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on Instagram I don't follow any of those Insta Model #fitspo people because they annoy me. To me it's all so fake, staged, unrealistic, and makes me mad a lot of the time. However, I do follow some no-*kitten* people that I can recommend if you ever want some truth and some decent workouts and stuff, rather than just a…

I have always been a not-caring-very-much-about-appearance person, as in, I don't wear make-up and as long as my clothes are clean and don't have holes, I don't really care about being in fashion. However, when I was fat (note - I was average, then got fat, now am average again) I cared even less and wouldn't even look in…

sometimes you just have to guesstimate. I choose a generic option such as the chicken pizza from Dominos and go with that.

nothing. if you're eating enough and not totally depleted there isn't really any need for a pre-workout. Have some dark choc and/or pomegranate if you want some pump effects.

I think you posted in the wrong place - the HOgwarts Challenge thingy is not the "introduce yourself" forum. However, yeay for HP :) My daughter is Gryffindor. I've always been a Slytherin tho!

What they said above. Cardio does help in that your calories burnt increases. Also, it helps you with general cardiovascular health. @sgt1372 put it exactly right. Mix all three elements and you should lose weight and improve overall health and fitness.

during the work week it's usually something like this: 6am - breakfast 10-10:30am ish - first lunch anytime between 1 and 2pm ish - second lunch with a 'dessert' (depends what time I get to the gym at lunchtime) 6pm - dinner on weekends I tend to wait until later to eat and then have less meals of bigger proportions 8 or…

I'm glad you are enjoying this and it's keeping you active. I will also agree with others that it's not "true" HIIT - if you can do more than one, even with a break in between, it's not "true" HIIT. But - it's a great workout anyway and that's what's important! I think we're all just trying to explain the difference…

what a great post. thank you.

I end up playing games on my phone. That way my fingers are busy and my attention is taken up. I also have to try and not have trigger snacks in the house such as chips. And also, sometimes I just make peace with the fact that i'm going to eat an entire packet of something and just go for it. And back on the wagon the next…

For some of us pasta is a trigger food. So it IS hard. I CAN eat a tiny little 100g serving of cooked pasta with heaps of sauce and make it fit. But it's not satisfying for me personally. I LIKE the 3-people serving sizes in restaurants. That's how much pasta i'd eat normally prior to calorie counting. So i'd rather eat…

I did a very stupid thing and went way over on calf raises one time and it resulted in pain on the blade of my left foot so that I could hardly walk. I went to the physio for the pain in foot thing having no idea it was calf related. He asked me what I did and so on and so forth, and when I said I smashed out 15 reps of…

I watched a thing Mountain Dog did not long ago about having a micro-diet when you are bulking when you start to get too chubby for your liking. I can't remember the exact details of it all or at what BF% he recommends you micro-diet for men (for women it was 20-22%BF). Anyway, the idea behind it was that you do this short…

you have one who doenst like spice don't you? that's a pity. I like to just pan fry the shrimp with garlic and sambal oelek. serve with yummy sourdough bread that has been heated in the oven with some butter and herbs. but, how about just stirfy the shrimp with some veg, soy sauce maybe (a little bit not a tonne) and serve…

use a weight trend app such as Happy Scale on iOS or Libra on Android.

Hi OP - I actually use the calculator on tdeecalculator.net and don't log exercise calories. That way I don't need to muck up my macros when the MFP method gives me "eating back" calories. I just enter "burnt 1 calorie". Right this moment i'm on just under 1600 cals. Not eating any back. @loubenoit - I NEVER believe that…

You want suggestions on training in order to burn fat? Simple - choose an activity and do it. Oh, and eat less than you burn.

Good. But give me hella gas, so bad.

I wonder why I got woo'd for my HIIT exercise?! Because I didn't die?

I kinda agree with you @BarbaraHelen2013 though I can maintain on substantially more calories than you, I have had to forego my giant plates of pasta topped with delicious chunky sauces or olive oily sauces because it would mean that that's all i could eat in the whole day. I now eat it as a treat when i'm not tracking…

exactly this. I just scrolled through the rest of the feed as lots of arguments from what I can see. So - my go to HIIT is to put the treadmill on an incline - usually 10, jack the speed up to about 13ish. Run my heart out for 30 seconds. Rest for 1 minute. Repeat until I die. Which is usually about 5-6 sets. Like heart…

I drove for 7 hours yesterday. It gave me 8000+ steps. from changing gears and pressing the clutch I'm assuming!

Exactly this. This is why I do the TDEE method too. By the way though OP, I keep meaning to do a workout using both my Polar and my Fitbit just to compare cals burnt out of curiosity (I never log them, just enter it as "1 calorie burnt"). I really should manage to get myself organised enough to do that one day!!

sometimes, when I get to the pointy end of trying to lose more BF, I will start walking early in the morning when I wake up for about 30-40 mins. And then my normal gym session at lunchtime. But only when i'm really needing it.

I hold it in my stomach too. First thing to get bigger and last thing to get smaller. I also recommend looking at those threads posted above the does my uterus look big in this one and that other one. Posture is massive tho. When I remember posture and hike my shoulders back and stand up straight my stomach almost…

If you want to compete be prepared to spend lots of money. You will need a coach as well as $ for all the stuff that goes with it. Bikinis, tanning, bling, supplements, ect etc

I have a story to share. Bear with me. It involves aggressive dog and lots of cats. When I was living in Brazil, I met a guy who had a pit bull and actually used to get his dog to fight. Dog also had history of chasing cats and killing them. Chasing anything really - like cows and whatever, if he was not leashed, but he…

I did ages ago back when I started. Now I don't, but I use versa grips. I can't pull heavier weights without the grips because grip and *kitten* little tiny wrists. The versa grips (they are kind of like straps but without all the long bits to wrap around the bars) are fantastic. Sometimes I am literally holding on by the…

both. compound for strength and overall lifting prowess, but I actually do a lot of isolation because I lift more for aesthetics and "sculpting" than overall strength/powerlifting type stuff. I actually do more isolation than compounds. For example, in my last program, I didn't squat at all in a proper squat way - I used…