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If you're eating within a calorie deficit you will lose weight no matter what exercise you are doing.

As someone said you build up your endurance gradually. See how YOU feel on each run. You can also combine running/walking to stay out for longer or follow a couch to 5k programme.

I'm a regular at my gym for Body Pump and have been going for 6 months and have noticed a great difference from doing the class in terms of toning and general strength. It has also inspired me to do a heavy lifting programme. As someone mentioned form is important and if you have a good instructor you should be given…

Polar are a pretty trusted brand and I've also read that anything without a chest strap will not be as accurate.

I just make guesstimates from the food database and forget about it. If I know it's going to be an indulgent outing then I'll bank calories a few days before for it. I generally like to enjoy going out to eat. (I don't do it that often).

I love this idea!

Same here - stews, pies and soups! :smile: Working to weekly calories has worked for me through weight loss and maintenance. Working to daily ones doesn't fit in with my social life or lifestyle. Some days I'm going to be eating cake and drinking wine.

Starbucks can be relatively easy to do calorie free. Check out the 'blendicano' on instagram - calorie free frappe. Also I'm a sucker for the sugar free syrups (in Americano) or just sweeteners. You can get the same stuff for at home and there's also flavoured coffee nowadays and flavoured whiteners.

Haha - I know that feeling! You could just try lower calorie things within your current lifestyle. Like switch wine for vodka and soda or bank calories through the week to have indulgent days/meals out etc?

What do you actually want us to say? That you'll magically lose 20lb doing what you already know to be causing the problem? Yes, only people that want to succeed in losing and keeping 20lb off, will. I wasn't unhappy before my weight loss and I'm not unhappy after it either. I've just learned a whole load of things, tried…

Love my Fitbit. Would replace it instantly if it broke. I bought it nearly two years ago and thought I'd only have it for a couple of months to help work out my TDEE....

On what you say you are eating, there is no way you are going to be gaining weight. There are plenty of reasons why the scale fluctuates (check out the MFP Hello Healthy blog which recently posted a good article about this). You need to stop taking the scale so seriously and start focusing on being healthy - which on the…

Hi, As a few people have already said, they quit smoking first and that was the same in my case. I quit 4 years ago and have never looked back. It was actually from gaining a stone of weight from quitting the evil sticks that prompted me to get my weight down and I found MFP... Quitting smoking for me was very much about…

I use toilets that are the other end of the building and involve 4 flights of stairs. I also try and take 2 steps at a time. I go and see people, rather than email (if appropriate). Fortunately my role involves a lot of meetings at sites so I'm normally out and about and walking around a lot too. I don't think I could…

I'd say 600 calories seems about right for an hour if it's pretty intense. The shoes sound terribly expensive. I did one half marathon in some £40 asics and another in £80 Nike Frees. The asics were better! You can get a Polar FT4 from amazon for about £40.

100 grams is pretty easy to achieve and still get fibre/veg and other goodies into your diet. Here are some low calorie/high protein foods: 100g Fat free greek yoghurt - 57cals - 10.3g protein " Quark - 66cals - 12.2p 1 large egg - 70c - 6p 100g chicken breast - 120c - 22p " Turkey breast - 104c - 31p " Haddock - 80c - 17p…

Same here too!

How often are you drinking? I tend to save alcohol for one day a week now (especially after learning about the calories). Have always been a social drinker though so drinking wine at home alone has no joy for me. :drinker:

I love greek yoghurt. Here are some things I add to it: Nuts Fruit Jam Seeds Marshmallows Meringue Syrups Honey Whey Powder Chocolate chips Jelly Use it for savoury things to make creamy pasta sauces...e.g. stir it into some mushrooms and fried chicken with a bit of salt and pepper. Use it as cream/icecream/custard…

Cream cheese with avocado...yum! :)

I think...well know, this is not an EXACT science. There will be margins of error.

Absolutely this!! I looked like an ironing board in jeans until I changed my workout programme (not diet apart from ensuring I eat enough protein).

I drank through weight loss and maintenance and so long as it's logged it hasn't caused any problems (apart from the odd hangover) :sick:

:noway: Absolutely no, no, no. You'll do more harm in the long run; hinder your running progress and maybe (worst case scenario) cause some long term damage. Take this time to find some cross training activities you love doing. Go and explore! Plus the cross training will do wonders for your running too.

My birthday and MFP have never met! :laugh: Some days are just for enjoying.

Thank you for all your responses, some really helpful and interesting comments. I'm going to start with recomp - enjoy those newbie gains and then take it from there... :smile:

Hi Kitty, Well don't beat yourself up for where you are now. Successful weight loss is not an instant thing I'm afraid, as much as many, if not all of us, would like it to be!! What I can tell you from the other side of it, is that it is such a good journey to go on, the amount you learn, the friends you make, the new…

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You need to eat more AND exercise to have any effect on your muscles :flowerforyou:

Coffee and my proats (which I make into a gooey chocolately, peanut butter pudding type delight). See profile picture - appetising huh? :wink: ...and coffee. Exercise happens before lunch when possible.