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If you are not getting enough calories/nutrients then it will effect your mood. If you are focusing a lot more on your body, as most people do when trying to change how it looks, then you will perceive more flaws in it. Your happiness may be unrelated to your eating/body, and so changes to these factors may not influence…

What?! Why the hell have I not thought of this before?!

1200 calories a day is probably too low. You may not be putting as much into exercising because your calories are so low, especially if you aren't eating back exercise calories. 1lb a week is good weight loss. Don't compare yourself to your boyfriend, his weight loss is going to be different to yours. I don't think there…

You have those days every now and again. If you have them too often then you may have unrealistic goals. If your body is trying to force you to stop then you may not be getting enough calories, you may be doing too much exercise, or the wrong kind of exercise, or a number of other factors which could be holding you back.

I never weight myself. I don't like giving my scales the satisfaction of knowing they've won.

Yeah, whole eggs are great, but eating the whites without the yoke can help if you are trying to hit your protein macro target without going over your target fat intake.

A load of nonsense. Waste of time. Ignore it.

I can easily eat 5000, 7000, perhaps even 10000+ calories a day if I wanted. As a result, I try to avoid days like this.

You may have unrealistic goals.

Up to you, depends what your goals are. I typically have 100g of cornflakes, with 300g of soy milk, and an omelette of 3-6 eggs, potatoes, garlic, and onion.

Good luck. My first year of uni make me fat as hell.

If I just need to hit one macro without changing the others much I typically have available: For protein: protein powder, chicken breasts, tinned fish occasionally. Fat: Nuts, seeds, nut butters, oils. Eggs if I need protein and fat. Carbs: Rice/rice cakes, cornflakes.

It IS possible to lose fat and gain muscle at the same time, BUT ONLY if you are a complete beginner within your first six months of training. To do this you need to be eating maintenance calories, or only a small deficit, to allow for body recomposition (1200 a day is too low, and you will most likely be losing fat and…

Set your activity level based on your job/daily activities rather than your exercise. Log all of your exercise as accurately as you can on MFP. You could use a heart-rate monitor if you are really worried about accuracy. Be as accurate as you can with your caloric intake. Eat the target calories MFP has given you (i.e. eat…

Prioritise things, and get done what you can. I assume studying takes priority over exercise at the moment, and if there is no real way around it you may have to put off having an exercise schedule until you've finished studying.

Plus, even if something has been proven to work it doesn't necessarily mean it's worth taking either. Supplements may make a few percent difference, which may or may not give results that worth the price, depending. However, if someone doesn't have the other 90% sorted then it seems a bit silly.

If I were you I would just increase my calories instead.

I think it's about four weeks worth of food for me. I take the same, though I do spend just under £15 ($25) a month on 1kg protein powder, and creatine when it's given away as a free gift with my protein.

Prices may be different in the UK where I am, and I don't really go in GNC, but it must be like $100-$150 for all of those supplements, although I don't know how long each would last.

I'd say more fruit/vegetables and other micronutrient/fibre dense foods.

I've never really seen the benefit of N.O. so I've never taken it myself. Yeah, the benefits from C4 come mostly from the creatine, but the caffeine makes a lot of difference, and the beta alanine can help a little too. Also, it doesn't really matter when you take your protein supplement, as long as you hit your overall…

You may not be consuming enough fat with that diet.

I would change some of those proteins to carbs. Your body is just going to end up having to try to change the proteins in to carbs for energy anyway if you eat your macros at those amounts.

I can't believe some of the names GNC think up for these supplements! :laugh: I think you're over thinking things way too much. If you are already getting N.O. in the Cellucor, why are you taking an additional supplement for it?

There isn't much point doing lots of different ab exercises, with lots of different sets, and lots of different reps, especially if they are only/mainly bodyweight exercises. For example, if you wanted a bigger chest you would do three sets of eight reps, heavy benchpress rather than 500 press ups. I would say eat more…

Oh, only just realised it was from 2012. Retro.

When you put all of your details into MFP it gives you a target number of calories to eat in order to lose the weight you desire (e.g. if you want to lose 2lbs per week, and your body needs 2500 calories to do it's daily stuff, then MFP will tell you to eat 1500). If you exercise and don't eat them back then you are…

It's a youtube video of a news piece. He ate three meals a day there, for 90 days.

I didn't say they weren't.

Flat stomach comes mostly from a low body fat percentage, but can also come from your ab muscles. Keep with your caloric deficit until you reach a low enough bodyfat. If you still are not happy with how it looks, do core and ab exercises (such as planks, crunches, and others which should be easy enough to research and do…