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- Have a couple of small pieces only - Take the batter off and only eat the chicken inside - Make a salad and slice up one/half a piece on top I don't even like KFC but it's bloody hard to enjoy eating anything else when the house smells of it.

I've learned that I knew less about the relative energy in foods than I thought, and that I can trust my stomach to tell me how much I should be eating.

Getting there is the perfect reward in itself for me....

I agree with this (ALL of it in fact....); if you're using MFP to estimate your calories expended, you may be going way over. I'm sure it overestimates mine by a lot.

If you can't do normal cardio, but you can manage the weights, you can just do lighter weights than you would for strength and do longer sets instead, to replace the cardio you would be doing. Things aren't either-or, there's aspects of strength and cardio in everything you do, the main difference being how much extra…

*Hugs* My friends are used to me being the deciding factor in where we eat because I have a wide range of food intolerances, and I get **** for it sometimes, because a particular few people in my circle don't understand the difference between "having an intolerance" and "being picky". At least I have the advantage of being…

It's all just approximations anyway. >.< I'd bet that option 3 is your best bet; option 1 may be assuming a slow walk.

Coming off SSRIs shouldn't be a problem if you do it properly -- you can't just stop taking them, you gradually reduce your dose down to nothing over a few months.

A combination of counselling (CBT) and Lexapro are all that ended up working for me (combined depression and anxiety). Just unlucky I guess.

Eh, different people's skin shrinks back at different rates. If you're wearing something where a little bit of belly flop (or waistband bulge, or backboob or whatever) is going to show and matter, just invest in support undergarments. No matter what size you are, smooth lines under clothes are sexy, and there's nothing…

Swimming is always good for recovery cardio, and if you go to the gym, you could try a rowing machine; it does require some force and range of motion through the ankle, but it's a bit gentler than the impact from walking or running... You can always go lighter and longer with the weights; the effect is exactly the same.

Stretching is a good "just in case" preventative when you're using your muscles a lot to make sure they don't shrink up and cause you pain or reduced mobility. It's mostly a comfort thing, rather than a need thing. Have you been static stretching or dynamic? Dynamic achieves more, keeps your muscles warm, and keeps you…

Awesome! Tissu is actually my least favourite, hahahaha.... it's so hard on the wrists! What circus school are you at?

Joules per second, joules being the metric equivalent to calories. It's your rate of energy burned -- basically a measure of how hard you're working. If you burn.... 500 calories in an hour versus 500 calories in half an hour, your wattage in case 2 would be double that in case 1. Same total energy, different rate of…

Hihi, postgrad physics student signing in.

Wearing heels for pole is a little different to wearing them at the gym, though.....

Sorry, what are we actually meant to do if not take up a lane?

If I'm riding on a shared path, I always ring my bell when approaching pedestrians. Unleashed dogs are a menace around bikes though; they're utterly unpredictable! After having one launch itself at my bike while I was riding through the park once, I slow to a stop until the owner has the dog out of the way or at heel and…

Hahahahaha, ah, running. I can't run five minutes without a shin splints flare-up despite having good, well-coached form. >.< The biomechanics of my legs say no. I wonder what the equivalent cycling achievement would be.....

Heck, you're pretty much the whole way there if you can get your shoulders up -- remember what the site says about crunches being good and traditional situps being bad?

I find massaging arnica into my calves is MAGIC. It's also wise to do dynamic stretches to warm up and stretches again as part of your cooldown to stop your calves from getting too tight. As for knowing where the line between pain and injury is.... sorry, I'm really bad at that. >.<

If you're a study-snacker like me, try just sipping lemon water and tea instead. Keeps my mind off procrasti-eating.

Exactly. Which means the OP needs to find a new gym. ;p

That's all easy if you've done poi. >_o If you've got an okay grasp of your poi planes, it's very simple to transfer it to hoop, and the natural countering of the weight that you do in poi translates into the forces you need to keep the hoop going, too. Can you keep it on your waist?

I HATE HATE HATE doing cardio in the gym! I much prefer just going out for a bike ride to explore some good hilly backstreets. Sadly, even with perfect form the biomechanics of my feet and legs forbid me from running, but going for a run and seeing what there is to see within half an hour or so of wherever you happen to be…

Is reverse allowed? XD

That would be SO bad for your hamstrings!

I object to it slightly because a lot of the gyms around my area seem to be used for picking up, and dolling up for the gym seems to reinforce this. Seriously, if you wanna score, go to a club, and stop harrassing me at the gym! >.< ;p Considering that you are doing it for yourself, though, I can deal. >_o You'll just have…

Incidentally, I set up a group for circus arts in general, which would happily cover hoopers even if you're not approaching it strictly from a circus perspective... If anyone's interested: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/forums/show/4378-circus-arts

I think yes: it may be the kick in the right direction that she needs. She struggles to just stand for a couple of minutes at a time... maybe if she had surgery to accelerate the initial weightloss wihtout exercise, it will get her to a point where she can support her own weight to exercise, and won't make the same mistake…