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I recently had a miscarriage before the 5wk mark but before that happened I found this group that you might be interested in: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/forums/show/1920-fit-fabulous-pregnant-. Congratulations on your pregnancy!

Mine are around a half inch thick and I pop them in a pan on the stove, sprinkle garlic powder and salt on one side and just garlic powder on the other and cook it in the covered pan until the sides are white with some brown and they're white all of the way through. You have to flip it about halfway through. They taste…

What they need is an instruction page that people can refer to that tells them that they are to NET the 1200 cals by eating back exercise cals. I don't remember anything ever telling me that at the beginning and then when I asked for help on the forum everyone jumped down my throat telling me I wasn't eating enough and I…

Dang. It was worth a try though.

Do you have any known issues with dairy/lactose and do you mix your protein powder with milk? I started out by mixing my protein powder with milk and got major bloat because I'm mildly lactose intolerant. I switched to rice milk or coconut milk and now my belly bloat is gone (I don't like soy and I'm allergic to almond).…

I definitely see a difference in both your face and your shoulders. I love the difference in length of hair too :). Keep up the good work!

Good to know. 180 was the temp from on my meat thermometer.

Oh, is that what those are considered to be? I always thought of them as a mix between pull ups and up-side down pushups (not real, I know). I'm a little disappointed now that it's not something I can just roll over in bed and do when I can't sleep, but it's a great reminder that it's something simple I can do at home that…

It's a book called The New Rules of Lifting for Women. You can buy it in a store, online, or download it. Whatever media you prefer :smile:

Whoa! You can curl body weight?? Tell me more! I've never heard of this. (Please note that I am quite serious here.) ETA: I love the driving analogy. I wish that my parents had a manual car when I learned how to drive.

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You started a second thread??

Do you eat meat? Meat always helps with that if you eat it/can afford it. Also, oatmeal has a bit, molasses is high, spinach and kale, squash, nuts, beans, whole grains. I often used a fortified cereal to boost my iron up but make sure to measure the serving because cereal is deceptive. Also, it might be worthwhile noting…

^^^This. You have to physically hold the weights in position yourself which engages more muscles and therefore gives you more of a workout and better balance which is really great when you're losing a lot and your centre of gravity is changing. Plus I just get more of a rush with the free weights than machines. Oh, and I…

I boil my chicken breasts using this method: http://www.bhg.com/recipes/how-to/handling-meat/how-to-boil-chicken/. Also, I checked the web and my meat thermometer and they said to cook it to an internal temp of 170-180 degrees F. I hope that helps you!

Congratulations on your pregnancy. Lots of good advice here. Don't try to lose, just maintain and gain reasonable amounts in late pregnancy while being healthy. Here's a group I found a little while ago when I got a false positive or had a very early miscarriage:…

Marvelous work! You look beautiful and I love your movie references :wink:

What sort of sensitivity? I discovered that caffeine gives me wicked mood swings where I get super depressed to the point of feeling suicidal ~24 hours after having any.

The US site does ship a lot of things to Canada. I order from them all of the time. It might not hurt to give it a try. There are a few items and sellers though that don't ship to Canada. I hope this helps!

Commenting for future reference. :)

I do count it as exercise if it's heavy duty and something I don't ordinarily do. Things such as rearranging furniture, unpacking boxes, rearranging cupboards, washing the car, etc that require heavy lifting and physical exertion and will cause me to be in pain the next day. These are also things that I only do once a…

Maybe we're approaching this from different angles. I'm not looking at it necessarily from the loss/gain perspective you seem to be but from more of a body recomp perspective where you'd be losing the BF and simultaneously replacing it with LBM. Probably not exactly what the OP intended when she put it out as a topic for…

It's true that we all start somewhere different and then tweak for what works for us. It makes me wonder if we all started with the exact same program, after our tweaks, which program would be most accurate in the end? Would any? Everyone needs something that makes sense to them and works for them personally though. This…

Congratulations on being accepted! I agree with the PPs that you should look into what they actually have at your college. At mine we have the expected pizza place, chip wagons, fast food place, and so on, but we also have a salad bar, a soup bar, a build-your-own sandwich place, and a place that offers a different sort of…

In terms of weightloss and so on, I definitely think this is true, but in the bodybuilding context of the OP then I think that it may have some validity. I still need to do that above reading though.

This is very interesting. Thanks for the reading! I'll porobably be back to this topic tonight after I do the reading to give my opinions. Just from hearing it about it though sounds like there's potential for it, but I need to see how it's actually worked through in practice. :)

I think that most gyms you go to will be male dominated in the weight room, so going to a weight gym and having people who actually know what they're doing around you will help you out because they're probably more likely to have good form and actually know things because it's dedicated to weights there. I am so envious of…

I also don't like cereals so when I eat breakfast I say screw "breakfast foods". Today I'm having a porkchop and a baked potato for breakfast!

How do you choose calories and macros based on this system? I came in here thinking it was eating based on your blood type. That's something that my inlaws tried and it worked for them, but I think it's just because it cut a lot of the unhealthy food out of their diets along with a few random healthy foods that would do…

Lots of people skip the yolks when they eat their eggs, but I achieve my weightloss by also skipping the gooey part of the white and only eating the liquid part! HUUUUGE calorie save right there. Also, never get any of your calories from fats or carbs because those ones are turned into insta body fat. Protein is the only…