Mischievous_Rascal Member

That's the diet I've been following, then! :smiley:

You should use the help button and add your name to the ticket already opened there. I am. :)

You can get a few newbie gains by being in a deficit, but they'll taper off eventually. But recomp is really easy once you start. Find a progressive lifting program you can commit to and begin to bump up your calories to at or just a little below maintenance, making sure you have enough protein. The only thing I found hard…

Coffee is now all over my keyboard...thanks a lot!! OP: This pretty much covers it, though. Have fun!!!

I set mine by grams, not percentages. 2300 calories to maintain, broken down like this: Carbs: 246g 43% Fat: 95g 37% Protein: 115g 20%

Yeah. A friend who was a burlesque dancer did this for a while and she sure regrets it now in her 40s. Body modification like this isn't something that should be touted as a fitness thing...it boggles my mind.

OP, corset training is not something to just jump into. This looks incredibly dangerous, on multiple levels.

This, and google body recomposition for other articles/discussions. I'm 10 pounds heavier than I "wanted" to be when I originally signed up (and 20-30 pounds heavier than people guess me to be, and overweight according to BMI tables), but I'm wearing a smaller size than I did in junior high. Don't let the number on the…

Sigh...sometimes I wish reading this thread was part of the MFP signup requirements.

Fabulous work! Have you seen this site for recipes? http://bariatricfoodie.blogspot.ca

Cuz my physiotherapist is a meanie!!! No, not really...she's sweet. I'm just impatient. ;)

My little sis is a brand new baby BB coach, so I've tried it (for free) and I agree. It's a total waste of money. Just eat real food at a deficit and save that money for some cute new clothes. :)

I second googling transverse ab workouts. I haven't done any "traditional" ab work in almost two years.

This. Hair loss is often hormone related, and hormones rely on a sufficient amount of fat intake, especially important for women. You're not fueling your regular days, let alone added workouts. Give this a read and rethink your calorie goal.…

Please read this: https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1080242/a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants/p1 For your activity level, 1200 is painfully low and you will burn out quickly - not a way to put a stop to binging, trust me. To get 1200 here on MFP you would have had to tell it that you are…

Peanut butter & potato chip sandwiches. Toast with jam and cheese. Tuna mixed with hummus instead of mayo.

I'm just under 5'6 and I've been maintaining between 138-143 for almost two years. I toyed around with dropping to 130ish, and then I got sick last winter and actually went down to 127. Way, WAY too thin for me...it was actually skinny, which I have never been before. I looked horrible and it took me almost three months to…

@Snugglebutt2014, MFP always works - CICO is basic math. If it's not working for you, then you need to do a little tweaking. Try reading and applying the info in this thread: https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1080242/a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants/p1 The bolded part from your second…

So you want to go slowly into maintenance, but rush to get there (and arriving dizzy)? K... Your maintenance won't likely be much more calorie-wise than what you have now if you keep damaging your body like this. Please seek some help about this.

Meal timing is irrelevant for weight loss, but it is important for sleep cycles, which is important for hormone regularity, and so on. The only instance I've ever seen of IF actually helping anyone lose weight (beyond aiding in control over CICO) is a friend with an actual medical condition (Hashimotos). Her doc…

Everyone has fat days, no matter what their weight is. Do you do any resistance or weight training? That's helped me a lot with this.

My two cents, but it may not be all abdominal fat. Google Diastasis recti, like @MamaBirdBoss was saying. My abs were split badly from carrying around a kid who was 12 pounds when he finally decided to come out and then a few years doing traditional ab exercises made the split worse. At 16% BF, I could see ab definition,…

Light dumbbells won't get you anywhere. If you really have no access to free weights, google some progressive bodyweight training routines.

Gasp....sausage is NEVER a mistake!!!

This for sure, which would put you around the 35% mark, and pretty close to the model in the pic. :)

Okay, I've been around for a while and I find this thread confusing! OP, MFP uses the NEAT system to set your calorie goal - taking a set number of calories from your BMR plus your regular daily activity and creating your deficit. So if you said you're sedentary, it took your other stats and gave you a calorie goal of say…

Concept 2 posts workouts of the day on their site. And once your form is good, try working up to this one: http://www.popsugar.com/fitness/Rowing-Machine-Interval-Workout-1883592 It hurts, but it's a good hurt. ;)

I get this too...many confused looks when I say I'm 46.

Have you had your BF% tested professionally with a DEXA scan or a water displacement test? Inputting your BF into Scoobys calculator can mess up the numbers. If you're not 100% sure of correctness of that number, I wouldn't use it. If you are sure, I find using the Katch McArdle method to be closer to my true TDEE.

Half a kilogram a week is still a large deficit if you only have 8 kgs to lose. Half a pound a week would make your weight loss more sustainable and reduce the amount of lean muscle lost.