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If you are using more calories than you’re eating then you will lose body fat but where that fat comes from isn’t affected by what exercises you’re doing. That idea is usually called “spot reduction” (if you want to go a google) and isn’t possible. Everyone gains and loses fat in a slightly different pattern, usually where…
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Are you not logging what you’re drinking? Of course it is affecting your weightloss, alcohol has calories just like everything else and sometimes lots of them! Of course you can fit in a few drinks into your calorie allowance or even decide a beer or two is worth more to you than losing that day but it doesn’t make sense…
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Diagnosed celiac 21 years ago now, my dad, aunt and two uncles all also diagnosed and my 86yo granny is getting tested next week! It is a big change but honestly in a few months it will be second nature to you, and the variety of alternatives these days is really amazing. Labelling on products is very clear, a lot of…
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If you're finding you are restricting and continuing the cycle with what you're doing now then I would make a change. What works to help stop binging is different for everyone but breaking the binge cycle is ultimately the most important thing. No point at all coming in under your calories for 6 days if you're going to…
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Me neither, the weighing vessel is another thing to wash up and I am not about doing extra dishes! I go through 14-16 eggs a week (about 1000+kcal in eggs alone yikes!) so maybe I should since +/- 20% of that is actually p substantial but honestly life is too short. I pick my battles.
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How many calories are you aiming for and how have you calculated what you think you need? If you're eating around what you should be for your height/ age/ weight and not seeing any weight gain you should see a doctor. As someone with celiac I can tend to see it everywhere but if you're not absorbing the nutrients from the…
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Make a good faith estimation of how much of everything you used (and the proportion of the batch you ate) and weigh everything next time? Chalk it up to a lesson learned. Nobody here can tell you how many calories are in your pancake based on "medium" and the size of your frying pan (frying pans, like human beings, come in…
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I don't have kids but I do know what it's like to spend all day alone in the house, sad and anxious. I was unemployed for a year and a half due to depression and I also put on a lot of weight. Humans are supposed to be social, I think it's the worst thing in the world for you to be lonely. And food is a comfort, you don't…
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Primark! I tried some "branded" and well reviewed leggings from MyProtein (seamless, RRP £32) and the £8 Primark ones are thicker, more comfortable and no camel toe. Put me off splurging on Gymshark lol
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Breakfast. Even on weekends when I have nothing to do all day, up at 7am at the latest because I can't wait for breakfast.
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Same. I never felt anything in my glutes from hip thrusting until I started really concentrating on the posterior pelvic tilt, and even then I get more from bridges. I'm only 5'2" so thrusting from a bench is awkward and that's the best set-up I can get in my gym (Puregym, no booty-builders there!!) Also I had a numb leg…
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I am trying to minimise dairy atm to see if it helps with my skin and I have ceoliac so that's kinda my diet right now too. Depending on how low carb you're going. I eat a ton of vegetables and, like said above, herbs and spices help mix it up a bit (garam masala, cumin, tandoori mixes, thyme and rosemary are all staples I…
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Unless a doctor is telling you that, I don't see why not. The old thinking that eggs are bad for heart health has largely been reversed, your body regulates it's own cholesterol levels. https://heartuk.org.uk/cholesterol-and-diet/low-cholesterol-diets-and-foods/can-i-eat-eggs Eat the eggs if they work for you! I got 23g of…
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I've tried lots of things. Removing all "trigger foods" from the house, stopping all snacking, allowing myself snacks so I don't get over-hungry, letting myself eat "trigger foods" so they lose their power over me, journalling, logging every shameful mouthful, not logging anything so I can more easily forget about it and…
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Agreed. At this point it's just food that makes you feel like you're making a pure and virtuous choice, very little about nutrients. I thought this thinkpiece on it from last year was pretty good, https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/aug/11/why-we-fell-for-clean-eating
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Wanting to eat food when you see it is not a lack of self control, it's completely normal! You do have control over whether you put that food in your mouth or not tho. MFP also gives you control over the decision on whether or not to eat it. If you're logging faithfully it's just a numbers game. Will this put me over my…
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I can absolutely relate to this part. I'm still struggling with binging (three days clean lol) and one day a few weeks ago when I was asking myself the standard question "Why do you do this to yourself?" a new answer popped up "because you enjoy it". Which didn't feel good, as a realisation, because why on earth would…
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Where did we both get this insane bad-logic from lol Not technically advice but I lost about 20lb in between seeing my aunt for a while (between Easter and Christmas I think) and she said I must have started eating gluten again and that's how I lost it. Deliberately malnourishing myself so I have zero energy ever, terrible…
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Track every day? If you're doing what a lot of people do and going out to eat/ having a few drinks on the weekend you can blow through a weeks deficit in no time. You don't even have to change you're eating on your "off days" but if you keep track at least you'll know if that's the problem (it probably is). If your daily…
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I thought the same thing, but cutting out all processed sugars can potentially remove a lot of sugar from your diet, and unless you're eating a ridiculous amount of strawberries to compensate or drinking gallons of fruit juices you'd probably still be netting a lot less. I'm in the same position as you OP, I started…
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This can only happen to you if you make it happen to you. I hope your weightloss process will have set you up with healthy habits RE: portion control, what is a sometimes food (not good or bad), knowing water weight is weird and progress isn't linear etc. Your eating habits and your weight is controlled by you, you have…
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What happened was not "gross" or "bad" and you have no reason at all to be ashamed. You just ate food. There is no morality attached to eating food. You have nothing to forgive yourself for. Do you know why you felt the need to overeat? Anxious? Stressed? Sad? Over tired? Food can be comforting to the brain, everybody…
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No lifting won't do anything for excess skin. It's good for a lot of other things tho! How much your skin bounces back is completely individual but you can believe people when they say it takes time. For me it was 2 years after I finished losing weight (the first time, there has been a blip lol) when I noticed I didn't…
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Agreeing with the others here, loving to cook makes losing weight so much easier for me. Knowing how to use spices and herbs to add flavour without relying on added fats and having the confidence to try new things is so helpful. You see so many people on here say that meal prep is so much work and fast food is easier and…
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I noticed this as well. Have you had the blood test done OP? I'm sorry your fam are focusing on how hard it will be for THEM that you have to change your entire diet forever, that sucks. I was diagnosed with ceoliac when I was about 9 years old, my whole family is full of it on my Dad's side so everyone is used to it but…
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If you read my post you will see that I am juuuust on the other side of the exact same situation OP is finding herself in. I have very immediate personal experience and I have done countless hours of research the past two months desperately trying to find solutions to this exact problem. I am of the opinion that "tough…
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To someone already feeling ashamed of their eating habits or in recovery from disordered eating, advice like that can send them into an even deeper spiral or trigger a relapse. It needed to be countered. I am speaking from personal experience.
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If shes having binge problems after 4 years of restriction the last thing she needs is to associate MORE shame with eating "bad foods". Awful, terrible advice. And incredibly rude friends. OP, I was maintaining for about 2 years, then earlier this year I got down to the most lean I have ever been. I liked how I looked but…
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I am struggling with the same thing right now. For me it's tied to anxiety. I still don't have a real handle on my problems so I can't tell you anything that will definitely work. I think what helps is very personal anyway. My advice would be to google as much as you can about coping mechanisms, some people recommend…
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Either you watch too many movies or you associate with terrible people.
