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I'm not really big on having friends on here either. I really tried at first, and went all-in being as friendly and supportive as I could, but I still got backlash from misinterpreted comments and it steered me off the site for a few days. I'd rather skip the negative connotation and just use the site for what I initially…

I'd like to join, please. My birthday's next month and I'd like to ramp up my slow-and-steady weight loss a little. :)

I had the same issue because I also do about 3 hours of exercise a week. It's the difference of about 200 calories for me between light and moderate, so it was sort of important for me to figure it out. I'm currently eating at the light activity level and have been for about a week. Keeping it up for a while longer to see…

I skipped the reset since I've never been a yo-yo dieter, and I've never lasted more than a week on <1400 calories. I do not cope with deprivation well, which is good and bad. :) Plus I spent April doing 2000/day to see if I gained or lost, since I didn't really trust the calculators, and it ends up that's really not far…

I'm really uncertain about the Fat2Fit body fat %. I've been inputting my numbers every couple weeks as I lose weight and inches, and according to the site, my body fat has dropped 4% in two months. Which would be great, but does not seem at all likely from comparing myself with other folks' numbers. I do think dropping up…

I'm making changes slowly because I can't hit my macros consistently either. Right now I'm eating my TDEE cut consistently for 2 weeks. I'm just concentrating on hitting my calories without going over and sticking to my exercise routine. Not worrying about the macros. Once I'm able to do that consistently (so hitting my…

Mmm. Chocolate! So nice to be on a "diet" where I don't have to ban it from the house. :happy:

I empathize. Until I started trying to cook decent stuff at home as exclusively as possible, I did not realize how cheap it really is to just feed us crap all the time. :)

Just wanna +1 for chesty gals who hate jumping jacks. And on my DVDs, at least, Jillian Michaels freaking LOVES jumping jacks. Frankly surprised I haven't been knocked out yet.

Yup, yup.

Heh, I actually did my blog post about breaking the soda habit today... So I used to do 5-6 cans of Dr. Pepper a day, easy. That was about 3 years ago. During my pregnancy, I got pretty much ordered off of sugar and caffeine, so I had to manage. I weaned slowly, and by the time I quit alltogether, I didn't actually get…

I spent a few weeks at 1300 calories when I started dieting and it made me megacranky. As soon as I went up to 2000, I felt better, exercised better, slept better, and finally dropped my first couple of pounds.

I was a year older than you when I got pregnant. Similar story, too -- unmarried, but with a supportive boyfriend, and I was working very part-time while going to school. I had a rough pregnancy and had to quit working except 1 or 2 days a week, and quit working entirely not long after the baby was born. Boyfriend had to…

My boyfriend's gluten-intolerant and his mother is Celiac. He was a meat-potatoes-bread kinda guy before being diagnosed, and being unable to eat wheat depressed him a lot. He despises most fruits and veggies, and I think would live on a solid diet of cinnamon rolls, pizza, sandwiches and pasta if he could. The good news,…

Our culture is weird in that using breasts for their intended purpose (i.e., nursing a child) is seen as weird/gross, but stuffing boobs into a tank top and jiggling around the supermarket seldom warrants much comment (unless the chick is really hot or... not.) Breasts have been so sexualized here that most people have…

Absolutely. Dieting isn't supposed to be a temporary solution -- "I'll get to X weight and then I can eat whatever I want again!" -- it's meant to be a lifestyle change. So, the way you eat and the stuff you eat while on a diet is meant to be how you're gonna eat even after you lose weight. So if you look at that and think…

Chipping in on the "added sugar BAD" "natural sugar OK" front. Everything I've read indicates that the natural sugars in fruit and lactose (milk and yogurt and stuff) are fine unless you're seriously overdoing it. The 25g a day limit really only refers to added sugars in sweets, condiments, drinks, breads and stuff. There…

Yup, it's me again. I had asked a similar question on the prior thread. I get that if you want to keep a narrow waist, you gotta NOT bulk up on ab and oblique exercises, but that does that mean not training them *at all*? I intend to incorporate more exercises into my routine like lunges and such to help work the shape I…

You're awesome. Thank you! I'm not trying to get ripped or anything. I just want to build up enough lean muscle to ramp up my metabolism more to help drop excess body fat and to reduce overall... eh... floppiness. :) Seems like doing circuits should be sufficient to get me there if I keep making it a little harder on…

Thank you so much for doing this. I'm a newbie here and feel a little awkward spamming the board with my questions, so having someone willing to hold still and let me fire a barrage is really awesome. :) I had my first baby about a year and a half ago and have subsequently been heavier than I've ever been. I was a bit…

As I understand it, there's not too much damage you can do to a diet over the course of just one day. It takes a 3500 calorie surplus to gain a pound, and it's pretty doubtful you consumed that much over your normally calorie allowance. I mean, if you're at, say 1500 calories, you'd have to eat 5000 calories over the…

(Sorry, noob post incoming!) I'm so glad I read this thread. I was starving on 1300 calories and losing nada, so I just increased my calorie intake to 2000 (following Coach Calorie's advice to find my weight gain threshold... I'm a stay-at-home, nursing mom, so I've been really foggy on figuring out how many calories I…