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^^ YESSS! Thank you, at last! :flowerforyou: I agree with you totally on this and wish more people would take this approach (although I wouldn't log 10 minutes worth of cleaning etc as exercise, as some people do - we need to be sensible about what we count as true exercise and what counts as normal daily activity). OP -…
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You can also soak your cous cous in mint tea or lemon and ginger tea to add flavour. Make it Moroccan with chopped dried apricots and/or sultanas, parsley, red onions and spring onions. Roast some veggies (cherry tomatoes, courgette, red onion, aubergine, mushroom, sweet potato) in a little olive oil, balsamic vinegar and…
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I log tea and coffee as I put milk in them, and any other drinks with calories (including alcohol!). I don't bother logging water and other calorie free drinks like herbal tea. I too lost 5lbs in my first 2 weeks and then slowed down, this is pretty normal. TOM could also be masking some weight loss maybe? I'm sure plenty…
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It's just a record, I drink loads of water throughout the day at work but I never bother recording it. I don't record herbal tea or diet coke either, only drinks with calories like tea/coffee with milk, coconut water etc. I tend to drink about 2-2.5 litres of water during the day, plus whatever extra I drink at the gym, on…
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I shop at Morrisons, Aldi and sometimes Tesco as they are my closest places. Aldi is brilliant for cheap veg (my local Aldi and Morrisons are across the road from each other so I tend to get my veg at Aldi first then nip across the road for other stuff from Morrisons). I am also the "yellow sticker" queen, i.e I am one of…
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Original Poster = the person who posted the thread. I'm sticking up for you!
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I've got this one and I love it, but it might be a bit girly for you! http://www.surfdome.com/roxy_bags_-_roxy_sugar_me_up_sports_bag_-_ultraviolet-169361
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I agree in general with everyone's general points about accurancy in logging, but I feel that in fairness I should point out to those who are calling out the OP for logging 3 pieces of pizza as 400 calories should bear in mind that the OP is in the UK not the US, so when she's talking about a pizza I suspect she means a…
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If you're already doing all that running at the moment, do you really need to do an hour cardio when you make it to the gym? I know that's not quite what you've asked, but I think it's relevant anyway. If you really want to add in some strength training currently while training for your race, home exercise equipment I…
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Another take on the magic meal timing thing, overheard yesterday at work: to lose weight you can't eat within 40 minutes of waking up. The person who said this said he read it Men's Health so it must be true.
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If you really want a laugh (and ltos more of the same), read the Amazon reviews of sugar free gummy bears. Funniest. Thing. Ever.
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I'm always interested to see what it says but I don't pin any hopes on it, as my intake can vary a fair bit day to day with a bigger deficit on exercise days and usually going over by some at the weekends. I too would like it if there was an 'if every week was like this' option. One day last week I was using the phone app…
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Pardon me for maybe using a cliche. At least I was on topic - the OP didn't ask about her almond consumption, which you addressed in your previous response.
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^^ This. High Intensity Interval training for half an hour can burn as many calories as hours of steady state cardio if you give it your all - try a boot camp class!
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Agreed, especially as Jessie Pavelka seems far more sympathetic and encouraging than Bob & Jillian. I also used to like a Canadian show called X Weighted as that was a similar long term journey type programme rather than a game show like TBL (it's quite old but there might be episodes on Youtube) If you like the Biggest…
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The burn might be overestimated in that case. (although not a problem since you're not planning on eating back 1100+) I get days like that too - I tend to eat to a similar pattern Monday-Friday and because my calorie goal is fairly high I don't tend to feel much hungrier on exercise days, so I might only eat 100-200 or so…
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Blimey, is this still around? Blast from the past! Having said that, any kind of veg-based soup is a good low calorie meal option as long as you don't lace it with loads of cream. Just why put yourself through the pain of jumping through all these other weird dietary hoops alongside it?
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Walking lunges
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Seriously, don't cry yourself to sleep over 1lb, chill out. You can probably poo more than 1lb! Btw I am 5'10 (and twice your age) and am set up to eat 1720 to lose 0.5 to 1lb a week. I had pretty much stalled for the past 4 weeks and then whoosh on Saturday I was down 7lbs from the previous 2 weeks. I put this down to…
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I've done a similar thing recently. I lost 9.5lbs in the first 10 weeks of joining MFP: 5lbs in the first 2 weeks then 0.5 to 0.75lbs a week for the following few weeks. Then I went on holiday at the beginning of June and put on about 4lbs (I blame the booze!), 2lbs of which came back off straight away afterwards but I…
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In real life I've learned just to roll my eyes and say nothing to the compliment fishers, to just ignore them. In my younger days it used to bother me because I'm tall and my "ideal" weight range is still higher than a shorter person's so I used to feel like a heiffer, but I recognise that 7lb might be a big deal for a…
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To be honest I think the apple shape that the OP described is pretty common. I think I have an unusual pattern of weight distribution, as I'm kind of a rectangle shape due to having broad shoulders and a long torso but not pear shaped hips. I seem to carry extra weight on my arms, upper chest (around the collarbone, NOT…
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Is it really out of the ordinary? No, in the sense that that type of relationship with food and exercise is all too common, and I bet we all know someone who has these tendencies, as it can be an easy trap to fall into. But yes, it is a disordered relationship with food, although as wolfman says above, maybe not a full-on…
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Yes, as in CHop, sorry, I didn't think to specify that one.
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2 more food ones: Chorizo pronounced as chorit-zo. Special rage points for trying to overdo a Spanish accent while pronoucing it as no Spanish person would ever do. It doesn't have a 'zz' like pizza! But everybody does it. If being strictly correct it's chor-ee-tho although I do agree that sounds a bit pretentious from an…
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My gym clothes only match because I only ever buy black gym clothes, and I never wear makeup at the gym because I rarely wear makeup ever, but I still love this! :flowerforyou:
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^^ This. Exactly this. One of my pet hates is how for so many people it's the accepted wisodm that only children are spoiled brats. Some of the neediest people I've ever met have been the middle child. Everyone is different. My dad passed away when I was 2 so it was always just me and my mum. There were no grandparents or…
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Sorry to laugh after your crappy weekend, but :laugh: - the poo talk made me laugh (clearly I am really a 7 year old boy). Yes I guess it's probably a combination of being backed up and temporary water weight. You'll be right after another big poo! try not to stress.
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Loads of Brits on here! I'm from near Manchester, feel free to add :)
