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Can anyone recommend spicy, warm foods that they like? It's so cold now that I've moved 3500 miles north! Easy to make foods are a bonus.

Man, those are all great ideas. I'll have to think of some meal combos that can be batched. I'm not sure if anyone will deliver, but since my fiance is doing all the shopping this month I'll make him a list of things I really want haha. :) This work schedule kills me every time but I know other people are able to lose…

Yeah, I completely agree with you on that last point. The instructors act like "just anyone can do this" and I have to say I'd have pretty serious worries for people with, for example, late stage heart failure or renal disease. And it's more common than people think to have those conditions. But I mean, for now, it serves…

Oh - just to clarify I didn't mean I was going to stop practicing it if there weren't good studies; just that the instructors make claims with varying degrees of plausibility about how Bikram is good for your body (some I'd believe, others maybe not). I have no health problems, so 105 degree heat is not a problem for me,…

Thank you - I actually saw that study too :-p I appreciate your thoughtful response very much. Oh well...Bikram doesn't seem to be making me worse, so onward and upward (?) (until I have a heat stroke or something horrid :-p )

I got impatient and put it on the stove, equal parts sugar and water and a small amt of sesame oil and teeniest dash of salt. The texture was admittedly disappointing (too grainy as above) but I ate it on the cookies and got rid of the sugar craving. Oh well. :P

I'm about your height 5'4 and 3/4"s and my progress significantly slows if I eat more than 1600 calories a day. A slow loss for me is about 1450 calories and fairly rapid loss for me is 1200 calories. Maybe you could try shaving off a couple of hundred calories and see if it makes a difference? I went from somewhere over…

Thank you, super super helpful, both of you. I'm excited to get started. I guess I'll start at the low end of weights and then if I don't feel sore the next day I'll do a higher set of weights. Definitely going to YouTube to check form. 3x5 = 3 sets of 5 lifts, yes?

I really am stressed, and when I start my 80-hour-per week job 1200 miles away it probably WON'T get any better - at least not for the foreseeable 3 years. So. Yeah. Pretty much, I just want to know how long "I'm stressed" will last me. Cause I definitely needed some sort of break. I guess I can restart again on Sunday…

Extra bumpies?

Bump for extra thoughts and stories - how long did you give yourself at TDEE before you resumed cutting? Basically, I want to make a conscious decision about what I'm doing and stick with it. I think it's going to be harder to go back to cutting calories than it was to start.

Yeah, that's why I'm trying to give myself a mental limit - "I will eat at TDEE for X long". Trying to decide how long X should be.

Fair enough, I admit I'm still pretty new to these terms. I guess it's a combination of things I'm feeling and want to accomplish. I'm at a weight I'm mostly happy with (although room for improvement eventually) and the next few weeks will be a bit more stressful on me (moving 1200 miles away, no gym access for a couple of…

Thanks! I think I've lost at a very reasonable weight for my size. Mostly it's sustainable, but I'm having an off-week this week which is making me think about everything. Yup, I get 1700-1900 no matter what I enter into any calculator and I tend to think with a pretty decent percentage body fat, the low end of that is…

Thanks for your thoughts! It looks like my TDEE is almost exactly 1700 (which, coincidentally, is almost exactly what I get when I input "sedentary" into the MFP website). I'm losing somewhat slowly (but acceptably) at about 1450 calories per day - not feeling that hungry overall, not a huge decrease in what I ate before…

Bump. Home for a week and trying to figure out what I can do on my own.

I really wish I could quote some of the helpful responses, too; hopefully MFP will get on that...just know that I'm listening to you :-p

Thank you guys :) I was hoping it would be informative - I only wrote the provocative title to get some responses because boring thread titles seem to elicit very few responses. :-p I appreciate everyone's thoughts on combining the two and what they can offer separately - that is exactly what I was hoping for. I definitely…

Thank you (and to all the others I didn't quote, also thank you).

Super appreciate all the helpful and thought-provoking posts in this thread and would quote except that there isn't a great multi-quote feature in these forums. To answer a few questions: My goal is to not be tired all the time or get short of breath doing basic things like climbing up stairs. I suppose overall I just want…

To be clear, I'm asking why I would need weightlifting in ADDITION to yoga. I mean assuming yoga makes me stronger all on its own. Which it seems to have.

But why? Won't yoga make me stronger too? :-/

I think this post is fantastic! I want to educate my kids in any way that i can. What people posting on here generally don't seem to realize is that teaching your children what calories ARE as a "value-neutral" topic shouldn't mess anyone up. I imagine if you teach the concept of calories as something to observe (without…

Wish me luck in my attempt at multi-quoting. Thanks to everyone who responded. :) Yeah, definitely! I'm glad I'm not alone in having this experience. I'm so sorry for your loss but I'm glad you're hanging in there. :( I'm having some issues with moving for school/work and that is exactly what's stressing me out. I have to…

I had two ribs, pulled pork, three pieces of three different cakes, a cotton candy icy, beans and rice, two beers and no regrets ;) And that was just lunch. Mfp estimates it at 1729 calories. My "cheat meals" lately have been around 1700 calories.

Thought-provoking thread. It's really interesting to see everyone's idea of what "normal" is in regards to how many calories one should have for any given meal. I could understand where the OP is coming from - I think I would probably feel a little concerned and maybe hurt if my idea of "normalcy" were up for debate (even…

Wonderful! Amazing success. I will remember this recipe in 3 months when I start working 80-hours a week and have no actual time to cook. Thank you for the great idea. It came out perfectly, just in time for the fiance to make it home, and with leftovers for tomorrow. Couldn't ask for a better recipe. I added a little…

Thank you! I'm trying some variation of this tonight based on your suggestion...I had to make a lot of substitutions based on need (no raisins, my frozen veggies were some sort of corn medly, I have no idea if the cooked chicken was even edible since I just cooked it), and for some reason I went nuts with extra spices, so…

hm...I actually get really nauseous and have a lot of abdominal pain on my period. When I was in college, the pain used to be so bad, I would vomit unless I could find a cool area to lie down (for some reason, getting myself as cold as possible is the quickest and most effective way to control the pain/cramps/discomfort).…