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Throw in some HIIT cardio for your cardio workouts, treadmill, outdoor or classes, etc. Make sure it's actually high intensity, not just intervals.

I do a 5:2 fast. Calories within whatever range I need to hit other days, nothin' but water (coffee, i let myself have a little milk in it etc) on two days a week. I do it mondays and thursdays. If something comes up socially or whatever, I just shift the days. Works great for me as far as weight management. I thought I'd…

A huge portion of broccoli, kale, carrots or other fibrous vegetable. Like an entire bag. Not hungry for ages and super nutritionally efficient.

Hi, not sure what you mean exactly, but you absolutely use it to track calories if you are doing 5:2 fast. It tracks your calories every day, on fast days just put in any calories you eat just like any other days, and any exercise calories you burn, and they'll be recorded when you look at reports, etc. The only problem is…

I fast twice a week and on days I fast towards the end of the day I'm often freezing if it's the slightest bit cold either from AC or weather. Doesn't bother me though. I have a tendency toward cold extremities anyway...

Rats ate your snacks?

I have close to the same success story (5' 4", lost 25 lbs, weigh about 112 and kept it off for more than 2 years). Was always thin before gaining the weight recently though. But I totally second/agree with every one of those things you mentioned, exactly, from my experience as well. Two things I might add are: keep…

The simple things really do work, such as: --Don't keep it in the house; buy treats in measured amounts when you're out (like a single pack of chocolates or a small ice cream or cupcake). --Eat less, just at or below what your calorie level should be; I found that--especially if i ate the right foods--the less i ate the…

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awe. some.

Front step ups with weights on a bench/box about knee height. in addition to squats, split/romanian squats, lunges, dead lifts, box jumps, bridges, ball bridges, etc etc. that everybody else suggested. also running actually is pretty good for building the butt but sprints and HIIT I think work it better than just jogging.

this. i have never had this experience at the two gyms I go to, nor any in the past. There are as many women as men lifting weights and working out with various routines. Pretty much all are serious and courteous. (i go late at night sometimes and my only complaint would be a few kinda nutty individuals but they don't get…

Add salt. It has a bad rap but it makes savory dishes more savory ; )

^ this.

i don't usually get involved in topics like this but this is really awful. No one should be able to treat you that way. Regardless of whether he is fat or fit (that could mean he's messed up, insecure, too self loathing to fix his own obesity or his resentment of those who can, etc etc etc but never even mind that for the…

< win.

Yes I would. Every day o' the week.

It's harder when you're smaller it's true. I am very small-boned too. I'm 5' 4", never weighed more than 105 lbs my entire life, even through most of my 30s (always ate whatever i wanted though always ate pretty healthy and worked out). My high weight was 132 a couple of years ago (and i looked really porky, it's just my…

I like 'em scrawny. :wink:

Not if you want to do it correctly.

Super squat machine and hack squats are good to throw into the mix. You can do squats facing out and deadlifts facing in.

I don't get in the mindset of "cheating" because I don't judge myself too harshly if I go over my calorie limit sometimes. I mean, nobody's really looking at it but you, so rather than rewarding and punishing yourself (especially with food), just get into the habit of logging and analyzing without the emotional connection.…

Seriously, you win. You look like (what I assume are) your kids' sister. Wow. It's true, though, combo of weights and killer intervals are the best on the exercise front, and it's easier to lose weight when you have a lot to lose than a little.

Yes, but I find it's so much nicer being a slender, elegant alcoholic than a fat drunk. :bigsmile:

My rings fall off. I'm constantly losing them in my purse and all kinds of other places.

Actually salmon and mashed cauliflower sound delicious! Better than pizza, esp. since 98% of pizza tastes like cardboard, salt and grease.

I'm a size 0 (or 00) in J Crew clothes which are total freaky vanity sizes; normally size 2 or 4 in urban outfitters, h & m etc. sometimes XS, usually S. I'm 5 4, 107-110, and I have really narrow hips, like a weasel/boy. also I work out and since i have lost weight from being at 130 or so, my body fat is really low. I'm…

oops, sorry I meant this post for another board

People are making it seem so complicated with conflicting information. If you want to lose weight/inches/etc., put your calories in a deficit with diet and exercise. That is the only way. While you are doing that, you will lose weight. That weight will be both fat and muscle. If you are bigger it will be mostly fat but…

^this.