LouisaMoo

If you've been working on this for a few months and restricting your diet, you have probably altered your metabolism so that your body now expects to eat at the level you're feeding it. That's great, because it means you're not hungry for food you don't need, but it also means that you're not burning fat as quickly. Try…

I don't understand how people can think that the BMR is a myth. Obviously your body needs energy to just exist! Your heart has to beat, your lungs have to inflate and deflate, you think and move even if you're not exercising, and that needs fuel. You wouldn't try to run a car with an empty gas tank. No website can…

I log anything that is unusual, so for instance a few weeks ago I spent an entire day walking round town with a friend, maybe about six or seven hours of walking. Normally I sit at a desk all day, so my activity level is sedentary and I log anything extra. If I had a job where I walked round for six hours a day, like if I…

Could you maybe make an appointment with a specialist doctor, like a nutritionist or someone similar (what I mean is a bit more specialised than a GP, who probably won't know a lot about nutrition and body shape etc) and talk to them about finding a new goal? Setting and then meeting goals is really addictive, it's the…

I've just hit the start of week five, first run was today. I was pretty nervous about it, I didn't think I would manage three 5 minute runs but it was easy! Except when my headphones stopped working... The programme is great, I was so sceptical that it would work but so far it's just amazing. I've found every week…

Don't worry about it. The food diary is only a tool for you to use, it can't tell the difference between healthy sugars in fruit and unhealthy sugars in donuts and Coke. If I see that I've gone way over on my sugar, I check to see where it's coming from. If it's from the banana I had for breakfast and the natural yoghurt I…

I've noticed the same thing, and I've basically concluded that if I think my diet that day has been healthy, then as long as I'm within my calories I don't really care what the others say. You will know whether something has lots of bad sugar, as in processed, or good sugar, as in natural. The site just sees a number - it…

I'm doing C25k too and I think the advice is the same for everyone - listen to your body, if you feel real pain (rather than discomfort because your muscles aren't used to it, which is what I get every time!) then talk to your GP about it. Also remember that even if you have to stop and only do half of the day's run,…

Of course you can, the nutritional content of a food doesn't change based on how you cook it. You can scramble eggs in a dish in the microwave, and that way you don't need to add any fat or oil at all - it is a little bland, so I add a little milk or some salt, but you could add whatever you like (pepper, herbs, cheese…

Don't weigh every day - every week or even every fortnight is more useful. Just to test that, try weighing yourself every two hours and see how much it changes over the course of a day.