Larissa_NY Member

In the post you quote I said I'm a picky eater, remember? I don't want to eat bread that looks like it's going to fall apart the minute I try to put something on it. If I'm going to eat sliced bread, which I usually don't, I don't want it to fall apart when I pick it up off the plate. It may be that thin bread doesn't fall…

Yes, of course, but that's not what anyone was talking about. The OP's post wasn't about calorie counting, it was about whether or not chewing your food less would somehow make you absorb fewer calories from it. The post this one is responding to was about whether chewing less was associated with eating more. Eating a…

I have a weight range that I'm comfortable with. When I get out of that range, I dial in my diet and do some extra cardio for a few weeks until I'm back in range. That's just part of the process of maintaining your target weight. Thinking of it as "failing" seems a little overly dramatic to me.

Eating too fast and eating too much go hand in hand. You know you've eaten enough when your body starts sending you hormonal signals that you've eaten enough, and that takes time. There's a reason eating slowly helps a lot of people lose weight, and it's not because there are a ton of people in the habit of swallowing…

Have you ever watched an obese person eat? The ones who are like the obese people in my family, at any rate, inhale food like they just want it to sort of wave at their taste buds in passing. Chew once or twice, bam, down the hatch to make room for the next bite. My mother and grandmother could clean their plates and go…

Someone on my Facebook feed once posted a macro to the effect of "If you don't buy things because you don't recognize the ingredients, you need to learn the names of more ingredients." Personally I don't buy "thin bread" or Lean Cuisine tv dinners or fat-free cookies because they look disgusting and I'm a picky eater. I'm…

Inflammation is what repairs the damage you do to your muscles by lifting, so yes. High reps will cause more inflammation than low reps. Having said that, I started a high-rep program about a month ago and just got blood work done two weeks ago, and my CRP hasn't gone up at all.

It's the Y, not SoulCycle. Trust me, nobody there is going to be judging you for not being able to put your foot behind your head. I think you'll find that, like most gyms, it's at least 75% frazzled middle-aged housewives and the elderly. If the 80-year-old lady with the dowager's hump can put on her Nike wear and get on…

Here is some basic math, since the concept seems unclear. If the equation that produces weight loss is CI<CO, then if you start out at CI=CO, you can achieve weight loss by either adding to CO (CO=CO+100) or subtracting from CI (CI=CI-100). The only way that variability in the degree to which CI is less than CO can be…

Same. At my last gym, employees would make a pass-through every couple of hours and re-rack any weights that were out of order or on the floor, but for the most part people just didn't leave them lying around. If your gym is clean, it will pretty much stay clean. If it's a hot mess with misracked weights everywhere, people…

What exercise do you do? Do you take rest days? Are you fueling your workout with enough carbs? Fatigue is really, really tough to get past. You have to sort of adjust one thing at a time until you find a decent equilibrium.

A lot of people get overweight by either drinking a ton of calories or eating a whole lot of calorie-dense foods that aren't very filling. When you switch over to eating foods that aren't calorie-dense but are filling - roast broccoli instead of pasta, for instance - it can be difficult to eat as much as MFP thinks you…

I think she was in my gym last week, except wearing blue. She was doing this very strange sort of stop-motion row where she'd push back with her legs, pause, yank the handle up like she was trying to rip it right out of the machine, move forward until the handle hit her thighs, then pick up the handle, move it up over her…

I work in an office, I lift three times a week and row a couple of times a week, and I'm sedentary. I won't even try to deny it. My step count is horrifying. Other people who work in my office, however, have jobs that require them to be up and moving around the building a lot, and they might well hit 10K steps without much…

You would not think so, would you? And yet I've seen multiple people on here, in response to someone saying something like "It's 80% diet and 20% exercise," posting "No! It's 100% diet!" Apparently those people have discovered food logging and fallen into some sort of singularity where basic math doesn't exist.

Are you also afraid that if you walk past a college you'll accidentally get a PhD? Nobody gets ripped by accident. If it were that easy, literally every man on the planet would be ripped. It takes years of putting tremendous amounts of work into your workout and diet. You can't do 15 reps on the leg press and wake up the…

Today's forecast calls for periodic random shade. I wouldn't run if you paid me, myself, but I'm pretty sure anyone who runs ultras qualifies as an athlete.

When I graduated from college in the mid-90s, the requirements for becoming a licensed hypnotherapist in my state were 25 hours of AIDS education and the payment of $40. No, that's it. Stir of Echoes is a fun movie, but it's just a movie. Call the psychic hotline instead.

No. No, you are not the only person. I also came in to find out who would use a word like "wogging," ironically or otherwise, and now I know.

C4 blue fizz pre-workout, which is the kind I use, has five calories per serving. It says so right on the label. How much pre-workout were you planning on drinking that you're worried it's going to make you gain weight?

It doesn't matter what the doctor's motives were. It matters that - whether you're a doctor or not - you do not blurt out "You've put on a lot of weight!" at the first sight of someone you know has a history of eating disorders, because it will be triggering and you will potentially be doing them harm, which is a thing…

Please only do this if you are sick to death of your job and want to go out with a bang. I don't care if they're selling miraculous cancer-curing tap water; you will embarrass yourself, embarrass your employer, piss off a vendor that your employer invited to the health fair, cause problems for your supervisor, and…

Judas priest, they're 90 and in a nursing home. Tell her to let them smoke crack if they want to, they've earned it.

Well, what do you mean by "lifting weights"? If you mean working up to a 200-pound deadlift or squatting your body weight, no, they're not even remotely the same. If you mean waving 3-pound pink dumbbells around, yes, you're better off with power or vinyasa yoga as a body weight exercise.

Working out shouldn't be a punishment that you inflict on yourself for not looking the way you want to. If you're working yourself up to feel angry and sad every time you go into the gym, it's no wonder you don't want to go. I wouldn't want to go somewhere that made me feel like that either. Don't try to "motivate"…

I have a fat, lazy tomcat who is deeply personally offended by kettlebells and yoga. Also by any activity that does not result in me being at home to give him lunch and provide a lap on demand. He does motivate me to take naps, though.

People do. When I first started surfing weight loss web sites, I was amazed to discover that there were people who thought they were supposed to fill their entire plates corner to corner with food and eat all of it. It legitimately never even occurred to me to do that. Your food would touch your other food, and ick, who…

5'3 here. In maintenance right now, but my God doesn't weight show up on us fast. Every pound I gain goes straight to my face, I swear. The good thing, I guess, is that weight loss shows up fast as well. My sister is 5'10 and she has to lose like 25 pounds to see the same changes I do from losing 10 pounds.

This. I freely admit that I've been guilty of going "Ugh, I hate vegetables." But then when I sit down and start thinking of actual individual vegetables, there are a lot of them I like. I might hate "vegetables," but I love broccoli. And carrots. And sweet peas. And green beans. And green peppers. And... well, you get the…

I lost 25 pounds between my last pre-natal checkup, a week before I gave birth, and my post-partum check-up. Eight pounds, eight ounces of that was actual baby. However, and this is important: I developed pre-eclampsia in my last trimester, which accounted for most of my weight gain and moved my pregnancy to high-risk…