was just a turn of phrase. I know it's up to me to do it, but I tend to find with things like this I'm better at just cutting it out all together so the temptation to overeat it just isn't there. Thanks for the…

[/quote] they may make you gain water weight, but you are not getting fat off carbs unless you're eating in a surplus. And the weight you drop initially when cutting carbs is all water weight as well I am definitely eating them in surplus! I can't portion control them, I always make too much and, worse, I always eat…

OMG, I can't believe you have to put your weight on your driving license. I'm suddenly grateful about being British, lol!

Genuine friends would understand. I had a similar dilemma this week - we were due to go to friends for dinner this Saturday but other friends have decided to come to London all the way from Manchester just for a couple of days and they want to see us on Saturday. I explained the situation to my good friend and she was…

I'll work on the assumption that a crock pot is what we Brits call a slow cooker...am I right? If so then I have a great healthy recipe: Chinese chicken and mushroom Brown some chicken thigh or leg portions in a pan with a little olive oil and remove. Put the chicken into the slow cooker. In the pan you just used to brown…

This really does make me feel old... The answer is that when the cassette tapes used to unwind themselves in the player, you'd use the top of a biro to wind them back up again... !!

Eeek - I really am the fattest of all the shorties - am also 4'11 and 179lbs! Looking to get down to about 120 eventually...

I've always been led to believe it kickstarts your metabolism, but I can't imagine it matters that much one way or the other, and at the end of the day if you're staying under your cals then you're going to lose weight. I think the other reason you're always advised to eat brekkie when you're trying to lose weight is that…

I don't get this too much as I'm usually quite satisfied after dinner, but I think perhaps keeping yourself busy can really help. Do some chores, read a book, go for a walk... Also, have you tried drinking something when you get the craving to eat?? I usually have a cup of tea after dinner when I feel like I want some…

I think there's a substantial difference between being on a diet and changing the way you live your life. I know a lot of people that find 'dieting' easy - they follow a plan, lose weight and then the struggle begins because they have to maintain it. Changing your life is difficult, because you know it's got to be…

Reading this thread makes me realise that in the US there's so much more junk than here in the UK! FYI - Chocolate Digestives are biscuits - Digestives are basically what we use as a base for cheesecake, they're sweet but not overly so. The chocolate ones are just covered in milk chocolate and they're absolutely delicious…

As everyone said, it's one DVD and on three levels and you just do them for as long as you feel comfortable before moving to the next; although the idea is to spend 10 days on each. I got it for £5 on Amazon, it was a bargain! I know a lot of people on MFP have lost a lot of weight doing it. It does cater for any level of…

Work out in the morning to earn some extra cals and have a tomato based pasta if poss...x

Glad you said this, I have always wondered what the hell is a twinkie? Someone please tell me... Back to the subject matter in hand, I think people have different goals...some people want to lose weight and eat clean and change their entire food ethos, others just want to lose weight and be fitter. How simplistic you want…

Lol, as I'm reading this, I'm watching Biggest Loser Australia (although I'm in the UK). I've never seen Heavy or X-Weighted...but we have BL here and I think it's more positive than negative because I think it highlights that anyone, no matter how big they are or how bad their habits, can make life long changes to their…

The fact that you don't feel comfy sharing your diary and the lack of calories does seem to indicate that there's a bit of an ED going on here, but I could be wrong? 800 cals per day is so little...to echo the others, it seems your body has gone into starvation mode and is hanging onto every morsel you give it...especially…

I'm mummy to an energetic 15 month old - I am back to my pre-pregnancy weight but that was fat anyway, so now I'm determined to lose some proper weight before even thinking about baby number 2... I work part time and have lots of family to help out, yet it's still so easy to make excuses...but it's vital that we do this to…

31, London...looking to lose about 10 stone (ok, so like 2/3 stone but it feels like it might as well be 10!) Feel free to add me x

oooh I like this, it makes me think about how I can do better... RIGHT: Exercising three times a week religiously Logging all my food Eating better during the week Making some more sensible food choices WRONG Eating badly at the weekends which is sabotaging my weight loss Not exercising in between my three kickboxing…

I'm in! I need to up my game :)

My daughter is only 15 months and I've not experienced this yet, but Supernanny (don't know if you have her in America?) covers this all the time and, to echo what others have said, you just have to persist. You need to wean her off the nuggets, so basically reduce the frequency while getting her to eat other stuff and…

London, baby!

There's not one answer to this I don't think - totally depends on your weight/height, how active you are etc etc. If you were say 250lbs and you were eating 4,000 cals per day (which is how you became overweight in the first place) then eating 2,000 per day would of course make you lose weight. I, for example, am 178lbs…

Just to echo what others have said, you look COMPLETELY different in your before/after pics already and 50lbs is an amazing achievement - but you're not finished on your journey and remember that! I'm sure you don't look as bad as you think - we're always our biggest critics - and I'm sure when you reach goal you'll look…

Someone just mentioned Orlistat - in the UK that's what Alli is, which you can get from the pharnacy and basically it prevents your body from absorbing fat - so for every 1lb you lose normally, you would lose another using the pills. As was said above though, it can have very nasty side effects - if you consume too much…

Yeah try a handful of nuts/seeds, avocados are also high in calories but good for you. How many cals per day are you meant to have and how many are you having?

I'm sorry if this offends anyone, but one of my pet peeves is people that stop in doorways or at the top/bottom of escalators... Now I'm just waiting for the barrage of people who are going to call me names and explain that there may be a good reason that those people stopped. Perhaps they had a stone in their shoe, or…

PS I think the original poster is getting a bit too much stick for just expressing an opinion - she didn't say these people are evil or deserve bad things to happen to them...I think a pet peeve is just that - not quite strong enough to be a genuine annoyance but something she just finds a little irritating and she wanted…

I think logging stuff like this can be indicative of a mindset that is counter-productive to making life-changing decisions. I'm sure that for some people (not everyone) logging this sort of stuff as exercise, it deters them from doing actual exercise as they think to themselves, "I've done my exercise for the day and…