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1 serve of Mango Sorbet with 10g of ice magic does it for me. Chocolate hit and I don't feel deprived of icecream (because it disagrees with me but I love it). But like others, I plan for it every day. First entry into my diary in the morning - I'll even rearrange what I have for dinner so that I can fit it in or if I have…

When I am lazy (so always), I cut firm tofu into cubes and pan fry in straight sesame oil. Delicious. Sometimes it even makes it into my stir fry

I finished the C25k app today! I've had to modify a bit because I've munted both knees and my right ankle, so I've completed it on the elliptical but I give zero *kitten*, as I've done it! And I did this morning's run at a higher RPM/watts than last week, so double nsv! Those exercise endorphins are real. Yay Monday!

They're in my pre workout (....for supposed fat burning I think?) and they taste delicious. I don't believe they do anything other than that, and even then it might just be raspberry flavouring.

Holy crap, >1kg of peanut butter a week?! You should skip the bread calories and just eat it straight from the jar (or as my poppa says, would you like some chips with your tomato sauce?)

A shirt I bought ages ago without trying on, is finally fitting across my chest - which means I am finally losing weight there and may one day be in proportion to the rest of my body!

I'm pretty good about being able to eyeball the grams accurately but that doesn't stop me from using the scale to check and give myself a pat on the back when I'm right. OP, maybe it's because I hate peanut butter, but 5T sounds like a lot. Couldn't you lower down slowly to a normal serving and maybe eat more peanut satay…

I avoid the lunchroom unless I am actually having lunch (stupid payday cakes look so delicious) and have a drawer full of low cal packed snacks that are nibble sized so I feel like I'm eating more. I am trying to cut down my soda intake so I have 600mL of a BCAA drink every morning that I just sip on until lunch alongside…

I also am a lactose intolerant vegetarian (biopsy disaccharides showed 0 lactase enzymes lol), and I struggled like crazy to get my protein up to normal levels until my PT showed me a whey protein isolate (ISO-100 chocolate flavour) that didn't give me any issues because it's lactose and gluten free. So that's 25g of…

After coming off BC for migraine reasons, I couldn't work out why I was ravenous two weeks before my period and so meh about food just before/during. It wasn't until I was tracking my cycle that the app pointed out that it was ovulation. I felt so stupid, I have a medical background and yet I bought into the idea that you…

My HRM gives me about 100 cals more than the machine does. I don't eat them back but it gives me a guide of my effort (400 cals) and when I can stop rather than going by a specific time. And the sweat pours down my back. My lower limb joints are so munted that treadmill (ankle, knee), the rower (hips), swimming (hips,…

Stop buying (and eating) ice cream and lollies. Learn to separate my wants from my needs

I thought I had broken my little finger again because there was a lump on the side (wouldn't be the first time!), but I haven't! It's a callous from where I loosely hold the static rest of elliptical machine so I don't fall off when my ankle sublexates. I don't even care how stupid I look holding it because I know I look…

I drove across the southern states in May/June (~6-8h per day), and despite being somewhat concerned about how everyone I know puts on weight on holiday in America, managed to eat at various fast food places without gaining weight. The trick was always having a full bottle of ice cold water. First thing we did was stop at…

My weight bounced back up for no discernible reason this week but rather than just toss in the towel, I continued getting up at 4am to go to the gym and added more cardio..no quitting! (It had better be a dramatic bloody whoosh this week :|

Actually that machine (leg press) has been instrumental in building my quads and glutes up so that my knees don't dislocate. You just need to be careful that you don't hyper extend when you push up/do half reps, and go up in weights very slowly. And concentrate (my joints sublexate if I don't)! Weight lifting has been the…

There is no reason why you can't just work out with the machines and cables until you're comfortable going into the free weight area. Find a program that you like doing (check out body building.com) and then do all of the movements on the machines that would target the same muscles, and go from there. I like to do Lee…

ANZAC day is the day we landed on Gallipoli in WWI and effectively became our own nation(s), separate from Great Britain (although just for fun, still part of the Commonwealth) and forged our own identities. i think it's the equivalent of your Memorial Day ? There is a solemn dawn service here, and in Turkey, France etc,…

Since Creme eggs landed in the supermarkets just after New Years, I have been going through at least two eggs a day (or three...or four). They don't even taste the same as when I was a kid! I have no idea why I am so obsessed with them and I'm secretly glad that theyll be gone now and I can get a handle on this…

I've been the girl who was used to cheat on his girlfriend with - I didn't know at the time we hooked up, and I felt utterly disgusted and horrified that I had any part in hurting someone else like that. I wasn't very mature at the time, so I let everyone know why he was no longer my work crush (+/- allowing a rumour about…

I think I'm developing an allergy to either sushi or Coke (well, cinnamon) and I can't decide which of the two I'd be more upset about. Sushi would be easy to eliminate because it's either the avocado or the seafood (in which case, no more thai!), but it's so delicious. Cinnamon would be upsetting because it's in so many…

I read this blog of a lady (amalah) whose son had a mixture of issues that sound like your daughter's - they got him a stack of different types of therapies and she talked a lot about how that process worked, and how she felt etc. Maybe you'd find some reassurance in reading of their experiences? My OT friend has…

Super sweet and rich. There is a looooooot of sugar in it, but it was good anyway. No one had had anything like that before, so it was a hit.

Went to the gym this morning...and got McDonald's for breakfast on the way home. I have no idea why other than I didn't want to make an omelette when I got home like I was supposed to. Oh well. I am also going to make those chocolate chip cookie cheesecake bars that were posted earlier (I lurk like a creep a lot because…

I just made and ate an entire batch of pikelets. I was going to only eat a few and throw away the rest, but the empty plate tells the truth. Sigh. I am back at the gym/PT on Monday, and I was going to be so smug because I had lost 1kg while not going to the gym and eating all the foods, and now I have sabotaged myself.…

Oh my gosh, I just got back from a week in Dubai and our sand dune experience driver was going 160km/h on a bent tyre, at dusk, and playing chicken with another car who cut him off. The driving in the Emirates terrified me!

Isn't 9am always the best time to eat a Danish? Good luck with no carbs - watch out for sauces and make friends with the spice rack (I cried on my second week when I had yet another tofu stir fry). Confession: I ate two family blocks of chocolate on the weekend and did <4000 steps. It was awesome. I'm also holding a box of…

While I've never cried with goggles on, I feel you. My body has settled into a weight range of 70-72kg (154-158lbs) despite trying 1200 cals, low carb, low cal and low carb, huge exercise deficit, cardio only, etc. It was ridiculous and I wasn't making myself happy while doing or getting the results that would've made it…

I get grossed out by such textures - cornflour is absolutely the worst though! Even thinking about it while typing this out is making me dry retch. I found that using disposable gloves helped with raw meat/egg when I would cook for my family but I have been known to use chopsticks (lemon chicken) and a sieve. Sadly, I miss…

People at work ask me for diet and exercise advice but then don't follow what I say (CICO, Macros, HIIT, going to the gym is better than not going to the gym even if you are tired or busy) and then complain that it's not working for them. I'm pretty good at rolling my eyes inwardly now but c'mon! You didn't get this size…