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Difficult choice, need to combine the 2, front half a pig, back half a cow, it could be called a piow

I think the key thing with green tea is not to use boiling water. The water should have been left to cool for few minutes, plus I only leave the bag in for around a minute. My favourite is dragonfly chung mee green tea, but in last week I've tried twinnings green tea with apple and pear, and green tea with pineapple and…

Monday 0, tuesday 0, wednesday = opened a large bottle of cider to make a sauce for some pork loin and have drunk nearly all of the rest of it :blushing:

Have to say squats are my least favourite and hence take more will-power to do! I like DL's, pull ups but my new love is wall balls, I know they're not technically a strength training move, but I've been trying out some of the crossfit workouts and I now incorporate these into my routine, they really work your shoulders as…

I think we're very similar. 5'3.5, 52.5kg Bench 35kg Squat 35kg - my squat is rubbish, can front squat only due to back issues so slow progress! Dead lift 60kg

Hey, hope all your plans are progressing smoothly, don't know how can you forget about buying champagne! lol edit: oh and no alcohol last night or tonight for me, although I seem to be replacing it with chocolate again, although this time it is dark chocolate :smile:

Ooh sounds good, enjoy :-) I've been a very good girl today and been to the gym, funnily enough didn't feel hung over, I think it was all the food I ate that soaked up the alcohol :smokin:

Lushes, I've been MIA lately. I really haven't been drinking much but tonight I am pissed as fart and feel worthy of the lushy title so I thought I'd come and say hello :drinker: . btw you guys rock, it's nice to know you can always come here and never be judged or belittled, there seems to be increasing amounts of…

I can really relate to what you are saying as I am finding it frustratingly slow to build muscle, but then I am the wrong side of 35 plus I have had 2 kids. I wish I had been in a position to work on my fitness at the same age that you are now, you have plenty of time ahead of you to reach your goals. I have been lifting…

What an a*hole! I am usually the only woman in the weight section at my gym too but I am lucky enough never to have experienced anything nearly so bad. Actually the other day I was doing pullups and there were some guys taking turns on the other pullup station and I saw one of them nudge the another and say ' look she can…

:laugh: awesome, that is the biggest laugh I've had all day.

^ well said. I too have never been clinically overweight, my trainer pointed me to this site to help me track my food in an effort to eat more healthily and lose some body fat. I have stayed using this site for a long time, even though my goals have changed, as I love the support I have found on here. To the OP, I wish you…

Great thread, making a much needed point. I am ummm permanently in the "off season" :happy:

'The biggest tragedy in life isn't setting your goals too high and never reaching them, but rather setting them too low and never realising your full potential'

:laugh: love it

Nah I just blame it on the dog :sick:

hmmm, I still haven't reverted to my lushy ways yet. Couple of glasses of wine last night after a crappy day at work, but I've had nothing else since Sunday. I even decided I'd rather have a nice mug of hot chocolate tonight than finish the bottle of wine :huh: :noway: :sick:

I've been pretty good all week, but yesterday I had a beer and then followed that by a ton of snacks, which didn't get logged :embarassed:

^love this, it was exactly what I was going to say. Just because I'm not actively smiling doesn't mean that I'm unhappy, and there's nothing more guaranteed to wind me up than for someone to say "cheer up it might never happen" to me. How do they know what type of a ****ty day you've had? IT might have already happened!

Well done you, I only ever think of smart comebacks 5 minutes too late when I've missed my chance.

RJ, that sounds absolutely lovely, I love sprouts, have to say I've never had them with fish though. nisijam, it's fun to be lead astray, I never take much leading either :wink: Kat, hope the tasting was... um tasty :happy: sounds like in general a pretty lushy weekend has been had by all. I'm going to have a beer tonight,…

ummm OK so all I seem to be getting on here at the moment is adverts for a government website telling me to cut my drinking levels, in fact there's one on the right hand side of the screen as I'm typing this, it's a conspiracy!!

Well you're welcome to stay if you like, mango vodka sounds good :drinker: So I've had a Friday beer, that makes a total of 2 beers and a bottle of wine since the start of March. Seems to be taking me a while to get back into my lushy ways, and that 1 beer tonight has gone straight to my head, jeez am I a cheap date at the…

mon-thurs = 0 drinks. Decided to ignore the fact I should be saving money and go for it and reward my no alcohol feb with some new trainers, they are lovely, I have been wearing and admiring them all evening :love:

OK, so here's hoping I don't get slated for posting something that is not directly answering the question, or quite possibly not the soundest scientific research but this short article does talk about the importance of diet and exercise following regular lipo and the problems with gaining fat back that can occur.…

OK so I'm such a lightweight I fell asleep before I drank my 4th glass then woke up at 1.30am bent over on the sofa with my head next to my laptop and my cat snuggled up next to me :blushing: Maybe I'm not quite back to my lushy ways.

Correct, you get a baby bump :wink: But seriously my hormones were all over the place when I did, acne and I sweated more, plus after years of convincing myself that was why I couldn't lose weight it proved to have no difference at all!

Hi that's pretty much me too, I eat cleanish and lift as heavy as I can. Although I wouldn't say I've lost too much weight at the moment I am upping my calories in order to build some more muscle as my strength gains have stopped and I've been feeling tired. I've been lowish carb for a while and that has seemed to work for…

1690 sounds like a sensible amount for you to be eating for maintenance before exercise. I had a similar problem getting my head round the change when I reached maintenance, but just as I was reaching my goal I changed from losing 1lb a week to 0.5 a week then after a couple of weeks of that I adjusted up to the full…

woohoo back to the land of lushness, I feel like I belong here again :-) on 4th glass of wine, I've eaten loads today but worked my *kitten* off at the gym earlier so I still have a few calories spare so could finish the bottle if I wanted. I've upped my calories for the last week too (I'm trying to convince myself it'll…