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Tbh I wouldn't worry about exercising it off, that's nothing in the grand scheme of things. You're right that you also need to look at this emotionally though. Why did a website being down affect you this way? Do you think if it hadn't crashed you would have been more reasonable with your meal out? Did you use this as a…
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Mine is barely a recipe @yayamom3 ! If you look up socca recipes you'll find lots. I do 25g of chickpea flour to about a 1/4tsp of baking powder (depends how fluffy you want them) per flatbread and whisk in enough water to make it a thick pancake batter consistency. I add onion salt, pepper, sometimes garam masala or cumin…
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This is incredibly unfair, unless some allowance has been made somewhere with another household management chore he has taken on instead. I hope he at least thanks you every day for feeding him like he's a child, doing him the favor of removing a time consuming burden from his life and helping him live longer. I don't mind…
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If it's more of a problem when you're hungry because you didn't get lunch... fix whatever made you miss lunch? Bring your own, eat at your desk, meal prep on weekends or find a convenience option that fits your calories. You're entitled to have time to eat during the day and not spend the afternoon starving! But if you end…
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The weightloss part is simple, use MFP as designed to calculate your daily calorie needs, chose an appropriate rate of weight loss (if you only want to lose 15lb probably stick to 0.5lb/week, 1lb at most) and then eat as many calories as MFP tells you to, being as accurate as possible and eating whatever works for you…
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A friend of mine has this issue. I've not noticed it personally but some people are more sensitive to lactose/ dairy than others so it could be a factor. You could try a vegan protein, like pea protein and see if that makes a difference? Or just get your protein from non-dairy food. I thought adding chickpea flour to my…
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Forget about gaining weight. Literally never think of it. Delete that from your head. You have exams, that's more than enough to worry about and much more important. And you don't have exams every week, the occasional blips don't matter, it's your long term habits that matter. Saying that, exercise as stress relief is…
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Sorry to get all Engineer-y but if a system requires an external applied force it isn't really in balance. If you think of it like a suspension bridge, you want the cables to be taking as little force as possible (or at least equal forces) so they don't eventually snap. If applying control is one side of the bridge having…
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My mum says she thinks of food as fuel, would just take a pill to survive if she could etc, etc, etc but I've seen her with a piece of tiramisu and she is lying to herself lol I think the human body is supposed to enjoy food. Why would we have evolved with so many different flavour sensors if it wasn't beneficial to use…
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I also have problems with stress eating and binge eating. I don't have a solution for you, everyone's solution is different anyway, but what helps me is to just repeat to myself that the eating will not help the stress. It won't fix the problem, if anything it adds to it. I don't think it's about motivation at all because…
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The idea behind Intuitive Eating is that you are able to listen to what your body needs without categorizing healthy or unhealthy or restricting or cutting out food groups, you just eat relying on your own hunger and fullness signals. You don't diet until you can eat intuitively. If you think that if you tried to eat…
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I haaaaate this silly rule. My aunt used to spout it all the time. If you can't pronounce the thing or you don't know what it is then maybe you should look it up rather than running away from it?? I just looked up those first three chains of incomprehensible syllables and now I know things that I didn't know 5 mins ago.…
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At least now you know. If you hadn't had any cake you might have been thinking about cake all day! Silver lining?? Possibly the only good thing (apart from not dying sooner I guess), but it defs comes in handy sometimes! Related: I hate how even though with the gluten free thing I was never one for snacking on "junk food"…
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I had MFP synced with my PureGym app so MFP knew when I was at the gym and how long for and I started getting 1000+kcal burns for "Aerobics, general" posted automatically for a 200kcal (max) lifting session. Friends would "Like" it before I could delete and I just had to hope to goodness they wouldn't think I'm logging…
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I am not a good or consistent lifter and I can hit the hip thrust and deadlift (or at least I could before a recent unplanned hiatus) but none of the rest of them because I don't care about/ enjoy those movements. All it would take for you to hit those benchmarks is just do those things over and over until you get better,…
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Depends what you mean by "plan". Does the way I eat have a name? No. Nobody designed a Meal Plan for me, I eat what I like. But it is planned out in that I have calorie and protein goals and checks-and-balances for calorie dense foods and getting in my micronutrients as far as I think is reasonable. Picking "healthy…
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Who is telling you exactly what you should be eating and what does that entail? You seem to be trying to do a lot of things at once here with your diet. If you eventually "lose control" then that's a solid sign this plan isn't working for you in general. If you're not losing weight on this plan then it is not an effective…
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I only smoked for a couple of years so take this with a grain of salt obviously, but chalk me up for another vaping recommendation. It is still cheaper in the long run and much easier to taper off the nicotine. I had a "real" cigarette recently and it was foul, once you're used to tasting vanilla cookies and strawberry…
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Fit is easy for me. Is your body fit for purpose? Can you do all the things you want to do without it holding you back? Nobody has to run a marathon, or lift twice their bodyweight but most people will want to get older without needing a walker or a hip replacement, to be able to run around after their children or yes, run…
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America is overly politically correct? That's a very tone-deaf thing to say, especially this week. I don't know how it fits into this context either. Offering unsolicited advice to people you don't know is almost always unwelcome, usually rude and only serves to make the person offering the advice feel better. Slamming…
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I'm very similar. I saw 98lb on the scale about 6 months ago and that was just waaaay too lean for me (boobs looked so very very sad, not worth the visible abs). Shortly after that a combination of having been restricting for so long and some personal issues hit me and I'm about 120lb atm. I'm just slightly fluffier than I…
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Which part? The 800kcal crash diet or the 5:2 intermittent fasting? He has a book for the 8 week blood sugar diet (£5.93) and a separate book of recipes (£8.96) so I think to "do" the diet properly he intends for you to give him this money. His website has an ingredients list you might find helpful though…
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Do you hate the taste of water or are you trying to maximise your intake and not enjoying that you are constantly chugging water? I have a bottle of plain water on my desk when I work to sip at, I use a flavoured no sugar added fruit cordial at home with dinner and usually a glass just sitting beside me as I'm watching TV…
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The first question anyone is going to ask is "Are you weighing all of your solid food with a food scale". If you're going off eyeballing, volume measurements, estimates or package weights only your logging could be significantly off. This is a more likely scenario than you aren't hungry on 700kcal a day. That's just very…
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Oh dear. That would be literally just a taste! Enjoy your actual portions of pasta!! I'm going to answer your question anyway tho because I also miss eating too-much-pasta. I'm also gluten free so I did look at this myself (it's in my local Tesco) but the calories are basically the same as regular pasta and it is…
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What's changed? Stress levels? Sleeping patterns? Upset routine? I agree that a diet break might not be the worst idea. If you're eating at a deficit for a long time your brain can react weirdly to temporarily "losing control." This is from personal experience but it seemed like as soon as I decided I was "allowed" to eat…
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Agreed. Looks to me like the snark started here OP! You want people to notice you're "being good" again now or you wouldn't say things like that. Your friend rose to the bait you laid right out for her. I know how annoying I get when I am still in the first new flush of The Lifestyle Change. Everyone does it a bit. I'm…
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Something magical? You know what the problem is. I was the same tho, frustrated at lack of progress when I'm too scared of GETTING FAT AGAIN to eat enough to properly build anything. Bite the bullet, take more bites of more foods or if you're not comfortable with that you just have to accept that you can't build muscle…
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Well this is gross. As for advice, I usually honestly assess if I'm bored or actually hungry. I'm usually bored. So I'll text a friend or go to bed and read a book, take a nice bath or even just play a quick game of sudoku or something on my phone so I'm not thinking about food. If I'm actually hungry, I will have a snack…
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I'm only 5'1", recently got probably too lean then gained about 15lb due to things and probably 80% of my clothes still fit in both situations. Stretchy skinny jeans, loose fit trousers, jersey dresses, stretchy jumpers, all materials and cuts with a bit of flexibility is what you might want to look for.
