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A lot of people see a big initial drop on the scale when they first start "a diet". Most of it can be explained by reduced food in your system, or a water weight drop if you've reduced your carbs. If you're not over weight then losing 1lb of fat per week is pretty unlikely! In fact you should probably be aiming for half…
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I still eat it since I buy whole chickens but I would never in a million years buy fresh skinless chicken breasts. Eating the breast meat is a price I pay to get a whole carcass for stock and the tasty underneathy-bits. Reminded me of another one Pink lady apples are garbage and taste like washing up liquid
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That's because the "weight" you are losing is not fat. It's not possible to lose (or gain) 1.5kg of fat overnight. A trending app like Libra or Happyscale will show a gradual decrease in your weight over weeks and months IF you are truly eating in a calorie deficit. I doubt your dairy is accurate, the calories are very low…
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This is the stupidest thing. I can understand taking the hit for like, fried chicken (I can hardly ever find GF fried chicken anywhere and it kills me) or like fancy patisserie but bread? Black breakfast tea is gross murky leaf-water and I don't understand how anyone enjoys it. Green tea is no better, its just less-burnt…
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I can't imagine my coworkers would appreciate me sipping from a flask of hot garlic water all day.
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I had visible abs for a while but my boobs were just so so sad at that level of body fat. More ab work to make them pop a bit more just made my waist look thicker to me. Meh. I’ve always had thick legs and I used to have a great butt before I ran it off like an idiot, so now I’m just leaning into it and trying to build up…
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You can just go out and enjoy the time with your family. Your dad only gets one 60th birthday. If worrying about calories is going to spoil your evening then it’s absolutely okay to just... not worry about it. Enjoy yourself. One day doesn’t make or break anything, it’ll all still be there tomorrow. On the other hand if…
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Absolutely feel you on this one. The high of seeing results, knowing you’re making progress, everything is “on point” ugh it’s addictive. But like any other addictive thing it never ever lasts. I was working out every day, had my meal plans locked in, lifts were good, I was improving my running times, leaner than I ever…
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Bodybuilding.com has them listed as glutes being the main muscle used. Your knees stay bent so that would take a lot of quad-effort out of it and there is a hip-hinge. Easiest way to answer is to try it and see if you can feel your glutes firing.
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I think I have an ex who was just a shadow of this trash person and it affected me for years. Probably still does. Constantly wanting me to look different, dress different, act different. It sinks in even though you know logically their opinions aren't worth spitting on. The days you can look at yourself and appreciate…
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A teaspoon as comparison (volume measurement) only makes sense if the products have the same density and they don't. I have both a product similar to that and a tub of stevia-based sweetener with no sugar and the stevia has similar calories per gram but an actual teaspoon of it does not weigh 5g. The sweetener particles…
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You can say no. You can control your mind. Nobody else puts the food in your mouth, you make the decision to eat it. However are you making this too hard for yourself during the week? Are you using up all your reserves of discipline/ willpower/ whatever you want to call it by never allowing yourself any treats or "junk"…
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I never enjoyed hip thrusts either, though I haven't actually tried kneeling squats as a sub yet, I might give that a go! What I do enjoy are foot-forward sumo squats on the smith machine, I find it hits my glutes better then either hip thrusts or glute bridges. Or elevated lunges. I also do those on the smith but just…
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Not embarrassing to be using so much power there's none left over for even the tiniest sphincter, that's goals lol
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Do you weigh all your food or just the calorie dense food? I used to get weird about exact calories but then I realised that even if I weigh every onion and apple and grape there is still a margin of error depending on variety, ripeness, quality, age, how cooked or raw they might be etc. not even to get started on fat…
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My uncle-in-law's sister (weird connection I know) had it done on her stomach after she lost a good bit of weight but wanted to get the flat tummy without losing the rest, same as you. I personally haven't seen her stomach since she put the weight back on but my aunt has and says it looks weird af. If you gain fat again…
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I have done this so many times, no blood yet tho I'll have to try harder. I've been on a treadmill early in the morning and gotten a very sudden indication that I've accidentally eaten something with gluten in it the day before. Made it off the treadmill and waddled down the stairs to the bathroom in time so I didn't…
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Hi fellow 5'2" shorty! I was in the same position about a year ago, got down to about 110lb from 147 (mostly diet, some running) and looked very similar. At goal weight, looking good but just not how I imagined I would look. I'm going with the consensus and telling you to start lifting. I started with strong curves, as a…
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I think if you agree with taxing cigarettes and alcohol and sugar on the basis that people who over-consume these things costs the NHS more money than the "average" person (I personally do agree with that, as someone who used to smoke and still drinks) then it's a logical step. The statistic in the guardian article that in…
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See I'm the opposite. Straight after breakfast, brisk walk to the gym, raring to go. I used to be dragging myself when I went after work and had been sitting on my butt all day. And I'm far from a morning person! Totally personal. So have I, but it's just a thing people say with no real basis. Like don't eat after 6pm or…
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I think you know what you have to do. If you can't log your food accurately or choose what you want to eat every day because you eat in the food hall, you're going to have to look to your snacking and drinking as ways to reduce your calorie consumption. You can track that accurately so start there. Track it all for a week,…
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People are not reward objects, ew. I'm buying me a nice, possibly high-street designer, formal dress. I have one from Karen Millen that is too small and I've come to realise should probably always be too small because when I fit in it I am unsustainably lean and it is incredibly stupid to diet down to a dress size.
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I rejected a biscuit today. A biscuit specially brought in to be offered to me by a fellow not-by-choice gluten free person because we usually miss out on the birthday/promotion/marriage/engagement/new house/new baby office buns. She brought me in part of her birthday cake last week and I took the cake because it was so…
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Please put this in my face and this in the bin please and thank you OP you can snack on whatever you fancy so long as you account for it. Lots of people use vegetables like carrots or cucumbers or capsicum (with dip if you like) since you get a lot of volume for not very many calories. Other people can snack on a small…
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If I was desperate enough for an extra 150kcal for bleeding-days that I was logging menstruation as exercise to justify it I would probably need to take a good look at my plan. If you're starving eat more. 7 days bleeding, averaged over 28 day cycle = an extra 37.5kcal a day. That's definitely margin of error territory.
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Who told you to lose 30lb in 3 months? Was it a doctor? A doctor who didn't give you any advice on how to achieve it? There have been a few documentaries/ articles going around recently about VLCD's (as low as 800kcal a day) to reverse the signs of type 2 diabetes in people who already have it. There's a bit about it on…
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If you're doing low-FODMAP, isn't part of it gradually adding back in food groups so you can see what your body was reacting badly to in the first place? Use the same process to find what food you're currently eating that is causing the bloat? You could also keep a diary to see if it's related to exercise.
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Think everyone has weeks like that. For me it balances out with weeks (and months sometimes) where you end up eating at home all the time because there's no real occasion worth going out for. If I do go out I look at it like yes, I would like to not blow all calorie budgets for the week but I'm also going to make sure I…
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Just for fun: Losing 50lb is burning through roughly 180,000 calories (assuming 3600kcal per lb of fat) not counting what you eat every day. If we say 54 days left in the year that's 3333.333 kcal per day. Your sedentary TDEE (the energy you burn every day just by being alive and awake and not much else) is about 1680 so…
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I have changed my goal weight so many times I can barely remember what it was in the first place. Was too big, lost some to get back to where I was. Wanted to lose a bit more, so I did. Oops lost too much, look weird, try to gain a bit. Oops again, end up putting on too much, need to lose a bit again... but not as much as…
