Larissa_NY Member

This is interesting to me, because Full doesn't feel like happiness or completeness to me - it feels gross and uncomfortable and, occasionally, miserable. Nothing but bad emotions are associated with it. OP, are you me or Chaagy? You won't know until you give both a good college try.

I have the same issue and nothing but sleeping pills seems to help. Exercise does a little, Advil does a little, but I still wake up every time I roll over. I guess I'm just offering sympathy and hope that you can find a solution where I've failed to.

Samesies. That's why I won't link my Fitbit with my sister's. That *kitten* gets like 15,000 steps a day and I'm like "Pick the weights up, put the weights down."

I've never been more than four or five pounds into the BMI "overweight" range. I've been a size 6-8 pretty much all my adult life. I don't work hard at it, and I'm not saying that to brag - I just don't get hungry that often, and I fill up fast when I eat. When I am hungry, it doesn't bother me; it's not pain, it's not…

I can do a couple, but man, even getting that far took a lot of work. Google "pull-up progressions," there are a lot of them out there. Practice makes perfect, though - keep training them, because for most people they detrain pretty easily when you blow them off for a while.

What exactly were you afraid of? Maybe you should deal with that first.

For what it's worth, this is very very common, and hugely difficult to get past no matter how much you know intellectually about fueling your workout and whatnot. It's exactly why I don't count calories any more than I absolutely have to, and I've never had real weight problems. It sucks a lot. Just keep telling yourself…

This. OP, you're making excuses, and they're not even very good ones. You're the one who goes in the kitchen. You're the one who picks up the food. You're the one who puts it in your mouth. Literally every step of the way from front door to chewing, you could make a different decision, and you don't. If you're going to get…

I mean, there's really no other answer here than "Quit eating so much." That sounds facile, but if you let yourself be hungry you'll find out pretty quickly that it's not the end of the world; do something to take your mind off it, and it's not even a particularly unpleasant sensation. Unless you live in pretty dire…

Yes, thank you, everyone understands that. The reason you feel like you're talking past everyone is that you're not talking about the thing everyone else on the thread is talking about, which is difference in bone structure (measured in inches) and not difference in body weight (measured in pounds). So it's basically like:…

"You'll get fat after you have kids." "Enjoy being thin while you can, it won't last." My mother never, right up to her dying day, forgave me for never getting fat.

I sometimes buy popcorn at the movies, but I don't even bother tracking the calories. Just take however many calories you had left in the day, multiply them by two, and set your sodium count at infinity.

If you binge eat a lot, talk to your doctor or an eating disorder hotline. But as far as junk food goes, it really does get less appealing the longer you refrain from eating it. Don't get me wrong, I still love chips and candy bars and all, but I used to love McDonalds and now I wouldn't eat it on a bet. I just keep…

Okay, I'm going to say this out loud. You have been making posts like this for years. Literally for years. And while you've lost some weight, you're still heavy. At this point, I don't think I exaggerate much if at all when I say that, over the years you've been posting, literally every weight loss strategy that has ever…

Women with linebacker shoulders represent! I have a huge rib cage too. It was like that when I was 13 years old and weighed 104 pounds, and it didn't get any smaller as I aged. I always have to buy blazers a size up and have them tailored in. I always feel like God intended me to be six inches taller than I am and had to…

So how much does it help with endurance, in the experience of people here who take it? Because endurance is my weakest point. I can do singles, triples, and sets of 3, but sets of 5 make me want to die no matter how light the weight is. I'd like to be able to fit more into a workout but I just get gassed so easily.

I did this on the bench press two days ago. Also, one time I was doing light squats to work on form and really working on sitting back on the descent. You can probably guess the outcome. I fell flat on my butt and 75 pounds crashed down onto the gym floor and made a sound like the grand finale of a destruction derby.

She doesn't care, as long as they say something. The OP doesn't want dieting advice, she wants attention. She's like the weight loss board equivalent of a Munchausen's Syndrome patient going from hospital to hospital with factitious illnesses so they can get attention from doctors, and prove they're smarter than the…

I do Wendler's 5/3/1 with the Periodization Bible for accessory lifts. For cardio I do spin class or row a 5k with intervals. And then I do yoga, which is basically the other half of my lifting workout; whenever I try to do one without the other, bad things tend to happen.

Man, there's not a person alive who doesn't know that feeling. But here's the thing: God says, take what you want and pay for it. You want to be lazy and watch TV and do whatever? Take it. The price is that you'll be heavy. You want to be 135 and a size 4? Take it. The price is that you'll eat smaller portions and exercise…

Man, this is a tough one. But... your wife is who she is, you know? She's done WW. She's gone to counseling. She's talked the game. At this point, it seems to me, this is going to have to be about you deciding what you can live with for the rest of your life and what you can't. I don't know you, but I'm betting you didn't…

Show me this friend-making muscle and I will train it. Otherwise, no. I'm there to do my workout and so is everyone else. OP, clearly no one else in the Lifters' Cabal has told you this, so I will - protein farts are your secret weapon in getting people off equipment you want to use. Go to GNC, buy the most gas-producing…

I love leg day. The day after leg day, I do not love so much.

This is exactly right. I might not be a particularly large adult but I am an adult, and I'm perfectly capable of filling up with two slices of pizza and nothing else - because when I say I'm full, what I mean is that I'm not hungry anymore and I've lost interest in eating. I don't mean that bloated stomach, all the corners…

The Thighmaster. Yes, I am ashamed.

No. They're still eating the seeds, and chewing food and then spitting it out to avoid swallowing it is not "fairly common." How is anyone justifying this bizarre and frankly gross behavior? Did MFP become a pro-ana site when I wasn't looking?

On what planet is chewing food to get the taste and then spitting it out not an extreme behavior?

He's insecure, and also behaving in a really nasty, unacceptable way. You know, I too have had men pull the whiny-baby "But you're gonna leaaaaave me for another maaaan!" nonsense. I find the best remedy is to look them in the eye and say "You know, if you're trying to get me to stay with you, calling me a *kitten* is…

If you're weighing every day, you might try an app like Libra that will track your weight over time and show you whether it's trending up or down. Some weeks you won't lose much, and it sucks, but if the trend line goes down over time you'll know you're on the right track. If it doesn't, you'll know to do some course…

I don't know, to be quite honest. I've never had the kind of not-real hunger people on here talk about. A lot of other people have, though, so you should get some good advice. When I'm hungry, my stomach growls, I feel light-headed and tired, and my midsection feels sort of hollowed out. I also don't have a strong food…