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I think it's all about perspective. You look great. You are at a healthy weight. Try to appreciate and love all your body does for you - it is not just an aesthetic item, it is your means of interacting with the world. Try your best to relax. You are going to be okay. Severely undereating won't help you in the long run - I…

Little late to the party but I'm in! Height: 5'8'' Current weight: 150lbs Goal by May 30th: 135lbs Very grateful to have something holding me accountable!

I eat a higher carb vegan diet, about 65% carb, 15% protein, 20% fat. I try to keep the fat lower when I can. I aim for plenty of potassium and low sodium. I make sure to eat something green and something yellow/red/orange every day. I focus on whole foods when I can but I am a very busy student so I'm not perfect. I have…

Vegetarian wrap with baked potato and seasonable vegetables on the side, or if i want something fatty maybe french fries.

Citrus fruit, lots of water and a hearty soup! Tomato and rice veggie soup is great, lots of vitamin C and minerals. I like lemon ginseng green tea when I'm feeling crappy too, if you can find it.

Unsweetened almond milk all the way! I like soy milk too but I try to only drink it once in a while (say at starbucks or something.)

My favorite breakfast is oatmeal. One of my fave ways to make it is cook half a cup of rolled oats in water with cinnamon and half a chopped apple. One half of the apple goes in with the oatmeal, one stays out to snack on while I cook my breakfast. Its better to add a little more water than needed and let it cook for a…

1kg is exactly 1000g bro. Kg stands for kilogram.

Sodium will cause you to retain water which can make you feel bloated. Fortunately it is very easy to get it out of your body! Just sweaty it out! Do some jumping jacks or go for a jog and sweat it all out.

I'm vegan and lord jesus I eat a lot of food. Just get a higher volume in. Smash in the fruit! Carb up! Don't be afraid! Or just try some more calorie dense foods like cashews, peanut butter, dark chocolate, hummus, etc. Simple carbs digest faster so you will eat more of them than starchy carbs (for example apples vs.…

Even as a little kid I always loved Vector more than any other cereal, kinda weird considering all the sugary stuff kids usually love.

Plant foods!!!! Snack on apples, bananas, etc. Broccoli and potatoes are also very very high in potassium. Spinach, kale, salad everything. As long as you have plenty of plant foods in your diet you will be good. Also double check that the foods you enter in your diary actually have the potassium values entered!

As long as they are low in sodium and relatively clean (simple ingredients list) bread is not bad for you! Your body is probably just missing all those sweet sweet carbs. I don't think eliminating bread entirely is necessary, but getting more variety never hurt anyone. Try replacing it with rice, potatoes, barley, or some…

I think the concept of starvation mode was originally conceived to explain some common sense logic in an understandable way. The way people have come to understand it is a myth. The laws of thermodynamics apply, always. If you are burning more than you use, you will lose. If you are burning much more, you will lose a lot.…

Carbs are not the enemy at all. Calories are what will make weight loss/gain happen. I eat a crapton of carbs (seriously, 300+ grams per day, even 400) and I have a BMI of 19. As long as you USE your calories, wherever you get them from, you will lose weight. I am very active all day every day so I use those carbs. As long…

That is... super weird. Are you on a high protein/high fat diet? If so my theory would be you have excess ketones in your sweat, and are smelling yourself.

I started running with cross country in highschool in September 2012 and it took me a month to run 4k without stopping. I kind of more or less kept it up but really got back into it last November, and I just finished a 10k in 52:48 on Sunday.

Yes! I need it honestly. I get lots of fibre in but I'm usually way over on sugar. All bran with bananas and milk?

I get this pretty often and I have been since I was about 14. It's from low blood pressure (doesn't help that I'm also a tad tall/lanky). Since your blood pressure is low, if you move quickly and change your elevation after being sedentary it takes a moment for your body to catch up and move more oxygen to your brain. I've…

Alcohol is completely empty calories. Alcohol is actually the only molecule other than proteins, carbs and fats that humans can acquire energy from. It's the only macronutrient we don't need to live! Everyone has a vice (sometimes I really can't say no to chocolate) but you should definitely limit it as much as possible.…

A lot of what I do is already mentioned here, but I thought I'd throw out one of my favorite sandwiches: Light cream cheese with banana slices or strawberry slices (or both!). Super tasty, lighter and healthier alternative to the classic PB + J. Some avoid bread because it can be a bit high calorie, but my supermarket…

Plan your runs a little more thoroughly and time them a little more accurately so you know how much you are actually running, maybe you are overtraining. I recommend using runningmap.com so you can see how far you are running, I find that website so useful! When I started running about a year and a half ago I used to be…

For the veggies, it's because a lot of the carbs in vegetables are from cellulose. Cellulose is a sugar that humans can't digest (this is what fibre is, it passes through the digestive system without being absorbed.) It is technically a carbohydrate but we acquire no energy from it. This also explains how horses/cows etc…

I would say don't cleanse at all. Bodies don't really work like that. If you feel the need to "cleanse" somehow then I would suggest you focus on consuming foods that are good for your internal organs that do the real cleansing. Liver, kidneys, gut. No alcohol, lots of water, lots of leafy greens, lots of fibre and if…

Ignore eating disorder comment, cause it's not. You sound normal, calories can add up. A chocolate bar and a couple pieces of pizza on top of a normal day's eating can add up to 3k calories. Just log it, drink some water, eat light the next day and move on. Everybody screws up here and there, not worth stressing over.