debdelilah

What works for some doesn't for others - if not eating breakfast floats your boat, great! But my boat sinks if I skip a meal - food = fuel. Eating breakfast is important for me to function at my best at work - it's brain food for the most energetic part of my working day, as I'm a 6am-2:30 pm worker - most of my workday…

At 5'1 and 135 you have a bmi over 25-you are clinically overweight but not by much-5lbs. I think people don't necessarily realize how to adjust weight to height-you'll sometimes see young women who are 5'9 wanting to weigh 115 even though that would make them underweight. But as you pointed out the problem with the stairs…

I have recently raised my leg presses, raising the weight every Wednesday, to 480 lbs - in the process, my legs are leaner than before - this is the last place I lose fat in my body. The difference is noticable after just a month of doing the heaviest lifting I have done in my life - I used to do 200 and think I was…

Yes, it is absolutely possible! I lost my weight in 2009 and have NEVER been on a low carb diet. Seriously, muscle does weigh more than fat by volume - people who say they lose weight quickly without exercise on low carb diets are losing muscle- because muscle is the first thing the body breaks down to get glucose when you…

I'd suggest have a snack right after work - you can have it waiting for you in your car. 200 cals is about right - like a pack of Bel Vita breakfast biscuits(230 cals/3 gms fiber/4 gms protein, w/ whole grains, but tastes like a cookie). The key is to choose the right thing that feels like an indulgence and fills you up…

It isn't daft or stupid to compare the weight of two different items by volume...in fact, it's something we do by default in all our measurements. It's why we can say that a feather is light and a brick is heavy. Think about all the times we talk about any measurement - body weight for instance. If you told me you weighed…

My driver's license weight has said 132 ever since I got it and it matched my bathroom scale then. I am now almost 20 lbs lighter than that but also was once more than 20 lbs heavier without changing it.

What works for me - keep busy for most of your evening. Do something/go somewhere that takes away the "eating because you are bored" factor. And rather than deprive yourself, save a treat for just before bed - I sometimes eat before bed because it helps me sleep. If I go to bed hungry, I can stay awake/be restless. To keep…

I'm not sure whether it's the way you worded your post, but you start off with saying the results were "LDL 4.4 mol, HDL1.8 mol, total cholesterol 6.2 mol." Then you said this was improvement over two years ago, but the results you posted then(presumably from two years ago, for comparison?) are not the worse results - they…

My boobs shrunk when I lost weight as well, but everything is still in proportion - larger boobs/larger body, smaller boobs/smaller body. I don't feel boyish being smaller. But as you lose weight, if you get to a very low percentage(range from 10%-16% body fat) your hormones can be affected so that your estrogen is too…

Sounds like an unusual policy for a gym to have, but if that's the policy I'd say go ahead and walk in your socks - "when in Rome" and all that. Try to think of it from a cleanliness/healthiness perspective, that the locker room is a place people may shower after their workouts and walk barefoot - no one wants to come in…

The fat2fitratio calculator that produced this result gives you recommended calories to eat after you specify both your current weight and your goal weight. It is telling you that you should eat 2158 calories to lose weight, not add an additional deficit. You can see it says your BMR at your current weight is 2233, so even…

I've gone up to 360 lbs recently, ten reps - it's a large muscle group, so it's good for overall body composition. My thigh measurements haven't changed, but I know I have less fat there than when I lifted less at the same body weight.

You are starting to become a bit rude. My point is that we're omnivores. We went through a stage of evolution where we had much larger jaws and stronger teeth, though at the beginning of the Paleolithic period what we're really talking about is many species of hominids - prehumans, who were not identical to us - they could…

But we are omnivores with mixed messages in our body, you could say. We don't have strong stomach acids to kill the bacteria in raw meat. We also don't have the jaw strength to tear through fur into a live animal or break an animal's neck by biting it. Brock Lesnar's story: http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/2768931

I first heard about Paleo from a weight lifting post on mfp: http://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/2011/07/21/meet-staci-your-new-powerlifting-super-hero/ But if you scroll to the section of "what Stacy eats" her version of Paleo is not low carb. She eats sweet potatoes and fruit(plenty of it) along with the protein and fats, so…

We started living longer, though, in agricultural societies - cancer and osteoporosis are diseases of old age. And it's hard to deny that quite a lot of the things we take for granted today have been developed after the dawn of agriculture-how could this have happened if it had such a detrimental effect on the brain? Our…

How are grains unnatural, unless you mean genetically modified ones? Meat is also produced unnaturally, with hormones and even genetically modified chickens - but there are more natural versions of both available. Humans are not able to safely ingest and digest raw meat, and don't have the claws and jaws of carnivores, so…

I think that difference sounds like a bit much...the figure I've read is that men tend to have resting metabolisms 5% to 10% higher than women at the same height and weight. That difference I wouldn't think could translate into a man burning 1100 while a woman burns 700 while doing the same activity with the exact same…

Would it be equally rant worthy if someone said "feathers are lighter than lead"? The whole concept of "heavier" vs "lighter" and the point of having those words in our language would be negated if we weren't allowed to say that anything was heavier than anything else based on the rationale some quantity of one and some…

Different calculators = different values I would guess. They are all based on averages anyway though, unless you know for sure the amount of lean mass you have. And I have seen "lightly active" described in a various number of ways on different sites, ranging from having a job with light movement to working out half an…

It is definitely a good thing. Fast-food culture gets blamed a lot for the obesity epidemic in the country, but convenient foods do not have to be bad for you - things can be inexpensive and fast and also be healthy. They can also be delicious! If restaurants have to post their contents by law(as stores already do when you…

You are exercising to improve health - everyone needs exercise, even when not on a diet, for heart health, muscular endurance for everyday activities, posture, and longevity. If you diet and don't exercise you will weigh less, but possibly lose muscle tone and not improve your overall health very much - your body fat…

I think your best option is to raise your starting bmr calories, because strength training doesn't burn many calories at the time you are doing it, but raises your resting BMR so that you continue to burn more even after the exercise is over. So if you are doing a lot of strength training exercises most days of the week,…

MFP recommends "lightly active" for an office job as I recall(I believe it had it in parentheses next to the category). Even if you aren't on your feet all the time, you are typing, filing, getting up to use the copier and walk over to colleagues, opening supply boxes, etc. It is not the same as if you were on the sofa…

I've read stats before that most people(the average American) can lose weight eating 1800-2000 per day. This is if you haven't slowed your metabolism by eating much less for a period. You may need to transition to eating more for a little bit(eating at maintenance) to get your metabolism up to working well again, and don't…

You may be having perceptional changes as your attitude toward diet and fitness changes. At my heaviest, I did not see myself as heavy as I did after I started to lose weight, because in the weight loss process I was intensely focused on my body and losing fat, whereas before I had committed to lose weight, my outlook was…

You could try strength training...that's supposed to be a good way to improve body composition without losing more weight, and you definitely don't want to lose more if you are already underweight. Also, you may need to accept that having body fat is part of being a woman. We're designed to have more fat than men- our…

Try only eating fish- it's the lowest down on the food chain, so the least "meat-like" meat. I eat fish occasionally, but am otherwise a vegetarian(have been since age 11) and I view other meat as "non-food" - no cravings for it. I would say the anti-grain stuff we hear lately is another fad...because while its true that…

As women, we don't have a lot of testosterone - we can't get super bulky even if we want to. And we are healthy at a higher body fat percentage than men, so your thighs are probably not twice the size they should be even if you do have some padding. Lifting weights means you will slow the muscle loss and bone loss that…