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  • Personally, I think any adult surviving on 1200 calories a day is starving their body, especially as they exercise also. After learning about nutrition and being a PT, a lot of weight you are losing is muscle and not fat. Would you fill a car up with 3/4 the amount of petrol when it needs a full tank to get to where its…
  • put it this way when you remove sugar out of anything you are replacing that sugar with chemicals/asparatame etc just because there is no calories does not make it good fizzy drinks have not been round long enough to know effects but a lot of rumours i tend to have them now and then but generally.... best to avoid at least…
  • have you tape measured yourself at all? weight is a mixture of water, i put on 7lbs 'that time of the month' and many other things. and with all the exercise your fat is being swapped for muscle so your shape is probably changing but for the better :)
  • you probably will lose weight on cutting carbs but is it a sensible and healthy option? no! i only have wholegrains carbs for one meal a day instead of the three i used to have. i trick my mind that carrot and swede mashed is like mash so i feel like i have had carbs. you want a good, healthy and balanced diet and one you…
  • i never weight myself. as far as i'm concerned it becomes an obsession and doesn't reflect anything like body fat/muscle gain etc. personally i only use a tape measure or go by my clothes. my PT says according to BMI and scales he is overweight and he has not a bit of fat on him!
  • I've been told by my trainer it's best after as your body will burn stored fat while if you eat before it will just burn the food you have eaten. Has worked really well for me
  • I started running a while ago and kept getting blisters which was making me stop running - so frustrating. I went to a running store, they filmed my movement and advised me for the best shoe. I have never had a blister since and have run over 10miles at a time. The one thing that is worth spending money on is proper…
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