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Have a look here. This is a site by a British writer about eating well on social benefits so all the food is designed to be cheap and also practical to do with little equipment. It is pretty good stuff. https://cookingonabootstrap.com

Chickpea & spinach 10 minutes curry Fry off a finely chopped onion with chopped ginger and garlic, add a little water to stop sticking. As the onion is getting cooked add curry powder and spices of your choice. Add in some quartered button or chestnut mushrooms, keep cooking, adding a little water as required to stop…

What sort of meals do you eat? Have a look at Buddha bowls for an easy to mix up start. I eat a lot of curry bowls, stir fries, falafals in pitta with Salad and spicy dressing, pizzas with a thin base, lots of veg and little cheese, pies with veg sides (just use a pastry cap on the pie instead of all round pastry), soups,…

Reference the seatbelt extender - I have flown extensively both European and long haul and Ineill tell you that even within and airline there is no standard seatbelt length. Some are ridiculously short and some so long you wonder what on earth they were thinking of. So, if you do need an extender to be comfortable or safe…

We are just starting out with SL 5x5 so set this us in one end of our stables (we don't have horses!). Easy for now with a bench, dumb bells, oly bar and power rack, and some TRX straps.

Has anyone used an under desk bike? I am about to start a job where Incould be at home working 2 days a week or so, and was facing the same issue of it being far more sedentary than even a normal office based job as I don't need to wander up and down stairs or along corridors to talk to people.

All this anthropology about jaw muscles is lovely, but seeing as chimps and bonobos are omnivores like humans it doesn't really stack up.

Eating more never helps. We just don't work like that. When I stall (I don't say plateau) for a few weeks I just remind myself and double check that I am doing it right, and sure enough I get a whoosh down at some point that corrects the lack of loss over the previous weeks. If it didn't I would know that I was not having…

All over the place! Feeer whooshes now as I get lighter, the big bump (which was actually only a pound on) was two weeks away in holiday andnit whooshed off once home. I am now hitting a pattern of stalls and micro-losses. The rate has really slowed, so I need to think about whether I am happy with that (ave about 0.5lb a…

PhD Diet Whey - choc mint. Low calorie, protein dense. Winner!

Just one word....coffee. Use strong black coffee as your liquid in a chilli and you won't look back.

Oh, North America, pack away your pies and heed the autum call of good old crumble and custard! Blackberry & Apple crumble Apple crumble Rhubarb crumble That's what the season is all about!

In iOS version, if you click the weight and reps title in the top right corner of the box it takes you through to the plate calculator and I that you can up or reduce the weights and it follows back to the front page and record.

By saying this is it. This is me now, not a thing I am doing. I am nearly 5 st down but loss has definitely slowed recently and that is tough. I won't be at target by Christmas, which I had hoped, but the improvements already are brilliant. I have been able to do far more things with my kids and I look much better, so even…

I'll see if I can do one of those, then let you know! :smiley:

Cauliflower cheese is cauliflower cheese, not a macaroni cheese substitute. That said it is lovely but you need to do it right. - small pieces of cauliflower - Bit of mustard in a rich cheese sauce using a proper mature cheddar cheese: - Cook it all together in the oven with extra cheese on top (don't boil the cauliflower…

Dry or light fry some finely chopped white onion and a whole load of finely chopped garlic (depending on how much you like garlic). Add half a glass of white wine and reduce down to lose the alcohol. Add a variety of mushrooms and cook off. Add a pot of light creme fraiche and a little hard cheese / Parmesan to taste or…

Work from home here too, and it is MUCH easier for me than when I spent long days in the office and grabbed all sorts of shite to keep me going. I now have my "go to" lunches and snacks and eating regularly helps squash the urge to over indulge. I have bags of popcorn at 35 calories for a savoury hit. If I fancy something…

I find spreading my calories through the day, rather than skipping meals, helps stave off headaches I used to have prior to losing weight from bad eating practices (too busy at work to stop and eat so then binged in the evening).

Off to Google those - thanks so much. I am aching like mad today, so my back and shoulders felt it yesterday! I was already a little achey before the sets after taking the kids on a climbing wall session on Sunday, so in retrospect, not being a climber, Insusoect that didn't set me up the best. Good fun though and I…

Pendlay do feel awkward. I seem to have no muscle memory for it, even with no weight. I am thinking there might be shoulder mobility problems impacting it. I guess I was wondering if a lower pull (to abdomen on a bent over) might be more repeatable / easier to learn. I think that you are right with leaving it a while…

Horrible today :( I stayed at 30kg on squat to practice form again to make sure I can get depth as I go back up, so ok with that. 5x5 done Then failed totally with only 1 rep at 35kg on bench so went back to 5x5 at 32.5kg. Harrumph. Finished it off with only 2 reps at 42.5kg on row so went down to 5x5 at 40kg again. A bit…

That's really similar to me. I don't know what number I want to end up at, but I know what I want to be able to do, both with the kids and for myself, and an idea of how I want to look, so that's the goal.

I have been doing SL 3 weeks and I struggled with the bar and form on the first day. I have now just deloaded from 37.5kg to 30kg to work on form and depth again, and I practiced with just the bar for warm-up and that felt easy. So, there is hope! Things do improve quickly, although I do suck at squats compared with the…

Yes, yes, yes!!!!!! Success. Blimey, a bit of mind over matter on a couple of reps, but did it. Big thanks to whoever posted Rippentoe's OHP tutorial in the helpful links thread. A bit of mindfulness on his tips certainly helped a huge amount. On the down side I deloaded to 30kg for squat to work on depth and added a ref…

Will today be the day I can finally break 25kg 5x5 on OHP? I blooming hope so!!

Hi all Just started paying attention here. I am in my 3rd week of SL 5x5 so a complete, fresh out the bag, newbie to lifting. This last workout has been the first one that started feeling like an effort all round, so I guess things are getting serious now. Apologies for the kg weights! :) Squat 37.5kg (82.5lb) Press 35kg…

That isn't a plateau, that's normal, keep the faith. Eating more will never be a solution to not losing.

Whilst I agree with the general sentiment here wholeheartedly I do get a bit irked at the "x is impossible" comments. Yes, it is all about the deficit, no-one needs to deprive themselves, new habits need to be made etc, but that doesn't mean that those of use who do manage larger deficits by exactly those choices are doing…

47 - and I am 44 years old and no athlete!