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I'll tell you now to save you the "WHY DID I NOT DO THIS SOONER" moment. Buy a food scale and use it!!!! It is so helpful to know EXACTLY how much you are eating!

Why are you avoiding fruit? I highly doubt you are eating as little as you think you are. You just might not be eating as often. Also starvation mode is not a thing even if you are indeed eating under 1200 calories a day. If you don't have a food scale akready, I would highly suggest you buy one. It was a huge eye opener…

I live by myself, but my boyfriend has visited and even before that I told him about it and he didn't make a big deal out of it. I did have a fellow classmate ask me if I was a drug dealer :D

If you have an Aldi grocery store nearby, start shopping there! Ours is awesome and I'm in a college town.

Save some salt for your margarita, sheesh...

Love me some Aldi!! Around $20-$30 if I don't buy meat or a lot of animal products. More if I do. (also a student here)

Nothing wrong with cardio :) you can certainly get a good calorie burn that way. I'm not bashing lifting at all though. I just don't currently have a facility to do it in. When I move in August, I plan to start some :)

I have the Polar FT4. I think it was around $70 on amazon last year when I bought it. It's not super fancy in that it can't connect to an app on your phone or computer, but you can personalize the settings quite a lot so that it's more accurate. It also automatically connects to most workout equipment that have a HR…

This is why I never bothered with those fancy fitness trackers. I love my polar FT4 and only wear it working out. Though I did wear it during a nap once out of curiosity.

Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. If I'm hungry afterwards I eat. I usually workout in the evening before dinner and I use a heart rate monitor to more accurately measure my calorie burn. Not that it's fool proof, but it's as accurate as I can get.

I think you're on to something here. What about people with social anxiety? I know that I'm prone to it and if I have a presentation to give, that's all I can think about up to two days before. I guarantee my heart rate is elevated for extended periods over that time.

That's an insane amount of protein. Are you body building?

Don't bother with it.

Thanks for all the replies. I don't feel that it's useless, I just hear people bashing them all the time. I guess the elliptical gets a bad rap because often times there are people just cruising on them while reading magazines so they're probably not getting a good workout in. One article also bad mouthed spin classes and…

I think that I feel this way because of an article I read that said "just moving can make your heart rate increase, but that doesn't necessarily = calories burned" which sounds like a load of bs...because is that not exactly what cardio is?

Actually did that after my workout today!

I love my Mirena. Practically painless to put in (with cytotek and a paracervical block) - my doc is nice to women that haven't had kids. I was on depo 5 years prior and tried to blame it on my weight gain. Turns out I just wasn't weighing my food with a food scale and was grossly overeating.

You may be eating clean, but are you weighing your foods and logging accurately? You could still be eating too many calories.

My 21st birthday is on Easter Sunday...so needless to say I probably won't log that weekend. (More so bc I'll be distracted, not because I'd be ashamed)

I had this revelation too when I bought my food scale :)

Exercising and counting your calories is sufficient if you are weighing your food and logging accurately.

Haha this should be fun

I also log every day and weigh multiple times a day. Mostly because I like to see how my body reacts to different foods. What matters though is an overall weight loss. I tend to fluctuate 2lbs+/- and it doesn't worry me too badly unless I've been weighing 2lbs more for a week or more.

I looooooove banana nut crunch granola and vanilla unsweetened almond milk. That being said...I don't use regular milk for anything. Soy or almond if I have control over it. I feel like almond milk pairs well with most sweet tasting cereals. Otherwise it probably has a pretty nutty flavor that might put you off.

Unless you are a growing child, or are body building you do not need to eat an excess of protein. I repeat, YOU DO NOT NEED TO EAT AN EXCESS OF PROTEIN. Having said that, if protein helps keep you full longer, by all means eat it. I eat very little protein (averaging 9-15% of my daily calories, usually 30-50g) and have…

I wouldn't recommend a carb free/low carb diet. Ultimately it's up to you, but unless that's something you're going to want to do for the rest of your life, it's not a great idea. I eat loads of carbs and I'm losing. I started at 155 and I've lost 10lbs over the last 2 months eating 1,500cals a day. Have you been weighing…

Here's a really good website for logging just about anything accurately: http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods

Weigh every ingredient and use this website to find accurate calorie content: http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods A lot of this stuff is in MFP already, but you have to weed through items that are inaccurately filled out. I like to put "usda" after my search items. Like "apple usda grams".

I haven't tried recently, but I have a polar ft4 and when I tried to link it up to MFP, polar wasn't supported

Yea it's called your GI tract. Eat some fiber. It'll do you good.