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Sadly a decent sized baked potato is more like 250g or 300 gs. 100gs is actually quite a small potato 100g of salad is loads though, at least the whole bag if not more :smile:

Can I ask what size hand weights you are using? I did it with 1.5kg last night but they didn't feel heavy enough (except for the lateral raises, they were a killer). The only heavier ones I have at the moment at 3kg (about 6 and a half pounds) but I am thinking that might be a bit too heavy. I don't have great arm strenghth

Level one, day one done!

Monday will be my rest day as I go straight out after work for choir rehearsals, so can't really fit it in. Looking forward to doing it tonight

I loved the shred. I did it twice over nearly 2 years ago (after my second baby) and that is me just finished it for basically the third time. I STILL can't do a push up though, so I expect I will be following the "easy" version for some of the moves tonight- mainly the arm strength and the abs that get me.

I can only manage 30mins in the evening for actual excercise. If I am lucky I get in a 20min walk or two as well. I am trying to do the 30min excercise 6 times a week at the moment, but it doesn't always work out.

It's easy not to eat when it's on because I don't have anything remotely as tasty as what they are cooking to tempt me.

Mine looks like that but I have had two children (no C-section though). So I would say it is the result of putting on a lot of weight then losing it. It looks totally normal to me

Yeah, I wish I had never stopped breastfeeding. I should have just pumped and sold it online! So, I am trying to lose 8kg of weaning weight. 4kg down so far.

Any non-food gift I would have said. Some nice body wash or lotion.

I can't for the life of me understand why you wouldn't eat the egg yolk, it's the best bit. I can't stand the texture of egg white and only eat them in softly scrambled (whole) eggs or a tortilla or something (and cake of course). I often eat just the yolks on toast if I have some left over from making a pavlova or…

Well apparently 2 meals a day is good for diabetes, which flies in the face of the blood sugar argument: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-27422547 Personally I am a three meal a day girl, unless I get up late in which case two meals is fine. Small breakfast, medium lunch, large as possible dinner.

Have any of you guys actually watched the programme? It just finished on BBC. There really was nothing controversial in it to my mind.

Its probably right. I only get 1,250 set to ONLY one pound a week. I weight 72.5kg, 167cm tall. I have a desk job so I sit on my bum ALL day I sometimes eat back my exercise calories (30 day shred, the odd walk) but even if I don't weight lose is quite slow. I am trying to lose another 4 to 6kg

BMI works for me. At the moment my BMI is 26. I am 167cm and weight 72.5kg and yes, I am slightly chubby.

My understanding is that all coffee drinks that contain milk SHOULD be made with whole, 4% fat milk. However, many of the local coffee shops around me in the UK use semi-skimmed (2%) milk. I usually ask in advance if they have skimmed milk available, many do not.

The first maybe 10 days to 2 weeks I felt like I was going to die of hunger. 5 weeks in, I still have hunger pangs but it feels much more manageable. I am definitely less hungry and I have eaten roughly the same number of calories since day 1.

I think it was 3 hours of housework vs one hour in the gym. And they took total calorie expenditure in that time into account- so including BMR. I have to say i can get quite a workout doing 3 hours of hoovering, washing windows etc. I don't log it though.

Bit of a tangent- but the resistant starch thing is fascinating. However, I weigh my pasta etc raw and count the calories as the same whether I eat it hot, cold or reheated. Difference is I feel more virtuous eating it cold and I would swear it keeps me fuller longer- but then the placebo effect may also be coming in to…

I read the article o:) and I will watch the programme tonight. TBF, normally I avoid the daily mail like the plague

Or read this http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1541-4337.2006.tb00076.x/abstract

I'm not a chemist. Read this http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29629761 for the basics then try pubmed for the associated peer-review literature

A university student in scotland once got scurvy from exclusively eating porridge (oatmeal) Yes, its a great tasty food- but make sure you get some vitamins and minerals too!

If you are losing you are doing it right- except the bit where your diary says you are at 3,000cals? Is that becuase you are not entering the number of servings in the recipe builder? So for the salmon fish cakes change the "number of servings" box to 10, and then enter that you ate 2 servings? I don't worry if things like…

Yes, its the Daily Fail so reported badly. I will be watching the programme tonight with interest. In a sense I agree with a lot of what they say, its just very badly written. It is well known that low GI foods keep you fuller longer whilst drinks like alcohol barely make you feel satiated at all, despite being calorific.…

I enter my walking on days when I walk to the train station (not every day due to various logistics!) because otherwise I have a desk job and am set to only 1,250 calories just to lose a pound a week- so I like seeing a couple of hundred calories added on to my allowance in case I feel extra hungry. I eat them back if I…

Prunes, dates, other dried fruit

I agree with the poster who said there is a bit of a question of semantics. Things that I now only eat occasionally I would class as "having cut from my (regular) diet". The only think I never, ever eat is chocolate. Some people say they eat exactly the same things, but in smaller portions. That's fine, but if all you ate…

Well in the UK a large glass of wine is 250mls. Two of those seems a nice amount to me....

Wine as an almost daily thing. I've cut it down to one night a week max at the moment as I just don't have room for a 300cal glass of wine (or likely 600 cal for 3/4 of a bottle!) I gave up chocolate about 8 years ago as I had a binge problem with it. Other than that, since I am on 1,200 cals a day I do mostly stick to…