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No exercise will target fat loss in a particular area. A calorie deficit means you will lose fat but WHERE you lose it from is decided by your genetics etc. So you could 100 sit ups in a day but that does not mean you will lose fat from your stomach. So stick with the calorie deficit and continue with the exercise.

That's really helpful to know, thanks! :)

ah ok thanks. Do you use it weekly or daily? I'm guessing I need daily entries to make it useful but not sure!

I prefer to weigh weekly - but the idea of a nice graph sounds pretty good! Is it worth getting something like Libra for my weekly weigh-ins?

Log it all. Don't hate myself for it, don't feel guilt (chances are I was eating something I love :smile: ). And resolve to be back on track not the next day/week or month, but remind myself I can make better choices for the next meal that day. If I'm surprised by the amount, I might review the diary to see where the bulk…

Hi I had a look at your diary too and I think one place where you could definitely add calories is during breakfast time. Maybe some mashed avocado on toast, or porridge, or scrambled eggs and smoked salmon, peanut butter on toast. I went back as far as last wednesday, where you had no dinner at all, but I see that some…

x145 - there is no such thing as easy weightloss, there's no secret, no 'weird trick that will help you lose belly fat' or anything like that. Just make sure you eat less calories than you burn and create a calorie deficit. Good luck and welcome!

Thanks for the insight griffinca2 - will try it for some months and see how I get on. On advice I got in another thread I think I am going to cut back the cardio (as trying to progress in lifting and running is maybe too much to ask if you are at a beginner level for both) and eat at a deficit on those days, and on lifting…

Thanks for the insight colors_fade, your advice has been really practical and I am sure will help me. Working out tomorrow, so for the next month or will try eating to maintenance on lifting days and working out strategies on how to do 5x5 without compromising on form. Much appreciated :)

Thanks for bringing that into focus TR0berts! I think in my heart of hearts I knew while I was typing that what you said re: 1 & 2 is correct and was the answer I was gonna get anyway. Your point re: 3 is a good one - for a beginner runner maybe it is too much to ask to progress on both cardio and weights at this time, and…

This is a great thread! One question - do I have to be at my ideal body weight before starting to recomp? I am 5'7'', 74.1kg but would like to be about 62kg (middle of my ideal weight according to the BMI chart). I've started stronglifts and am making some progress, but I think my calorie settings of 1500 a day is too much…

Thanks for the link Troutsy and colors_fade thanks for the idea of cutting the deficit down to a minimum on lifting days, that sounds like a good plan, will try it next week. As you've been doing stronglifts, did you find your form improving even as the weights progressed or when you noticed even minor form failures on…

Thanks AslSmile - I did read a little about recomposition and it seems that may be right for me. Are there any links you've tried that could help me out?

That video was terrifying and informative, thank you :) I feel the best advice I've heard is Rippetoe's 'shove that thing up' - tried it today and it made an immediate difference to my squats, no knee collapse, no weird 'what's that niggling pain?' etc. Genuinely felt that today is the day I can progress with my squats and…

The time it would take to explain this to you, and the fact it would make not one iota of difference means it's time to stop. OK, you win. I am smug and ignorant :( Thank you for trying to educate me.

Interesting that you assumed I felt smug. I don't. I do however, have facts on my side and not just a woman who can commune with the animals.

^ Yep. Sorry, OP, not to sound mean but whenever I hear 'picky eater' I just tend to think - what are you, 12?! lol Some behaviours can be grown out of. We all have foods we don't like, but to have such a restrictive diet is harming only you. Try new things, build up a tolerance and soon you will find yourself enjoying…

^lol - that is a remarkable claim

I think another thing the article illustrates is the economics of this growing industry, and how shallow it really is: it seems to be mostly (almost always, actually) young, white, thin women from already privileged backgrounds - links to the media, royalty, etc etc and always, always, supremely underqualified. They are…

That's a good tip - I think sometimes in the urgency of wanting something now, you forget that actually all that stuff will still be there when you're at goal - it's probably not going anywhere!! I try to eat more calorie dense things when I reach a mini goal. I don't really consider them to be 'treats' either (hate that…

Amen!

Yes, and what I'm saying is that it is ethically wrong (as well as the fact it tastes gross, but that's just my opinion :P) - nutritionally it is not 'bad' depending on if you can eat it in moderation and make it to fit your calorie/health/fitness goals, the supply chain McDonald's has built up relies on destruction of the…

Most items are priced to reflect their quality and the cost it takes to produce them. I'm not trying to say that that the costs of the two items are related, I am saying that it is bizarre that meat can be produced in such an industrial quantity that living creatures can be sold cheaper than common house-hold items. The…

Never, the food is gross, of poor quality and unethically produced. Not to say that you can't have it if you don't want to, but I'm tired of all these chain eateries serving their crappy food. I mean, should your meat cost less than your toilet roll?? Something's wrong here! On the otherhand - I believe you should enjoy…

^Stuff without an evidence base that claims to help you lose weight - e.g. gluten is bad for you (everyone seems to be intolerant to gluten all of a sudden), that juicing will help you cure cancer etc etc.

^This is also really good advice, there is no point in weighing yourself everyday, what you need to do is weigh your self maybe once or twice a week at most under controlled conditions, i.e. same days of the week, before breakfast after you go to the bathroom in the morning. It doesn't matter as long as it is the same…

I don't think you are starving your body, rashmi. Before you were saying you were eating less than 1200 calories, but then when you list what you are actually eating it sounds like a lot more than 1200 to me. How big is the dosa? Does it have a filling? What kind and how much? How much do the rotis weigh? What kind?…

OP - there is an entire website that discusses the programme in depth, including information on how to do the lifts correctly and safely. I'm all for helping people, but if you're serious about this programme it is surprising you haven't done any basic reading around it. www.stronglifts.com

You have to choose the right tool that works for you. I believe that for the majority, calorie counting is where they have to start, as most people are overweight because they don't realise how much they eat, or on their 'cheat days' they are eating back the deficit they created over the week. Especially if, as the OP…

I did Body Pump for a time some years back and really enjoyed it - it is really rewarding to see the weights go up with every workout, and it made a real difference to my body and fitness levels. I used to go 3 times a week. It's only really as intense as you make it, too. The first few times I only did 2/3 of the class as…