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Oh dear......... falls down the new rabbit hole......

My favourite are made by Alo, I'm wearing them in this pic: They're pretty thick. I also have a few pairs from Adidas that I'm happy with. I always size up with leggings, they're more flattering, and less likely to lose opacity when doing squats etc. I wear a S bottom normally, but I almost always like to wear M leggings.…

Cool, thanks everyone! I've spotted some awesome black leather studded Cons on eBay, I'm going to get those bad boys!

I feel the most in my glutes if I hold isometrically at the top of the glute bridge, for as long as I can.

Thank you all for your feedback! I suppose the only way I can know for sure is by watching whether my weight changes - if it doesn't change, MFP is accurate in its estimation of my calorie burn, if it goes down, my Fitbit is.

And you don't even have to buy oat flour, you can just whizz your oats in a blender, and voila, flour! I have found that I can't tolerate some gluten free oats, but other brands I'm okay with. Whether that's because of contamination in processing, or the variety of oat, I really don't know. But Bob's Red Mill is the best…

I get it from Amazon, the tagliatelle is my favourite.

I haven't tried chickpea pasta, but I'm in love with corn pasta, made by La Veneziane. I swear it's better than the real pasta!!!!!

My go-to breakfast for the last two years - keeps me full until lunch, and with calories to spare for a soy latte (homemade). I do also like rice, fried with cabbage & leeks, a couple of rashers of bacon, chopped up, and two fried eggs on top. Just over 400 calories.

And I must commend you for being willing to make changes in your diet for your health. I have friends & family who freely acknowledge that their health problems - such as lupus, asthma, IBS, thyroid, fibromyalgia - are clearly affected by their diet, but who refuse point blank to even experiment with a change. I find this…

This, this, this. Gluten free food substitutes are not very healthy, they are heavily processed and full of artificial ingredients. And in my experience, it's not good for your palate or your mindset to be attempting to maintain the same kind of diet, just substituting GF for regular foodstuffs. Far better to enjoy whole…

Yes, I lost 60 lbs by becoming vegan and running 5 days a week. But it wasn't a long term lifestyle I could support, and I gained it all back pretty fast. I believe it impacted my muscle % too, the combination of lots of cardio and insufficient protein.

I tried it and did not do well. I found it so hard to get enough carbs; my workouts, mood, and sleep all suffered. I do stay dairy, wheat, and sugar free, that has been tremendously helpful health wise, but I eat rice, gluten free oats, and legumes.

Thanks. I'm building muscle fast, I'm pleased with that. But I don't seem to be leaning out.

Oh good, I do love me some carbs! I'll stick with this split then.

Dude!!! Amazing job!

That's a whole lot of me! :D

Apparently ab cracks are a genetic fluke - either your abs are made that way, or they're not. Everyone's abs are different, and you can only work with what you've been genetically given. I have a flat stomach, with a very subtle curve below my navel. You can see my obliques unflexed, but only my abs (upper) when I flex. I…

I posted in another thread, but I'll add my pictures here too. I'm 5'10". This is me in 2014, 211lbs, 41/36/47", UK size 18/20. This is me now, 146lbs, 34/26/38", UK size 8/10. 2 1/2 years of clean eating, 1 year of daily exercise, 4 months of heavy lifting

Love this, for so many reasons!

Thanks guys, that's very helpful.

Thank you! I don't feel like the same person either.

Congratulations!

I'm the opposite - I get them in my upper body, but rarely in my lower body, only occasionally if I do a new exercise.

Am I the only one who chases DOMS?!! I get sad if I don't feel it.......

I've got a padded roll that goes round the bar, I have to use that for squats anyway. I learned the hard way to pad it for hip thrusts / glute bridges, after two big bruises appeared on my hips....

Yeah, exactly, especially if you have big quads.

Thank you so much for sharing your details, that's really helpful. My Fitbit says I burn, on average, 2150 calories a day. But I know it can't be relied on for calculating calories burned weight training - or HIIT either. So, for example, it says I burned 477 calories today, doing 75 minutes weight training. But I know…

Okay, using 20kg plates as bumper plates worked perfectly today!

I think it's 6' after all