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So you have been all over the forums for a couple of years I think it is now bemoaning your lack of muscle and yet here you are once again doing everything in your power to obliterate what do you have. Everything you do is always counterproductive to your goals.

Absolutely no need for protein shakes, particularly if protein needs are already met.

They are still pattern cut by waist size because pattern cutting blocks are based on the whole body. The adjustment for the different rises is accounted for. You don't suddenly get a 27" waist referring to a garment with a waistband on the hips. It's pattern cutting 101 (and I appreciate the number of people familiar with…

Yep the same. Although I think technically drinking chocolate should be literally chocolate melted into milk, none of this powder nonsense.

All I'm going to say is Hobnobs. And Chocolate Hobnobs. Bit dangerous for tea dunking though, need nerves of steel.

I needed to enable Flash, my bad. I have indeed seen them.

This doesn't take me anywhere!

I am partial to a TimTam but those are Antipodean. British biccies are magical.

I've had Oreos in America too........

*Quietly raises hand...... I can take or leave Oreos. Mostly leave. There are far superior biscuits (British definition) available, why would I waste the calories on Oreos? Unless vegan, then I think they become essential to life.

I buy and wear vintage (pre-70s, mostly pre-60s) and vanity sizing is absolutely a thing. There is an abundance of 22-24" waist garments and that wasn't terribly unusual. Those would be a (UK) 8/10, now those would be 4/6 UK and 0/2 US generally speaking. Pattern cutting books for drafting your own patterns have not…

That's the opposite of vanity sizing......... Like I said, it could be more of an issue in the US than here in the UK. But then pretty much the only thing you'd buy in a waist measurement as a female would be jeans and I don't buy many pairs from places with waist sizing.

Please don't. First off, you're talking net not gross (I'm assuming you know the correct difference) and secondly, your friend is undereating and that doesn't need held up as "he's okay, so will you be!".

Maybe this is a UK vs US issue as well as an inches vs numbered size thing. With that graphic it says H&M vanity size. I'm about a size billion in there where in reality I think about about a UK 12 (US 8), possibly 14 to allow for booty. In reality I buy from 10-14. But if buying waist sizes it's usually spot on. Clothing…

Is it just fantasy?

When losing I generally go for two larger meals and a couple of snacks. Maintaining and it's more like 3 and a couple of snacks.

I would definitely eat more, 1200 gross is too little for your activity never mind 1100. Add back in some foods you've possibly been avoiding.

Low fat? That's something that's not recommended (barring medical conditions that call for it). Fat is essential for nutrient absorption and managing hunger.

If you're buying by waist then they should be true to size. It's the 6/8/10 ones that are ambiguous due to individual retailers sizing standards. I'm a different size in most retailers but buying by measurements it's always pretty close allowing for manufacturing variance.

Not to mention, with cortisol likely playing a role, there could be a goodly amount of water retention happening which could be exacerbating the "fluffy" feeling. You might actually lean out a bit once hormones are back to normal.

Oh boy.

Okay. Step one would be a retest BUT given your activity vs calorie intake without loss I think you've got a fairly large amount of adaptive thermogenesis happening. Do you often feel sluggish and wiped out? Are you progressing with the strength training? Definitely check out the diet breaks and refeeds threads, I think it…

If it has dropped by a dramatic 500 calories then shouldn't be gaining weight like nobody's business? How many classes do you teach a week and are you a really involved instructor? If so, it would be very surprising to me for you to maintain on 1500-1800 calories. I lose at 1500 and I'm mostly a lazy toad outside of my…

Although IIRC the difference isn't as dramatic as that image portrays. Don't ask me for sources though because lazy AF.

They're going to hurt just the same because they are just as heavy as each other. Why is this so hard for some to compute?

Would it hurt as much as 2kg of feathers tho'?

I'm a puffy, watery balloon after a lot of travel. I think I've topped out at 10lbs before. All came off over a couple of weeks.

The iron, I think, in spinach makes my teeth feel funny if cooked. So no to eating mountains of it.

On average, we lose 100 calories per day for every decade. But that's the average and assuming the person has done nothing to maintain muscle mass which is the largest dictator of BMR (resting energy needs). Everything else comes from your activity level. As others have pointed out, we tend to get more sedentary the older…

This. I'd rather not have 2kg of anything dropped on my head. The feather are still 2kg so the exact same weight. Just because they're feathers doesn't negate how much they weigh? One of the weirder analogies I've seen on MFP.