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I don't want to argue with you either. I'll tell you about my experience with diet pills. I took phenphedrine for a while because they claimed that it kills hunger and increases energy. I did some reading on it and it seemed to be safe. In my case, that was true. So much so that I was going without food all day. I also was…

Squats, lunges and lower body exercise! I have a lot of cellulite on my thighs and under my butt and they all disappear after about a month of working out.

I've done the crash dieting and cleansing thing before I joined MFP. That stuff does not work. As for the Master Cleanse, I've done it once and I can definitely tell you that those were the worst 10 days of my life. This is my honest opinion. This is what happened. 1. Spent a lot of money on maple syrup. Hands hurt because…

I have over 175 recipes in my recipe section! Those are pretty much the only recipes I make and keep repeating. Each time I'm sure I put in different amounts of ingredients even if I'm making them the same way because I never measure ingredients; I go by the taste. I only measure them when I make something for the first…

It doesn't matter how you prepare your rice. The next time you do it, just measure how much raw rice you put into the vessel. If you put in 1 cup (which is about 650 cals), put that down in your recipe builder. After you are done boiling it to the consistency you like, measure the total amount it yields. If it yields 2.5…

You could try cooking it Indian style but without the North Indian style saucy preparations of cream, oil, butter and starch. Fry some onions (a little oil goes a long way) till they are golden brown, add minced garlic (turmeric, mustard seeds, ginger are optional, use if you have them or not), salt, pepper, cumin seeds,…

I add up all the calories from individual ingredients and measure the total quantity at the end by volume. To keep it simple, my 1 serving is always equal to 1 cup. For smaller preparations, 1 serving = 1/4 cup. If it is something not measurable by a cup measure like meatballs, which I made today from scratch, 1 serving =…

I'm 150 lbs and about 25 lbs overweight. I burn up to 1000 calories or more easily in about 2 hours of very strenuous session of HIIT+strength training, but there's no way I would be able to do it everyday. I need a break of one or two days afterwards. Good luck with your 1000 per day burn challenge OP. You'll need it!

All forms of alcohol! I like being buzzed sometimes and drink at parties, but mostly shots, so that they go down really fast and I don't have to taste them. Every type of alcoholic drink tastes bitter to me. Without exception :( I have never understood how people "like" alcohol unfortunately.

No matter how well I eat throughout the day, I end up eating chips at night after dinner! A lot of it too!

I buy all my meats (except seafood) only from Whole Foods. Their chicken drumsticks and thighs are very, very cheap and taste so much better than other stores. Very often they have steaks and lean ground beef at discount prices too. Also, sometimes they have this yucca-corn-chicken Aztec soup in the hot soups section which…

Rice! I can't seem to do without it. Even if it's just a spoon, I have to have some!

I'm hoping everyone here inspires me! Good luck to you all! SW: 153 CW: 153 GW for October: 148 Weigh in Dates: Start of Month (10/3 Friday): 153 10/11 Sat: 10/18 Sat: 10/25 Sat: End of Month (10/31 Friday): Total weight lost:

1. I can wear everything from my closet and walk around confidently without pulling things down or sucking my stomach in or worrying about whether my *kitten* looks too big. 2. I can fold my legs and sit, as in one leg over the other when sitting on a couch/chair. I wasn't able to do this before when there was too much fat…

Ok I definitely did not know this. I thought If I'm getting fitter, I'm burning less even if I'm at the same weight. This is good to know! I stopped Zumba for exactly this reason. I stopped getting tired at the end of it and it felt like I was wasting time. So I'd do it if I felt like light exercise. So I've been correct…

I'm like this too. I simply have smaller meals all day so I can save the bulk of my calories for dinner. I love heavy dinners. Its ok to eat a lot at night. The timing of your food does not matter at all.

Had a bad day at school and felt lonely. So I ate an entire extra large meat lovers' cheesy calzone from a local pizza store with fries and regular coke. :ohwell: I bought the same thing a month back and ate it over 5 meals :noway:

Thank you so much for clearing that up! I hit the 187 during really hard active intervals during HIIT exercises. Some exercises, I go straight from 140-185 in about 40 seconds. So that counts right? I do 20 seconds on and 10 off (I follow the fitnessblender videos on youtube) and each exercise is 4 reps. I've tried 40 on…

You're right. When I work out after a long interval, my HR hovers between 150-180 and as I get more used to it, I struggle to keep it at that range because I don't go over 165. I love HIIT exercises! I like short bursts of intense activity and the variety of different exercises, running I don't like because I find it…

http://www.fitnessblender.com/ Over 300 workouts to choose from over here!

Excellent! Keep at it!

Thank you! I've been going with 200-208 as an arbitrary number. When I'm training at my hardest, I've seen my HR go up to 187 at which point I have to stop. I assumed this was 90%-95% of my max HR for some reason. So 187-190 would actually be my max HR right?

Thank you!

I've eaten like you my whole life. I've never heard the term "flexitarian" before, but because I do eat meat, I call myself a non-vegetarian or an omnivore. If I get something vegetarian while eating out and someone asks me if I'm vegetarian, all I say is, "No, but I just don't feel like meat today." No one ever asks more…

I'm starting the first round in two days. I just finished the 5 day challenge and loved it. I've lost weight and inches consistently doing their 1000 calorie epic workouts before. I stopped working out and counting calories on mfp out of laziness for 6-7 months and put on 15lbs. I just got back on mfp and working out last…

OP there're a lot of 15-25 min workouts that need no equipment and can be done in your room. If you have 15 mins, you can do them. I cannot tell you how much of a mood-upper it is just to see your improving body shape in the mirror. I guarantee that you will feel better and forget about the food being tasteless. I think…

Do you have a refrigerator with a freezer? If not, buy a small freezer. Ask your mom to cook you different sabzis in large quantities and pack it in single/double portion sized packets the next time you visit home. Freeze them all! If you can't cook or get to a grocery store, this might be your best option. American…

Congratulations! I know how that feels! I started with being able to run only 35 seconds and in June this year I finally ran my first half-marathon :D

The Master Cleanse. The lemon, cayenne pepper, maple syrup thing. I lost 9 pounds in 7 days and gained it all back in 3 weeks. I suffered through horrible hunger, was dreaming about solid food all the time, my tongue went bald, the salt water flush gave me explosive diarrhoea and nausea and the relentless lemon squeezing…

I measure ingredients by volume. Unless it's something like pasta or shrimp, those I weigh. I put the volumes/weights down in the recipe builder in MFP and let it calculate the total calories. At the end, after I'm done cooking, I empty the contents of the pot to another one cup-by-cup. If my recipe yielded 10.5 cups, I…