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tomato sauce, or can them!

If you don't have time to weight your food (which is not actually time consuming at all - a few minutes here and there) perhaps you should try something like Weight Watchers? Where you don't actually weigh stuff but eat "points"? Because yeah, if you're not weighing you're just estimating what you are eating and we all…

this! I still eat them, but it's quite sad sometimes to see how many calories in not a very large amount of a particular fruit you like. Such as pomegranate. I can only eat promegranate when I'm on maintenance calories!

If you're using MFP the way you're meant to be using it - as in - eating back your exercise calories - eat them back. Otherwise, work out your TDEE enter all your exercise as "1" and don't worry about how much you need to eat back depending on how active you were because it will be the same every day. Less to think/worry…

All the martial arts I have done in the past have been very accommodating of different fitness and ability levels. Matial arts is GREAT - not boring and a wonderful way to get a full body workout as well as learn something useful. I do agree with the above though - you should make sure you rehab your knee first. And…

normal. depending on what I eat during the day I can look 5 months pregnant in the evening. from having a flat flat stomach in the morning, to preggers in the evening. normally my stomach will be bigger in the evening than morning anyway, from eating and water and so on, but on the days it's 5 months pregnant it's always…

Totally this. I shovel food down my piehole like i'm not even me sometimes. Kind of powerless to stop until feel like absolute rubbish. But then, I dust myself off and start again the next day. Sometimes I log it just to see how much an entire box of Ferrero Rocher and family size bag of chips set me back. Other times I…

I also bank calories and use TDEE. Unlike AnnPT the online TDEE calculator is relatively accurate for me ( www.tdeecalculator.net ) - not perfect but close enough. I like to eat a bit less from Sunday to Friday and then on Friday/Saturday have a few more hundred calories to play with so that I can "afford" to, you know,…

Lookin good! 👍 well done!

Quick!! I loved Quick too as a kid. And also fairy bread at birthday parties.

cinnamon toast!!! I'd forgotten those! And I agree who needs a recipe for that? LOL!!! We also would eat bread with condensed milk. And sometimes, to make it even yummier, add some Nesquick on top. Or just condensed milk straight out of the can - especially after keeping it in the fridge for a while - open - and you get a…

eat.

Hm - maybe if you had some carbs with your lunch - not just egg and sausage, but egg sausage and wholegrain bread or rice or something - you may not have had the weak feeling thing happening, and not needed the ice-cream, which is a quick spike and a crash. I get weak/hangry etc when I cut carbs. So I don't. No need…

I also am in the don't count sugar camp. Unless you need to for a specific reason. And technically speaking sugar is sugar blah blah, but fruit sugars I don't care about, whereas refined donut sugar for example, can give me a a bit of a headache. Like if I eat something super sugary I sometimes get a bit of a mild feeling…

no need to gym 7 days a week for starters - rest is actually important. Other than that - not that that should be contributing to your weight gain - unless just more overall stress, I don't really know sorry! Just wanted to say no need to gym 7 days per week that's all. Take one rest day. (which doesn't mean sitting on…

I had one lesson in Oly lifting and man it is HARD!!! I tought "meh - I've been lifting for years, this will be a breeze" - how wrong I was LOL! I agree with you that it's similar to martial arts (which I have also done a fair amount of in the past) - I hadn't thought of it that way until you pointed that out. OP - in…

I use the TDEE method for this precise reason - not having to worry about eating back calories and all sorts of things. I just use a calculator online, plus in the details and transfer back to MFP and log all exercise as 1 calorie burnt.

I suck at early morning workouts. I like my lunchtime ones. I don't feel quite awake enough in my body. As in, i'm a morning person and I wake up early - my head is awake at 5am - but my body I don't know, it can't handle more than just brisk walking until later in the day. I don't know why. But maybe if you do drink your…

When I was about... I dunno, 6? I shaved my legs. I used to see my older cousins doing it so I figured I would too just because why not? I was a mini-gorilla, so it was quite obvious to my grandma (whose house I was staying at as it was the holidays) when she saw me naked-legged and she flipped at me. I got scared so I…

at the end of the day for pure weight loss it doesn't really matter, it's the overall calorie goal. Personally, I like to work mine out based on my weight to make sure I get adequate protein, particularly if i'm cutting weight. When I'm in maintenance quite often I just make sure I get adequate protein and let the rest…

You can get flavourless PP. The protein powder I use is very mildly flavoured, I don't like the ones that are super sweet, so I find that one scoop is fine in terms of the taste. But I have used powders which are too sweet and that made the oats gross. I also sometimes swap out PP for powdered peanut butter (PB2)

I eat oats nearly every day. I only use honey if I make oat pancake, but if I do protein oats (proats) then no need. Also I like to add fruit (but don't know how you feel about fruit.... seeing as "sugar") easy and delicious proats: oats cinnamon seed of some sort such as pepitas, chia, sunflower, flax, or a combo of all…

progressive training program. Also, certain things such as muscle activation if you can't recruit/feel your chest muscles properly. After I learnt how to "turn on" my chest, my gainz have been awesome in this previously lagging body part. www.ganbarumethod.com

vegetables.

I was going to say Sunday too. Go saturday and sunday and the day with the trainer and baby steps with the other 1 day when you have to go when there's lots of people.

You will only "tone" by losing weight. I swim every saturday and weight train mon-fri. It's HARD! the swimming that is! when I started I could hardly do 10 mins - actually - I lie - I would have to stop after every single lap and catch my breath! But slowly, with time, I can now swim pretty much the whole 25 mins I have…

what @lynn_glenmont said above. I strength train at all phases - when in a deficit, at maintenance or in a surplus. It all depends what my goals are at the time. So, if I am feeling too fluffy I go into a deficit and lose fat. Then I decide "ohhhh I want to grow big like the Hulk" so I eat in a surplus and keep lifting and…

keep going. These days happen. Just keep going.

Yeah maintenance can be quite hard. I tend to get a bit too lax with my eyeballing and end up slowly gaining weight. So I make sure I still weigh in (not every day, but like, once a week) and use the clothes-o-meter to see if things are getting a bit tight. But as soon as I notice that I am a little bit fluffier than I…

waist beads well... I'll get all the adds now, but I had to Google it to know what was being talked about! They're pretty! But that's about it.