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I did a short round (21 days) of the HCG diet some time ago and lost about 6 kilos. It got me over a plateau I'd been struggling with for MONTHS. I'm only about half a kilo away from my goal weight, and the last pounds have been verrrry slow to come off, and HCG definitely helped with that. I simply don't have the…

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^^This!!^^ I think this calculator is being VERY generous with us. It has me two pounds away from being UNDERWEIGHT! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: "Ideal weight range is 144 - 158.4 lbs. (65.5 - 72 kg.). Contratulations! Your weight is ideal!" My butt, thighs and spare tire beg to disagree. Also, it spells "congratulations"…

Sometimes I eat them; sometimes I don't. About a 50/50 split. Mostly depends on how hungry I am that day.

I have a cheat day once a week, usually at the weekend, mostly because I just want to go out and eat and drink! I'll sometimes try and save up calories from that day (eat fewer calories for breakfast and lunch), but I'll still end up being maybe 500-800 over my daily goal (mostly because of booze! :laugh: :laugh:).…

I'm not really sure how drinking something in the middle of your fast affects the benefits of the fast. However, have you thought about making breakfast your first/last meal? Begin your fast after breakfast and fast through to the next morning. That way you might feel better for your evening exercise.

Me too. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Try clapping occasionally while you're walking, once every couple of steps or so. I know it sounds silly (and honestly, I used to think it looked a bit silly as well), but it works wonders. I don't see people doing it much in the US, but in Asia, particularly China, everybody who walks/runs for exercise does it, and…

Bump. Good reading!

When I'm on holiday without access to the Internet, I write down everything on paper. I don't figure the calories, but I have a pretty good idea by now what I'm putting into my body, and what's good and bad. Then when I get back, I log every single thing in MPF. If I don't, it's just an excuse to slack (which I definitely…

Every day, but I only count it Saturday morning.

Bump for later. (although what I've read so far has been an eye opener that thankfully people in my life haven't been nearly as cruel to me as some others have experienced)

Hiya, I'm 171cm (I believe that's 5ft 7.5in) and my goal weight is 60k (132 lbs), so from 130-135 is good. I'm also quite small framed. I've been below this weight, but not since high school so I really don't think there's any way I could or would go lower! :happy:

I read this article today on MSN. __________ The Cardio Program You Won't Hate Using 'bursting' to turn your body into a fat-burning machine. From Six Weeks to Sleeveless and Sexy by JJ Virgin Get out the big bag for Goodwill, because with author JJ Virgin’s cardio program, soon your shirts will look like sacks and that…

Robin, I had just the same question just today! I noticed that because I eat about 3-4 servings of fruit a day, my sugar count is always over the allotment. But there is virtually NO other sugar in my diet aside from fruit. I hate to cut out fruit from my diet though, so I'm at a loss. I mean, it's not like I got fat from…

I'm 5'7" and my goal is 130. I'm quite small framed, though (chicken bone wrists!).

Saturday night I went out to a club with a friend of mine and while we were dancing, I noticed another guy making fun of the way my friend was dancing. The place was quite crowded, but I saw him point to my friend, the imitate the way he was dancing, then tell two of his friends who both laughed and did a bit of an…

Total bummer! I'm always anxious about eating all of my exercise calories for that exact reason!

This happens to me as well! I've lived in 3 different foreign countries in the last four years, but I've noticed every time I go home I tend to put on some weight. I chock it up to the fact when I'm at "home," I'm visiting and treat it like a holiday, and tend to eat more. In my mind I'm always thinking, "It'll be ages…

I also love diet coke, and used to drink maybe 3-6 cans a every day. I weaned myself off of it by not buying it. Simply stopped buying it. Took a bit of willpower at the shop but after that it was okay. Now I only drink diet soda at the cinema or a restaurant. And now, it's a treat; it's not part of my daily diet. It's not…

Ow ow ow, Level 3. I had a rotten week last week and only did two days of level 3, so I'm not counting them and starting over this week with L3. It's a killer. I'm almost considering going back to L2 for a week. I did L2 for twelve days, but could never get through it complete without taking a quick breather or two. I…

Wow, excellent advice guys. I knew I wasn't the only one experiencing this! It just never occurred to me what my friendships might go through as I continue to lose weight. I should clarify: my co-workers ARE my friends. I live in a non-English speaking country, and we're a very small office of English speakers who work…

I'm using 5 pound weights as well. I can do everything with them except the shoulder raises at the end of Level 1 and Level 2, where I have to skip some of the reps as I'm doing the squats. Oh, they're killers. But I don't have any other weights and the 5pounders work well with everything else so I figure I'll just build…

I think using the term "meal" is a little bit misleading. Seems like everyone is in consensus that you should eat every three hours or so. Me, I eat breakfast, lunch and supper, but I also usually have a "snack" mid-morning and mid-afternoon. The thing is, my "meals" aren't very big--and my "snacks" sometimes are! It's too…

Ah, thanks for all the excellent advice. :happy: Probably a lot of these things are spot on. Saretta, I'm not in terribly good shape, so maybe the 30 Day Shred is a bit intense at this point. I have noticed that the cramps are not as bad as when I first began, so maybe my body's adjusting? With hope. How long did you have…

That's what I'm doing...don't know if it's the prescribed program but I borrowed the video from a friend without detailed instruction. For me, since I don't do it on weekends, it will take about 6 weeks to get through the whole circuit.

Hey everyone, I just have to say, I am in LOVE with this video. I have been doing it five days a week for the last three weeks. I get up and do it in the morning before anything else, and this is the first workout in my entire life that I've ever had the motivation to do before work in the morning. I HATE HATE HATE morning…

I'd recommend protein shakes as well--even the powered kind that you can mix when you get there. Maybe also consider some granola-bar type foods: protein bars, fiber bars, stuff like that. They're easily packable and can make a good snack or even meal replacement.

Oh, and does anybody know how many calories are burned with RIU and BIU? I've been logging it here as high impact aerobics...but I want to make sure I'm not overestimating my calories because I tend to eat my workout calories and don't want to eat too many! I've searched but I can't really find a good estimate of calories…

Hey wwalke02, I am on my 4th week of SI6--I did one week of SIU, two weeks of RIU, and I'll finish the last three weeks with BIU. I haven't seen much weight loss yet, but I'm told by people who have done the program before that that's normal. I definitely feel stronger and look slimmer. I check in with people doing the…