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The other thing you could do is drink more of your calories rather than trying to jump straight on the heavy solid food bandwagon. If you keep fruit juice (not fruit drink, actual fruit juice not just sugar) on hand and have a few cups a day that's another couple of hundred calories. The brain doesn't really register…

I haven't read the rest of the suggestions, but i thought i'd share something i found. The Arnold Schwarzenegger fitness blog are big fans of "1% workouts", that's a workout that only takes 1% of your day or around 15-20 minutes. Here's the suggested one i was reading:…

In the first week of weight loss plans all the junk food went to other people or in the bin. He can just Try and eat junk food. If you really crave potato chips maybe try buying the kids lunchbox ones? You can get a 20 pack of 19g packets. So you can restrict yourself to one every 2 days if you're being good, and turn them…

Arnold Schwarzenegger's fitness blog recently put up a 1% (read 15min per day) body weight workout (no equipment needed) that you should be able to do at home no problem. There's a bunch of these 1% workouts on the internet so you can pick whichever one you want and do them at home. Here's the link to the one i was…

Protein is excellent and the more protein you get the better. It really helps get your muscles building rather than storing energy as fat If you have carb cravings i was just reading an article that says the best time to eat carbs (from healthy foods though, not junky things) is in the hour directly after a hard workout.…

The tinned tuna is a good little snack, fairly healthy and you can pack a piece of bread to have with it. Fruit to go with and you have a reasonable meal. But definitely get some of the ice packs, they're so good for this kinda thing.

Sometimes husbands are a bit like that. My mother was going through chemo and was losing her hair. She went to the hair dresser one day and got it cropped quite short. It took him the better part of a week to notice. Then when she swapped to a wig he had no idea at all for ages. So unless you go on holiday for 2 weeks and…

I tried lentils but we're too impatient to soak them at our house, a friend of mine suggested picking up instant polenta from the markets as it takes heaps less time to cook and no soaking. I dont know what the difference is between it and normal soak it for days polenta but apparently it works heaps better for busy…

I'm 5'2, my doc said don't try for less than 120 but anything between 120 and 140 is all good. So i figure halfway between the two is where i should be.

Well the first thing i would do is make sure i'm logging absolutely everything. Every now and then i start cheating and i know im really only cheating myself. The next thing is, if you want good solid advice, open up your food diary and let the guys in the nutrition forum rip it apart. They are really good are suggesting…

If you want more info there's a really long explanation in one of the recommended threads with all the theory. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/10589-for-those-confused-or-questioning-eating-your-exercise-calo

If you dont like mfp's exercise logging you could split the difference and log food here and track exercise by something like fitocracy. I dont log exercise on here but i keep a record and i make sure i eat a bit over my goal on my exercise days normally, or at least right up to it.

You'll get the best advice from these guys if you open up your food diary. From the other threads hanging around it seems like everyone agrees 1200 is too little. You need the extra oomph in the calories for your workouts to be building muscle. You can probably do 1200 Calories net for the day but you need to be eating the…

30 Minutes a day with the kids is an excellent start. Get them involved. If you can manager to tire the littlies out with the exercise all the better. My friends parents when they were that age used to take them to the local nature park and do the walking trail. The kids love finding things and by the time they got home…

You may also wanna grab a weight loss buddy off the forums so you can keep each other in check. I know i snack less now because i have someone going "oh, i see you added a whole lot of ice cream here. How many vegetables did you eat that day? And why not? tut tut". But its ok because it means you get to remind them to be…

One of my friends has a theory, find out the number of calories you should be eating every day to sustain your goal weight and eat that, then you should be used to it when you get to the goal weight and its all good. Adjust if you need more for exercise. So if you want to weigh 150lbs, look up how much someone of that…

BMI standards suck, they say obese, but theres plenty of "obese people" that would be classed that because of muscle or because the BMI is only averaged to a certain type of person. If you're really worried about the BMI thing go see your doctor and let them help set your goal weight because my doc specifically said i'd…

You can grill it, fry it, season it. You can add it to soup. There's different kinds, some are harder than others, so if you can to fry it to go in salad or something get the firmer one. If you want to do soup and stuff i think the one they put in laksa is silken tofu which is more jiggly and less stay together. One of my…

I think you're doing great so far! So long as you're making a commitment to eating healthier you should be fine. Your diary is better than mine is so far (only checked a few days but you're putting me to shame), but as people have suggested, protein is your friend, especially if you're exercising. Your weight will…

Just search on google for "Royalty free images". It will turn up websites that have a bunch of photos that you dont have to pay for and you can use without anyone minding. Theres also websites that compile lists of other websites offering the service. This is the first link from google to images you can use free of charge:…

This may sound like a terrible idea, but i started with veggies that i thought weren't too terrible (make a list if it helps), and then my friend started suggesting salads and stuff that had those in them and also something i didn't like with different dressings and other nice things. They made up a salad with lettuce,…

I barely saw any loss in the first week mainly because we were still clearing all the dirty high carb high calorie foods out of the house. (Bad habits take a lot to break). I also heard that when you first start exercising your muscles will actually store some of the water to help them deal with the new activity level. And…

It may help to grab some motivation buddies from on here that know what they're talking about. Then you can open up your food diary and they can suggest improvements. If you're adding the exercise to the site too they can help advise on that. From what the other threads have said you should be eating to your goal, then…

I tend to be every few days but i only log it around once a week. Its really important to remember that the scale fluctuates madly anyway. And not so much for men, but for women you may find you go up or down during "that time" or just before. Also if you weigh in after drinking a whole bottle of water that's going to…

Congrats to everyone here for doing your best to achieve your goals, education is hard enough by itself let alone with jobs and family to balance. The main problem i have at university is that i'm surrounded by cafes. Just on campus there are 2 coffee shops slash cafeterias and on the main street over there's an entire…