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Thanks for the help everyone, I'll try weighing the pre-packaged stuff and check the MFP entries against the packaging. That could be it. :)

I never thought to weigh the pre-portioned package stuff actually, I've just trusted the manufacturers. Didn't know it could be off by that much! I did get tested for underactive thyroid a few years ago but it was normal at the time. I've wondered if I've got PCOS for a while but haven't had it checked.

Whoa, you're putting in way more effort than me, that must be disheartening! You seem to be quite slim already from what yoy say, so maybe its just that your body doesn't think it's holding 'excess' fat and is fighting to keep what it has? Unlike me, I'm technically obese but my bod likes having this much fat apparently 😅

I have occasional cheat meals, but if I ever go over on a day it's between 100- 300 cals over, but that's not often.

Yep, it's a digital food scale. As I said in my post, I'm really paranoid about getting it wrong so if I can't scan the bar code I'll enter it myself from the nutrition table on the packaging.

It uses one saucepan, one frying pan, a steamer that sits on top of a saucepan and one bowl to eat out of. Considering the ingredients I don't think that's too bad. It only takes around 10-15 minutes to cook, I consider this a quick and easy dinner. Plus you can double or triple it for meal prepping. As for the ingredients…

I found that including beans in your diet helps a lot! I make my own vegetable-based recipes from scratch and usually include beans of some sort (I make chilli, hot pot, soups, rice and bean dishes, etc.) and I'm super regular. Also, try coffee - you may be one of the 30% of people (like me) in whom coffee consumption…

My experience as a huge carboholic was that calorie counting was a safer bet than slimming world, especially since I'm vegetarian so was put on the (higher carb) Green Plan. I barely lost any weight on their plan, because other than "as long as 1/3 of your plate is superfree" there were no real portion guidelines, and I…

Thanks everybody! :)

Wow, so inspiring! You look amazing, and the random food snaps look delicious! I have to say though, that you looked beautiful before, too. :)

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I'm doing the food containers part of the fix, but my workouts are P90X3. I love Tony and couldn't give him up! :smiley: I've lost 4lbs in 5 days! I have trouble with portion sizes and carbs, so the container plan is great for me!

The blackouts sound like it could be an underlying health problem, better check it out with a doctor, you might have a blood-sugar related condition. As for me, I also get night cravings if I stay up too late. What time do you go to sleep normally? If I go at 11pm or earlier I don't get the hunger. The body tells you to…

Coconut! :)

This is such a weird thread, haha :D I think something sugary or vanilla flavoured :)

Sending positive thoughts :) x

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You look fantastic now! What an achievement, well done, you must feel so much healthier too :) x

In the UK, we tend to use milk rather than cream in coffee, which I suppose lowers the calories especially when you use skimmed milk. I drink tea the same way, with two tbsps of skimmed (low fat) milk and two tsps of Stevia. The funny thing is, when I moved to Germany, I noticed that the coffee culture here is almost as…

The OP is only going on what others have told her, and I can vouch that up until a year or two ago, these forums used to be full of threads with things like "you need to eat more, you're in starvation mode". I've noticed trends in weight loss advice. I remember being told those things myself, and I remember thinking that…

I did terribly on Slimming World, until I started secretly counting calories... then I realised I was paying for counting calories, and quit x)

I live between England/Germany so I'm not sure how the US differs, but when I started university I had zero problems maintaining a vegetarian diet (I was already vegetarian for years though). Does your university allow you to opt out of catering? The student halls where I lived in my first year were self catering, so I…

Thanks so much for the replies so far, this is really interesting. I asked because despite the popular opinion that eating fewer calories will impede weight loss (seriously, the advice I get to raise my intake when I'm not losing weight) I do not lose weight above 1400 per day. I've been scientific about it and tried 1500,…

Do you count calories generally when you're trying to lose weight? If you do, and get sick of it, try joining a club like weight watchers or slimming world. It's the group and the support as well as the simplified eating plans that get you motivated each week. :)

I'm thinking of starting running again alongside P90X3, because when I've tried losing weight before with running and eating less than 1500 it wasn't this slow. Still slow, but not 3lbs in 12 week slow. Thanks :)

There's no way in hell I've been netting 2025 calories per day. I log everything, and my polar tells me I burn between 250 - 500 calories per P90X3 workout. I have a digital food scale, I don't guess calories. I realise that you don't know me or see what I'm eating, and for all you know I'm lying or over eating without…

So I saw the doctor today and asked her opinion after describing my symptoms and difficulty losing weight, and she's referred me for blood tests testing for female testosterone (marker for PCOS), blood sugar and another thyroid test. The thing is though, she said that even if the test comes back positive for an…

Thanks for the advice everyone! To be honest, I've started suspecting that I have PCOS, as I have at least four symptoms associated with it. It's part of the reason I'm seeing a doctor tomorrow. I'm not trying to have kids, so I haven't really given it thought until now. We'll see. Actually, the reason I weighed myself…