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Your not long PP and with PND and sponge related complications (horrified to read that! Disgraceful!) you must be kind to yourself. If you go too hard with too much you'll burn out. Walking is great for easing you back into movement, building up a bit of physical stamina, getting some air and enjoying mummy and baby time.…
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Doesn't sound like he is at all interested in what you want for yourself. More that he's interested in seeing how much of what he wants he can get you to do. Often with these guys the more persuadable you are, the worse they end up treating you in the expectation of getting away with it longer term. The right guy will…
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Amazing work! It's hard to believe that the 'before' photo is even you! Your whole posture has transformed with the fat loss and strength gain too, that alone has taken years off of you!
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I do my weights at home because we have a power cage in our own modest gym, complete with barbells, dumbbells, growing selection of weights, bench etc. I literally only use my local gym for classes and I've not even looked at the gym equipment. Likes: Small and friendly Good variety of classes across daytime and evening…
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How on earth you guys do BF percentages I'll never know. All us girls are so different with fat distribution that it must take one hell of an eye. I'd be grateful for a bit less on the boob front and a bit more on the booty front, so what I have is boobies and I have to work like hell for any sort of booty! And it's still…
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Definitely naked. I just don't feel comfortable in clothes. I think if my house were on fire then I think the fact that I was naked would be the least of my worries or fears at that moment in time! I'd probably be outside butt naked hoping to hell I could remember who the house insurance was with and wondering whether I…
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Yes I have exactly this. I have both side lines and the middle line and what looks like the top 2/4 (light depending) abs, but when you poke or view from the side it's sadly still just a layer of fat. I'm finding it really annoying, I can see biceps, triceps, forearm muscles, delts are coming, calf muscles, quads (I never…
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Have you tried ALL exercise? Every exercise out there? Do you keep trying new things? Walking and other low impact options all count as exercise and are generally more acceptable than high impact stuff to those who aren't keen on exercise generically. There is loads you can do to keep moving. Walk the dog an extra block,…
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Got a serious craving for coffee ice-cream right now! I find it so massively inspiring that there are role models like Sara about. It's nice to know there is someone with a 'normal' life (i.e. not a professional fitness model) who has achieved such an incredible amount and can show it in photos without being photo-shopped…
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Funnily enough I was getting ready for a class at my local gym last night and I overheard two women being given the gym 'tour' to see if they wanted to join. They were explaining to the guy showing them around that they were leaving their last gym because the lady who's classes they took had gotten "too thin" and proceeded…
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My tips are: 1. Don't worry about the last 3 weeks, sometimes life happens. There are all sorts of thing which can throw a spanner in the works, it's making it through, picking yourself up and carrying on which is important. 2. Make sure that when you are logging that you aren't cutting your calories too hard. If you try…
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The thing with lifting at home is that you constantly have to keep asking yourself questions, like are you making progress? If your struggling to lift more weight then you have to start considering things like form, are you eating enough, have you rush up the weights too quickly etc. It's always worth having someone you…
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Best way to build muscle is to eat OVER TDEE, this builds muscle the fastest, but obviously weight goes up. It's why body builders do a 'bulk'. Eating AT TDEE will hold your weight but if you lift at the same time your body will slowly burn fat and build muscle at the same rate, so your body fat will drop whilst your…
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My input is this: 1. I'm not entirely sure that 1350 calories is right. I'm 5'1 and 98lb and I burn my way through 2400 calories per day. Granted that yes I am super active (I do about 30,000 steps on a normal day), but my basic maintenance calorie levels for a more 'normal' activity is still around 1750. Being extremely…
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Weight can be a bit deceptive to the untrained eye. Especially if clothing is loose. For instance my husband is 6 foot tall and 225lb, when his body fat is over 15% he loses a lot of definition and looks more 'cuddly' (which I love btw) rather than ripped. The number of doctors who have given him a bashing because his BMI…
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Excellent! Although I am disappointed the photos SS's lovely wife took illustrating Sara's gigantic amount of hard work in glute form didn't make it into the report! I can't be the only girl out there who likes nothing more than a bit of inspiration to keep nagging my own glutes!
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I also fill up better on veggies. Try a table spoon of chia seeds, a scoop of vanilla protein powder and a handful of spinach in with a banana and then berries/mango/pineapple.
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Wow and I thought I ate a lot of water melon! I usually have 500g (150 calories) which is approximately half of a small water melon for breakfast and I am so full of all that juicy fruit that I am struggling to comprehend how someone physically manages 350 calories worth in one go! In terms of volume of food for calories I…
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I used to be too busy stuffing my face during TOM to even notice whether or not I was any more lazy than normal. It always made me insatiably hungry with strong cravings. I swear let loose I could have scoffed my way through an entire cadbury's factory. I then discovered that us gals need more magnesium at that special…
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Directly, immediately and non-aggressively is always the best way to handle theses comments IMO. Last time a co-worker made a comment about my lunch I responded in a very conversational voice with; "do you make a habit of offering un-solicited advice to people?". I never heard a peep out of her after that, nor anyone else…
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I work out at home. I'm very introverted so I use my workout time as a bit of 'me' time (I have a small child), and time to think/process whilst I workout. I like thinking on my own and in silence (lord I sound utterly anti-social and miserable! I'm not that bad honest!). At home I can choose the music I want to listen to,…
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I did yes! 3 sets of 5 reps for strength and 3 sets of 10 reps for growth. Apologies if that was unclear.
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With regards number of reps. There is some debate about what is best for what, but the most popular consensus is that low reps (1-6) is the optimum for increased strength and medium reps (8-12) are best for muscle hypertrophy. I personally like 3x5 for strength and 3x10 for growth and I vary it according the the specific…
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You've changed your profile photo. To my untrained eye I think you look (from that August photo at least) to be less than 27% body fat. There is a group on here called Eat, Train, Progress. The lovely people who run the group do eyeball body fat percentages from a set of photographs. Perhaps it would be worth joining and…
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Are you progressively increasing your weights/resistance for those exercises? The way you encourage your body to keep strengthening muscle mass is to increase the weight you are using progressively. Regarding what to eat, if you are happy with your current weight then I would suggest eating at maintenance whilst you get…
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There is more on my 'no' list than my 'yes' list, but it's only because I have IBD and I have a huge range of trigger foods which set it off. No food on the planet is worth the horrific cramps and inability to leave the bathroom for days on end.
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Do you look skinny? Nope, definitely not! You look absolutely perfect to me. BMI is a guide, not the be all and end all, I would go by your doctor as to whether or not you *need* to gain any more weight, but in terms of how you appear externally you look great and certainly shouldn't be worried about wearing your bikini in…
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The people in our lives all have roles. They all fit in because of qualities they have, or qualities they bring out in us. We all put people, consciously or otherwise, into zones and we selfishly want them to stay there. When something happens to challenge those relationships it can really unsettle people. Weight loss is a…
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I've had the "don't lift weights you'll get too bulky" one in the same breath as someone telling me how "skinny" I am. Drives me mad. I've also been repeatedly told that I'm a terrible mother because I work out, apparently I am not spending enough time with my child because I'm "always in the gym". If "anyways in the gym"…
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I've not read the whole thread so sorry if I'm repeating. Unless there is a medical reason for losing weight quickly (2lb per week is quite a lot) then why not drop that to 1lb per week, which is 500 calories deficit per day. Then aim for half of those calories from exercise and half calorie drop? That way you can eat at…
