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This sounds like me!! I've been at it for 45 days, lost about 4 pounds, then nada, nothing. I even came on here to have a good moan about it!! I knew all the figures added up and everyone said stick with it and for the past week every day I've got on the scales it's shifted!! I think I'm just having a whoosh week, but if…

Theres a company online that I've used once called Protein Pick & Mix (or something like that!) Loads of different options, have a look at them :smile:

I advise on life Insurance in the UK, actuaries and underwriters are interested in what affects mortality/morbity and will charge accordingly, higher risk - higher premium. Nearly all insurance companies are't bothered about alcohol consumed until it goes over 18 units for women or 24 units for men per week. That says to…

This made me spit my coffee at the screen ROFL!! I use an app called PACT. It's linked into MFP and so it knows what you are doing. I have to log at least 1200 cals a day for it to count as a logged day and if I fail to do it I get fined $5. It's quite a motivator for me!! If I do successfully log I get about 20c a day…

I found the worst thing about lifting was the water gain! Best thing about it, wow does the tape measure really come into its own... When I first started doing this, similar amounts of exercise to you, I worried about the same things, I want to lose slowly, give my body time to adjust (I have nightmares about loose…

Ha Ha! How can you tell that I'm a fan of data!! I'm a nightmare and way too analytical with everything in case you haven't guessed:embarassed: ! Maybe it's a good job I work in finance......

I totally agree with you and never just trust one answer! I use the Katch-McArdle one as this allows for fat% I looked several different calculators online for activity and they were all different!! But all within about 50 calories of one another. I did feel that Fitbit was a bit high so I always log my lifting time in a…

Not heard of NEAT, that's new to me, I have MFP set at sedentary, I used the IIFYM calculator just to work out my TDEE. It lets you do it with & without exercise) My Fitbit tells me what I burn everyday and I enter anything manually into there, it already knows what I walk a day so just my lifting. I'm in the camp of a lot…

Ok, Did you read the previous posts or look at my diary? Every little thing that passes my lips is measured/weighed with digital scales otherwise I'm just cheating myself (to the point of being anal!) lol :smile: Also The plan I'm doing works in exactly the same way, really the only difference is I'm repeating each…

Hi, thanks for your reply, My TDEE at the moment is 2321 and I'm eating at about a 35% deficit. (i've erred on the side of caution this is for exercise 3 days a week and I do 5) I agree with you about the overestimation of exercise calories and when I was trying to figure out what was going on I compared lots of different…

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I know, frustrating isn't it? Especially when people think you're either eating too much or over estimating what you're burning!!

I have been informed by several different resources that when you start lifting heavy your muscles retain water, which to me would legitimately explain why the tape measure is moving, my clothes are looser but the scales have stopped shifting for the moment. Do you have any other suggestions or do you think I should cut…

I do different muscle groups different days so they get 7 days recovery, apart from legs which I do twice a week. I follow a Jamie Eason Plan, so following that to a T :smile:

I'm sorry but I don't think that it's as cut and dried as this. I personally don't believe in 'starvation mode' I agree that you eat less you lose weight, but I am at the moment am in this camp, the scales ain't moving. I've had my personal issue settled with another poster on another post so sorted. I started lifting…

I am steadily increasing what I lift as I keep improving, so it looks like I'll always have then. Is that what your saying?

Thank you everybody for your replies. :bigsmile: :flowerforyou: The whole bit about water & glycogen makes sense, I kinda knew logically in my head that my BF% is going down and my measurements are going down BUT the scales are staying the same, that fat must be going somewhere. I'm just going to keep my head down and…

I can see small changes with the photo's and I know I should be happy with inches lost but I really really don't want to be a 200lb size 10(UK) It has to start moving sometime!! I just have to accept that I'm in it for the long haul and just need a hug and reassurance sometimes (:embarassed: ) that I'm doing the right…

Looks like I should just keep the faith then and keep plodding on! :ohwell: I'd say 90% of the food we eat is all homemade & clean so carbs come from veggies/rice/pasta etc. I monitor my sodium levels and i'm always around 25% of my daily allowance as I didn't want an issue with water retention (ha!) so I thought I'd keep…

I just wish that somebody would invent a time machine where you could wizz forward say 18 months and say to yourself if you keep doing what your doing this is what you would look like, just to give you the reassurance it can be done!! My old Boss used to always use this analogy when our sales targets came down each…

Ha! I'd for got about that, I've changed my setting on my diary so it's just Breakfast, lunch & dinner + snacks as I had extra sections in before. When I changed it this morning half my logged meals on previous days had disappeared!!! Rest assured I log everything, I can change it back so you can see if you like. I consume…

Getting most frustrated now grrrr! Had to stop lifting for a few weeks due to injury, reduced my weight loss goal weekly as I knew I wouldn't be burning as many calories and I didn't want my eating calories to drop to low. I lost 3 pounds!! Fab I thought. Then tail end of last week started lifting again, changed my weekly…

Yep that's me then :) Bit more than 3 stone though :ohwell: Getting there slowly but surely :bigsmile:

If you're in the UK try MYProtein, online, we use them, loads of choice in flavours, gives you the protein that you need no fancy packaging and good prices (we think) They also do sample sizes so your not committing to a bigger portion, which we find good when we feel like a change.

We tried it a few different ways of cooking, the easiest & most successful was just blitzing it and then popping covered with cling film in the microwave with NO extra water for a few minutes. Cauliflower has a lot of it's own water and this way doesn't go mushy and you can serve straight from the bowl without draining.…

WooWW! This is a big WHY now for me, all my others have been the tiniest whys in comparison. In February I had a 4KG tumour removed from my abdomen, I found out one of the reasons it was so big was because of my size, I didn't even know it was there, tucked right under my rib cage, but that was before it was shrunk down to…

Crack on, I don't mind :bigsmile:

I just bought Green & Black's variety mini bars, all 15g, good for a choccie fix :wink:

I'm just about to start week 4 of Jamie Eason Live Fit, tape measure shifted a ridiculous amount as well as BF, scales are a bit slower to catch on though! Love it anyhoo

Had my Fitbit Flex for about a year, permanently attached to my arm!! lol It encourages my to get off by butt and just do that bit more to light up another light :)