CICO: The Calories In / Calories Out Method
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CICO: The Calories In / Calories Out Method

What is CICO? CICO stands for Calories In, Calories Out and it means that you eat less than you burn. Whenever you hear that you need to be in a calorie deficit to lose weight, this is CICO. CICO is a no-frills no BS diet plan. It's not a quick fix, it's not sexy, it's not trendy, it's just a basic diet plan grounded on the idea that if you eat less food than you need then your body will go looking for additional fuel in your fat stores on your body. (more…)
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Big Mac Wisdom
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Big Mac Wisdom

My first post in at least a year. And I'm writing this after I've just finished a day-old Big Mac, washing it all down with a fanta. Not exactly healthy or diet friendly, is it? I've come to the conclusion that, in my current state, I'm really in no position to be giving any kind of health-related advice. To anyone. The only advice I will give is that if you take my advice, you will get fat. It's the only realistic conclusion after going after this weight loss for at least 15 years. I "know" all about how to lose...
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losing weight mindsets

how being fat makes me feel like a failure in every part of my life

Being Fat At the beginning of 2017, I turned 40 and I was fat, the fattest that I had ever been. I had spent most of 2016 on a diet of some sort - all in aim of being at my goal weight for my 40th birthday.  That goal didn't happen. I really felt the impact of being so fat when I turned 40.  First of all, I had failed at my millionth attempt at losing weight.  That I had been overweight for almost half of my life; my attempts to remember how fit and thin I was in my...
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breakfast lunch recipe

keto scrambled eggs with spinach

I've always loved scrambed eggs.  And I mean, really LOVE them. But I haven't always been good at making them.  When I first met my husband I was in my early 20s and I decided to make him breakfast one morning.  Following my usual (at the time) way of cooking, I prepared the eggs first.  Crack four eggs into a bowl, add a little salt and a small amount of skim milk. mistake number.. one...skim milk I'm just going to stop right here, right now.  Skim milk.  It is the real enemy.  It is like water.  Except it doesn't taste...
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mindsets

being known as the ‘fat, funny one’

I think that I'm a pretty funny person.  I mean, my friends laugh at my jokes and call me 'the funny one'.  Which is both good and bad.  I mean, usually in a movie, the funny one is the side kick friend to the 'gorgeous one'.  The funny one usually never gets the guy (or girl) and is usually ugly and / or fat. See how that's awkward now. When I first started my (current, ha!) diet at the beginning of this year I thought that I was so hilarious when I came up with the following headline in my...
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losing weight mindsets

25kg overweight and I feel sensational! wait, what?

Today I feel good about myself. Isn't it great (and a little strange) that losing even just a small amount of weight can have such a positive impact on the way that you feel about yourself. I have lost just over 5kg in four weeks.  And today, I reached into the drawer and pulled out my 'normal' jeans.  These are my favourite pair of jeans because they fit me really well at this weight.  A month ago, on my birthday, they were almost too tight to wear.  I remember wearing them to the kids' first day of school and feeling...
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