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If you're doing compound movements that hit the full body (which a good beginners program will have you doing), then 2-3 days a week is plenty. But most programs have a recommended schedule, so I'd say pick one you like and follow it, including number of workouts per week.

If you make the juices yourself, can you not measure how much juice is coming from each ingredient?

Every pill is different and every woman is different. No one can predict how you will react to any certain BC. That is a conversation to have with your DOCTOR. Personally, I've been on dang near every pill under the sun and I've never gained weight or found it particularly hard to lose weight. In fact, my weight loss has…

For awhile, I was going to the gym after dinner, which was usually between 8 and 9pm. Now, because my schedule has changed, I go between work and dinner. Neither seemed better or worse than the other, it's just a matter of what you're most likely to stick with.

Your body actually has no sense of time (which is why you get jet lag when you travel to somewhere in a different time zone). It doesn't suddenly switch up and start working differently at 8pm or sunset or once you eat dinner.

Read Finally Free or Stop Smoking the Easy Way, both by Allen Carr. You'll be able to quit without the misery and struggle, and without eating as a substitution. Seven weeks smoke free after 12 years of a pack and a half per day.

I'm currently eating a big sugar cookie that likely contains more calories and more sugar than your post donation snack. I'm still going to be under calories for the day. Seriously, if you're that worried, figure out about how many calories the snack was and eat that much less of other stuff than you planned.

You shouldn't be making yourself sick working out. It wouldn't be a bad idea to get things checked out, but definitely ease up on the workouts a little until you regain some endurance. Congrats!

It means eating a SMALL deficit (300-500 calories under your TDEE) and focusing on a strength training program that uses compound full-body moves like squats and deadlifts. Starting strength and New Rules of Lifting for Women are both good starter programs. Whoever told you to avoid weights because of your body type has no…

Dear lord, you do NOT have to cut out all sugar. You do need more protein, but that's a health thing, not so much a weight loss thing. Until you are accurately logging everything consistently, no one can actually give you useful advice because we don't know how much you are really eating. Eat 1500 calories with good…

You're actually likely to have the opposite effect with a very low calorie diet and lots of cardio, because you will burn away mostly muscle, causing things to get more jiggly, not less. Your best bet is to focus on body recomposition rather than the scale. And PP is absolutely wrong. You can absolutely do serious damage…

Doing it healthier does mean losing slower. You are losing between a pound and a pound and a half a week. That is great progress! Stop expecting your body to work a certain way just because a generalized calculator says it should. 11lb loss is not the same as maintaining, it's good progress. Adjust your expectations and…

You aren't likely to gain muscle in a deficit, especially not one that big. In fact, continuing to do cardio and having a large deficit makes it more likely for you to LOSE muscle along with your fat. Reset your account for a modest loss (no more than 1lb a week) or go for TDEE - 10% if you prefer that method. Once you get…

I'm sure I'll get lambasted for this, but the fact that you are avoiding weighing yourself out of fear of weight gain and keep insisting that you are eating enough because you aren't withholding quite as many calories as you were before makes me wonder if you might benefit from talking to someone. I don't think it's normal…

You do understand that setting your calorie goal in MFP to 1800 isn't the same as EATING 1800, right? Because you seem to never actually hit that number and you're closer to 1500 more days than not.

There is no good carb or bad carb. Food has no alignment, but if it did, it would be Lawful Neutral.

5'3, 154lbs. Doing NROLFW, completed stage 1 a few months ago, then a family emergency turned my rest week into a rest couple of months, so I'm redoing the last half of stage 1 now (starting at 10 reps) before moving forward to stage 2.

You only eat 1000 calories per day?

Noticing a weight gain last week doesn't necessarily mean it all HAPPENED in a week. If I'm busy/stressed, things like weekly weigh ins and measuring are usually the first thing forgotten.

Obvious statement is obvious.

I have had multiple people try to be my workout partner, but they always burn out within a few weeks or their schedules are off from mine, so I usually workout alone.

There is no reason for a "minimum" of 8 cups of water a day, for weight loss or any other reason. One should drink enough water to be properly hydrated so that they do not retain water weight or mistake thirst for hunger, but that's it. If your urine is pale yellow as opposed to bright or dark yellow, you're getting plenty…

I am not currently drinking because I am trying to get pregnant, but up until 2 weeks ago, I was drinking a few times a week (and almost daily on some weeks) and still losing weight. You just have to account for the calories and make sure to stay hydrated to keep it from messing with any phantom water weight.

I'm 5'3 and lose eating 1750 a day. The extra 100 calories each day isn't going to make a major impact on your weight loss because you're (likely) in such a large deficit to begin with. Think about it this way: food in the US is allowed up to 20% error in nutrition labeling so you're already eating a range of calories…

You log your daily intake, then look at the Weekly tab on the MFP app.

All do and whatnot, you posted on the Exercise forum asking for a cream to tighten things up for you. What did you expect, really?

Another vote for asking her and getting her involved in the choices. I will also say that my SIL was having similar issues and it turned out that it was all about temperature rather than the taste of the food. My nephew didn't care for his sandwich to be cold from the cold pack to keep yogurt and the like. She got an…

Opening your diary will be a big help in giving advice to you. Do you weigh all of your food? Do you eat back exercise calories?

No. If a goal is unrealistic, it is not necessarily a good thing because it can lead to unsafe practices or major discouragement if it doesn't get reached, both of which can do plenty of damage to a lifestyle change.