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I replace with lime and soda water, sparkling flavoured water and herbal teas. Still if I have a night out and go for a vodka and coke it starts creeping back in.

I started being very unfit and I would only do 2 mins of hitt as part of a bigger routine to start with. I went as fast as I could for 20s then made no effort at all in the 10s rest, just very slowly moved my legs round. My heart rate would be about 180 during the intense exercise. Such a low heart rate or breathlessness…

Falling asleep in front of the TV waiting for my gym kit to finish in the washer

Steel boned corset works wonders for a quick fix. Sadly you have to take if off again at some point.

My work mug says "I would rather be eating chocolate". It replaced the previous one that said "I would rather be eating a cupcake"

I usually do x8 lifts of something I find quite heavy, then gradually increase reps till I get to 15, then up the weight and drop the reps again. Or do pyramid sets. Sometimes I do high volume on a lighter weight including barbell complexes which are a killer! My trainer based what he taught me on something called German…

What is a mini cut?

Where are you from? I am in the UK. I have found USA pro to be very good for me from a size 22, now in an 18. I bought a pair by mistake and never looked back lol.

I really had to work on my squat and had lots of problems with glute activation. Some great advice here. My two main things I concentrate on is keeping my shoulders squeezed back and really conciously squeezing my glutes in both the down and up. My trainer has been trying to correct my knees as I would tend to pull them in…

I like the gym when it gives me external motivation. By that I mean someone checking in on me. Either I would do classes and get to know the trainers and other members who attended regularly, or by having a pt do me a program and regular updates. When I was short of money I just did all the free classes. I have varied…

I like doing a smoothie with avocardo, strawberries, skimmed milk, and vanilla protein powered. Sometimes I do banana, peanut butter and vanilla protein powder. I put the milk and fruit in the blender tub and leave it in the fridge overnight. In the morning I just add a scoop of protein powder, blend and go. I usually…

Can you not just leave a weeks worth of clothes at work on a Monday so you only need the backpack once a week to work and once back?

You are not alone. There are things out there you can try but it is trial, error and frustration if it takes a while to find the best fit. In terms of therapy there are many different types depending I your goal and personality type. Some was has mentioned CBT, there are also things like solution focused therapy, gestalt,…

I'm not sure I have much practical advice as I suffer from this as well. What I did find really helped was someone who was looking at my diary (a PT for me) because I didn't want to cheat him even though I will cheat myself. Maybe you can replace food with another stress relieving activity? Craft? Colouring? Yoga?

I feel like this too. I would like children but most men in their 30's seem to either have grown up children or decided they don't want any. Plus I'm getting much pickier as I get older. I have been on the dating sites for 5 years and have some really horrendous (but retrospectively funny) dates. I do have 3 or 4 friends…

The truth about cats and dogs

Watching Joy and drinking gin

A healthy body helps a healthy mind. Just be aware you are not getting obsessed, controlling your eating shouldn't be a coping strategy for lack of control in other areas. I crashed quite hard when I stopped loosing for a while as so many people had complimented me I started needing the weight loss for a sense of self…

My gym is closed :-(

I did put on weight on anti depressants. They can increase your appetite. Also with the one I was on it made me very sleepy so I moved around less. They don't actually physiologically cause weight gain though so so long as you stick to calories it shouldn't affect your results.

Mines just higher when I'm happy

I get lonely too. When you live on your own or are not on a relationship it is hard. At the end of the day there can only be so many friends that are free to do something in a week and going out for a couple of hours still leaves another 6 or 8 that I'm not asleep! Yes keep yourself busy and find hobbies etc but I think…

The easiest way in terms of weight loss would be to switch to diet soda. It is still addictive though. I find drinking herbal tea or sparkling flavoured water helps. I definately feel healthier when I am 'on the wagon' so to speak.

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I am not vegan but if I have vegan friends coming round for dinner I use a blog called little miss meat free for recipes. I like chickpea and spinach curry, and using green lentils as an alternative to mInce in chilli, cottage pie or moussaka ect. Economic to if you buy dried and cook it yourself. I also make vegan falafel

I think they should fine people who don't rerack

Soy cheese yuk

I am in health care and felt my weight was affecting my job too. I find the things I can accomplish in the workplace really help motivate me. Feel free to add me if you want. My diet certainly isn't perfect but I do log everyday and my diary is open.

I log everyday

I log everyday