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It's not steroids. If it was, a whole bunch of people would be taking whatever magical steroid that was! And i'd have heard of it and been taking it myself because I would LOVE to eat as much as I can pack into myself without the side-effect of getting fat LOL. Others above have given sound advice - if you know her…

LOL!

Great! you have a good head on your shoulders! Check out @venerando he's an IIFYM coach and all about natty. He was my coach for a while when I was lost post the comp prep thing. But I suppose not local to you. His IG is @flexibleanabolicnutrition Good luck with finding an adequate coach for your journey :)

I currently have a semi-crush because my Original Gym Crush (whose nickname was Gym Crush) graduated and left the uni (I work out at a uni gym. I am an old lady. He was young enough to be my child, biologically.) My current next-best-thing crush is nicknamed Clark Kent (used to wear the glasses and had the hair before a…

I use TDEE personally. I set to moderate exercise. And that's because I do on average 4 sessions of weight lifting per week, plus one swimming and walk ~10 - 12K steps per day. Works for me. At least I don't have to worry about eating back calories and how many to eat and it mucking up my macros. That's what annoys me the…

yes. And even broccoli and cauliflower have calories. no such thing as negative calorie foods (eg celery and cucumber? huh?!) count them all.

If i were to eat a meal the size of my fist, unless it was peanut butter as mentioned above, i'd be starving to death.

food scale. But, other than that, I have a couple of friends on my friend list who use some sort of tupperware (I don't think it's actually tupperware though) portion size control coloured plastic box thingies. There are like different coloured plastic tubs and you put like protein in one, vegetables in another, etc. I'm…

I feel ya! I no longer eat nuts (well, I do put 5g of sunflower seeds - unsalted - shelled) in my oats in the morning. it's a bit sad. I mean other nuts. It's very sad counting out 5 nuts. HAzelnuts. YUM! Before I knew about calories and things and thought nuts were a healthy snack - I could eat the entire bag of nuts in…

You actually should wash your rice BEFORE you cook it. Not after. In Brazil we wash rice before cooking. NOt sure it has anything to do with removing starch, or if it's just to have clean rice, but when you do wash it all this dirty-ish white water comes out until it rinses clean.

Great! good on you! what division will you compete in? I think a big part of my fail was also related to the coach I had - I should have researched that aspect a bit more. The coach was very "my way or the highway" and "don't ask questions just do what I tell you". I like to know WHY i'm doing something because i'm not an…

Yeah true @Keto_Vampire , but for me personally, bikini is not a suitable division. I'm on the figure/physique side of musculature, and my butt has a loooooooooong way to go before it could grace the bikini stage LOL. As in, i'm that person who skips leg day whenever there is a day to skip... I shouldn't, but I do. I HATE…

it really depends what i'm doing and I do a variety of things. I've done pyramid, straight, periodised undulation... all sorts. I like them all. At the moment i'm doing periodised. So for example, my first week was 8 reps, then 6 then 4, then a "deload" of sorts at 10, then 8 - 6 - 4 again. I'm on week 2. weights increased…

This!! So much this!!! I hate it when people (usually men) think that all girls want to do is booty-building exercises and not get bulky. Coz getting bulky is soooooooooooo easy. (not)

What everyone else said. Also, re the knee thing, unless it's an actual injury of course, I actually found my knees improved once I started to strengthen the muscles around there. They used to click and hurt and stuff all the time , and now, sometimes they'll click, bu they don't hurt anymore. But do adapt/adjust the knee…

heh - part of the appeal for me was the whole prancing around on stage in a bling suit and the whole tan/oil thing!!! And it is a lot of smoke and mirrors yes. People look way bigger/buffer than they actually are in real life. Many women are actually teeny tiny. In photos they look massive though. I'd still like to prance…

I use it with chicken curry too.

There are a few. Not me in particular, but I did attempt to once. being starving 24/7 didn't agree with me though. It did make me realise how much bloody hard work it is!

I third the above. Personally, I work out at lunchtime, so I do eat pretty much straight after I work out because starving. I eat a full meal. Rice, beans, a vegetable of some sort and a meat of some sort. Followed by dessert of either fruit or a high protein yoghurt usually. If i'm cutting weight I eat less of the above,…

I concur with the above.

I used to do circuit classes at the gym when I first joined and wanted to lose weight. It was a nice class, I enjoyed it, it was challenging. We just went around and used whatever equipment there was in the circuit room and also the instructor would get us doing burpees and other stuff to get the heart rate up before the…

If you want to do it, just cheat the system, as mentioned above by @heybales Start off the weigh in the morning after eating a massive meal with heaps of sodium and carbs and drink heaps of water. Get that nice big bloat weight in as you starting point. Then go about your next 25-ish days in normal fashion, a slight,…

oh - and 3 days won't make any difference whatsoever. the whole diet/exercise thing takes ages. settle down for a long ride.

For the weight loss it's CICO. However, I have found that tracking my steps has made me realise how sedentary I actually can get. When I wasn't tracking I *thought* I was getting ~10K as a normal matter of daily life course. No. It was more like ~5K. Now, with the tracker, I find myself making that extra effort to go up…

I have fitbit charge3. It's good. The only thing I dislike about it is that it thinks that i'm riding an outdoor bike when I'm actually driving my car. It does some weird things like that sometimes. I get it thinking i'm riding a bike when i'm walking carrying stuff so my arms aren't swinging, but changing gears and…

Sorry, I'm on the other side of the world, but have you thought of getting a trainer for a short period of time to show you how to do 'stuff' and give you a plan? That way you will know what you're doing and won't feel stupid. It's worth it :)

Love your kitty :) I have 2. One, Jack, would be obese if I let him. He's the one who is ALWAYS asking for food. Like just finishes eating his bowl of food and wants MORE. I feed both of mine twice a day only. In the morning they both get one scoop of biscuits (roughly 1/3 cup), and at night they get half a pouch of wet…

2000 is roughly my maintenance. Unfortunately nowadays I just look at food and put on weight. Sucks getting older. I love food. This is not eating exercise calories, this is total.

If you don't mind me swearing and writing a lot of updates which are like a diary of my life (so not always to do with health/fitness/diet) you can add me. I understand I'm not everyone's cup of tea, so I tend to leave it for people to add me and either keep me or delete me! My food diary is open tho, so feel free to look…

I saw some clock thingy that has a light on it that gently wakes you up. I don't recall the name of it, someone was talking about it on INstagram. It starts glowing a gentle light to wake you up or something. I don't know if it works like sleep cycle app (which I also have, but haven't been using these days - it picks up…