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Please help me help my friend
My best friend of 9 years, for as long as I have known her, has had tremendous weight problems and has never stopped trying to solve them. She's 5'4" and an emotional binge eater, weighing around 20 stone currently. For years and years, she's tried all these (what I can only call) starvation diets. There was a point she…
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Goodbye, Myfitnesspal: The dangers of calorie counting (personally)
Counting calories will help you lose weight. And if that's what you need, you go for that. I lost 3 stone off SW and then another stone and a half using MyFitnessPal. It does work. And then I became obsessed. I even put up a post here berating myself for - gasp - eating a McDonalds after I had spent the week before on…
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6 pounds lost in a week... THEN D'OH.
Christmas coming has been the perfect motivation to lose this last stone (5'5" and 147 pounds right now, trying very hard to get down to 140)... So I was a saint all week, restricted to myself to about 900 calories, didn't really treat myself.... And then, Christmas shopping. I had a rolll and sausage about 1 o'clock, came…
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Losing A Pound A Day... Healthy?
Hi there; I'm a 5'7", young adult female who weighs 165 pounds; my calorie in-take is 1200 calories a day. Every other day, I burn 170 on the treadmill, and my diet consists of Slimming World/Weight Watcher friendly foods, as well as any snack foods I can have, if I have the spare calories! My life style's admittedly quite…
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Alternatives to Pepsi Max?
I've managed to lose three stone this year, getting from 15st to 12st on the mark; I exercised, joined Slimmingworld, and I didn't think anything of my slow weight loss. I was just happy to see progress, regardless of how long it took! I'm 5'7"/5'8" female, and I feel that 11 stone would be the ideal weight for me - never,…
