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I do totally and completely echo the sentiment that it all depends on the person. I know people who are contemplating marriage in their early 20s and I cringe, and others who I'm over the moon for. Some people are clearly ready, some are not and just think they are. However, it doesn't really matter what I think anyway!…

...are you my husband in disguise? LOL! Sounds exactly like something he would say. Especially the part about being a team - if you can't agree on the fundamentals of parenting, then you will turn what is already a stressful experience into something that just drives you completely apart.

I got married at 22 and we are still here, still happy, 6 years (of marriage, 8 years total) and two kids later. We have gone through extremely difficult, trying times - things that most in-tact, functional couples don't go through in twice as many years of marriage. (No, that is not an exaggeration. We are talking major…

If it brings your ambient temperature out of the thermoneutral zone, then I would suppose so, especially since body heat is lost much more easily to water than to air. However, I would think you'd need to be in there for quite some time to really see any significant effect. Being in too hot an environment can also raise…

And this is without the buffer of insulating layers, like hair, clothing, etc.

Well, I do know from taking cellular and organ physiology that when the ambient temperature drops below the thermoneutral zone (the range of temperatures at which an organism can function without changing its metabolic rate), metabolic rate increases. So you would be burning more calories if you are in cold weather - say,…

How old were you when you got engaged? 20 How long had you been together before getting engaged? 1 month! How old were you when you got married? 22 Are you still together (if so, for how long)? Yes, married for 6 years in Dec 2011, and we will have been together for 8 this May.

I would say that you don't necessarily need to lose more weight, just build more muscle. Like the previous poster said, some body fat is important, we need fat for a lot of important body functions. Heavy lifting seems to work well for a lot of people here.

I started tracking Jan 1st, even though I had joined a year earlier. I went up and down the same 12lbs from my HW of 213lbs all of 2011, and the last time I weighed myself last year, I was 207.6lbs on Dec 11th. Last week I was 194.8lbs! I'm very happy with that. I still eat a good amount, I have increased my activity, and…

Feel free to add me! I'm 28, mom of two, and nighttime snacking was a HUGE issue for me. Not the eating at night part (because that isn't necessarily a bad thing), but because I would eat little throughout the day and then gorge myself at night without even thinking about what I was putting in my mouth. Now I try to…

1. My husband was heavier than me when we met, but we were both young and thin! There has been a good portion of our relationship where I was the heavier one. Now he is, by about 20lbs. 2. I dated one guy who was shorter than me. I'm almost 5'10, he was about 5'4. We worked together and had a thing on the side. I was…

That's fantastic!!!!!

Why eliminate taste?! I eat lots of stuff that tastes fabulous and am definitely hitting my net every day, but not overeating (with the exception of the Ben & Jerry's I had last night for the first time in months, lol).

5' 9.5" SW: 213 CW: 195.6 GW: 165 I would not mind being around 150lbs, but I just don't know that it will happen. I am apparently small-framed, my wrist is 6 1/4" and my elbow breadth is about 2 1/2". My ankles are 9" though, so I have no idea what that has to do with anything. I don't think I'm small-framed, even at…

First, if anything under 6 1/4" is small frame, then 6" is a small frame. Second, it all depends on how tall you are. Third, there is also a medium frame. At 5 '9.5", if I put in 6 1/4", I get small frame, and if I put in 6 3/8", I get medium frame. It depends on which wrist I'm measuring.

Oh, and a coworker was stunned and skeptical on Sunday when I was explaining to her that I eat 2000 calories or more in a day. I think eating more to lose more is something some people just need to see to believe!

I eat 2000-2300 most days. I am 28, almost 5'10", and around 195lbs. Fat2fit says I should eat 1800 and change at a sedentary level - well, according to my FitBit, I average almost 9,000 steps per day. In fact, this week I got bumped from the lightly active level to the active level. About a month ago, I increased from…

She has nothing to lower her calories to! She is eating under 600 calories some days. Increasing your calories OVER what you burn in a day will cause you to gain weight, yes. Increasing from an unsustainably low number of calories to a healthy, nourishing number of calories a day will often help your metabolism come back…

Can you open up your diary so we can take a look at it and check it out? I am about 5'10 and my HW was 213lbs. When I started tracking on MFP again, I had last weighed in at 207.6lbs about three weeks earlier, on Dec 10th. (I didn't have a scale at home at the time, so I don't have a true idea of my starting weight.) I…

The past two weeks was an increase in calories?!!?!?! You are eating under 600 calories some days, most days under 1000. And you're wondering why your body doesn't want to give anything up? You need to seriously increase to a level that will actually sustain and nourish your body...I don't think I could do anything but…

So wait - you weighed 230lbs to start, and were eating to lose 25lbs in 5 weeks? Try setting your goal to 1lb/week and eating your calories. The if you are trying to consistently lose 5lbs/week, you would be creating a deficit of 2500 calories a day...so basically you would have to be eating practically nothing, or working…

No personal experience here, and I am not credentialed, but my father took narcotics for many years for slipped discs, pinched nerves, etc. He has had 3 surgeries, one disc repair on his lumbar spine, one on his cervical spine, and a cervical spine fusion as well. The only time his weight increased was when he started…

There's definitely a difference! Check out your arms/shoulders/bust - there is a lot gone there. Your waist and hips are slimmer too. Are you tall? I'm 5'10 and it takes a good amount of weight loss for me to really see much change. I have lost about 10lbs in the past couple of months, and my clothes fit a lot better, but…

I was losing slowly set to 1850/day, about 0.5lbs every TWO weeks. I was always making sure my net was at or close to that. I upped to 2000/day, some days I am under and some I am over, and stopped logging activity to eat more. I lost 2.8lbs in the last two weeks. I bought a FitBit and it looks like my TDEE on fairly…

The most I've logged and gone over was 900+ cal. I didn't log a couple of Saturdays ago, I was at a big birthday party. I didn't eat too much of any one thing, but sampled a lot and had drinks and was probably over by 2000cal.

My husband and I have both gained weight over the time we've been together. I've gained about 50lbs, he has probably gained about 35lbs. The attraction is still there something fierce though! I think part of it is that we were 20 and 21 when we started dating, he was a Marine and I was broke and just not eating much, lol.…

Okay, changing my goals to 1/2lb/week gives me an extra 250/day, whereas changing my activity level to active gives me an extra 170/day. So the worst that can happen changing to active, in theory, is losing at a rate that is somewhere between 1/2lb and 3/4lb a week. I will change it, and see how things look when I weigh in…

If I bump up to active, it doesn't mean that I have to eat *all* of my calories if I'm not hungry, right? Maybe somewhere in the middle is better? Also, would active include my lifestyle (4-5 hours a day on campus, being up and about all day 2-3 days a week, taking care of the kids, all the shifts at work) and my 90-120…

Well, it's not even the advice so much that sounds annoying (I mean, I'm sure it is, but at least you can ignore it), but the fact that she is giving you total all-or-nothing advice and physically stopping you from eating things you want to. What kind of friend is that? Anyway, I find that a nice bowl of berries (about…

I love them, especially the wasabi kind!!!