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I swear by my Shock Absorber bras. They're about £30 each, so not cheap, but about average for my bras. I have to go up a band size and down a cup size in them (usually I wear 30FF, but my sports bras are 32F), but that might be because my rib cage is bang on 30"; if yours is 37" or 36.5" you might be more comfortable…

I'm the same. I know I weigh around 10st right now, and ultimately I'd like to be closer to 9st, and that's enough for me. This is, incidentally, why I weigh myself in kilos. I have a general idea of where a given number might tie into my past weight and/or my goal, but it doesn't have the same emotional connotations as…

Between this thread and your thread in the maintenance forum asking what weight people think you are, I'm honestly a bit concerned. You're already on the small side for your height (lose 8 pounds and your BMI would put you at underweight, while you'd have to gain 32lb to be classed as overweight), and you're concerned with…

The above posters are absolutely right that a week isn't long enough to really judge things. That said, I see that you eat a spoonful of peanut butter in your oatmeal. Are you weighing that? I have a "heaping teaspoon" of PB in my oatmeal, which weighs around 45g. 45g of PB is actually 3 *tablespoons* and has 270 calories.…

I *always* have a bedtime snack, even if I'm not hungry; it keeps me from waking up ravenous in the night or eating breakfast and getting hungry an hour later.

I used to ... until I started seeing results. The day I deadlifted my own bodyweight I knew I was hooked :smiley: I think I gave myself three months, and told myself if I didn't see any improvements and hated it after then I could quit. It might help you to pick a 12-week beginner program and commit to completing it. I bet…

The 3- and 2-minute intervals might be higher intensity than the 1-minute interval, but they are NOT high enough to qualify it as HIIT. HIIT requires a level of effort that is, quite frankly, unsustainable for 5 minutes without a break.

I've not been using protein powder recently, as the last one I tried disagreed with me, but I'm looking for one for spring because it's the only way for me to get decent protein in my smoothies (I hate yoghurt in them, so even if I use milk as the liquid the macros are still pretty poor). I'm a pescetarian so even though…

I'd question why you're so thirsty in the evenings only. It could be something as simple as the air in your apartment is dry, in which case a humidifier might be more helpful than drinking a lot.

Eh, I think it is if you're inexperienced (which, given that the OP is hoping to build mass through doing hundreds of bodyweight squats a day, I suspect she is), because you don't have the movement patterns ingrained. Based on the squats I see from a lot of beginners, form tends to crap out waaaayyy before 25 reps, which…

What? No way. I'm currently about 140lb and I'd be RAVENOUS on 1400 calories a day. I currently eat 1900-2100 a day (I'm maintaining/recomping) and wouldn't go below about 1700 to lose weight; otherwise I'd be so hungry my self-control would falter and I'd binge like crazy.

I need about 9 hours (I know, I'm weird :lol: ), but often I get closer to 7-8 on weeknights.

Funny, that; I got fat drinking green tea on a vegetarian diet when I stopped exercising :wink:

You don't eat back all your BMR and activity calories if you're following the calories provided by MFP and you've set your goals for weight loss. If, for instance, you've set your weight loss to be half a pound a week, then the calories allotted by MFP before exercise will subtract 250 calories from your BMR + activity…

I think it depends on what you're wearing it for. Personally, I don't like an underwire because I do karate, so there's more chance of the underwire being hit and bruising my ribcage. There's not a lot of bouncing in karate, though, so I don't need as much lift as I would doing something like HIIT.

Personally, I'm working on building up my butt because I have big boobs and shoulders, and I'd rather look like an hourglass than a lollipop :wink:

I'm guessing you're quite short/small? Your BMR is pretty normal for a small woman. I just plugged 1.6m 45kg and age 30 into a calculator and got a BMR of or 1234 and a TDEE of 1480 for a sedentary lifestyle; bumping that up to moderate exercise gives that same imaginary woman a TDEE of 1920. So if your BMR is 1266 and you…

I read this article as essentially being about overcoming Binge Eating Disorder and losing weight because the author is no longer bingeing and can now make mindful, thoughtful decisions about what she puts in her mouth. Personally, 'clean eating' caused me to gain weight, essentially because it led to binges rather than…

Yup. You get a 'bump' over the iliac crest, then a dip, before another 'bump' where the hip joint is. They can look pretty similar to a muffin top, but where a muffin top is made of fat, hip dips are caused by the actual bone structure (but can be more/less apparent depending on fat and muscle distribution in the area). I…

Thanks, I'll have a look for samples ^_^

Yeah, mine got more noticeable with fat loss because there was no fat to fill them in; for me I have wide hips and a high pelvis, hence hip dips. I've just started Strong Curves, and I'm hoping that building up my glutes will help minimise them, but if not, eh, I'll just have to live with them.

Thanks for the offer, @MostlyWater , but I'm in Canada :disappointed: We don't have Trader Joe's round here and the shipping would be pretty high anyway! That's a good point about it coming in big containers, though; I'll maybe see if anyone at the dojo is willing to share (or take a full container if I buy some and don't…

Oh, if it's in the armpit area you need a bigger cup size. There should be nothing poking out around the edges of the cups; if they are, then the bra is too small.

Thanks for the advice! I'm a pescetarian, and I eat plenty of dairy already, so I was mostly going for vegan protein for a bit more variety, but if whey is easier on the stomach then it's definitely worth a shot :smile: Interesting that it's smoother, too; I didn't have a huge problem with the Vega stuff, but there was…

Hahaha glad to have been of help :smile:

Both! If your ribcage is 33 then start with a 34 band (ideally you want to either go to a store where you can try things on in-person or find somewhere with free returns and order lots). With a bust measurement of 38 then that'd be around a D or DD cup. So it sounds like 36D is actually pretty close for you (unlike me; I…

25 squats at a time is ... a lot. I know you're just doing bodyweight, but I doubt your form is as good on #25 as it is on #1. And with inferior form comes inferior results. When I lift I rarely go above 10 or 12 reps because that's the point where my mind starts to wander and my form breaks down because I lose focus. As a…

Me too. I wear the same size and it keeps everything contained while still allowing me to breathe. To the OP: Not to sound patronising, but are you sure about your size? The band size should be very close to your actual ribcage measurement (for instance, mine is 29" so I tend to wear a 30 band, sometimes 32 in sports…

Herm, I think Sainsbury's was one that I looked into but discounted because the minimum spend was more than I spend in a week, and I usually go grocery shopping 1-2 times a week in order to have plenty of fresh fruit and veg. The fridge-freezer in my flat was tiny, so I couldn't stock up on frozen veg, unfortunately (if I…

If you're talking about the bulge you get under the band, that's just a sign that your bra actually fits :wink: It will be less noticeable at lower body fat (attained by eating at a calorie deficit), but depending on your body's fat distribution and how low you're willing/able to go, you may never get rid of it completely;…