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breakfast before morning swim - musli and cup of tea. 2nd breakfast of toast banana and tea when I get to work
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for some reason I'm really craving bacon right now!
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plus if you don't eat enough - exercising will be miserable - no energy and much pain. Give the engine fuel
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Log your calories for a day without a plan etc and gasp at what you thought was a normal healthy diet. That shocked my wife into starting a month ago and its going well for her 8lb los so far. I decided to start one day a few weeks ago and it's going well lost over 10lbs in 6 weeks - trying to lose 1lb a week but not…
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Thats the benefit of MFP - you can still enjoy treats - just count them in with all the other stuff each day and make sure you aren't going over. Much more helpful for me than cutting out all the goodies - you feel like you're denying yourself and makes it almost inevitable you'll give up - or maybe I'm just weak willed
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Great post - no to diet food. There's evidence to suggest that diet drinks and foods that use sweeteners basically just confuse the body into producing insulin - ie something sweet needs digesting. This really defeats the purpose of weight loss as you'll just crave sweet things all the more
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Dave from Fife - doing MFP since 3rd March and trying to lose 1lb a week, sometimes 2 just happens! Swim 1hr most days and like that it gives me extra cal to consume. Trying to cut out sugar from choc, cakes biscuits and desserts. I find it hard to believe that an hours reasonably vigorous swimming gives me over 600 cal…
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Newbie here - finding the MFP app a great way to lose weight - just trying to lose 1lb a week but managed 3lb this week. I'm 6'0'' and down to 14st 13lb. Swimming most days - just started after a long break away - but finding myself just so hungry after doing 45min-1hr laps. What's a good recovery food that will hit the…
