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Thanks Womona, I am definitely trying to listen to my body and understand the issues with the "relaxin" hormone luckily a couple of my instructors have had pregnant clients so aren't pushing me and are showing me how I can adapt different moves in my circuit training and Pilates classes. And yes I wasn't prepared for how…

The advice you've received is solid all you need is a calorie deficit to lose weight. :) What I found has worked best for me (but everyone is different) has been try to eat 3 parts healthy/clean with a good balance of macro's and nutrition to 1 part eat whatever I fancy as long as it fits in my cals. (I'm not trying to…

You most definitely qualify as lightly active, if you were to average your steps over the week it sounds like you'd be over 10000 a day even when your off days brings the average down (assuming you work 4 or 5 days a week?). I'd definitley put lightly active down as long as you don't double dip and add your walking as…

I have an Aria2 the BF measurement is less than useless, it's only use (beyond my old £25 digital scales that it replaced) is that it can send my weight directly to the app. So glad I didn't pay full price for it.

SW 10st 8 UGW 9st MGW 10st 2 Day/Weight/Comment May 31 10st8 June 01 10st 7.2 June 02 10st 8.5 June 03 10st 9.8 Welp, sorry everyone ended up having a massive calorie blow out of a weekend, trying to be good today so hopefully the scales will recover a bit (not a great start lol) June 04 10st 7.2 June 05 10st 7.4 seem to…

SW 10st 8 UGW 9st MGW 9st13 Day/Weight/Comment May 31 10st8 June 01 10st 7.2 June 02 10st 8.5 June 03 10st 9.8 Welp, sorry everyone ended up having a massive calorie blow out of a weekend, trying to be good today so hopefully the scales will recover a bit (not a great start lol) June 04 10st 7.2 June 05 10st 7.4 seem to…

SW 10st 8 UGW 9st MGW 9st13 Day/Weight/Comment May 31 10st8 June 01 10st 7.2 June 02 10st 8.5 June 03 10st 9.8 Welp, sorry everyone ended up having a massive calorie blow out of a weekend, trying to be good today so hopefully the scales will recover a bit (not a great start lol) June 04 June 05 June 06 June 07 June 08 June…

I got down to near goal but have gradually put over a stone back on, my profile pic is at 9st6 I go on holiday on the 23rd so would really like to lose a few pounds before then. SW 10st 8 UGW 9st MGW 9st13 Day/Weight/Comment May 31 10st8 June 01 June 02 June 03 June 04 June 05 June 06 June 07 June 08 June 09 June 10 June…

I had very similar issues with my IBS for years and was even hospitalised I was in so much pain before being properly diagnosed and also it took me over a decade to pinpoint most of my trigger foods (not trying to diagnose you as having the same as me BTW there are so many gastrointestinal problems that present the same),…

Hi I'm 5'5" and probably the same body shape as you (apple). I hate my stomach and have had the same thoughts, even at 25 on the BMI scale I look overweight especially in pictures because it's all in the torso but changed my mind when I got to about the 140 mark and doing a couple of sessions of circuit training every week…

1200 is an extremely small amount of food to maintain long term if you include all your drinks and condiments and weigh everything properly I couldn't manage it all the time, I lose on 1600 cals. If you're getting 10000 steps a day 1850 sounds right, but you could go down a couple of hundred cals off that if you wanted,…

Amazing! Well done you look fantastic, great to see such a fab transformation you look so fit, powerful and healthy! xxx Inspirational.

The same amount as if you restricted to 1650cals for 2 days except 100 times as miserable.

Yeah I try to keep it on here, friends, family and coworkers will get annoyed because they either aren't into it so will be bored by you, assume you're humble bragging or assume you're trying to make them do it too (which you admitted you are) So don't unless they ask, they know now so they'll ask if they're curious or…

Hey OP couple of things.... Are you over restricting? For example have you set your goal to a 2 pound a week deficit maybe reduce to 1 pound a week, no need to struggle every day otherwise we end up yo-yoing when we crack, once you've mastered a smaller deficit maybe increase it later but for now don't try to lose all the…

As kommodevaran says I just had to do process of elimination and it seems different for everyone and it's random as all hell, coffee, bananas, sticky Thai rice, cheap microwave meals especially pasta and cold pasta (but totally fine with pasta I make myself from dry or fresh) the nut clusters from certain cereal, all bran…

Looking at your diary it only seems to go back about 10 days so I think it's just a case of patience. You will be retaining water weight if you have recently increased your exercise (your muscles retain water for repair, perfectly natural you can't do anything about it) you're probably looking at a month before things…

I just listened through the podcast again, the real meat and bones starts about half way in for those who find the lecture "too long and boring" it has a fairly long introduction to be fair, the formula for safe weight loss according to MacDonald and what he uses for his clients is your body fat percentage (pref measured…

@LivingtheLeanDream That's exactly what he says though... at least look up the person giving the lecture, it's not as if I've posted some snake oil salesman or crash diet imbecile, this is a guy who trains trainers for competitve body building and the general public. Personally I couldn't lose more than half a pound a week…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx4npV4IV3s&t=293s also his follow on lecture about maintenance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhLIsFFsPAA&t=13s Brilliant lecture by Martin MacDonald according to this your rate of loss is absolutely fine :) please watch the vid before wooing I know 1% a week is the general consensus on the forum but these are some good arguments including sources why aiming for slightly more based…

You're doing great and with 40 pounds, 1 pound a week is what you should be looking for really, also don't worry there's no such thing as jump starts you're not missing out, anyone who loses 10 pounds super quick (edit* with only 40 pound to lose) is just losing a bunch of water weight too which is exaggerating their loss,…

I've been signed up to do a triathalon in May (never even done a 5k and the running part of the tri is 6.3k) so I'd like to be able to do that and get out in one piece >_< Also I'd love another couple of inches off my waist line, I've always stored my weight on my stomach so losing inches there is my main vanity goal, I…

On top of the fact that 1 pound a week is considered a healthy rate of loss, please remember that weight loss isn't linear and water weight can both hide (and exaggerate) weight loss, when we start a new more intensive workout regime our bodies retain more water for muscle repair (which is perfectly healthy and can't be…

Its very strange but I seem to have more triggers on the FODMAP list than not (not that I'm saying you shouldn't try it chances are I'm an outlier as many swear by FODMAP), I wish more was understood about IBS and you could just get a test to tell you exactly what to avoid. I also found whilst suffering with an IBS flare…

Yes to put it simply the 1200 calories is to lose weight with no exercise, when you exercise and burn 300 calories it means you've only consumed 900 so you get to eat those 300 back to bring it up to 1200 again, you need to fuel your burns. x The best thing about exercising (for me) is that you get to eat more whilst you…

yep me too I was having 100g of Muesli instead of the 40g recommended by eyeballing my portion! When I started weighing so many things jumped out, baked potatoes, peanut butter (the 1 tablespoon was logging was actually 30g when I started weighing which is 2 tablespoons!) also the milk and half sugar in my teas added up to…

Make sure you weigh everything with kitchen scales (preferably digital) there's no such thing as a medium potato or small banana its all subjective, get out the kitchen scales and weigh what you eat including weekends, cheat meals, alcohol, finishing your kids left overs, unintended snacks, everything. Also are you…

I think it's an age thing, I'm 35 and I use stone and pounds although I roughly know kg and can calculate pounds easily now I'm used to using this predominately US site. People under 30 at work tend to only know kg, I speak to my doctor in stone and pounds but she officially documents my weight in kg. Most UK doctors will…

I usually go to maintenance (at least) I agree with @Francl27 staying at maintenance during some of the days pre and during is hard enough. If you're struggling I'd say go to maintenance nothing wrong with a pause or break it's only a few days. x