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Remember to squeeze your buttocks together when doing the exercises, if you don't you are not using the full potential of the exercise :smile:

Unfortunately your skin isn't as elastic as a 20-year-old's and therefore many women in their 40-50's whom has lost a good amount of weight will need surgically removal of excess skin also if you have been overweight for many years, the skin is stretched. It is like an elastic band if you have ever found an old box you…

The Doctor who wrote the book 'The 17 day diet' says that your body adapt to your new diet after 22 days and therefore the weight loss will slow down or differ. So far that has been the case with me and I found that it works to change up my diet plan every 17 days. Though I take breaks in between the periods of 17 days…

if you are skinnyfat at 123lbs, I agree with the others 115lbs is probably to low since that would mean being more skinny fat. Trying to look like Jillian Michaels mean packing on some muscles and muscles weigh much more than fat so you will likely gain depends on how skinny fat you are. the best way to find out is to get…

Here is all the negative side effects of a low carb diet and I can personally say that I have experienced all of them, but I still do low carb diet since it is the only thing that works if I want to lose, everything else I just maintain, but every 4-5 days I will have a big whole grain garlic bread with my salmon and maybe…

yes if you are pushing yourself and have enough strength to do more reps than 10 (10 because that is what you say your goal for each set is) -if you can do more than 10 you are not lifting heavy enough. I say 12 because the first set you do you most likely could do more than 12, but the second set you are less likely. to…

you said a bit of weight lifting -I would do a good amount of weight lifting and lift heavy, my trainer always said that I would get much better results if I lifted so heavy that even though I was suppose to do 3 sets of 12 reps I could not lift past 10 reps and as soon as I was able to do 3 sets of 12 reps I should up…

Here is a good video to show what I mean,, the parallel leg lift is very good and they always burn!! :D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl_aqxzJveg

I know what you are talking about -find ballet exercises and youtube, those ballet leg lifts are excellent! I was a competitive dancer for 13 years before getting sick and gaining all the weight -had a high fine popo (french butt) and lean legs :D

Great job!! :D Might I suggest doing either Jillian Michaels 30 day shred or ripped in 30. I think I know where you want to go and I definitely think one of those programs will get you there rather quickly. I am currently doing ripped in 30 and already after the first week I was tight on the sides and all over. Of course…

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I decided to quit smoking when I decided to start controlling my calorie intake and joined MFP. Don't worry about putting on weight. I know that smoking boost your metabolism like 10%, but since you are watching your calories you won't start packing on pounds (it was different if you weren't using MFP or something to watch…

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Pregnant? :D

I also started breaking out like crazy all over my face and chest when I changed my diet and started drinking only water, and it has been like this for the past 3 months now. I don't know why it is happening since everybody is saying that you get better skin if you eat healthy and drink a lot of water, but just wanted to…

I am! :D

So prettyyyy! Never seen a momma that looks like you do :happy: :flowerforyou:

Did you know that you can get an app, (that is very awesome), called the nicktionary. It is a Nicki Minaj dictionary -which sometimes, for someone like me who lives Denmark may come in handy - Oh and also, it is just hilarious! :tongue:

I had been taking anti-depressants since I was 15 until August this year (they figured out that I am borderline and therefore I am so prone to depressions) and this "disease" also carry some form of body-dysmophia, so putting on weight was so very difficult for me and I used to be a little hottie until I was 17 and was put…

Saggy skin is something that depends on your age and your skins elasticity, and not with how fast you loose the weight. The older you get the more likely is the skin to sag and be difficult. If we were to say a young person lost like 60 lb in a period of 3 months and they then had saggy skin that took another 3 months to…

is this just from heavy lifting or did you do something else as well? :smile:

Is this just from heavy lifting or did you do something else as well? :)

Haha I thought you were going to say; those annoying people at the gym.... that moan so loud when lifting weights that you can hear it even with music plugged in your ears and the volume up -makes me reeeeaally uncomfortable!! :-P

From what I have heard and read from a lot of different people it also really works your abs so in that area I don't believe you need to do any exercises.

I try to sleep as much as I can. The moment I feel a bit tired I take a nap -I only get up when I wake up myself. I only have a few days a week that I have to get up before the time that I usually wake up myself. I always wake up at the same time +/- 7 minutes. But taking naps whenever I feel a bit tired is something I…