Sounds like you will be ok elf, its more the people who drink them non stop.
Making your own helps, means you pack them out with carrot or put in some yoghurt over banana.

Apparently having spicy food in the morning is supposed to give your metabolism a jolt.

Any truth in that? I could probably have a few jalapeño slices in the morning.

I've heard about that too, but there's no way I could handle spicy in morning!

Or carrot and chilli smoothies? Hmm... I might have to look into this.  If I can prepare a few things in advance on the weekend for the week it would make things easier.

Same here Outlaw, hence the need to start again tomorrow. Good thing is I know it drops off when I work out properly.

Just downloaded myfitnesspal.
Seems like a great tool. Really highlights how much those two pints of dr pepper cost me today!

Im sure it isn't the be all and end all but certainly seems like a good aid.

Cheers Musechick

Just do the Dukan diet, I do it after I put on weight, I lost like 2 stone in a week.

I did that exercise to about 80% of you maximum heart rate thing a couple of years ago. It worked really well. The weight doesn't fall off but at the same time the exercise itself wasn't so strenuous that you couldn't be arsed going to the gym so I was more inclined to do it and stick at it.
I estimated I lost nearly 3 stone after guesstimating for added muscle mass.

One thing that has happened as I have got older is my muscle mass and the power muscle in particular has skyrocketed. 
I used to be a very skinny 9 stone 8lbs until I was a bout thirty something. I used to go the gym and lift quite heavy weights (for my build) and while I got a bit of definition I never put bulk muscle on.
Over the past 4 years I can basically do 30 press ups a week and balloon up.

I read an article in New Scientist last year and it went along the lines of - as you get older you generally lose muscle mass but for a certain small percentage of people they will actually switch muscle types. So stamina muscle type people might switch to bulk muscle types as they get older. Just one of those odd genetic quirk type of things.

I tried that fitness pal app a while back, but I found I kept eating things that weren't in it, so gave up.

Dunno. I couldn't think of a different brand for take away salads and entering all the ingredients was way too much effort.

We're a forum of giants going on some of these posts. Someone do a chart.

See I am terrible with rules. I can set myself informed goals and boundaries. The second anyone tells me what to do I want to gouge their eyes and then eat a multipack of crisps getting all salty crumbs in their eye sockets

monkey wrote:

We're a forum of giants going on some of these posts. Someone do a chart.

I will bring the average right down!

If I stand on my tip toes yes.

revelthedog wrote:

I knew ladies in this place were in short supply but for goodness sake..

Badum tish.

I've been going to the gym for a couple of months now. Also trying to reduce my fatty foods intake which is working a bit but will never be gone completely as I like it too much.
I've actually put on about 4-5kg since starting but I'm assuming that's muscle mass.
I feel like age is starting to catch up to me as I feel like my body is actually reacting to the foods I eat whereas I used to be able to eat whatever and stay the same.

I'm just trying to go by the whole "energy in, energy out" thing and balance it the right way to come out on top.
Simple science fitness is good for info.

I'd just like to get rid of the tyre that's around my mid, the hardest part from what I hear, as it's almost summer. An actual beach body would be a novelty.

I'm currently 86kg and about 5'11"

Skerret would have some words about fasting and avoiding breakfast. Doing that is just a way to reduce the calorie intake by one meal from what I understand. I kind of do it just because I sleep in pretty much every day so breakfast is at lunch time...