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I say to myself when my legs are sore and my lungs are burning that this current level of fitness is the worst it will ever be. Every run improves your next one. I got stuck on C25K a good few times and I still can't/ won't run much further than 5k but I can tell you it gets better.

Unfortunately nobody can really hand you a cookie cutter diet and fitness plan, you need to find what works for you. Using MyFitnessPall as intended will get you to lose weight. Plug in your height and weight and activity level and eat the amount of calories it gives you (it will probably be 1200 but you can increase that…

I'm 5'2" and got down to 97lb with just running a lot and eating <1200kcal a day but I wouldn't recommend it tbh. I looked weirdly skeletal. Eva Longoria is not skeletal, she has enough muscle to give her curves and I really really doubt she is only 98lb. If your goal is to actually look like her rather than just match her…

I tackled them one at a time. I lost weight first which meant reducing my drinking anyway, then I stopped making so much room for alcohol in my calorie allowance and focused on adding exercise and proper nutrition. I still vape so I haven't kicked the nicotine habit completely but starting running definitely helped with…

It's your life, your priorities are the ones that matter. If you'd rather give up on the fitness for now and concentrate on alternative methods of self care I don't think anyone here is going to tell you that you can't. Even if they did, it is your life, do what you want with it. But I do think you should find something…

Un-sync the tracker app you're using?

You just sound depressed as hell OP. Reading your posts is giving me flashbacks my own Dark Times. Honestly I'm so impressed you're keeping on top of your job, your diet and your exercise with so much weighing down your brain. Only advice I can give is to take these feelings you've typed out to your GP. Don't downplay them…

All humans are quite bad at estimating food. Buy a scale. I would recommend not changing what you're eating now for a week or two, just weigh your normal portion and log it (if you're not losing then you're probably eating around your maintenance) then cut 250kcal off that total as a target. Don't immediately cut to…

If this is the beginning of the relationship then the big wonderful gestures come easy. Its the honeymoon period. Those tail off eventually for every relationship and if he isn't giving you anything else then what are you going to be left with?

You are being kept on a hook here. He's telling you what you want to hear to make you stay (maybe one day) while maintaining enough distance from an actual promise of commitment that when the time comes and you do eventually leave he can still say "well I always said I didn't want to get married again" and none of this is…

I got some of this too. My aunt would flit between telling me I was too skinny and asking me how I lost weight (eat less was not an acceptable answer). My solution was too tell them I was going to put on weight and neglected to mention it was going to be muscle. I'm at almost the same bodyfat as I was but I get to say hey…

Is it a habit or are you actually hungry? If it's just a habit try having a tea or coffee? Or even a diet coke or something just to keep your brain thinking it's being fed but without a calorie bomb. I try and keep some fruit on hand for if I start getting real hunger (or low blood sugar) between meals but in general I try…

People who are trained in developing meal plans for people generally don't do it for free over the internet.

Please don't say this to yourself. You feel uncomfortable and you have every right to. A lot of the time that is exactly how they want you to feel. People sending inappropriate messages is about THEM and the sick thrill they get from pushing boundaries, it's not your fault.

I recently had to go to the gym in the evening (train delays in the morning meant I didn't have time before work) and I have never been so grateful for my usual 5am start. You could barely move for people, it was hot and loud and awful. 5am forever.

I let the Pacer app sync my steps to MFP and it does add calories but I don't necessarily eat them. It gives me about 60kcal/mile walked which seems like about double what I should realistically be burning just for walking but on the other hand it does track with your maintenance calories being BMRx1.2 for sedentary (<3000…

If you genuinely think you might have Ceoliac disease then do not avoid gluten. Go straight to your doctor. If you stop eating gluten before getting tested it will make diagnosis impossible. If you don't have ceoliac or a diagnosed sensitivity you are making your life more complicated and more expensive for no health…

I was a nervous wreck the first time I had to go pick up a barbel! But with my anxiety I was frequently a wreck anyway lol. I've found getting over that first hump made me more confident and less anxious in general. I think I'm the exception in that I have found myself drawing the wrong kind of attention as a lady who…

I lost on 1200 before but just tried again to lose a few vanity lbs (0.5lb/week) and its been a disaster. Huge binge after just 10 days and I'm p sure I've messed up my period cycles. I am only 5'2" and 105lb so pretty small but it's still just not enough for me. I was kinda doing it as a test of discipline as much as…

Wasn't he not only found not-guilty by the supreme court because they weren't convinced what he was prescribing even counted as medicine?

Is this not ringing ED alarm bells for anyone else? You can't work with a moderate deficit because eating during the day causes you to "lose control". So instead you restrict completely. It isn't all or nothing OP. It doesn't have to be feast or famine. This isn't a healthy way to relate to food and I think your mental…

I also use the MFP estimate, I get 142kcal for an hour where a 30 minute run gets me 250kcal and I feel equally tired and hungry after both (probably more so after lifting) so I figure it's a low enough estimate to be safe.

Year 1 - It's not a race and you don't have to be this miserable eating as little as possible. Year 2 - Skipping dinner for wine only makes you feel good for an hour and it's playing havoc with your mental state, you're going to be so embarrassed you ever did this. People aren't just being puritanical or "not…

Bear in mind that a TDEE calculator is designed to take your exercise level into account already (choose an option for how active you are, 3-5 workouts per week etc) whereas MyFitnessPal intends for you to choose an activity level without considering exercise and to add calories from exercises as you do them so you get…

Bodyfat measurements using scales are notoriously inaccurate, they use electrical currents that are very dependent on how hydrated your body is. Since fat holds more water than muscle they can very roughly estimate proportions of each, but think of how water weight affects a scale measurement (up to 5% bodyweight for me)…

Scrambled eggs is my usual go-to actually. But an omelette is nice for a small change (I do mine with some combo of sauteed onions, mushrooms, frozen peas or spinach if I have it) or a fritatta using much the same ingredients, sometimes with some parmesan on top for a bit of extra crunch. Adding some chicken or fish takes…

I think their take is just too idealistic. It would be nice if everyone could eat intuitively and get it right but I don't think everyone puts on too much weight by just going HAM on whatever they want and eating "mindlessly" either. That's kind of insulting. For a lot of people you genuinely think you're eating the right…

Been there exactly. The only way to get over the feeling is to feel it, then to go and do the thing anyway. You will feel uncomfortable and out of place the first time and that's okay! It's only a small normal feeling that your anxiety-brain is exaggerating and you know in your logical brain that nobody is going to care…

There are really too many factors at play for anyone to give you a realistic estimate; how often you do the workouts, what specific exercises are you doing, how much effort do you put into them, if you're still eating at a deficit or maintenance or a surplus and how much of one, how genetically predisposed you might be to…