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Sorry. Rant over =) As for the rest of your post. The weight on the scale is more than just body fat. It also includes water, waste, and plenty of other factors so you need to take that number as a rough estimate of your actual weight. To help with this people often weigh themselves daily and use a trending app (libra,…

I've said it before but having done WW in the past I see it as nothing short of a scam designed to milk people of their money. They take a simple concept of caloric deficiency and obscure it behind their 'program' which they then sell. This means you're learning their method rather than the underlying principles and…

Hang on. You're not under the impression that you sweat out calories are you? That's definitely not how it works. And I'm pretty certain that sitting in a sauna prior to working out isn't going to "warm up" your muscles in preparation for exercise in the way stretching and 'warm up sets' do.

Think about it this way.... Imagine if you were driving to a destination and you accidentally took a wrong turn. How would you react? Would you: a) think "Oops, that was a mistake" then start heading back towards your destination or b) think "I totally screwed it all up" and keep driving in the wrong direction?

What are you currently doing and what is/isn't working? What diet habits are you trying to break and why do you think you need to break them? You've been given a calorie target which I can only assume is an appropriate goal provided by your doctor. How you achieve that goal is largely up to you and your personal…

I'm a simple kinda guy so I like to keep these things simple. With this in mind here's the rules I've followed that has seen me lose 46kg (approx 100lb). RULE 1: Most of the time in fewer calories than I use to create a modest and appropriate calorie deficit RULE 2: Don't complicate things. Just do whatever you need to do…

If it was me I'd just have the whopper as the worst thing I can do is to deny myself something I'm craving. How I dealt with this would depend on how I was feeling... - If I felt like I could put the craving off I'd do that. This would give me a chance to bank those extra calories over the course of a few days or let me…

I'll preface this post by saying that I am in no way discounting the effect of emotional/stress/etc eating nor am I trying to claim that they're not 'a thing'. That said... I used to say I was an comfort/emotional eater and that was the reason I was so overweight. I realised that this wasn't really the case and I was just…

My main meal is dinner at about 8pm. I tend to be hungry at night regardless of how much I eat during the day so it makes sense for me to eat most of my calories then. To accommodate this I tend to naturally limit my calorie intake during the day when I'm rarely hungry and seeking food. I'll have a light breakfast or…

Here's a graph I made that helped a friend to come to terms with weight fluctuations The grey is water weight, the orange is 'stuff' in your gut and the blue is fat. The blue dotted line is shows fat going down, the red line shows total weight that you'd see on the scale and how it can mask progress.

Two comments I'll add here. 1. Any exercise is better than no exercise. By this I mean do something active that you really enjoy and will look forward to doing. After all, doing a couple of hours a week of a "so-so activity" that you do regularly because you love it is better than the 0 hours a week of an "outstanding…

MFP has reminders. If you tend to forget to log your food you can set a whole lot of different reminders. You can get a reminder if you haven't logged 'X meal' by 'Y time'. (e.g. Remind if not logged 'Breakfast' by '10am') or if you haven't logged anything in X number of days. I have one set to remind me to log my weekly…

This is the second or third post I've seen where you've used the phrase 'it's been shown in studies' to bolster your claims. This is always a bit of a red-flag to me as it's so commonly a hollow term used legitimise a claim that really isn't backed up by evidence. To that end, if you're going to use 'studies' to back up…

Anyone who thinks eating large amounts of bananas is unhealthy should look up 'Freelee'. She makes me conclude that eating tonnes and tonnes of bananas bad for your health, but it might make you a mad as a box of hammers.

Well, the first thing you can do is to stop using a weight loss approach that leaves you hungry. It sounds to me like Skinny Course Meals (whatever that is) isn't a suitable way for you to eat. All you need in order to lose weight is to eat fewer calories than you use most of the time. So, to begin with keep it simple: 1.…

Agreed. I spent too much money on fancy scales and all the bells and whistles I paid extra for go completely unused.

Calorie intake (regardless of the macro split) and output regulates body weight. Using muscles against resistance helps with muscle mass retention.

I eat "junk" every. single. night. Depending on how many calories I have left over that might be 1, 2, 3 or even 4 fun-size chocolates, it might be a 20g, 30g or even 60g serving of these awesome prawn chips I found or pretty much anything else I feel like indulging in at the time. This has never stopped me losing weight…

Not sure if they're available globally (They're an Australian company) but Venom Protein (VPA) have been the best I've found.

2 more important questions than "how" are 1. Why do you need to lose this amount by that particular date? 2. Is it safe and appropriate to lose that much weight in that time frame.

Well there ya go. I've always advised people afraid about being judged or self-conscious about going into the gym to not worry because the people there are too busy getting their own workout done to care about other people. Guess I was wrong. Seems there are judgy people there so their concerns were somewhat founded.…

Yep, frequency isn't a big deal beyond personal preference. If your calorie target is 1800cal then 1x1800 is the same as 2x900 is the same as 3x600 is the same as 9x200 or any other combination you care to try.

That's what supplements are designed for. To supplement your diet in areas they are deficient. If you're having trouble hitting the protein target then buy some protein powder and start to use it. Protein powder is more than just protein shakes, you can add a scoop of protein to loads of different recipes to begin with.…

Something occurred to me while pondering this topic. If serial starting is in our nature then why not embrace that and use it to our advantage and chain serial starts back to back. So for example if you started OMAD and did that for 4 months then got bored or whatnot and stopped but, then immediately started Keto and did…

Firstly, there's nothing at all wrong with seed oils or starches. Where on earth did that come from? Sounds like the sort of garbage someone like David 'Avocado' Wolfe would spout. Secondly, loads of chemicals? Really? Here's a quick science lesson for you. Everything is a chemical. Everything. Even your organic, direct…

So all we need is a coffee kick that doesn't taste like coffee and that's sweetened so it's not bitter but low calorie but no artificial sweetener, but it's gotta be natural and not synthetic.... How do you feel about staying law abiding because to me that sounds like you're looking for cocaine =) Note: No, I'm not…

It's in the settings > edit profile You can set unit preference for weight (kg, lb or st), height (cm or ft/in), distance (km or mile), energy (cal or kj) and water (mil, fluid oz or cups)

Weight loss is about eating fewer calories than you use. What you eat is far less important than how much you eat so, at least to begin with, eat foods you genuinely like. Keep eating the foods you currently eat with one difference. Log and track that food. Logging and tracking your current food intake has 2 benefits 1.…

I am also very time poor. I love my job so tend to work longer hours as well as being a serial learner so am always undertaking some kind of development or education course in what little time I have left over. Add to this that I really dislike cooking and am terrible at it. So, I don't cook or meal prep. I tend to live on…

It's about creating a calorie deficit however you can. The one suggestion I'd make is perhaps approach it in a slightly different way. Currently you're planning on eating maintenance (1950) and exercising off 400 calories without eating them back to create a 400 calorie deficit. This is fine but the only problem is the…