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I found if your body is craving more than you're giving it, your willpower can just wilt late evening/ night. Otherwise if you're not eating unreasonably low levels during the day, and still overeating at night, a good option can be to apportion some/ more of your daily calories to later in the evening. Myself I solved my…

No worries, and enjoy the 1800/ 1900 calories. The most important things is a stable/ consistent starting point you can maintain I find. That way you can always adjust your intake later if you wish. I'm sure you already know this, but each 250 calories you shave off your daily intake should net a loss of about 1/2 a lb a…

By the way, once you know what your daily intake needs are, a useful figure to work out can be the number of calories per lb you need to maintain your weight when you don't do any additional exercise. That way when you lose weight you shall be able to get a good idea what your new daily intake needs are. For example in my…

Online calculators are really only useful in trying to provide an educated guess as to your caloric needs. When you don't know what your caloric needs are, they can be useful, although each can give a different answer. My best advice would be to see what a few of the more well respected ones give you, go with that educated…

Looked into this for a family member a while back, but all I saw was the crap that went into most mass gainer products. I think you might have better luck doing a little homework into what bodybuilders mix up themselves for their bulking shakes, which I found to be cheaper, more effective (more calories), and with…

Dropping in a fasting day or two each week, something like 7/ 8pm one night to the same time the following night, can be a handy way of creating a calorie deficit I found. Might not be for everyone, and you might want some muscle insurance (ie BCAA's) during your fasting time, but might be food for thought for a cutting…

Good post, and timely thread personally as I'm currently in the process of stepping away from logging in a staged manner, and am always curious to absorb opinions and info far and wide around any new courses of action or curiousity. When I first came here to MFP about 7/ 8 months ago to lose weight, I logged everything and…

I wondered about this too. In the end I settled on equating the calorie burn to walking, my other main activity. Not sure if I'm over or underestimating by doing that, but I needed some sort of figure for the purposes of deciding on my intake levels. Anywho, am in for the replies :smile:

Lot of misinformation out there re: cholesterol, especially most of what is commonly regarded as gospel for the longest time, ie high overall cholesterol/ high ldl is bad. I would suggest doing your own homework, I did and was glad I did. If you have about 60 mins, I found this video very good…

The things I found best for adherence for me have been substituting carbs (especially simple carbs) for fat, and making sure I don't eat fast digesting carbs alone in a meal, but rather with plenty of fats and protein to balance things. Also drinking plenty of water, and also good fibre with each meal will help a lot also…

I know you don't want to actively work your knees full-on, but perhaps a little gentle squatting might have a rehabilitative effect. Obviously you would stop at the point in the movement where you felt pain, and perhaps stand with your back against a wall (wall squat) when you squat, or perhaps hold a chair with your hands…

Love coffee with some butter, coconut oil and cocoa powder. As a tool used the right way, it could be used successfully to aid a weight loss effort, but I wouldn't consider it any magic weight loss bullet.

I'm not sure if it's been mentioned already, but I like the startbodyweight routine (http://www.startbodyweight.com/p/start-bodyweight-basic-routine.html), if you're looking for a bodyweight routine. I find it to be the best bodyweight strength routine out there in terms of progressions, and any good progressive…

Yes, definitely agree about the importance of keeping busy, and think fasting and simply getting things done seem to work very well hand in hand together :smile: I'd heard 14:10 might be more suitable for some women alright, and think it's best to find what rhythm works best for each of us. I was doing 14:10 most of the…

Thanks for your experience Tephanies - can I ask what was your daily intake like, did you eat at maintenance/ cycle calories ? :smile:

Been a while since I posted to this thread, and just reviving it now too :smile: In any event, I just wanted to note I've managed to eliminate snacking entirely this last 10 days, something I thought I would never do (I used to be a constant grazer between meals). In any case, for those interested in eliminating snacking,…

Been a while since I updated this thread, but now I'm back on an even keel, it seems a good time to do so :smile: In any event, I've been observing a 16:8 fast for the last 10 days or so (w/ the exception of yesterday dues to circumstances). In that short space of time, I've found I really enjoy IF an awful lot, but…

Fat in your diet is supposed to be very good for lubricating things..

I'm in the same position, or was up until a week ago. I've about the same amount of weight to lose, and could not sustain a deficit at all for the last few months, despite a very very good run where weight loss is concerned before that. I snacked a lot too. Anyway, for the last week I've been doing a 16:8 flavour of IF…

I'm playing around with IF and meal timing at the moment. My flavour of IF is restricting my eating to between 12- 8pm, and eating my calories over 2 large meals. This is just my flavour of IF, and there are many others. The book Eat Stop Eat by Brad Pilon is a good place to get a better idea about fasting. His flavour of…

The exercising I can't speak to, as it's still a work in progress for me. I tried one fasted resistance training session this week and it went fine. I preceded it with some BCAA's 30 mins beforehand so as not to encourage muscle catabolism, and will try out fasted training properly for all my sessions for a while once the…

I was just like you actually. In the morning, I would have to eat 50% of my days calories within the first 2/ 3 hours (a large breakfast, then a moderate lunch about 2.5 hours later). All afternoon my mind would be on food, thinking did I need a snack, had I eaten enough for my energy levels not to crash at some point,…

I'm not maintaining (yet), but found creating any sort of deficit or consistency impossible for the last month or two. Way I see it, I had a few options. One was to sub some of the carbs in my intake for protein and especially fat, to fill me. The other was to reverse diet and stair-step up my calorie intake level over a…

If you're not wedded to the idea of using weights to build strength, I would recommend calisthenics as a good way to go. I like startbodyweight.com programme, and imagine it would fit in quite well a couple of days a week between your running :smile:

If you want to do bodyweight exercise for strength or to build a little muscle, check out Startbodyweight.com. All the exercises are progressive, and whatever level you're at you should be able to find a progression step in each movement you can do. If you're just interested in bodyweight exercising as an aerobic/ HIIT…

Check out startbodyweight.com. The programme there is one of the best I've seen, with smooth progressions and a decent programme that covers most of the bases very well, imo. Good luck with the calisthenics, I love it and just starting back after a bit of a break over Christmas. I don't see your weight holding you back…

Your addendum seems to cover it alright I think :smile:

Whether you see a big jump will depend on the form of the additional calories I suspect. If it's mostly carbs getting added back, your glycogen stores are going to get topped off nicely, and you will carry a little more water as a result. There's nothing particularly wrong with this, and remember it's just water weight,…

Unfortunately the main forums can be a terrible place, and increasingly so. I learned a lot there, and came across some great people there, but the 'one true gospel'/ know-it-all approach that some take there, I find a big turn off. I would echo the sentiment that it's great to have a place here where things low-carb can…

By the way, I know low-carb 'flu' is the common term used, but for what I experience personally, calling it a flu is overstating it. For me its more like a crappy low level cold, and one that doesn't linger long before it's gone.