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Our department's nick name is Crochet and Buffet (childbirth). We eat all the time. Everywhere. It makes it really easy to stress eat!

Hi! I'm April. Labour and Delivery Nurse for 15 years, Care Facilitator for 4.5 years. I am a stress eater, the last time I saw Onederland was in 1996. Nursing school and poor eating packed on 40, working straight nights, a horrible marriage a divorce packed on 40. The remaining 20 came via a fabulous marriage, a…

Neither. I like honey and maple syrup. Sweetners leave a nasty after taste, and I prefer the flavour.

I struggle with this too. I find some deep breathing, a big glass of water and taking time to pay attention to how I feel. I keep some almonds on hand and find forcefully crunching them gives me the mouth feel I'm looking for.

When I first joined, I logged everything, hit a plateau, switched to EM2WL got too scared with gains, quit everything, restarted cal/exercise, plateaued, did isagenix, plateaued, quit, restarted with cals/exercise, plateaued, quit. Did paleo/keto/clean with out logging, quit. And here I am right back where I started at my…

Tomorrow is day 1. I first joined MFP in 2011, I've had a Fitbit for 4 years. I'm still fat. I'm conflicted about what to do this time. I've done isagenix, but as soon as I stopped the weight came back. I did paleo/keto in the summer, but as soon as I stopped all the weight came back. Back to basics. Eat less, move more.…

Protein, Protein, Protein! I work 12's days and nights, and I find if I don't get enough protein I am a carb craving monster! It's really hard to eat all the protein on nights, but I find ProMax bars are awesome at nailing the carbs and the protein. Feel free to add me :) I also do Eat More to Weigh Less.

CUT week two (still at 2650 cals) No change in the scale, but.... I've lost an inch off each of: Underbust Natural Waist Pants waist Bicep Thighs I'll take it!

So I haven't actually cut yet. I weighed in post vacayand despite eating at TDEE or around there, I'm up 3lbs. I was pretty stable at 264, but every other day since last friday I've been 267. I think I need another week or so at reset. I have looked at my macros, and my carbs are almost always way over, my protein is at or…

I'm exhausted too! I thought it was just me. I nap every day I can, and I am thankful that I don't have the same amount of cardio to do! It's so bad the last two weeks, I'm thinking of scheduling an appointment with the MD for some blood work. I just have zip energy. And I definitly can't blame it on not eating enough…

So I added up the weeks with my weight basically the same, plus the weeks of near/at TDEE and CUT IS NEXT WEEK! I am so excited. I cannot wait to get to the 250's (and some bigger guns!)

Stage 2 of NROL4W outlines HIiT. I have an elliptical trainer that doesn't have a height change. So I use resistance. I do 3 minutes warm up, then cycle 1 minute at and 2 minutes at 8 (or whatever feels most challenging that day) til I've done 15-20 minutes. Hope that helps!

I do NROL4W at home. I use: A Swiss Ball $17 at walmart Weights $89 at walmart Foot stool $10 at walmart I use youtube to explain the exercises and to find alternatives at home by using the exercise I want the word dumbbell. I really enjoy it!

While I have not fell off the reset wagon yet, I fell off the hide the scale one. But I did notice something positive out of it. I've been hitting almost 3000 (29-3000) for 5 weeks, TDEE should be 3092 and I am almost there most of the time. I'm feeling good, but I weighed in on Tuesday and I was 264 (again). But my…

Week one of going back to near TDEE is done! And..... I'm down from 267 (where I went back to when I did a 15% cut) to 265! on a post lift day! I was hoping for a bit more, but if it's sustainable, I'm sticking with it. I lost a total of about 3 inches from various parts. So...another week at 2900-3000 cals for me. I only…

Ok Folks, I am at near reset (2900) but on days that were bad at work patient wise, how the hell do I eat that much? I walked 3.3 miles or near 5Km at work today. And that'd be on top of my regular TDEE. I'd have to eat every hour, and today I barely net my cals. (wine is helping ROFLMAO) Any other nurses or folks trying…

I'm in...a friend and I have agreed to go to TDEE for a week at least, and then go from there. stats: 5'10 264-267 TDEE according to fitness frog 3049 I had been eating near to 2900 for almost 3 weeks with a 1 lb loss each week. Then I adjusted cals to TDEE minus 10%. This week up 3 lbs. So...clearly my body is telling me…

I suspect it will take a few weeks of eating well to get your period back. If the endocrinlogist has ruled out hormone issues, it would sound reasonable for it to be nutrition, and exercise. You may find you start out with really long cycles, and then they get more regular.

You can be 150lbs and still have a low body fat percentage. Other reasons menses cease are pregnancy, stress, medications, excessive exercise, poor nutrition or other issues with hormones. Any of those fit?

It's not just EM for you. You need to get your body fat up. The reason menses stops is because your body fat ratio has dropped below a certain percentage (it depends of each person, but anywhere between 13-24%). Your hormones need fat to function. Could there be anything else going on? Or is your body fat really that low?

Huge Hugs! It is so hard to go up and up and up! But here is what I know. Once you start to feed your body A LOT it doesn't need to hold on to the little bits you feed it. It can take a LONG time to reset. Sometimes you need to eat your TDEE to reset (I did, it's been a long almost 9 weeks) but for the most part I feel…

I look at my net. I am using the TDEE etc. But if my cals-my exercise are less than my BMR I eat more. So if my net is less than my BMR I eat more. I does take time to adapt to the increased food, and if your body has been existing on less calories for a long time it may take a long time to reset and get back to it.

Lucia has also suggested in the past that if you are able to at least meet you BMR, it's better. But it sounds like you are in a huge defecit a lot. I would look at adding things dense in calories in nutrients to make a difference (ie. coconut oil in a protein heavy smoothie). Ultimately you have to decide how you want to…

Quick update: Started EM2WL March 28 2012 Wt: 270 Bust 42 (under bust) Waist 53 Today 265 Bust 40 Waist 50 I need to measure other things and compare them to old measurments. But, it's working :) I think I'm gonna wait a week and the readjust my BMR and TDEE we'll see though, if things keep happening this way, I'll carry…

That's a tonne of cardio! I take it that's your job? Can you adapt the weights in your body pump class to work the plan? The bloat does go away, and the weight does come off. But it can take a really, really long time to reset your metabloism and budge the scale, especially with all that cardio, and your still not eating…

I did an HIIT on friday. I set the machine to level 7 (pretty tough on my machine-lots of resistance, no change in incline) and timed my intervals. It was wicked hard. Have fun!

34 5'10.5 Nurse, & Mom and I lift 3 days/week and cardio 4-5 (it's my stress reliever I have some clear cortisol enhanced abdominal fat) BMR 1985 TDEE 3424 (heavy excersie/job) Cut 2900 I average 2500-2800. The next two weeks I am focusing on 2800-2900 to see if that gets things moving....

You guys are AMAZING!!! Thanks you so much.

I'm up for adding more calories (maybe, I am still struggling to get to 2800 most days, but manage 2400 ok). I'm adding weights to tomorrows work out (I used body weight as resistance last week). I need the cardio though. I have a pretty high stress job-charge nurse on a busy Birth Unit-so I use the cardio as my stress…

Thanks Lucia :) If I was an 8 I'd be thrilled, but I am still a solid 20. I know it took years to get here, and it may take years to get where I can be. I'm just frustrated that I am working so hard and I'm not seeing an results yet.