laceandbits

Usually about the same weight of sugar as fruit, so quite a bit, but then the alcohol is diluted by the fruit's juice. Probably the best way to work it out is to do the calorie count on the total for the 3 ingredients bearing in mind that a full bottle is only about half to two-thirds vodka, gin or brandy, then divide it…

A calorie is a calorie is a calorie. If 250 of your total daily input is beer not bananas, your body will still burn the calories in the same way. Once your intake is down to the cellular level where the body 'burns' it, the cells won't be able to tell its source. You are far more likely to lose weight by not going over…

If you stop thinking of the 300+lbs you want to lose as part of you (as they won't be there for ever) and think of yourself as the slimmer person inside carrying 300lb of weights, or shopping, or bags of garden compost with you at every single step you might realise how hard your body is working to just move you around,…

Excellent diet concept and the SW extra easy was much less hassle than weight watchers points counting, although my daughter finds she needs the extra discipline that ww gives. Can't get to mine as I am away too often at the moment and it is just too expensive if I can only get to one meeting in three, but now I have the…

Grilling chicken can dry it, unless you are leaving the skin on. If you are, there's no need to season at all as of course you won't be eating the skin anyway. If you are grilling it without then you'll need to add a little oil with perhaps some herbs or spices mixed in. I usually wrap mine in foil and cook it in the oven.…

If that's what it says your calorie intake should be, that's what it's recommending. Based on what you told it for your base level of activity etc. You'll stay fitter if you're not hungry (and you'll stick at it) and don't lose the weight too quickly. You don't need to eat every single calorie every day, and you don't need…

That's the problem with being 'on a diet', you have to think about food choices to ensure that you have the right things available. Plan your meals and the time you will eat them so you know you only have x time to wait. Enjoy the act of preparing and cooking the food as much as the eating itself, as during this time you…

Thanks for that, I hadn't found any but measurable gym type activities yet. It takes a while to find the way round a new website. I didn't put in for the most sedentary category, but the next. So maybe that will be about right for what I do anyway. I'll look at a HRM, that's a good idea.

I also started yesterday! Found the site looking for free iPhone apps. Why has it been kept a secret from me? My first day wasn't as good as yours, but only because I had already finished off about 1/3rd of a bag of chocolate raisins before I found it. At the end of the day, every category I was over on was from that bag…