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  • Uh, starving yourself to get down to 135 or whatever in 6 months is going to wreck havoc on your stamina... and it'll probably put you in the ring with guys who are shorter and therefore proportionally stronger than you since they haven't been starving themselves for six months. You'll look like a skeleton and have no…
  • Their store-brand wine and beer is good and cheap. That's pretty much the only reason I go to Trader Joe's lol
  • Binging can mean different things really. Some people binge because they are hungry, this happens a lot to people who are on diets. Other people binge because they have an eating disorder. We all binge on Thanksgiving and other holidays :P If you think you are binging because of hunger try increasing the amount of protein…
    in Help! Comment by platedlizard May 2014
  • Most people underestimate how many calories they eat and over estimate how many calories they burn even when they use a program like MFP. For example I noticed that you put 'hike' for your walks, were you actually hiking on a trail or walking beside a road? If you were walking six miles on a road then it's possible that…
  • Losing weight won't make you feel more confident. You're at the top end of 'healthy' so while you could still stand to lose some weight you shouldn't starve yourself for it. Personally, if I were you, I'd set a different sort of fitness-related goal. Rather than trying to lose weight you might want to set a goal of, say,…
  • They're either trying to compliment you on how you look now or they're worried about eating disorders. Or both. Another possibility is that their normative view on how people should look is considerably heavier than it should be. For example my sister is quite fit. She is not thin because 'thin' implies underweight, and…
  • Why can't we eat sweets? I just log them like everything else and don't pig out--no reason to eat sugarfree sweets unless someone is diabetic or something.
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