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Quick reply before my run, as this is a really good point! To some extent I am already ramping up, as over the past 6 months I have been intermittently achieving the same level of exercise (Feb and March I kept to this pretty well), and I have been running every week this year. It's the calorie intake which I have not…

Thank you! I certainly intend the programme to be flexible and dynamic. Chiefly, I'll listen to my body. Today, after a solid workout last night, and with a long run just around the corner, I am very hungry, and I'm upping calorie intake to 2600 with some additional protein!

I'm off out for a run now but I will reply with detail later on, thanks!

Thanks for the reply! Approximately 2.5lbs per week. It would perhaps be a little more, and potentially even too much, if I didn't allow myself as much beer as I do on a Friday and a Saturday. In terms of running, it's very much a 'feel' activity where I only do what I feel I can handle. Same with weights but I have had…

Very much self-designed though I have drawn on some online programmes and advice from more experienced lifters!

Thanks for that. Yeah, that was the plan. I will reconsider then - which calc did you use online?

Put my old Ralph Lauren Polo on this morning, and it fits! Half a stone around the midriff makes such a difference.

Spot on. I bought a target weight shirt the other day in which I hope to fit this summer. My housemate (one of my very best friends) laughed raucously and said: "Bloody hell, you're never fitting in that surely!?". I was devastated and more than a bit tempted to tell him to p!ss off, but I laughed it off myself, said "Long…

Thanks everyone for your responses - pretty much covers everything I wanted to know. Just to make sure, can I eat it the same way I eat beef, rare to medium-rare?