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I still suffer a decent amount with this problem on bad days. If I really get ravenous and need to just sit down and eat for whatever reason, I always go for broccoli (because it's deeeeelicious). I can eat a whole head of broccoli and not feel bad about feeling so full afterwards.

If you have leftover apple you want to save or take to work with you etc, storing it in a tub with some lemon juice stops it from browning.

Okay, so, today should be recap day, but I'm running short on time in a major way. Give it half an hour and I'm heading out of the door for at least a week away. So I need to keep this brief. Definitely did enough to pass this challenge so my next challenge I'll be with the druids (hooray!) Not sure if that will be next challenge or the challenge after, we'll see when I get to my computer to actually make a thread! All went well, could have done some things better but that's always the way that it goes. Never can be perfect. Hopefully everyone else had a good challenge! See you all on the other side :D :D

Six weeks just flew by! I haven't been as active the last few weeks, but minus one slip up I'm doing alright overall. Haven't had time to check in on everyone, so I hope everyone's doing the best they can!

The whole "studies have shown high protein diets to cause these problems" bit made me laugh. Sure, they have, in the case of ketogenic diets being used by people who are already in a healthy or underweight BMI. Scare tactics, scare tactics everywhere.

There'll be varying opinions, but honestly, no one knows precisely where you specifically are at within yourself. The ground rule is to not push yourself too hard, that's how injuries happen. Find your limitations (by limitation I mean the point where you've had a good workout but you haven't ground yourself into the dirt) and work from there. Personally, for just starting out that would be way too much for me. Continued activity over a long period of time (months etc) is 100% more beneficial than a couple of weeks of intense activity followed by weeks of inactivity due to injury or illness.

Cutting caffeine did this to me. I was on ridiculous amounts of caffeine, and I switched out to lemonade 100% one day, never touched caffeine again. I had issues sleeping for 3 or 4 years while cravings were still punching me in the head, then my sleep pattern evened out completely and I sleep like a baby now. That's no guarantee that that's your cause, of course. That's just from my perspective of personal experience, I would chalk it up to the caffeine.

That's basically the conversation (read yelling) we had earlier. This will not be happening again. Ever.

Well, I was having a decent day until lodger decided that even though I was sitting right here on the couch, she was going to get up and make a meal specifically for herself, using the rest of the eggs, bacon, mushrooms and the leftover cabbage. You know, everything I'd said yesterday I was planning on using tonight for dinner. And since payday is tomorrow, I'm now going to be eating a can of beans tonight for dinner, because there's nothing left in the house at all. So yeah, everything went well apart from eating, since I've now eaten nothing today, and I'm not even going to be getting a full meal tonight.

Mostly I just needed to rant at people, it'll all work itself out in the end. Thanks for the comments though, much appreciated peoples. Today, slow day. I'm definitely aware that we're hitting the final stretch of this leg now. Feels good, motivation isn't slipping at all, but I'm definitely a lot more relaxed in general. As a standard rule I'm a pretty tense person, too much stress in my world. So when I put my head to the pillow and manage to sleep for 15 hours straight, I'm appreciative of the fact that I definitely needed it. No walk today, it was already getting dark when I woke up and my imagination is overactive enough that I don't leave the house after dark because I see zombies everywhere. But I got my pilates done and I ate well. Payday on Tuesday, and I'm getting an extra 200 bucks this time around. Finally going to get a decent chunk of my credit card paid AND I'm getting my hair cut. FINALLY. I've been needing a haircut for roughly the last year, but finding my money for it has been impossible up until now.

She won't consider moving closer to work until after probationary period, which is 6 months

It's all been discussed on more than one occasion. While some of it may be good intentions and all, a good portion of it is just plain ignoring. That sign has been up in the bathroom for 2.5 weeks now, every morning I walk in to brush my teeth, bam the lid is up. It's not for lack of discussing and telling and insisting. It's just plain not done.

Be prewarned, this is a rant post, I got stuff to get off my chest. Read at your own peril! So I have a friend. I like her (obviously), we get along just fine. One day she pings me on skype, she's got a problem. She's taken a job near me (she lives almost an hour away) and her previously guaranteed ride to work has now said can't do it more than twice a week. Can she spend roughly the next 6 months crashing on my couch 4 nights a week? Sure, I'm a good friend, I don't even think twice about agreeing. We come to an arrangement wherein we split food costs and she pays an extra 20-40 bucks a month to cover the excess in utilities. I'm not a money grabber, but I'm on welfare, I can only make a paycheck stretch so far. SO I think cool, this will be good, I need to become better adjusted to social interaction again, my anxiety was starting to take over. OH HOW WRONG WAS I! Little did I know, this woman is all but incompetent of paying attention. She can't do the simplest of things. I must have told her five times in the last month to put the lid on the toilet seat down when she's finished with it, do you think she can do it? Of course not. She's been staying here 3-4 weeks now, monday night through thursday night. She's showered twice. TWICE. And somehow halves on food and a little extra suddenly translated this month into a 60 buck grocery shop. I don't know how people's brains work, but I spend almost that a week in food living alone! The absolute killer for me right now, is being told what to do in my own damn house. It's a glorious sunshine day today. I was going to go out and get some fresh air but I've been pretty sick today (it happens sometimes) so I've stayed in bed a lot. Ping, I get a text message. "You should open the windows, it's a great day" Bitch it's my damn house! If I want to open the windows I'll open the damned windows. So are the windows getting opened? Fuck no. "For dinner I was thinking you could make [insert here]" is regular too. If you want something specific for dinner, you damn well make it. If I'm cooking, you get what you're given and like it or lump it. So now I'm in a rage of epic proportions, and I'm all but prepared to go raid a store for froyo. Thank goodness I'm so damn poor from having to cover her ass financially this paycheck that I can't even afford to get to the store.

Glorious sunshine day today, so of course another long walk was in order. I didn't meet the lodger tonight because she's got stuff doin', but I walked the block. The larger of the two blocks. Got my heart rate up nicely and bust into a good sweat. Just under 20 minutes, which isn't bad at all for pushing myself decently hard. I walk painfully slow, people 5ft tall have to slow down to keep up with me since the accident. So it's going smoothly.

Only if you're in possession of common sense.

I always turn to music when I need endurance. I automatically shift my pace to the beat of the music, and I can get lost in my own head and take the focus off why my legs don't feel like they're attached to my body anymore.

You're doing awesome Walking downstairs is definitely the best. No chance of falling up the stairs when you're going down!

Usually I buy thighs, which are my all-purpose go to for chicken. And mostly they go in a crock pot. If I'm buying chicken breasts specifically, you can bet I'm gonna stuff those bad boys. Stupid simple. ~ Prep your oven at 180/gas mark 4 ~ butterfly chicken breasts and tenderize generously (read beat with a spiky hammer) ~ dice a few strips of bacon and toss them in a pan, drain out the fat, leave maybe a tablespoon in there. Toss in some mushrooms, fry those up a bit. Throw in some spinach and wilt it juuuust a little. ~ plop your breast on a baking tray/sheet, generous helping of bacon/mushrooms/spinach on one side. Fold the other side over and secure with toothpicks. ~ Bake for ABOUT 15-20 minutes (time varies on how well you battered that breast flat) ~ ????? ~ OMNOMNOMNOM

Today was a great day. A GREAT DAY! I'm slacking on the update, because I don't have a massive amount of time before I need to start dinner (omelettes and wedges tonight, omnomnomnomnom!) Today I decided I was tired of going as far as I thought I could, and I decided to meet the lodger at the bus stop, which is a good 30 mins walk for me at a regular pace (a.k.a stupid slow). Open the door, it's raining. Now when I say raining I don't mean a light drizzle, I mean it's literally pouring water from the skies. I love the rain, I love to walk in the rain. Immediately I shucked off my jacket and headed out. I was drenched before I even got there, when I realized I overestimated how long it would take me to get there. Cue half an hour standing in the rain grinning inanely while people looked at me strange. My lodger gets off the bus, and I decide to let her set the pace, which is a decent amount faster than mine but not obscene. It took us 15-20 minutes to walk back still, but I 20 second beserker-ed the entire route, and I made it home without having to stop and catch my breath/stretch my spine ONCE. The exhilaration in the air is strong tonight! So now I'm going to do that 5 nights a week. I seriously enjoyed pushing myself that hard. And the raaaaaain. I didn't realize how much I missed being in tune with nature until that exact moment when I stepped outside. My soul is satiated and purring in a corner right now. Holy wall of text batman!

I've never experienced this, so I'm not sure what it's related to, someone else is likely more qualified to help in that regard. In terms of easing the torture of your train rides, when I have a problem with a strong smell making me feel sick, I reach straight for the vicks or the clove oil. any type of oil/gel/perfumed thing that you can rub on that you like the smell of. Rub a little under your nose, it should block out unwanted scents from around you

In an ideal world, I would gravel the whole lot. I need to talk to my landlords to see if I'm allowed to though, and gravel just isn't cheap, so I'm most likely to seed it. I wouldn't mind the weeds if it wasn't part of my house. I have a compulsive need for neatness and order when it's my house, because I'm weird like that.

No need to excuse! It's more weeds than grass now is the big problem. It's not grass the way we think of grass. More a few tufts of the stuff wrapped around giant leafy weedplants. So I want it replacing!

It's a pretty good starting point, definitely unless you're like me and are hopeless at actually /checking/ your emails >_> I should do that...

Always better late than never! Since you haven't found a class yet, I definitely recommend also checking out Chaz Rough/Yogamazing on youtube. It's definitely not the same as a class, but he has some good material there too. Good luck!

Honestly, I haven't got a clue exactly whether you are or not. I don't eat sausages But if I were in your position, I would take stock of absolutely everything that's going into your sausage, and input the ingredients at correct weights and measurements separately. Couple of quick calculations and you should have a decent estimate of the actual calorie count, no?