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Going by weigh-ins only helps when you keep it up over time. At any random day when you weigh yourself, you may be bloated due to the time of the month, the composition of your meals yesterday, a particularly hard work-out that binds water in your body to heal up those growing muscles - it is impossible to go by one…

The only way I can imagine your brother being right is if he is worried you'll hurt yourself over-doing it early. That's a real danger. With extra body weight it can be hard to recover from injuries. It is also extremely de-motivating. Until you know your own body, know how working out feels and know how to do it right,…

On others - what ever makes them feel comfortable, as long as it looks healthy. I only dislike long, worn hair damaged by too much fuzzing about. If that's what you got, I find that cutting it is the best option. On me: Short hair. My hair is thick, slick and heavy, and if I let it grow out it becomes totally unmanageable.…

I happen to have loved my husband since I was 20, and we had kids and married at 25. However, if I was to do anything over again, I'd have met him and married him ten years later. The only problem with that plan is that then I would probably not have met him at all, so that plan sucks. Anyway, what I mean to say by this…

Guys have a very different relationship to their weight, they don't have the same ingrained idea that weighing less is better. This because if you're male and really built with loads of muscle, you will be way heavier than a slender female of the same height, but both will be well within our beauty ideals. It gives a…

One of the things about losing weight is that the head and the body doesn't always match. One of these days you'll go out, try on a pair of pants and discover they are too big. That's when you know you're not as big as you feel, and the tables have turned! And with your awesome loss, that day will come!

I can't have gluten, something I discovered fairly recently. Luckily it takes a while until I get a reaction - it needs to accumulate a bit. This means I can get away with a slice of bread if nothing else is available, or a social taste of the very special and important cake for a celebration. But for day-to-day stuff, I…

I did all the right stuff: Cut the calorie intake, no nuts, no evening cheese snacking, no alcohol, no bread, rice, potatoes, lots of vegetables, lots of clean, lean meat and fish, very little artificial sweetener. Also I was a lot more regular about working out - riding the bike to work every day, and doing pretty…

I never binged like this, my weight gain came from the bad habit of steadily eating just a bit too much, and having hypothyreosis to make it just about impossible to work it off. This means that when I "binge" I don't go seriously off the diet (good thing), but I also don't have a lot to work with, in order to change my…

A really through work-out will get your endorphines flowing, and you'll feel better. And if you don't feel better, you'll be so tired, it doesn't matter, and if you cry you can tell yourself it isn't over his sorry *kitten*, but because you're tired and hurting. Also - working out like crazy while keeping your diet will…

Be very careful what you wish for. Weightloss is such a long and subjective battle, others can not do it for you. If you blame others by saying their love and forgiving attitude is a problem for you, you are basically saying it's not your responsibility to lose weight. You create excuses (if only my mother had cooked…

Hello C4RL05 While you are below the calorie goal most days (and soemtimes dramatically so) you are eating a lot of carbs, and those carbs are mostly processed sugar and flour. If you add more vegetables and more proteins to your diet, you may have both a more stable weight, and easier weight loss. I am not promoting a…

Do you have a microwave? If so, put it somewhere else, and you have a chance to heat and cook stuff. Same with an electric water heater, for tea, coffee, etc. It's just a week or two, you can put your cutting board on the floor for salads, wash the dishes in a bucket in the bathroom, make your oatmeal and omelet in the…

Eeeehhh - if you track your carbs you track sugar. Sugar, starch, fructose, it's all sugars and it's all carbohydrates. Sugar is made from carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, same as all other carbohydrates. It's what gives them the name carbo (carbon) hydrate (mixture of hydrogen and oxygen, which is the same contents as in…

A really good sports bra will do it! Don't invest in too many though, wash them frequently instead, because your boobs will shrink as you lose weight, and you will most likely need to buy new ones several times before you reach your goal weight.

There is actually more lactose (milk sugar) pr. unit in skim milk than in whole milk. 4.8 grams in 100 grams of skimmed milk vs 4.6 grams in 100 grams of whole milk, according to the official nutrition table in two Scandinavian countries. This makes sense, as the other contents of the milk will be more concentrated, when…

I'd speak 15 languages, be a famous and feared spy and femme fatale, save the world on a regular basis and leave handsome men with broken hearts in my wake, sighing about how it all was worth it because they got to know me.

You haven't gained 2 pounds, you have lost five. In two weeks. That is pretty quick! Long term weight loss means going up and down. Don't let the first little up worry you. I am not very large, and I no longer lose fast, but I can go down 2-300 grams a day for several days, then suddenly it stops and I jump back up a kilo…

This is not easy, and really something you should get expert help, face to face, to deal with. But if that isn't an option: Pilates is an exercize system designed to treat injuries. Read up on the history of Joseph Pilates and his struggles to regain strength and symmetry in his body. It strengthens the core muscles, which…

When I was 20 and weighed 10 kilos less than I do now (think tall, slim, but with curves) I felt FAT, FAT, FAT. I only saw the comparison to my close-to anorexic sister, and felt disgusting, even if I was right in the middle of a normal BMI and had muscles and padding on the right places and nowhere else. Today I look at…

I feel like this if I am up really early compared to normal, or I am jet-lagged - or I ate too much too late the day before. Perhaps it helps if you have a very light snack before you start your routines, just to settle your stomach? That's what I normally do - water and then a couple of slices of tomato or a cracker or…

This is an extremely complicated issue, but one of them is the desire to protect your children from accidents and crime, and the way society punishes parents who do not watch or control their children all the time. When I grew up I would walk to school every morning, and home every day. It was a 30 minute walk in each…

I cornered my husband today, and insisted to know if he sees a difference. He says he does, so I'll be happy with that :-) Then he asked me why it was important if people could see I had lost, and told me that he never commented on things like that at work (he's a teacher and works with a lot of women). He refuses to…

If the idea is to get over a phobia, there are a few directions to go. 1: You can drink things that are similar to milk in texture and colour, but isn't milk, such as soy, almond, rice or other types of non-dairy milk, and try to get used to the way it looks and feels. 2: You can drink regular milk, but mix it up so it…

Why do you need to drink milk? If you can eat cheese and youghurt you can get the calcium, and you really don't need the fresh milk for your health. You have had awesome suggestions, but if you say why it's important to drink milk, you may get more.

I don't know if this will be useful for you, but here goes: my experiences around getting on with regular workouts: I have to use a combination. If I work out too much while I am still in pain, I get repetitive stress syndrome, which grounds me for a lot longer than a week. In order to avoid that, this is what I have…

I saw some recipes for an over-night oatmeal porrige on the site here, but I am sure some searching or perhaps even a helpful member can help you with the recipe. I haven't tried it yet, but it looks good and useful. Make that before you go to bed and keep it in a cup or box you can carry with you when you start your…

Another thing which may be helpful: Make sure to have a lot of protein with your bread! Stack the slices with meats or fish. Protein gives a better sense of being full, and it's easier to keep from over-eating.

I gave up bread for a long period to get on a candida reduction diet. When I started eating it again I realised that's where a LOT of my problems came from, health-wise. Now I eat no gluten, and am very careful with gluten-free bread, as the concentrated carbs do very little good for me. It was hard, as it was complicated…

THANK YOU! I normally have time to eat breakfast, but one or two times a week I start so early, my body just refuses to eat. I have often thrown out half the breakfast because I can't finish in time - mainly from pure stress. Now I can just grab the box from the fridge, run off and eat when I arrive. Less stress all…