ElizabethKalmbach Member

Hey, sorry. I typed out this long winded reply on my tiny little phone screen and hit "DONE," which apparently means "delete this" not "save and post." Then I got mad and went to bed. I don't think ANY scale can give you accurate answers about your weight, because weight loss isn't linear and water retention confuses the…

I get about 18-21k steps per day between my job and my crazy dogs, and I lift for about 30 minutes per session, 3-5 times per week. My *measured* RMR is 1411 calories, and my daily burn per Garmin is between 2400-2500/day. I'm losing about half a pound a week, but I'm hoping to *stop* losing and start a recomp at around…

Ah. OK, those aren't the fat handles most people think of when we say "love handles." Those are like... your hip bones. They aren't going to go away. I would recommend you NOT eat a deficit and work on strength training and build up more muscle in your glutes and core to give yourself the shape you want. If you don't…

... I'm 5'5 and 151 lbs, eating about 2100 calories per day (lots of cardio in my life) and lifting heavy about 3-4 days per week at about a 250-300 calorie deficit... on paper, anyway. (Some weeks I lose .5 pounds like I think I should. Other weeks I shovel a lot of snow and lose 1.5 lbs...) I'm not sure how you define…

... Did you take measurements as well? You might have a thyroid issue, but when my "slow" thyroid was spotted at a TSH of 25, I was at the lowest weight of my adult life. Exercise still works with a slow thyroid, but water retention is a huge pain in the booty. I usually see a lot of changes in my measurements when I'm…

My knee is bothering me, so I wrote a note to myself to take it easy and try to keep step count under 18k/day. My goal in September was to walk 10k steps every day. :)

I have the exact problem you describe and it's due to low blood pressure. (Normal is 90/55 for me.) I wash all my dishes by hand in hot water to warm up, and I drink rather a lot of hot tea in the winter. 50% of the tea experience is clutching the mug until it cools so that I can type again. >_< The heated mattress pad on…

I take betaine HCL with pepsin, which I calibrated over time with a protocol I found online, as my doctor was initially rather unhelpful in sorting this out. (I have since changed doctors and the new doc has actually taken the time to READ the articles I asked about and has added my discoveries and the protocols that are…

Have you calibrated your heart rate zones on your Garmin? I think you're correct in your guess - I get much higher calorie burns for higher heart rate, which isn't always an accurate estimate of my actual *work*.

If I don't walk my dogs a mile and a half a day, I have to clip their toenails instead of wearing them down on the sidewalk. We all hate that more than walking. Plus, if I walk my dogs enough to wear them out every day, they're less inclined to be naughty while I'm at work. I very much prefer my house to be full of lazy,…

I've been squatting for years and it's not been helping my glutes as much as a girl might want. Check some of the Bret Contreras books/workouts/blogs for lifts that will help isolate and activate the glutes more. I have "Strong Curves" and it's definitely challenging, and I've heard really good things about the newer…

Dairy or not has never made a difference for me, but the type of birth control I'm on or not makes a HUGE difference. After my daughter was born, the BC that had worked for me my entire life (ethinyl estradiol and levonorgestrel) stopped preventing acne, so I switched to a type with different hormone variants (ethinyl…

Not just thyroid, but also iron. Female athletes tend to wind up with anemia more often than expected, even with a very well balanced diet, and anemia has very similar symptoms to low thyroid... I've had both, and honestly, the persistent anemia headache aside, I couldn't tell the difference without a blood panel.

Were you lifting weights before? After an intense lift session, I usually gain about 2-3lbs worth of water weight and if I'm working out 3 days per week, I don't usually see that weight drop off until I've had 2 rest days in a row. This week, for example, I weighed in at 151.8 on Monday pre-workout. Yesterday was leg day,…

I eat home made protein bars on days when I need my *dessert* to have at least 15g of protein. I also keep a couple in my office at work for days where I forget my lunch or accidentally grab a kale salad instead of a chicken broccoli salad (that was two days ago) and have to compensate to cover my macros on the fly. I also…

Anyway, I'm another recommendation for both seeing the doctor and drinking the necessary calories as a protein shake or broth. Sometimes when my appetite is low, I have to set alarms to remind me to suck down a shake, but after a while my body gets used to the intake and usually my appetite will recover - assuming medical…

Yep. I've noticed this as well.

Oh, and hey! YOU LOOK GREAT! I should have mentioned that in one of the OTHER two posts, but I was all focused on answering your question. :)

(Mind you basing my response on MY aesthetic taste is incredibly subjective, but in theory, a recomp would avoid muscle loss and give you more calories to keep you from getting hangry.)

You're not overly big. If cutting calories are making you nuts, visually, I'd say you could just work with maintenance calories and do a recomp.

That's a lot of chicken. O_O I also eat a lot of chicken, but I try to rotate through my meats and starches and veggies. Pork, chicken, fish, beef, eggs, brown rice, lentils, whole grain pasta, potatoes, quinoa, whole wheat bread, salads, brussels sprouts, broccoli, beans, etc, etc. Once you've worked out what proportions…

I agree with the poster who suggested that some therapy would be helpful for you, and would also like to suggest strength training and/or martial arts for fitness. An increased level of fitness can help with some of your overall health markers at any weight, and those who are strong and capable of defending themselves…

I mean, I usually figure it's accidental, as I've done it myself while trying to scroll from the phone app. That said, I do like to check up periodically on things I thought I knew, because once in a while, you find out that a thing you "knew" your whole life turns out to be wrong. >_<

Hm. Good call, "Disagree." Looks like 40 years of "traditional" wisdom has been de-bunked recently about "immunosuppression" after exercise. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180420122807.htm

I usually get myself a used/inexpensive someone-else's-former-clothes rack off of Craig's List to try out with a goal/reward. I did this with my treadmill. I bought a used treadmill for $80 with the goal of using it for X miles/month for the winter. Once I achieved that goal, I promised myself an upgrade. It took me about…

I see this a lot whenever I pick up more exercise than before. In part it's probably exposure to all the new cooties from other people when I finally haul myself back into the gym, and in part it's probably the little drop in resistance caused by a workout my body isn't used to. It levels off once I acclimate, provided I…

I enjoy both, though in the winter, I do like the ease with which I can get on the treadmill in my jammies without having to put my hair up, put on two pairs of pants a hoodie, a light jacket, gloves, hat, socks, shoes, a scarf and a running light. >_<

Sounds like a relatively normal water weight loss - particularly if you're taking in fewer carbs than you used to. :) As Kali31337 suggested, check your results after a few more weeks but I think you'll find that you start leveling off once your body acclimates to the new "normal."

I believe in whatever makes compliance to a reasonable nutritional plan convenient and attainable within the context of modern life. I calorie cycle naturally to give myself the flexibility to enjoy parties, vacations, and rest days. It may help me more psychologically than physically, but whatever gets the job done at the…

1. Victory - I'm inside my maintenance range (though at the high end) and generally comfortable with my daily calorie allowance. 2. Challenge - Remembering to take all my (prescribed) supplements on time and putting back the 6# of muscle I've lost over the years that I WASN'T taking my supplements as I was meant to. :P 3.…