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I don't find it difficult to maintain in the sense that I am very content to eat keto food indefinitely - however my wife doesn't like to eat separately all the time and it's really quite expensive when you're on minimum wage and student loans! Your advice is otherwise sound and I appreciate it. You are absolutely right, I…

Your body doesn't need "detoxing" if you have a working liver. That's what a liver is for.

I have two days a week where I have 500 calories a day which I tend to eat most of in the evening - I guess that is 24 hour fasting if you count from dinner the previous day (although I do have the odd tea/coffee to keep me going through uni stuff). I've found it works really well! Exercise is great but will only work for…

Definitely go for other sources of fat if you can! You don't need to be adding fat to your diet to hit a target, it's more like a guideline for a limit. (unless you're doing keto, in which case you'd want to get the majority of calories from fat rather than carbs, but I don't think that's what you're following?). Fats are…

It's going well for me. I just don't eat breakfast or lunch on the fast days, drinks lots of tea and water (up to about 50kcal in milk) and then a nice 450kcal meal for dinner. I don't feel deprived and the weight is coming off easily. I also don't go nuts on my other days, having a light breakfast and lunch and usually…

That's fine! Healthy sustainable weight loss is normally only 1-2lb a week anyway! If you've also gone from doing nothing to training every day you could be retaining fluid as your muscles recover from the training. You've said yourself that you're a yo-yo dieter so let's break that habit! Get yourself into a sustainable…

I'm a cancer survivor myself and gained a lot of weight so I have some idea of what you feel. I think that you are taking good steps to looking after yourself but you need to be mindful that you are getting adequate nutrition so your body can fight this thing off and you can heal. I think you may have set your activity…

Agree 100%. You will feel better, look better, be strong and sexy and all that stuff if you give your body the nutrition it needs. You need to seek professional help to reach a point where you can allow yourself to do that.

My mum used to make banana sandwiches if we were in a rush to get out the house! It's carbs on carbs but I guess there are worse things in the world...

So it turns out my other half has been on this diet her whole life, explains why she appears to eat all the things and still stay slim! To be fair though, she also generally only eats 250-300kcal for lunch and walks around a ton, so by the time it's evening she can eat 1200kcal in one go no problem. Sucks to be me because…

I got really excited today in the gym. Benched what I thought was 2.5kg more than last time and it was EASY. Then realised the bar was only 15kg :(

I'm loving having a gym buddy, I know the gym is not a social club and we're probably annoying to everyone else in the vicinity but it's nice to have someone cheer you on and have a bit of a chat while taking turns in the rack.

I'm in a bit of a rut right now because I'm about 8kg overweight and getting married in August. So, cutting with keto. But it sucks because I also just want to get strong damn it! Did alright until I hit 2/3BW squats and now it is such a goddamn struggle every time. And there are people so much stronger than me AND my…

Today I got up into a wheel pose in yoga. It almost broke me, but I did it! Didn't have the strength to shift my fat butt up that way before. Now if only I could get into some of the finishing sequence without being suffocated by my own boobs...

Also add that the right food choices in a low carb diet are different from those in a low fat diet. Whole grains are out (apart from very high fibre like chia seeds and pumpkin seeds), low fat milk is out (it has a lot of natural sugar in it), fruit and some vegetables like peas and corn are out (but eat lots of leafy…

How long have you been low carb? I know the other posters disagree with me but I think that low carb can be very beneficial if done properly. You will go through an initial period of feeling like rubbish where your body is adapting to using fat for fuel (ketosis) instead of carbs (glycosis). Yes the body will convert some…

I'm a new female lifter too! I'd recommend trying a proper beginners program like Starting Strength or Stronglifts 5x5. Fairly high weight and low reps should help to build a good strength foundation. Also focus on doing the movements well (good form) in order to not set yourself up for an injury later on. Good luck!