Healthy New You: Your Change For Life #3

Hii, could i join in with the new thread, i know i posted a couple of times before in the previous thread but need to be serious this time and have people hold me accountable! Im 5'2 and currently weight 12 stone 7, so pretty big! I lost about a stone earlier this year, but have been unwell and piled even more back on, and suffering from depression and i think my weight is a big factor im hopeing to lose 3 stone 7 pounds overall but have set myself a goal of at least a stone by my birthday in february and hopefully this time i can keep it up

Hiya a weightloss buddy would be great, need lots of encouragment! How much have you lost so far?

Hello there, I'm trying to lose weight

Do any of you know whether it's alright to just eat 1-2 meals a day that aren't low calorie? The reasons I want to do this are that even though I usually eat tons of junk food and giant meals (for example, I would need to eat 8 wings, a quarter pounder, chips, chicken burger, drink in one meal to feel satisfied), now that I've started to eat vegetables, which I haven't done since I was a kid, I've completely lost my appetite and just feel generally ill all day, veggies are so disgusting, to the point where eating low calorie meals don't meet my calorie requirements, I don't find myself hungry. Maybe I'll enjoy vegetables more if they were cooked with more oil/butter too

But I keep hearing that eating meals throughout the day increases metabolism, and at the same time that it doesn't matter and that calories in, calories out are all that matter and it doesn't make a difference. I can't really tell, unless it's really obvious, when nutritional advice is wrong, I'm scientifically illiterate.

So, is it alright if I stick to 1 or 2 normal meals?

We can swap weight - my goal is to get over 11 stone




The best thing is to get them working again. They probably aren't overworked but moreso unconditioned to the exercise you were doing. Even a good brisk walk is very helpful in getting blood pumping through them and making them feel better. You could follow up the walk/jog (or even just some more light squatting) with some gentle stretching and mobility work too. The worst thing you can do is just rest them because they just seize up and they will not only take longer to feel better but you will also never condition yourself to doing regular exercise.

I remember when I started squatting - after the first session, I had such brutal DOMS that I didn't squat again for a week. The second week - exactly the same thing happened. Then, the third week, I did a bit less and although I was still brutally sore, I went back to the gym two days later and even though I felt like I wouldn't be able to do a bodyweight squat - after warming up and persevering, I managed to complete my sets and the next day, my legs were only mildly sore.



Make simple food and in big batches. I always plan most of my food the day before. For example, tonight - when I get home, I will chuck 500g of turkey in the grill, microwave some frozen veg and whack it in a tupperware with some chilli sauce. Then, in the morning, I put the tupperware in my bag alongside some packaged oats, a piece of fruit or two and a tub of quark then I pretty much have the best part of a days food for about 5-10mins of preparation.

With regard to your other half wanting takeaways - I either do what SilentNinja says and just make sensible choices that fit into my eating plans or if it is midweek, say and I have already eaten or prepared all I want for the day I will just tell her to get what she wants and not have any. Flexible diet plans are usually the best because they are sustainable and help you break out of the 'all or nothing' mentality. Also like SilentNinja, I often get takeaway meat although I get mine from the supermarket. You really don't lose anything by guesstimating calories anyway. People hold too much stock in what is printed on packets when really - (for example) the fat content of a piece of chicken is going to vary quite wildly. Even though I have gone through phases of counting everything quite carefully - a lot of the time, if you are dealing with meat - you just have to pick an average value and apply that to everything and assume that it all averages out about right. The precise numbers aren't important - all you want to do is be consistent so you can track results.

Do any of you know whether it's alright to just eat 1-2 meals a day that aren't low calorie?

But I keep hearing that eating meals throughout the day increases metabolism.

How did you prepare or eat the quark ? As I bought it, but I had no idea how to eat it besides in pasta

Good morning all how is everyone today?

Meant to make a big batch tonight of something to eat this week but was too tired Anyone got any ideas for mince that isn't bolognese or chilli?

I know its a bit unrelated but does anyone have any good tips for concentration? I dont know whats wrong with me today, i have to finish 2 job applications by 6 and i cant focus at all. my brain is refusing to process things. it feels like a big mushy bowl of porridge.