...Now I go to the gym 3 times a week and I try to fit a cycle in. I haven't lost a single pound but I have definitely got thinner and more toned. I am really trying to cut down on the cake. I like cake....

Mmmmmm... cake!!! What's not to like?!!!

1 slice of chocolate cake (1/12th of a standard layer cake) with chocolate frosting is 506 calories.

To burn 506 calories, you could do any of the following TWO activities.

140 mins walking
58 mins jogging
42 mins swimming
77 mins cycling

(Numbers, again, courtesy of the website CalorieKing.)

Es, you are clearly one of those people who has exercised enough to turn fat into muscle - a feat to be celebrated and applauded!!! I do not know if CalorieKing includes the effects of increased metabolic rate in its calculations of exercise required in the "burn off" of foods. Probably they do not. The numbers would vary so much from person to person that I think any effect would be impossible to calculate validly for inclusion in a venue like a reference website. I guess my point is that, at least for me, exercise in the absence of actually cutting down on food intake would not result in weight loss.

Again, I am not against exercise! I love swimming and I genuinely enjoy walking our neighbor's dog, Maya, up and down the hills of our hilly SF East Bay suburb. I enjoy gardening as well, which can be vigorous if it involves turning soil or turning compost. All I am saying is that I am surprised at how much exercise is required, over our basic human metabolic requirements, to "burn off" extra foods we may enjoy. The CalorieKing website may not be 100% accurate, but it seems to be largely consistent with other food-exerciser calculators out there. I'm sort of a numbers person and I find the numbers to be educational. Knowledge is power.

And by the way - WELCOME, Es, to what is turning out to be a very fun and popular thread!!!

They wined, beered and fed me at least twice a day at a restaurant. Somedays even breakfast. Starters and desserts some days too. What saved me was a lot of walking. I love to walk. Distance is not a deterant, but heat is here in CA.
So in 2015 with a more sensible meal schedule, I might just loose weight.

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I've been seeing a lot of Marie Osmond and Sharon Osbourne on tv advertising weight loss plans. I've even seen the girl(Melissa Joan Hart) who played Sabrina, the Teenage Witch advertising one. I guess those meal plans work ok. Anyone ever try one?

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fifteen minute laughing burns between 10 and 40 calories.

Boy, I must be burning a lot of calories then as I laugh quite a lot:) I know something else that burns qute some calories but I won't post it now (hehehe;)))

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fifteen minute laughing burns between 10 and 40 calories.

Boy, I must be burning a lot of calories then as I laugh quite a lot:) I know something else that burns qute some calories but I won't post it now (hehehe;)))

LOL

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I've been seeing a lot of Marie Osmond and Sharon Osbourne on tv advertising weight loss plans. I've even seen the girl(Melissa Joan Hart) who played Sabrina, the Teenage Witch advertising one. I guess those meal plans work ok. Anyone ever try one?

One of my co-workers has been getting those meals for a couple of years. Initially she lost substantial amounts of weight, but she appeared to put most of the weight back on within a year of hitting her lowest weight. Ironically, she is still eating those meals. She claims they "help", so she must still be down a few pounds. The food looks TERRIBLE. Also the meal plans instruct the buyer to supplement the frozen/microwave-to-eat meals with fresh salads and fruits, so they are not really cooking free. The meals are costly too, as there are built in costs for processing, packaging and shipping. Lots of money for bad, processed, airplane-style food seems like an AWFUL idea to me. Maybe I would feel differently if I hated cooking.

On a different note, I woke up at 4am this morning H U N G R Y!!! This is atypical for me, as I usually eat such substantial dinners that I never get hungry at night. I have many bad food habits, but eating after dinner does not tend to be one of them.

Initially I told myself that hunger is good. It means that I did not give my body enough calories that day to maintain the status quo. Hunger is a signal from your body that says "Send down some food before we have to take drastic measures and burn some fat reserves." Of course this what we are trying to do here, but the sensation of hunger can be persistent and distracting. At 4:30am I was still awake and feeling hungry, so I tried the posted suggestion of drinking a big glass of water. I was skeptical that it would make a difference. I was under the impression that hunger signals are triggered by blood sugar levels. I figured that water would not up the glucose in my blood and alter that signals my body was sending me.

I was wrong. The GI tract must be involved somehow in the signaling process. As soon as I drank the water, the sensation of hunger went away and I fell asleep again. I awoke at my usual time and ate a sensible breakfast.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

That was a wonderful suggestion!!!

Angela, I'm not a bit surprised about what you had to say about those diet meal plans. I pretty much figured that was the case. I imagine those celebrities help the companies sell a kazillion crummy dinners.

I'm glad the water helped you. I personally have to have it ice cold.

Still waiting on my pedometer. ~Should be delivered tomorrow. (No steps involved in this purchase)

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Angela, I'm not a bit surprised about what you had to say about those diet meal plans. I pretty much figured that was the case. I imagine those celebrities help the companies sell a kazillion crummy dinners.

I'm glad the water helped you. I personally have to have it ice cold.

Still waiting on my pedometer. ~Should be delivered tomorrow. (No steps involved in this purchase)

Got a free one out of a packet of breakfast cereals a few years ago. My daughter grew to loathe it almost straight away as it only registered about one-fifth of her footsteps. After a few days and more than a bit annoyed she gave it a shake and it jumped 700 steps. After that - "walking" involved eating an icecream and periodically shaking the pedometer at the tv :) She circumnavigated the earth in just one day :)

This thread is making me hungry :/

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Angela, I'm not a bit surprised about what you had to say about those diet meal plans. I pretty much figured that was the case. I imagine those celebrities help the companies sell a kazillion crummy dinners.

I'm glad the water helped you. I personally have to have it ice cold.

Still waiting on my pedometer. ~Should be delivered tomorrow. (No steps involved in this purchase)

Got a free one out of a packet of breakfast cereals a few years ago. My daughter grew to loathe it almost straight away as it only registered about one-fifth of her footsteps. After a few days and more than a bit annoyed she gave it a shake and it jumped 700 steps. After that - "walking" involved eating an icecream and periodically shaking the pedometer at the tv :) She circumnavigated the earth in just one day :)

Next stop, the moon maybe? ;) No ice cream here, I'm broke and it's 104F outside, I'd melt.

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All I've had to eat since Saturday is about 3 liters of soup, 6 slices of bread and 10 liters of wine. I was a bit depressed about getting diabetes so I had to drown my sorrows. I woke up this morning starving to death so I went down to the petrol station and got a meat pie. I forgot to put the soup in the fridge so it went a bit tangy yesterday and I had to throw it out. Snacked on a few cashew nuts. Scales say 96.2 kg.

The pressure is on with 3,000,000 seti crunchers watching my progress. Having diet buddies is good though and I appreciate the support and helpful tips.

Even though I have to lose weight I hope those of you who want to shed some pounds are successful as well.

edit The hardest thing is going from 2 spoons of sugar in my coffee to 1 spoon, even though I only drink 2 to 4 cups a day. :-(

Cheers friends.

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edit The hardest thing is going from 2 spoons of sugar in my coffee to 1 spoon, even though I only drink 2 to 4 cups a day. :-(

Look for a sugar substitute called Woolworths - Stevia, I, and many other, find it has a very slight taste, but this can be disguised by mixing with sugar.

So you could go back to your previous sweetness level with one tsp of sugar and 1/2 tsp of Stevia. Beware Stevia is very sweet.

All I've had to eat since Saturday is about 3 liters of soup, 6 slices of bread and 10 liters of wine. I was a bit depressed about getting diabetes so I had to drown my sorrows. I woke up this morning starving to death so I went down to the petrol station and got a meat pie. I forgot to put the soup in the fridge so it went a bit tangy yesterday and I had to throw it out. Snacked on a few cashew nuts. Scales say 96.2 kg.

The pressure is on with 3,000,000 seti crunchers watching my progress. Having diet buddies is good though and I appreciate the support and helpful tips.

Even though I have to lose weight I hope those of you who want to shed some pounds are successful as well.

edit The hardest thing is going from 2 spoons of sugar in my coffee to 1 spoon, even though I only drink 2 to 4 cups a day. :-(

Cheers friends.

212lbs, I would have a long ways to go to get down to that weight, or 173lbs I'd need to lose.

As much as I like Cashews, they are high in Calories, so I almost never buy nuts.

I use 2 packets of Sweet'n'Low in My coffee, no sugar also means no ants... :)

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I was under the impression that artificial sweeteners like Sweet'n'Low could actually be one of the causes of Diabetes and Obesity.

They trick the body into thinking it is going to get some energy, triggering a release of Insulin, the diabetes connection, but fail deliver the energy, making to body demand more food, the obesity link.

I was under the impression that artificial sweeteners like Sweet'n'Low could actually be one of the causes of Diabetes and Obesity.

They trick the body into thinking it is going to get some energy, triggering a release of Insulin, the diabetes connection, but fail deliver the energy, making to body demand more food, the obesity link.

That would be Big Sugar trying to fight against loss of market share and it's not true in the least, I gained My weight long before I started using Sweet'n'Low, I was tested for Diabetes, I don't have that, the weight increase came from Me not being active as I used to be cause of joint problems from when I broke a leg and had surgery to fix the leg, which ruined an ankle. Plus I have Osteoarthritis, since I was at least 40, that started in My shoulder blades, to get that, the the blades have to be dislocated by a fall, I had one in the military that probably led to the OA, no falls before or since.

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The pressure is on with 3,000,000 seti crunchers watching my progress.

No, there are 3,000,000 seti crunchers cheering you on to success!

I was under the impression that artificial sweeteners like Sweet'n'Low could actually be one of the causes of Diabetes and Obesity.

They trick the body into thinking it is going to get some energy, triggering a release of Insulin, the diabetes connection, but fail deliver the energy, making to body demand more food, the obesity link.

That would be Big Sugar trying to fight against loss of market share and it's not true in the least, I gained My weight long before I started using Sweet'n'Low, I was tested for Diabetes, I don't have that, the weight increase came from Me not being active as I used to be cause of joint problems from when I broke a leg and had surgery to fix the leg, which ruined an ankle. Plus I have Osteoarthritis, since I was at least 40, that started in My shoulder blades, to get that, the the blades have to be dislocated by a fall, I had one in the military that probably led to the OA, no falls before or since.

I also have Osteoarthritis in the shoulder, and have had several ACL operations on my knees, field athletics - jumping and skiing plus badly designed Army boots - medical discharge. But my surgeon told me to exercise knee without twisting, that's why I go out on my cycle as much as possible and only use car for shopping when weight of shopping dictates it. I'm 5' 10" and 165lbs and a year younger than Chris.

The pressure is on with 3,000,000 seti crunchers watching my progress.

No, there are 3,000,000 seti crunchers cheering you on to success!

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The pressure is on with 3,000,000 seti crunchers watching my progress.

No, there are 3,000,000 seti crunchers cheering you on to success!

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The pressure is on with 3,000,000 seti crunchers watching my progress.

No, there are 3,000,000 seti crunchers cheering you on to success!

Good on ya Angela, positive as ever. I think I just walked 6km. Went to town and didn't get a hotdog at the French bakery like I usually do. Came home via the waterfront. Now I need a nana nap.