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who necro'd this thread lol

One of my favorite things to do when I'm in a cooking rut is to pick a random ingredient I've never tried or cooked before, go on All Recipes, and then look up a four or five star recipe that features that ingredient. There are surely so many foods out there all over the world that you've never tried before. Go to your…

Try again tomorrow.

I think sweetened cottage cheese is nasty so I always use savory mix-ins. My current go-to is Cholula hot sauce, a bit of lime juice, and a few crushed up tortilla chips.

Are you doing the Zumba and lifting program on the same days? You might be overtraining.

I had to start on long-term maintenance medication once I started exercising every day/every other day, as it's not good to take your rescue inhaler so many times a week, even if it's to preempt exercise-induced asthma and you're not actually having any asthma symptoms yet. I avoid exercising outdoors during spring and…

I eat a much greater variety and amount of fruits and vegetables in the summer because fruits/veggies in season are cheap, tasty, and plentiful. In the winter, most fruits and vegetables are expensive and/or don't taste as good. I pay more to get better fruits and vegetables in the winter, but that invariably means I eat…

Protein powder and shrimp. Eggs and dairy products (cheeses and yogurt) are a good second place. I don't really like chicken, I especially cannot stand white meat, and it's not safe to eat tuna/most of the other fish I like every single day. I don't eat red meat more than once a week.

It's not a good idea long-term. Maybe if you are actually very overweight and it's only for a month or so, and you're being supervised by a doctor, but otherwise it's a bad idea. I'm 5'1" with a desk job and on my inactive days I break even at 1600 calories. At 1200 calories I lost 30 lbs without having to add any…

That too! Like...wow, okay, sorry for existing with flaws. Like I can kinda understand if you have a very unstable health condition or one that is poorly managed, but the vast majority of health conditions are manageable and don't typically impede normal daily activities when they are well-managed. Plus, anyone could…

And by "you" I mean whoever wrote this policy...can't edit my post.

I honestly think it's more screwed up and ignorant that those on antidepressants are excluded. It's a good thing when a parent takes the medication they need to treat their condition -- would you rather they didn't? Many people on anti-depressants live normal, stable, productive lives and they take their meds to continue…

I agree, and in my old gym there was a 25 min cardio equipment rule when other people are waiting for the machines to deal with issues like that. As long as they get off the machine in 25 min, they did their bit and I don't really care what they do with the machine for that time.

I started off a resolutioner and it worked out really well for me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ There are annoying know-it-all resolutioners, but there's a fair number of annoying know-it-all year-round gym-goers too, some of who somehow feel more entitled to the space despite paying the same fees as everyone else. Some people are just…

I don't personally disagree with any of the default boilerplate advice, I just don't think it's always applied appropriately, if that makes sense. Sometimes people will ask pretty specific questions/questions that may not necessarily be about the mechanics of how weight loss works, and they will receive default advice that…

Yo-yo dieting is still bad for you, but what you said about fat cells is still true. There are actually a lot of issues with yo-yo dieting, but I'll (very broadly) describe one of the key issues with it below. In simple terms, dieting puts a form of stress on the body. When dieting responsibly (moderate decrease in caloric…

It's almost a meme to crap all over PF in the fitness community, but I think it's pretty stupid. PF fills a specific niche and it's important not to get too presumptuous and uppity about other people's exercise preferences or motivations. Any exercise is better than no exercise, not everyone is about to throw themselves…

Eh, nah, you don't necessarily know why they do what they do. I just had to add like 500 calories worth of "walking" to a few days last week. I forgot to wear my Fitbit those days and it bugs me that it says I was "over" for those days because it thought I was in some kind of coma and only burned ~1200 calories/day. I'm…

Are you talking American tex mex tacos or actual Mexican street-style tacos?

I donated most of the bottoms as I hate to wear belts and some of them can't even be saved with a belt. Depending on the top style, I kept some of them. Baggy tops can be fashionable and can be made to look pretty good if you style them correctly. I avoided baggy tops like the plague when I was heavier because I thought…

Well... I think there's a really indirect noncausal correlation between undereating and poor physical health. There is not a chance I could eat 1500 calories every day for the rest of my life unless I was extremely sedentary. And if I was extremely sedentary, then I should eat 1500 calories. But also I should not be that…

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I’m not sure WHAT it is about them but I’ve noticed a fair number of them are much higher in calories than their homemade equivalent and I’m not sure why. If you go to a gas station and get a chicken sandwich or a burger it’s like 770 calories and it doesn’t taste very good either. I can make a similar sized burger at home…

Fitbits are best used when you wear them (almost) 24/7. They automatically calculate your BMR and add them to your burn count. You could do some math to figure out what just the activity burn was, but it's not directly reported in your daily average (caveat: it does sometimes report just the activity burn if it can…

You really shouldn't put *that* much stock into what people are saying is good for you or bad for you nowadays. Nutrition is not a very well understood field, and anyone who says they know definitively that something is absolutely bad or absolutely good for you is *probably* talking out of their *kitten*. The reasoning…

How long have you been doing this? The scale itself will not show linear progress. In a given month, my weight can fluctuate from my actual weight to up 3-5 lbs, usually due to hormones, alcohol, salt affecting how much water I'm retaining. The closer you are to lean, the less linear this progress will appear on the scale,…

Yeah, it's not true. It doesn't even make sense if you think about it -- your body can't use for fuel what it doesn't have to burn. Just being alive and in a comatose state burns calories, and if you're not consuming them then they have to come from elsewhere i.e. your fat stores. It's what they're there for, and the whole…

My biggest issue with diet pills is that they tend not to work, and the ones that do tend to be really, really bad for you. The false advertising and BSing also bothers me. That's all. If they actually worked, didn't lie and BS a bunch, and weren't terrible for you I'd be all over that ish.

Yeah, that is the problem for me. I'm ~130 lbs right now (5'1" female). I'd like to be 125 lbs or even 120 lbs, which is where I last felt super comfortable with my body, but there's so much less room for error now if I want to reach that. I'm trying to be easy on myself and setting a super doable goal of getting the rest…

It's mostly mental. I think it's because if you've got a lot of pounds (and months of weight loss) behind you, the fatigue starts catching up. You look a lot better than you used to, maybe not exactly perfect, but still passable, so it's easy to slouch and say "good enough". 5 lbs seems to matter a lot less, the urgency is…