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Do you still have gym access? I lift three times a week and I've never used a spotter. Lift in a power rack where you can set the safeties, learn how to safely dump a lift, and you'll be fine. Lifting isn't a team sport. Oh, also - you can build some pretty solid muscle doing bodyweight programs like Convict Conditioning…
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Did you get overweight doing it? Then you won't lose by deciding it's exercise now and you should get more food as a reward. Edit: my god, I just noticed the original post was five years ago. I'm pretty sure the OP has made up their mind one way or another by now. Sorry for my contribution to keeping a particularly stinky…
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I don't personally have a problem logging, but I see an awful lot of posts from people who do. And who is going to lie and say that the first time you try to enter a new food, it's not a royal pain in the *kitten* trying to find an accurate entry among the twenty-five wildly different listings for "banana"? If you're a new…
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I often feel like exercise instructors don't really know what it means either, but my best guess is to tense your abdominal muscles like you were bracing for a punch. What exactly is it that you're doing while you're supposed to be theoretically activating your core?
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People are not always going to drive the way you want them to drive, and you can't make them. Some people drive like idiots. The driving-like-idiots thing is their fault, but a verbal altercation that you start is your own. I'm not condoning what she said, but what did you think was going to happen? That she'd meekly…
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The caveman thing is 100% marketing. If you boil primal, paleo, or any other similar diet down to the fundamentals, all they're saying is "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants." But it's kind of funny watching people twist themselves into logical Mobius strips trying to explain how Weight Watchers frankendinners are a…
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You're going to have to choose, here. You can't keep eating food until you're ready to pop just because it tastes good, refuse low-calorie alternatives because you don't like them, graze all the time, and still expect to lose weight. Ultimately your success or failure will come down to whether you want to lose weight…
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OP, I don't lose weight by counting calories either. I just do it wrong or something. I don't have the patience to weigh and measure food and I doubt I ever will. Fortunately, my body keeps an accurate tally even if I don't. If I'm not losing, I need to eat less regardless of how many fits MFP throws about my (alleged)…
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Agreed. You wanted her to have a food log for accountability? Dude, she is eleven years old. YOU are accountable for her diet. If you don't want her eating mindlessly, don't keep snack food in the house.
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I specifically came in here to see if anyone had told you to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of the women. MFP, I am disappoint.
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Just because you want to do something doesn't mean you have to do it. I want to sleep until noon every day, but I don't, because if I do then I can't meet my goal of remaining employed and paying the rent. What's more important to you, your weight loss or eating whenever you feel like it?
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Gluttony (or, if you like, overconsumption) is not the cure for waste. The cure for waste is to prepare and consume as much as you need, not more. It boggles my mind that people who would never think that the cure for, say, plastic waste in the oceans is to use more plastic shopping bags somehow convince themselves that…
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I love my Fitbit, but it's not a moral obligation, you know? If it makes you feel bad and you find it more demotivating than motivating, either reset your goals or just stop using it. It's okay to have tried something and realized it didn't work for you.
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I hate to say it, but yeah. It sounds like he wants out of the marriage and just wants an escape hatch that lets him blame the whole thing on you. I mean, he actually told you that he had to turn away from your body in disgust because he saw a vein - or for any reason at all? I would have had the divorce papers on his desk…
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I think a whole lot of people feel this way, to be quite honest. It's not uncommon for people to put on fat as a sort of invisibility shield, especially against any sort of sexual attention. You're definitely not alone, but it would probably help to talk the issue over with a therapist with experience in eating disorders.…
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Now I want pizza. On topic, though - there are a bazillion different kinds of fruits and vegetables and many of them taste very different. I admit to going "Ugh, vegetables," but then when I sit down and think about individual kinds of vegetables, it turns out there are a whole lot that I like. What kind of soup are you…
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Mostly I just wait to eat until I get home. Like Paiger816 suggested, though, Panera has some reasonably good options, or you can keep some protein bars in your desk.
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That's interesting. I'm assuming that, if you know how she did or didn't get thin, you know her personally - maybe even live with her, if you're with her enough to be that confident about your knowledge of her diet and exercise regimen. If so, then you've certainly been up close enough to her to know that her face looks…
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It's a figure of speech, dude. People use them sometimes to make or illustrate a point, and that's okay. Most people understand that they aren't meant to be taken literally. OP, I've never had WLS so take this for what it's worth: I think you need to be asking this question on either a dedicated WLS forum or one of the…
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Agreed. I can't believe the comments suggesting that fitness models and athletes, of all people on God's green earth, don't have to work at getting their bodies into the shape they're in. As if you can walk in off the street with a donut in one hand and a frappucino in the other, put on a pair of booty shorts, and be photo…
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Like anything else about dieting, it's fine if you can do it rationally and responsibly. If you can't... well, that's where all the threads about "I washed dishes for ten whole minutes today, how many calories can I reward myself with?" come from. Activity becomes nothing more than a way to game the system so you can stuff…
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I never lose weight when I eat back exercise calories either, so I stopped doing it and just used the TDEE method. I still use my fitbit for general activity level tracking, but I ignore its calorie adjustments. MFP isn't any better, by the way. Every time I entered a spin class you'd think it was the Apocalypse. I got so…
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That's an interesting reductio ad absurdum, but okay, I'll play along. Yes, once you have ingested enough food to sufficiently fuel your daily living activities, you may feel free to stop eating altogether until the next time your body actually physically requires food.
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All the great answers in this thread. OP, all goals are to some extent a mix of internal and external motivation. Do you want to like what you see when you look in the mirror, with no one else in the room? Do you want to like the way it feels to live in your body? That's mostly internal motivation. If you don't want to be…
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I want to be scornful here but I am such a useless-gadget person that I really can't.
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Are you sure you love it? Because you don't describe it like it's something you love. You describe yourself sitting at the kitchen table, staring at the TV, mindlessly (your word) stuffing food in your mouth as fast as you can so no one will catch you eating. That doesn't sound like someone doing something they love. That…
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If you can stand the taste, reheat it. It won't kill you.
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Okay, but no. That may be what you tell yourself, but the only person you're fooling is yourself. You are, in fact, making a decision to raid the fridge. Your behavior is entirely under your control, and no one else's. The sooner you accept this very basic fact, the sooner you can begin fixing the things that are wrong…
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Speaking of zero training, my sedentary daughter and my sedentary self did a 7-mile AIDS walk because np, right? I had to call her in sick to school and myself in to work the next day, and we both stayed in bed, completely unable to get up without horrifying DOMS.
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Like, I understand that sweet potatoes are the In Paleo Food, but oh my god they are disgusting. Disgusting. There is literally nothing you can put on them to make them acceptable. They are unsalvageable. Also, I hate all seafood except crab. And brie looks like snot and doesn't taste much better.
