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Evening munchies are my problem time too. I have started going to an aquafit class in the evenings that helps to cut down the amount of time I spend sat watching tv and wanting to snack, that is helping a lot. Maybe there is an evening activity you could do a couple of nights a week. I also find keeping my hands and brain…

I have noticed a few people mention that sleep improves with less alcohol and I just wanted to share how much better mine is looking since I cut down the amount I drink and started including more AF days. It is very motivating to see it like this: (don't pay much attention to the start and end times, the sleep is monitored…

@dawnbgethealthy - thank you for your kind words, they really made me feel better. I was feeling a bit sorry for myself yesterday. I live in San Antonio. The heat is too much for me even in months that seem ok for others, I spend 6 months of the year trying to avoid being outdoors as much as possible. Since March Hubs has…

Checking in, haven't done any yoga in a couple of days, and I am torn between YWA and YW Tim. I probably should settle on one. I like to skim watch the videos at fast speed ahead of time so I know what is coming, and they both have things I really want to do. By the end of today I will choose one and stick with it till the…

Great advice on starting strength training. I am just starting out with some strength training, and I don't want to have heavy veins, will that always happen with heavy lifting? If trying not to get them would it be better to lift lighter with more reps?

I believe the OP is referring to vascularity in bodybuilding - like this pic

Glad to hear you and your mum are doing better. I haven't read every post so you might already have heard this - I saw you said you are worried about getting it again, my doctor told me I will have about 83% immunity from having had the virus already, and that if I did get it again the symptoms would be mild or none at all.

This is exactly what I think about sweet potatoes. I have been completely baffled by the way they have been elevated to be regarded as some sort of super alternative in recent years.

It looks so beautiful! I hope to be able to visit that area one day, when/if things get a little more back to normal in the future. Being from the UK I do find Texas weather difficult to handle, it is January and I am already dreading another summer here.

I agree, buying the smaller bottles definitely helps! and alternating with water must be much better for our bodies.

I'm not doing as well as I hoped, but I'm at least still trying. My eating and exercising are still going well, but I am struggling to get in as many AF days as I would like. I am so down some days, I hate the city I live in, I don't have a single friend here after 8 years :( Our house is nice, the area is good, but I have…

My gym has reopened and I am going to aquafit classes and power circuit now, but last summer the gym was shut and it was too hot to exercise outdoors. We bough a VR set up and I do PowerBeatsVR and BoxVR, both get the heart rate up and it is a lot of fun.

Usually weekly on a Friday. If I know I had a crappy week I don't weigh myself, but I rarely go more than 2 weeks without a weigh-in.

@dawnbgethealthy Wow! Such amazing photos! May I ask where there are? Living in Texas it is always a treat for me to see snow and mountains. It looks very beautiful where you live! @MissMay What a disappointment, I wonder who their target customers are - people who are looking for healthy smoothies are not going to be…

I haven't had this happen with my Fitbit. If I were you I would ask about it on the Fitbit forums because I don't think it should be making your arm feel that way. The moderators there are pretty good at answering these types of questions, and I would ask if there is any chance it could be faulty. I hope you find a…

I'm still doing Adriene's challenge but have also been watching some of Tim's videos. Look in his playlists for the playlist called 'Foundation Series' I think they help to bring awareness to the correct form. P.S. I haven't seen the person who started the thread comment since their first post and I'm sure no one will mind…

3/14 AF (goal = 14 AF days by end of Jan) I am so glad I found this thread, it is very inspiring reading about everyone else's experiences. With the weekend approaching, I am bracing myself. I usually plan to allow drinks on Fridays & Saturdays, but I had a rough start to the year and only got my first AF day in on Tuesday…

I love salads. I really love to put all kinds of things in my salads such as cilantro, grapes, red peppers, slices of orange, apple, pears. I love spinach, romaine lettuce, spring mixes, etc. along with the usual cucumber, tomatoes, and spring onions. I mix fresh lemon juice with EVOO and use it as a dressing, sometimes…

I am sorry to hear about your husband, that is very sad and must have been a difficult time to get through :( I just saw that the guidelines in the UK have thrown out the gender difference in their guidelines, why is that? Now it just says 14 units per week for anyone, surely it is different depending on a multitude of…

Thank you for posting this. I only recently found out that it is recommended that women drink no more than a single 5oz glass and I was shocked! I think I knew that I was consuming too often, but I didn't know that my 2-3 glasses of red wine were so much over the amount considered safe! I thought I was a safe moderate…

My original plan was to cut out drinking 5 days out of 7 to aim for 20 AF days per month, but a series of upsets, false starts, and mental challenges got in the way. Not making excuses, it is all down to my own choices in the end. I thought of giving up and starting in February, but then I realized that was just wasting…

I looked up Yoga with Tim and was really interested in his video about how when starting as a beginner in yoga some of us come to it with poor posture. When we try to do certain poses that are common in Vinyasa we strengthen, but with poor posture, and can actually do harm. He talked about shoulders a lot on the one I…

I'm lagging behind but still doing it daily. Today is Day 5 for me, but the amount of talking, bursting into song, and quoting "Mr Willy Shakespeare" are not gelling with me. I'm finding it very distracting. I am new to Adriene's channel and determined to at least give it a while longer for me to get comfortable with her…

I agree, but this is something I return to every couple of years to see if there have been any new developments in milk subs that might make any of them palatable and nutritious in my tea. I'm lactose intolerant, but I do just fine on lactose-free milk. I try to replace animal products where I can just because, well... why…

Thank you for all the suggestions, I will try the oat milk, I have tried cashew before and found it to be the closest to real milk in tea, but not close enough to stick with. Anything creamy doesn't work well at all in tea.

I am currently living in the US, I haven't tried oat milk, I will give it a go thank you!

Daily weigh-ins can be very motivating for some people, and if that works for you go for it!! Good job getting back to it :) When I weigh myself daily I start obsessing as I see the scale shoot up and down over the week and get frustrated. So I find that weekly or monthly work better for me to see real progress. If it goes…

Yorkshire lass currently living in the US. I have food pretty much under control and I know how to eat healthily, until 9 pm rolls around each night, and then I want to eat ALL the things! Always looking for ways to control that late-night snacking. Feel free to add me.

1200 would be before taking exercise into account. So if you do, for example, 300 cals worth of exercise you should be eating 1500 that day and still on track. All numbers are an estimate, even with a fitness watch it isn't 100% accurate how many calories you burn, but it is a guide.

Absolutely I would try it. If they make it in a form that tastes ok in my hot tea I would switch to it. I am pretty sure I am lactose intolerant (haven't had an official diagnosis, but looking at my stomach issues and food log it became pretty apparent) so if it is cruelty-free, and lactose-free I am in!