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Breakfast: chocolate cake Morning tea: chocolate Lunch: chicken and chips with a fried pineapple ring and fanta Afternoon tea: chocolate milkshake Dinner: pizza and cola

I have found over the years that it is easy to eat less for long enough to lose a few kilograms and hard to start exercising when you are not in the habit. BUT It is easy to get into a habit of exercising if you keep it up for several weeks, and hard to get into a habit of not eating much. So if you want to not only lose…

This "photographic height/weight" chart is really interesting: http://www.cockeyed.com/photos/bodies/heightweight.html

They all use approximate ways to calculate your BMR, which is very difficult to measure precisely. To find out, pick one estimate, add your estimated exercise energy expenditure (to get an estimate of your TDEE), and eat that amount for a couple of weeks. If you neither gain nor lose weight (measuring at the same time of…

I let my stomach guide me. If I'm hungry in the morning, I eat a good breakfast. If I'm not hungry, I find that eating breakfast is a mistake, because it means I will be hungry later in the day, but won't have calories to spare.

Subjectively, 8 hours a night, but only 6 hours of that is actually sleeping according to my BodyMedia armband. But I think it counts every time I roll over as waking.

Yesterday's TDEE (total calorie burn, including BMR) of 2800 calories, according to my BodyMedia armband. Not bad, given my estimated BMR of 1290 calories and the fact that it was a work day.

If it feels like a workout, you'll sweat. If I don't have meetings in the afternoon, I just make sure I'm wearing plenty of low-scent deodorant, go for a run at lunchtime, wipe off sweat afterwards with a paper towel. As long as I change my clothes, I don't get smelly.

I never thought about that. I include the full amount in the recipe, but you are probably right than when you reduce a pan dish by half, you evaporate off most of the alcohol and associated calories. There's some more info on the effects of cooking on alcohol content here:…

Poor girl eats well (http://www.poorgirleatswell.com/) is a great source of healthy, cheap food ideas. In Australia, fresh fruits and veg (as well as oats, lentils, etc) are cheaper than processed foods as long as you buy what is in season and cheap at the time rather than heading out with a specific shopping list. Meat…

Generally (within fairly broad limits) it's okay to go under on carbs and over on protein if you prefer. Also bear in mind that some foods in the database don't have macronutrient info -- just calories -- so if you are including those in your diary, the results for carbs, fat and protein won't be accurate.

At your height and weight, you are almost at your minimum healthy weight. If some of that is muscle from working out, you are probably on the skinny side. Why not shift to a weight maintenance goal and allow youself a few more calories?

What time do you eat dinner? If you eat at 6 and don't go to bed until 12, it's not surprising that you get hungry in the evening. Options include having a later dinner, saving more of your calories from the day for a bigger dinner, saving some calories for a healthy after-dinner snack, increasing your exercise to earn…

Their official advice is to wear it as normal when on a road bike. They acknowledge that it is more accurate for some activities than others, but say that for most people, it should average out to 90% accurate across all your activities for the day.

I've had a BodyMedia Link for a week now, and while I am going to go with its estimates for a couple of months at least, I don't really trust it. Some observations: * I have a standing desk at work and find it a little disconcerting to see that standing while working apparently burns calories at about the same rate as…

I lost 20kg (44 lbs) in 2011, following MyFitnessPal's recommended method, losing it slowly and steadily while eating right and getting a lot of exercise. You won't see that in my ticker, because I gained weight in 2012 (because I stopped following this successful method), then came back to MyFitnessPal three weeks ago and…

Part of my motivation for starting the diet again was that my clothes were getting tight. I notice a difference within a week. I'm nowhere near going down a clothes size yet, but I had just hit the point of needing to go up a size, and have managed to back away from that.

Have a different sort of nut each day, and try them in different mixes. Mix them with dried fruit or eat them with cheese. Toss them in spices (curry powder or chilli powder, cinnamon, pepper or paprika) or sprinkle them with sugar (or roast them into spices or sugar, maple syrup or other syrups to make it stick better).…

It is rude to comment on someone's weight, unless you know that they have been trying to lose weight. They don't know whether you have been trying to lose weight, or have lost weight as a result of some private illness or grief. (And yes, it does mean they noticed you were fat before and will notice and if you gain weight…

Sounds interesting. How accurate is it without the heart rate monitor compared with results with one? How long does it take to charge and how often does it need to be charged?

MFP does take into account your weight, activity and pace. It probably uses slightly different formulae, probably based on similar evidence and with similar margins of error to the ones given in this thread.

I'm 5'2 At 115 lbs, I was a size 7 (Australian) At 137lbs, I'm a size 10 At 159lbs, I was size 14 (still Australian).

Legs, definitely. Arms, no. Stomach: it might depend on your form. For me, yes, definitely, but I'm told I ride in the wrong gear and spend too much time standing or pushing the pedals where I should aim to spin them.

1) Yes, you are supposed to add your exercise cals. 2) Are you sure it is supposed to be 2 pounds per week for you on 1200? It is 2 pounds per week with a 1000 cal deficit, but if that would take you below 1200 cal/day, the MFP calculator and most others online will put you at 1200 anyway, as a minimum. The MFP tells you…

That seems weird to me. I can run for over an hour at 6mph without a break, but jumping rope for 10 minutes is the absolute maximum I can manage.. and even then, I need to pause for a few seconds after 5 minutes. My husband says I look as though I jump higher than I need to, but I just trip over the rope if I try smaller…

The rings don't matter. My husband and I had a fairly traditional wedding, including a full three-course sit-down dinner reception with 80 friends and family, but we chose to spend our budget on the celebration rather than details that didn't mean anything to us. I wore a $200 dress, we exchanged $15 rings and we asked…

I drink a coke zero or pepsi max in those situations. It's rotting my teeth, but at least it helps kill the urge and doesn't make me fat.

7 lbs in 2 weeks is probably largely fluctuations due to changes in water weight, but it is on the high side for that. Are you weighing daily and taking a running average, or weighing only weekly? If the latter, it is possible that you happened to be lighter than usual on your weighing day two weeks ago (dehydrated, not…

Another Canadian specialty: Cinnabons.But it's just as well we don't have them here: so yummy, but so calorie-laden and unhealthy! I have a recipe that makes a fair approximation but takes enough effort and time that I don't make them often, which is good.

"A few chocolate bars" or a few granola bars in one day is not healthy. A little crap in the diet is normal and needn't do any harm. Health guidelines suggest this should be limited to - say - a few small squares of chocolate per week (not even a whole chocolate bar per week). That might be unrealistic for most of us. I…