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I'm 5"4", currently 17.5% body fat, but have been as low as 14%. My weight actually went up as my body fat dropped below16%, but in muscle. To get to 14-15%, I was doing an hour of cardio/day, then anywhere from 45min to 3 hrs of either weight training or martial arts/day, about 5 days a week. It sounds like you're at a…

It really depends on the person. Some people lose the weight & the apnea goes right away. Some have to keep the weight off for a while before it goes away. And for some people it never goes away. Usually the recording chip in your CPAP will tell them if you're having fewer episodes. If it looks like you might not need it,…

Remember what another poster said, we'll all fail at times, but what's important is that we keep up the fight. When I get off track, I like watching one of these 2 videos to help get me back in the mindset. Hope they encourage you as well... "It ain't about how hard ya hit..."…

I definitely lean that way, but usually always plan on starting over the next day. I blow my diet & eat something I shouldn't, & even though often it hasn't even put me over on calories *yet*, I just keep eating. But I've really tried to get into the mindset of START OVER NOW...THIS MOMENT...DON'T WAIT. So the good thing…

2nd Degree Black Belt in Taekwondo (Korean), also helped teach....also took Kenpo (Chinese), Judo (Japanese), & TangSooDo (Korean), at times over the years. Teach women's self defense/personal security workshops periodically, as well as Stranger Danger classes for kids. After about 26 yrs of working out off & on in group…

I don't do weekly cheat days, as I find there's usually at least one day a week becomes a cheat day by poor habits. BUT I'm a big believer in "cheat" days on special occasions or when in social gatherings w/friends or extended family. As long as it's just now & then, & you don't use it as an excuse for a binge, then it…

IF you log ALL your food, eat the recommended calories, only "eat back" about half the calories from exercise, and STILL are not losing, then see a doctor. But as the British TV series, "Secret Eaters," has shown....MOST of the time, when someone *thinks* they're sticking within their calories and getting enough exercise,…

There are just too many things that can cause daily fluctuations, which is why most experts recommend a weekly weigh in. Try to do it on the same day & same time (usually as soon as you wake up) every week. Most people I know that weigh daily, make themselves crazy w/the fluctuations from day to day...happy if they lost,…

There's so much fluctuation from day to day...the people I know who weigh more than once a week just seem to be making themselves crazy. Overjoyed because they "lost" 1/2 pound one day, crushed because they gained 1/2 lb the next day. I guess I just prefer a weekly appointment of either joy or mourning. ;-)

I really wouldn't think retaining water would be related to whether it's a rest day or not. I think the most important thing is to weigh in the same day every week, preferably first thing in the morning. I belong to a First Place 4 Health ( www.firstplace4health.org ) group, sort of like a Christian Weight Watchers, so I…

All of them will give me a migraine within 20 min of consumption, which is really bad for the ones where I can't taste the difference.

Mugabe and the White African...amazing story, scary too.

For a person to take THAT amount of food, I don't think talking is going to do any good, especially since they don't even live there from the sound of it. You have a couple of choices here... 1. Get a little fridge w/a freezer & put it in your room and get a lock for your room door. Keep ALL of your food in your room. OR…

Way to go! Did you know that statistics say that only 13% of weight loss surgery patients get down to a normal weight and stay there? Most doctors who do the surgery now just talk about a "new normal," that is lower than your high weight. And many, many people have complications after the surgeries. Good for you for…

Drinking 19C/day can't kill you (obviously), what usually causes water intoxication is when someone tries to drink 1-2 gallons of water AT ONE SITTING, and it overwhelms the kidneys. But it is probably double what you need. Check out the hydration calculator at this link. It factors in your weight, health issues,…

Yes, apologies, I just glanced at the muscular back in the tiny thumbnail & thought it was a guy. But you look great, good for you for getting in that kind of shape. I know you can eat a lot more calories when you're lifting, but don't think the average MFP person works out enough to have that many calories to play around…

Oops, edited comment...just glanced at the little thumbnail & thought it was a guy. She's obviously in excellent shape.

Guessing you're a bigger person, as well as a body builder. Don't think most people would want to get 720 of their daily calories from black beans. ;-) That's about half of my calories for the day.

I eat a lot of the non-meat proteins on your chart, BUT agree w/OP's comments, because you do have to eat a lot more of them to get the same protein in the same amount of meat. So yes, there are non-meat sources of protein, BUT it's still hard to get enough protein when animal products are eliminated. One of the things…

You can give up things besides meat...Lent for Protestants (Although a good one for Catholics as well )....an excellent article on Lent & how you might observe it. It's not just for Catholics. One caveat on their recommendations, I do NOT think a Daniel Fast is a good idea without a more thorough understanding of a…

The research indicated that high protein diets were unhealthy for people younger than 66, but healthier for people 66 & older. What I didn't see was whether they factored in how much exercise someone did, because obviously someone who works out needs more protein than someone who doesn't. Most experts recommend 20-30%, so…

Yes, if you're losing weight....No, if you're not losing weight.

Whenever you have an injury, you just have to keep working, as much as possible, everything that IS NOT injured. If you aren't sure what exercises to do for each muscle group, then check out this link...you can click on the muscle group to see exercises you can do. Find at least one for each group that you can do, more to…

Even MFP says if a machine gives you a calorie count to use that. I use a recumbent & the calories it gives me are a lot lower than MFP estimates. Of course if you can use a recumbent where you have to enter in your weight, that's going to be more accurate that one that doesn't. But even if you don't enter your weight,…

In addition to diet & exercise (noting that you cannot spot reduce), you can make what you have look a LOT better in a short amount of time by doing the following... 1. Stand up straight, like you're trying to make your head touch the sky. 2. Shoulders back & down. 3. Exhale & hold on the exhale 4. Pull in your stomach &…

You said this person "matters a lot to you"....he shouldn't anymore. Anyone who could not only THINK that, but take the time to TYPE it, and hit the send button....this is definitely NOT a person that should "matter" AT ALL to you. That's just outright cruelty, there's no way ANYONE could be that ignorant to think you…

Will admit I was skeptical at first, but there's a difference between the tone of a workout vs a stripper routine. Just like a gymnast *could* perform a raunchy floor routine, but doesn't...a pole dancer could perform a raunchy stripper routine, or just an athletic gymnastic pole performance. This video is the winner of…

Do check the Food Database under the restaurant name, because there's quite a bit in there. But if it is something like a buffet or shared food, then as the other poster said, just estimate. This link has easy ways to estimate....like when it's the size of a tennis ball, deck of cards, CD, etc. If it's a mixture of foods,…

It's more likely to make you realize just how bad it was, or maybe that it wasn't as bad as you thought.

Any brand that has added calcium, because too many people who use it aren't getting enough.