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Weekends only exist as a result of the industrial revolution and Henry Ford anyway so just don't have weekends, at least where food is concerned. Treat Saturday and Sunday no different than any other day of the week and stick to the same routine/schedule

Most of the changes that have had the biggest impact have been changes in my head. The three biggest would be: - Accepting that I'm fallible. Getting it wrong sometimes or not doing the right thing occasionally is more than just OK, it's totally normal and not a failure. - Realising that I'm WAY better off changing my…

The version I heard was "Keep your breakfast for yourself, share you lunch with your friend and give you dinner to your enemy". Given that I tend to have a cup of coffee in the morning then nothing else until dinner it goes without saying that I didn't pay any attention to this philosophy.

My hunger triggers suck, or perhaps I suck at heeding or abiding by my hunger triggers. Either way intuitive eating just doesn't seem to be in my repertoire of natural gifts or abilities hence the need to take a more conscious deliberate approach to consuming food.

Another thing I find really satisfies my sweet cravings are hot sweet drinks. The ones I like most are Avalanche Hot Chocolate and the Jarrah varieties. Not sure if they're available outside Australia but I'm sure there's a local equivalent. They provide a delicious sweet hit at about 35-45cals which isn't difficult to…

I'd go one step further and say start again immediately. Just because you partook in one too many pastries at an unplanned morning tea is no reason to write the rest of the day off and compound the 'damage'. Log it and adjust the rest of your day accordingly by maybe tweeking the rest of your meals for the day downward…

Yep, I'm exactly the same way which is specifically why I pre-bag/portion appropriate serving sizes and by snack/fun/mini size versions. I find that I get that same 'ate the whole thing' satisfaction regardless of how big the serving was. I want a snickers? Then I'll eat a whole snickers but it will be a whole snickers and…

Doing something I feel like doing, whatever that may be at the time. If I don't feel like going for a run then nothing in the world is going to make me put on my running shoes. Luckily there's lots and lots of other things I can do to stay active so I'll pick one of them. Maybe today I'll feel like going for a swim or…

I'm not sure if this helps but consider this. I'll bet everything I own that those d-bags forgot about you within 5 minutes, but you're letting them live in your head rent-free. Don't let them.

Others seem to have been able to cut out the sweets and overcome their sweet tooth but this approach has always been a disaster for me and have found far more success managing it than trying to avoid it. Denying myself sweets inevitably ended up with the cravings getting the best of me and I'd crack and go to town. Much of…

Then you need to properly define the parameters of the hypothetical situation. Firstly what is your goal? What are you trying to achieve? Performance or weight loss? How much is 'eating too much' and what do you mean by 'eating badly'? If you're overeating by 500cals per day then you're almost certainly not going to be…

You need to do what's right for you but weighing in monthly does come with it's own pitfalls, risks and problems that you need to be aware and cautious of. Going a month between weigh ins is a long time to go with no feedback to let you know if you're on the right track. Weighing in daily or weekly will pretty quickly…

Hi, 1. Activity level is just a ballpark indication based on population averages so are a good place to start. Pick what you think is right and see how you go. If after a few weeks/months it doesn't seem right then you can adjust it at any time. 2. Your calorie target is given to you based on your statistics (height,…

Depends on how 'OTG' it needs to be. There are plenty of breakfast shakes or bars you can buy. Stick them in the cupboard/fridge and grab one as you're leaving. In the past I've made overnight oats which were a great ready-to-eat breakfast if you've got a few minutes. Truth is that food is food so you can eat anything you…

A couple of things to address here. Firstly, where you carry your weight is irrelevant. Everyone puts on fat (and takes it off) in different ways and locations all dictated by genetics. So to lose the belly fat you just need to reduce your overall fat on your body and sooner or later it will start to come off there.…

Step on 10 different sets of consumer grade scales and you'll likely get 10 different results which is why it's important to take all your readings from the same scale. The key metric you should be focusing on is progress. If scale 1 says you moved from 150lbs to 149lbs and scale 2 says you moved from 148lbs to 147lbs…

The changes to metabolism (metabolic adaptation) due to calorie restriction are minimal. Peoples calorie requirements will decline as they lose weight due to the fact that there is less of them for their metabolism to drive but your metabolism will more or less keep ticking along just fine. Exercising can indeed aid weight…

There's a difference between 'challenging' and 'foolish'. I often do things just to see if I can or to push myself beyond my self imposed limitations. I'll do things that are a challenge to prove to myself that I'm more resilient and stronger than I give myself credit for. I would see a 24hr fast as falling into a…

There's also the factor of adherence/sustainability. Someone who's 2lbs/week calorie target is 1900cals/day is eating enough that they'll find it relatively easy to eat enough food to stay satisfied and avoid being miserable and hungry all the time. Someone who's 2lbs/week calorie target is 800cal/day would barely be…

Nothing wrong with some chocolate at night as long as you work it into your calorie target. I have a sweet tooth and have chocolate every single night after dinner. I just make sure I have enough calories left over to fit it in. I've never understood the 'have a piece of fruit instead' thing either. I'm not sure in what…

OK. No idea what "IM" is and googling is impossible since it's showing every page that has the phrase "I'm" but I'm guessing from context that it's some kind of TRE? =) What you're describing sounds, to my ears, entirely counter-intuitive. One of the keys to sustained weight loss is working WITH your natural tendencies to…

Tastes change i guess. I started drinking skim milk because of the lower calorie content. Now regular milk just tastes too 'heavy' and 'creamy' (for lack of better terms) and I much prefer skim. Likewise regular softdrinks now taste too 'syrupy' (if that makes sense) and I much prefer zero cal version now by choice.

Zombie thread delivers value! Love it.

Generally speaking supplements are just that, to 'supplement' where there's an identified and diagnosed deficiency. Low in Iron? Take an Iron supplement. Not meeting your protein targets? have a protein supplement. As for using meal replacement shakes that's a different story from my point of view. My question would be do…

The only issue I have with IF is that some people seem to make themselves miserable just to stick rigidly to their IF schedule. To the point of not eating when they're hungry and avoiding or at least not participating in events, social occasions, etc just so they can maintain their 'IF' status. IF can make eating in a…

I bought an Amazfit Stratos and it's outstanding. It's essentially the same functionality as a Garmin Vivoactive 3 Music just without the price tag. I've used it for everything from regular every day step tracking, to cycling, running, swimming, and even all 3 at once during a triathlon. It's got memory to load songs and…

For quite a long time that sounds similar to what I was doing. I had very uneven activity during the week ranging from being chair-locked all day to running from one end of the city to the other between meetings. This made picking an activity level quite difficult as the ratio of active:sedentary days would differ greatly…

It's simple math. Firstly. Losing weight comes from a calorie deficit. There are 3500 calories in a 1lb of fat therefore in order to lose 2lbs of fat in 1 week you need to create a calorie deficit of 7000cal per week or 1000cal per day. Next thing that needs to be understood is that a human requires a certain amount of…

For vanity lifting. So that they guy who's looking to sculpt a very particular body shape can isolate each particular muscle to achieve the right level of hypertrophy and create the balance and symmetry they're looking for. But even those guys will also use compound lifts (dead lift, bench, squat, etc). But also for…

In ascending order of trust - Me guessing - Online calculator - Exercise machine - Fitness device/watch - Fitness device/watch with HRM - Power meter on bike - In a lab hooked up to respirometer and various other machines and monitors