ArtemisMoon

Your metabolism may be low from eating so low. You may also want to look into other types of activity. It sounds like you could be a bit stuck in a rut with your exercise and some people have had success by varying their routines. Try strength training! :) I do it 2-3 times a week and even without weight loss you do see a…

My personal trainer makes sure I don't do too much too fast and hurt myself (which I am infamous for), but he also manages to push me just far enough to make sure I keep improving. He demonstrates all the exercises for me, corrects my form, makes sure I work out a bunch of different muscles, and helps me find ways to…

I was told by a friend who is also a nursing student that the body will usually turn excess calories into fat within hours of eating it. So people who eat large portion of their calories at night before bed are more likely to store excess cals as fat than people who eat smaller, earlier meals. I admit I was surprised, but…

I asked a nursing student recently if starvation mode is a myth or not as argued about so much on this website. She busted out laughing and asked if people were seriously arguing over that. She finally answered me after she stopped laughing and said no, it is not a myth. Eating too few calories can seriously hurt your…

If you can, perhaps help them find someone who can adopt her who you feel would be more responsible and loving caretakers. That might help you with the guilt if you can contribute to helping the animal left in some way. You can't take the past back, but you can have influence over the future. If they adopt out the animal…

Did someone seriously ask this?

So funny to see this when I was just making comparisons of two body composition analysis reports I had done at my gym. They use some system with electrodes to check composition. I have been working with a personal trainer for five months twice a week and started out with 54.3% body fat. My most recent test was 48.8% and I…

I am 5'8, 280 and can lose a pound or two a week at 2000 calories. More if I avoid processed sugars, ease back on carbs and get most of my calories from proteins and veggies. You are eating really low.

Could very well be. I'd at least find out what my BMR is and try to eat around that, or try to figure out what you used to eat by eating regularly a few days or a week and log it all, then cut by 15 or 20%. My sister is an excellent example of what eating too low can cause. She thought eating 1200 was required to lose…

Cancel but maybe look into another trainer. I just started working with one and I really like it. He is part of a gym facility where you have to have an appt to be there and you are allotted so many a week depending on your membership. He keeps me busy pretty constantly and so far he's not been repetitive and is making me…

Wow that is really amazing! You are over halfway there so keep going and don't give up! :)

There are a lot of people who don't go by the recommendations of MFP. I suggest going to a place like fitnessfrog.com and calculating your tdee(the estimate of how many calories you use in an average day) and eating around twenty percent (or a little less to take breastfeeding into account maybe ten or fifteen) under that…

That does sound really awful, especially the spider! Ugh! Someone posted something on my FB page once that said we should all take a moment to be thankful that spiders can't fly. So count your blessings... One of my more disgusting moments was with a cat I had adopted from a shelter. Had him a couple of months and he'd…

I would so eat that and not feel bad about it...whoever thought of it, I bow to your brilliance. May you take over the world...or at least my kitchen!

I would love to know this myself...I did 30DS for about five days and now I have a constant lower back ache and knee pain, so I think that routine was just much too high impact. Every time I start trying to workout seriously, I seem to injure myself, get frustrated with my lack of progress, and then start eating horribly…

Gum perhaps since it is usually no sugar and low cal. Or temporarily try lollipops or other long lasting candies that would give you the most time for the fewest calories. Bad for your teeth and weight long term, but for a while might be a good solution. Also carrot sticks, celery, etc. that you can eat a lot of for few…

I tend to log 30DS as aerobics as just some way to note I did it, since I don't use the random calorie amount from it to add to my daily calories. And it may take a while to really keep up with the first workout (I might need to do it longer than 10 days), but you will start to at least see small improvements such as…

Casseroles are your best friend as of today! I attend University for 9 semester hours and work full time, so I can sympathize. Exhibit 1: Recipes for students http://www.mnsu.edu/shs/healtheducation/bmc/ Exhibit 2: Casserole recipe collections http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes_menus/collections/healthy_casserole_recipes…

Eating a big breakfast isn't a bad thing if you eat the right food. I can spend over 500 cals on breakfast eating baked oatmeal, but in trade, I don't feel like snacking at all and am ok with a lighter lunch. I also ate breakfast at a buffet not long ago (I go to one less than once a year on average) and decided since I…

Bumping it up...I have 48 hits so far today which is awesome, but the day isn't over yet! :D

Thanks so much for reading it! :D

If you drink enough water and weigh yourself in the morning right after a bathroom break, you should see almost no affect from Sodium and your most accurate weight. I eat that much sodium a lot, but my body does get rid of it pretty easily too (I have been told medically I cannot drink plain water when I sweat much - which…

Yes fats are not always a bad thing. Just eat it in moderation like everything else. As for sugar, maybe better key words would be "no sugar added" like on applesauce. It will have its natural sugars, but nothing additional which is really doesn't need in the first place. And MFP limits are jokes...set your own according…

1. People who wear heavy perfume/cologne. If I can smell you when I can't even see you, it is really obnoxious. Not to mention really aggravates people with breathing problems. :grumble: 2. The woman who forgets to lock the stall door...thankfully I don't work with her anymore. :noway: 3. I have seen everything from body…

Veggie skillet with an egg and cheese on top...basically made my own version of a Denny's skillet. And Frozen yogurt! :heart:

I have lived with a chronic pinched nerve for...12 years I think. First surfaced behind my left shoulder after I got my first desk job, and seems to be associated with bad office chairs. If I have good back and arm support, I don't usually have pain. But if I am on my feet all day with no arm support (at theme parks I will…

Unless I ate some pretty unhealthy stuff I wasn't able to eat as much as that eating philosophy said I should either, and I like to eat, lol! I say if it makes eating a chore, back off to what you think it doable. That is what I ended up doing. Then I just have occasional days where I eat some 'bad' high calorie food.…

I believed my parents were just talking when they were in the bedroom together, and that if I got up in the middle of the night, as long as I drank the water BEFORE I peed, I'd go ahead and pee it out too and it would be longer before I'd have to go to the bathroom again. I had that logic all worked out in my head and…

I went and looked at that particular article out of curiosity to see what they used to back up such a claim...it just said the body uses as much as 30g a meal, and the rest is usually burned as energy OR stored as fat. Big difference there. If you over eat, your not going to burn it as energy and it will store as fat, but…

It's a possibility depending on the person, but not an absolute. So if it doesn't work for you, then you shouldn't pay any attention to it. Most advice and suggestions on here are only that. Each person has to find what really holds true for them. If we were all the same, MFP people as a whole would have a much easier time…