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How do you navigate minefields/celebrations/birthdays?
Hi all, I was just wondering how do you all cope with social/celebratory days on a diet? I'm on day 3 of really low carbing (<20g carbs) and it's going really well, I feel fine etc. It's just that this sun is Mother's day, next month is father's day and I have quite a few friends celebrating their birthdays over the next 2…
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Nutrition on a budget?
Hi all, as a poor student/startup person who decided to fork over a good sum of money for a well-equipped gym within walking distance to my place (gyms aren't cheap like in the US), I'm pretty much on a budget for food. I was wondering if I can stick to really simple stuff, like chicken breasts as the main meat/protein…
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Getting over the pity party? (dating related)
Gah this is so embarrassing but rough summary, I'm 23 (in December) and never had a relationship. Nada. I've always been the chubby girl but not that chubby, like about 10-20 pounds more than the average skinny girl? I'm 5'4 as well. I won't say my face is bad because I always get the "you'll be so pretty if you lose…
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When to start stronglifts/ heavy lifting programs
Heya, I was wondering what to do at this point of my exercise journey. After going to the gym x3 a week for a month and doing weights x 8 rep (to failure) x 2/3 sets and a bit of yoga thrown in, my bodyfat has gone down 2% while my weight only went down 2lbs, since I wasn't consistent with my eating plan. I'm at the point…
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Oct progress: inches lost and bodyfat % down!
Hi all, I'm so excited because I just measured myself and I lost a whooping 13 and a half inches all over from Oct 1! (I measure at 13 different points) more importantly, I lost 3 inches at my waist and 2 inches in my belly!! Even my neck has shrunk by half an inch! Sadly my arms and thighs only lost about half an inch :(…
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Exercising vigorously 4-5 days, need to up calories?
Here's my dilemma, my gym membership is expiring oct 31, so I plan to make full use of the gym while I still have access to it. The gym had group classes, providing les mills programs and they are pretty frequent. My plan is to keep going until I am feel like puking/fainting everyday. By my estimations, ill pull 3 1000…
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Is it ok to slowly reduce carbs?
Hi guys, my first post in this group, I was wondering about a few things Some background: I'm impatient so I've always tried many diets thing at once, akak paleo + low carb + IF, but I always broke within 3 days, so for the past month, I've just been taking it easy and doing calories in and calories out. This month, my…
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Lifting while losing weight? And other questions...
Hello, I have a noob-ish questions, if I'm on a calorie deficit and I do some weight training, should I be pushing for heavier weights or should I do reps till failure? E.g. I usually do leg curls at 30 x 8 reps twice, which feels pretty tired, then yesterday I tried it at 40 and I could only do 2 reps of 5! im pretty sure…
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What to do if you hate cooking?
Hi everyone, my current problem is that I really dislike the whole process of shopping, cooking, cleaning and it doesn't help that I live next to 2 huge malls so I have most of the food franchises/restaurant in the country within a 10-15 min walk from my place. Of course, the food places aren't exactly low in calorie e.g.…
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Do you plateau more if you've always been overweight?
I was just wondering because it would make sense to me that the body is used to a certain body fat % for your entire life and losing that would be hard. Just a personal rundown, I was born heavy and have been heavy all my life. I've never been obese but in my Asian country, where girls can be under 100lbs at 5'2, being…
