emilyesq Member

Oh my god.

I'm eating a birthday cake Oreo ice cream sandwich as I type. Still under my calorie goal for the day, still losing weight steadily. Articles like this make me want to eat candy and crisps all the more.

As the poster above pointed out, it's a lot safer to just alter the dress so you KNOW it'll fit, because there's always a chance that even if you try really, really hard, you just won't lose the weight you wanted to. Then you'll spend your wedding day feeling uncomfortable and, if it's tight in the way that the ill-fitting…

Wow, you're a knockout in that dress. Congrats! I had similar issues with clothes shopping back a few years ago when I got my weight under 200 pounds. I actually shopped at plus sized stores for ages, long after their sizes were way too big for me, because I just didn't realize how much smaller I was. I didn't get it until…

Last night, at 11pm, I ate a brownie, a serving of beef jerky, some chips, and 5 marshmallow Peeps. I'm losing weight just fine. I've been slim and I've been obese, there was never a time when I didn't eat at night. Skinny people are skinny because they don't overeat; timing of meals means nothing. People like to point to…

Oh crap, my apologies - that's what I get for watching videos with the sound muted. Yes, it's Pendlay rows I'm struggling with! I'll try widening my stance, that may be the issue. Next time I get a break from my desk I'll test it out. (Can you tell it's a slow day at work?)

Yeah, I may end up switching to Pendlay rows myself. I'm going to give the barbell rows another try or two - I'm supposed to do them tonight, so I'll see how it goes. I'll just keep watching form videos in my spare time at work. :D

It's definitely a barbell row that I'm attempting. I'm trying to do exactly what Mehdi shows in his videos for the SL program. When I say that's what I'm attempting, I mean that I end up doing something halfway between the barbell and Pendlay rows, because I end up having to straighten up a little to complete the motion…

I'm addicted to their Calbee Snappea Crisps. They're single serving, though I have been known to eat two or three.

I always knew I was big, and I never really made excuses for that. I knew I ate a lot of food and I was logical enough about it to know that that was why I was fat. At the beginning of university, I was 220 pounds on a 5'6" frame. I didn't need a wake-up call to know I wasn't healthy. I TOTALLY believed the starvation mode…

Everything I've read about low weight/high rep exercises is that they're... not very effective. At least compared to the other option. Lift heavy, follow a beginner lifting program like Stronglifts 5x5 or Starting Strength (if you're new to heavy lifting), and watch as your body changes faster than you ever would have…

I just started doing Stronglifts 5x5 and I can't recommend it enough. There's a group on MFP for women doing SL 5x5, you can get great advice and tips from them. I was kind of intimidated to go into the weight room of my gym too, being that I'm a pretty small chick who had never touched a barbell before. But It turns out…

Small but satisfying victories - last night I managed to actually complete OHP 5x5 at 40lbs. This was my third time attempting that weight - I kept failing at the last set. On Saturday, I'll be moving up to the standard empty bar. I only just started SL 5x5 a few weeks ago, and I love that I'm seeing progress in my…

If you look at your net calories on a weekly basis rather than a daily basis, as long as you're not eating back your exercise calories every day, you will generally have a weekly net deficit under your calorie goal. I had about 1000 calories to eat as a treat this past weekend (technically it was 2000 calories, but I…

When I was a kid, my favourite thing to eat was homemade white bread, toasted, with raspberry jam and slices of cheddar cheese on top. And now I've made myself crave it, damn. Maybe I can try to fit that into my calories for tomorrow...

Seriously, this averages out to something like 5 pounds a week. OP, you're really, really not eating enough. The fact that you just made another thread stating that you'd be okay with eating 1150 calories a day according to MFP's broken calorie goals, that's a huge red flag. Please, please eat more. See a dietician, and…

First, the range between sizes increases as the size goes up. It took me around 6 months to go from size 16 to size 12, but it's taken me only about 2 months to go from 12 to 8. Besides that, women's sizing varies from store to store. Don't sweat those numbers. Second, and more importantly, you are not eating enough. 1200…

She is eating on a fairly large calorie deficit and she is doing no heavy lifting, only moderate cardio. She is not gaining muscle right now; she only just started working out the muscle she does have. Also, this drives me insane: muscle is denser than fat, which means a pound of muscle is smaller than a pound of fat, but…

If your logging is accurate (meaning you didn't eat anything and not logged it in your diary), I see no problem with what you've eaten the last few days. You don't have to cut out "bad" food as long as you're staying under your calorie goal. A deficit is a deficit!

A pound a week should be fine for your current weight and your goal. After you get down to around 15 pounds left to lose, you could reevaluate and change it to .5 per week. If you're okay with opening your diary, it would be easier for people to give you specific advice about what you may be doing right or wrong. If you…

How many calories is MFP telling you to eat per day? What is your current weight and height, and how much are you trying to lose? More information is always useful around these parts.

Seconding the recommendation for My Body gallery - not only can that help someone determine a goal weight, but it's helped me feel a lot better about my current weight as well. As people are saying, your weight is perfectly healthy, and you'd probably feel better if you focus on building strength and toning muscle rather…

Thanks everyone! Right now, all I'm doing in addition to my 5x5 workout is abs, particularly lower abs. I had surgery several years ago to remove a large cyst, and the result is basically a c-section belly, where the lower half is quite weak (it was completely numb for years). I'll stick with that routine until I get a…

You can't spot-reduce fat. Lose weight and your body will lose the fat wherever it sees fit. Use a barbell for your lifting and your core will be nice and toned once you shed the fat away from it. :)

-Weigh daily and measure weekly, even if I don't expect any losses. -Refrain from restricting my calories too much, because it only leads to burnout within a few months. (1500 may only be a little more than 1200, but lemme tell you, it makes a serious difference in my mind.) -Eat whenever I want - I'm hungriest at night…

I haven't had any babies, but I have had a surgery that was identical to a c-section when I had to have a very large ovarian cyst removed. That was 5 years ago. Losing weight is the only way to get that lower belly pouch to go away. Yes, the area is harder to tone after a surgery like that, your muscles are weaker and less…

... did anyone else read that description and feel their entire digestive system clench in fear? No offence meant to the OP, but I can't imagine a situation where excreting orange goo would be worth it to lose weight, especially if there's a possibility of it happening involuntarily. I'll stick with good old fashioned…

There's nothing inherently bad about a program like Nutrisystem or that other one that's named after some woman... brain like a steel trap, mine. As others have said, the main problem is that in order to lose weight and keep it off, most people need to learn how to eat less, not just realize that they need to. When your…

I've been on Celexa for a year or so and never noticed any weight change (at least, nothing that I could justify blaming on the meds). Of all the SSRIs I've tried, it seems to be the easiest on my system. Now, Effexor basically turned me into Snorlax (size comparisons included). All I did was sleep, sometimes up to 22…

I quit smoking the same time I started losing weight too, in September. It helps that I'm not drinking alcohol as frequently due to the calorie content, since smoking and drinking always tend to go hand in hand with me. It's tough to make a go at all your vices at once, but your lungs will thank you, especially during…