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You need to figure out a strong enough reason to change or like a lot of people, myself included, you end up drifting and convincing youself that you'll start tomorrow, or Monday, or any other day. You can do it, but only you can do it. Lot's of people have achieved fat loss so don't think you're any different. Just figure…

But if you always weigh yourself at the same time of the day then that is irrelevant. I have my last meal of the day at around 9pm and have never had a problem with fat loss or sleep. Do whatever works for you.

It really doesn't matter what type you use as long as you always use the same ones.

That's what I do and then add 20% to the total calories.

I'm going to play devil's advocate here and say that the food industry has a major role to play in rising levels of obesity so I would absolutely support a ban on advertsing of these products. Food manufacturers are far far more savvy about the effects that certain food combinations have on our ability to resist temptation…

The recipe and meal features are absolutely the best way to log homemade food. You have no way of knowing what someone else has put in their "homemade" meals.

It's quite surprising what we can learn about our diet once we start tracking what we eat. Yes, CICO is the sole driver of weight loss/maintenance/weight gain, but actually there is a bit more to it than that in terms of overall sustainable health. For example, there's a guy on Instagram who is eating a McD's Big Mac every…

I actually think people don't put enought emphasis on food when trying to build muscle. People are generally scared to put on any weight after they've been successful losing it for the first time. You need to be in a surplus to build muscle but it's difficult to build muscle without putting on fat too, even when we try to…

Good luck with your IF journey. All I can really add to the discussion is that IF can work for some people, but not for others. Whilst IF is strictly speaking more of a time restrictive eating window (how can a regular fasting/feeding regime ever be truly intermittent if you do it at the same time every day? ;) ) it is…

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Check out this guy and his brother. I've been following their workouts and training at home for the last 4 years. https://alkavadlo.com/ dannythetrainer.com/

Biscuits, cookies and pastries of any kind. I simply don't have them in the house now and when they turn up at the office in work (as they often do) I either have a bad day or summon up sufficient willpower to abstain. It's a constant stuggle. Sometimes I win and sometimes I don't, but when I don't I move on and keep going…

The only way to be sure is to eat that many calories daily, weight yourself every day for two weeks and take the average. If you've gained weight then you can say with a degree of certainty that you're eating too much and you can adjust from there.

I hate the whole "healthy" or "unhealthy" labels put on certain types of food and drinks. Too much of anything can have a detrimental affect. Even if it doesn't at the moment, our bodies change as we age and what we can tolerate now we may develop an intolerance for later. How about this for an entry into the debate:

I think you're body might need a break from dieting for a bit if you've been doing it most of your later life. General rule of thumb for weight loss is to set calories at 10 to 12 times your bodyweight as a starting point. If you've not lost any significant weight over a year then you've not been in a calorie deficit. That…

Once you've set your protein and fats requirements, where you get the remainder of your calories from is less of a concern, just get them in. Low volume, high caloricly dense foods such as nuts (if you can eat them) will ensure you get lots of calories without feeling overly full.

It is a bizarre scenario isn't it, especially when you consider that maintenance calories should be where you spend the majority of your time. General recommendation is to spend 1-1.5 times as long in a maintenance period as you spend in a deficit. I think many people regain weight when moving from a deficit to…

True, but the same thing applies. Again, true, but why not keep it simple and not try to estimate? Go by what is actually happening and adjust from there rather than trying to estimate and guess. and why would MFP's estimate of NEAT be any more accurate? Let's not make this more difficult than it has to be. As individuals…

Stay focused :) Coffee helps, drink lots of water. Try not to think about when your first meal is (you're now going to think exactly that). Get out of the house and go for a walk.

Creapure is the stuff to go for. There's lots of evidence to suggest it's worth taking creatine and as others have said it's pretty inexpensive.

In the interests of balance regarding the subject of whether or not to eat back exercise calories I'd like to offer this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RaW7gpEer4

I don't pay any attention to what MFP or any other trackers says about how many calories I've used for a particular activity. They all tend to be pretty inaccurate and if your daily calorie limit is set to give you an appropriate deficit to lose about 1% bodyweight per week then your exercise activity won't matter that…

You shouldn't be aiming to lose more than 0.5 - 1% of bodyweight per week for sustainable weight loss and don't worry about eating back exercise calories as it'll all balance at the end of the week if you are hitting your calorie target. A good rule of thumb for weight loss with a sedentary lifestyle is to multiply your…

Congats on your weight loss. I would imagine that right now your metabolism is laughing at you because it has downregulated to your new set point. Cutting calories further may not be the answer, in fact the opposite might be the best thing you can do. See how it goes with the further calorie reduction, give it at least 2…

You might find this helpfull too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EnY3Ya_soU

I like this analogy. The Chimp brain for me has always been called the lizard brain becasue it's the oldest part of the brain. The technical term is Amygdala, it's where all our emotions live. Your starting point has to be you "why?". Why are you trying to lose weight? Is it for you, is it for an event, is it for someone…

Isn't part of the process abut building sustainable habits? I certainly don't want to be logging for the rest of my life. Longest I've logged continuously for is 250 days, longest I've gone without logging is about the same length of time. Surely if we build habits around the meals we have on a weekly basis and the snacks…

It pays to do a bit of reading on the muscles of the back (all the muscles in your body in fact) to learn what their actual function is, where they insert and originate etc. You can then start to flex each muscle group or individual muscles until you get a feel for the muscles themselves. Once you've got that you can try…

You're perhaps not quite getting to that level of satiety with each meal that triggers the "I don't need anything else" signal for the rest of the day. You may also be eating a trigger food that spikes insulin and cravings and sends you into binge mode. I have several foods that I simply don't eat after a certain time of…

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