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Lara, it's a Metabolic Conditioning workout... kind of a circuit with several different exercises, and breaks to catch your breath. The exercises are meant to be hard though, and tend to be somewhat full body. Things like a squat to pick up, lift, and slam a sand ball on the ground 12 times. Not impossible, as from what…

When I started (this time) I worked heavily with a trainer at first, who had me doing metcons and strength days with her, and then on the elliptical M W and doing yoga on off days, with full rest once or twice a week. Our second round I'm only seeing her a 1/2 hour once a week (she gets me started and then I finish on my…

But weight and mass are different. So do you mean weight? If so, when I use the formula above it gives the lowest estimate yet, around 350 cal.

How would I determine my mass?

Ok. Maybe I'll stick with what I have then. The only reason I'm a tad concerned (not the right word but I'm braindead right now) is that I've been 100 calories or more under most of the last couple weeks. I don't want to inadvertently only eat 900 net calories. I won't stress about it and just eat if I'm hungry. Thank you!

Anyone? Bueller?

Thanks for the advice everyone! This is so frustrating! The last thing I need is an injury, I have a five-year-old and a 4-month-old to take care of.

It does indeed hurt going down stairs. It just doesn't hurt much. I'm glad I asked, I really wouldn't want to tear it.

:( I have full mobility, it's just the teeniest bit sore when I flex my foot and roll it to the outside. I will take a break and return to exercise when it feels better. Sad panda is sad.

No other advice? Can I work out or not? If I did of course I'd be gentle on it.

Thanks... I know it's a bad one to hurt... I'm just sort of confused on how it even happened! I must not have been warmed up enough, or the room was too cool or something.

Some great advice has been said here. Eat more calories, more fermentable fiber, maybe up your water even more. At 5'6" and 167, set to lose .5 a week mfp gives me 1850. When I was pregnant I felt effects of dehydration if I drank less than 12 cups a day... 14 was my rarely achieved goal. My research has found that a good…

Yeah, I think that's what I'm going to do. I was actually just thinking that the sauce probably balances out any water evaporation from the cooking. Thanks for your help!!

I'm 5'6", and aiming for 145. I know that's a good weight for me to try for because it's the weight I was in the best shape of my life so far. However, it wasn't the absolute best shape I could be in. Once I get there I'll start paring down body fat specifically and the scale reading won't matter as much. I wouldn't be…

I literally just typed this on another topic called "what should I do?" Here's my copy&paste: I had questions like this at first. Basically you have to pick whether you want to log it as the day you are technically starting or the day you are still awake from. Then go with that, and be consistent. No fudging because it…

I had questions like this at first. Basically you have to pick whether you want to log it as the day you are technically starting or the day you are still awake from. Then go with that, and be consistent. No fudging because it takes you over calories on the old day so you just log it as the new day. I labeled my food diary…

But won't the fact that I first weigh them raw affect that? I'd weigh them cooked before eating, but that would include the sauce my husband is using to cook them in. Usually I can figure this stuff out, but with ribs being such a high calorie food and me wanting to eat more than just ribs, I want to be close on count.

I don't pump yet, this baby is only 9.5 weeks. Once she consistently drops the 1 am feed I'll start pumping. I believe having less milk in the evening is totally normal. Do what you're doing, keep up on the water intake and make sure you eat enough. You're doing great!!

If you want to boost supply, you need to increase stimulation. Pump more, put baby on more when you're home, and drink more water. Are you accounting for the 500 calories used to make milk? That will help a lot. Edit for random capital word.

Last time it fell off with no exercise. I had gestational diabetes and followed the diet after delivery. So I ate a lot of meat and veggies (like whole bunches of asparagus in one sitting), lots of nuts, crunchy peanut butter and cheese as snacks, sugar only from limited fruit and dairy, no ice cream or baked goods. This…

Try changing your exercise form. I think you could eat a little more protein along with your veggies. Plus I agree with the water intake. Have you used a calculator to figure out your bmr and tdee? That helped me a lot.

How tall are you?

Oh, and I raised my activity level and set my loss at .5 lb per week, which gave me like 1850 calories to eat. Adding on the 500 from breastfeeding, and no wonder I've been hungry! I was aiming for more like 2000-2100. That extra 2-300 could be a lot!

There seems to be more and more of us out there omydaughter! I'm on Babycenter and it seems most women on there at least coslept for a while. Yay!

Thanks! She sleeps the same being held or not it seems (30 minutes during the day), though sometimes she surprises me with a marathon nap when I wear her, which is a whole different ballgame. We bed share at night so that's been pretty simple, it's the getting her to sleep part that wears me out!

Oh I try, trust me. It's one of my favorite ways. Last night was a "try it all" night. She fell asleep nursing, but only for about 90 seconds. Sometimes nursing works, sometimes she's too wound up I guess. She also has a knack for peeing right as she passes out requiring a new diaper, which wakes her up even more that the…

I hear ya! My son was totally exercise to get to sleep... Like 45 minutes or more of bouncing on a exercise ball while twisting back and forth and lifting him up and down 3 times a day! Combined with great eating I was 15 lb under prepregnancy weight at nine months.

Ok, great! The resounding response is to just up my activity, so that's what I'll do. I definitely will pay attention to her cues too, and if she's growing I'll account for that, and I'll be sure to get my fair share of water. I wouldn't even be worrying about calories but the scale was going the wrong way, so I decided to…

Yes. Type it in as food and choose the appropriate level.

Thanks, I wondered, but I haven't been back on the forums long enough to know who the jokers are now. I just really want to do this right, and not mess with my two-month-old's food source. Maybe I should specify too, I hold her and bounce up and down while swaying back and forth. It makes my calves burn sometimes, and my…