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  • I'd feel cranky too if I ate a microscopic piece of cheese and then a sandwich for tea on a fast day!! You need a big plate of steaming veggies with a piece of fish and a big bowl of soup or something similar. The trick is making low calorie meals big and satisfying so they take a long time to eat & similar to digest.I did…
  • I weigh after fast days so twice weekly at the moment.
  • I'm 54% constant craver, 41% feaster and 5% emotional. Tried 5:2 4:3 with great success about 2yrs ago but fell off wagon last 6 months after period of medication that made me want to sleep all day. Back on it now and found the Horizon view very useful in so many ways. Convinced that this time it really will be a lifestyle…
  • Who are you being unfair to? Its your lifestyle, log or don't log, its your choice. Also remember that the only person you are cheating is yourself too! I know that from 40 odd years of cheating myself LOL!! Learn the lesson whilst you are still young enough to enjoy the results of your hard work.
  • From your photos it looks like you've done great! I'm a serial re offender, add me if you wish, I'm feeling really motivated at the moment, happy to pass it on LOL
  • So anybody with heart or breathing problems be excluded from continuing their life enhancing exercise programmes during the hot weather because a few ' nuts' want to burn an extra few calories by being hot. Health & safety issue here methinks if the air con is not on!!!
  • Like you horses were my life for many years...about 30 in fact! We bred English Show Ponies and Race Thoroughbreds. I had 2 beautiful Stallions we bred..life was pretty idyllic. Then life got in the way and now I have no opportunity to be with them. I miss them terribly and would love to ride again before I'm too old..and…
  • So you have lost 7 stone, well done, thats an amazing achievement. BUT you have done it by netting 0 or negative balance, not so well done because a large percentage of that 7 stone will have been muscle and not the fat that you need to be losing. as you have reduced your weight & your muscle mass your daily calorie burn…
  • One meal high in salt/sodium can cause a 2-3lb water retention. You are doing everything right, be patient, stick at it, the scales will eventually reflect your effort!
  • 1600 cals for a bloke working out 5 days a week seems really low to me! Estimating an average kind of workout to be 400 cals you are netting way too low. Aim for 1600-1800 net and weigh once a week
  • Bump to read later as been doing 4:3 a few months
  • Multi vit with iron- old farts like me need them! Omega3 oil- see above plus helps me remember to take above Magnesium - bone health
  • I just thought you ought to know that my comments on your thread come from experience both as a health professional and someone that has been doing IF for 5 months & lost 21lbs on it. So therefore not someone who has not both researched IF but have lived an IF lifestyle for 5 months. I do not however do the 'leangains'…
  • sorry to disolution you as you make some very good points regarding changing ones lifestyle.... however there is no way on Gods great earth that you lost 10lbs of fat in a week..you lost 10lbs of scale weight of which at 1200 cals a days probably no more than 2lbs was fat..the rest was water & excretia.
  • I'm in Cornwall as the name suggests..but Yorks born, Derbyshire 20yrs then Jersey CI 16yrs....now here. Happy to support anyone if I can! Would prefer it though if you have your diary open to friends because you can see mine 'warts & all'!!
  • There are literally hundreds of people from the UK on here..I live in Cornwall as my ID suggests LOL...welcome
  • Correct! Fasting is now scientifically proven to heal the body & extend life! Unless you are underweight , near goal weight or have a medical condition such as diabetes or heart failure a 3 day fast will do more good than harm. Modern culture and big bucks in the food industry would have us believe we need 3 square meals a…
  • I'm committing to do some sort of exercise at least 5 days a week. I walk to the local shop for my papers (steep hill to get there!), I swim once a week, have done so this morning-32 lengths which is half a mile. I have a reflex punch bag at home- just 5 min on that gets me puffing, trying to get to 15 min..might take me a…
  • I have taken the time to go back to when you WERE logging your food and see exactly what you were trying to achieve. 1. you are NOT addicted to sugar..its a lame excuse for not putting any effort into planning your diet & meals! Sorry that may sound tough but its true. 2. Alter your goals to losing 1lb a week which will…
  • I wish to have the will power to resist eating things 'just because' and not because they are 'there'.
  • 1. Lose 52lbs in 2013 2. To be able to walk up & down stairs without my joints aching. 3. To be able to buy nice clothes off the peg at any shop not just the outsize rails. 4. To know when I'm full and say 'no thanks' to extras! 5. to reduce my blood pressure to within 'normal' range. 6. To exercise regularly- no excuses!…
  • What you need to do is examine the diet you were on that caused you to 'gain' 90lbs. It may have been slow but you still had to be eating in excess of what your body needed to gain those pounds. If you have always eaten below your BMR you will have suppresed metabolism; so by eating less again you are just in a downward…
  • The holidays are hard on everyone, loads of temptation around everywhere, however you need to get restarted now otherwise those 10lbs will be gone as well. If this sounds harsh then I apologise, but lying in bed watching movies and feeling sorry for yourself will help nothing including your depression or family. So thats…
  • It really does not matter if your scale and your Dr's are different, its the downward trend on your own scales at home that matter. Always weigh same time, same place, same clothing/none and count the losses....the starting point is irrelevant!
  • Great answer BUT in the context of setting your MFP settings if your walk is a daily or regular thing it would make you lightly active as opposed to sedentary!
  • Count me in I've only managed 20 odd lbs this year so need something to keep me focussed
  • Another volunteer to support where I can here. You have come to the right place...all the motivation you need.
  • 1200 nett calories is way too low for someone of your weight. you should be able to eat 1500-1600 calories easy and lose steadily. If you start at 1200 you have nowhere to go when you get to a lower weight. You don,t say either if you are eating your exercise calories back because you certainly should be. I really think…
  • Hi, I can sympathise with the Community Carer, grab it & run eating as I've been a Community Carer for 15yrs. Life is a bit simpler now because I am doing fixed hours & shifts as an Early Intervention carer. The ONLY way to do it is to plan ahead, take food with you for meals & snacking so that you never go into the Bakery…
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