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If it's working for you, keep going with it. There's really nothing wrong with working out fasted (short of running a marathon or something, I'd imagine).

If your measurements are going down, my assumption is that you're losing fat and gaining muscle (or any number of other things). A weight from a scale doesn't reflect the majority of what's happening internally.

For 400 I can make myself a serving of homemade Mac and cheese (starting with 2oz dry pasta), or 2 cups of broth based soup and 2 pieces of wheat bread, or some grilled chicken with a nice veggie side, or a chicken and veggie stir fry over brown rice.... Don't be afraid to get creative, lots of foods are under 400cal and…

Maybe a first thing would be double check that you're counting calories as accurately as humanly possible - you might be a bit low on that front if you're really as full as you say from 900cal a day. Otherwise, don't worry too much about eating back exercise calories for now (i think though that cleaning like that would go…

Congrats on starting out! (hey, it's a step in the right direction :)) When I started out running a big part of it was to make sure I kept going, and did at least a little bit of running every day or two - I think my muscles got used to the motion quicker that way, and it wasn't long before it only took an evening for my…

Not sure what you mean by 'grow', but jump rope certainly engages those muscles and will strengthen them.

I've been doing a spinning class twice a week for two months now; I've definitely been noticing improvements in my legs and abs. (side note, we do a bit of extra core exercises some days in class, ie planks, various crunches, etc - tho spinning itself can engage your core if you do it properly). I myself just use push ups…

Temp dropped like crazy over the last 48 hours where I am... went from 60's Friday morning to 25 with a nice layer of white frozen h2o on the ground when I woke up today (not a fan, mother nature, not a fan at all :/ ). So this evening I made myself a nice hot bowl of tortellini soup, which was absolutely fantastic and I…

Generally speaking, less processed food is better. There's the stuff that's obviously 'bad' - deep fried potato products, cookies, candy bars, milkshakes from fast food joints... and then things that aren't really bad but aren't the best for you based on nutritional content - red meat tends to be higher in fat than…

Did 5.47 miles this morning (hugely impressed with myself tbh... longest run I've ever done personally, a solid hour with a brief walking warm up and cool down, and two or three minutes of walking around the halfway point). So let's go with 50 miles for this month, and see how that goes.

From personal experience, I'd say staying on one machine for the 40 minutes would be better - you avoid the hassle and time lost having to adjust a new machine to your liking three times in one workout. I'd use lots of intervals in those 40 minutes, sprints and the like, to make the most of your time.

In that case, I'd probably leave the fitbit on to keep track of steps, and make a note of calories burned according to the hr monitor and use that number for logging in your exercise log. if you have to, you should be able to find a way to override or delete the calories burned according to the fitbit if any 'double…

you don't have to do heavy lifting to see results; if you're using lighter weights/doing bodyweight exercises, repetitions are your friend and that's how you'll see progress.

How much information would you want the fitness tracker to give you when you sync it? Something like the fitbit flex seems to be made more for people who don't do a lot of exercise (ie most of their activity comes from daily routine walking) while other trackers (i have the garmin vivofit 2) let you track individual…

Try eating more, in the range of 1400 kcal before adding back half your exercise (heavy lifting/running) calories.

Personally, exercise has been big for me. Last semester (college student here) was awful for me as far as mental health - somehow I pulled through, and currently I'm sort of doing my best to push off a similar episode of severe depression and lots of nights of crying myself to sleep (I can't shake the feeling that it's…

...I have a very strong feeling those studies would be a case of not understanding the difference between 'correlation vs causation'. When depressed, one tends to eat crappy foods and binge eat more than when they're feeling better mentally and can afford the time and energy to prepare their own meals, exercise instead of…

So, apparently since deciding I was going to run 25 miles this month, because it was my first month really running at all, I've started enjoying running? I'm not sure I intended for it to happen... but it seems to be happening with or without me. One more week to go, and so far I'm at 18.2 miles, including 2.32 miles this…

I second all of that! it's great you've found something that works for you like that.

I think you're right there; water is suggested when one is 'feeling hungry' because a lot of people, especially those new to weight loss, do confuse hunger and thirst. So it comes down to paying attention to your body personally, and if you're hungry and not thirsty, then finding food to satisfy that.

Even body-weight training might be good for you if you don't want to go into a gym and start dead-lifting weights - push-ups, planks, various types of crunches, etc etc. If jogging is your main form of exercise, you might not have to worry about your quads and legs too much.

I just use the champion c9 line from target for the vast majority of workouts - I've got one cold weather outfit, and one indoor gym outfit for right now.

Define 'burn enough' - how many are you trying to burn a day? A half hour jog for me can burn anything from 300-400 depending on my pace and all; my heart rate monitor tracks everything more accurately for me. Running faster can increase calorie burn if you're really trying for that, as can hills and sprint intervals.

Yesterday was a pretty bad day for me as far as diet once I got home in the evening and turned on Netflix (House of Cards marathon, anyone?) and I ended up not looking forward to my weigh-in today, but I guess I did well enough the rest of the week that it didn't do too much damage (I was still down 1.6 pounds from last…

You could just make a note in your fitness log that you did x minutes of x class; I think calories for strength training tend to be fairly minimal compared to calories from other (aerobic/steady-state) exercises. So assuming it was half an hour or an hour of straight up strength training with no focus on getting your heart…

I drink my coffee black 9/10 times, the exceptions being iced coffees I make at work and the espresso speciality drinks I treat myself to now and then. Lately I've been trying more cold brew coffee (adding hot water after the fact so I can still have my hot coffee in the morning) and it definitely has a different taste…

Make sure you're doing exercises that you enjoy - I love cycling, so I have my road bike available and I'll do spinning if the roads are bad or I want something a little different. But I love it, from the start of doing the workout to the post-workout endorphins, so it's easier to get myself on the bike and I find that I…

Simple changes would be use less crust (make it thinner, use less dough for the same size pizza), and ease up on the cheese. Definitely add as many fresh veggies as possible - they add lots of nutrients and few calories - and avoid most meat toppings (usually they're higher in fat).

If you can make it to even just one spin class, that can give you a lot of help doing it on your own. Music will make the workout for spinning. Based on the music there's different activities - seated and standing climbs that are based increasing resistance levels, jog/run/sprints based on increasing cadences/rpms, jumps…

I have a spinning class twice a week this semester at college, and I'm thrilled about spring coming in because now I can go cycling outside again, and I've started doing some running two or three times a week.