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Waaah I moved away from my gym that had the les mills classes and I miss it so! I loved doing Combat, Pump, Flow and Sh'Bam especially, although I'd go rep or cxworks occasionally too. My gym now has some on-demand kind of video classes but it isn't the same. I wouldn't say I built much muscle mass with Bodypump, even when…

5'6", when I hit 165lb. after a vacation last September I started on here as I'd discovered my "eat everything and never exercise" plan wasn't working too well, ha! My goal weight is set to 135lb, I've been around 142lb. for the last month and haven't been focusing on weight loss much. For measurements I'm 34" 30" 39"…

I was doing weekly or less but I'd find that I would say to myself "oh I'll just check tomorrow, after I give that salty meal yesterday a chance to pass I bet it'll be lower" and when I'd do that several days in a row so I finally just decided to commit to daily. I kind of like knowing where the fluctuations are coming…

I thought the plain coconut milk (so delicious brand I think) was very nice, although my fav is still plain soy milk which sometimes, even, has a just slightly sweet taste in recipes - so I throw in maybe a teaspoon or less of lemon juice. Essentially making it soy butter milk. Oh well. And the coconut yogurts were…

My grandmother passed on a recipe for soft rolls (that can also be made into bread) that is amazing, close to a challah bread with the eggs and butter and delightfully soft, I would probably eat the whole loaf or dozen rolls if I was left to my own devices. Subsequently, I only make it on rare occasion.

I agree with most here, get thee to a local bike store! Explain what you want the bike for and how often! I actually did the same and ended up with a hybrid, although honestly I very rarely ride on anything except asphalt and if I'd known I was going to move from a ground level place to the fourth floor (and thereby,…

Don't you love when that happens? My bet is that stubborn set was the water weight and now the drop is without - if you're anything like me it'll still fluctuate around but now at a lower level (instead of 140-143 now between 138-140).

(Hi everyone I just joined!) I haven't been hitting the gym like I've wanted to, last round was SQ 110lb 5x5 OHP 4/3 at 60lb, deweighted to 55b and finished 5/5/4 DL 1x5 155lb. Both BP and BR are at 75b. All I've done this weekend has been a 4 mile bike ride around my neighborhood (which I probably won't repeat, I don't…

Thanks for posting this! I've been doing SL for a few weeks and am frequently like "I... don't know if I'm doing this right??" Especially barbell row, while everything else feels RIGHT like I'm actually using the muscles I'm supposed to be using (I learned some from taking bodypump classes), the barbell row never seems to,…

Hooray! Isn't it great when some kind of exercise that was in a "I can't even do one" category becomes a "yep, I can do that, multiple times even!" exercise? :smiley: Keep it up!

I don't know, my husband will finish any junk food in the house if I don't pay attention. Even stuff I may want, like I had some graham crackers for a pie crust and after a few days I thought "all right I'll get around to making that pie!" and they'd mysteriously disappeared. Even if we go out, same thing, I try to not eat…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HMbJbhw9Qo&index=4&list=PLKzD5ixQHom-YdJtRIcjYnblWyAPbYv6- darnit, that second video wasn't the one I wanted, this one! With the gentleman!

In the same league as lifting heavy, no - if you are doing less dancing and more of the gymnastic work, though, I'd say it is certainly in the same area as body weight exercises for resistance training! I mean, I would certainly not say that this lady https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-soX5Yyw-c or this gentleman (!)…

Oh heck, when I got periods (I have birth control that gives me almost none now) everything threw them off. Starting new job! Finals week! Moving! Whatever! And then the stress of "omigod why hasn't my period started what could have happened whhhhhy??" would delay it even longer. Go ahead and take a cheap over the counter…

Man, if it is like the Ashton Kutcher linked article has and you can still eats nuts and seeds for proteins/fats and olives and avocados for even more fats (delicious fats.. just had guacamole with olives in it) well I'd love to eat that much fruit but I'd probably mess it up with too many of the protein-y/fatty items.…

Nurse practitioner here, but I was a staff nurse for 8 years and still pick up time occasionally - I did a couple of things: even though I definitely whined a ton with 12s, getting in even 30 minutes of exercise after a shift really helped. Especially when I went to a gym with a pool so I could be off my feet! On days off…

I eat out a good bit, probably 2-3x a week for dinner for once (rarely more) a week for lunch. My husband and I go out for breakfast maybe 1-2x a month. A lot of times we eat places that don't have menus available before hand, so I try to exercise a bit more ahead of time and go for the lighter options if possible, and not…

I didn't really think I could in a healthy way, I was pretty sure that the only option was going to be to only really tiny, vegan, low-carb, low-fat portions of food and go to the gym a ton (which was a way I'd lost weight in the past!) or just accept my weight. Until it kept going higher. And when I joined MFP I realized…

Amazing job!!!

Health vs. obesity with twinkie diet man - how many other health markers do you want? Blood sugar, blood pressure, cholesterol, body fat percentage ALL WENT DOWN with caloric reduction, even while eating sugary junk food as the main calorie source. That diet didn't just reduce body weight, all those other markers of health…

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/ I like to point out this guy, especially the effect of a low-cal junk food diet on his cholesterol numbers (fasting glucose also dropped from 94 to 75, although you have to dig through his Facebook to find that one) when the "sugar is evil! all carbs are evil! if…

Wasn't there a woman in Dying to be Thin (or a similar eating disorder documentary) that when she had a PEG tube (tube to the stomach on the abdomen for inserting liquid food) inserted in order to force her stomach to accept adequate calories overnight because she was refusing to do so during the day, she learned how to…

It is true you don't HAVE to weigh all of your food, but when you're frustrated that you're not losing (although really, giving yourself more time maybe the answer too!) it can certainly provide an answer - I remember awhile ago I thought "I eat pretty healthy, not like a ton or anything" then I was astounded when I…

Man I wish I had that time, wearing a HRM I usually average around 500cals per hour in the gym, and this week is definitely not going to allow 2 hours each day.

awesome accomplishment! (even with the mistake about the trails) what a beautiful race! I can barely do 5k, this is definitely inspiring!

I don't know, you could do something like brush your teeth after lunch or get really involved in some project or whatever to avoid it? Tell yourself you need to do 10 jumping jacks and drink a glass of water before getting one (and by the time you've done that you might forget about it anyway?). That or budget it for it…

I'm doing a farm share which comes out to about $65/week for my husband and me - I loooove it as it is weekly yogurt, bread, cheese, meat, eggs, tofu and lots of vegetables, cuts down a lot on grocery shopping too (my favorite thing to avoid!) because then I'm only buying to augment the aforementioned instead of just…

Yeah, I can certainly say that while I'm snappish and grumpy when life just converges so that I'm starving before eating rather than just 'not full' (ex. I forget to bring lunch and am too busy to leave work to get something else, then we made a dinner reservation so my husband and I leave for that but there is a traffic…

The tare function is "zeroing" the scale when there is something on it. It is really useful for adding ingredients together - say, put a slice of bread on it, hit tare so it reads zero, then add mayo to the bread and replace it on the scale, now you know exactly how many grams of mayo have been added without math. Then you…

I knoooow. I work at a weight loss clinic "how about to start you weight/measure all of your intake and journal it and we'll discuss a healthy deficit?" "NO! What can I buy??" "Why won't you give me drugs?" "what kind of shot or supplement will you sell me" "what kind of wacky regimen can I do?"