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Good luck. I'm just starting out on this again after falling off the wagon again. Sending you a friend request now :)

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Walked my dogs this morning and then played some contact staff for about 30 minutes

There was a really interesting article on just this sort of thing on Tom Venuto's page. Have a look and hopefully you'll recognize some of the things he mentions and be able to use some of his advice to help correct the behaviour. http://www.burnthefatblog.com/how-your-own-brain-is-sabotaging-your-fat-loss-goals.php

I personally like to weigh myself every morning, and then enter it into a spreadsheet. I don't pay attention to day-to-day fluctuations, but rather look at the overall trend. I find that it helps to keep me accountable, and if it does go up, I examine yesterday's behaviour to see if there was anything I could have done…

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There's a really nice topic on it here: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1159044-hrms-cannot-count-calories-during-strength-training?hl=azdak#posts-18107457

Calculated my lean body mass Decided what % body fat I'd like to be for my final goal multiplied my lean body mass by the % body fat to get to my overall goal However, my final eight is not that important to me. My body composition is what I'm aiming for, so if I end up just as heavy, but with less than 10% body fat, I'd…

There's quite a good explanation of simple vs complex carbohydrates here: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_difference_between_simple_and_complex_carbohydrates#slide1 and a list detailing food that fits into each category here…

That's fantastic. Amazing job.

I love this post. Thank you.

Welcome! One thing I'd strongly recommend is setting yourself defined goals that you want to achieve within a specific timeline. Talk about them in the present tense and write them down every day for at least 3 weeks in order to ingrain them in your subconscious. I found that this made a huge difference to me. Also, add…

I think eating snails for the first time did it for me. The texture...uuurgh. When my gran got a new microwave years ago, she heated up a pie for my grandad in it - however, she thought it was pretty much the same as an oven, so heated it in there for 8 minutes. It was so hot it burnt his tastebuds off his tongue.

I love weights but my absolute favourite is going to trance parties here in Cape Town and dancing to incredible music for hours and hours on end.

If you're looking at heavy lifting, a good place to start is stronglifts.com They have a program which works you up from being a complete beginner to developing your core and building functional real world strength. You can get the program for free, and there are quite a number of people on here who swear by it.

The problem is that it's very difficult to estimate the amount of calories that you're burning during strength training. It's based or the perceived effort for you to lift those weights, the rests you take between sets, whether you superset etc etc etc. For this reason, strength training doesn't include calories burnt.…

When you're starting out, it's very possible to gain muscle while still on a calorie deficit (especially if you have quite a bit of weight to lose). I make use of the Stronglifts program (you can get it free from www.stronglifts.com) and have made lots of progress and built quite a lot of muscle while still in a calorie…

Nothing interesting in my town, but one that I saw yesterday in a town a couple of hundred km away from me almost defined irony for me: Pedestrian killed by hearse‎ A pedestrian died after he was struck by a hearse on its way to a funeral in Butterworth, Eastern Cape police said on Monday.

Welcome, and good luck on your goal. Feel free to add me :)

It's me and a good friend at an awesome trance party in the early hours of the morning after dancing through the night. It also has my favourite T-shirt, that fans of Top Gear would like (I am the Stig's fat cousin).

Yeah, I do this on the 18th of each month (day I started). I take a front and side shot of myself wearing just a pair of boxers. It's quite motivating when you look through them and see the size difference over the past few months. I may post them once I've reached somewhere close to my goal weight :)

Haha, that's brilliant

Yep, after. If you do it before, you won't have the energy to do your weights at the intensity you need to in order to tear muscle fibers and actually build muscle (or less reps / sets than you would after doing HIIT). If you can do them on different days or leave a bit of a break between them it's even better.

I'm 5'3" and my initial goal is 70 KGs (154 lbs). I'll look at adjusting that as I get closer to my goal weight though (and dependent on how my strength training goes - a low body fat % is more important to me than a scale number).

I'm not following it precisely (in that I don't do the 6 meals and have a different weights program than the one he recommends), but apart from that my entire weight loss strategy has been based on his methods. It definitely works, and allows you to take complete responsibility for your success or failure. I've lost 14% of…

Also, cardio does still burn calories afterwards. I read some research recently that after cardio the subjects had a heightened RMR for up to 24 hours afterwards. I tend to eat back some of the exercise calories, but not all. I also go by hunger. If I'm not hungry, I don't eat them.

I've done just under 2000 hiking up Lion's Head, a mountain here in Cape Town

A healthy rate of loss is up to about 1% of your body weight, so unless you weigh 3-400 lbs, losing that amount per week is not good for you. I'd suggest setting your goals to a2 lb per week loss and eating the calories that MFP suggests for you.

It's a general setting - it's never going to be completely accurate, so I'd just put it as what you feel most comfortable with. For instance, I'm somewhere between lightly and moderately active, but have mine set to lightly active so that I'm in a larger calorie deficit most of the time. If I go over a couple of hundred…

Going to gym and lifting weights / hitting the cardio machines. I'd never enjoyed exercise in my life - it's only in the past four months that that's all changed.