Neliel88 Member

Have you had a look at 80/10/10? Maybe you could try it as a guideline for a while to see how that goes for you? The fat should be kept at 5 - 10% of daily calories consistently.

What is your daily fat, sodium and water intake like?

You would have to eat a HELL of a lot of carbohydrate to start storing it as fat! 15g of carb per KG of bodyweight. If you are 80kg, that means you'd have to consume 1200g of carbs in a day (good luck with that one) to start storing excess carbs as fat. And that's not even including what you'd burn in a day.

There's a huge difference between 'vegans' and high carb vegans. Those vegans were eating too much fat, sodium and possibly processed foods. There are actually various groups of vegans too: fully raw, vegans that eat cooked meals, vegans that eat more junk than plant based foods.

If that were true then high carb vegans eating 3000+ calories a day from fruit, veg and grains long term would all be huge. But they are not. Yes I know this goes against everything you believe to be true but it is. The people are out there, the science is out there. It's definitely WHAT you eat.

Aim high on the carbs, keep the fat and sodium low. Forget about the protein because if you're eating enough calories from fruit, vegetables and grains then you'll get more than enough protein.

Tip number one is bull****. You store glycogen from carbs (fruit) and you certainly don't get fat from it. It's the fat combined with your carbs that makes you fat. The fat you eat is the fat you wear.

It's a rather deceptive photo. I definitely have a superman jaw.

Your face is a beautiful shape! You don't look broad jawed at all. I, on the other hand, hate my broad jaw.

When you go for a low carb diet, you are literally making your body sick. You need to go the extreme opposite because every cell in your body runs off of sugar / starch.

Experiment with low fat recipes. My friend made a beautiful vegan curry for me (again, the spices take away the taste of the veggies if that's what you hate). Yesterday I cut up half an aubergine (eggplant to you 'muricans), half a butternut squash, threw in 2 tins of low sodium plum tomatoes and a sprinkling of your…

Physically I am a total sucker for a nice pair of arms. But I also have a real thing for accents too.

I'm 25 from England and I want to lose about 50lb. I know it's going to be a long, slow process for me but i'm okay with that :)

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Oh buddy, that's a hot one!

Oh my gosh, PLEASE don't go cutting the carbs out! You want to keep your carbs from fruit, vegetables and potatoes, rice and pasta high and keep the daily fat low! The fat you eat is the fat you wear.

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Please be more kind to yourself. You don't deserve to be treated the way you are treating yourself right now in being so harsh. Sure, there's work to do. Just accept that it will take time. I wish you all the best for getting through this terrible time. The world is a cruel, harsh place but you need to keep your spirits…

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Freakin' hell - you look like model material! Actually blew me away. Wow. x

Coconut sugar! I can only get it from extortionate health food shops and it's something ridiculous like £8 for 500g!!! And Medjool dates. I want to buy them by the crate but I can only get 250g of them for £2 :'(

High carb low fat vegan.

Definitely get on board with the strength training (look up Zuzka Light on YouTube - there are loads of workouts on there that'd be perfect)

People can often be quite jealous when they see someone succeeding with weight loss, as it's one of those things a lot of people struggle with. People react differently to weight loss success, I've had people say they admire me for how well I've done and I've had someone else say 'you'd look weird if you got skinnier'.…

Maybe your body just wants more calories at the moment. Sometimes you really have to mix it up to get things moving again. It's so annoying when your body just decides it'd rather stay where it is.

Yes! I lost about 45 on here 2 years ago and Gained almost all of it back! Need to lose about 50.

We all screw up from time to time! Please don't feel bad about it, because you realise you made a mistake and you're going to keep going from here. It's the 'now' that is important, not what has already happened. Just keep swimming!

That sounds amazing! Never had black rice before, but you have me intrigued.

Do not give up! Why don't you time yourself when you get on the bike and try to beat your time each time you do it? You'll build up and beyond your previous 20 minutes if you just keep doing it. I haven't worked out in months and I did a beginners 15 minute AMRAP yesterday (with simple squats, pushups, lunges and bent over…

I actually love you a little bit. 195