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Eeek, I've placed a £1,000 bet on me losing weight for Christmas!
So I have placed a bet on myself losing 35Ibs in 6 months starting this week (website removed by mods). I've paid £1,000 up front (you can choose your amount and also pay in monthly installments) and if I hit my goal weight by December 30th I double my money. So the goal is to be slim, fit and healthy by Christmas with…
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Looking for new friends to motivate each other!
Hi, I lost about 40 pounds around five years ago, and I've piled a lot of it back on, it's creeped on year by year and then lockdown was a disaster! I'm determined to lose 35 pounds by Christmas and log daily. Add me if you'd like more friends!
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Motivating strict diet Vs slow weight loss
Ah, advice please! I've been a life long yo-yo dieter. My weight had always wildly fluctuated - couple of stone up, a couple down and repeat. I look back to when I was 18 and 10 st 7 (147 pounds - now my ideal weight!) and thought I was hideously fat. I then BECAME fat because I went on strict low calorie diets and hours…
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Uk people - success stories?
Let's hear your inspirational stories - with pics if you have them!
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UK friends with success stories wanted!
Hi I lost lost 30Ibs in 2012/13 and have been stuck in a YEAR-long plateau. Now I want to lose another 30Ibs for my Christmas wedding. I'm in need of some motivation and would appreciate some more friends who have had success losing weight to provide some much needed inspiration! I'm UK-based so friends in the UK would be…
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Loose V lose
At the risk of sounding like a condescending grammar Nazi ... I feel compelled to point out that we all want to LOSE weight to make our clothes become LOOSE. We don't want to LOOSE weight. Thanks, that feels better now!
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Recommendations for good bloggers
Can anyone please recommend decent girly type blogs (UK based) e.g. recipes, fashion, beauty, crafts, well-being etc? Any independent websites/bloggers that you enjoy following and regularly produce eye-catching posts? Many thanks.
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Help I can't get a thing gap!! Going crazy!
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Stevia sugar substitute
Was looking forward to experimenting with baking using the sugar substitute Stevia - natural, zero cals, zero carbs! But urgh, it has such a horrible aftertaste. My cupcakes are vile!
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I eat 51 bananas a day!
Not me personally, but this girl...she is bananas! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2601633/I-eat-51-bananas-day-Self-proclaimed-diet-guru-claims-toned-physique-MOUNTAINS-fruit-eats-single-meal-time.html I'm sure there are plenty of healthy people who follow a raw vegan diet and after a lot of research eat as…
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Low carb - how strict?
Hi I've recently become convinced about the benefits of lowering carb consumption (to keep our blood sugar stable and reduce storage of extra sugar as fat) and increasing protein (for satiety and muscle growth). I've ignored this theory for years and focused on low fat only but this makes so much sense to me now. And since…
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Big fat balls...
of natural peanut butter (Meridian, no palm oil - 300g), flaxseed meal (ground flaxseeds - 100g) and help protein powder (Pulsin - 40g) is what I've just made with a splash of almond milk to make it mix. Trying to give this lower carbs, higher protein idea a go and really struggling with breakfast. Mixed the above together…
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Paul McKenna's Hunger Scale
Hi I remember reading Paul McKenna's Think Yourself Thin book years ago and was thinking about it recently.I think it's really important for weight loss and maintenance so thought I'd share. The scale goes from 1 to 10, with 1 feeling physically faint with hunger and 10 feeling stuffed to the point of nausea. He says you…
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Lower carb, higher protein ideas
Hi I'd be grateful for any meal/snack suggestions for the food principles I'm trying to adopt. I've never eaten meat but recently began eating fish and cutting down on dairy. I'm aware that my diet is always fairly low in protein and stuffed with carbs (though I try to go for wholewheat). So I'm needing more options for a…
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Do you pick at treat food?
Sometimes I think it can really help you stay on track to just have a small taste to satisfy a craving but not blow it. Like tonight my boyfriend got a kebab, cheesy chips, onion rings and Ben and Jerry's delivered. I pinched a few chips and about 3 onion rings and had a spoonful of ice cream (yes I'm that annoying…
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Is this you?!
Definitely me
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I have MS and ran my first half marathon!
I'm really pleased with myself and just wanted to brag!! It means a lot to me that I today I ran the furthest I've ever managed - 13 miles - just over 7 years after I started developing multiple sclerosis. I thought my life was over the day I woke up and fell to the floor with blurred and double vision and vertigo and was…
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Brits, don't you love...
Moving into a lower stone zone! Psychologically feels so good! (Americans, a stone is 14 pounds) I started off 15st 7 last year, now 13st 2. Off on hols to Marbella a week tomorrow and while I still feel so un-bikini ready eeeek (final goal 10 stone) to be in the 12 zone would be amazing, woo!
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So not bikini ready arrrgggh!
You know that mixed feeling when you're proud of how far you've come and how hard you've worked, yet you're still fairly disgusted with your body and before you know it, your beach holiday is NEXT WEEK?! I weighed 15 st 6 (216 Ibs) last September and I've lost 35 Ibs to get to 12st 13 (181 pounds). Been working out loads…
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Isn't it weird how...
Some times it's like wow this is simple, eat nutritiously and create a deficit and move your *kitten* a bit more, calories in and calories out etc. and you're on a roll, 7 Ibs come off nicely over a few weeks. And you think jeez how did I let myself get fat, it's not rocket science, I love this lifestyle, I LOVE working…
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Dairy-free protein shake...
Can anyone recommend one please?
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NSV - skirt too big!
I've lost 2 stone (28 pounds for the Americans) gradually since last September and just realised today that my denim skirt is too big and needs to go! It was always a loose size 16 skirt anyway, but still I was a 16. First time I've had to throw something out because it's too big! Fab feeling! I have a smaller denim skirt…
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Best sweet syrup
Hi I can cut down my saturated fat ok but struggle with refined sugar. I'm addicted to Nature Valley bars, Nakd bars and Alpro soya chocolate desserts! As I'm trying to up my protein too, I've been making my own bars to replace these, for example tonight I mixed up some porridge oats, natural peanut butter, dried apricots,…
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30 mins of exercise a day better than an hour
I am liking this study! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9493863/30-minutes-exercise-better-than-an-hour-of-training-for-weight-loss.html
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Cancelled gym membership = step forward!!
I have just fired off an email cancelling my gym membership....WOOP!!! It feels good!! It's taken me sooooo long! Because, I've realised, I am not really a gym person. Not regularly enough to justify £42 a month. I have paid this silly amount for about 8 years!! (= over £4,000!!). There have been long periods when I got…
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21 pounds lost! (With pics)
I can't believe I let myself get this large, I looked preggers!! It was pretty painful for me to take the first pic of myself in my underwear and now share it but it was a wake up call! I'll NEVER let myself get like that again! I lost the weight fairly gradually by eating about 1200-1700 cals depending on how much…
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When you eat important?
A new study has suggested eating your main meal before 3pm is best for weight loss. (Lol at the bit that says late night kebab eaters lost less weight, well duh!) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2269994/Want-lose-weight-Its-just-eat-WHEN-eat-thats-important.html Personally, I wouldn't want my main meal in work,…
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I will not be a fat bride!
I know...I'm a stereotype... Booked my wedding last weekend...for 18 months' time... and I vow to get in the best shape of my life for it!!! I'm 32 and I haven't really been slim and in shape since I was 18. I've got my eye on a gorgeous blush-coloured strapless figure-hugging dress. I want a slim waist. And defined arms.…
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Starvation myth explained
This seems a good explanation of the starvation myth (or part-myth if you like) http://www.weightwatchers.co.uk/util/art/index_art.aspx?tabnum=1&art_id=29241 For me, as mentioned here, the most detrimental thing about eating too little is the danger of feeling so deprived that you end up binge eating. (Been there, that's a…
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Want the perfect bum?
Right, better get going on the squats then!! I've decided that (along with my usual work out routine that now includes weights/resistance training) I'm going to commit to doing 2 sets of 12 squats every time I make a cup of tea while the kettle boils. I drink about 5 cups a day, so that's 60 squats a day (plus more in my…
