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Nope, no Keto here. Just boring, old calorie counting with a super uncool food scale ;)

The percentages thing needs to stop because that's what leads people to think if they increase exercise, they can offset their poor diet. It's very easy to eat your way out of any deficit exercise creates if you don't know how calories work. Exercise, diet, etc. That's all important criteria for helping a person be their…

That's incredibly frustrating, and no not an easy fix by just doing planks. You're doing the right thing by getting help on your own. Hopefully you can find a new doctor as well.

This is one of those things better left to your PT. Your doctor probably isn't super educated on this topic (many aren't) and did the right thing by directing you to PT. I would probably refrain from YouTube. I'm not convinced that there are any effective home exercises for it except maybe the most mild cases. If it's…

Somebody here posted something about the stages of weight loss and I thought it was helpful. I've personally been through them all. I've bargained, I've denied, I've been angry (and wrong) about how losing weight meant I had to starve myself and couldn't possibly eat less than I was already eating. Eventually I just had to…

IRL, I don't know anyone (besides my husband) who doesn't engage in magical thinking about weight loss or anything related to it. I'm mostly surrounded by people who engage in chronic confirmation bias to substantiate their own poor life choices based on the latest internet quackery. My personal choice to lose fat and have…

You look fabulous! I've had five kids, and while it did improve with fat loss, I'm still left with the "dog jowls" as I like to call them. After several pregnancies, the collagen and elastin fibers in the skin are broken down. Sometimes, if damage to the fibers isn't too severe, it bounces back. There isn't anything that…

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Yes, I weigh them. That's how I can be sure I have room for ice cream.

You're doing wonderfully! The MFP community is lucky to have you sharing your journey here!

Solidarity, sister. Damn deployments.

I'm currently using Nuvaring. I had a pound or two of water weight when I first started and it dropped off after a week. No other symptoms. I keep one in permanently so I don't have periods. I've used different low estrogen birth control pills in the past and haven't had any issues.

I've never had trouble losing weight on various birth control. Even if increased hunger is a symptom, if you're tracking your calories by weighing and measuring then you know what you're supposed to be eating every day to lose. You may have a slight bump with bloating but it's not going to be permanent or prevent you from…

There are quite a few breastfeeding mamas in here. If you're nursing full-time, set your account to maintenance and your baby will create the deficit for you. Don't try to overcomplicate things by trying to guess how many calories you're burning via breastfeeding. There's really no way to know and you want to make sure…

I have no idea what body type I am. I'm in my 30's and 5'1". I maintain a calorie deficit using MFP and I incorporate a progressive lifting program to mitigate muscle loss. I also make sure I'm losing slowly so I can keep more of the muscle I have and lose the fat because the end product will look better for me. You're not…

I replied to your other thread but posting it again here: I eat at maintenance or above on some days. I eat back exercise calories. If I eat at maintenance every day I tend to lose too rapidly so I have a few days a week where I eat a few hundred calories more. I'm also on my feet most of the day so that may have something…

Your first post said you needed to tighten skin? In any case, eating fewer calories than you burn will reduce body fat, and if you lose enough body fat, eventually it will come off your stomach. You can't specifically target stomach fat unless you have liposuction. Unfortunately, there aren't any exercises that will…

Breastfeeding mama here. I eat at maintenance or above on some days. I eat back exercise calories. If I eat at maintenance every day I tend to lose too rapidly so I have a few days a week where I eat a few hundred calories more. I'm also on my feet most of the day so that may have something to do with it. I lose about a…

I've tried pretty much all of them. I think the only one I didn't like was mint. Chocolate peanut butter is probably my favorite.

I finally managed to get almost 8 hours of sleep last night and that made a huge difference. I feel much better and the extra pound dropped off like I expected. My husband is gone for the week for work so I'm sleeping less than usual. I'm expecting the scale to jump around some more but I'll take it. Height: 5'1" HW: 195…

Oh and now that I think of it, I broke my tailbone during my 3rd delivery. Not the same thing, but my doctor did say something about relaxin levels making moms more uncomfortable around the 4 month mark and that's when it was worst for me. If it's not too severe, I bet PT will help a lot.

My husband has two from improper rucking almost 7 years ago. He was pretty much crippled from it and couldn't even dress himself. The doctors pushed pain medicine but he didn't respond to it, and PT didn't help either. He couldn't pass a PT test for the Army that way or even go to work. Surgery was his last resort. He was…

Totally normal. Expect to gain around TOM, ovulation, if you go on or off a medication, if you're starting a new exercise routine or seriously sleep deprived, etc. As long as you stick to your calorie goals it will drop off. I had a two-fer last week with starting medication and getting significantly less sleep than I…

I was a weird, picky kid and would totally eat plain pasta. I still eat plain pasta now, but I'm not picky anymore. I just love me some carby goodness. Still down almost 50lbs. and counting.

If it's loose skin there really isn't anything that can be done besides surgery. It will either bounce back or it won't. After repeated pregnancies, collagen fiber in the skin gets broken down and once it's gone, then nothing can restore that at a molecular level. A calorie deficit will help reduce fat and improve the…

Garlic chicken pasta with carrots and broccoli and a huge salad. And then a pint of Halo Top.

You can eat anything you want to lose weight. You just have to create a calorie deficit. I understand the allure of wanting to lose a bunch of weight immediately, but rarely is that sustainable or good for your health, especially if you don't intend to stick to keto for the rest of your life. It's not a race to lose as…

You DO NOT suck. You have much to be proud of. When people tell me they have to starve to lose weight, I tell them they're losing weight the wrong way. Then I usually show them what I eat every day and my recipe logs on MFP for how many calories it is, and then they join MFP lol. It requires perseverance and…

Take progress photos! I started out at 195 (I'm 5'1"). I didn't really notice much until I was closer to 160. Then after another 20 pounds it was a big difference. Based on past experience losing weight, every 10 pounds after that is a massive difference as I get closer to goal. It may not feel like much or look like it in…

I've been told this before. It wasn't my hard work and persistence that helped me lose weight. It was my "metabolism". If you question those people a little bit, you'll find that they'll readily admit they're not willing to count calories or eat less. They complain about not wanting to "starve" themselves by eating fewer…