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Well if anybody is looking at tracking their fitness/ macros and was planning on using myfitnesspal, I can now tell you that its £15 a month to use the app fully and still get a boat load of ads.
Ive worked in the industry (in ways) for some time now and I can recommend using MacroFactor for food and weight logging. User interface is much better and set up with a bigger (and more importantly, more accurate) database of nutrition for half the price that myfitnesspal is now charging. Would strongly recommend if you're looking into tracking 
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Tracking everything you eat is key, so is consistency of training.
RH fitness is what quite a few folks I know have had success with. It’s cheap and lots of free info.
No real science to weight loss, just consistent efforts gets results.
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In reply to Post #23
if you eat correctly then 9k steps a day is absolutely fine for weight loss. when my local gym shut in the first lockdown i decided to really track my food accurately and walk an hour plus a day, weight dropped off really well.
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In reply to Post #1
Who needs a gym to lose that belly?
Just eat sensibly and do regular moderate levels of exercise such as walking 9k steps a day. The weight will fall off you....
Anybody can do it If they want (serious medical conditions excepted) you just need to keep it up and don't make it boring.... take the weekend off.
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In reply to Post #18
I’ve seen the couch to 5k app not the triathlon one though
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In reply to Post #17
I have a pal that did that. He used an app called Couch-to-Triathlon to manage his fitness from none existent to enough to do a triathlon. It worked, he smashed it. Fair play.
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In reply to Post #16
Sign up to an event, be it a 5km, a 10km or a sprint triathlon and tell everyone. I did this last year and aside from the financial issue of the entry cost the fact that others know you've signed up spurs you on psychologically. Well, it did for me anyway. My brother in-law laughing at me when I told him of my first triathlon runs through my mind every time I train...
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In reply to Post #15
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In reply to Post #14
Yer. Got some good trails in a place called butser hill near peatersfield hants. Used them when I was a kid. Was good fun. Also got a lot of lanes near me with in 2 miles. I've got a good maintain bike just need to use it.
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In reply to Post #13
You'll love it mate. Get a couple of months under your belt for fitness then hit some local trails. This website is decent for finding trails:
https://www.trailforks.com/region/hampshire/
A word of warning; it's addictive, and can be bloody expensive. Bit like fishing lol.
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In reply to Post #11
That's what I'm looking at doing on a maintain bike. As like all the lanes and so on. Unfortunately I got a phone call from the doctor. So I've got to do it now and quickly.
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Some good advice given. Also, do you have someone to go to the gym with? When I joined up a few years back I used to enjoy it, going with a mate of mine. But when she stopped going it got a bit boring, and I stopped going myself not long after that. You seem to push each other along which I found helped a lot. I a aged to drop a stone and a half in 4 months, unfortunately now I've stopped that's all come back, and an extra stone too 
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In reply to Post #10
Good advice. You need to enjoy it to make it bearable.
I tried the gym...... boring, gave up.... tried running.... boring, gave up...... got a mountain bike, bloody loved it. I visit trails and bike parks all over the show whenever I can now, and just head off down the local bridleways for fitness.
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NON Carp stuff