Larissa_NY Member

A guy who's pestering his wife to take weight loss drugs three weeks after she gives birth needs a clue-by-four upside the head. Maybe you need to sit him down and have a conversation with him about why it's so important to him for you to get back on the weight loss train three weeks after giving birth and why it's so…

I have one and I use it at least two or three times a week. I love it. I don't think zucchini noodles are necessarily a substitute for pasta. They don't really taste the same. But they taste really, really good, and you can for sure put the same sauces on them. I had zucchini noodles with pesto and parmesan the other night…

I have to ask: why? In the context of MFP's weight loss algorithms, what makes you think that rewarding yourself with calories for literally going to the bathroom will help you lose weight? If your mobility is so limited that walking to and from the car makes you out of breath, I very much doubt that MFP's calorie…

I have linebacker shoulders too, and cute little strappy tops make them look ten feet wide and cut into my traps something awful. So I buy things that look good on me instead. Sometimes you have to work with the body you have, not the body you want.

I don't know what to tell you other than "stop eating so much," but damn if every man I've ever moved in with hasn't packed on the pounds afterward. If you find out why it happens, let the rest of us know.

I don't collar my weights because trying to work the collars causes my hands serious pain. If I did I'd use one of the brands listed above, though, and just pack them to the gym with the rest of my lifting gear.

Preworkout helps you squeeze out a few more reps that you might not have been able to otherwise. I can't imagine any benefit whatsoever to using it to walk, unless you're in such terrible shape that I'd think taking a preworkout would be contraindicated anyway. If you want to use preworkout, lift weights.

There's a joke about protein intake to be made here, but probably better not.

Being hungry and craving a Whopper aren't the same thing. Are you positive about which one you're experiencing?

If you're a crossfitter, why can't one of the coaches at your box guide you on this? There are three short answers to your question. First, if you're in a steep deficit your workouts will be miserable. Everyone's are. You can't expect to perform the same on 1200 units of energy as you do on 1800. Second, you can lose…

Is he holding my hair back at the time? Because that might earn him the stink-eye and a firm tabling of the discussion. Otherwise, who cares? It's not a photo op.

Doing power yoga can give you a kick-butt bodyweight workout, but in honesty it will probably be difficult for you at your size. Some of my DVDs just about knock me out and I'm half your size and lift heavy weights. But there's no law that says you can't work up to them and just do what you can. As for whether it will…

Effects are statistically significant, not sample sizes. 16 people isn't a sample, it's a collection of case studies. The proof will be in the replication, preferably with larger samples and tighter controls. Even so, until the research is replicated with something closer to a normal weight-loss population, saying that…

This, but also two other things. First, the difference in BMR between two girls who need to lose weight, where one has more muscle than the other, is going to be pretty minimal. Sure, you can maybe eat one more strawberry a day, but at the level of the normal sedentary overweight person it's not a difference that will do…

This is a lesson in why, for every study you see reported in the media, you should ask yourself who the sample was and if you can really generalize from that sample to the rest of the population. The study is interesting and valuable and I'll be watching for the follow-up research, but as things stand, the only thing it…

I'm short, female, and older than you, and if I sat down and made a list of all the rewards I get for exercising, the number of calories expended would be way down on the list. I do things that I enjoy and that give me a feeling of accomplishment, or that just plain feel good to do. Exercise is its own reward and being…

Don't even get me started. Some of the worst advice I've ever seen given to people trying to lose weight was from nutritionists or dietitians. I had a free appointment with one as part of my gym membership, and she honestly had no idea what to say to a middle-aged woman who was trying to gain muscle and improve…

I love peanut butter more than life itself but I swear to God that if I put a jar of it in my shopping cart, by the time I get to the checkout counter my butt has grown an inch. So I don't buy it very often, sadly.

What are you doing to build muscle besides drinking the Herbalife kool-aid? I assume you're lifting, because why would you think that drinking shakes would make your muscles grow, but what program are you on?

I get supremely, irrationally annoyed by the whole idea of snacking, and I could not even tell you why. Even the word just sounds gross to me. Snack. Snack. Snack. It's the ugliest word. I get the same fingernails-on-a-chalkboard sensation hearing or reading it that a lot of people get from the word "moist." Like, it's…

The sad thing is that this is probably the literal truth.

Good decision on swapping out the treadmill for something with no impact. My mother spent the last few years of her life between 300 and 400 pounds and got a stress fracture just from walking on tile floors at work; that sort of weight on your joints and the small bones of your feet is nothing to mess around with. There…

That's what weight does. It fluctuates. 2-3 pounds isn't all that much, and you can't expect to weigh exactly the same, day after day, or lose in lockstep with an equation that doesn't take water weight or hormonal fluctuations into account (yes, you do still have hormones circulating in your bloodstream, even after…

Wow. I'm sorry, but this is a terrible thing to say. My daughter was slim at some points in her life and heavy at others, but there has literally never been a day when I didn't think she was beautiful. And no, this isn't "between you and MFP." You put this on the internet, on a publicly available site. Kids web-surf. How…

Come on, now. No reasonable person can actually think that sitting in the sauna counts as exercise. Or that there's anything "tough" about literally sitting on a bench and not moving. Here's a good rule of thumb: if you have to ask "Does this count as exercise?" then it's not exercise and you know it. You're just asking…

I've heard that body weight exercises work better for women than for men. You'll have to really put effort into it, though - air squats aren't going to do much. Look at Convict Conditioning and You Are Your Own Gym, and remember that part of getting muscle definition is stripping off the fat covering them.

I don't because increased activity doesn't make me more hungry. It does for a lot of people. On the other hand, be careful with that. What you describe as a busy day is basically an average weekend for a person who's reasonably active. You can create a deficit by either decreasing your intake or increasing your activity…

What kind of squats are you doing? Unweighted squats will build up your stamina but they're not going to build up your butt. Get to where you're putting your body weight in iron on your back and squatting for reps, you'll see results.

No, I tell a lie, it's opt-in on the desktop too. I thought it was opt-out. So I guess a lot of people just really, really think the MFP database needs their entry for a 15-calorie banana with no carbs.

For real. It is HARD to put on muscle. I'm actively trying to, and it really irritates me to hear overweight middle-aged women in the gym happily reassuring each other that they've put on five pounds of muscle since last week. NO YOU HAVEN'T, BTCHES. /issues