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the fact that you are gaining slowly and not gaining actual size means you are gaining muscle, you should be for the work outs you are doing. In other words great news keep going! Maybe you should get a good fit bit scale or such like and focus more on body fat % rather than weight.

If your diet is working it will work straight away i.e. in one week consistent dieting you will lose. Personally I am a big fan of weighing every morning just to keep on top of it. Personally I tend to fail in the weekends so do really well losing weight during the week and then slip up in the weekend with alcohol or…

I eat mainly clean, apart from the health benefits you simply get to eat more - 1200 calories of donuts isn't much to eat, but 1200 calories of rice/veges/fish is a good feed! I'm not a cook and love the convenience of prepackaged foods (Uncle Bens rice for example) frozen veges are great and the supermarkets more and more…

How much are you eating at one time. I wouldn't eat too much fruit in any case as it is high sugar (if you are trying to lose weight) but one serving a day should be acceptable.

I'm already addicted to Frozen freefall so I'm not even going there! Seems to be huge in NZ.

I think you should start off with less cardio and increase it gradually. It is too easy to kill yourself with loads of cardio and in my experience it only has a minimal effect on weight losee. Personally I find it easier to eat less than to do loads of cardio. I've heard of people doing like 2 hours a day cardio which is…

I think this eating back your calories thing is rubbish. Try by eating about 1500 calories. if you don't loose cut it down by 100 a day. keep going with that. if you don't lose weight you are eating too much (or need to move more). it really is that simple.

What rubbish. Its great to have a passion and sooner or later you will find someone equally passionate about the things you love. If you love weight training you wouldnt want some guy who isnt attracted to that your bro is probably just jeolous that you're stronger than him!!!

I think you really need support and see either a nutritionist weekly or join a group like weight watchers or slimming world. Dont try to do it alone.

I've been there too. I think what you got from this thread is exactly what you are sick of. Obsessing about what you are doing. Trying this or trying that and torturing yourself trying to figure out what to do. My solution has been getting a good PT. Now I never think about it - that's his job. He keeps me focused and on…

I went through this phase of blaming the mirena for not being able to lose weight. Forgotten all about it actually. I was just training wrong to be honest killing myself with dieting and cardio. Been training with a PT this year have built loads of muscle and hadn't thought about my mirena for ages. yes its still hard to…

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Lots of great advice in here. You might enjoy doing Jamie Eason's LiveFit its a great programme and has both the nutrition and training side of things.

Just the fact that we are all so addicted to it raises alarm bells, I feel. Definitely the wheat itself even wholegrain is tampered with, and there are sooo many additives in there. I've just cut it out this week and I feel so healthy its amazing. Substituting with oats which I've always eaten anyway and sweet potato so…

as you mature you will find it easier to deal with.

you don't have to do ANY cardio at all to lsoe weight, its a matter of getting your calorie quota right FOR YOU (ignore all the stupid TDEE stuff on here just experiment). If you are already losing weight at the calorie level you have set now, you will lose more if you start doing more cardio. If you are staying the same…

Since i've had Mirena in I've found it very difficult - but not impossible but I do think you have to be ALOT more disciplined than is normal.

if you have someone strong to spot you, you can still do some reasonable weight squats with bar bells, if you have ones that go up to 40 kgs or so? do more reps instead?

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/body_fat_categories.htm

I've always been unhealthily obsessed with weight so I try to focus more on my bodyfat percentage. Amazing how you can gain weight but lose percentages!

breakfast poached eggs on toast (avocado instead of butter on toast). dinner grilled fish or a steak with lightly boiled broccoli or other green veges and a sweet potato which I cut up small so it cooks faster. I don't really cook at all unless you count that as its pretty much the same every day with a tuna bagel for…

I think you may have answered your own question a wee bit. 1-2 days a week eating what you like? Surely its not affecting your overall diet/weight loss plan? Try answering that question yourself by going two weeks straight without any cheat days. See what happens. If that makes no difference look at some other aspect eg.…

Personally I've been off MFP for a long time because it was doing my head in all that calorie counting and anguish over whether what you are doing is right. I'm now at a stage where I weigh myself fortnightly and do a BF measure at the gym (as i'm gaining muscle slowly). I eat very clean and over a period of weeks I found…

Its awful. For every Leaver there is the Leavee. No one wins. I'd love to hear the survey and see if all those Leaver's who hurt their wife/husband so badly are really, honestly any happier 10 years down the track.

they're just jealous. Don't worry about it.

i think it is a very silly modern term for what we used to call "skipping meals". sure you eat less if you skip a meal. calories in calories out bla bla bla. its really not that deep.

I'd just go for raw rolled oats. soak overnight, zap in the microwave for 30 secs. throw on some splenda and blueberries and your'e good to go.

Je ne bois du champagne qu'a deux occasions quand je suis amoureuse et quand je ne le suis pas - I drink champage only two times in my life - when I am in love and when I am not. the serenity prayer also.

that is more than 1179 calories. In my opinion you ate quite a lot.

carrot cake is disgusting. someone gave me a recipe once, I never made it before. you put in like over a cup of pure oil!!!!!!! I was horrified. It was my mother in law's fave recipe, I made it for my husbands birthday - but I felt like a murderer, not someone doing something out of love. If you eat carrot cake made of…