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Lifting isnt for Arnie lookalikes. The muscle burns calories and the posture improvement will help with the bump. 5ft4 and 9st may mean the belly goes in 3lbs, maybe 6. You haven't got much left to lose

Change your rate of loss in mfp to see the calories, you're likely to find that you're at 1200 for all of them. This is because that's the minimum the app will show as it's dangerous to go lower than that. Unfortunately 1.5lbs a week is probably more like 700 calories a day for you. If you ate that you'd be losing muscle,…

I understand that targets are great but after losing so much, if you are 5lbs off then you see still massively improved. Keep going as you are and if it happens by Christmas you can be happy then.

Learn the difference between "full" and "not hungry". That's what makes a lot of people the size they are. After a childhood of being forced to finish what's in our plates if we want a desert. We have adulthood with restaurants giving us portions that are twice as large as we should eat and supersized takeaways. A few…

Nothing is going to give you the hundreds of calories that we all hope for. Building lean muscle is the biggest impact by far but if you want to lose weight, rather than using another way to measure your progress, then this will slow your journey. Then you have a bunch of things that may have a small impact but probably…

You weren't so big that excess skin will be an issue. Keep going and your skin elasticity should sort itself out over time.

I eat breakfast withing 20 minutes of waking up. My gf never eats breakfast. We lose at the same rate.

Metabolism is maybe less than 1% ie. you add muscle and your metabolism goes up. Caffeine helps a little but not enough to warrant the milk in coffee. Don't fall for anything that mentions a "boost" or "kickstart". Genetics you can't change, but 99.9999% of people's metabolism falls in the expected range for their height.…

5foot4 and sub 8 stone! No diet will make your bones weigh less.

I assume the type 2 was caused by being overweight. In general, any diet to lose weight will result in the pancreas being able to cope with the reduced workload from a reduced sugar (by sugar I mean anything that could raise blood sugars) intake. This is especially true if the diabetes is reasonably new as the pancreas has…

Can someone ban "am_fitter", he's blatantly trying to market this snake oil.

The fact they think you need to eat antioxidants just shows how flawed the science is. It's a pyramid scheme scam

Or eat a balanced diet that gives you the vitamin mix or take a multivitamin. Much cheaper and less painful

I put on 4lbs on Friday night. One burger and chips all within maintenance calories but the sodium must have been through the roof. 2 days of maintenance later and I've lost it all

I've had asthma since I was 2 and am classified as severe and chronic, 8 puffs of purple a day and usually 2 doses of steroids a year. Does it stop me exercising, not a chance. Asthma is totally controllable and no doctor would ever say not to exercise, in fact they should encourage it so your lung capacity increases.…

She never drink more than a litre a day and that's exercise days. Typically half a pint of liquid in the evening and a soup for lunch. Im the opposite, if I don't get 6 pints minimum I get headaches and cold sores.

It's not me. Just someone I know who can go all day without a drink at all but bizarrely has really really good skin and is never unwell. I was sure they would have major kidney problems as well. Even when I have persuaded them to drink something they feel nauseated. I imagined that without the fluids to allow your body to…

It's pretty common. I'm a bored eater so I keep busy when I need to shed a few pounds. Keeping busy exercising is obviously the best idea. If it's an anxiety issue, you may want to seek some professional help to cut the link you've formed in you mind. Alcoholics, smokers and drug takers aren't too different, just a…

If it doesn't injure you or stop you doing what you want the next day or so then go for it. I love a 20 mile mountain bike jaunt on a weekend. It means that by the time I'm home and eating dinner I'm on zero calories. Nothing tastes better than pizza and beer and still being within your daily calorie limit.

What you have to do is keep asking the same question until someone says that it isn't your fault then the weight will fall off.

If you guess then you go one of 2 ways. You either overestimate everything so you eat so little that your lean muscle gets consumed as well as other negative medical impacts. Or more likely, you look at a pack of rice and it says 150 calories a portion, so you record that for dinner. In reality your eating 400 calories of…

Maybe 150 calories a day, it's definitely not 10lb unless you are 400lb to begin with. Don't trust any programs that have unbelievably fit people pictured. Theres no magic pill/diet/exercise! Its 90% what you eat, 10% exercise

As you're so close it may be time to do a different approach. Maybe eat at maintenance with a decent protein intake and focus on strength training, hopefully within 6 weeks or so you should see results in the gym. You may even gain a few pounds through muscle increase and water weight may add for a few days. Then cut the…

It's not unusual for the belly to last to go in men. It's the only place I hold fat. Keep at it and it'll go soon enough

I used to do it for judo competitions. Luckily my natural/normal weight was 2-3kg above fighting weight. A week of calorie counting (poached chicken breasts and bananas) and a day of dehydration was all that was needed. Unfortunately your skin becomes pretty horrible so you need a heavy moisturiser and your immune system…

Low carb, low fat, low sugar, whatever the diet its total calories that matters.

Get squatting and it'll be back and better than ever. As a man it's belly and nothing else, skinny chicken legs and a pregnant belly.

3200cal, marathon? Half iron man? That's about 4 hours of working out pretty damn hard. So unless you did something similar here's your problem

I can't see it being too bad. Your body isn't being overly restricted as it's only ever a few hours to a decent meal. Hopefully someone can cite some studies. The things to keep an eye out for is strength loss which would point to muscle wastage and other physical changes (nails, hair, skin, periods).

It's so strange how sweeteners are seen as unhealthy in the US, when I lived there I was told diet drinks are cancer in a bottle and that they are worse than smoking! Go Zero or Max. I can easily go through 6 litres a week at a grand total of about 10cals.