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According to mine I should be eating lots of lean meat and avoiding grains, legumes and dairy.. I'm a vegetarian, those are my entire diet + fruit and veg!

Buy single serves instead of tubs

Try to sleep by 8:30pm and I'm up for work at 3am three days a week and 4am three days a week. Sometimes I'll have a nap in the afternoon on a day I finish early but in general I can run on about seven hours sleep just fine. Less than that on consecutive days and I get hangry and just generally frustrated easily.

I like soy meats (nothing like tofu), seitan, tvp, quorn, eggs and yoghurt/milk. Also have you tried different beans? Chickpeas, lentils, baked beans even?

I have light milk and low fat yoghurt just because I don't notice much of a difference, but I do notice a difference in getting to have more avocado or peanut butter

Oats. Ate peanut butter and fruit oats every day for a couple of years but now I just.. don't want it. I'd rather have peanut butter toast every morning and fruit and yoghurt every afternoon.

I love my scales, I found that I was a real over-estimater when it came to things I eat daily, like fruit, bread, spreads, and I actually get to eat a little more than I thought!

Jogged a 5km for the first time. Enjoying a (130cal)beer now to celebrate and then I'm straight to bed. Woohoo!

The barcode only links you to an entry in the database. It's usually quicker and more accurate than searching but it still needs to be checked, I've had a couple that were linked to an overseas version or were just off.

I really like quorn stuff, their cheese schnitzels, mince and chicken pieces are decent calories and protein, and they're pretty yummy. They have an amazing range if you're in the UK (which sadly I'm not anymore). I hear a lot of anti-soy stuff as well (which I haven't really looked into and I'm not particularly bothered…

I eat at least one jar of pickles every month. Satisfying when I'm hungry and mad at everything, and the sodium doesn't bother me cause I expect my weight to be up anyway.

I just go to goals and swap my "lose x per week" to a different one and then back and it readjusts.

Having a veggie peri peri pizza from my favourite place cause I had a good run today and I managed to fit it in my calories!

I usually just put together some crunchy raw veg, chickpeas or beans, flavoured tofu/tempeh/soy meats and maybe some hommus or something. If I have to cook too much I just avoid it so I much prefer things I can just throw together.

It says 100g=117cals cooked as per instructions. So you need to be weighing after you've cooked, or else it will probably be a lot more unfortunately.

Good idea! They melt too easily here, I'm putting them in the freezer right now!

Weis bars (120 cal each), a row of dark choc (110 cal) or freddo frog bars (65 cal each). I used to plan for oats with dark choc and peanut butter mixed in but I'm just too full these days after dinner.

I try and prelog whatever I'm going to have (google their menu) to make sure I'm not going crazy with calories, and save around 1200 calories for it from both eating light that day and leaving 100-200 each day leading up to it. Love having a meal out to look forward to!

Drives me crazy trying to explain to my coworkers that I'm not "cheating" or "eating bad" because I've opted for bread instead of rice or oats. "eating bread today? but you usually eat so healthy!"

Me too! Drives me crazy how expensive it is (in australia, anyway) because I could eat it by the kilo daily

I'm in aus too and I order from them. Love their protein brownies, protein pancake mix and their gym clothes. Their vanilla powder is alright, nothing special but not bad. I made the mistake of buying their peanut cookie flavour though and it was absolutely revolting. Couldn't even cover up the taste with smoothies! Sample…

I'll save a couple of hundred calories each in the days leading up, and eat light the day of. If I have the chance I might go do a half hour of cardio but often work doesn't allow. Other than that, I try and log as best I can and accept that even if I'm off/over, I'm still under maintenance and I will survive!

Love adding cinnamon and fresh mint to it

Very proud of you! I was super scared at the beginning of both the weights and the personal trainers, but I just started slowly, going at very quiet times (Friday night, anyone?) and spent a lot of time on YouTube and googling workouts and just acted like i knew what I was doing until I damn well did. You'll get there!

One of my workmates swore off of bread because 'carbs make you fat'. She said all of this while eating a big bowl of oats.

Me exactly. When I'm just eating well, I lose steam. When I'm just going to the gym and not watching my food, I lose steam. when I'm doing both, I feel strong and put together and it makes it a lot easier to keep going, or find the motivation to continue on after one 'bad' day.

I've just come across Arla protein yoghurts while travelling in the UK and I love them. 20g of protein and about 10g carbs, they come in at around 145cal and their texture is like mousse. Love it!

Just go to nutrition>nutrients and it will tell you how much saturated fat you're getting.

Back before I went veggie I used to make a big pot of turkey bolognese with zucchini, onion, corn etc once a week and freeze it. Then in the evenings I'd just make a pot of pasta, microwave or fry the sauce and top with a chopped up slice of low fat cheese. Not a huge effort to make on sundays and evening dinner done in…