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Marmite. Cheese. Marmite and cheese!

Yup, I'm still skinny fat. I've been doing NROLFW for a couple of month (just started stage 2) and it's looking a lot better already! Eating maintenance, lifting heavy, and doing less cardio (although I do still rely on cardio burns for those days when there is too much cheese or too much beer!). My arms are looking pretty…

Well done! It's true about the added weight helping - I even find barbell squats easier with heavier weight (up to a point!) I've not tried pistol squats yet. It's coming soon though ... *flicks ahead in NROLFW book*

Ahhh, this is exactly what has happened to me this year! My Christmas weight is not shifting, but my measurements are the same as they were before Christmas. I logged over Christmas so I knew exactly how many calories I was over (my calorie "debt" as I've been calling it) and despite having repaid them all, I'm still a…

I'm just getting to the end of the first stage of NROLFW, and I started with really really low weights ... and now, a month and a bit on, I'm lifting a whole lot more! My gym doesn't have a squat rack either - this week I squatted 19kg (not sure what that is in pounds, but it's a huge step forward from where I started -…

Make sure you have bacon and burgers and sausages and breadrolls at home (and cheese and mustard etc) and programme your mind that you absolutely cannot have a takeaway, because you're going to have a big hangover cure breakfast when you wake up in the morning. Works for me. No matter how drunk I am, I won't eat extra food…

Oh yes - I had that with the knees! I can't sleep in my old foetal position any more because of that! The daftest one for me was when I tried to sweep some spilled dry rice off the kitchen counter into my cupped hand, and it all fell through the gaps between my fingers. I didn't used to have gaps! Second daftest was having…

Sounds very similar to my family! I started on here in August last year, lost the weight and got to my goal ... then my Stepdad got told by the Doctor her needed to lose a little weight, so I said "well, I know a good way of doing that", then my Mum joined in too, and now my sister! Also various friends - the ones who have…

I said the same thing when I signed up August 2013! I'm now a month off being 30, reached my goal weight in August last year, and I'm now lifting and building muscle. I didn't think it was doable, but it was! Good luck to you :)

If you're careful not to spill it. I'm cold all the time too - this winter has been an eye-opener. On the plus side though, I don't get sweaty and gross in the summer the way I used to!

Go to all the parties, and all the restaurant meals, and all the pub nights ... But after having exercised a very big lot beforehand! I budget so that I can have whatever I want, but it does mean lots of gym time. It's totally worth it!

Plus, as a foodie, I find it exciting to experiment with making recipes healthy. I like finding naughty Nigella recipes online and tweaking a few things to lower the calorie count. It's fun!

QFT. "several" tablespoons of olive oil, OP? Bloody hell ... I cook proper meals every night (in my cooking week, then the next week my bf cooks). It's really not difficult to log. Meat from supermarkets generally has a calorie count on the side anyway, so does rice, pasta, etc. I weight everything raw - including…

When it happened to me, it was pretty simple. When I was overweight, my maintenance calories were quite high - I never actually checked what they were, but I'm going to guess at 2,100 net ish. To lose a pound a week, I needed to net -500 a day, so 1,600 calories a day would do it. Right now, my maintenance calories are…

Sorry - above was meant to say 30 minutes, not £0 minutes!

I'm using Body By You, which is by the same guy who wrote You Are Your Own Gym (mentioned above). It's the one he wrote specifically for women (there's no difference in how men and women gain muscle, but the workouts are tailored for people with less time in a week, which apparently is the feedback he got from women using…

I'm using the Body By You book, which starts you off easy. You work your way up to full push-ups via push ups against a wall, push ups against a hip height surface, then knee height surface. Eventually one handed push ups and other scary looking things! Highly recommended. I'm pretty pathetic with push ups too. I lost a…

Just realised my profile pic is still set to "Look at my new book!"

I've just started the Body By You programme (You Are Your Own Gym, but designed more with women in mind - it's pretty similar), and I feel great already! One week in, and I'm already stronger and have been demanding that people feel my muscles! It's great for me, because I was one of those much-mocked 1200 kcal, cardio…

When I go out for pub lunches, I just enjoy myself - have a pie or a Sunday Roast or whatever (whatever looks good) and then have a salad or something similarly low cal in the evening. You might as well have the nice food on the menu - and have a pint too! :drinker:

I'd say reverse diet too. Lose the weight, then add 50 to 100 calories per week, until you're at something you can cope with. Or maybe even slower. Just work your way up, watch the scale, and watch your body. It may be that your metabolism is shot, and this does really help get those numbers up :)

Maybe head to the food court in the middle of Camden markets (the Camden Lock part). There's an amazing sushi place there (very healthy and the guy makes it to order - including chopping the avocado etc!). There's also a 'paleo' stall. Plus, for him, there's pizza, curry, burritos, polish sausages, hog roasts ... anything…

Everyone's said this already, but I wanted to add my vote for charity shops! I have a strange relationship with my local charity shop - I go in there with a big bag full of clothes every couple of months, and come out with a few more things that actually fit. I wear those for a few months, and then I'm back in the charity…

I've only come across it as a way of getting to maintenance slowly. In for info!

Just enjoy the food and walk around a lot. My holidays always involve either more walking or more swimming (city or seaside!), so there's always a bigger burn. Treat it as a maintenance week. When I get back from holidays I'm usually a couple of pounds higher than I was when I set off, but that weight disappears as soon as…

Same! I can't even keep water down. I try to take migralieve and rehydrate, but it all comes straight back up again. I suppose I lose weight on a migraine though! Which is a silver lining, if a dubious one!

When I was a kid and I first started getting migraines, the doctor made me cut out chocolate, cheese, citrus fruits, caffeine, red wine (I was ten when I got my first migraine so this wasn't a problem!), and, bizarrely, peas. they are apparently the most common triggers (and MSG as well). I now only get migraines every now…

^ Essentially, this! Have some hazelnut ice cream. You won't regret it.

I went to Rome in May, didn't count for the whole week, and maintained without trying! As other people have said, it did involve walking a lot - all day every day wandering about and looking at things offset the Panini for breakfast, gelato for lunch, and pizza for dinner (and wine, and pear and ricotta cake, and sexy…

I'd like to echo that bit about spot reducing fat. Whatever exercise you do, the fat will leave from whatever part of the body it wants to. Sod's law the big you dislike the most will be the last to shed fat! Ah well ... I think we're probably quite similar in our approach to exercise. I have always hated anything that…