HeySwoleSister Member

Page 3? THIS SHALL NOT STAND.

You need to look at CALORIES for weight loss. Protein and carbs are for muscle building and fueling workouts respectively. There are people who eat at every macro breakdown who are both losing weight and gaining weight. The calories are what makes changes in mass happen.

I got the peep photo from a simple Google Image Search. dude, you're famous.

Sorry, but you cannot deny the magnificence of your Gift to Humanity.

I suspect age had a lot to do with my skin calling it quits as well. It sprang right back when I had my first at 28, took a few months when I had my second at 31, and when #3 came and I was 35? "Thanks, I'll just stay all stretched out, kthxbai."

I had kids while very, very skinny. After the third one was born, my skin was all "F you, I'm not going back!"

Best advice for you, OP. Do this.

Anyone who doesn't naturally have a certain body type but wants to dramatically adopt an unhealthy lifestyle to get it? (curvy ladies starving for a thigh gap AND coltish ones pigging out to get "thick") Not cool man, not cool.

SERIOUSLY. You go after the ZONE with a hypodermic? I WILL RIP OFF YOUR F06KING ARM.

Your instincts are WAY better than the crappy advice you're getting. GO FOR IT.

strawberry rhubarb. That is all.

YEAY! Double-duty physical and mental health boost! Keep doing that! I wager you'll make some new friends and feel more and more great about yourself inside and out.

This is sound and compassionate advice. Also, OP? Your photo in no way looks pregnant. I get a bigger belly from a good meal. Your mom can pound sand. For your own mental health, though, try some free yoga practises (there are many available on You Tube and iTunes podcasts, so you can shop around!) and get out and walk…

I kind of dream of living on a big plot of land with a pond so I can have a fleet of Indian Runner Ducks. Those little buggers are the cutest things ever to watch running around. Like crazed manic penguins on crack, they are.

5'8" and 114 is either emaciated or definitely "skinny fat." I spent years at 5'6-7" and 110 with a poochy belly, I get that it CAN be a thing.... The only answer is lifting heavy stuffs, eating a solid diet, and letting go of the notion that the scale measures your fitness. Because when you are truly small-framed and…

When you say "lose weight fast," how fast? I mean, in relation to the amount of time you spent getting overweight?

Eh, I think you're OK until you start freaking out if your'e not drinking. So, if one night you have an engagement (like a funeral, late meeting, whatever) and you don't drink? How do you feel? Do you crave alcohol every step of the way, or do you drift off to sleep later and maybe think, Oh, hey, first night this week…

I keep a 5 and 10 pound dumbbell next to my desk...just added a 15 pound kettlebell. I can do stuff like tricep extensions and singled handed OHP while reading documents. Multitasking FTW

Find what you like to do. I'm another one who "hates exercise" but what I really hate is cardio. Seriously, it makes me feel nauseated and miserable. The eliptical is a torture device as far as I'm concerned. BUT. I LOVE doing strength work...bonus is when you use heavy weights you don't sit there doing 8000 reps and…

So buy chicken in bulk. Watch for rotisserie chickens to go on sale. I get 2-3 dinners per chicken with sides, and that's for my family of 5, including 3 teenagers. You can be as cranky as you want about "first world problems," but going vegan in an industrialized country is about as first world as you can get. Just adding…

^that.

Protein+fiber in the morning. If you aren't hungry right away, pack up a little breakfast to go that you can eat at work when your appetite picks up. Think things like this: Berries+greek yogurt Boiled egg and carrot sticks Triscuits and a WEIGHED PORTION of sharp cheddar cheese And, if you are hungry enough before you…

I think I'd like to do more hanging out with you. And, no, "lite" beer does not count as beer. It's a fricking fracking BEER SPRITZER at best. Yuck. Talk about not worth the calories! I'd rather have seltzer at 0 calories than a "lite beer"

Seriously? 14% and 22 oz? Yeah, that's going to have some bite. I'm notorious for liking to get my drink on, and that's a woozy of a night for me....so, yeah. still a calorie bargain.

Also, Buzzfeed has been pretty cool lately. http://www.buzzfeed.com/sallytamarkin/this-is-what-women-who-lift-weights-actually-look-like

Lose "fast" from your list of priorities. That way lies madness.

Fight you for it?