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  • You've had some great advice. I second what some above posters said about snacks. I know your mindset may be to avoid snacks in order to restrict calories, but "snacking" (i.e., mindless eating of whatever's around) is not the same thing has having 1-2 planned snacks. I tend to eat about 300 cal for breakfast, 150-300 for…
  • Agree with the above posters. Stop moralizing your food choices. I just took the month of June off as well, spent July recovering, and am now back in it and kicking *kitten*. Sometimes you just need a break.
  • Chicken salad made with greek yogurt instead of mayo, on a wrap or on an actual salad.
  • Are you 155 now, or that's what you were then? There are some estimators that can use body measurements to guess at your BF%, but they are rough estimates at most. Google "body fat % using body measurements" or something like that. I had my BF tested at my local university's sports science dept, for like $25. Some gyms…
  • Do you have a Kohls where you live? That's what I've been doing. They have sales all the time, so I just wait until I have a coupon, then go online and buy the next size down in the pants I'm wearing. Also, think in basics. Have things that mix and match, so you can wear different combos and get away w/ fewer items.
  • You mean I have to choose?
  • You had one slip up? One bad day doesn't signal certain doom for the future. Log it and move on. P.S. There's nothing wrong with chips - if they fit your macros.
    in Cheat Comment by DrJenO July 2014
  • Can you make your diary public? What is your calorie goal per day? (net) How tall are you? What is your exercise routine?
  • Also, having babies can do crazy things to your body - weight, composition, extra skin, etc. I've had 3 now, and I've gotten down to the weight I was 10 years ago, but clothes I KNOW fit me at the time (because I was still hanging on to some of them) fit me differently. My waist is smaller, but my hips and, um, lower front…
  • A little of both maybe? You've lost 6 pounds in 32 days, right? That's 1.5ish pounds per week, averaged out over the month. Tighten up your logging and come back in another month if it hasn't budged.
  • I'd take a good hard look at your food logging before anything else. Make sure you are in a deficit. Your body will know if it is or not, after all...
  • Check out nerd fitness. They have a great body weight routine. I haven't read it personally, but have heard good things about the book "You Are Your Own Gym".
    in skinny fat Comment by DrJenO July 2014
  • 1) I think it will be different for everyone, and impossible to predict. 2) For some, yes 3) Maybe 4) Yes, but weight loss will slow the closer you get to goal. You didn't ask about this, but I would consider adding a lot more weight training to your exercise routines and ditch some of the cardio. I think you will be…
  • I plan on getting a tummy tuck. I had originally planned for late fall, but there is something I want to train for that's in March that I would be cutting it close for. Also, I will probably still be around 20ish pounds from goal, and I've decided I want to get all the way to goal first - because my goal might change, you…
  • America's Test Kitchen has a low-cal version of their standard cookbook that is quite good.
  • If the ethics bother you, find locally-sourced, organic, humanely treated sources for your meat and eggs. If the health reasons bother you, get unbothered, because meat and eggs ARE healthy.
  • It's my understanding that some of those "weeks" were closer to 2 weeks. Even so, that's a ton of weight to lose in either one OR two weeks.
  • I'm on week 3, day 2 today, which was Agility X. Monday is my off day, b/c it works better with my work schedule. I'm having some equipment issues - hardwood floors, matting slips on it when I do the jumps - so I'm going to head to a hardware store today to try to come up with a solution. I really like the program so far.…
    in P90X3 Group Comment by DrJenO July 2014
  • Check out Hacker's Diet Online: https://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/HackDiet/ He has a tracking tool that shows you a running average of your weights over time. He goes into the details of how the average is calculated, if you are interested in knowing how the numbers works. Helps you identify true gains vs normal…
  • I find logging easier on my phone for most things. You can search only your frequents, your recipes, your foods, etc. Are you talking about the website?
  • Very few people truly have a sedentary lifestyle. What are his daily activities like? Also, what is his goal rate of loss (per week) set to?
  • Yeah, I'd make sure it's not the obvious and then just give it some time.
  • How many missed months are we talking about?
  • You MAY "gain" a little weight in the beginning, just as you would with any change in your routine (new exercise, different eating patterns, etc), but so much of our body weight is water. You must be patient and trust the numbers if you think they are accurate. People will be much nicer to you if you don't come back in…
  • Eat more later in the day? I don't think it matters as anything other than personal preference. Some people swear by fasting workouts, but I personally don't think it probably matters that much. I tend to split my calories in half, eating the first half throughout the day (including a 200-300 cal breakfast about 30 minutes…
  • If my math is right 61kg ~= 134lbs? Isn't that a normal/healthy weight for 5'5"?
  • You could go either way, but what I would recommend for the future is to always try to "save" ahead of time - if you know you are going to splurge one or two days on the weekend, try to come under 100-200 a few days during the week to build up a surplus to use on the weekend. Do you have your weekly calories (I'm assuming…
  • One of my go-to breakfasts is hash browns or brown rice, topped w/ egg whites and ground turkey or lean ground beef or turkey chili and a bit of cheese. Lunch - wrap w/ steak, spinach, feta; brown rice w/ chicken or fish and veggies - really, anything you might cook for dinner, just portioned out into containers ahead of…
  • I'm in about the same boat as you. I'm 50 pounds down, with about 20 more to go to my personal goal, and 30 to a technically "normal" BMI. I'm gonna tell you: I've gotten kind of tired of being in a calorie deficit. I know I have a ways to go, but it's kind of exhausting. What I did recently was take the month of June off…
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