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All round PB? Are you saying there are task or situation specific PBs?

Unless it's already cooked when you get it don't weigh cooked food. Always weigh raw. Food changes weight when it's cooked so it reduces the accuracy of your logging even more than normal. What's worse is some foods get heavier when cooked and some get lighter. For example, meat when cooked will reduce in weight by some…

The Gastroenterologist who diagnosed you should be able to point you in the right direction.

You'll often see people, myself included, saying things like 'Yes you can eat whatever you want and still lose weight. It's only the calories that matter'. However they'll almost always follow it up by saying something along the lines of 'As long as you're eating something resembling a variety of foods and not following…

Great. What's the plan? Being all gung-ho and determined is a great start but what's your long term plan? How are you going to approach this?

I wonder if it's as bad as the gluten free bread I used to get years ago. I'm not gluten intolerant or anything I just wanted to try it and as a bread it was straight up awful. It was heavy and dense and chewy. Ugh! However... It made outstanding toast. Once you put it in a toaster it went cooked up wonderfully. The…

It does get easier and quicker. There's just a bit of up front work required to get set up. Once you have the recipes saved (and assuming you don't deviate too much) then you'll only need to do it once. I found it helpful to set the serving size to 1g. This way when serving up I don't have to worry about mathing or…

You used to be able to go to the search and enter your UserID into the search field but for some reason (for me at least) it only shows post prior to August last year now. Anyway the 'go to profile and click see all' option works perfectly fine.

For health goals, it's recommended that you get 150 mins a week exercise. This doesn't necessarily require any gym time or dedicated workouts and can easily be achieved for many people just be trying to be a bit more active during the 'normal life'. Taking the stairs, parking 5 mins further away or little changes through…

One of the benefits and perks of what I do and who I do it for is that I'm afforded quite a bit of freedom when it comes to where and when I work. While I tend to prefer being in the main office most days as it makes my job easier and I prefer face-to-face interactions the option of setting up shop for the day in one of…

Ahhh, now it all makes more sense. It's a marketing sign up. So how long do we have to wait before the links to whatever site/product you're peddling start to show up?

I'm gonna be blunt here so skip the below unless you want to hear the raw truth. Because at that level of calorie intake your body isn't getting enough energy to maintain life sustaining functions. So your body will start to break down other tissues (muscles, etc). Your skin will deteriorate, your hair will start to fall…

The other thing that helps is to view this as 'weight management' rather than 'weight loss'. Life has it's ups and downs. It twists and turns and rarely does it follow a straight predictable trajectory so it helps to approach weight management in the same way. Viewing this as weight management lets you keep control of the…

This is what I'm saying. You need an approach that still works when you're not feeling it. One that is so natural and easy for you that you don't need to psych yourself up or be in the right mindset to do it. One that is effortless on a good day but, on a bad day is still at least 'doable'. The aim is to make it so easy…

It's the outcome, not the process that's important. Billions of people around the world are able to maintain a healthy weight while paying no attention to what they eat. Others need to be utterly meticulous with their weighing and logging in order to get results. Everyone else falls somewhere in between. You only need to…

You can't spot reduce. All you can do is continue to lose weight and your body will decide based on genetics where it comes from first. Think of it like draining a pool, you can't drain one section. Try and find the uterus thread (or no doubt someone will link it) as this will likely put your situation into perspective.

My advice is find a way to lose weight that doesn't require 'motivation'. Motivation is a temporary resource that is good at getting thing moving but doesn't last long. The key to long term weight management is to make it as easy as possible. The only thing required for weight loss is a calorie deficit and there are way to…

I wasn't, but I was told I was to the point that it ended up becoming true. I always maintained that I had been fat my entire life. That I had always had a weight problem even as a little kid. I was mostly convinced this was the case as I distinctly remember my mother (who was always overweight) constantly telling me how…

I wish you luck but would caution you in one regard. Unless you want to end up right back where you started you need to realise that this is a forever thing so there is no 'finish'. There's just today and for the rest of your life so make sure that any changes you make are ones that you're happy to make permanent.

I have a sweet tooth so I eat chocolate bars every night. Every. Single. Night. I buy packs of the 'fun size' bars and keep them in the fridge. How many of them I have depends on how many calories I have left over from the day. Might be 1, might be 6 if I feel like it and I have the calories left over. They're only about…

@MyFitnessGoal232 A calorie is a measurement of energy. There's no such thing as a 'good' calorie or a 'bad' calorie just like there's no such thing as a good or bad metre, a good or bad ounce or a good or bad megabyte. A 200cal doughnut has the exact same number of calories as a 200cal fruit salad. Weight loss is an…

I use VPA and they mix perfectly with water and taste really good but I don't know if they're available outside of Australia and New Zealand.

I went the opposite and have started drinking alcohol again since losing weight. I worked out a long time ago that due to my size I had to drink copious amounts of alcohol to even get a buzz and getting "drunk" would require a visit to the bank for a small personal loan. Quite frankly I didn't drink because it wasn't worth…

I've ruffled a few feathers somewhere along the way. I get at least 1 or 2 disagrees on every post I make regardless of content. I'm guessing its from some bitter souls who's 'magic bullet' approach aren't working so their only outlet is the petty use of the disagree button. I find it hilariously amusing.

EXACTLY! There is no 'end'. There is no 'finish line'. Weight management is never ending and the more people that realise this the fewer people we'll see here posting a 'Starting again' message because they've tried to apply temporary solutions to try to address a permanent situation.

And statistics get 82.43% more believable if they contain 2 decimal places

Your problem with Keto is no bread and fruit which makes Keto unsuitable for you. The good news is that you don't need to eat that way to lose weight since it's not what you eat but rather how much you eat that causes weight loss (or gain) The bigger problem is that you seem unwilling to do the one thing that you need to…

Then you're not fasting. BUT it also illustrates that the fasting itself doesn't matter. The fact that you have the coffee outside of your "fasting window" is utterly irrelevant to weight loss. Even if you did hold out and wait until your fasting period was over to have that coffee it would make absolutely no difference at…

While the weight loss is clear as day the thing that I noticed were the other changes. Your body language in the after pic is so much more open. I know you're leaning in for the photo in the before pic but you seem to be more closed off. And there just seems to be a whole new level of confidence and self assurance in your…

That's kind of illustrates my point. You're having a problem cutting out bad foods. So this tells me that elimination and moralising foods aren't good strategies for you to achieve a calorie deficit. And because this approach isn't suitable for you it's difficult to stay consistent. So, change things up. Try relaxing your…