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Glute bridges - tons of youtube videos will give you some options.

I agree that it's minimal. Do you measure the oil you put on the griddle? If so, divide by 30 ... you'll get to minimal that way, too :wink:

When I started teaching full time, during that 5 week holiday break period I was in sweatpants the whole time ... yes, my jeans "shrunk" during that time, too, even though the holiday scale weight gain was quite modest - like maybe 3#. Here's another thing I noticed - clothing that fit at a given weight back in the day no…

Thanks for posting back to let us know how you got on!

As your calorie allowance goes up due to exercise (if MFP is getting that data), it will apply the percentages you chose and so the macros will rise accordingly. No ideas about food prep but I bet others will.

Hi, Mandy. A bottle of wine/day and more on weekends may have resulted in your brain and body becoming alcohol dependent. This is a physiological thing, not a character thing. Alcohol withdrawal syndrome is a medical condition that can be dangerous. You can find helpful information online. Look past "labels" that might be…

I was furloughed during a state budget crunch - it was a day or two a month over a couple of years. Lay-offs were different - that meant not reporting for work at all.

Your scale weight is going to vary depending on your cycle, if you still have ovaries, so it really is hard to measure actual rate of loss using weekly data. Monthly data is best, and some folks recommend recording that measure at the same point in your cycle each month if you are more on the nit-picky side :) I agree with…

So what I found helpful this go round with WW was not "rules." All the "zero point" foods are what I usually eat, and not to excess. Where the 8# added came from was my sourdough baking spree .... seeing the actual calories wasn't helping me curtail, but seeing the points did. As I said, WW has a different lens. All the…

FWIW, I size up one size for bathing suits

Sounds like you are looking for more food/fewer calories during the day so that the 350 bedtime snack doesn't undo your plans. If you are not terribly hungry in the morning when you get up for the day, delay your first meal for a couple of hours to pack more food into the shorter window. Eating more vegetables can help you…

This^^ My balance improved significantly when I started weight training. It was a combination of building a more solid core, a lot of single-leg full body movements and split squat variations, and just a better general awareness of where my body is in space (proprioception).

It's not "lying," which implies intent to deceive. It's just a metric based on population health statistics and some kind of rough calculation of how much your stated activity might burn - in other words, a guesstimate informed by science but not individually calculated. Your own data form the best platform to base your…

It's not moving because it's a killjoy :) The journey is never linear for reasons we can speculate but never quite prove conclusively. Just stay the course ... and think about the journey being over several weeks/months and not day to day.

Glad you perked up! The post-exercise ache is an uplift for me, too :)

US sizing for women's clothes is so variable, it's hard to say. At 5'6" 160# I fit into one pair of allegedly size 6 levis and also into another levis cut size 12, with dress size being 10-12 depending on fit. At 145# I was more into size 6 jeans consistently and dress sizes 8-10. For me, it was a non-scale victory to be…

Weight Watchers uses a completely different lens regarding food which may be useful if a person is in a rut. It currently has three different systems. On the one end is a plan with a ton of "zero" point foods, which correspond to the list presented above. At the other end is a fairly narrow list of "zero" point foods.…

To lose 14 pounds you'll need to ingest approximately 49,000 fewer calories than you burn. I choose to eat somewhere around 500 fewer calories than I burn each day.

Since you already know you're sensitive to dairy, cutting that first makes sense. When my ulcer & gastritis were acting up, yogurt and milk killed me but for some reason kefir was fine. With the "fat" issue, you may find that it is more an issue of amount of fat in a particular meal. Given that a lot of what we think of as…

I ended up using FitIV app for this reason, fwiw Might be worth looking into if you are using an apple watch. https://fitiv.com/

So what I notice with MFP and Apple Health is that there is considerable wonkiness that is intermittent and so it is hard to know what, if any, "fixes" work. But one thing that seems to help at least some of the time is to log out of the mobile MFP app and log back in.

Nothing's wrong with you. People's cycles vary. My spouse routinely worked overnights and this fit his normal schedule quite well. Then when he went to a "day job" he seriously had trouble, because he was just not tired before 1 or 2 AM. Melatonin helped, but not completely. Now that he's retired, if I see him before noon…

If you have a menstrual cycle, your weight can shift quite a bit during the last two weeks of your cycle and mask weight loss. I would not worry about a two-week stall. Continue what you are doing :)

I donated every item of clothing that no longer fit. Then I slowly began to get things that did. The biggest reward, really, was going into a department store and being able to choose from among a large number of things that I liked rather than having a very narrow range with the best being "well, I guess this one will…

For all of you US folks who have found that your fascination with exponential curve charts has grown exponentially since February, check this link out. It is from UnivWashington and is one of the data sets that governors are using to plan resources. It provides info by state as well as a national snapshot.…

"A dog can have both ticks AND fleas." A strain + anxiety can co-exist :)

When I first started being attentive to activity, I had a fitbit one which I found motivating & the calories-out data that it gave MFP seemed accurate according to my months of CICO data. I eventually got an apple watch (v 2) - I've been all-in to that platform for decades so getting all my stuff to play nice together is…

If you're otherwise feeling good --sleeping ok, not terribly hungry, enough energy--you could go another week and check your data. That would be long enough for water weight to stabilize (depending on the time of the month if you are menstruating). If you're still shedding at a rapid clip, up calories.

Yes, it can be a shock to find out how many calories in various foods. Good for you for calculating :)