Yeah, that's fine. Middle eastern and asian restaurants are generally the nut low for desserts, gotta stick with the western world for those!

The thing is, the gf is a baker. She makes the most awesome desserts:

Sticky toffee pudding
Molten chocolate lava cake
Apple crumble
Bannoffee pie.....

She's struggling not so much as she likes eating them....(We both do) , but she enjoys the baking and she misses it..

I feel your/her pain, love baked goods a ton myself!

Why does something so good be so ooooo bad lol

This is right, but your prior estimate was about 50% of what it should be.

This book is great.

Eat smaller desserts? Go for a 30m to somewhere and then eat a cake and walk back?

There are plenty of ways to fit desserts into diets without totally going crazy and eating a pan of brownies. (That is a sometimes event. Like once every few years sometimes.)

Good start, op. I'm totally (beet)rooting for you!

Thanks for the support mate

Hi mate thanks for your post. Of course you are right but it is too much of a temptation. It's just me and the gf in the house. If she bakes a cake and we each have a slice, there is still 3/4s of a cake sitting on our kitchen top... I don't want to create temptations and I don't really want to waste a cake....so probably better off not baking it in the first place.

The same happened with the gravy, where I made some and had to throw the rest out because I knew the temptation would be to great....

of course I have to learn to deal with this, but I want to start my lifestyle change with good behaviours, and not be put into a position where It would be too easy to have "just one more slice"

Have you taken a photo? Do you notice looking better and/or clothes fitting better? You should make 10KG lighter two weeks from now which I think will show.

you could also just make a cupcake for the both of you, there's no law that says a cake has to be a certain size, same goes for gravy

FYI here's your projected weight at 1800 Kcal/day



2000 Kcal/day gets you to 100KG by the wedding. You'll lose more than my projections for the first months or so due to water/food weight.

Hey mate. I said I'd take a photo every 4 weeks.... That's also 2 weeks from now.....will upload when I have done it. Clothes a little less tight but nothing significant.

That is a fine looking graph sir.

Making gravy in small batches doesn't really work. If I'm only allowed 50ml of gravy it would just be too fiddly to make.

As for the cupcake I will ask the gf...might be a great idea but I have this feeling she likes all the work that goes into making and decorating a cake....its a hobby for her too...but I take your point and will ask. Cheers!

If you're making cupcakes then use an artificial sweetener like stevia ... try out various combos like 1/2, 2/3 stevia and the rest sugar, really saves on calories.

Truthfully cupcakes aren't my thing..Not a big fan of icing.....now custard.... that's another matter..... I have some birds custard at home,,thinking of throwing it out too as it's so tempting to make a big bowl. ..!

Aggressive weight loss itt.

Subscribing! Keep it going good sir

Thanks for the support guys!

this is most likely wrong info. mfp has many completely wrong entries, always make sure that they at least look realistic when you enter a new product for the first time. even when you scan the barcode. (or compare a few different options or look at other sources).
of course, if you never make curry again, who cares. it happened, nothing you can change.
but normal coconut milk (for cooking) has 180-190kcal per 100g (nothing than fat & water), so you (or MFP) is probably off by nearly 600kcal for the meal, that's too much to repeat regularly. (of course, if you used extremely diluted milk, maybe the values are correct. but just make sure to check it out, before you use it again).

good job otherwise.

Good call, will do from now on. Cheers!

I try and look for entries that are 'verified' or have a lot of user confirmations, in addition to checking what is on the label versus what is in MFP. I also have the added chore of finding things that actually have the potassium numbers in them since most do not as it is not required to be specified on the labels.

Good idea. ..basically will double check the packet before I mfp the heck out of it...

FYI this light coconut milk has 292 Kcal per 400 ml



so tronton's explanation is likely. If your numbers were per 100ml then your 1735 Kcal days were actually 2302 Kcal which explains why you weren't so grumpy!!

For "200g chicken breast" is that the raw or cooked weight and is it with or without skin. If it's the raw weight and you don't eat the skin then your numbers are ~100 Kcal high per 200g.

Was that mozzarella light?