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For 'around' 600 cals I'd get a foot long chicken breast Subway :)

Mine shows stones and lbs, but has settings for kgs too.

I lost about 28lbs and then put back on about 40lbs ! But I use the same account as I wanna get the tracker back down!

Grenade bars are my go to, they're not cheap though :)

Definitely carbs, porridge for breakfast keeps me full until dinner sometimes.

Nope, a cheat day could easily ruin a whole week's deficit for me. I incorporate things I like in to my calories, e.g. I'll have a 90 cal bar of choc after dinner, or weigh out a bit of parmesan to grate over a salad etc.

I agree. I've drunk diet coke every day for about 12 years and only ever had one filling my whole life.

On the plus side, they proved diet pills don't work.

Hmm I don't know, surely when they show the results and people have inevitably lost weight, viewers will be influenced by that.

Nutella, peanut butter, oil, cheese, sausages....all the nicest things! :expressionless:

The best strategy I've found is to plan your meals for the week and then only buy what you will need for those meals. You may need to go shopping more than once a week to ensure nothing fresh goes to waste, but I find it helps to manage a budget. Edit - Just to add also, I've recently started buying whole chickens and fish…

Fry light is better if you want the save the calories, but it depends on what you're cooking I suppose. If I'm just cooking mushrooms etc. or need to grease a baking dish I'll use fry light, but if I'm cooking onions or eggs etc., I'll just log a teaspoon of olive oil.

Personally it would be an unrealistic goal for me, but if you can stick to it and make it a permanent change then go for it.

At the moment, roast parsnips :)

When I first joined I didn't realise my calorie goal already included my deficit, so I guess people could get confused that way.

I don't as I'm in the gym for 5-5.30am, I usually wait and have a protein bar for breakfast when I get in to work around 8.30am.

Thank you for all your comments :) I guess I just need to keep going and try mix it up a bit. I've signed up to play netball which should start in a few weeks, so looking forward to that!

Easier as in not feeling like I'm going to keel over after 10 minutes :) I guess for that it's just a matter of sticking at it, I just thought after 6 weeks I would have felt a difference by now! Thanks for the suggestions guys, I do enjoy walking outside. I guess I just feel that because I'm paying for the gym, I should…

They're not big at all :) you have lovely legs!!

Search 'chippy chips' or 'chip shop chips'. :)

Anything that isn't cardio!! :)

I always wonder this too, same goes with pasta. I guess the idea is that rice and pasta are filling so you're unlikely to go overboard calorie-wise, but if you have a big appetite you could easily eat too much.

I was exactly the same when I joined a gym a couple of months ago. I decided to start some PT sessions to build confidence and learn the machines. They are expensive but even if you just have one or two sessions it's very beneficial.

You probably need to eat more than 1400 to actually gain muscle. Maybe try recomp and eat at maintenance while doing your progressive strength training.

The only obstacle in losing belly fat is being generally overweight. You can't target belly fat so the question is moot.

I log it but I don't weigh it. I don't eat enough of it for weighing to make any difference.

Exactly the same principle.

No, because why should people who like to treat themselves every now and again suffer, for the sake of other greedy people.

Nah I could easily blow out a whole week's deficit in one day.

Aiming for 30 by my birthday in October myself, but will be happy with anything over 15! :)