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sooooo... for Chrissakes, how can ONCE AGAIN calculating TDEE (even if it proves to be EXACTLY what she is currently eating) - 20% going to be detrimental? I think OP has even given up on this because its so asinine at this point. I'm saying she should check her TDEE and subtract 20%. You're saying what she has been eating…

...aaaaaaaaaaaand calculating TDEE -20% would hurt that... how?

I agree. I'm just saying that if she calculates her TDEE - 20% then it can't hurt. you're the one insisting that she doesn't need to, just to automatically subtract 300.

tl;dr I CAN'T GO TO BED! SOMEONE IS WRONG ON THE INTERNET!

I must have not been paying attention-- girl, I dropped 30 lbs, plateaued forever, kept cutting and cutting my calories and upping my exercise until I was netting less than 900 a day and I still couldn't lose. I calculated my TDEE, started netting around 1800/.day and lifting heavy. I didn't lose any weight for the first…

Right. I guess I shouldn't be telling her to recalculate things, analyze things logically, just keep cutting back. Glad that trend is coming back. Works SO well. ...anyhow, if her LBM is good and she looks good (she does in her photos) then I'm not sure its necessary to lose more, but if she feels it is, let her…

*recalculate your TDEE and then subtract 300 calories or 20%

This, make sure that with beer included your weekly (or 2-3 day) calorie amount is below maintenance. It's not essential to be Below maintenance EVERY day, but is important to make sure you are together below.

Gorgeous! You're doing amazingly! Can't wait to be in my 180s again too! Inspiration!

If you have a good lean mass composition, why bother? I'm stuck at 203 also (been on a plateau since about August... only lost 12 lbs since) but my BF has gone from like 40% to about 30%. I would be a-ok if my weight stayed the same if I could get a better lean mass ratio. Your pics look great!

Thanks! Even if you can't do a lot of heavy upper body, you can do some body weight exercise with lower (squats w/o a barbell, swiss ball crunches, lunges, step-ups [stepping up on a stair, but making sure you're lifting yourself with your elevated leg rather than pushing off with your trailing leg too]) it sounds weird,…

Veggie, not vegan, but I aim for 35% so most days I get between 25 and 40%

have you thought about heavy weight lifting? I sound like I'm a freakin salesman these days because of how much I've been promoting it, but when I hit a huge plateau, heavy weight lifting is what got me losing inches again. Scale has barely gone down, but I've started looking much better (see profile pic)

and/or take pics. I can vary 10 lbs in a day, 20 lbs in a week, but the camera never lies.

MEASURE MEASURE MEASURE YOUR INCHES

yay! I'm still working on moving my pushups all the way to the ground (at about 15 degrees right now) I've always been built like a T-rex!

Lookin' foxy!!!! :)`

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay. I have been so close for so long. I can't wait to be there!!!

http://www.fitnessfrog.com/calculators/tdee-calculator.html 4'11" 108 lb female even if she is getting NO exercise (i.e. going to school, not participating in a gym class, not walking to or from school, just between classes, etc) Her TDEE (total day energy expenditure is about 1600 calories which means that is maintenance…

As far as building lower belly muscle, prone jackknifes [jackknives?] (on a swiss ball) are great

You definitely needs access to at least: Olympic dumbells in increasing weights (you may be able to pull a lot off with buying two of those adjustable weight dumbells) Swiss Ball A barbell with varying weight is ideal, but you may be able to do this with dumbells varying size steps (ideally ranging from 8" to about 16" or…

Avoid pre-sweetened stuff i.e. instead of having flavored oatmeal, but plain steel-cut oats and after cooking add protein powder, a little bit of honey or a little bit of agave syrup

This, and consider heavy lifting. My belly chub is still here, but been shrinking massively since I started heavy lifting

Wow people are being really negative. Okay. I haven't lost nearly as much weight as I'd like to by now. I've lost about 40ish lbs in the past year, which is great, but I was hoping to have lost at least 20 lbs more by now. I was hoping to be a solid size 10 or less by now. I was embarrassed to be in my swimsuit,…

Thanks! And again, I agree that some people take constructive criticism as an attack, but in general, that's not what I'm commenting on. It's usually an issue with people blowing up about a problematic idea or thought pattern people have, while I agree that sometimes its just people making excuses, its not helpful to be…

Thanks! It's not so much even about how people are responding to me these days, because I have had more success recently, but I'm watching how they're responding to others and its giving me flashbacks to the days when the nurse at my old work would be rude about weight loss advice or me talking about a minor success and I…

Here's the thing: you can communicate assertively all you want (and good for you if its your choice of communication style, its definitely the best one) but some times/ some people just don't handle it well. Telling your mom "I appreciate you trying to bring me a treat for my hard work, but you know I've committed to…

I have a protein shake as soon as I get home from lifting. I use body fortress vanilla cream flavor, blend it with about a half a cup of ice, half a cup of frozen strawberries and a cup of almond milk. I like it thick enough that its like ice cream!

A calorie is a calorie any time of the day, doesn't matter when you eat it for getting healthy purposes. However, eating later in the evening CAN affect your sleep, so if you already experience trouble sleeping, try to not eat an hour or two before bedtime, particularly junk food. I don't think a little fruit before bed…