tessjordan88 Member

Could be the salad? If I have too much lettuce, I get sharp pains in my stomach, so I keep my salads light on the greens and heavy on the tomatoes & veggies. But a friend of mine has a little boy that can't eat anything with bananas in it at all, because of stomach pains and throwing up. Could be either, or a combination…

My Dr. suggested Dulcolax to start and then Miralax... a whole carton of it divided and poured in two jugs of gatorade. I didn't even have to have the prescription HalfLyte stuff, and the Miralax is completely tasteless... I think I had more trouble getting the Gatorade down that anything... it was SOOOO salty!! Definitely…

They give you an amnesiac drug that makes you forget, so you won't have horrible nightmarish memories, I guess. LOL!

Amen!! My local tap water is excellent, with the exception of some lime problems, but nothing a Pur faucet mount filter can't handle. The taste is clean and not a chemical taste. However, the next towns over have HORRIBLE tap water! I went to Wal-Mart and got a case of the Nestle Pure water (very clean, tested to be in the…

I agree with some of the ladies here. I don't really care for the bulgy muscular look. I told my hubby that as long as he can lift me if I break a leg without breaking his back, I will be content. I'm losing weight so that should make it a little easier on him. :wink:

Exactly! Like I said, if you're getting proper nutrition from food, and not hungry, why force yourself to eat? One day a week is not going to put you into starvation mode. AND EVERYBODY is DIFFERENT! Just make sure you don't go overboard and leave a 500+ calorie deficit for more than one day a week.

Everybody is different though. Starvation mode doesn't necessarily happen to everyone. Just do what's right for your own body. As long as you're getting proper nutrition from food and not going to bed hungry, don't worry about a day or two of being a few hundred calories under your goal now and then. I had been told to eat…

Or chocolate milk!! Also nuts are high-calorie and have the good-for-you fat in them,

Me too! Exactly!! Keep eating what you like, just reduce the amounts a little. I read the story, saw the pictures and WOW!! Big changes!! Congratulations!

I don't really need to build any more muscle tissue, I just mentioned that for general purposes. I have plenty of muscle mass as it is. I DON'T want to look like a body builder. The muscle I have now is fine, just working on toning it. Gaining strength isn't exactly what I'm after either, although it wouldn't hurt for me…

My activity level may be about 500 calories now, but when I set up my account, I was "extremely" sedentary. I have not changed it in my account. I can't go back and find the exact numbers now, but I know it was a LOT lower than that, like around 200. I also log every activity, whether it's "normal daily activity" or extra…

The way it was worded came off as snooty and offensive to me, i.e. "slamming". Sorry if I took it the wrong way.

If the part about the BMR/calorie goal were true, MFP would have set my goal to around 1000. When I first set up my account, I set it to "sedentary", and have left it there, even though I am more active now since I've lost 30 pounds. The site sets my calorie goal to MATCH my BMR, currently 1350. I had to go in and edit it…

If you are losing weight, THAT is subtraction, my friend! Almost everything is a math problem!

Also, if you are eating protein and doing strength training as well as cardio, you can actually BUILD muscle while you are losing fat.

"Very well-educated posters" huh? Not "certified nutritionists"? I am "very-well educated" myself, and I make posts. I must be a "very well-educated poster" too! I have a degree in child development. Nutrition classes (for ages birth through adulthood) were a part of that particular field of study. I didn't ask to be…

The math is correct. As far as the rest of your comments, I have to say this... Every body is different. I have tried, after listening to advice from friends, to eat half my exercise calories back. This doesn't work for ME. I keep a careful watch on my nutrition. I AM getting adequate intake on all my nutrients, and I…

Also, a trainer's advice was this: "Unless you excercise more than 3000 calories per day DON'T eat back more than half your excercise calories." Makes sense considering you want to lose weight, right? BTW, the big green number on your MFP home page is what should say at least 500. Here's a link to my blog about whether or…

It may be the NET calories... 3500 calories is equivilant to 1 pound, or about 500 caloies per day deficit. Check your BMR in the tools tab and see how many calories you burn at rest. There needs to be at least -500 calories difference between your BMR and your net calories if you want to lose 1 pound per week, or -1000…

Thanks for the encouragement! LOL! I don't know why I thought I could hide something so big behind a skinny kid!

Thanks! My point exactly!

Thanks! You seem to understand what I meant... EVERYBODY is different. What works for one person may be totally wrong for another. The whole point of healthy weight loss is to lose weight in a healthy way, right? So you should find the best HEALTHY way to do it, the way that works best for YOU.

Exactly! If you are eating your exercise calories back, and your "net" calories are close to your BMR, you are only maintaining your current weight. There will be no weight loss.

Still missing my point. I never said I doubted that starvation mode exists. It does exist, in extreme cases, HOWEVER, it is extremely rare and has not happened to ME. I also said, if eating back the exercise calories works for you, by all means do it! It does NOT work for me, so I will stop eating when I am full. I am…

I also mentioed starvation mode in my blog: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/tessjordan88

I highly recommend doing the research yourself instead fo relying on people here for the real truth. I did a google search and watched the website URLs for reliable sources. Basicly, if you eat less than half your BMR for several months, your body *MAY* start using your lean muscle tissue instead of stored fat. This is…

I also copied/pasted/blogged it here: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/tessjordan88 Go "vote" for it if you'd like!

Also, on another note, I read a quote from a fitness trainer/nutritionist. She said, "Unless you're excercising more than DOUBLE your BMR calories, DON'T eat the excercise calories."

Thanks, Ladies! :wink: I thought I'd immediately have 20 responses contradicting my post! Great to know I'm not alone!

There's an outlet mall local to me. I got a great pair of Gloria Vanderbilt jeans at Kohl's for $9.99 a few months ago. You just have to wait on their special sales, usually once a month or so. Now I buy my jeans at the Vanity Fair/Lee/Wrangler outlet. I paid $4.99-9.99 per pair for the ones I wear now (Lee Riders, Chic,…