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This is a good point. While I feel for people who are in this situation, I also have personally seen the negative impacts of making things like seating larger. Not trying to do the "well skinny people get shamed TOO!" nonsense that can get so prevalent on these discussions, but just talking about pure practicality. It's…

I try a group class now and then, but I've never found one I liked. The closest was a spin class in one of those super dark rooms since could only see/hear the instructor, but overall I vastly prefer a solitary experience, running outdoors or on my treadmill or cycling. I just don't want to spend time with strangers I…

Chiming in on this - I have a pair of the Costco ones and they are useless and slip right off. That said, I have feet on the smaller end of the size they claim to work for (they say women's 6-10 and I'm a 6). I used to run outdoors year-round (in Canada), but last December I got a really bad ankle sprain on some black ice,…

I was just scrolling down to type something similar! I worked at a steakhouse while I was losing weight and almost every night that I ate at work, I had a 6oz sirloin, steamed broccoli or a plain baked potato, and a green salad dressed with balsamic vinegar for under 500 calories. Of course, restaurants tend to use a lot…

I eat salads, often with two heads of romaine, out of a large mixing bowl most nights and my husband thinks it's a hilarious quantity of food, but with a can of tuna, some lemon juice and olive oil, and a bunch of chopped vegetables it usually clocks in around 400 calories, which is a totally reasonable total for dinner…

If I'm eating at one of those places with a million types of rolls and sauces and stuff (rather than a super-traditional place), I try to go for the mini quarter-sized maki rolls instead of the big ones. Spicy tuna is my favourite as long as it's not full of mayo. The big ones can have so much rice and a lot of them at…

I hate mushrooms passionately too. It's not so much the flavour as the texture, but I can't get past it. I am not a remotely picky eater but I have trouble choking down mushroom even to be polite. And milk, but I guess "healthy" is debatable on that now. I'm in my 30s and my mother still thinks I'm going to keel over at…

I eat a huge salad out of a mixing bowl almost every night. I'm not trying to lose weight but it's still my favourite dinner. My favourite dressing is just plain fresh-squeezed lemon juice. I have it even when I'm not remotely concerned with calories. Fresh herbs, like someone mentioned above, are also a great way to add…

I almost solely wear lulu, but for running I prefer their most compressive fabric, the Luxtreme stuff, over Nulux or Luon. My favourite type is the Speed Up, which doesn't budge the slightest bit on me (I'm moderately but not extremely curvy with about a 24.5" waist and 35"-36" hips, and I buy size 4). I love the little…

Unless there's a fancy coffee shop nearby, in which case I prefer a black Americano but with better beans. Or if I'm at home, I just drink regular pourover black coffee. I'm on the fast track to an ulcer probably (at least if you listen to my mother.) I drink a lot of water too, and on weekends I like a really smoky, peaty…

(I use a Fitbit for these so I don't know how accurate they really are.) What is your heart rate at a conversational pace while running? Mine always seems high when you look at the rest of my stats and usually hovers in the 150s up to low 160s (this is a comfortable long run pace, like if I'm going out 90 minutes on an…

I haven't done the research to verify, but I have read a few articles indicating crickets as a food source have a very small ecological footprint compared to other proteins, so for that reason alone I'm interested. I'm a fairly adventurous eater and not too phased by the idea, especially ground rather than whole.

Honestly, I often pick kids' meals if I have limited options and have to do fast food, like while travelling, and I'm trying to keep my calories fairly low. Most are between 400-600 calories since they're a little smaller but it's usually a reasonable portion for me.

This sounds a bit silly and I'm sorry if I'm off-base, but you might also want to check if you're measuring in the right place, which should be the smallest part of your waist (for most people that's a little above the navel), not where you wear your pants.

I'm no expert and I don't have the scientific studies or anything, but I've googled this in the past since I do a lot of outdoor winter sports and everything I've found leads me to believe that if you're exercising and your body is staying reasonably warm just from the activity, the increased burn from thermogenesis is not…

My suggestion is not to let a single event stretch to a whole day/week/month. So if you have two parties this weekend, make whatever choices you want to make (whether that's limiting your intake or indulging) at the parties, but don't use that a reason to throw your hands up and also enjoy a huge brunch, gallon of eggnog,…

I'm a crazy person and turned my commute into an exercise opportunity, so I bike to and from work every day year-round. I'm Canadian and this means some -40 mornings (or just dealing with a foot of snow like happened to me on Monday...) but it means I have to do it whether or not I "feel like it" if I want to get to work.…

QFT. I'm only a moderate clean freak and I can't do it. I'm happy to eat at people's houses or eat their food if I know them and have been in their kitchen but just random coworkers or whatever? Not gonna happen.

This. VS models are either usually a little bigger than most runway girls or (for those that do both) they gain a few pounds specifically to do VS because it's a different aesthetic. They're still thin, possibly too thin for ideal health, don't get me wrong, but they're not generally in that sub-16 BMI range like many of…

"You have to lift heavy if you don't want to look like a skinnyfat noodle person." I'm just an n=1, but personally, my legs and butt look a million times better now that I'm just running and cycling than they ever did when I was trying a squat/deadlift type program. I have the quads and glutes I always wanted and was never…

I think running the day you leave is a good solution, actually, since you're used to that level and type of activity and it shouldn't impact your ability to ski, but should give you some peace of mind that you're not missing too much training. Missing four runs is definitely better to happen at this point than earlier in…

I used to run outdoors in the winter, but after getting a bad ankle sprain on black ice last year, I'm strictly a treadmill person when there is snow and ice. However, I do walk and cycle (with studded tires) all winter, and my best tip from that is LIGHTS. I have LED snap bracelets like these ones that I wear on wrists…

I'm just here to say that I'm almost lazy enough to think that $25,000 for a no-effort six-pack sounds like an okay deal. However, that would require this to, you know, actually work. And we all know it doesn't.

I ski a lot and run and in my experience it is really, really tough to run after a day of skiing because (at least if you ski kind of aggressively like I do and go from lift open to close) you spend hours in basically a squat position and your quads are worked really hard. Sometimes I'm mentally up for it but my legs are…

Have you looked into Panache, Freya, or Moving Comfort? Those are the three brands that get recommended here often that come in extended sizes and are extremely full-support.

It's a corrugated metal roofing product! The guy who built it is a commercial carpenter so he took some scraps from work to make it. It's lined with untreated wood to eliminate any possibility of leaching etc.

I wouldn't use an entry from the database like that, as it's just a user-made entry and you can't know if they prepared it the same as you. For accuracy, it would be better to prepare your potatoes, weigh them, enter their raw weight using the USDA raw potato entry, then weigh your oil and do the same with the appropriate…

Just here to show off my little garden box. We have zeroscaping and a snoopy puppy, so I wanted something big and high, and I got this. We had a neighbour build it and I love it a lot, it's 6ft x 6ft and I got a ton of stuff growing this year. I also do tomatoes and peppers in pots and herbs in rail planters. Also, I got…

Yep! It's incredibly gross. I've never been able to bring myself to use it when wearing them and instead just spend 15 minutes wrestling everything back into place in a bathroom stall, which is one reason of many I prefer non-bodycon gowns for events whenever possible. I go to a lot of cocktail and black-tie events for…

They're not intended for athletic activities and wouldn't work for that purpose (for several reasons including many styles are dress/slip style and the shorts have a hole in the gusset so you can pee without taking them off since they're so hard to get on). They're just intended to smooth and firm up the appearance of fat…