DanyellMcGinnis Member

Is it weird that I just don't have this problem? My husband says I look skinnier (and he does all the cooking so I've got him calorie counting) but hasn't said I need to stop losing weight or anything like that. My parents were recently in town and they said I looked good and started asking how I did it and I don't think…

Vegetarian since August of 1993. Happy where I am and not planning to become vegan although I do eat vegan dinners on occasion. Diary is open to friends. Feel free to add me.

I change every four weeks. But at a minimum, a half hour of kundalini yoga every day. Four times a week, about 50 minutes of cardio (MMA-style stuff or step aerobics or urban rebounding mostly) and 25 minutes of weight training (different exercises each day and never the same muscle group two days in a row; I have a home…

I started as 36B. The bands are too loose now. But I can kind of make them work by using the middle set of hooks instead of the outer ones. Not ideal but, I have 20 pounds left to go and I expect to see some more changes (not so much in the band size as I have always carried my weight lower) so I don't want to go buy bras…

I am more of a yo-yo dieter than a fluctuator. I weighed 104 when I finished high school. (I'm 5'5" with a fairly small frame.) I gained about 25-30 pounds in college (not from beer and pizza but from not liking the dining hall food and supplementing with junk from 7-11; everyone was on a meal plan where I went and more…

Ah, I had never seen those charts before either. My fiance and I are on the "liberal" plan. But we live in the suburbs outside Atlanta (fairly cheap part of the country as it goes) and both make comfortable incomes so we shop for dry goods mostly at Whole Foods and dairy/produce at Publix. (We don't buy meat. My fiance is…

I trust MFP because I'm getting good results. I have averaged about 1.6 pounds lost per week (have it set for 1) so my activity level is probably higher than the MFP estimate (plus I am not weighing my food...) but I am actually losing weight now, whereas I hadn't for any other attempt in the last 5 or 10 years, so the…

6 days isn't too much as long as you aren't injuring yourself and as long as you are eating enough. I am working out every day but I vary my activities -- kettlebells, MMA-style workouts, step aerobics, mini trampoline, treadmill intervals, jumping rope, yoga and pilates, 3 days of weightlifting (with some push ups and…

I also wouldn't get too worried about getting too much on just one day, which is what your post seems to imply. If you are doing this every day for awhile, see how you feel. If you have no underlying health problems and are feeling good and getting the results you want, go for it. (For the record, I don't eat much protein…

I am 5'5" and my goal is 120 but I am 20+ pounds away from that. So I may change my mind when I get there. Or I may decide that I'd like to do recomposition and trade some more fat for a bit of muscle. Before I gained weight (*this* time), I weighed 106, which was maybe not quite enough. Although, I am quite small-framed.…

Sorry this reply is so late, I forgot I joined this group and just happened to see it at the bottom of the page today. I have the same scale. I only weigh once a week and I have no idea whether fat % from it is accurate, but the number I get from that scale is similar to what I get by a tape measure method (again, I know,…

Glad you are doing well. MFP has been working so well for me I've actually kept it up for 3 months, whereas I would quit previous attempts after a week or two. I am so much more aware of how many calories I'm consuming now. This is definitely something I can see myself sticking with as well!

My diary is open to friends. Feel free to add me. I do log food and exercise daily!

This is me. (Well, I don't eat meat. But everything vegetarian? Yeah.)

I found myself able to follow Shaun T for most things (I started off at a reasonable level of fitness at the time I was doing this program) but there were some workouts when I just could not keep pace. Speed 2.0 and Speed 3.0 in particular. For those, I did the same moves as the regular demonstrators but just did them at a…

Three days. (I'm a vegetarian.) Any longer than that and I start not feeling so well after I eat it (regardless of whether it still looks good or not). But it may be my upbringing in the American Midwest. I have a friend who grew up in Lagos and she can keep (and eat) leftovers for a lot longer than I am able to. Also, I…

I try not to eat after 8PM but it is because I get acid reflux when I lie down in bed right after having eaten a meal. If I did not get acid reflux, I would probably eat later.

I grew up drinking milk with dinner. I kept doing so in college because it was what I was used to. Now I am 38 and I still do. I have come to prefer skim over the years, don't like the feeling or taste of full-fat milk (just a personal preference, nothing wrong with it if you like it). I pay about $4 per half gallon for…

Not a vegan and not looking to become one (vegetarian for 22.5 years, though), but... (1) I echo what others have said about soaking beans. Also, dump the soaking water (don't cook in it). And a little piece of kombu when cooking beans seems to help, too. (It's a type of seaweed. You can find it in the Asian section at…

I am 5'5", about 145 pounds at the moment, and I am losing by eating 1800-2100 calories per day. Granted, I am exercising a lot. But, I decided back in the beginning that I would rather exercise and eat a lot more than the 1270 calories recommended by MFP. And that has worked for me.

I'm 38 and was a yo-yo dieter throughout my 20s and early 30s. It was easier to take the weight off when I was younger. Tried for awhile at various times ages 35+ and wasn't having much luck. Then I joined MFP and started counting calories for the first time ever and it is definitely working for me. I realized a couple of…

Smartphones in general. Every group lunch at work devolves into a discussion of people's smartphones (so boring). People take their phones into the bathroom (at work, in stores, whatever). People drive dangerously while texting, fiddling with apps, etc. (which is illegal in my state but it doesn't seem to stop anyone).…

I don't like a lot of high-protein foods (they make me feel sluggish and sick to my stomach if I consume too much) and am a vegetarian, but I try to spread my protein intake out among: * dairy (skim milk, string cheese, occasional full-fat cheeses, haven't had much cottage cheese or yogurt lately but I like these as well;…

*Whole* wheat bread is better for you than white bread (I lowered my triglycerides enormously by swapping out whole grains for refined ones, plus you get more fiber). The problem is that a lot of items labeled as "wheat" in the supermarket are not whole grain. Many of them will have a small percentage of whole grain flour…

Finished two rounds all the way through gamma a year or two ago. Then stopped exercising for awhile and now here I am. Will probably work the more cardio-heavy workouts back into my routine at some point.

Vegetarian since 1993. No desire to eat meat again (never really liked it in the first place...). No desire to become vegan either. Happy right where I am. Have both gained and lost weight as a vegetarian (and have seen the same from omnivores; don't actually know any vegans IRL). FWIW, dairy, eggs, nuts and seeds, beans,…

I am close to the same age (38), height (5'5"), and size (150.2 lbs) as the OP. Not directly comparable as I exercise a lot more and have been eating close to 2000 calories per day (and still losing, a little more than 0.5 lbs per week this month, on average, almost all fat according to my body fat scale). I have lost…

As your fitness level improves, you will be better able to keep up. Things that challenged me 8 weeks ago are getting easier and I am adjusting my workouts periodically to make them more difficult (for example, a heavier kettlebell or a higher step for step aerobics, or adding some assisted pull-ups to my upper body…

"Journaling meals and snacks is a good way to avoid mindless munching, but at the same time it discourages intuitive eating, so you begin choosing foods based solely on their caloric value, ignoring important vitamins and nutrients and your own sense of satisfaction." I don't find this to be true for me at all. I don't…

I bought a Fitbit One a little over two years ago because my health insurance company started a wellness program where we get Amazon (and other) gift cards with points, and getting 10,000 steps a day earns a lot of points. At the time, some of the newer wrist models weren't out yet. My fiance has a Charge he got for…