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That's possibly the worst gym *kitten* story I've ever heard. Edit: Huh, I wouldn't have thought that was a swear word...

Or use your fitbit - see how many calories you burn in a day on average and eat that -20%. Try for 4-6 weeks and adjust based on scale movement. Or use a mixture of all the above, none are 100% accurate, so using more than one method to calculate how much you should be eating can help give you a better ballpark figure to…

Another option: I find it much simpler to not log exercise and just set my calorie goal based on my TDEE (total daily energy expenditure) - the amount of calories you burn on average including exercise. That way exercise is already factored in to your calorie goal. Find out your approximate TDEE and set your goal to that -…

If you want to end up with 1200 net calories, and you do 1200 calories worth of exercise then you would need to eat 2400.

It's hard to make pasta low calorie unless you bulk it out with lots of other low calorie - high volume foods. I like to make a herby tomato sauce with onions, mushrooms and broccoli. You can get a lot more volume out of not that many calories with those. If you can make it fit into your calories a dollop of cream cheese…

Fantastic!

Of course.

This thread is epic. Amazing work everyone.

IKR

Difficult to say without seeing it. Can you take a video? Is there a trainer at the gym you could ask?

I've been known to do that. But I don't make it a habit. I don't feel like the reward is worth the effort.

Being a runner is the perfect stealth cloak; noone notices runners.

I do it so I can eat more volume for the same amount of calories. The overall amount of carbs I eat stays the same, but the meals are much bigger and more satisfying.

Another guy chiming in. If he's into fitness, he'll probably love the fact that you are too (I would) it means you have something in common and something to talk about. It wouldn't matter to me whether someone was just starting out or more experienced than me, it's the same journey for everyone. You look great, seriously.…

Check out www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness they have some great routines and progressions to follow. Bodyweight training works, but you have to keep making the exercises harder somehow; once an exercise becomes easy to you it won't help you progress any more.

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Exercise won't make you put on weight. Eating more calories than you burn will. 2 weeks is too short a time scale. Log accurately (weigh everything), keep exercising, and give it 4-6 weeks, if you still aren't losing weight, eat less. Repeat until you start losing weight.

MFP uses percentages, but the system that @mitymax96 mentioned is better; going by bodyweight. I calculate what my macros should be using a similar method (I use different amounts, but the principle is the same), then adjust the percentages on mfp until it's somewhere close. It isn't an exact science anyway. To avoid…

Being pescatarian won't make you lose weight in and of itself. What is likely happening is that you happen to be eating fewer calories as a result of the diet change. There is nothing you can add into your diet/shakes that will help you lose weight; being in a calorie deficit is the one and only way to lose weight. Make…

Dreamer bulk.

Seitan! Food of the gods. Egg whites, cottage cheese, low fat greek yogurt, tofu, tempeh. It's expensive, and not that great imo if I'm being honest, but check out explore asian black bean spaghetti and the other variants they do. They can be OK with a nice sauce. I'm veggie and last week I was doing low carb as an…

High volume food like veg, salad and soup will fill you up, protein and fat will keep you full for longer. Play with the ratios until you find what works best for you. But you will have to accept that you will be hungry at times. Whilst too much hunger can break your willpower and be counterproductive, a little hunger is…

Nuts are high calorie, low protein in my book. Cashew nuts are 3.5g per 100cal. Low fat Greek yogurt is great; Some brands have 20g protein per 140 cal. Seitan is great; my homemade seitan is 18g per 100 cal. Egg whites are around 10g per 100 calories. Protein powders; myprotein's impact whey is 20g per 100cal. Cottage…

Sucks that your mum does that. That's not encouraging at all. Discipline > motivation. You don't have to be fired up and excited every moment of every day; learning to do what needs to be done regardless of what you feel like it is one of the best life skills you can learn. And it is extremely applicable to fitness.

Calories, you can manipulate carbs to control water weight, but that's not fat loss.

It should make a big difference at that weight, have you been taking progress photos? I find them extremely useful for being able to seeing progress. The changes day by day are so subtle you might not notice them, but when you have two pics a month or two apart it's really obvious. I go from slightly chubby to visible abs…

PB & J on toast with grilled banana...

Nevar! I'm actually kind of deloading right now, because I'm in the last stages of a cut and I'm exhausted. Otherwise I prefer to have them if/when I feel like I need them, and sometimes it might not be a full week, just a session or two. Basically if I feel good I keep going.

It's going to take me the rest of my life.

Deadlifts and squats. Feels good to push with your entire body, giving it everything you've got; it can get pretty intense.