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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.

Herbalife has been linked to liver damage, and the vitamins are low quality. So I'd be careful!

When I got heavy, having clothes in stock was the best part about it. LOL. I get a 12" hip-spring (hip-waist difference) at the low end of my healthy weight. I've heard scuttlebutt that Walmart, The Limited, and Gap have curvier pants. I know that Anne Taylor has "curvy fit," too. Bongo jeans used to be the only ones that…

I have a few younger people on my friends list who didn't quite "get" TDEE at first and thought they had to exercise any deficit as well as eat a smaller amount. It can be an honest mistake. Some people to whom all this is new also think that more is always better. :) That's why I try to explain WHY having too high a…

Finally, if you're not quite 18 and you're saying you are to not get kicked off, you should have no more than a 500 calorie deficit. You'll still be growing a lot. Even at 18, you MIGHT be growing some, and you want to give your body enough calories to do that. Both my mother and I grew half an inch in college. My chest…

Oh, and also, you should simply do less exercise. :) 3 hours a day of hard exercise regularly, especially for someone your age, is TOO MUCH!

Okay, you're 4'8", so that means that you CAN afford to lose the weight you want to lose. I'm so glad!!!! You need to take it more slowly, though. You should run a deficit of no more than 1,000 calories right now. Though you're obese, you're also quite short. So set your ticker to give you 2lbs of loss per week and then…

You can hit ALL the requirements for a woman with a "perfect" diet (and your macro split is generally quite good!), but if your burn is too high for your fat mass and your intake, you will hurt yourself. You can't help it. With a deficit, you're basically sending a bill to your body to pay. You want your body to pay the…

The sad part of me thinks it's to avoid eating. :(

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. I looked at your food diary, too. I don't know for sure what you weigh. But I'm betting you're in the lower half of the healthy range, given that MFP is telling you to eat 1200 calories by default--I can't really see how else you could get that. If that's the case, your deficit is absolutely too high. Even…

To other posters......there have been people who have OCD-like routinely drunk huge amounts of favored drinks. A woman died of it recently: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/02/12/woman-dies-from-drinking-10-liters-coke-day-coroner-says/ So it's distantly possible that she's drinking that much. OP: Are you sure that's not…

If you drank 3L or water on top of dinner and tried to exercise, that could cause a LOT of people to throw up. That is a LOT of water. That's more than a day's worth for normal levels of exercise: http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/in-depth/water/art-20044256 I don't know where the…

Depends entirely on what you weigh. I couldn't do it. I'm not heavy enough and fit enough to get that burn. Jogging 4.5 miles in 53 minutes gets me about 300 calories. But someone quite heavy could do it by walking for half and hour.

Because it doesn't hurt all the time anymore. LOL. I'm just so dang happy about that that I love it now!

I dont' go crazy with sugar, but I also don't pay any attention to the sugar limits on MFP. :) Do I go over? Not a clue because I dont' even track it! :DDDDD