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Hopefully you've been relieved of your situation, but I'll give you my TMI experience I had with constipation. When I had arthroscopic knee surgery three years ago, I was given a morphine, which is a good to give you constipation unfortunately, along with lots of Zofran (more constipation inducing medicine) to combat my…

Mac and cheese and grilled cheese! I want to try that cauliflower mac and cheese recipe on my diet is better than yours. That looked pretty good!

I have been walking my dog for probably the last week about 5 miles straight a day (I take her on a really big block B) ) and I don't activate my FitBit to monitor my exercise, it automatically registers after 15 minutes and the walk is usually an hour and a half to two hours - depending on how much she wants to stop and…

I'm currently recovering from a partial knee replacement and for the first couple of weeks or so, I was at the liberty of others to make meals for me. I didn't worry about weighing at all, because honestly, my body just wanted to recover - and I was sleeping a lot from pain meds. I'm almost 9 weeks out, and I have just…

I'm currently on XL. At first it made me feel like I was always light headed, but that went away after a couple of days. I'm still on the testing phase with it though. Not quite sure how I feel about it though, so I might b changing meds in October

The appetite suppression comes and goes with me as well. The last couple of days, I've had to remind myself to eat, because I wasn't getting the hunger indications. Today though, I'm sure I could have eaten a whole cow!

From what I know about Wellbutrin, and what you said about taking medication for anxiety, it might not be for you. I was actually asked if I had an anxiety disorder before it was prescribed, because Wellbutrin has been known to increase someone's anxiety, because it is technically a stimulant (and it can pop up in drug…

Majority of SSRIs (what you're on) cause around 25% of people to gain weight when they use it long term. I'm currently on Wellbutrin and it's acting as an appetite suppressant for me. I have to remind myself to eat. I'm just not hungry. I was put on Wellbutrin because when I spoke to my GP, I specifically expressed that…

I've done the C25K program a while ago, and haven't been running consistently, but I wanted to get better at running, so I'm doing the full 16 week C210K then Zen Labs has, and you start out the first 8 weeks of the C25K. I also use a HRM and have Wahoo Fitness running alongside the C210K program. I also wear a Polar loop.…

No, I'm at Sedentary because I do eat my exercise calories back, even though I'm not totally sedentary most days. I only included my TDEE because according to that, I should be losing, because even eating back 50% of my exercise calories, I'm still around a 600 cal deficit, so I should technically be losing weight or…

My GW maintenance sedentary is 1,950. If I followed this, I would not be eating back any exercise calories at this time. My current calorie allotment at sedentary with I believe a 1lb week loss is 1547. I'm 6'2" and my current BMR is estimated to be 1638. I'm getting all of these numbers from MFP on hoe much to eat, but…

I put it at sedentary because I do eat back roughly half of my exercise calories. Putting it at a certain activity includes my exercise calories, and if I don't go to the gym, then I am pretty sedentary during that day, which would put me in an overage in my calories. I'm not understanding how it's going to be slow if my…

I don't know what the OP is doing, but I know when I weighed around 245 lbs (I'm a 6'2" female), I would do Zumba for an hour, and if I was constantly moving and the instructor did a lot of high intensity songs, the most I would burn would be 750 calories and I wear a HRM. Now, at 175ish lbs, it typically takes me about an…

That's very subjective. I'm 6'1.75" and my goal weight is between 155-165. It's not a low weight, especially considering I have a ridiculously small frame (I have quite a gap with the "wrist" test). You might be fairly thin at 200lbs and 5'11", but I definitely was not and other women may not be either. I'm currently stuck…

That's what is probably going on with me as well. I've found since of lost about 60lbs, I'm constantly cold (though I was always kind of cold natured). If I take my jacket off, my coworkers look at me funny. My PCP thought it might be my thyroid, so she ran a complete blood panel on me, and my thyroid actually dropped 2…

31 here. Looking to lose 20-30 more lbs. I've managed to get myself down to fluctuating between 175 and 180 from about 240, so for the last couple of months I've been getting frustrated. I think my happy place will be anywhere between 150-160lbs. Have three races lined up in the first couple of months of the new year, so…

I'm going to try this. I've never really tried the TDEE approach, but have always looked into it. My belly is the biggest thing that I am self conscious about. My lower belly looks like I've had at least three kids and I've had none. I've had that stomach ever since I've been overweight, and I hate it (yay pear shape!).…

Definitely aware on being unable to spot reduce, I just know certain muscles are weaker or feel pretty much nonexistent compared to other areas. Accessory lifts would definitely not be my main priority, as I think SL will be a great program, I just know certain areas (basically all upper body) need more help in muscle…

I know SL is a freeweight program, but when I was doing it before I had to stop because of my knees (I'm only 5 months post op from bilateral knee surgery) I didn't feel like I was working out certain muscles, such as my arms (triceps mostly) and even my core as much as I wanted to. While I understand that SL can be used…

I'm 6'3/4" - 6'1" (it depends on where I'm measured, I always say just 6'1" to play it safe) SW: 240ish CW: 183ish (I only weigh monthly now) GW: 155-165

My calorie burn yesterday was 2254, and that was without walking the dogs, literally being lazy. Only getting up to prepare/cook food for meals. I wanted to see what I really did burn on one of my "lazy days". The last three days, I was eating close to the 1794 mark and my official weigh-in was about a 1.4lb loss, which is…

I know how that feels. This past week I've been playing around with just a 2lb gain. Thankfully for my official weigh-in was down a pound. When is the last time you recalculated your BMR? Maybe it's time to up or lower the calories? I know around my TOM, about a week before, I start retaining water.

Okay, so I am using today as a rest day, because I want to know how much I really burn, just sitting and doing "normal" things. I'm on target to eat about 1750 cals today. I'm trying to eat close to what my BMR is based on the Katch-McArdle formula - is the Harris-Benedict formula better? Looking back at my fitbit, the…

Ok, I am so lost. I'm new to dieting healthy. I have done crash diets before, and surprisingly have kept off roughly 80lbs (I think it's because I stopped eating so much and eating fast food almost everyday). So, I'm trying to do this the healthy way, not only do I want to lose fat, I would also like to get toned and have…