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My baby is 8 weeks old on Monday! I'm struggling to lose the baby weight despite breastfeeding. I'm not sure if I've gained muscle in place of fat, or I'm just not losing fat! I'm about 20 pounds heavier than pre-pregnancy. I want it gone before Christmas so I can eat whatever I like!

Eat back ALL your exercise calories!

I have heard that everyone has cellulite...it is not the domain of overweight people. The best thing to do is to drink lots of water and exfoliate (to increase circulation) or so I have heard. There is no real magic cure.

No, it won't. Your body can take energy from amino acids which make up proteins, which are available in your muscles and organs, like your heart, but will only do so when there is no glucose (blood sugar), glycogen (stored in the liver) or fat left. You only take muscle for fuel when you are literally starving - when you…

If you still have body fat to burn off, you're ok. Your body burns fats to get energy. As long as you have fat reserves and are eating enough vitamins and minerals, you will be healthy. Remember that humans are made to build up fat reserves when food is available and to go without food for periods of time when there is…

I am in a similar situation, actually. Some days I have a late breakfast and then snacks and dinner, and I have been around 800-900 for a few days in a row. Even when I eat 3 full meals I quite often come in under 1200 calories. I am still losing weight, at about 500 grams per week. I don't really buy the starvation mode…

Ugh. Reducing your sodium intake will not necessarily reduce your blood pressure or may only reduce it slightly (just like reducing animal products has not been shown to reduce cholesterol). If you want information on the effect of food you eat on blood pressure, the Cochrane Collaboration is a good place to look to find…

Why don't you just aim for 1200 and see how you go? If you go a little over some days it's no big deal, but if you aim for 1500 and eat 1500, well you might never know what you could have achieved in the same time by eating less. Personally, I am on 1200. I do ok most days - if I want to drink alcohol or have a treat I…

It doesn't matter. I am interested in those studies you mentioned, because if you google this the whole first page of results is about how people just don't burn muscle (this is a myth). When your blood sugar gets too low, your body takes the energy it needs from fat. It will only take energy from the glycerin cells in…

Turkey medallions with paprika, and a garden salad (balsamic dressing). I am boring!

Thanks for the responses guys. So I just did research to understand how to body burns calories and stores fat, and now I understand the answer. I think it will be interesting to everyone who oesn't know. Basically, your body stores the excess calories (the ones it can't store in glycerin cells) as soon as they are…

Exercise before hand is not really an option, as we will be going straight from work to the tents in the afternoon and staying til they close at 10pm or so, so the day before or the day after a drinking day will be my only opportunity (or perhaps a couple of days after). Then again, dancing on the tables can probably be…

For me, it has especially helped me realise how many calories are in alcohol...I had no idea how many calories I was ingesting before just by going for a few cocktails! Now I know that if I want to go out for drinks, I need to do sport before hand.

Haha! You could ask him to decide between sleep or a bigger booty?

Chi/chackra and the rest of the woo/magic you mentioned aside, yes it can disrupt sleeping patterns if you learn to associate the bedroom with activities other than sleeping. It doesn't sounds like she has a choice, though.

Why don't you work out in the evening instead? Bedrooms are for sleeping, after all.

I have always cooked (from scratch) everything that I eat, except for meals on the go, like lunch at work (in Germany bringing your lunch to work is just not done, but in Australia I would cook lunch too). How else do you know exactly what is in your food? It also helps that I don't like eating processed foods and am…

That's interesting...How much water does it make you guys retain? I have almost no sodium in my diet, except for when I add table salt to meals.

I wouldn't worry about your sodium intake unless you already have high blood pressure (reduced sodium intake in people with normal blood pressure has no proven health benefits). If you do already have high blood pressure, well, no Maccas for you! ;)

I am envious! I cannot wait until my body adjusts like yours has. I am frequently very hungry :(

But you seem to be claiming that if they do perform the act, it is right/correct/acceptable. I am trying to say the opposite - Let me re-phrase that to clear up the misunderstanding: even if someone can do something, sometimes they shouldn't. It might be the 'right' of someone to perform an act, but I do not have to…

How big is your mother, if you don't mind me asking? I had a phone conversation with my sister the other day and told her I was exercising, and she wanted to know why. She said I did not need to lose weight. I have put on about 9 kilos in the past 2 years and don't feel or look as good as I used to, plus I am pretty unfit…

I try to impact others negatively as little as possible in my day to fay life. This means wearing deodorant at the gym, not talking loudly on the phone at my desk, and yes, not passing wind in public. It doesn't hurt me not to do these things, and it makes the lives of others more pleasant. How you can regard this as a…

This didn't sound right to me so I did a quick google and for someone who is 5.8 the range given was 126 to 155, so anywhere in between is healthy depending on your frame. I am 5.8 and a half, and 150 pounds is what I am right now, and I aim to lose about 19 pounds to get to a healthy weight for me. Of course size and…

Keep in mind that natural and chemical are actually the same thing - chemicals come from nature and usually the difference between 'herbal' medicine and normal drugs is that the normal ones have been tested more thoroughly, need to be registered, and have their side effects stated (as well as often needing to be prescribed…

You forgot the right for people to fart in elevators and on public transport. We wouldn't want to disrespect that!

Anything with preservatives (except alcohol!) or MSG (usually disguised as 'natural flavour'). I am allergic and those additives give me eczema as well as usually being in processed foods, which should be avoided for other reasons too!