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OP, your HRM equipment is malfunctioning. There is absolutely no way you could be hitting such a high rate, given that a conservative MaxHR formula is 220 minus your age. See here for a discussion on the matter: https://www.dailymile.com/forums/fitness/questions/4735-max-heart-rate

No worries, I know it wasn't meant in any malicious way. It was just enough for me to want to stick my oar in, but not enough to get all het up over! It's all good.

Eh, no, why would I be offended by a Lorde song? A little offended by the drunken Irish thing, it grates a little when you've had to listen to it your whole life.

Way to perpetuate a racial stereotype mate, thanks.

Born & bred Dub myself, feel free to add.

Check out the IIFYM threads on here. Plenty of people on here who've eaten "dirty" and lost weight, myself included.

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1.25l filled with dry sand is 2kg, not the worst place to start. You'd probably be better off with body-weight exercises to be honest though.

In my own experience I've had regular drinks throughout my loss to date, and it's not caused any problems. Once you log it and fit it into your week, and don't make any food choices that are outside of your weekly targets, it's fine.

It's no different from other calories in that sense, but may affect your ability to choose healthy foods afterwards, and may exacerbate cravings for salty and fatty foods. But if that all fits into your calories for the week then go for it.

I can only speak to my own experience, but I recovered from two severed ligaments and torn cartilage in the right knee with nothing but physio. I don't have full rotational strength in that knee any more & contact sports are a no-no, but I'm cycling, boxing & running about 40 km a week. Ii'd imagine if you're bone on bone…

Lets say the US produces lots of green beans, but exports the majority of them. Surely if green bean consumption rose within the US, the cheapest & fastest way for suppliers to meet that demand would be to sell the produce grown in the country?

Given the size of both your country, the various climates & the size of your agricultural industry, it's staggering to read some of the food source stories on here. Whenever I've visited the US I was astounded by the variety of local produce available, albeit in markets & pricier stores. A thought though, that given a…

I can't find that stuff in the food database for some reason. Puzzling.

Which foods aren't grown in the US? I'm irish so I wouldn't know.

It's hard to tell without an open diary, but it's possible you could be underestimating the calories that you're eating each day. Make sure to weigh everything & check the MFP entry against the nutritional information on the packet where appropriate. 9 times out of 10 the fault is with eating more than you think. The other…

If your HRM allows you to modify your VO2 Max it'll give you a more accurate calorie burn figure by the way. And I believe that some HRMs exclude your BMR from your burns. I'd look it up based on what device/software you're using. Regardless, your BMR per hour is going to be a pretty low number (about 70 kcals for me), so…

TDEE = *Total* Daily Energy Expenditure. That includes all exercise, so if you're burning more when you exercise than you thought you did when you calculated your TDEE, it means your TDEE is wrong and you should adjust it based on your new data.

A decent breakdown of the paper's fallacies & missteps here: http://carbsanity.blogspot.com/2012/07/a-feinman-fine-mess-of-thermodynamics.html tl/dr summary: a calorie is still basically a calorie.

I like their transparency too, not only the lead study links but also the data used to generate the graphics.

I'd agree, get an induction and ask your physio for advice in advance too. You should probably keep it to low impact cardio and work on gradually strengthening your core with swimming, pilates, calisthenics and possibly some light weights. Then build from there on what you enjoy doing & don't be afraid to try new things!…

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Ditto.

Take measurements, weigh yourself & take 'before' photos. Even if you keep them completely private they'll give you a way to measure your successes. Smaller goals as mentioned before will also help as achievement markers. You can also take pride in successes that just happen along the way, like beating a personal best in…

From what I can see if you were to eat your BMR and conservatively eat back your exercise calories (50-75% of your calculated burn) you should still be able to lose about a half a kilo a week. I'm guessing you probably have it set to a kilo a week or more at the moment. Slow and steady is better than none, and will…