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It’s pretty normal to drop several pounds the first couple weeks on WW, especially if you have drastically reduced your bad carbs and refined sugar. If you are eating all your points you probably won’t stay losing at this pace. If you are still feeling hungry you might want to spend a few more points on the higher fat…

There is no way I would ever use a gym that was more than 5 minutes from my house/work. I currently have 2 memberships- one two blocks from my house and the other is a 5 min drive from my house. I have ADHD so I can’t focus on exercise when I am at home, too many other distractions, so going to the gym helps me focus, at…

My physical therapist has me squeeze at the top of the movement (making sure not to hyper extend) but maybe that’s just a PT thing. I’ve had bilateral hip FAI/labrum repair surgeries and glute activation and stability is the goal of almost all of my pre and post op PT exercises.

I’m a fit technician and I spend my days fitting clothes and looking at body shapes. The issue is that not everyone’s body is shaped the same. We have to pick a standard as a starting point and that is usually a composite built from 1000’s of body scans and data points. There is no “one” correct body type and everyone will…

Couldn’t do it. The list of veggies that are not allowed is literally a list of my favorite veggies. I wouldn’t put stock in any diet that restricts veggies, but that’s just my opinion.

I can’t sleep when I’m hungry and I also find that a couple of crackers before bed can sometimes help me fall asleep if I’m having issues. With that said, I do go through periods when I feel “hunger” grumbling all the time, sometimes to the point that it wakes me up. I figured out that when this starts happening it’s…

You might want to get your gallbladder checked out. As others have said, they can’t do keto because they had thier gallbladder removed and high fat makes them sick (I’m one of those people). When you have gallstones you can have the symptoms when you heat something high in fat, symptoms which are exactly what you described…

You’re pregnant so you must gain weight to be healthy and have a healthy baby. Healthy weight gain for someone with a BMI of 18.5-24.9 is 25-35 lbs after becoming pregnant. You should be eating 300-500 extra calories per day starting at 12 weeks. Extra protein is helpful when growing a human.

I stopped weight training for about a year and a half due to some life insanity. I ended up having two hip surgeries because my glutes got really weak, other muscles started compensating and that tore up my joint cartilage. I will also say, based on my surgery recovery experience, that muscle loss and atrophy will start…

As an apparel fit expert who’s recently spent hours analyzing bodyscans caegorizing them acording to body type, I’d your an hourglass but I would really need you to stand straight with a front and side photo to say for sure. But to others point, these are fashion terms, not fitness terms. They do serve a purpose but they…

I needed to see this today. 6 months ago I embraced my natural hair color, silvers and all. I still need to work on appreciating my legs. I inherited full leg cellulite from my grandmother, and I have EDS so my skin is looser than average and I don’t build muscle easily, so even when I was anorexic and a size 2/4 my legs…

Unfortunately intuitive eating for me last time meant picking up a doughnut twice a week after PT. I was pretty exhausted for the first 4 weeks and all I wanted was carbs. I didn’t have a plan last time so I know that definitely won’t work so I’m going have to be more strategic this time. I hope your hip replacement…

That is for this. 110% of low activity maintenance sounds reasonable and puts me just below 1800 calories per day. I’ve seen the 15-20 cal/lb article and 15 cal/lb of my body weight would have me at 2310 calories per day which is a little over maintenance for me when I’m very active so that would definitely lead to weight…

When left to my own devices my body tends to lead me to chocolate and ice cream. I’m unfortunately past the age where I can just let my body do its own thing anymore. It doesn’t make the best decisions and bad decisions equals weight gain.

I have hEDS and I’ve suffered through many injuries over the years because of not working out at all and/or not working out correctly when I was exercising. I’m actually scheduled to have surgery on my left hip on Thursday (right hip was last April). The key to working out with EDS is to focus on strengthening the muscle…

Gray hair, don’t care.

I just started IF because I realized that one of my issues is that I’ve been getting up earlier the last few years, making my day longer, and I’ve struggled to stabilize my weight simply by calorie counting. When I start eating later in the day my meals were bigger and it is easier to not to snack between meals and stick…

Ugh. I’m over WW. I can’t stay within my Freestyle points even when I cut out the majority of the foods I ate when I lost 25 lbs on Smartpoints. I’m trying intermittent fasting and tracking calories to see if I have more success this way. Today was the first day of IF and it wasn’t really hard but I’m starting with 14:10…

Interesting...I’ve never heard of someone getting blood clots from exercise, only from being too sedintary. I would call your doctor for advice and in the meantime dial it back to some easy walking (you are going to have to walk regardless and being sedintary isn’t going to help the situation either).

This sums up my life right now, so it’s pretty much what goes through my head while exercising.

So I fit clothes for a living and my company uses body growth studies to determine how much we grade a pattern between sizes. It really just depends on what size you are to begin with, where you fall in the measurement range for that size, and if you are actually wearing the correct size. If your in the plus size range it…

I also have PTOS (related to having EDS) and here are a few things you can try. First, and easiest, is adding salt back into your diet. Way back when I counted calories for the first time ever, I also naturally stopped eating out and eating process foods, which resulted in significantly less salt in my food. When I started…

I have a large one on my lower back that I got when I was about the size I am now. I gained and lost 50 lbs and didn't notice any change. I do however have a ton of stretch marks on the side of my hips from before the tattoo. They can be hard to tattoo over and the lines in that area are not clean due to the blowout caused…

I had a similar problem, but I started having pain in my left hip due to a torn labrum from running. I did 4 weeks of PT because I was diagnosed with the injury right before my vacation to Machu Picchu (last week). Then I spent 8 days climbing around 7 different Incan archeological sights and walking around in cities where…

Your breasts will shrink when you lose weight but how much depends on how much is fat and home much is breast tissue. If you had a large chest when you were smaller, you'll go back to that size. Either way, if you are overweight (or over your goal weight) they usually recommend that you lose some before getting a reduction…

I'm in Minnesota (originally from MI) and we've been having yo-yo weather here. The temp will be 90's with high humidity for several days. I bloat, retain water, and can't spend much time outside because the heat wipes me out. Then it storms, rains, and the temp drops into the low 70's (like today) which gives me…

Interestingly enough, I'm now dealing with a tear in my hip labrum and I'm REALLY realizing that hating my legs for 30 years was a total waste of time and emotional energy. I honestly don't care how big or small they are anymore, I just want them to work correctly without pain! Perspective changes everything.

My legs are the first place I gain weight, and the last place I lose it. My legs are always thick, particularly the top of my thigh, even I was at an unhealthy low weight. Weight training just makes them bigger, and pants never fit right. I've just learned to accept them for what they are and stopped wasting time and…

Watch out for kidney stones. My sister got them from drinking too much milk. No amount of weight loss is worth that pain.

"Clean eating". There are children literally starving to death in Venezuela. Mothers are picking scraps out of trash cans to keep their babies alive. Meanwhile the developed world is yapping about their "clean eating diet". I'm so sick of hearing about people's first world elitist food snobbery. Just shut it and be happy…