Pipsqueak1965 Member

Like the others said - if you skip breakfast, and have a small lunch, surely you need to eat lots in the evening? Unless you have some ridiculously low calorie goal?

Anne is correct - 2 weeks is absolutely no time at all! Weight is affected by many factors, fat being only one of them. Keep to a sensible deficit over a few months and your weight will gradually trend down x

I'm thinking this must be US sizes? I'm in the UK and size 6 (6 is sometimes big!)? 5 foot tall and just over 100 pounds.

I just tend to look at weekly average.

Same as all the rest of them! Just stay around your current weight for a while and see how it goes!

I just subscribed to Caroline girvan's YouTube channel - loads of workouts, some in series, all free and you don't need much equipment.

I'm about 5 foot and maintain around 16/1700 calories I guess (and I'm small - around 45 kg).

If you want some good free YouTube workouts, try Caroline girvan - she has several series of 50 workouts which you can just plough through b- I've found them pretty effective.

I work at a GP surgery and quite a lot of patients have regular b12 injections - you might be one of those.

I use a scale - although I only log very loosely now as I have been happily maintaining for several years. Cuts, spoons etc are very inaccurate.

I only weigh myself first thing, before a drink and post toilet visit, so I know it is as consistent as possible. Probably once a fortnight. I've been in maintenance for years, gradually doing a recomp.

Jeez. I would drop weight fast on 1200 a day and I'm 5 foot, 56 years old and weigh about 46 kilos. Also have an office job, walk around a bit and do short weights workouts maybe 4 times a week. I maintain around 1600-1700. So please eat a bit more you lot!

And I thought that you couldn't absorb more than around 30g protein at a time?

I'm a 56 year ol 46 kg woman who does a bit of strength training - I get around 70g protein a day, and I need the protein powder to hit that. I don't really go much on meat, but I'm gradually recomping on what I eat (around 1600 Cal's a day I guess - sedentary job).

Why on earth are you eating so little? That is crazy low.

Knee! Not keev 🙄

I used to do those keevpress ups, then decided I wanted to do them properly! I just takes some core and upper body strength and practice!

To be honest, if you are shrinking in size, does it really matter what the scales say? If you looked like a fitness model and the scales said 400 pounds - would it bother you?

I have been doing what I discovered was called recomp for years - lost about 5kg about 5/6 years ago by eating around 1600. Got to around 20 BMI (I'm very small) and have been training with weights and body weight to increase muscle while gradually losing a bit more fat! It's slow but ok - I'm 56 and in pretty good shape -…

So how many calories do you actually eat in a day on average? Ignoring all outgoings - what are the actual ingoings?

Body pump is good fun - I did classes for a while. Have a go and see if you enjoy it - be careful - I saw a lot of terrible form (mainly men using far too heavy weights)!

I've just finished reading this book - it's extremely interesting, and I am definitely going to have a little go at slightly changing what I eat (I am planning a little reverse dieting as I want to eat a bit more). The main problem I have personally is that a diet heavy in animal products is very environmentally…

I lost a bit of weight I had struggled with for years in my menopausal years (at around age 50). I definitely don't thing that it affected my ability to lose weight. I think many of us gradually move less and less as we age and that is the main contributory factor.

Legs! They aren't a great shape, despite about a billion squats and lunges, my knees look old, and they hurt fairly often!

I've improved my shape a reasonable amount by eating at maintenance and doing home YouTube workouts - try Caroline girvan epic heat series of 50 half hour sessions. Use heavier weights. 2-4kg isn't really going to build muscle. You need to work hard! And you will get good results if you put the effort in at age 28! I'm 56…

You can easily be fairly slim/light as a woman and have 24% body fat! That is a healthy amount for a woman. Particularly if you don't have much muscle.

We have recently had a couple of healthy 20ish year olds phone my doctor's surgery saying their fitbits had told them their sleeping heart rates were perilously low. They were both completely fine! God knows what their fitbits are up to!

Hi! I'm about 153 cm, 46kg. I maintain on around 15-1600 Cals. I lose pretty quick on a strict 1400 - so that would work for you, I'm sure (I have a part time desk job, walk around a fair bit at home, and do weights workouts 4 times a week for half an hour a go. Good luck.

I've just watched a little video which basically says that you can't actually process more than around 20-30 grams of protein per meal, any more is a waste. Aim for around 0.8-1.2 g protein per kilo of body weight. That's plenty.

I've read this (or something similar) before. Metabolism just doesn't vary that much in most people. There are obviously a few outliers, but most of us are pretty much the same.