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Using the Navy Method, you're on the low end of average, just shy of being considered fit, with 25.7% body fat. So not skinnyfat! You're at a great place for maintenance :)

GO👏🏼TOPLESS👏🏼 Where? DOESN'T MATTER. It's +80° outside and shirts are stupid. I just want to feel the cool breeze on my sweaty chest, okay?? (I hope my manly pecs are symmetrical... is that a thing real guys worry about? 🧐)

My understanding of skinny-fat generally means you don't have enough muscle, and the percentage of your weight from fat is too high. That's the definition that I got from the registered dietician I heard use the term. So, in your case, your Ideal Body Weight is (using the formula I got from the RD: 100lbs for the first 5'…

Ah, it's been so long since I cosplayed anything! 😭This thread is making me so nostalgic!!

Not too sure on backs and hips, but I'm prone to Runner's Knee and tend to have achey painful knees in general, and started lifting to increase the surrounding muscles in my legs, in the hopes of keeping the joint more stable. I haven't pulled my bike out this year, but running and rowing are both knee-pain free so far.…

I also use Plantronic Backbeats, but they're the older FIT model, not the ear buds. Since they fit over the ears and are connected to each other I find that they're less likely to fall out during cardio, which is the problem I have with my Airpods (I can walk with those, but they won't always stay in when I bike or row, so…

Take measurements and use photos!!! It could be that you recomp weirdly fast so the fat -> lean muscle transition isn't showing up as weight on your scale. My dad and I are both like this: Our weight is very steady, but our body composition can change a lot (at least mine does; as he's gotten older, he's just more and more…

I use WaterLlama! The character of the day is always cute, and you can track all your fluids, coffee, different kinds of teas, sodas, milk, even soup!

I want y'all to know that I wore a crop top today for the first time in my life. I was definitely more comfortable in it in the morning than I was by late afternoon, but even when I felt like my mom pooch was visible in the high waisted pants I paired with the top, I think I was still pretty cute.

At least for the overfeeding part, that's probably a cultural love language. I'm Greek-Italian, third generation on both sides, and we have to feed the people we love: if we don't, I'm pretty sure we'll explode. My advice on that front is to figure out a non-food way to say I love you and I care about you. Are you guys…

There's also science supporting the idea that doctors overlook serious medical conditions because a person is overweight. Here's one article, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5201160/ But it's been a widely studied and publicized phenomenon at least since my college psychology courses when I was actively paying…

Oh my god, I just heard the most hilarious form of height-ism: Someone just said they don't date short women because they're not a pedophile. Apparently this tool thinks every woman under 5'5" is literally a child, and I just.... what? WHAT?!?

I know that I need to, I just... I hate therapy. I know it's really dependent on who you get paired with, but I haven't had great luck on that front in the past. We're getting a new insurance provider in April so I'm hoping to find someone in that network.

If you're looking for apps, I'd recommend Zombies! Run, because you don't have to run to get the story. You can walk, you can choose to have it based on time or on distance. The folks who make it also have walking apps, but they've expressly stated that it doesn't matter how far or fast you can run, or even if you can run…

Darebee has some programs and workout circuits designed to be done in a chair. It's free, and often no equipment is needed (body weight exercises). Like, there's this upper body one: https://darebee.com/programs/arms-of-steel-chair-edition.html They have others, too, if you want to search through their archive.

I'm not a bodybuilder or on a bulky diet, and I still think eating is a chore sometimes🤷🏻‍♀️ My dad's the same, so I think it's something I got from him. Sometimes we just "forget" to eat or can't be bothered to. Skipping meals doesn't necessarily mean I'll get hungry, and often, even if I do get hungry, it's more like…

Fun fact: You can use Orajel to numb your skin and your tattoo artist can tattoo right over it. That's what I did when I got my back piece (because I am a huge baby). We also took lots of breaks and completed the whole thing over several sessions (since it was, like, a 30hr tattoo...). But I also had a little otter…

Steal away! I was just doing one fruit and one vegetable before, and worked my way up to two. I read a book called Tiny Habits that was all about putting the bar REAL LOW so that you can build easy routines and grow little changes. Seems to be working so far! My mom was visiting and fell a little while back, gave herself a…

Yeah, we can't keep sweets in the house. No matter what size it is, every bag is a Single Serving to me. Oh, 64oz of Peanut Butter M&Ms?? Yes, I will devour that while mindlessly binge watching Queer Eye, thanks. So, since I do most of the grocery shopping, I just don't buy them. If I'm going to a store, I bring a list and…

I feel you! I made it my goal to eat a fruit with breakfast and lunch, and a vegetable with lunch and dinner. Maybe it's not the daily recommended servings, but it's definitely an improvement. My 3 yr old was getting real tired of my "Mama is old, she needs to rest" excuse; "No! Yia-yia is old! Dada is old! You can…

Yeah, I was going to bring this up. I've been physically picked up, put over a shoulder, and carried out of a bar by a tall drunk man, and no amount of "No," "Stop," or "Put me down" did anything. He was too strong for me to get away. He dropped me in the parking lot, and the only thing anybody did to help me was tell the…

I use an app called Water Llama to track my hydration. Some drinks are more hydrating than water (like milk! I had no idea, honestly, but it checks out against what I've read from registered dieticians), while others are less (different types of alcohols can dehydrate you a lot, but I'd always heard that coffee dehydrates…

I like Water Llama! You can track hydration through things other than water (including getting negatives for drinking alcohol!), and the little animal icons you can collect are cute.

I just recently learned this trick! It's not that I actually want to snack my way through an entire bag of Peanut M&Ms, it's that I'm looking for comfort, and a hot green or herbal tea with a teaspoon of my favorite creamer satisfies that craving without making me feel sick or guilty after.

Hard to say because I can't see your diary, but can you switch to a low fat or no fat version of something you're already eating? It's probably easiest to do that with milk and cheese. Otherwise, just try adding a low fat high carb snacks (oranges, sweet potatoes, oatmeal) or low fat high protein sides (shrimp, tofu,…

I'm listening to an audio course on nutrition, and the dietician in it (Roberta Anding) says anyone with a desk job and stationary hobbies (movies, puzzles, reading, etc) is sedentary or only lightly active. Active lifestyle examples she used were people who were on their feet for their work day, usually doing manual labor…

I mean, when you're dating IRL, you just mention those preferences on date two or three, and if it's a physical thing or something they can't control, people just make something up about being too busy to date or they'll ghost. So really, it just saves time and money to put that in a profile. As for silly preferences, I'll…

Yeah, if you're using that much creamer, it might just be that you're brewing bad coffee. How old are your beans? Or: Try different roasts! Do a round-the-world tasting throughout the week, where you drink coffee from a different country every morning until you find one you like. I love the taste of my creamer, but I'm…

Is anyone else like, struggling to wrap their brain around the social aspect of these apps? I always feel so weird coming into forums to look for people to add as a friend or into my circle or whatever, but going it on my own hasn't led me to much success, so. :neutral: Seems like I ought to try it and hope for the power…