dhakiyya Member

I second everyone who says track your food and stay within your calories. I'd also recommend changing the macronutrient (protein, fat and carb) goals from the MFP default so you're getting more protein and also a moderate amount of healthy fat and healthy carbs. Mine's usually set to 40% carbs, 30% protein 30% fat or…

firstly, what's your body fat percentage? Base your goal weight on that, not BMI. BMI does not take frame size or lean body mass into consideration. When you are already in the healthy range for BMI you need to be a lot more careful that you're actually losing fat and not lean body mass. Lowering your body fat percentage…

never heard of it, but I've done creative writing for most of my life, and still became obese because I ate rubbish. (back at a healthy weight now though through healthy eating, portion control and exercise) If anything, writing doesn't help much because it's a sedentary activity. however it helps to keep me sane, and i…

Add 5 or so to those numbers for women. Men and women don't store fat the same way,, and women have more essential fat than men. Essential fat for men is about 3-5%, for women it's about 8-12%. So a man at 10% body fat is equivalent to a woman at 15-18%. Also age makes a difference, as you get older the way the body stores…

I'm the same. I thought I was weird because everyone else I know hates lukewarm water and only drinks it chilled.

^^^^ this if you eat just the right amount of calories (less than you're burning off but not too much less) you get slow, steady, sustainable fat loss. Feed your body the nutrients it needs and have less healthy foods in moderation (i.e. keep it within your calorie goal) and you're much more likely to be able to stick at…

For some people, having planned cheat/treat meals where they eat the kinds of foods that are too high in calories to eat every day, but in moderation/small serving sizes, helps to stay on track, i.e. eating these foods in a controlled way stops you from caving in and eating them in an uncontrolled way. ALso if you do this,…

favourite sport - ice hockey, but can't play currently as I don't live near an ice rink :sad: favourite exercise - lifting heavy weights, and the big compound lifts like squats, deadlifts, bench press etc. can't do that either currently for medical reasons :sad: counting down the days until I'm allowed back into it

eat a post-workout meal containing protein and healthy carbs after you workout. if that doesn't stop this from happening, then see your doctor.

I agree :) I breastfed both of mine, and ate lots of all kinds of food including dairy :)

dairy is not an essential food group, and women can successfully produce enough milk for their babies without consuming dairy products. If not then how did the human race survive before the domestication of milk producing animals? that said, nothing wrong with eating dairy if you can digest it and it's good for…

except that populations that have practiced dairy farming or herding of milk producing animals have evolved the ability to digest lactose as adults if you're not lactose intolerant, then dairy products won't do you any harm and are a good source of nutrients. if it was that harmful, then dairy farming/herding populations…

non-scale victory. i.e any success related to losing fat/improving body composition that's not measured on the scale

^^^^ this but apple cider vinegar is great for lower calorie salad dressings and cooking generally

Oh my daays!!! however did Mrs Homo erectus survive if it's harmful for women to lift more than 3lb???? Put that lump of rock down, mrs homo erectus, your muscles will get saggy. tell mr homo erectus to make a hand axe for you (just a little tiny one, you don't want to strain yourself carrying it..) don't carry that animal…

I think it would be negligent of a doctor not to get your past medical history. It's normal for them to do this. Your new doctor will not necessarily share the opinions of your old doctor, especially with regards to things like "it's because your too fat/too thin" and you can discuss this with your new doctor too. They…

I'm female and lost weight with mainly weight lifting and not cardio. If you do less cardio then you will end up eating less. that's all. Eat less than you burn off, lift weights to maintain your lean body mass so that what you lose is just fat.

that's just what I was going to say,,,

When I used to go to work (currently working from home) I would make a salad in a container, with tuna or chicken breast and lots of salad veggies. That's high in protein, vitamins and minerals, and it's filling.

back fat? that's something you don't notice and you don't notice it going away either. Have you been measuring your body fat percentage and tracking lean body mass losses? If you've lost the weight in a short period of time you could have lost lean body mass, but if it's going slowly, i.e. 1-2lb a week, 3lb a week if…

^^^^ this

thanks :) I have an almost 3 yr old and a 6 yr old and they want to play with my dumbbells and barbell and I have to keep saying no...

where can I buy one of those for my daughters?

why eat fat? because it contains essential fatty acids which your body can't manufacture by itself because the human brain needs rather a lot of essential fatty acids to function because vitamins A, D, E and K are fat soluble and to get them you need to eat fat because of evidence that lack of healthy fat in the diet makes…

there are a few programmes online although I can't remember the names of them as I've always designed my own workouts by including exercises from each of the muscle groups. there are good exercise video databased on bodybuilding dot com and muscle and strength dot com. if you're a beginner, it's better to start with a…

or get a treadmill, exercise bike or similar and work out while watching TV Also, it doesn't have to be "formal" exercise at the gym, anything that makes you move more is good, e.g.running for the bus, taking the stairs instead of the lift (and when you start to get fit, running up stairs two at a time), carrying shopping…

look for the "in place of a road map" thread, that tells you how to calculate how many calories you're burning each day. For fat loss, eat 20% fewer calories than this. You will not gain weight from eating either sugar or fat, so long as you eat fewer calories than you're burning each day. 20% fewer should result in slow…

I used to regularly lose my appetite because of anxiety caused by PTSD. At the time I was following the "eat when you're hungry" rule, and what happened was I'd go through phases of eating very little (without even realising I was doing that because it was like my mind was stuck in a past situation (i.e. because of PTSD))…

It's absolutely true because I read it in the Daily Mail.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI (sorry I'm sure the story is real, just it reminded me of this song lol)

^^^^ this