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For women, at least, I think underwear size might be a better metric. I weigh roughly what I did 40 years ago and my jeans size has dropped from US 10 down to 2 or 4, depending on brand and cut. I wore mostly medium and occasionally large tops then and now some of the smalls are too large for me. But my underwear sizes -…

During the weight loss phase I ate back a minimum of 2/3rds of my exercise calories to allow for MFP's overestimation. Currently I'm eating at a TDEE calculated on another site and tweaked up or down as needed to maintain my weight. I don't need to eat back exercise calories because they've already been taken into account.…

http://www.fitnessblender.com/v/exercise-detail/Low-Impact-Cardio-Workout-for-Beginners/a4/ http://www.fitnessblender.com/v/exercise-detail/Fat-Burning-Low-Impact-Cardio-Workout-at-Home-Recovery-Cardio-Training/e8/

You net 1390 unless that's your total energy expenditure, including exercise. It may help if you don't think of the exercise calories as "extra." Either they're taken into account when your your base calorie budget is calculated or they're left out of the math at that point and then added separately later. Either way, they…

I've been in maintenance for over a year and a half and have found that to be true. The larger calorie budget I got from eating back exercise calories made it easier to maintain a "normal" diet as I was losing the weight, by which I mean standard, full sized servings of the full range of foods I expected to eat for the…

You look more like an apple to me. There's at least one calculator on line that tells me I have an hourglass figure, but I'm pretty sure my poorly defined waist, smallish chest and shoulders, and narrow hips make me a banana. When overweight my shape was more or less the same except that my waist could more appropriately…

A long time neighbor mistook me for one of the college kids who jogs past his house and called me over to warn me that heavy traffic and poor visibility made the road unsafe for pedestrians. True, he wasn't wearing his glasses and he recognized me once I was within 10 or 15 feet, but still... I'll be 60 years old in a…

The BMI healthy range is a broad as it is because it ostensibly applies to the entire human population at a given height and was never intended to be equally applicable at every point to every individual. I'm also a 5'7" female, but of the small framed, slightly built, semi-ectomorphic sort. At my most fit and with a…

It's a great program. Just make sure you have the right shoes.

My mom did, and it was something she discovered on her own. She noticed that she felt better and that her morning blood glucose would be lower than usual the day after eating "diabetic friendly" baked cinnamon apples for dessert the night before. Initially she credited the apples before figuring out that it was the…

I had to lose around 25 pounds before my previously tight size 14s could be replaced by well fitting 12s, partly because I'd lost my tolerance for muffing tops, but also because I lost from the top down. I needed new bras before I needed new jeans. Sizes fell away much more rapidly after I began losing fat from areas of my…

You've lost 10 kg in 45 days? That's not "no results." You may not be losing fat where you want to lose it - yet - but 10 kg in a month and a half is very good progress. I know how you feel, though. It took a loss of about 25 lb before I went down a jeans size and that was the only gauge of progress that mattered to me at…

That really happened to me when I was 5. A sudden gust of wind turned the full skirt of the circa late 50s little girl's dress I was wearing into a kite and I flew off my grandparents' back porch. I was a skinny kid and a naturally thin adult well into middle age, and I almost never heard any comments about my weight.…

Potatoes, other than sweet potatoes. I eliminated them for the first several weeks of my diet and have never been able to reintroduce them without suffering digestive problems. They're my only trigger, so far as I've been able to determine. No potatoes, no heartburn.

Either that or recondition your eyes and stomach to be satisfied with a single standard full sized serving of pasta, which is generally 2oz, dry weight. I think I was eating closer to 3oz before I "reformed" and 2oz looked a little skimpy at first. Now it looks as normal as my size 4 jeans.

Look here if you decide you do need to start with something less intense. http://www.fitnessblender.com/v/exercise-group/Full-Length-Workout-Videos/2l/

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Ice cream doesn't trigger rebound cravings for me the way a doughnut would, so I don't worry about it so long as it fits within my calorie budget and doesn't throw off my macros by too much. I find that it helps to postpone more "dangerous" indulgences until the day of my next official weigh in, which is Monday. If I want…

Use what you find useful of the resources here and don't worry about the rest.

My chronic gastric problems went away completely after I cut all high carb foods from my diet, but it turned out that wheat and gluten weren't the culprits in my case. I was later able to reintroduce all of the common starchy foods without difficulty except potatoes, other than sweet potatoes.

At your age it may not be such a great idea to be trying so hard to get back to a weight from years ago, especially if your body is already fit and putting up a resistance to getting any leaner. Bodies are still maturing in the late teens.

Slow down and take deep breaths. Mostly, slow down. You can work on speed later.

Walking is a good start. Search YouTube for Leslie Sansone videos if you'd rather do it indoors. And take a look at http://www.fitnessblender.com/ . They have over a hundred workouts there of all sorts, all graded for level of difficulty and all free.

I'd been eating enough to feel good and maintain my weight, but my lean body mass was already on the low side even before I overdid the cardio because of my age (late 50s) and my sedentary lifestyle before I lost the weight. By the time the flab was (mostly) gone I weighed less than I had since high school, and I was a…

Adjustable dumbbells and what's left of my dad's old barbell set. I started out with this: http://produmbbellworkouts.com/dumbbell-routines/full-body-high-volume/ Then switched to workouts built on one or another of the templates here: http://www.exrx.net/Lists/WorkoutMenu.html

Yep, that was quite literally what I was doing. I've reformed.

I love running and have no intention of stopping, but I have proven to my own satisfaction that running isn't enough - at least for me. While I didn't gain weight when I slacked off on strength training as I ramped up my running time, I did gain a muffin top. And more distressing, I lost a lot of strength. What finally…

I continued to drag myself over to the gym to put in time on the elliptical for a while as C25K progressed, generally on the same days, but only as needed to maintain roughly the same weekly cardio burn as before. I was interested in replacing what had been my primary cardio exercise, not adding to it, so I tapered off and…

Some people lose weight evenly all over, but a lot of people don't and generally the first place they gained weight will be the last place they lose it. That's very commonly the belly, though not universally. I'm apple shaped as you appear to be and the last of the flab I lost came from my belly and midsection.

I switched back and forth as I did C25K and always found the change to be a little difficult at first after I'd been doing it the other way for a few sessions. It didn't matter whether I was going from the street to the treadmill or the other way around. It was different and didn't feel right, and different muscles would…