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The guys will appreciate you! I was in the same boat as you. If it's a matter of not wanting to look like a fool, see if your school offers a weightlifting class. I took one my freshman year and it really helped me to get comfortable moving around the weight room! (And it was a really easy A, haha)

If you neglect leg day, I will neglect you.

Lucky you. I've always eaten well, but I'm incapable of eyeballing it and guessing correctly, or keeping myself accountable.

I've been trying to figure out how to balance these for a while. The best I've found is tapering my lifting to 2 days/week when I'm training for a race. :/ Definitely not ideal.

I added you! 21 and a vegetarian :) Really only have about 5 pounds to lose, but I've also had that amount to lose for about 2 years now, haha.

Please feel free to add me as a friend or browse my diary! I eat a lot of "salads"-- that are quinoa/bean/pea-based. Just make it, put it in tupperware, and bring a fork. You can't really eat it with one hand while you're driving, but they're very portable and stay fresh all day.

This is really incredible to me. You should be a spokesperson for the "weight is just a number" argument-- we weigh the same and I've got 4 inches on you and you look way better than I do.

A pint of beer is about $5-$10. Conveniently the price of a salad at Wendy's.

What are you eating? A hot pocket won't give you as much energy as a quiche.

Squats won't make your legs smaller-- they'll just build muscle.

Your body needs time to recover. Just eat less on the days you don't exercise.

That doesn't sound like a healthy food eating disorder to me, it sounds like anorexia that just happens to involve eating fruits and vegetables. A healthy food eating disorder I think would involve an obsession with whole grains and kale and avocado, etc., whereas this clearly is about eating a low calorie diet (raw fruits…

I plan to wean myself off of it-- first by trying to just eat when I'm hungry, and second by guesstimating how much I eat (and then going back and checking my accuracy after the day is over).

I'm still kind of trying to lose but I'm mostly maintaining. I eat plenty and I'm very healthy. Added you!

This.

The most important thing you can do is stay hydrated before and after the run. I never bring water with me (and I've got a half under my belt and regularly run 8-10 miles at a time), but I drink probably 80-100 ounces of water in a given day. You can also plan your routes around where there are public water fountains…

A cup size makes very little difference. If you go up 2 band inches, you can go down a cup size. So a 38C is essentially the same as a 36D.

I absolutely believe it. When I eat a big breakfast, I'm not as hungry and snack less later in the day.

Ignore all of the starvation mode bull****. You're not losing weight for two reasons: 1. You're probably not logging properly, and you're actually eating more than you think you are. 2. If you've never exercised (or haven't in a while) and just started, your body is going to start clinging to water for muscle repair, etc.

I usually have a banana for breakfast and then if I go on a run/to the gym I will come back and have a bowl of cereal. So about 350. But I love a big breakfast. I find that when I have a big breakfast, I snack a lot less during the day.

I'm a vegetarian, so I get all of my protein from non-meat sources. Feel free to add me and/or browse my diary for suggestions.

I'm still struggling to make it work. What I've found is I can usually lift 3 days a week and run 3 or 4, unless I'm training for a race, in which case I drop the lifting down to 2 days and run 4 or 5 (with long runs being at least 24 hours after lifting). I usually try to make shorter runs on the same day as (right after)…

I'm just like you-- I try not to buy it, but my roommates always have it in the apartment (and bake brownies, etc.). I've done this a few times-- just pick a month and say "okay, in July, I'm not going to eat any chocolate" and then don't. It helps me a lot to have a set end goal, so I'm not giving it up indefinitely.

I generally agree. However, I have gotten into baking substitutes and if you do it right, the "healthy" version can end up tasting a lot better than the other version. For example, using applesauce and Greek yogurt instead of sugar. I personally find the applesauce to be perfectly sweet enough. (Wouldn't do it in cookies…

This is awesome. I weigh every day also (more or less). Because my weight fluctuates so much on a day to day basis, I don't want to risk only weighing once a week and having the day I weigh happen to be an upsurge in my weight.

You sound like me, haha. Avid runner, weight lifter, hiker, snowboarder, casual soccer/basketball player, kayaker... you name it. But the food is always calling me (especially as I'm a student and spent half my time sitting ten feet away from my kitchen studying...). I just added you!

Most of the time I just enter the individual ingredients, rather than making a recipe. I use a lot of the same stuff (vegetables, grains, etc.) so it comes up in my "recently used" very quickly.

I disagree with the first poster who said you become a vegetarian for ethical reasons. I haven't eaten meat in about 7.5 years and I couldn't care less about the ethics behind it. That said, it isn't how you eat, but what you eat. If you give up meat only to replace it with bread and pasta, you won't lose weight. If you…

I'm inclined to believe you, seeing as I'm 5'10 (21 f) and my maintenance is somewhere around 1550 (net).

The only way to know for sure is to give it a try. MFP originally told me maintenance was somewhere around 2300 a day. I'm tall (5'10 female) and very active (runner, lifter, casual soccer player), but this amount would have caused my weight to skyrocket. There's no way a computer can know your metabolism exactly as it is.