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Making the most of Nutracheck

MAN v FAT members have been able to make the most of Nutracheck’s fantastic app after the two businesses struck a partnership deal earlier in 2025. And it has been a big success so far, with many guys across our community benefitting from Nutracheck’s support when it comes to tracking their food diaries through the course of the week. Down on the south coast, MAN v FAT Eastbourne members have…

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MAN v FAT partners with Nutracheck

MAN v FAT, the UK’s biggest weight loss and wellbeing programme for men, has joined forces with Nutracheck to further enable its members to hit their goals. MAN v FAT, which supports over 8,500 men a week to improve their health and wellbeing through the power of support and community has teamed with the leading app for calorie and nutrition tracking in an exciting new partnership. Men have lost…

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23.3.25

Nervous for my birthday Tuesday. Excited for April to begin.

My legs ache today from gardening yesterday. Due to the foot I’m still only doing yoga and short slow walks three times a week. It’s hard coz walking is my thing. I don’t think my nervous system is any less traumatised yet but to intend to carry on this routine across summer. Slow and nourished.

Still not tracking calories or trying to restrict. We both swear I’ve lost some weight since I made this change.

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20/1/25

Back on track after nearly a month of illness and lack of routine.

According to my human design chart, I am a cold thirst digestion. Honest to fuck it makes so much sense to me. it my also explain my weird trait of standing with the fridge door open to eat and wanting cold ass water even in winter 😂

I have been trying to eat more in accordance with that.

I am letting my cooked food cool to room temperature or even cooler. I am eating more ‘from the fridge’ food.

I am also increasing my iron rich foods but trying to do so without adding more red meat. But with things like kale, I am stir frying it to minimise heat but make it a little easier to digest and prevent bloating. It’s like smoothies, I love them coz they’re cold and full of fruit but I swell up like a moon with them coz raw doesn’t like me.

I have also stopped iron supplements and switched them out for green algae, so a plant based iron. I am hoping this with added greens and more veg in general coupled with vitamin c based drinks and foods, this will get my levels back up. Clearly iron supplements have not worked and having starting reading medical mediums work, I understand why.

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7/1/24

It’s not looking good for exercise for at least another week and then it’s gonna be a slow return. My husband is being as supportive as he can. In the mean time I am focusing hugely on nutrition. The good thing about not moving about much is needing less food. But my mind is struggling with it all, as well as my lungs.

I am glad my throat is not sore anymore though. I’m really not good at dealing with any pain in the oral area.

Does anyone on here use sprinkling for the iron? I’m hoping it will be a plant based tummy friendly and effective alternative to all the gummies I’ve tried (that clearly have not worked judging by my RBC levels) I already eat red meat once or twice a week. The other thing I can really do is increase my green leafy veg and apricots.

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20.11.24

I’m going balls out in December.

X2 cardio a week

Weights once a week

X2 light yoga a week

I am well enough again to workout now. Admittedly Xmas being midweek will give me an excuse to take most of that week off and focus on eating yummy food 😂

My biggest challenge will be my husband being home from mid December. He’s not exactly the most motivating influence considering he ‘want to work and get healthy!’ Not letting myself be distracted or drained by the idea of sitting about is my responsibility. I can’t make him change but I can maintain my efforts despite his inconsistency.

I will be prioritising the cardio and weights over the yoga. I will still be doing the walks although they’ve now gone down to one a day again courtesy of exhaustion, rain and darker evenings making me nervous.

[gumblesocks]

These are the apps I cannot do without

ThinkUp - affirmations including ones you self record

Nutracheck - nutrition tracking (I use the paid version which cost me £28 back in January)

FitOn - free exercise, yoga, meditation (if you have a paid membership you can access meals and cast to a tv)

Headspace - mindfulness for beginners to novice (paid)

Way of life - habit tracker. I love visual stuff so seeing how often I succeed keeps me motivated. I also use it to track symptoms so I can see if I’ve had an increase.

Forest - productivity tracker and timer thatallows you to plant real trees

Goodreads - reading tracker (the yearly challenge keeps me on track)

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14/11/24

I’ve switched back to 4x400 cal meals and a 200 cal snack.

I was doing really well on that routine but switching it up to 3x500 and 2x150 did not work. I was finding myself hungrier.

I think the major difference was the mid afternoon meal was so much smaller and more of a snack. 400 vs 150 is a huge shift.

Hopefully I will now be better satiated and not snacking so much.

I’m also low on iron. I have to take a supplement which sucks for my guts but the symptoms are pretty bad and probably contributing to my insatiable hunger for red meat, dark chocolate and chips lol not to mention total lack of energy for workouts and daily activities