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If her logging isn't accurate then what good would it do to see her diary? You have only her word either way.

Wall sits.

You may lose more weight in the short term by jacking up your deficit with uncompensated exercise calories, but it's likely to prove counterproductive in the long term. Your body will find other ways of compensating, some of which will have long lasting consequences. The muscle you burn off unnecessarily this week won't be…

True for me, though it wasn't so much that I massively decreased my pre-diet NEAT. I felt great on a 1 pound per week deficit, or thought I did. But in retrospect I realized that I'd "felt great" relative to how I'd felt as an overweight 57 year old couch potato. I'd forgotten how much more energetic I'd been when I ate…

No. I'm 5'7", 60 years old, and have maintained at about 123 pounds since losing 58 pounds in 2011. I never restricted myself to as few as 1200 calories a day as I was losing the extra weight, much less after it was off. You don't get any extra points for deprivation. It just makes things harder.

Smaller plates, no, I lost the weight and maintain on the same ones I've used for decades. But I do eat my desserts out of stemmed sherbet dishes, not cereal bowls. They're sized to barely contain a standard serving of something like ice cream and make it look generous.

Here's where I go for rainy day cardio: http://www.fitnessblender.com/ Rain is usually accompanied by lighting in my climate, especially when it's warm out. Otherwise I'd run.

So... My hips are narrow relative to my rib cage because I'm a tall person above the waist and a short person below?

Didn't keep if off, though, did ya? So what makes you think 1200 calories will be any more sustainable?

I was always bored out of my gourd on the elliptical, but in my case it was a necessary step in the transition from walking to running - that and strength training. I was 57 years old, 60 pounds overweight, and VERY out of shape when I began my transformation. I couldn't run 30 seconds on the treadmill without feeling like…

http://www.fitnessblender.com/ They're on YouTube too if you'd rather watch them there.

Not true. While I do agree that the ability to effortlessly maintain a thigh gap is largely a matter of genetics, the width of the hips isn't the only factor. Muscle development and fat distribution count too. I'm a small framed, relatively long legged, stringy muscled ectomorph, and have always had a natural thigh gap…

Actually 19.5 is near the low end of the acceptable range. 24.6 is near the high end, but is still within the acceptable range. I'd look pudgy at Neandermagnon's weight and I'm 6" taller than she is, but I'm also a 60 year old tiny framed, stringy muscled ectomorph. There is no one BMI that would be good for both of us.

Run an image search on "acromegaly" to see what excess growth hormone after puberty can do to the jawline. Not that it proves anything about Michaels, of course, but it has been known to happen to bodybuilders who abuse growth hormone.

A standard portion of rice as stated by US nutritional panels is generally 1/4 cup raw, which is in the neighborhood of 45g depending on the type and brand. That's 150 +/-20 or so calories. I usually prepare a cup at a time and then divide it into 4 servings.

I doubt targeted exercise would help, considering how much exercise your thigh and butt muscles are already getting. You can't spot reduce fat, which is really your issue right now. All you can do is eat at a deficit to get your BF% down, and in the meantime try to balance out your total exercise regimen to give more…

It has a lot to do with how you are used to eating. I don't have a problem with 3/4 cup of cereal, or the standard serving of tuna either so long as I'm making tuna salad sandwiches from it. But I have a very hard time limiting myself to a single biscuit at breakfast. There's nearly as many calories there as in a standard…

In a way they do. I can no long see my stretch marks in the mirror, or see them at all unless I make a point of hunting for them. I can't tell you when they faded out, though, or how long it took, because they'd faded from my consciousness even faster. They became a non issue - just part of the human condition - once I…

In my climate rain is usually accompanied by lightning. That's what keeps me indoors.

Here's where I go for rainy day cardio: http://www.fitnessblender.com/v/full-length-workouts/

Real horses don't move like that?

Maybe I have a little bit more credibility. I'm 60 years old, 5'7", and have maintained at about 123 pounds since losing 58 pounds in 2011. In my case maintaining a steady rate of weight loss was achieved by working out for 30 to 45 minutes a day, 6 days a week, alternating cardio and lifting days. And by eating in the…

You eat back your exercise calories? Then the OP's post wasn't directed at you, assuming you aren't consistently shaving too many calories off MFP's overly generous estimation of your exercise burn. Well... At least I never thought for a moment that it was directed at me or people like me. When MFP automatically set my…

My doctor suggested a couple of weeks of the South Beach diet, phase I, to get rid of the swelling in my feet and legs, but only after ruling out potentially very serious causes of the problem like heart or kidney disease.

Here's what 50 pounds looks like.

Sounds to me like it's past time for a second medical opinion.

I lost what little excess fat I had on my legs first too, but there was so little to lose that it went unnoticed until I measured. If my legs had stayed the same size I wouldn't have cared. The first obvious, very visible reduction was from my upper torso, and from there the fat drained like water from a bathtub: from the…

I'm a rectangle (ruler, banana, whatever) and at 5'7", 180 pounds, my measurements were 41-40-41. I had slender legs, a smallish butt, and a spare tire large enough to fit a dump truck. Now at 123 pounds and 36-30-36 there's still only a 6" difference between my waist and the other measurements, and that's after lifting…

And vitamin C too. It's needed for collagen production.

I've read that one of the reasons sizing is all over the place is to make sure you do get your butt in a fitting room. The brick and mortar stores want to discourage online buying.