fivelongmiles Member

It's rare I have a lot to lose - usually a small amount to get back into good athletic shape for my sports, possibly with addition of getting back into good habits to help my training. The scale shifts a little, but measurements are the biggest indicator for me. "Oh I only lost a pound in all that time..." could feel…

If you like the texture of quick-cook pasta (I know some people hate it) you tend to get a bit more bulk for the same weight.

Does anyone know if it's like it used to be? I tried it for a month but gave up because all the body combat classes it would let me choose were the ones recorded in an arena setup and it kept cutting to wide views of the audience so you couldn't see what moves to do... At least it got me out to the in-person classes at the…

I add lentils to anything they go with. Even a small amount mixed in with rice helps, and it all adds up.

I don't bother chopping - just throw it all in a food processor, and there's no cooking if you use tinned lentils & chickpeas: https://www.pickuplimes.com/single-post/2018/05/22/Mashed-Chickpea-Dill-Salad I've had a variation of it (can't eat a couple of the ingredients) on toast or a sandwich every day since the recipe…

I'm a dancer - EVERY day is the day after leg day, and I think I'd rather run from zombies than deal with a choreographer who wants to rehearse the killer 15-minute jump-based section for hours every day :p

Roll your feet. Tennis ball, mini roller, basically anything firm that you can really dig in with! Also, as I'm a ballet teacher and dancer, if you had a picture of how you're pointing your toes I can see if there's anything specific going wrong with how you're doing it that might be causing cramp. :)

I tend to log that sort of thing as Aerobics - General which gives me about 100 calories less burned and has worked out alright for me so far! So I'd say the Zumba one is maybe a bit too high?

I have headphones with three settings - noise cancelling, "normal", and reverse. I keep putting them on reverse, where they amplify the natural sounds, for my walk home... then forgetting and scaring the heck out of myself with loud noises when I get home :D

Any, really. Asda, Tesco, Argos etc. all do them and I've had them all at one point. Usually there's one around £8-£10 and I get that, and I've always found them to be great.

Sweet potatoes. I mean, I eat them anyway, but if calories didn't matter I'd eat them until I was so full I couldn't move.

Your trainer is a fool.

Well, I have an important dance audition on May 1st... Then again, I planned ahead and only have about 1kg left to go, so it's not the end of the world as such ;)

At that rate, you'll lose a fair amount of muscle as well. Even if you somehow lost that 60lbs, you'd lose some of the muscle that would have made you look better if you'd hung onto it. Imagine getting rid of that stomach fat, only to find you had no abs worth showing off because you'd lost those as well!

Only if he stays in the "fasting" part of it for the whole two months...

I recently figured out I was low in magnesium. I only found this out when I cut out some foods to figure out a health issue and suddenly was a lot less hungry and with no interest in chocolate whatsoever. I was only a week into the experiment and I'd gone from "struggling to avoid 700+ calories of chocolate per day" to "I…

I once managed 5000 while I had an overactive thyroid! I've never made it over 3000 any other time, and even then I can only do that if enough of the food is chocolate to make up the calories, else it won't all fit in ;)

I tend to find it all balances out anyway. After a few days (say, 24th-27th) eating too much heavy food and chocolate, I end up wanting to eat something lighter and do some exercise to feel a bit less icky! ;) In all seriousness, though - a few days out of the year where you don't eat to a precise calorie goal isn't going…

Feel free to add me too! You don't need to keep me accountable for food in return, since I'm having health issues and just eat what makes me feel okay, but you can trade it off with keeping me accountable on exercise as I'm making a comeback in two sports ;)

I'm not a vegetarian, but I'm doing the FODMAP diet to see if there's a food causing my troubles, and I did total elimination of all of the foods on the list as a first attempt. I thought it would be difficult but I'm several weeks in and still not bored! I think that's the main thing - even if you're not eating certain…

When I had the first really bad flare-up, I had no choice about resting (I had competitions for gymnastics and a lot of dance-heavy shows back to back) and they became so bad I was being checked for stress fractures because of the level of pain. They never got completely better. One bad landing and they're an issue again.…

Chips from a chip shop (UK), but only specific ones. Most are mediocre at best, you've got to get decent chips or it isn't worth it!

I've been dancing for 25 years and it still works, so... ;)

I can maintain my performance/competition weight while still fitting in things like chocolate and fast food. For reference, 115 is my off-season weight - I can still have those foods when I'm lighter than that. If you're weighing and logging all of your food correctly, it's doable, so you might want to have a look at that.…

I'm like this! I can fill my plate and then think I should eat all of it. I think it's a habit I've never quite been able to shake from when I had an overactive thyroid - quite literally had to stuff myself to even slow the weight loss a tiny bit, and it seemed to expand my capacity to finish even the largest, most…

My metabolism changed drastically when I was 15, but my appetite didn't, so I was eating enough to gain. Thankfully, my training also changed somewhat, so a lot of the initial weight gain was muscle. I had stretch marks very quickly from that. If a stringy little ballet dancer can gain enough muscle (just from dance, I'd…

End-of-day-2 update! I had a small deficit (150cal) yesterday. Today I'll hit maintenance (gymnastics day) and then tomorrow is a "rest day" (no official training) so I'll get some gentle exercise somewhere to avoid stiffening up and to create a little bit more of a deficit. I set my MFP calories to maintenance in case of…

The last place fat goes from is my thighs. That's a shame - I could cover my stomach so much more easily if I didn't like it if it meant I never felt uncomfortable in shorts!

I tried for a while, but I'd find one slice of bread over and one under what the packaging said. As I'm the only person that eats the food I buy, it all averages out over time and I just don't care enough to become a person who's worried about one slice of bread being wrong.

"Lots of smaller meals" is the best option for me, so I rarely use the serving size because if I did that for even half of the small meals, I'd have no calories left for the rest! :p