@Samsarah Put the nutella in the bin! You will feel empowered. Tell your daughter you dropped the jar!

@CherylBryant You should see results really quickly with your new regime. Worth a bit of pain to achieve your goal.

@CherylBryant Fantastic! Its a good scheme. SMY

@Samsarah Current research suggests its so much better to continue exercising gently with a bad back with pain killers to keep you mobile. Its not easy though. You're doing really well.

@Maggie21How are you getting on? Is the new WW programme an improvement?

@Samsarah How is your back? Hope it is better and you can work out ok.

@LyssGardi On the Raw Food Diet there is always something to eat - fruit , nuts, a smoothie, just eat to hunger. Like you I have a small amount of weight that I haven't been able to shift for a long time. In one week with raw food I've lost 4.5 lbs and am certain that by day 30 of my raw food challenge I will be within the health weight range for my height. Add me as a friend and look at my food diary if you like. Mx

@Monsterpary I think for many of us, eating better and/or losing weight is a personal challenge rather than a competition and we just don't care where we are on the leader board. I don't want any of you to fall off the wagon just to see my name there instead! I suppose the leader board in an added incentive to some but not others. Actually with a long streak you could head the leader board bed-bound from obesity, living on MacDonalds and Burger King! You'd fall off eventually though.....

@Maggie21 Not tried the new WW program. Have done all the others though. I liked the one from 15 years ago where you had so many portions of protein, carbs and so on per day. You had little magnets to move across a chart on your fridge! Is the latest one good?

I started a 30 day Raw Food Diet 3 days ago. It's very different to any other diet I've tried being rather difficult to overeat which is my downfall. I'm doing prob 80 to 90% raw. Not giving up oily fish. Take a look at my diary and comment if you wish! Happy Eating!

@SugarplumCup Monsterpary is right. Take your measurements and try to keep off the scales. Make sure your food diary is really accurate - no off regime snaffling. That combined with the exercise will work. Don't let doubt creep in and tempt you back into unhealthy habits. Best wishes SMY x

@donna0627 Well done you! It's so hard to break ingrained habits. You're right - concern for your health outweighs doing it just to lose weight.

@well_dressed_mess It just isn't worth the damage you will do to your body and mind. Talk to the people who love you. Let them help you to feel better about yourself.

Don't do it. You will make yourself ill, depressed and fail to do your best in your exams. Eat properly, drink loads of water, look after yourself.

BBQ is v slimming. Just avoid the burger buns, load up on salad and have a bit of meat if you eat it. Take your own peppers and corn on the cob and you'll be fine.

Research green smoothies. They help with cravings and make you feel sooo good. Also, my son had awful spots. They dried up within days with just one green smoothie per day.

Good luck!!!

The tracking really helps. It shows you clearly where you tend to go wrong. Knowledge is power!! If you want to put minus calories on for exercise so you can track that too, just put a minus before the calories lost a twye will subtract.

Feel free to add me as a friend to see what I'm eating.

Hurrah - we'll all be thin!! Best wishes. Mx

A friend and her boyfriend have lost lots of weight by drinking green smoothies. They say that they were told that they would lose weight and feel much healthier if they changed nothing else in their diet other that incorporating green smoothies (ie ones which include green veg, salad leaves etc as well as fruit). Both are very energetic so it certainly has been good for them.

Have other people tried this and did it work???!!!

Just keep tracking. As you see problems with your diet emerging, you can tackle them. The first step has to be information! I have been surprised by the repetitiveness of mine which I plan to start addressing. Good luck!!

@jackiedpepper Hi, Thanks for that. I'll try that one too. I used a different one to work out my daily requirements but want to be pretty sure that its accurate for me. God forbid that I get even fatter if its wrong! It's easy to over exaggerate your level of activity.
Problem for me is I am always worried that a diet won't work for me. Then I starve myself. Can't keep that up so back to over-eating.
Just thought if I knew for certain what my baseline was then I can relax and let the changes work.

Trying to work out what my maintenance calorific requirement is. Hope TWYE will make this clear. Being pretty busy, if I don't get enough to eat I feel dizzy and quickly lose motivation when I try to reduce my calories.

Using TWYE, I should theoretically be able to work out what works (or doesn't) for me. Hurrah!

Love the simplicity of it.