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andevenloper

I’ve been cutting back and changing my food with no real luck. I don’t excercise as much as I should, I only manage to do about 6KM a day biking, and 7000 steps walking around office, to bike, store, etc daily. Despite this amount, I haven’t lost a single pound in almost 3 months

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Quentin Sonrel

Well, that's already a fair amount of exercise (much more than what I do myself to be honest (30 minutes of "light" workout four times a week)).

As for the food, I'm no expert but something worth trying is chrono-nutriton (feel free to Google about it, this is the first article written in english I found, I mostly read about it in French).

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Antonio Radovcic • Edited

Really do try counting calories. Get myFitnessPal and set it to 1kg per week weight loss. The first week is horrible, but then it gets easier. Don't worry about carbs/fats/etc., just watch the energy. I'm doing this currently again, for me it's 1500 a day plus biking for an hour gets me 300 more.

It's interesting if you have never done it before; you won't believe how many calories there are in certain foods.

Also: Sleep. Get at least 8 hrs a day.

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Quentin Sonrel

Amazon link seems to be broken :)

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Antonio Radovcic

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