jlaw_1992 Member

It's pretty unlikely(read: impossible) for someone to gain a pound of muscle in one week. Most likely you're retaining water in your muscles. Honestly, I found weighing weekly to be extremely discouraging, so I started weighing in only on the first day of every month. I agree that the scale is only a small part of the…

I get up at 5 a.m. and have my coffee, then go for a run. I'm usually back shortly after 6, send my husband and his son off with their breakfasts and lunches, and then head to work myself at about that time. The key is making it a habit, of course, and then it's easy.

When I first tried getting over certain foods that I had a problem overeating(peanut butter being a really good example), I made a point to plan it into my budget at least once a day, sometimes more. My "cheat" items were never unhealthy things, though. They were normally nuts and nut butters. I now eat almond butter every…

While this is true, no one says, "My body needs to pee," or "My body needs air." No, it's "I need to X."

I think I do... but I had a lawyer I was working for tell me one time that I look "about 12." Gee, thanks.

Eat enough carbs as well. Low carb is good for some people for fast weight loss(dropping water weight and less hungry), but carbs are muscle-sparing. Plus they hold water which gives your muscles the illusion of being bigger, which is a plus.

When I was first training to run 5k, yeah, I always took a rest day in between each run. Listen to your muscles too. It's usually not good to work out the same muscle group when they're still sore from the previous workout.

I do if I'm hungry enough to do so. I'm trying to get in the habit of only eating when I'm hungry after working out because then if I have extra calories to bank for the week, I'll likely use them on a few drinks on the weekend or something. I mean, I went on a 16-km run the other day, and to try to eat that back the same…

I've struggled off and on with this as well. Last week I had a major binge, which was my first since January. Glad to have friends for support/to support if anyone is interested.

I'm trying to break the habit of weighing on Mondays and weigh on Fridays instead because I know Friday will probably be my low point for the week, not after the weekend. It's taking some work to get used to.

I use Leanfit Vanilla(and chocolate, depending on my mood) that I buy at Costco. I haven't found a better price on protein. That was really what it boiled down to: Cheap, reasonable quality, and tastes really good.

This! Metabolism is, in a nutshell, the calories you need to maintain your weight in a coma in a hospital bed. That's what metabolism really is, and there is a surprisingly small range that people have even taking height into consideration because after the brain and liver take the lion's share of the calories you need,…

I used to have this problem too. I know it's not about restricting. For me, it was kind of a general perfectionism. I had to entirely stop tracking my calories for a while and plan to eat some of my "trigger" foods daily. Foods that I thought were "bad" became part of my daily diet, and they lost their power over me. Also,…

I use JeFit, and when you input a program, you tell it how many sets you want to do and your target reps. Is that what you're looking for? Also, an idea my husband gave me earlier is that he inputs a set at the end of his workout with 0 reps and puts in the weight that he thinks he should perform the exercise at the next…

I need this in my life. Right now.

I notice that it makes me hungrier. If you avoid this side effect and don't find that diet soda makes you hungrier, then it shouldn't have any impact on your weight.

Well, hey, if those are the sites you're into... :p For real, though, Fitbits are awesome. My dad got one for my mom for Christmas, and she's been kicking my *kitten* on the steps leaderboard ever since.

I can vouch for the Flex. I've had one since July of last year, and it's been great. If I had to go back, I MAYBE would have gotten the Fitbit One, as I don't always want to wear it on my wrist and I've had to replace the band once already, but otherwise I have nothing negative to say about it.

If you link your Fitbit and MFP accounts, you are supposed to log your food and exercise in MFP only and allow it to sync back to Fitbit. Otherwise it results in double-logging. I unlinked the two and do my primary tracking in the Fitbit app only because it tends to give me more consistent and realistic exercise burn…

Sounds like a rehash of every other diet I've ever read about. I have the 17 Day Diet book which I bought second-hand just out of curiosity, and the minute I read in phase one that it was demanding I restrict my fat intake, I decided I should feed it into a wood chipper the next time I get a chance(fats, mostly "healthy"…

Thank goodness for that. I got fatshamed on a photo board elsewhere earlier... with a BMI of 22.9. Wut just happened.

Peanut butter for me! (Well, and coffee, obviously)

I just bought one on Amazon the other day. I was getting tired of cutting my zucchini by hand and for $5 I figured it was worth trying.

Unless you are exceptionally, exceptionally short in stature and sedentary, there is no way 1100 a day is enough.

I love this app! I've been running with it for about 2 years, starting with their 5k training app and slowly working my way up. I run typically 7 or 8 km in the mornings, but sometimes I push it to 10 or try to increase my speed. The nice thing about the Zombies, Run! app is that you can incorporate "zombie chases" to add…

I aim for less than 150, but that's because I'm more focussed on getting enough fat and protein and just fill in the rest with carbs where they fit.

I love my Fitbit. I, however, don't sync it to MFP because I find it tracks exercise calories more accurately using its own numbers instead of MFP's numbers. I just enter my food calories in here and then go enter them manually in the Fitbit app. It's pretty much plug-and-play as far as ease of use. It's pretty simple. The…

Zucchini. It goes in everything. Eggs, stir fries, soups. I have broiled it to make fries a couple of times too. I also finally bought a spiralizer to turn it into pasta. I can make pretty decent noodles with it by hand, though.

Aren't genetics a crazy thing when it comes to building muscle? Biceps and triceps come to me so easily. It's my chest and back that need work. I guess we always want what we don't have. ;)

Also, stress does actually make a difference. I didn't believe it, but I've noticed my fat recomping causing a bit of a lower stomach pooch. One thing that allegedly causes that is cortisol. I don't know for a fact how much truth there is to that, so if someone wants to throw some info my way about that, that would be…