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You're good to Zumba all you want. I have what I've always called "soccer player calves" (which I admit to hating, but I'm trying to get over that) and even I'm not worried about my calves getting big on Zumba. In an effort to save your friend, though, I might know why she said that. She's horribly misinformed, but it…

This. I have a similar problem with my arms, waist, and hips. The weight is coming off my thighs and torso okay, but the arms aren't really changing and the hips just wanna stay. I know it's just the ongoing effort that will fix it, as tough as that is to hear. :flowerforyou:

You can set it so that you're the only one to see your diary. It holds you slightly less accountable, but I know that the embarrassment of looking at it myself was enough for me in the beginning.

Great job! Keep an eye out for those "stubborn belly fat" threads and post this pic to show every little bit helps! :flowerforyou:

My BF routinely comes in around 40%. This is on a scale that uses MR, which is notoriously inaccurate for certain body types, but I believe it in my case. My BMI is floating right around 30. So I would guess they have no clue how to use their calipers or are using another notoriously inaccurate method.

Rest days allow your body to heal and that's a necessary thing. But like others have pointed out, loss is just about calorie balance. If you're already on a deficit but you're using the calories burned on the treadmill's display to calculate your intake, you might want to invest in a good HRM or at least a decent pedometer.

WTG! Great progress!

If nothing else, it'll amp up your cardio. Do some squats when you get to the gym and you'll be fine.

^ this. You just called yourself (or maybe your spouse...) out, my friend. :wink: Currently, mine are for the Nissan Versa (I might have been investigating a new Mazda3 a month back and hubby owns a Pathfinder, so maybe he was doing something) and Sage 50 Quantum Accounting (never heard of it, which I guess is the point.…

^ This. Now to go find my camera... The other thing to try if you avoid cameras (like me) or don't have a "skinny pic" available as someone else suggested is to check out www.modelmydiet.com to see if it seems accurate for you. It only goes on height and weight, then lets you put in a "fudge factor" for those who carry…

I want that second guy as my trainer.

Holy protein shakes! I have a condition where I would be better off limiting my carbs to under 150g per day, which means my protein will be between 150-250 depending on how well I do. And I can't manage half my goals some day. Any tips for incorporating it? Are you keeping pre-cooked meats around?

Everyone reacts differently to the different medications. So no one's experience here is going to be too helpful. I think asking your doctor about an IUD is worth doing. Even if you've been told that the only birth control it covers is the pill or Depo, that might not have been mentioned for a variety of reasons. A lot of…

Sad, but true. And unless your profile pic is quite old or you have a nanny, a nutritionist, and a personal trainer... it's gonna be a bit.

As the PPs said, ***much*** lower weights. The problem with any machine is twofold. One, the weights don't correspond well at all. Two, they don't teach you form. You can arch your back, twist your wrists, and do all kinds of contortionist moves just to say you "lifted the weight" but you're hurting yourself more than…

Same thing here. Except it was just me and a friend. I didn't really remember posing for the picture, but when I saw it on her facebook a few weeks later I remember thinking, "Who's that fat redhead with Amy? She looks really familiar..." It actually took me a minute of looking at the actual picture (thumbnail wasn't…

The stolen dog died. I stole him because his owner was living in Hawaii (we are in Tennessee) and the friend taking care of him here wasn't doing such a hot job. Due to the communication issues between us & the owner, the owner & the friend, and the friend & us, the dog has been living with a partial GI obstruction for…

Totally. I use a scale that does BF% and recognize that it's probably not accurate. I get widely variable numbers on the measurement sites as well. So I pay attention and get happy when the number is going down, but I don't get too excited about what the measurement actually *is.*

Emotional rollercoaster day... Went to surgery with that dog I stole yesterday. Found four problems and only kinda sorta fixed two of them. Woke him up and thought he was going to die. While I was waiting to see which way he was gonna decide on that, found masses in the lungs of another dog I had just done a dental…

Not the first thing I noticed. The cheekbones were my second thought. My first was, "Holy cow, lady! You have uncovered some kickin' curves!" Apparently my inner retro lesbian decided to make an appearance tonight. In any case, you look amazing! Great job! :happy:

Today I made a police officer cry. Twice. And stole a dog by coercion. It needed to be done, but I still feel bad that I did it. I also had to swallow my feelings while talking to a woman who claimed to do the best thing for her dogs while explaining how the one I was seeing might be breaking with parvo because his mom was…

As some other folks have said, this seems to be the last area to go for most women. That said, I did see some improvement in mine last year. I lost about 15lb in about five months and there was a visible difference. Then I gained half of it back and the thing just poofed back up again. I'm losing slower this time and…

Same thing with us. And then there are the reps. Ugh!

I like the smell of wet dog, too. As for fat, I can see where you're coming from. The hall where the cytologists' offices are at UT has lots of art taken through a microscope on the walls.

Holy cow... almost literally. Large animal vets in general amaze me. I would love to do equine repro, but it wasn't an option coming out of school (effectively) a single mom of an infant. Even now, my son complains he never sees me because my Saturdays on somehow ended up on the weekends he was with me instead of his dad.…

I am such a nerd that I am now on a mission to figure out which of those pictures of people are real and what the heck that disease is called.

We should get your zebra and my lion together. And maybe the miniature donkey that dragged me halfway across the zoo...

I want to play with you. I do the same thing. I get majorly disappointed when I have this AWESOME word that gets me NO points.

Yup. We have a couple like that. The aggressive police dogs are the best. We've got one of those that I had to put the muzzle back on seconds after extubating and just pray that he didn't vomit. Or recover before I got the second buckle fastened.