Healthy New You: Your Change For Life #2

I'm always sooo hungry in the evenings. Is it OK to save the majority of my calories for the evening? Also may I ask how many calories a day is everyone on?

Thanks, that's helpful. Have you always been on roughly that amount may I ask? Sorry to hear your Dad is ill, hope he gets better soon. Sounds like you've been a busy calorie burning bee though

You'll only get flabby if you eat too much and gain fat.
The body doesn't convert muscle into fat when you stop using it (though if you don't do some form of weight-bearing exercise muscle size will decrease).

Being "toned" is much more about losing body fat than it is gaining muscle, and the only way to do that is with a calorie deficit.
That's why people say that abs are made in the kitchen.

If you want to look at your best and not end up skinny fat then weights/resistance training are recommended (though we've all seen that kid in year 9 who thinks he's all that because he's so skinny his abs have to show through and he thinks that qualifies him as batman).

Welcome! You have pretty much the same stats as me and it sounds like you're probably having similar problems to me, so I know what you're going through! Have you got an account on myfitnesspal? It is a seriously amazing way of tracking what you are eating although I pretty much completely ignore the nutrient goals it set for me (way too many carbs and not enough protein)

Well when I first started dieting I used to go to Rosemary Conley classes, so I did her special 'fat burning'/'inch loss' diet or whatever it was called It was strictly 1200 calories per day for two weeks, and then 1400kcals for another two weeks and then they put me on 1600, because at the time I was a lot heavier. But I lost two stone in two months on the RC diet, bearing in mind I was 19st when I started.

Then I joined MFP around a year ago and 1500kcals was the goal it gave me and I've been on that ever since

Thank you, he's okay though - he's just got chickenpox - at 48!

Also in answer to your other question, I tend to eat more in the evenings as well, probably because I'm not doing as much! I think the 'don't eat after 6pm' thing is a myth, weight loss wise I'd try and have my dinner a bit earlier and just have some light snacks in the evenings if you think you might feel ill lying on a full stomach Maybe crackers and cream cheese/houmous and fruit? If you're not hitting calorie goals go for the non low-fat versions

I've set my calories as 1190 a day but I earn it back from exercise. My calorie-burning goal per week is 2500. Does that sound reasonable? If I do bodyrock.tv 30 day challenge every day - apart from the "active rest" weekends and 30DS (I do 30DS two days then one day cardio and repeat) a week. Would that help me lose weight? I have been losing weight but not from my belly which is a pain is there anything I can do about that or does it just take more time?

This was really helpful, can't rep again yet

Do you stick to any nutrient goals? Or cut anything out?

W00p! Way to go =)