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Larger ladies - please help me with an interview outfit!
Is it just me or is it really hard to find stylish, flattering interview outfits when you're fat?! I will be interviewing for an office position, the style will need to be more on the formal side but it's not like I'm interviewing to be a lawyer or anything. That said I also have very little experience in the industry and…
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How long did it take you to lose inches?
I've been doing MFP for a few months, lost just over a stone (17lbs), very happy with that. However in all honestly the number on the scale bothers me way less than my physical size - I'd rather see the numbers on the measuring tape go down before the scales! I'm about 1/5 of the way to my goal and the measurements have…
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Food suggestions for when you're ill.
I have been ill for the past week with a gum infection. It's been pretty miserable, and in addition to the pain and swelling I've got absolutely NO appetite. Which I wouldn't mind except I'm also pretty starving! I've managed to make myself eat some scrambled eggs, soup, super noodles, yogurt, angel delight and a potato…
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What’s surprised you about your weight loss journey so far
Mine has been that not eating chocolate hasn’t had as much of an effect on my weight as I’d have thought! I gave up chocolate for Lent and haven’t had one bite for almost 6 weeks. Pretty tough at times but I’m actually starting to lose the cravings…just in time for Easter Sunday of course. Before I gave it up I could eat…
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Is BMI worth bothering about?
I’ve just been doing a rough working out of how long it will take me to get to my goal weight with milestones along the way, as a sort of way to motivate myself (for example, by losing 1lb a week I would have lost 2.5 stone by Christmas, about 3.5 by my next birthday, etc). I went all the way to my goal weight. After…
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Logging exercise and heart rate monitors/pedometers
Hi, I use a fitness DVD as my daily exercise. I’m struggling with what to put it under in my fitness log – so far I’ve gone with ‘low impact aerobics’ as that’s the closest thing I can think of to put it under, but it makes me wonder about my exercise calories. Since my exercise calories are essentially a wild stab in the…
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Settling into new eating habits.
I'm curious to others who have been doing this longer; so far this week I have either gone a lot over or a fair bit under my calories goal. Like today, I am 366 calories under my goal and if I ate more I'd feel I was eating for the sake of it. How long did it take you to settle into a comfortable dietary routine? Or does…
