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Me too!!! OP - I gain during ovulation, I then have "magic week" up until about 2-3 days before my period, when I start to bloat. The last day of "magic week" (I like this term!!) I have like the biggest loss ever for the month. Then just before period I start to bloat and gain roughly the same amount as during ovulation,…

When I'm actively losing (or gaining) I weigh daily every morning nekkid after peeing as soon as I wake up. I keep trend app (Happy Scale) to monitor loss/gains. I log in my "official" weigh-in on MFP every Friday morning, just because of habit from when I used to have a coach and weigh-in was on a Friday. When i'm…

Nup, cutting now. I'm on the other side of the world so summer is finally coming! yeay!!!!

drink cranberry juice intra workout and have dark choc pre workout

dude... eat more of the foods. have a whole serve of the mass gainer. eat 2 toast with peanut butter plus the 4 eggs... add meat to your protein noodles with olive oil... have fruit - banana banana banana, drink juice - lots of liquid calories there. I wish I had your problem.

OMG I just keep wanting to smoof all the kittehs on here. smoof = smooch all the floof - like bury my head in their bellies and kiss them all over. Which, we all know is not possible without getting scratched to death trying...

OMG! Apart from number of children (I stopped at 1) we have same scenario going on - 43, no longer a teacher, I also got up to 72kg and wanted to go down to 60kg (tick) and I can guarantee you that 1200 is too low. Lots of advice, first one being not to use the MFP calculations but use the TDEE method which IMO is easier…

Ak, I know the feeling - I'm like you with pizza - I can't eat just one slice, I need the entire thing down my gob, so often it's better to not have ANY than have a teasing little piece that leaves you salivating for more. Anyway, well done on only eating one piece! And yes - one piece won't ruin your life, just get back…

OP, I think looking into your sunscreen would be a good idea as a starter. And dermatologist.

Heh - that's like when people say they're Paleo Vegan. And I'm like WHAT?!! HOW??? Mutually exclusive?! Apparently it's a thing - you eat Paleo for breakfast and lunch, then Vegan for dinner.... It just makes me laugh though...

eat food lift weights.

I do it on my wall, not on the blog. I should probably do it on the blog, but instead I treat my wall as my diary.

go to tdeecalculator.net - plug in your stats. It will spit out all the numbers you need. But then you don't "eat back calories" from MFP. You just set it to whatever TDEE calculator told you and enter all exercise as 1 calorie burnt.

I was gonna say cut some up into stir fry strips too! Just use different marinades with your steaks and then you will get some variety when you grill them. Or chop into cubes even and make like a stew kinda thing with vegetables.

Very true - that's where you need to have a trial session with someone, or watch them training various people first and see if they adapt their training to suit the client. We have a "bodybuilder" trainer at my gym now and i'd never pay him a cent to train me coz he sucks. OP, the trainer needs to adapt to suit you - not…

I get an "empty void" inside me sometimes that I try to fill with food. And same - if stressed/depressed - I eat. To stop myself eating, sometimes it's hard and I can't, but I try to stop it by playing games on my phone - those addictive candy matching type ones that keep your fingers busy and your mind engaged. That way…

I think a trainer is a great investment if you choose a GOOD one. That's the problem - finding a GOOD one. I've had good and bad ones. The first one I ever had was the one they give you when you join the gym and they say have a free session and they give you a plan - OMG - was terrible! Lady was wanting me to barbell squat…

I put mine in my oats or pancakes or banana bread. I also dislike the gluggy gross texture thing that they have when they are soaked overnight or made into a pudding. BLEH!!! But baked or a spoonful in my porridge or pancake mix - nice.

@lynn_glenmont I just like the kittens in a handbasket pic. Made my afternoon :)

Loose skin unfortunately won't go away with supplements. You're looking at surgery to remove loose skin.

Well... I'm not caring much about strength - which was what I said. I'm not training to be the bestest powerliftah evah, but I still can't see why it's bad or wrong to occasionally when I feel like it pull as much weight as I can just for the hell of it. Of course still focusing on technique and so on, but meh, why is it…

also, if you have been doing a diet that does restrict something like bread for example, then you eat it, you will get a reaction. it doesn't meant you are now magically intolerant to bread, but it means you should re-introduce it slowly to your diet. Has happened to me in the past when doing meal plan restrictive diets.

Talofa lava! I also went to Samoa last year and LOOOOOVED it! Paradise! As for the recipes and so on, that kind of depends on what you like to eat. It's a bit of a learning curve to work out what gives you good bang for your calorie buck. Eat alllll the fish, alllll the green veg stuff (with less oil though - I found…

ignore that. 2-2.2g Protein per kilo bodyweight, 0.8 - 1 gram Fat per kilo bodyweight, the rest carbs up to your total calories (which would roughly be 25% under your maintenance as a starting point) Use TDEEcalculator.net to work it out - it spits it out for you. No need to think. But also no need to eat back exercise…

I personally prefer the TDEE method because that way I don't have a changing goalpost every day for hitting calories and macros. So I work out my TDEE on the online calculator, reduce my calories by 25% and hey presto. At least I know exactly how much to eat each day. And also, on days that 25% is too big a deficit and i'm…

I add it as coffee not as water, but it's still water. However, coffee is 2 calories. And if you have stuff in your coffee, it will be more than 2 calories.

you beat me to it Naomi. And hydrolized collagen peptides... and cassein?

If OP wasn't wanting to lose weight, they wouldn't be asking about cheat days I'm assuming. You don't need to cheat when you're gaining weight. You can just eat.

Totally agree with the knock knee comments above. Things can be improved, yes, but don't necessarily need to be "corrected" we are all different and a good PT should be able to work with your body to adapt things to suit you.

YOu can do stuff sitting down on or the floor - middlehaitch beat me to the comments lol!