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Exercise does not need to make your heart race, your muscles burn, or get you sweaty, to be effective. Is it challenging? Is it harrowing? Is it going to get you RIPPED? No. But that's not what it means to be healthy, and exercise is about maintaining physical health. A solid baseline of light activity including walking…

Here's where you're going wrong: you're focusing on the quality of your food and ignoring the quantity. If your goal is to be healthy, you need to do both. Your food choices look great to me, way more nutritious than my diet! Now that you've got that down, it's time to focus on the quantity of food you eat. Here are some…

I'll know it when I get there, I just want to be at the point where I feel comfortable in my body again. I got to as low as 24% last spring and it was close-but-not-quite there and I think my ideal is somewhere in the 18-22% range. The "after" photo in my profile picture is from last March, I was probably around 26%. I had…

I have a stove-top tea pot. So I boil the water, add the tea when it's at temperature, and strain into a mug when it's done steeping. I take my tea and coffee without anything added to it because I like the way it tastes as it is.

My point was simple. There are reasons to not eat dairy and some people are very vocal about them, but the OP was asking specifically about weight loss so they are moot. I didn't feel the need to elaborate because it's just not on topic for the thread. Here you go anyway, though. I hope this satisfies your inexplicable…

It would be more accurate to log your fruit as "1 [size] apple," than to weigh the fruit with the refuse. With the apple size estimation, the law of averages would eventually take care of the discrepancy. The way you're doing it now, you've probably logged 1,000's of calories you never ate if you eat an apple at lunch…

The calorie counts on MFP for weighed fruits and vegetables do not include the inedible parts of the plant. It also makes a difference if you weigh them raw or cooked, and the option you choose should specify whether you weighed the food before or after you cooked it.

Medical reasons (allergies, sensitivities), ethical reasons, environmental reasons, taste preference reasons, philosophical reasons, religious reasons...

I would wait until I was hungry to eat. I don't know if this is good advice for everyone, though. A lot of times people don't detect hunger signals, sometimes long periods of overeating and/or undereating can mess with your body's ability to detect when it's hungry and/or full.

There are a lot of reasons to cut dairy out of your diet but weight loss isn't one of them.* ETA: *Unless dairy is an overconsumption trigger for you.

I wouldn't be too fixated on that 115 number, the BMI scale isn't really a great marker for individuals. What IS, though, is body fat percentage and yours is too low. Your body needs a certain amount of adipose tissue to function properly. For a female, maintaining a BF% that's too low has numerous potential health risks…

Your metabolism breaks down the stored fat cells into carbon dioxide (exhaled) and water (either absorbed and used or flushed out via urination or sweating), the energy from breaking the bonds in the fat molecules is used by your cells to do work or converted to heat energy.

if you're talking about a nagging, annoying but not really severe pain, your muscles could be tight from using them after a period of no activity. What side of the knee are you feeling the pain in? If it's on the outside it might be your IT band, if it's on the inside it might be your adductors. Also your quads and calf…

double post, sorry

That has more to do with soreness during exercise but I think the OP was talking about DOMS, or the muscle soreness you experience after exercise, usually the next day. The most widely accepted theory for the occurrence of DOMS is that when you use your muscle tissue at or near max capacity you create microscopic tears in…

It's really not good to be sore all the time. You're sore because your muscles haven't recovered yet. If you continuously use your muscles without allowing them to recover you won't really get anywhere. You don't build strength when you use your muscles, you build strength when your muscles adapt to something new. You…

I know! I know! It's just what happens when people respond to a post without reading the whole thread or the date it was posted. Really I would love to let the issue just die but I'm getting responses like this one: That's just downright hurtful and I feel like I had to say something. ETA: I did not still doubt it after I…

I would either squat with heavy dumbells or a kettlebell, do a higher rep set, and focus on squatting deeper and perfecting form. The smith machine doesn't sound ideal. ETA: You could also work in some more difficult BW squats like pistol squats or split squats.

I just want to clarify a few things because my post keeps getting resurrected and causing controversy: -I never said Staci can't lift that weight OR that her accomplishment wasn't impressive. She obviously can and she obviously is. At the time I posted that, she was unnamed and unsourced. Someone posted her picture and her…

Hey, blast from the past. I still stand by the point I tried to make a year ago. Listen, if you are going to put up a picture of a girl's selfies and call her "this chick," and then tell me she's 135lbs lifting 315lbs.. yes I am going to have serious doubts. Extraordinary claims require at least SOME evidence. There are…

"Excess fat" is stored based on your genetics and gender, not your diet. If you want to lose the fat in your thighs, you need to lower your BF% until it comes off there.

I'll cede that they're not really pancakes, they have more of the consistency of a crepe. If you add baking soda to them they get a little fluffier, though. I don't think they're gross, they're actually one of my favorite things. I like them with honey and berries or yogurt.

The most important thing is to eat a well balanced diet throughout the day and get enough calories, fat and protien so your body has the resources to adapt to the exercises you're doing. It's fine to workout without eating first if that's what works for you. Immediately after a work out it is good to eat something to…

Why do you want to eat low carb? Replacing refined carbs with whole fruit is an excellent idea for the added micronutrients, but not as a method for reducing the number of carbohydrates you eat. As far as loosing fat, eating a calorie deficit is going to get you there whether you eat low carb or not.

My most regretted calories come from bad beers. I save calories so I can have beer at the end of the day, and I've had some that were seriously disappointing and not worth the effort of saving calories for. Flying Fish Summer Farmhouse was one of them. Last weekend I drank Amstel Light at a birthday party and I almost…

It makes perfect sense. Ethical vegans/vegetarians who perviously liked bacon still crave the taste of bacon. 98% of people who are veg didn't choose it because they like the taste of tofu and hate the taste of cheeseburgers, they choose it because their morals have more sway than their tastebuds. That having been said,…

I have a lot of criticisms of the "paleo diet," but its undeniable benefit is that it gets people to eat less processed/pre-packaged junk food and that is always a win. So I feel like buying "paleo friendly" packaged foods defeats the most healthful aspect of being paleo. You can try making banana pancakes for breakfast…

Holidays are cheat days for me. I won't log food, and I wont worry about what I'm eating. This happens 0-2x a month, no more. I will do a cheat meal once in a while, I stick to one meal per week and I DO count those calories. Psychologically, everyone is different. Some people are better at sticking to a strict routine and…

Good urine colors: Lemon mambas The inside of a ripe banana Whipped butter The cream inside an eclair Bad urine colors: Mango Apple juice A clear mountain stream Honey

That sounds like a good idea. It's also a lot better to drink small amounts of water frequently than to chug a bunch of water all at once.