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EXACTLY! NOONE IS QUALIFIED ON HERE TO GIVE YOU ADVICE EVEN IF THEY ARE A DOCTOR! YOU NEED TO SEE ONE FACE TO FACE! PROPER ASSESSMENT! This is for your own health and safety.

Happened to me... but we will never know what the real factor was. I was stressed and upset about my weight, so was exercising hard all the time and eating low... my blood iron was low too. However they eventually returned. I wasn't perhaps taking my pill at the right time of day, combined with being very tired and…

Time your actual lifting time at the gym.... not just the time you are physically at the gym. Stopwatch useful. Use MFP to calculate an APPROXIMATION of calories burned for lifting. It depends on your daily calorie goal as to whether it has a negative effect on weight and it depends on your goals... are you looking to see…

Caffeine from coffee does not have the same effect... this has been proven.. I need to send you some documentation which I have... But it is 0039 here and I have to get to bed but didn't want to read and run...because I thought the same originally but wondered why I don't get the jitters too bad with the tablets which…

OP... I personally hate this kind of bullying and fascism from idiots like them. There are some really unfit people at boot camp that I go to and in the gym but I never knock them. Why? Because I can see them there, working hard, getting a bead on, trying to change and make better choices and I wasn't always an angel,…

It is possible so long as it is being done as actual exercise and giving you a deficit of calories... however, if you wanna improve fitness, jog it! you dont have to be fast but it'll elevate your heart rate more and the energy required to move your body is a little more... plus the pumping action of your arms will get…

I also picked up on the word "luck" but I know what she means... it's not pure luck, but I do find caffeine based supplementation is great because it keeps you alert and really does help pump up a workout that may otherwise be sluggish. It helps keep energy up as well through the day. I use MaxiRaw Turbotherm. 4 weeks on 1…

Try not to look for rapid weight loss. Try 1500 calories food and 500 calories exercise. Probably holding on to water too, hell I *kitten* at least 2lbs a morning so looking at a tiny up and down of that isnt worth worrying about. Bearing in mind a litre of water weighs 2.2lbs and I can easy drink that within half an hour…

No because a) it's highly illegal, b) we have the NHS and c) I have taken out health insurance with no excess from the age of 21 and up to then I was on my fathers and aside my health and fitness outgoings (gym kit and good quality food) it's one of the only thing I'd spend jobseekers allowance on if I had no job... plus…

This...Oishii... the green and blacks stuff is nice, as is good old bournville! A few other good brands out there too... Green and Black's is my fave though! ;) Plus they do the Maya Gold chocolate which to me is like chocolate orgasm divine!

This... hershey's is rank! Also...isn't this just cocoa powder anyway in expensive packaging???

Hey! You work hard for it all so why not show off... and thanks for sharing your "secret"! Had a discussion with my bessie the other day... both she (her more than me!) and I get told, oh you can eat anything and not get overweight and stay normal or even skinny... the thing is, we don't! We just know how to balance our…

This too!

This has to be the best thread in a while... I have mostly been avoiding the forums because of half the said topics mentioned and their predictability and nonsense! ALLELUJAH! A thread I can join in on and reflect my time of MFP and what it has taught me!

HAHAHAHAHA! yes to all of this!

Hahaha this one... and start quoting about MFP and how amazing it is at understanding food and exercise and general basic physics of conservation of energy/thermodynamics, when people on UKBride start banging on about their terrible weight loss regimes that are going to absolutely without a shadow of a doubt fail because…

...when you've racked up a load of forum posts but find you've gone full circle on topics ...when you get annoyed at said forum topics ...when you come to terms that people are just starting out and are doing things you learned on here 3 years ago ...when you see someone restart their weight loss after gaining 100lbs that…

White rice is actually better in some ways... nutritionally they are kind of the same... slight difference, against intuition and the hype, Brown rice actually carries slightly more arsenic than white although they are tiny quantities, also the brown husk layer of brown rice can stop absorption of some essential vitamins…

Hahaha! True story!

Why is MFP still full of this crap?

Not strictly true... What is true in a calorie deficit you will start to lose something, whether it be fat (likely) or muscle. However, you are looking at scales and not body composition. You could be retaining water, especially if you are not staying hydrated enough (so all the electrolytes in your body are out of balance…

Yorkshire lass living in Lincolnshire/all over the world with work (RAF Air Traffic Control Officer!) Add me if you like!

I started off with 8Kg ones... you'll be fine with more weight than 8lbs...

It all sounds positively gourmet to our ORPs!

You'd go to the gym to condition your body and help it build muscle... Also it means you can enjoy more food that day and still lowe weight so long as you nettle same. You could use it as additional deficit, Butler you. Current weight/size, you probably shouldn't bother "storing" them and just eat the calories back to help…

This. Complete waste of money. Echoing other comments about just eat healthily and exercise and watch it come off by getting a grip on that for long term weight loss and health. It's an expensive way to yo-yo.

Yes. Fruit will make you fat if you eat too much and go over your calorie allowance. The fact of the matter is a calorie is a calorie and if you are eating more energy (calories) than you are burning (through living and exercising) then your body stores that excess energy in various forms, be it in glycogen in your liver…

Seriously, you need to learn that any food can be "fattening". If you over eat and put too much energy in your body (that is calories) than you are expending (calories burned through being alibe, doing exercise etc) then the energy will be stored in various forms in your body, and the majority will be stored as "fat". So…

Just because its winter doesnt mean you can't do exercise OUTSIDE either!

No I think they say it's probably the most important meal of the day. That said, all the meals are as you need to keep topping up your blood sugar and big peaks and lows isn't good for you. A healthy, balanced breakfast is good for you vs none at all. And btw, I lost weight when I started having breakfast (i used to never…