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The whole thing about blood sugar stability...I am a school nurse at a high school and have access to a onetouch monitor... I test my blood sugar in the am -70's. In the afternoon- 70's In the evening- 70's....(all blood sugars taken right before eating) That's what sortof made me feel really suspect about the whole blood…

It has worked for me. I sortof used to do it naturally and then I had a personal trainer make me do the 6 meal a day thing ....and it just didn't work for me. I found myself too food focused. I never was focused on food until then. For some people it works. I was one of the outliers where it ididn't work. But I'd love to…

I gained weight with running. I even talked about it for a fitness podcast. My problem was i overate my training. Also the better I got with running, the less I burned.

We were all newbies once! Sheez! I actually am a personal trainer but I tend to try and workout incognito...and work out alot at home. Lately I've gotten alot of clients due to New years resolutions and because I am so busy..I have to work out at the gym now instead of home. I love it when people who have been working out…

I have but I am cycling it. I will have 3 days in the week I'll do 1200, sometimes less but not by much(today I was 3 cals shy of 1200) , 3 days I'll go up to 1600 and then one day I do 2000. Works and I feel really good. I have tried to do all 7 days and it just didn't work but 3 days? I'm fine and I put those on my off…

I did a transformation contest...where I dropped all my cardio. Prior to that I hit a wall..nothing was working. I decided to concentrate on lifting... I now make lifting my "main course". Cardio is just my dessert.

What! SOMEONE HATES COMMUNITY??!!! if you were on my mfp friend list I'd unfriend you this minute! (just kidding.) I love Community. Hate Big BAng Theory with a vengeance. ANd funny thing is my son's father is a post doc fellow from one of the ivy league schools and I am a community college grad. I hate Big Bang Theory…

oatmeal with cocoa powder and sardines on top... Yes..yes..weird.. i know..

I don't drink diet soda much...maybe once a week on the weekends. Nothing has happened. My metabolism didn't break...I didn't bloat. I didn't burp. I think if it doesn't hurt..why not. My great grandma was a smoker who died at 100. My aunt was a vegan who died at 32. OF course those are extreme examples. No need to be…

Big Bang Theory- COMMUNITY is way better. Abed over Sheldon anyday!!!!

5'3. Currently 127. I usually stay within 122-128.

Lift weights...like yesterday! Seriously. Lift weights..NOW! You will not regret it. I do no cardio at all. None. Yet People ask me all the time if I run...nope. Weights alone can and will cause great change.

Chef Boyardee Ravioli. I loved the stuff as a kid. I Hate the stuff now!

SICK horrific thing to say. What happens when you have a "hapa" kid and the kid actually looks more asian than you? I'm half asian/half caucasian but look more asian than my mother. You'd actually marry a white man to have hapa kids? SICK. Twisted. What are you going to tell your future "hapa" son if he turns out to look…

I beg to differ. Ganoderma coffee is NASTY. One of my coworkers tried to sell me some. I decided to be nice and try it. SHe was telling me all about the health benefits. NEWSFLASH! I don't drink coffee for the health benefits. I actually LOVE the taste of coffee. Except the ganoderma crap. It's nasty. Very very nasty. True…

I find after a really intense workout..especially if I get DOMS, I will go up a pound or two...(inflammation + water!). It's transient. It will go away. I doubt it's 1 lb of muscle. Not yet. not within a week! People actually gain muscle in grams over time which will lead to gaining lbs in muscle. Whoever responded telling…

I love avocados! I have one about every day.. I thnk this time I shall try it with choco!

get off the machines. ;) Seriously. I never saw any great gains even "lifiting to fatigue" on a machine. Just look at the women who use machines vs. the women in the free weight area who are SERIOUSLY lifting. I bet 9 times out of 10 the woman lifting the free weights look much better. I am not sure how old you are, but…

I was thinking the same thing. HOw hard were you lifting? And maybe if you switched what you did...weights 5x, cardio 3x..you would see different body recomp? Just a suggestion. But also what someone else said.. maybe your mind hasn't caught up yet!

Well I am 5'3 and I go up and down days. Some days lower than 1200 and some days over 1600. It depends on my activity level. I also don't do any cardio so me eating 1200 suits me fine. I do notice that on days where I get heavy leg work in I will natually eat up to 1600. On days I sit at my desk fiddling my fingers, I eat…

Don't know about that. My great grandma (r.i.p) smoked every day, all day, which is far worse than eating poptarts. Woman lived to be 102. So i think me eating a poptart evey now and then won't kill me. Plus I never eat them for breakfast. EVER. But I'll eat them for dinner.

20 bananas, 4 cans of chocolate frosting. One case of dates. All in one sitting.

Oatmeal delights poptarts??? I MUST GET SOME. One of the things that always "cured" my menstrual cramping from when I was 12(and I always, always had bad cramping)..was eating a chocolate poptart. No idea why..but everytime I ate one...cramps were gone..

When I started working out with weights with a personal trainer( a bad pt by the way) I gained a ton of weight. I thought it was the weights. It wasn't. What it was ..was actually all the protein shakes my trainer told me I had to have.(one in the morning and one right before and after working out. Way too many for my…

anyone try the limited edition sugar cookie poptarts?? YUM!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hmm...well I am not fat anymore. And even in my "before" pic I had lost weight from when I was bigger. But I remember this guy opening the door at Starbucks for this pretty little thing who walked in before me and then let go of the door as I was about to enter. Now men open doors for me. Give up their seats. Doesn't…

nope. check out my profile pic. I got my 2nd body by lifting heavy.. HEAVY. I even stopped with cardio because I decided- running almost every day wasn't working anymore, I might as well lift heavy and prove that it doesn't work. I figured I'd give myself 12 weeks to exclusively lift, and if anything - at least I'd be a…

Even better. MORE TASTY!

I vote poptarts. I'm too lazy to squeeze that packet over a toaster strudel!

As a fruitarian...I ate mostly bananas and dates. Smetimes a whole case of DATES at a time.... I was pretty dumb back in the day.