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Well, that's the simplest, fastest (and for me one of the best) low calorie salad ideas with lot of volume. You can substitute in for example paprika or something similar. Most good veggies just have more calories per volume than those 3. There's always stuff like kale, lettuce and other types of grass, but I find those…

I've been going to gym for 5+ years now and never hear of that excercise before. However I watched couple YouTube vids now and no one there uses weights behind their knees. There sure are Better excercises, specially for beginners. I would try some leg machines, those are padded and you can start with really light weight…

That confuses me too.

I think whole point of confusion is that OP said that some people adjust their goal each week. That is really not nessesary. I think MFP prompts to adjust calories after every 5kg lost? That takes usually at least a month, and for some people 6 months. Providing that weight has been logged of course.

Couple tomatoes, a decent cucumber. Perhaps tiny pinch of salt or pepper (but I don't usually use those). Slice those and toss couple times on a bowl. Takes 2 minutes, 300 gr. Bowl is about 60 calories. Goes well alone, with all kinds of meat or with cottage cheese.

This is my yesterday (breakfast in this case) "add food" button stares right at my face. Android app on my phone.

It's both. In general terms, it might be called a fad, specially given, as have been said above, most people who get one, use it up to a year and quit, and for most people it doesn't last for more than month or two. In that way it is similar to gym membership - less than 10% of people who join a gym, go there regularly for…

Usually between 150-200 g, sometimes more. Out of ~ 2000 calorie daily goal.

Getting a fitness tracker is worth f it: * Helps you to be more accountable, or actually motivates you to be more active. * if you're into data and want to have more precise info on your activities or workouts or even track your sleep. As far as "Fitbit" it seems to be another case where it a certain brand seems to be used…

Interesting. I wonder if it might also be country/culture dependent. Over the last few years I have been to few different gym's and haven't really noticed people approach others to randomly chat or generally bother them, even though there have beena some very good looking girls (and some probably attractive looking guys…

That's exactly when I make a protein powder shake myself. But it doesn't happen that often with me. As fast as trying what they're like - I'm not sure if Myprotein has them, but several brands have one portion (25-30 gram) packs available. You can get couple of those with different flavors to try. Also, matter of taste,…

It's useful only in case you struggle getting enough protein from other usual food items, or as substitute from time to time, when you find other protein sources ",boring" But protein powder by itself doesn't have any magical powers or doesn't help to lose weight or gain muscle in any way. Basically it's just another kind…

Just... NO.

you can't spot reduce or "target" specific areas. Get your body fat % low enough and they will go away (given that your starting point wasn't big enough to give you too much excess skin). Few weeks is nothing, it takes months to see real results. Eat in a moderate calorie deficit, make sure you get enough (but not too…

A mirror is an absolutely fantastic tool for that. Your expensive scale, while inaccurate, can still give you decent enough picture about how things are progressing, as long as you keep track of averages and don't worry about usual fluctuations.

I was just in London over the weekend and wow - it was warm there, +4 instead of current -16 here at the very tail end of Europe. But as far as steps go, I sometimes go to nearby mall and do some window-shopping. That can give me 5000 steps easily inside the building. If the weather is at least tolerable walking there and…

Just as some others above have said, it would be totally impossible for me. If I didn't restrict myself knowingly by weighting and logging, I't wouldn't be a problem for me to eat at least extra 1000+ calories from fruit alone and not even notice it until it's shows up on scale :disappointed:

I weigh myself usually every day too, to keep myself accountable, but for those times that I go on a trip for a week or two, I just skip it. Why bother, weight is just a proxy indicator after all.

Only 11000 today :disappointed: Saturday was bit better than average though, got 36000 without any running or other specific exercises. My average day is usually around 20000, or bit below. As it is currently winter and quite cold, I move much less than I do with warmer weather. December was still quite good though:

Just a genral face, 9 years and about 60 kg apart.

Some of those things, but not all :smile: I am definitely a nerd though and been doing some lifting for a while.

tomatoes or paprika. If I don't have anything else around, then some ketchup. I can't imagine eating cottage cheese with something sweet on it. Sometimes if I'm in a hurry and need to eat something, cutting up some veggies and adding cottage cheese works fine: That's 200 gr cottage cheese, 300 gr tomato + cucumber. ~210…

I would always weigh such items and go by weight as written in lable. Each piece can have quite different weight, specially for item that are hand made.

I used Gear Sport for a month. Missed my old Fenix 3 so much. Now, that I have it back, I wouldn't change a Garmin Watch for Samsung one voluntarily. Depends of course what you look for in a watch. Few advantages of Gear Sport didn't outweigh all the disadvantages for me. Also, for both Garmin and Samsung, doesn't really…

I always do some light 10 minute cardio type exercise before lifting as a warm-up, like elliptical, rowing, fast pace steep incline walking on a treadmill or just short treadmill run, but I don't consider it "cardio" as most people see it. I walk quite a lot and that's mostly enough cardio for me, sometimes I run 5-10k…

Yeah, it is quite cheap for it's specs now, but future support (specially cloud syncing services) are in doubt for now. As far as smart scales go, Fitbit Aria and Garmin Index are probably the best choices now. Perhaps UA scale too, since as owner of MFP they very likely make sure that syncing with MFP stays alive. On the…

Yep, only if you're not getting enough protein from other foods. Doesn't matter if you're girl or guy. There's no magic in protein powder.

How's that even possible? I'm 5'11 and 185 lbs I also eat ~ 2000 calories per day and have quite hard time avoiding exceeding that amount. But if you're really 300+ lbs and given you're quite tall too, you really should be eating at least 2500 calories, or if you're also doing some constant exercising even close to 3000 to…

I always have a pair of "goal" pants as well as pair of "starting" pants which now go almost twice around my waist ;)

It's perfectly normal not to notice it yourself. Since beginning of January I have lost ~ 5kg/10 pounds in about 6 weeks. I also don't really notice it in the mirror since it's ticking slowly, but some of my clothes fit better and my belt buckle is now 1 hole tighter.