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What is your height and age? 1200 might be too low altogether, though yes - you should be netting 1200. When you add in your exercise calories MFP will revise your calorie goal - that's your new goal to NET your original goal. Most people only eat 50% or so of their "exercise calories".

This. Looked at your diary and your protein intake should be at least 0.8g to 1g per lb of lean body mass (when you're heavier). You'd be aiming for around 120-130g, I would say. At the moment you're consistently undereating going by the two days you've logged. If you're going to keep on this road, you need to hit your…

Whenever someone advises another person to attempt to gain mass without carbs, I roll my eyes and point them to this Alan Aragon quote... Low-carb diets are not ideal for mass-building by any stretch of the imagination. You can do it without, but why would you want to if it's not optimal? OP: Good pros and cons here -…

This is true. But dietary advice should be non-partisan unless it is prefaced with a medical condition that would best be eased by following a particular diet. There are some people who, for a reason unknown to me, like to have everyone doing what they're doing. My particular opinion is to start with the broadest strokes…

What amuses me is the "health benefits" of a paleo diet. http://www.paleodietevolved.com/benefits-of-the-paleo-diet.html#.Uw0oP87-nt8 This has to be my favourite...

Toned knees? Your knee is basically skin, bone, tendons and ligaments. Build the muscle around it, that might improve appearance, but then again it might not. Depends a bit on what you believe a knee should look like...

You need your rest days, even as a beginner. If you want to accompany it with HIIT on the same day before it gets more taxing, go ahead. Or you can do more of a workout with accessory exercises to begin with. Or you can just simply do more reps to work on your form. Next workout you should be putting more weight on the…

Mid 40s to 50s, at rest, last time I checked. I'm 24 and fairly active, though still a little bit overweight.

Well, you don't necessarily have to have a heart-rate monitor... it will estimate the calories you burnt. But a cheap one that measures avg. calorie burn over a period of time is all you need and it will be more accurate because the time you do something for belies the effort you put into it over that period of time. If…

Bit of cheese on toast, and you can't have cheese on toast without Worcestershire sauce.

Wear a heart rate monitor and log it as circuit training.

I used to hit 210 sometimes - according to my HRM - and taste metal when doing hill runs when I was still quite heavy. If you feel fine, and you've had a checkup to establish your heart is "normal" and tickin' over properly, I wouldn't worry about being around 200bpm. Just take breaks, stay hydrated, breathe and don't push…

This is all true, and when CrossFit is great - it's great. Unfortunately the openness of CrossFit and the type of people who have been given the go-ahead to start/run a box means the bad type of CrossFit is propagated far, far more than the great kind. The same can of course be said for any "pop up gym", but the CrossFit…

Is there a particular reason you're doing a split as a beginner? a lot of people would agree a split is only useful coming off an intermediate routine, and would suggest a full body for a beginner for greater results. 5x5 is indeed 5 sets of 5 reps. And this: would be why your lifts aren't as "heavy" as someone who has…

Yeah, it matters if this is your 1-rep max, 3-rep max, or weights you lift for sets across (how many reps and sets you do at this weight)... Are you counting plate weight alone, or plates & bar weight? (you should always count bar weight, and know what it is... some bars are 15kg, some are 20kg). When I first started it…

I had a late-night craving for oat cookies.

Would vary wildly based on serving size. 150g lamb? 200g? more? Guesstimate, and if you ever eat at the same place again, use the same entry you chose this time around.

I don't know if we have Whole Foods in the UK any more, but there was a branch or store opening here a few years ago based basically on catering to the "organic food" crowd.

I would only do it for a few days in advance if you're talking about leafy produce. Floppy salad ain't happy salad. If it's cucumber, tomato, radish, onion, etc. I use a mandolin to slice it consistently and then either store it in an airtight tupper, ziplock bags or in plastic wrap. Keeps for a week easily.

Well, as you know not all low-carb diets are ketogenic and it's the keto diets I believe should be supervised. It's just based on the fact that DM2 is something that is commonly undiagnosed in the obese, and going into DKA is nothing to mess around with. ETA: likewise. It's nice to have a civil exchange of different…

I'm not sure if you're implying the Inuit lived no-carb or very-low carb, but if you are that is cherry-picking, too, really. Seasonally they ate algaes, tubers, some grasses like worts (like samphire, but not samphire...), edible flowers and certain grains. Look up Uqalurait, the book, an oral history of food traditions…

The brain uses ketones on a low-carb diet but it doesn't use 100% ketones like it uses 100% glucose. It still produces glucose for brain function, the balance of which I'm unsure of, but it seems to have a minimal need for glucose. Most of what is said about carbs & low-carb is a myth... though I am not a fan of keto diets…

Indeed. 55, I believe, qualifies as "low". I generally like recommending it because it's a non- or low-restriction diet marketed as a restrictive diet, particularly to PCOS sufferers. Because GI isn't printed on labels of pre-packaged stuff, you end up thinking about the ingredients of things and actively questioning your…

IR diet is pretty complicated, in reality, and it's no more/less effective than any other diet unless you have DM2... at that point you're focusing on management rather than reversal, although some people say you can reverse type-II... I don't really agree with that. Low carb at that point is beneficial. IR/prediabetes can…

I buy Meadow Churn quark in bulk (though it's only 90p for a 250g tub where I live). I don't even really like cheese, but I love quark. As someone already said, you can use it in cooking or in desserts/snacks. One of my favourite ways is mashed together with a banana and some (NAS) peanut butter. Or in a cheesecake -…

Unless you paid for the full study, read it, understood it and it says something different from that abstract, your summation of it is hardly correct. It has been known for some time that reduction of body fat in women with PCOS will relieve symptoms... aside from just not wanting to be fat any more, that's kind of a large…

I have a banana almost every day. You can eat them. Really.

Thanks, but I did that myself. And nowhere have I said that PCOS has a one-diet-fits-all solution, in fact I am saying otherwise in response to the OP saying since she has PCOS she should low-carb. It's good that you read the thread in its entirety and contributed something useful, though. Good job.

If you want to follow low carb, yes. Low carb is not necessary for losing weight with PCOS and IR, though, nor is it more effective than a simple calorie controlled diet. Particularly if that calorie controlled diet is in tandem with heavy lifting. Low carb (also high-fat) is particularly unhelpful if you're undertaking…

I think you need to re-read a lot of what I've posted. Particularly my second post and your first post, but all of them in general. Low-carb is not by default low-GI, either, by the way. The grammage of carbs consumed does not matter in low-GI eating. As another poster said, it matters to GL... but a food's GI is not the…