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Everything above. Lying leg curls also isolate the glutes pretty well, too.

With weights. Either a bar or a dumbbell squat. With weights, you get more strength/fewer repetitions. I got messed up knees from bad muscular balance. (That's what several doctors said.) That seems to have helped...

That...gave me goosebumps of horror. And I don't even have any junk. I don't actually have any interesting stories...at all. Not even of gym buddies. Not even in high school athletics, going back that far. I guess I'm just boring, and so are my friends! :D

Not a doctor, but probably this. -Strengthen your knees with specific lower body exercises. I like full squats (weighted) and weighted revers lunges for my crappy knees. -A foot strike more toward the front of your foot is more likely to put less pressure on knee and hip (and more on ankle and calf--you can't just get rid…

Well...I wasn't against weighing, and I knew why I'd stalled. I lost 15lbs. Stopped. Knew I was eating too much and exercising too little. Wanted to be more accurate. Joined MFP, started logging. Lost 12lbs in less than 2 months. Going to switch to "servings" rather calorie logging when I'm closer to goal weight because…

Sizes mean NOTHING anymore. NOTHING. Size inflation is completely out of control. US sizes: I wear 4s and some 2s at 135lbs 5'6" IF THEY ARE NEW. I am still quite chubby. 20 years ago, those would have been 10s and 12s. I can't come close to squeezing into my size 6 pants from even 12 years ago. Tops, I always wore medium…

I don't go down those aisles. :) I'm an IIFYM eater, but most of the junk doesn't taste all that good. If I'm going to spend calories on something really calorie dense, it had better be AMAZING. So I bake when I've got a serious itch.

1) Fitbit is super accurate for step-based exercise IF you have negative adjustments enabled. 2) I try to get in at least 500 calories above sedentary a day, and I try to reduce my intake by 400 calories from my sedentary setting. Anything beyond that, I eat back every scrap of, whether or not I'm hungry, because that's…

I never had back boobs per se, but I had thicker fat there until I was sub-145 and a visible slight bulge above 150. However, I'm 5'6". Height becomes really important. Much smaller than the picture, as I didn't have any rolls/folds anywhere unless I was sitting, but I'd never had anything like it, and it freaked me out.

Physically changing locations helps a LOT. If you eat at home, getting out of the house...

If it looks good enough, wouldn't it inspire your SO to take you somewhere appropriate? :) DOUBLE REWARD! Triple, if you count what happens after you get back home again...

A Dermapen session. LOL. Especially if a TRACE of a stretchmark begins to show up....

Lifting heavy things, for instance. It preserves muscle. The usual measures aren't going to be sensitive enough to accurately pick out a 6lbs loss on an average obese person, though, so don't worry too much unless they're doing hydrostatic testing or dexa scans every time you come in.

Happens occasionally. Big changes in activity level, a lot of cardio, being out in the heat, big changes in meal size, hormone swings, and sickness can trigger it. If it keeps up, call the doctor. :)

Gardening isn't step-based. For that, it's kinda a guess. Heart rate monitors, unfortunately, aren't accurate for that, either.

I love that description!!! Fitted shirts are a god-send. I already bought my outfits. :) They all FIT, but they don't look GOOD.

I got some canned clams on clearance once and made chowder...hubby (who's the chowder eater) said it would be middle-of-the-line for restaurant chowder. But I don't actually care for clam chowder, so I can't say. He's not usually "nice" about what I cook (because if he is, I'll keep cooking stuff he hates, like cabbage…

My husband does, too!!! WILL NOT eat fresh. Makes a mash of canned + mayo and just wolfs it down. But...I can't stand canned tuna except in one particular tuna casserole but I like it fresh. I tried canned salmon, and I just could not like it, either. :( Taste is about the same, but the texture changes. The texture's a lot…

Doctor. Your'e not gaining FAT on a deficit, but in certain circumstances, you could be holding onto water and bloating, and your other symptoms sound like 1) overtraining/undernourishment, 2) hypothyroidism, 3) or (DISTANTLY possible) PCOS. Whichever, you need to be checked out!

You laugh, but people buy breastmilk as a "superfood".....aaaaaand for other reasons not acceptable for MFP TOS.

Aw, sweetie, I know it's hard! I don't have hypothyriodism, but I have a disease that causes fatigue. Get the hypothyroidism treated ASAP to improve your quality of life, decrease depression, and decrease your appetite. Also, get a scale and weigh absolutely everything you put in your mouth. :) Hypothyroidism mostly makes…

OP, sorry for the crap you're getting. As people age or have babies, their pelvic floor and abdominal muscles often lose strength. You can have NO FAT AT ALL and still have your belly distended at the bottom. This happens due to general weakness or diastasis recti. Also, you may pee when you sneeze or cough or laugh. You…

The Fork Down lift. ;) Lifting increases muscle strength and size, a deficit shrinks fat over it so you can see how pretty it is!

Because they had us doing pyramids in 9th grade? That's pretty beginner. She also says she already lifts and is looking for "bulk." I'm coming to the conclusion that other people's athletics programs were really light on the weight room compared to ours. LOL. We lifted 2x per week from 7th grade onward and had progressive…

Lean Gains isn't complicated. LOL. Heck, in EARLY HIGH SCHOOL, we were doing pyramids. When you're lifting to gain strength or bulk quickly, you do fewer total reps near the limits of your strength. When you're looking for "toning" (please don't kill me--that's the phrase my coaches used!) you do more reps of slightly…

I only use it in white-girl enchilada suiza. It's a terrible bastardization of a TexMex recipe...but it's yummy. Not healthy, though. Could use it in other ways, too, but I only got in the habit with that. (Please don't ask for the recipe. It's embarrassing that I like it so much.)

Eat enough to gain a quarter pound a week. Do some kind of hypertrophy-oriented pyramid. Guy workouts work for us, too. If you have newbie gains, you could put on prolly 2lbs a month for a short while. After a few months, cut if you gained too much fat.

10,000 steps is barely active, so the doctor would say...yes, 10,000 steps. I have a rare genetic disorder, and I'm in pain when I don't exercise enough, so I try for 15,000 to minimize my pain levels on rest days. Yesterday, I looked like an idiot limping along with knee braces for hours on the treadmill.

Happiest moment: Broke a 12-min mile on my 4.5 mile run. This isn't anything exciting to most people, and I had to run intervals to do it, but because I can't run continuously, I never imagined that I could make a mile that fast again or that I could go so far. To put it in perspective, though I trained EXTREMELY HARD, I…

Pretty much all fruits and veg, saving a few, have a lot of micronutrients. This is what usually gets the "superfoods" label. But macros are important, too.