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Speaking as someone from the UK, be VERY WARY of the Daily Mail. They're hate-mongers, a bit like Fox News but British. Urgh. They have most likely twisted everything and lied outright.

Most of weight loss is sorting your diet out - exercise is good for keeping your muscles in good condition so you don't lose it while you're eating at a deficit, if that makes sense. So if you're not losing weight and you're counting all the calories reallllly carefully, I'd say reduce your calories by 100 per day for a…

As far as I know, none of the veggie/vegan protein on your list there is very high in fat. I eat all of those and I often have to add fat intentionally to my diet to get my fat %.

I had ginger chocolate for breakfast. :D

This! I'm more comfortable naked in front of loads of people than I am in a swimsuit.

Toning muscles makes you look good but you can't target an area to lose fat from. You just have to lose fat from everywhere and at some point it'll go from your back. Keep going! I'm noticing that my legs are getting smaller but nothing else is, so that's kind of annoying - but doing particular exercises builds muscle. You…

This.

That's a lot of warning signs of him being an abusive partner, so yeah, well done for getting shot of him.

Yeah, absolutely! Assuming stuff about other people's bodies is always rude. Here's some cool stuff I learned about hormones. People say women are all irrational and get angry about nothing when they're PMSing, right? But testosterone is highest just before menstruation. That means that women are hormonally closest to…

Dragonfly's Rooibos Chai is really nice. :)

Hello! I was anaemic, and iron tablets upset my stomach, but I just took B-complex supplements and drank a lot of orange juice - both increase iron uptake, and those are literally the only two things I did and I was back to normal within a month or two. However, if you are super-duper-B12 deficient it's going to be…

I just used a calculator that asked me for my forearm measurement but didn't specify which part of my forearm or in which direction! Sooo, it said 26% but I have no idea if it's accurate... Can anyone recommend a good one?

@CoachChris78, yeah I think so. I do appreciate you simplifying it all for me, because I am a total noob. :P Yeah if I'm going to do squats I definitely need to start at half- or quarter-squats, because I think a full squat is way too much of a leap. But it's good to know that there is a mini-version, at least. Thank you.…

@CLM1227 Ahhhh okay, so it's for tightness and not soreness. That is very useful. Thanks!

@randomtai, thanks, I'm watching them now!

Why don't I need to do the dips? @CoachChris78, I'm going to look for mini-squats, or exercises that warm up to squats. I have to take things really really excessively gentle and slow, because if I do too much too fast I'll go into remission, and I do not want another 6 years of being bed-bound! Why are squats the single…

@randomtai, how could I check for that? I've been largely bed-bound for 6 years so if I'm finding squats difficult I'm suspecting that it's because I've not used the muscles enough, but I'm open to being corrected on my form!

@MeanderingMam, could you talk some more about that?

You're the second person to mention that, so I'm going to see if I can find a mini-squat that doesn't destroy me for three days and go from there. :) Okay, I will look again at the stretching issue when my workout is a bit more hardcore. I think more research is needed. I really wish I could find that study! It was so…

Just checked; my average for the past 17 days is 63g of protein per day. I weigh between 62 and 63kg most of the time. Awesome!

Or both, maybe? Anyway, what's DOMS? Edit: Delayed onset muscle soreness! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_onset_muscle_soreness I didn't know that was a thing but that is helpful and explains a lot. Thank you!

Assuming that 1g of protein per 1kg of weight is needed per day means I'm supposed to get 62g protein per day on average - and I think I do. I will double-check though; sometimes it's higher and sometimes it's lower, so I should do some maths. Yeah, it does. I'm very dubious about including squats because I tried that and…

Yeah, I don't need more protein! I'm getting enough for my purposes. I'm starting small because I've had CFS for 6 years, so, feel free to laugh: 10 sit-ups 10 push-ups from the knee rather than the toes 10 dips with knees bent 10 shoulder presses (4kg in each hand feels about right) 10 bent-over rows (again, 4kg in each…

Starvation mode with regard to dieters has been very thoroughly debunked. You have to look like a skeleton before your body stops dropping fat. (Edit: And when that happens you should be more worried about dying and stuff. Plus nothing would fit you.) Having said that, eating under your goal means you'll get hungry more,…

Wow, that's really interesting about the calculations and your own experience of that! Thanks. :) I don't prefer he/him/his, I prefer they/them/their.

That... is impossible! We don't know how big the pizza is, or how big the slices were, um. Maybe someone else is better at eyeballing it than me, hehe.

Beeeecauuuuse... the only things worth considering if you're a woman are things men care about, even if it's your own body. Riiiiight.

Yeah, glad somebody said it. *shudder*

This seems a bit similar to the "I've been eating at a deficit and working out for 7 days and I've not lost weight" posts, because I can imagine people can answer with the same stuff: you can't spot a weight trend over a short amount of time because weight fluctuates depending on hormones, salt, time of day, etc. So give…

I never ever feel like working out - except for when I'm recovering from a cold. It's pretty weird, but hey, I can go with it. :)