dimsumkitty Member

Friends and family will always judge each other, and not just about food! Clothes, boyfriends, niche hobbies... Taking rudeness and teasing in good humour is just something we learn. If it doesn't get to you in other aspects of your life then don't let them make you feel bad about food. :)

Height and muscle mass make such a massive difference! :o

I have it on hot toast :)

It'll take you about 10-20 times eating the same things before you start liking it. Less time if you pair it with food you like. Cook some vegetables. Everytime you eat anything, eat a piece of vegetable with it. You'll start liking it soon enough.

Best. Troll. Ever. In all seriousness though, garlic butter is amazing with steak.

The Sainsbury's red fruit/yellow fruit yoghurt packs of 6 are about 100 calories each, and are ridiculously cheap, which is good for a student's budget! Other than that, I'm a sucker for a boiled egg. Occasionally I just have a biscuit. XD

If my stomach actually hurts, a small slice of wholewheat toast or a bit of yoghurt, then bed. Basically something under 100 calories that's going to keep me full for a while.

British Cheerios for me. Not that healthy, but a little bit of sugar doesn't hurt me. Plus it's made with mixed whole grains over here so I get more variety. Edit: I think this might be the same thing as Multigrain Cheerios in the US. Oatmeal on days when I don't feel like sugar cereal though.

I'm 5'10. I have a really small frame in terms of bones! My wrist circumference is 5.75" and my elbow width is only 55mm (2 1/8") with calipers. My hips, ribcage and shoulders are pretty broad though, so I suspect I can get down to quite a low weight without looking really skinny. All the more to aim for! Edit: I followed…

If you make up the calories in your other meals I can't see it being that being a bad thing, intermittent fasting is very popular and that's can be just one big meal a day. As long as you hit your calorie guideline you should be fine. But if you're not planning to eat back the calories it's a bad idea. You shouldn't be…

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/819055-setting-your-calorie-and-macro-targets This thread answered all my questions. Also, exercise uses calories in two ways: one is the energy taken to just do the exercise, and secondly doing more exercise more often will speed up your metabolism so you burn more energy doing…

Wow, so many good ideas! For people who asked, I'm eating exactly the same things I've always eaten, but just much less of it. (And a lot less sugar.) I've never really tracked before, but I would guesstimate I was getting about 2500 a day before I started MFP. I think I'll stick with 1600 for another month and see how it…

I love this page, it has pretty much every single thing you can do with ramen noodles! http://www.seriouseats.com/2011/03/ramen-hacks-30-easy-ways-to-upgrade-your-instant-noodles-japanese-what-to-do-with-ramen.html

Bump. Any help out there?

If you resize the box so it contains all your facial features, forehead etc, but your cheeks and chin are just outside it, it'll resize your face to match :)

Thank you for this! This is amazing motivation

If you don't gain any muscle from working out, then your goal weight would be 143 - 146 at 20-22% BF :)

Haha I'm top heavy! Not sure how helpful their advice is though, I just have a large chest and not a large bust (I wear an A cup).

There's definitely a difference! I can see definition in your abs in the third picture and your thighs are looking really slim :)

I used to get that all the time! Now that I know it's a thing my body does, I make sure that if I work out lots, when I come back I get enough rest, eat lots of healthy food, shower and change into fresh clothes. Basically giving my body all it needs to fight off the germs I catch, and not stress out my immune system…

I worked out a goal weight based on what body fat percentage I wanted to be :)

Hi! I'm 5'10 and my goal is about 20% body fat, which translates to under 140 if I don't gain muscle, though I won't mind if I do. I'm currently at 157 and 30%, and I don't think I've been lighter than this since before puberty! I was a pretty chubby child. I'm mostly looking forward to losing the belly fat :D

I'm a smidgeon over 5'10. My goal is about 140, though I'm mainly looking to get below 20% body fat, so my goal weight is just 20% body fat + my current amount of muscles. My wrist and elbow measurements says my frame is small, and I'm quite flat chested, so I think I'd have to be slimmer than most to look good!

Thanks for the info :) Thought I'd let everyone know that Body Fat Percentage calculator is not very accurate at all! It gave my 23% when calipers are giving me about 30%.

I think scientific studies show that if you try a food 10-20 times, you start to like it! And it's even faster if you eat it alongside things you already like. So if there's something nutritious that you want to like, just prepare a little bit of it every meal and eat it with the rest of your meal, and it shouldn't be too…

Hi! I'm new too, and I'm also used to big portions. One thing that's worked great for me is just eating LOADS of vegetables. There's barely any energy in them, and I cook them into my meals or dress them with a little bit of home made salad dressing, and if I do that enough it makes my meals seem really big without being…

I'm 5'10, was 172 and a largish UK 14 (US 12) at my heaviest. Now down to 157 and I'm fitting into my smaller UK 12s (That's an 8/10 I think?).