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I can see your profile pic. You are a healthy weight and probably a healthy body fat %. If you want to get absolutely shredded, the way to do that is not a bigger caloric deficit, it's lifting heavy weights. Keep your deficit small and your tracking exact.

The pic on the right is 260?! You look amazing. Great job! I'm thinking 200 is not do-able for you based on pics... unless you're just shredded.

As a waitress it could be more of an arch support issue then. I wonder if a simple drugstore orthotic-type insert would help at all for extra arch support in your work shoes.

If you are at a healthy weight and want to lose fat, don't set your goal to 2 lbs/week. You should set it to 1/2 a pound weekly at most. I have trained for over 10 years in kickboxing... you need the calories for those workouts. You will lose muscle if you aim for a 1000 calorie daily deficit (from trying to lose 2 lbs…

It sounds a little like you could have plantar facsiitis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantar_fasciitis There are some sock-type things you can get that hold your toes back while you sleep so as to kind of stretch the under side of your foot... read some stuff and see what you think. I use compression calf sleeves and…

Sorry. I misunderstood. I thought it was something from a convenience store. If those are the actual calories for the elements used in the sandwich that's probably right.

I weigh 157 lbs and if I did an hour of zumba there's no way I would have burned more than about 500 calories. I can get a little under 700 running at 8:30/mile for an hour solid, which is harder than zumba.

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Save enough calories for a small treat at the end of the day but front load your calories - big breakfast, medium lunch and small dinner. If you eat more earlier in the day you'll be less likely to binge. But also make sure you are, in fact, eating enough. If you're actually hungry, your deficit is possibly too high. To…

I'm seeing homemade loaded pizza in your tracker for 181 calories/slice. Is this a home made veggie pizza on a tortilla or something? How are you getting the calories? Also, if you're eating a prepared breakfast sandwich from a convenience store, it's likely far higher in calories than 1 egg+1 kraft cheese slice + 1 franz…

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So then MFP has given you a target of 1200 calories, right? MFP's lowest target is 1200, so if you put in that you're sedentary, it assumes you burn less than 2200 calories/day required to allow a 2 lb/week loss. So if it's estimating you'll lose 1.1 lbs/week, then it assumes you'll have about a 550 calorie daily…

I would say it's hormonal. I started getting a few unwanted hairs during my pregnancies. Now I have about a dozen that I tweeze regularly... I am normal weight and was before my pregnancies too. The hairs didn't show up until the hormones went wacky :laugh:

Where are you getting 350 for 50 minutes of running? If you weigh nearly 150 lbs, you'd have to be jogging about 4mph. I'm 157 lbs and burn about 600 in 50 minutes of running... and that's net calories burned using a Garmin Forerunner 410. 350 is low for running over about 30 minutes at 150 lbs.

So do you have your MFP goal to lose 2 lbs/week? If so, count 357 and eat them all. 2 lbs/week is aggressive for someone with only 20-30 lbs to lose. You're better off aiming for 1 lb/week... or maybe 1.5. But if your HRM is overestimating at all, it's just fine to eat them all if your goal already has you eating at a 1000…

Everything is an estimate. 72 for walking with no incline sounds about right but maybe low by 10-20% depending. 357 sounds decent for 40 minutes with your HR in the aerobic zone. You were somewhere around 75%MHR, which is great... it means you were working hard but not too hard for a sustained effort. Somewhere around…

To be honest, you'd get the best gauge of your daily burn by having both a fitbit and a HRM. The Fitbit measures daily movement and activity but won't accurately gauge things like aerobic classes where you're moving but staying in place... same with weight lifting (mind you, a hrm won't measure weight lifting either). I…

Eat at a caloric deficit and lift weights. https://gokaleo.com/2012/09/19/body-composition-that-last-five-pounds-and-how-to-deal-with-problem-areas/

I've been running consistently for the last 4 years and just broke 25 minutes for the 5k last summer and run a 2-hour half marathon. 20 minutes is fast for the average age-grouper. The elliptical doesn't count though :tongue:

Try something like "body pump" or maybe there's an entry for "aerobics with weights" or something to that effect. Circuit training even...

Online calculators are notoriously inaccurate. I go a couple of times a year for a DEXA. You get a precise reading that way... but you're better off using the photos above rather than using the online calculators. I'm about 26% now... the photo above is about right despite my having more muscle than she has :bigsmile:

Well max HR, unless you've had a max HR test, will be a calculated/predicted max. So you said you did the math and came up with 191bpm... that should be 100%. So, yeah 99% is right for that. What you can glean from there is a rough estimate of where you want to be working: from 60-80% is considered your aerobic zone. So…

I suggested a stool softener, more food, more fat, more fiber and lots of water. If a person can't go, even if it's from a low food intake, it can still be real constipation and can cause greater problems if not alleviated. It's important to stay regular, so yes, a laxative is a one-time deal to get things going while…

Some of the quest bar flavors are gluten free. You can order on amazon.com.

And in the short term... Senokot. 3 tabs before bed. Stool softeners... and extra tea.

No, actually, the diet itself is the problem. You can barely get adequate fat and fiber to keep you regular with only 1000 calories daily. You need to aim for at least about 25g fiber daily. It sounds like the tea is good as long as it is caffeine-free, but fat also aids in digestion. You need to be getting at least 20% of…

Then choose sleep. Mostly I refuse to let my uterus be the boss of me. I recognize my cravings and usually indulge for one evening - I'll go about 500 calories over thereby negating my deficit for one day. Then I get back to my usual plan.