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Thanks guys. I've seen a movement of 2lbs this week but at 5'5" still on the old 33" waist. I definitely feel better for my food choices though so I'm going to stick with it. I started Couch to 5k this week and I realise week 1 isn't very strenuous so i didn't expect it to make much difference to my weight this week.…

Hi guys, wanted to just quickly zombie this thread to thank you for your advice. The weight started coming off and I'm currently back at my pre-pregnancy weight! Not quite at my pre-pregnancy shape though!! XD but that will take time to repair my damaged core. Thanks for your support and encouragement, I think I've got the…

These responses are really interesting. Because i don't really have any friends who are into fitness I've never really thought about factoring in all these things, I've always just sort of gone for it and kept an eye on the mirror and my clothes. I think I'm going to try plotting my weight like that and see if a trend…

I genuinely didn't know that that was a thing that could happen in the early days. Should I be drinking a load of water to shift that water retention or anything like that?

I love the food scale! I used to just guess everything, you should have seen how badly i used to underestimate the amount a uncooked rice or pasta to use! It was embarrassing. So much rice.

I actually really like the idea of starting a bit of yoga. I've lost a lot of flexibility since I stopped working out so I think it might help!

Lmao I feel this so much. I ate breakfast at six and pushed my lunch as late into the day as possible so I wouldn't be as likely to snack between lunch and dinner and I feel horrific!!! Just waiting for it to get easier.

Thanks for dropping by folks! I'm twelve weeks postpartum and not breastfeeding due to some medication I have to take, so I thought I'd be well in the clear. I haven't actually spoken to a health professional about my own physical state since three weeks when the community midwife discharged me (and even at that she spent…

I'm going to be switching to a female trainer anyway for other personal reasons I think, but when I do I think I'll ask a lot more questions. Back when I started I was too inexperienced to even really know what questions to ask and just did what I was told, but I know a little more now about what I want to achieve and…

I'm not sure why I didn't think about youtube in the first place, so thank you for the reminder. I'm definitely going to see if one of the other trainers at the gym can give me a hand the first number of workouts until I'm happy to truck along by myself, but reinforcing what I've learned by watching videos to keep it fresh…

They give you a group induction which you can pick a timeslot for, and they walk you round each machine to show you each one and what it does, but unfortunately a programme is not free. It's generally about £20 to see someone, which is why it took me so long to talk to one in the first place and the above programme is what…

Calm down, I've never seen the books physically. I live in armpit, Ireland, we don't exactly have access to this stuff down the road and I only heard about this last night, and it is now the following morning. I've hardly been out shopping. I went to look at them on amazon and that was what some of the reviews said - that…

I've looked up the Strong Lifts/Curves programme. The books are like textbooks - is this something I need to study or is it more for people who are teaching the programme? So far I've shied away from anything that isn't a machine because I can sort of hide in them and nobody can see me. I also have the .pdf of the strong…

Hi guys thanks for replying. Yeah a lot of my worries came out of the feeling that it was very 'basic', like it was downloaded off the Internet and no real thought had gone into what I'd told him. I paid £20 for an hour with him, which I can afford, but obviously he wanted me to hire him to train me each workout, and I…

Hi folks, thanks for your responses. I think it's definitely a technique issue, as it's not so much that muscular soreness that comes from a new workout as sharp twinge sort of in front of where your pubic bone would sit and groin (so ladylike lol!) and it could be like a strain or something. Going to have to speak with my…

Thought I'd check in with an update for anyone with this problem. This morning I put some peanut butter on one of those CD-sized rice cakes and ate that on the way to them gym, then had my breakfast as normal afterwards. I feel a lot better today. Thanks for your help, guys.

This, everyone's been great! I'll need to go see my doctor soon anyway just for a review of my anxiety medicine, so I'll definitely bring the problem up if it persists.

I do, I'll usually have had breakfast by then but it still takes hours to wear off. I guess by that point the damage has already been done! :(

Guys I posted this right before I went to a meeting and have come back 20 minutes later to a great bunch of replies. Thank you for being so supportive and offering your advice, it not only helps me out with tips on things to try and combat this issue but it's also reassuring to see that at least someone else knows this…

See, the husbando and I are considering expanding our great dynasty and now you got me wondering if this stuff will be better at not holding up the couriers than what we sometimes use.

I had just taken a giant mouthful of pepsi max and nearly gobbed it all over my keyboard lol

I'm just new to the gym, only been going three weeks but I only just remembered to find out my resting HR because of this post. Right now, today, it's 70. I know you need to do it over 3 days to make an average though. Looking forward to seeing that number drop slightly as I get fitter.

I get it, dude. You look at the scale or the mirror and realise that you've got to fix what you see, ASAP, and you have no idea how to start. People are waving fliers for Slimming World and Weight Watchers and HerbaLife at you and they all claim to be the BEST WAY EVAR TO LOSE WEIGHT but other people are telling you…

I'm thinking that yeah it doesn't seem to be the best way to track my progress. I'm weird and need to actually find something to track because I'm the type of person who will always look in the mirror and see fat. Weighing won't work because I've started resistance training on top of cardiovascular. BMI is meant to be kind…

It doesn't does it? I don't get what I'm doing wrong with this machine!

Nerd Fitness is my FAVE!! My friend linked me to it when I signed up at the gym and I'm still finding my way around it, but it's full of really interesting advice and inspiration. Thanks for directing me to this article.

I have actually dared to glance at the freeweights in our gym, haha! My main source of cardio right now is alternating between the Bodycombat classes and the elliptical. The freeweights area is all full of big men in tank tops with rippling biceps, so as vain as it might be I want to look a bit more like I even belong at…

I checked out my TDEE and it's saying it's 2161, so I might actually try to stick to around 1500. 1200 was proving difficult after I started exercising. Yeah maybe it's actually not so small a start now I think of it. It's hard to gauge because the girl who encouraged me to start coming along with her is a total tank and…

I'm loving watching your progress! And I totally understand about not wanting to do outside workouts in cold weather. I'm a total heatbug and even just going to my car in the rain is irritating to me. I'd actually rather be a disgusting, sweaty mess running in the boiling sun (poor people who have to walk past me in the…

They're still gracing tumblr in the fitspiration tag. barf. Also why is there another one of these threads so soon? The last one went from one girl mentioning that thigh gaps aren't possible for everyone and descended into people talking about evolutionary psychology, Hitler, peacocks, the evolution of worker ants...