Larissa_NY Member

So here's me giving advice after you said you didn't want advice, my bad in advance. I'm in some groups where people vent about various things. In at least one, there's a rule that you put something like *looking for solutions* or *empathy only please* or *feel sorry for me and tell me what to do* at the top of the post.…

I have no idea what about my post made you think I don't know what a calorie deficit is but cool story bro.

Feed your friends brussel sprouts roasted with garlic. If they don't see the light, don't be friends with them anymore.

I'm not sure that you know what the word "deficit" means. Either that or you're just using it in some very strange way.

In addition to this, lifting heavy and building muscle are critical. RA has a nasty tendency to cause rheumatoid cachexia, which is a wasting of the muscles; loss of lean body mass is an important predictor of just about every form of morbidity and mortality. Eat your protein and do your squats.

So, as a math nerd, you should be familiar with the concept of errors of approximation and standard deviations around point estimates. First, there's no way to ensure that the calories on the seasoning packets and the oil bottle are accurate enough to allow you to make the kinds of calculations you want to make, nor is…

You never said what specific results you're looking to see while you're in the gym. Is it just to be more energetic? Strength increase? Stamina increase? Better 5K time? Not having to rest during spin class? More muscle definition? Better sleep? Less fatigue? The thing it took me a long time to learn is that going to the…

You don't. You take that into account when you tell MFP what your activity level is. The exercise tracking is for purposeful exercise, not for living your life.

Listen, elderly dude at the gym. If you want to work in on the assisted pull-up machine, ask me and I will gladly let you. If you stand two machines away from me glaring at me like you were trying to light me on fire with your brain, I'm going to be here doing pull-ups until I look like Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2.…

It sounds like you need to change your definition of "perfect." You've set a goal, which is to lose weight. You might or might not succeed at that goal. If you do? Great! You succeeded perfectly. If you stop trying to achieve your goal? Boom, you just failed. You've traded a decent chance at success for a 0 chance of…

Don't keep snacks where they're accessible to you. You can't eat what you don't have. If you have kids, find snacks they like that you don't. Or get them out of the habit of snacking, too.

You can tell it's an identity thing because you see people all the time on these boards saying "I want to be a runner" or "I guess I'm a runner now!" No one ever says "I want to be a Zumba-er" or "I want to be an airdyner." Being a "runner" is aspirational for a lot of people, I think. Personally I hate running because I…

Yes, I read it. But I don't think the OP or anyone else is served by pretending that there is no other way to live than to constantly obsess about food and rules about food and white-knuckle your way through life avoiding the refrigerator. I also don't think anyone is genetically doomed to lay in bed at night struggling…

"When will people notice?" is not the same question as "When will people start commenting on it?" Depending on where you lose weight from first, it could take them a short time to notice or a long time. As for when they'll start saying something about it - fortunately, more and more people are getting the message that it…

Samesies. I had mono in middle school. I lost an enormous amount of weight and didn't even come close to putting it back on until I was in my 30s. I can't recommend it either.

If you don't like it, and you've never liked it, what's your reason for doing it? You don't have to run to be fit, or even to lose weight.

What's chocolate going to do? It won't fix your problems. If you eat it all day, it's going to make you sick. Tomorrow your stress will all still be there and you'll be mad at yourself for eating all day. I mean, eat it if you want. One day isn't going to kill you. But overindulging isn't actually comforting you, it's just…

I think you're significantly overestimating the extent to which people without weight problems actually think about food and eating. They haven't discovered some sort of secret rules or learned something about eating that other people don't know. Most of them aren't constantly monitoring their intake or fighting battles…

So it sounds from your replies like your eating habits are kind of a process of over-restricting, bingeing, and being afraid that if you start eating you won't want to stop or won't be able to stop (e.g., not eating breakfast because if you do it just sets off the feeling of wanting more food). It also sounds like you've…

Is it possible to outrun the fork? Sure. Can you, Joe Average with an office job and 20 extra pounds around the middle, do it without giving yourself an overuse injury? Probably not. You don't have the fitness level required to expend that kind of energy for that long. Generally speaking, the only people who can have…

Are you doing cardio? Maybe don't do cardio. It seems to make a lot of people really hungry. Try circuit or strength training instead.

Disability inspiration p*rn is super cringy. Please don't do that unless you yourself have cerebral palsy and it's inspiring to you to see someone else with your condition achieve.

I know you know this because you just said it in the last line of your post, but it's worth repeating: being hungry and wanting food aren't the same thing. Being hungry and wanting to feel stuffed and satisfied aren't the same thing either. The reason I bring it up is that I think a lot of people who have been overweight…

Mix pre-workout into your coffee. Do you want to live forever?

Here, do this:* 1. Find something in your home that weighs about half again as much as you do - so if you weigh 200 lbs, find something that weighs 300. 2. Lift that thing up. Put it down. Lift it up. Put it down. Do it again three more times. 3. Find something that weighs about as much as you do. Put it on your back. 4.…

Does that fit with your experience of the world? Have you ever seen people you know lose weight without being on keto? Are you aware that people have gained and lost weight for as long as there have been people, and certainly long before the keto diet was a thing? Have you googled "successful weight loss" and looked at…

You can get all the advice in the world, but the bottom line is that if you want to go to the gym, at some point you're going to have to put your big girl pants on and just go. It doesn't take that long to figure out how to use a treadmill or an exercise bike, and if you want a trainer to show you the ropes, most gyms will…

In order of frequency: (a) Suck it up. It will be worse tomorrow and better from then on. (b) Do yoga, or some sort of stretching program. It really does help. (c) Consider that maybe you're just pushing yourself beyond your limits. If your muscle pain and fatigue are intractable, there's no shame in dialing your workout…

The important thing is that you lift a little heavier every time. That's how you get stronger. Add five pounds to the weights you squat with every week. Before long, the heaviest weight you thought you could lift will be your warm-up weight. Work your way up to the bar, and then up past that. You're not on a time limit.…

I have RA. When I first got sick, my knees hurt so bad that I was afraid I wouldn't be able to work anymore, and I lived in a second-floor walk-up. Knee issues really, really suck, whatever the cause. My first suggestion is to go to a doctor. It might be that a prednisone taper or something could relieve some of your knee…