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I’m in! Very similar stats as well - in my 30s, 5’6” and wanting to go from 190 ish to 160 ish... having some accountability definitely helps me!
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I never did crash or fad diets, I lost initial weight (about 22 lbs, which put me in a healthy weight zone) fairly slowly and sensibly. Nothing really went wrong in my life, but when I stopped tracking what I was eating I went back to some of my unhealthy eating habits - desserts too often, eating takeaways a lot, snacking…
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Eh none of them will be very healthy and often full of salt so you will likely bloat up the next day (but it should be water weight). Generally stay away from fried stuff, battered stuff, sticky sweet sauces, lots of carbs or fatty cuts of meat. I often go for Indian and get tandoori chicken or prawns with salad and a…
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If you do proper weight training (as in barbell training) you focus on compound lifts such as squats and deadlifts, those use the whole body including the core. Dumbbell presses and bicep curls are accessory exercises at best. There are plenty of threads around about weightlifting for women - don't be afraid to try new…
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What is your starting and goal weight? It might be useful to start measuring yourself (waist, hips, chest, thighs etc.) and see if you are losing inches if not weight. Otherwise if you are are sure you are tracking accurately and sticking to a calorie deficit, just keep at it, you will see results in time! Also it might be…
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I was meant to be running as part of a team of around 6, but it ended up just being myself and my boyfriend as he got injured a little way into it and we had to go slower to make it to the end. That was tough because it was unexpected, but we managed it anyway with a lot of motivating each other! There are plenty of people…
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I completed it at ~160 pounds, I wasn't the heaviest there. Definitely not the fittest though heh! My tips would be: - do as much upper body stuff as you can to build strength to pull yourself around - run outside, run hills - incorporate some sprint intervals into your training - try and get a supportive team together,…
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I just completed my first Tough Mudder on Saturday :) Probably the toughest thing I have ever done in my life! Well the clue is in the name... When I signed up for it I was maybe 15 pounds overweight and had only really done a bit of running (up to a 5k). I managed to lose about 13 pounds and get a LOT stronger in the gym…
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Every morning. I track my daily weight online to see the trend - as long as the trend line is going down or maintaining I'm happy, as I know my actual weight fluctuates up and down within every week/month. Luckily I don't get upset about numbers on a scale and I'm just using them to see the trend, I think if I was the kind…
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Two weeks isn't a plateau, it's normal weight fluctuations. I've had a couple of 2 week stalls, but it generally goes that I bounce up and down the same half pound for a couple of weeks then lose a couple of pounds in 2 days and carry on from there. Hopefully! Be patient and keep at it, if you know you are accurately…
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I got one of the guys working in the gym to show me - but I do go to a weightlifting gym so I trusted them to take me seriously and show me proper form. Youtube videos work too!
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It's probably better to eat more if you exercise in order to keep your energy up - but that doesn't mean you can eat whatever you like! Diet doesn't go out of the window just because you got on the treadmill or lifted a weight... MFP and most other places overestimate wildly the amount of calories you will burn, so keep…
