Long_and_Lean Member

Yes, because we're all meant to look alike and fit in a box, right? /sarcasm. Oh, also overweight according to my BMI. Eff that noise. Waist to height ratio, while not perfect, is more indicative. Should be less than half. Mine's .45, I think I'm good.

They're both big boys, about 15, 16 lbs each. They're big breeds - Manx and Russian blue. Makes them extra cuddly, imho :)

ack, how do you resize pics??

I have two cats, they are my world. Anyone that says cats are standoffish and unaffectionate has clearly never owned a cat and spent time with them. Your cat will give back exactly how much you put into your relationship with him/her. Play with the cat, spend time with it, love it, pet it, hug it - my cats have a strong…

NUTELLA. although pasta or bread would be a smarter choice.

dihydrogen monoxide?

Obviously. Either that or a KFC double down

I'm one of those "ounces" people, too. Progress is very, very, slow. I just keep telling myself that everyone is different. All those estimates about how many calories your body needs -- they're just that, estimates. Some people metabolize things more efficiently than others. And in terms of losing weight, efficient…

Yeah, I was just going to say - heart rate is the only way to know. Get yourself a monitor. Or you know, every few minutes take your pulse (I do it at the neck) for six seconds. Multiply that number by 10. That's your heart rate. Take it several times throughout the workout, calculate the average. Then go find yourself a…

yes, but where's the beer? :drinker: (kidding) All that looks delicious! Raspboobies!

someone clearly doesn't understand satire.

Here ya go, folks. http://jezebel.com/5926790/the-real-way-to-poop-at-work-with-100-secrecy http://theblush.com/2012/07/11/how-to-poop-at-work/?cm_ven=Responsys&cm_cat=TheBlush&cm_pla=Newsletter&cm_ite=July%2017,%202012 :noway: :laugh: Ya know, I hate to get on my feminist soap box again but until women stop with this…

THIS. Romance is loving someone and finding them attractive even after the rose-colored glasses fade and you realize they're flawed, human and full of gas.

My inner feminist is bristling at this whole "ladylike" bullsh!t. You know what makes me a lady? The tw@t between my legs. The fact that I am smart, strong and driven. The fact that I have the ability to give life with my body. That I can bring a man to his knees at the bat of an eyelash, proudly call myself a doctor (PhD…

:flowerforyou: :heart: I love you just a little bit right now, because what you've described sounds exactly like me, sans the extra protein. " [...]I TRY to get most of them from whole grain, fruit, veggies and not white sources. " Ditto. Nobody's perfect, life gets in the way sometimes. But most of the time it's spot on.…

Ok so here's my thinking about the calories: when I ate more (anywhere between 1500 and 1700, I've tried several levels), I wasn't losing. When I cut to the point that I am now, I started to lose. I appreciate the point about the carb cutting though, that's probably what happened. I will try to revisit the idea with that…

Thank you for that well reasoned and genuine response! You mentioned changing something -- that's precisely why I'm here. I'm trying to figure out *what* to change that addresses my specific problem. Many of the things people mention don't make sense based on my specific situation. The only thing that will maybe help is…

Thanks, that's good advice. Are those percentages of calories or mass? (as in 20% of the calories consumed come from protein calories or 20% of the grams of food consumed come from protein)

but if I were losing fat, my clothes and the measuring tape would reflect that, no?

That's what I thought, and I woke up one day and realized I was close to 190lbs :sad: So that's when I started cutting calories by about 200 calories to start. When that didn't work, I cut more. When you do that, it kind of forces you to fill your plate with vegetables and whole grains if you don't want to starve all day…

I have done that for recipes that I make repeatedly (like my quinoa salad or the cauliflower pizza crust). For things I am trying out for the first time or don't eat regularly, I use quick add. And the way I come up with that number is as follows: Add up the calories based on the package, this gives me the calories of the…

Thanks for the input, I've checked out your diary -- it looks great! Overall, my diet is not that different from yours (despite what people say here, those "quick added calories" don't consist of junk food, lol. I'd be starving if they were.) with the exception of the overall protein content. With that in mind, I have two…

Thanks for the input! I've visited that fit-fatradio website, I really like it. I'm really hesitant about adding more calories as I've tried it in the past (I've tried to lose weight on about 1700/day) but was unsuccessful. My thinking is that these estimators are just that -- estimators. Every one has to probably play…

Please read what I said above. I often don't log my exercise. You wanna know what I do daily? One hour dance rehearsals. Pilates twice a week. Ballet twice a week. P90X and insanity to build muscle.

Actually, re: quick add calories: it isn't. The quick add is things I cook at home or things I looked up the actual nutrition info (like a subway sub, not estimates from other people here on MFP). Like last night, my multigrain pasta and veggie sautee. Today, my sub sandwich I plan on having for lunch. Everything was…

Yeah, sound advice there...cause I don't do that already :noway: :explode:

That doesn't explain why I started losing weight and then it stopped, even though nothing changed.

Yeah, I've come to terms with the fact that it'll be slow because like you said, I don't have that much to lose and I've also never been thin (I've observed that people who gained the weight due to a particular circumstance in their life, like inactivity due to injury or pregnancy, tend to lose the weight more quickly).…

Thanks! Yeah, if I don't drink them I really feel "deprived", so I feel like it's a reasonable compromise. I have to get up really early, and drinking them as I get ready just feels like a nice treat for getting my butt out of bed at 5am to go to work. As for breakfast, I love me some greek yogurt with honey or steel cut…

You're probably right, and I am currently attempting to do that without feeling woozy or nauseous (when I've tried to do that in the past, I just felt sick and hungry the whole time). Although after reading numerous clinical studies I am under the impression that at this stage in the game, it shouldn't make that much of a…