chrissywelsh10 Member

I'm sedentary - I work a desk 5 days a week for 40+ hours, my deficit is set to 1200. I usually eat back my walking calories up to 1300 but not my running ones as I see it as a bonus I guess.

I started running - from week 1 of dieting nothing big. The couch to 5k program. I run 3times a week now. I don't eat those calories back.

You are genuinely happy being denied a gym membership - paid for by your hubby or the means to buy your own by having a job? I don't know you but if that was me my self esteem would suffer

Thanks - so just keep things the same for now in terms of diet. Keeping the carbs & fats & protein on balance. For the bike my rides are about 45-50km and takes me around 2 hours. I'll log it as a light ride & eat back a little less. I'll try eating back 1/4 of them?

Interesting article on calories as a unit of measurement from the BBC. http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160201-why-the-calorie-is-broken Food has a general energy amount in it. Overcooking food releases more calories, and your body burns less of them as the food is partially processed for you. Our bodies and their…

Greek yogurt is high in protein, if you need to up your protein count you cant go far wrong that greek yogurt. It can make a nice difference than just meat for added protein. It is also slightly sour, and you can make it sweet or savoury. It is heat stable - so you can cook with it and it makes a great meat marinade with…

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Think I am going to take it for a mini roadtrip down the spice aisle and introduce it to a funky indian friend, they can pair up and I can have something tasty... failing all that... I'll go french and add more garlic.

youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM This is my last word on sugar... There are numerous diet fads. "Eat this; don't eat that." I do not want to contribute to that fashion. However, this MD/PhD presents compelling evidence that the eating of refined sugar is not only largely responsible for the epidemic of obesity in the US,…

What if i said nothing I said would make a difference? You asked for articles/reports and i gave you them. In abundance. I know by your response time you could not have read them. I am not here to tell you what you should eat, and I am not here to give you a science lesson on the composition of the sugar molecules. Here…

Wow - firstly refined sugar is not the same as fructose. It is not sugar bashing its knowing the limits, as with all foods. WHO - World health organisation has the sugar reports and articles. Here are some "facts" as you liked to call them. FDA, CDC and WHO. Where did I get this information? Nutrition course Vanderbilt…

Stripes suit you!

I got back to my pre-holiday binge weight (lost everything i put on my holiday)... so I can continue the weight loss journey :)

Got to be... I AM THE ONE WHO KNOCKS......

Airline is mostly: KLM Flights are not domestic: I fly all over Europe for business and occasionally weekends (and because its not domestic) they DO take food and liquid off you at security, and security gates vary from being at the gate itself to just after check in. Taking snacks was something I had considered for a…

Thats the approach I am taking - just logging it....

Thanks guys - added you all :) Lets do this!

Good plan on the heart rate monitor, for now though don't eat your exercise calories, weigh the food and track every bite. Try it for a week, and ping me anytime btw :)

I know this may not be what you want to hear but I think it might help. --- Be gentle with yourself. --- Loosing weight is hard and its a very long road. If I was to give advice I would say take your foot off the gas pedal. 5 times a week is a lot for 1 hour a time, you might not be giving your muscles enough time to…

I have read through the comments - all of them and all the sentiments you should take in. Also the fact he left says more about him that it will every say about you. For me I think you have already lost the biggest amount of dead weight you can in the form of your ex. At this point in time - be gentle with yourself - put…

I eat nuts when i cannot meet by BMR, you don't need much to add calories and fat in - 14 Macadamia is 284 calories - just munch on them with a cup of tea. ;)

I see your sugars are usually a little bit high - so you could try cutting out the low fat high sugar items? A great rule of thumb a nutritionist taught me was that no body is the same, you make a general plan for estimated weight loss (in my case thats 1kg a week) If you loose more than 1Kg you add 10% of your calories…