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eating more slowly helps, as does eating more calorie dense and filling food, i.e. more lean protein, more vegetables. avoid too many carbs, as these don't fill you up. You need enough carbohydrate to fuel your workouts and your general activity (I don't do low carb dieting, but at the same time too many carbs will mess up…

the weight gain you see if you "deviate" for a second is probably water and glycogen, not fat. If you eat too little for a while, your body burns up your glycogen stores (glycogen is not fat, it's stored in the liver), so your weight goes down, because glycogen is stored with water. Then, when you eat slightly more, your…

I'm from the South of England and also call it tea sometimes. answering the OP: Where I'm from, dinner is the main meal whether you have in the middle of the day or the end of the day. if you have your main meal in the middle of the day then the meals are called: breakfast, dinner, tea/supper (tea is more common) if you…

can you get advice from a doctor/physio regarding what lifts you can and can't do? Also if the injury's in the wrist/thumb area, maybe you can still do most things if you use a machine rather than free weights. a lot of people think machines are no good, but they are ideal for situations like this so you can carry on…

This is important too. If you try something and it doesn't work, it's not failure, it's feedback. No-one learned how to do anything worthwhile without doing it wrong many times first. No-one ever learned to skate without falling over many times, and even experienced skaters fall over sometimes (even in the middle of the…

If you're yo-yoing, don't just pick yourself up and do the same thing again, change what you do. 1. eat more and try to lose the weight more slowly and sustainably. if you don't want to eat that way for the rest of your life, then don't eat that way to lose weight. When you go back to eating your old ways, you will put the…

Please don't focus only on the scale weight, it only tells a small part of the story. Loss of inches means far more than what the scale says! Your body fat percentage (i.e. how much of your body is fat) is far more important, both for health and what you look like. The fact you're losing inches means that you are losing…

^^^^ this!! Except that I'm 37. If you're at a healthy weight and you have one, great :) If you're at a healthy weight and you don't have one, great :) Love yourself for who you are and try to be the healthiest, fittest version of yourself!

Are you tracking your calories? With your food diary, are you weighing/measuring food or just guessing? Fat loss is mostly about what you eat and good portion control, exercise is what's necessary to keep your body healthy and have good body composition, and exercise is important for everyone, not just people who are…

I make my kids "kiss goodbye" any food that they don't eat. so they don't have to eat it, they can give it to me or their daddy instead, but they have to give it a kiss goodbye first. I got this idea from a TV parenting programme where a child psychologist recommended it. Basically, by kissing the food, they're getting…

It's not just people with a lot to lose.... my BMR is about 1350 and my TDEE is 1800-1900. I'm currently at a weight that's right for me, and 23% body fat which is in the healthy range, and I'm trying to reduce body fat percentage a little and increase lean body mass, so I'm eating 1570 cals on deficit days (for fat loss)…

What's it made of? If it has metal parts it could be a nickel allergy. If so, put some clear nail varnish on the metal parts that are in contact with your skin. I'm allergic to nickel and this works for me (not for HRM but other things where metal has to be in contact with my skin), because the clear nail varnish prevents…

I re-use supermarket carrier bags as bin liners. If I wasn't using supermarket carrier bags for my shopping, then I'd have to start buying bin liners, and the net result would be that the same amount of plastic being produced for my household and the same amount of plastic ending up in land-fill from my household.

fluent in English (native language) can get by in French and Arabic, plus I can read and write in Arabic (although my Arabic's a really bizarre mixture of fus-ha (classical), Levantine dialect and Gulf dialect, it's a wonder that Arabs don't roll on the floor laughing at me when I try to speak it - for an English…

Thank you for that, I'll pass it on to my husband, as his brother has paranoid schizophrenia. No idea if it'll work for him, but it's worth a try.

what the powerpoint describes is pretty much the same as what happens to me if I go on a too low carbohydrate diet or attempt to do intermittent fasting. I have PTSD rather than GAD, but they're both anxiety disorders. I know a couple of other people with PTSD who say the same, although not in the context of dieting, just…

I put 72 hrs in case resting for 48 hrs wasn't enough. 48 hrs is enough rest for most people. However recovery times can be individual so you should adjust based on how quickly you actually recover. Cardio, like running and hiking and kickboxing is a little different and you can do those during your rest time as they work…

I don't have research, only personal experience. I have PTSD and have had depression as well (not currently, thank God!!) and I can tell you from personal experience that any kind of very low carb or intermittent fasting type eating plan, or otherwise not getting enough healthy carbs and/or calories has a really bad effect…

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this tandoori chicken or chicken tikka without the sauces are good options. (and delicious, you won't miss the sauces) Also Lebanese food. there are a lot of good Lebanese places in London. you can get various grilled meats and salads, plus hummous, just make sure they go easy on the olive oil, sometimes they serve up food…

^^^^ This. What you are describing sounds more like overtraining or a medical issue than normal DOMS. DOMS is muscle soreness, also feeling stiff, and you may find it hard to walk, sit down etc, purely because the muscles feel sore and stiff, but feeling weak is not normal for DOMS. My first question is whether you're…

My favourite abs//core exercise is the plank. Well I say favourite, they're not so much fun to do but VERY beneficial for strengthening the whole core, including the abs. IMO it's generally better to do exercises like this that focus on the whole core, because if you just work the abs you can get muscular imbalances that…

thank you for the recipe ideas will try them :)

I love brussel sprouts too. I thought I was the only one, what with everyone else hating them. I put them in curry. Never tried roasted. I like boiled sprouts with a traditional roast though.

my advice, given how much individuals can vary, and bearing in mind that calculators are based on average people, is just pick a TDEE number that is right for you, taking everything into account as best you can, try eating 20% less than that for two weeks. If you overestimated your TDEE, you won't lose any weight. If that…

I wouldn't recommend it unless you want to either take them for the rest of your life or put the weight back on when you stop taking them. If hunger is that much of a problem then you're probably not eating enough. Losing weight too quickly makes it harder to keep it off in the long term, plus the fact that the stricter…

you can cut the visible fat off beef before cooking, or if it's served with fat on it, then you can not eat the fat. I would advise caution though, because when switching to/from a vegetarian diet you have to give your body time to adjust. Before going to Argentina, you should try eating small quantities of meat to start…

that's right :) plus the fact that people who are naturally slim still need to exercise to stay healthy. slim does not automatically equal healthy. Some slim people have a high body fat percentage in spite of being slim. Some slim people even have metabolic disease caused by being sedentary and eating junk. Eating junk and…

you can lose fat while drastically reducing how much you lose of other tissues like muscle. Here's how: - lift heavy weights- your body won't burn muscle that you actually are using unless you're starving yourself - aim for slow and steady fat loss, if you're losing more than 2lb in a week it's highly unlikely to be all…

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