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Overhead Press Question
After a lot of procrastination I finally got around to joining a gym and have just completed week 6 of Strong lifts. I have been following the spreadsheet and progressing nicely on all of the lifts except the overhead press. In fact I started to struggle to complete 5x5 at the start of week for and have now just completed…
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Weight Loss Rate and BF advice
I am hoping for a little but of advice on weight loss rates and on how to concentrate on reducing body fat % For nearly 4 months I have been going along nicely with my deficit set to 1.5 lbs and have achieved a loss of 39 lbs so far (in fact I just broke the 200 lb mark today) and have another 25 lbs to go. The first…
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New to Team UK
Hi All, Just joined Team UK yesterday after reading a post in the forums that mentioned it. I am 5'10" and was 238 lbs when I started here about 80 days ago and am currently (as of last Sunday) just under 208 lbs. I used the MFP guidelines to start with and lost really heavy at the beginning but I have not reset my MFP…
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Ooooh Saucey
Just like many other journeys in our lives my wife and I are changing our lifestyles together and there have been a few hardships along the way, especially for my wife and am hoping that you might be able to help Our current daily calorie targets are only about 200 apart, probably because I started as obese whereas she is…
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Starvation Mode is very real!!!!!!
Seen all the arguments for and against and did some research and found that it is defined as this: The natural reaction of your body when it realizes that shortly after you start counting calories every single damn takeaway in the area posts a new menu through your door :sad:
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Do you take Vitamin Supplements?
I was wondering if many here take vitamin supplements? If so which ones do you use and do you think the brand makes much difference? Having just started my weight loss journey I decided to start taking them just to be sure lol and just started with my local Lidl's own brand. They seem to contain 100% of lots of things but…
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Unexpected Benefits
What unexpected benefits have you found as a result of changing your diet? For me it was: No heart burn - only two weeks but used to be a regular event and nothing since changing my diet No Cramp - used to get cramp just by moving the wrong way lol, probably due to increased water intake
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Crivit HRM's back again
I know there are some older post on this in the archives but our local Lidl has the £12.99 crivit HRM's in again and wondering if anyone who has one from previous offers would be able to tell me what they are like?
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Another dumb question
Sorry in advance as this may be a fairly silly question but I am a little uncertain on where to take body measurements. Neck - I tend to do this across the adams apple Chest - I measure round shoulder blades and across the largest part of my moobs (hoping to lose these lol) Waist - This is the one that I am most unsure of.…
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Need to ask about TDEE/BMR
I am sure this same question has been asked and asked, and asked but I have been trying to calculate my TDEE and BMR using several websites and they do come up with similar numbers. My issue is that as I do have a sedentary lifestyle (although am working on changing that) and not only is my TDEE less 20% below my BMR, the…
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Breakfast Suggestions
Breakfast is the one meal I never used to eat and am struggling to find something satisfying to eat for it now. I weighed out 40 g of cereal and looked at the bottom of the bowl with a sinking feeling and went back to the old favorite - eggs. Trouble with that is that I am told too many eggs are bad for you (high fats and…
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Slightly Confused abou all of the targets
I guess this is a balancing act that everyone goes through but I am struggling to balance all of the targets in my food diary. My first reaction was to remove salt because I decided that I cannot do everything in one go and added in fiber because I was fairly certain that I wasn't getting enough/ While I am working hard to…
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New to this and any advice and support would be welcome
Hi All I have always been overweight but not really been too bothered about it before but after giving up smoking 18 months ago I put on 2 stone and no longer feel comfortable with myself so the time has come to remove some of the excess My biggest problems are that I spend most of my day either in the front seat of a car…
