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100g raw. I love porridge and peanut butter, but it seems to be no good for me. Pity.

I guess some people 'burn' their way through certain food quicker than others.

So you don't eat it at all? I'm wondering if I should just ditch it, I guess I can only answer that myself. But keen to see if others have turned their back on it or managed to make it work somehow.

@erickirb Do you ever have cheat meals? If so how often. I like to have something like a pizza every so often or eat out with friends but never sure how much I should be limiting this. Some people seem to think once a week, once a month, once a fortnight, once every couple of months, etc. There seems to be no accurate…

@erickirb I'll give the lower end of the maintenance recommendation a try first then, how long do people generally do re-comp/maintenance for? @kshama2001 It was the only class in my area so other than that I'm on my own as to what I do. I did like the music at least, that was very calming. @lilie710 I have to be careful…

Hi, been directed here by a very helpful poster on a thread I started yesterday. I was just wondering if someone who is a bit wiser than me can tell me how to go about setting maintenance on my goals please? I mean I know how to do it, but as someone who doesn't exactly lead a busy lifestyle but works out rather…

Is body recomp purely about eating at maintenance every day? Because when I check that's what some articles tell me but others say to eat more on training days and eat less on rest days. Also I'm getting wildly different estimates for maintenance calories of between 2100 and 2500.

I actually tried yoga a few times in a class at my local sports centre last year. I struggled badly with it, but it was a class full of people who were clearly good at it so presumably were not beginners and I was having to try to go at their pace. I try and hit my gym at off-peak times as well but even just a couple of…

If meditation involves staying still, I'm really bad at that. Like I can only hold anyone position for a very limited time before something gets an ache. Sitting down is like some sort of torture to me, it's why I enjoy standing on the terraces when I go to watch my football team. The argos scales thing was a matter of…

Diary opened. I never pick sedentary. I've been on this particular macros plan for a few weeks now I think, or at least I've tried to stick to this with varying degrees of success. Before that I had been trying Eat to Perform which had a plan of 2400 calories training/1800 calories rest days which did not work for me. But…

Sorry, I meant weight sessions are 45-60 minutes, cardio is about 15 minutes afterward. Calories are about 1900 a day and yeah, I weigh, measure everything. My scales broke once so I was all set to never eat again until I got a new one. Thankfully argos was open that day or I'd have ended up quite hangry. I don't eat back…

I should have offered up more information, apologies. I switch my macros on training and rest days from 190g carbs/143g protein/63g fat to 143g carbs/143g protein/83g fat. I usually lift weights four/five times a week, but it's three times this week due to time constraints. I feel four days a week is going to be better for…

I thought recomp was a longer term process of cutting and then bulking?

When you were building muscle did you notice any fat loss during that phase? I'm wondering if the amount of fat you have remains the same or if it actually decreases as you put on muscle and burn more calories at rest?

Definitely more interested in how I feel and look than the numbers, I've got a little bit of noticeable fat hanging off me which I feel someone of my weight shouldn't have. So I'd like to be able to look at myself and not see that ever again. So would you say those two months would be enough to get lean enough? I have had…

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Scooby Doo calculator seems to think more of me than iifym, thanks.

I was planning on collecting all of the different opinions, writing them on a piece of paper, putting them in a hat and drawing one out at random and going with that. I'm keeping my fingers crossed it's someone suggesting I can magically burn fat by eating 4000 calories a day. Here's hoping.

The only way to achieve that would be through dying.

Don't worry, I've eaten 125g bars of dark chocolate before as a meal. Dark chocolate is very good for you, google it - you'll find weird words like flavonoids which you have to further google, but the sciency dietary types are really high on dark chocolate. They won't tell you to eat entire bars of it, but it really is…

Well you can't, so you either be patient or you just get fed up. Your call.

Estimations are just yet, don't set targets for a process that cannot be scheduled. Aim for a half a lb a week loss (0.23 kg), if you manage that - you're doing great. If you don't, don't panic, give it another week and if still no further progress, consider making a small change, like a drop in calories of 50-100.

I microwave the oats and mix the protein powder separately into a creamy texture and then stir it in after the oats are done.

100 g carbs on rest days?

Could someone explain to me how this is different from any other standard 'eat a bit more when you're exercising more' type way of eating please? Does it advocate low fat, eating certain things at certain times, etc? Is there a sub-forum for it?