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My old dance partner, only 5' 6", lifted the 180lbs girl in our class alright, and most of the rest of the class were at least 130lbs and he managed them just fine. Honestly, if you think you only need 8lbs off? Probably best trying to stay that weight but change composition slightly (either through gaining muscle then…

Weight and food issues? By food issues, I literally meant they weren't feeding us enough to teach dance all day, you make it sound quite sinister! I'm also not really dancing at the moment so I didn't think it was relevant.

I just wasn't quite sure where to put it and I thought this was a good start. I'll start with 200 and see how it goes. I'm scared of losing anything unplanned, I'm already at the edge of how light I can reasonably be (long story, food issues where I worked over the summer), but I also don't want to gain because even the…

Because I'm about to go from sitting all day to doing a fairly active job? I've got to eat back those calories somehow or I'll lose weight, but to do that I need an idea of how many I'm burning.

The sedentary setting is maintenance for me at the moment, though. If I do upwards of 4 hours of lifting and rushing around on some days and don't account for them, I'll lose weight. The alternative would have been to go back to "lightly active" but I don't work every day, so I'd rather do it this way.

Count me in, too! I lost most of mine when I didn't log over the summer (no internet access where I worked/lived) and never got round to getting more when I came back!

I think you might be misunderstanding me. At no point was I saying that I'm lighter because of the muscle - I'm saying that I'd be even lighter without it and that that's what makes me heavier.

I would be very underweight if I wasn't in these sports, I've got that sort of stick-insect frame in my genes. The muscle brings me up to a healthier weight! I was a very strong, healthy athlete at the age of 15, eating vast quantities and training hard - I was 5' 1" and 80lbs and I was basically a machine, but of course…

I ignore it because it says I'm ever so slightly underweight. It can't see my ridiculously tiny frame and that I can be a bit lighter safely. It also can't see all of the muscle! I do agree that it's a reasonable way of measuring most people (who aren't at either end of the scale because of their sport/muscle/training…

I get "surely it can't be good for you to exercise so much?" even at a lower training schedule of ~10hrs/wk. I remember who says that, so that when I'm up to full strength at 30+ hrs/wk I can watch their expressions when I tell them. ;)

As much as I love my proper scrambled eggs done exactly to my specific method, my go-to at night would be microwaved scrambled eggs with toast. Less that 2mins to make and it might just be the thing that stops me having a snack made of chocolate!

Subbed! Even if the acting in a dubbed thing is good, it never quite matches up to how the original voice actors did the lines and I'd rather see the translation and hear the original tone/emphasis etc. than the dub actor's interpretation of the script.

I'm Scottish, but several Scottish accents still get me every time - I love a Glaswegian accent even though I'm from near there myself! I also love most of the Northern Irish accents, barring a few.

My HRM gives roughly the same calories for me as MFP does, so I just use MFP now and round the calories down (eg. 318 down to 300). I'm still losing weight at the rate I expect.

To the OP: in dance classes and rehearsals, I dance in hot pants and a sports bra half the time. At gymnastics, leotard and only-just-longer-than-hot-pants shorts. It's important to wear little in those situations so that the teacher/coach can see my form and technique clearly and can make corrections, and I would wear…

Around 1.5L a day of just water, then usually something else (milk, diet pepsi, juice, etc.) to around 2L. If I'm training or rehearsing, more water. I'm really small, though, so any more than 2L results in it just going straight through me ;)

Feel free to add me! I'm in Scotland for a few more weeks, temporarily in the US for a couple of months (but I still eat the same fairly simple way there) then London. :)

You could always compromise in the middle. 300cals is a 3-egg omelette (or even just 3 hard boiled eggs) for example, so you could get something that's not-salady that's still high protein and doesn't take all night to eat.

A dancer friend of mine (male) is around 5%, but that's with very little effort because it's his natural build. He started out a bit stick-insect-y and had to gain all the muscle through hard work (and a lot of food). Even as a female, and therefore designed to carry more fat, it's been easier for me to get my % down than…

As someone with 16% body fat and aiming for lower, who also happens to be in PERFECT HEALTH with ridiculously thick-and-healthy hair, regular-as-clockwork periods, and the most balanced hormones of any woman I know, I think you really need to stop generalising. It may not be healthy for some people, but for others it is…

I had a slight tear to an ab at one point - killer! As much as I hated it, I had to stick to things that didn't hurt much, such as walking and... nope, just walking. Take it from someone who's had a LOT of injuries - the ones you rest properly are the ones that get better. Give it time (and ice!) and don't push it, and…

All-in, it usually works out to be at least 20 hours. I'm a dancer, though, so that's pretty standard ;) It's mostly dance (classes, rehearsals, practice at home), a little bit of gymnastics, sometimes some extra walking or jogging. That total doesn't include stretching, which is another 3-4 hours a week most of the time.

That gorgeous gymnastics leotard in a size big enough to stay still on my *kitten*. Now it's like a tent... should have got the smaller size and worked my way into it!

2hrs of classes (learning new stuff for a show, I'm seizing up already from the effort) then another 40mins when I got home, plus 15mins of stretching. Exactly the same for tomorrow, then a 6hr rehearsal on Sunday... :/

I pretty much live in them. On the way to training, on the way back from training, during training sometimes, during rehearsals far too often, sitting at home, shopping, travelling (especially on planes), rolled up to the knee in summer with a short top, wore some to a party once because I had snazzy new trainers and a…

Anything that I haven't specifically set out to do as a workout. I might log things like yoga or stretching for TIME but not for calories (ie. put 60mins but then 1cal).

If you can find an adult gymnastics class near you, that's pretty good for it AND it's fun!

Currently hovering just below 17% with daily chocolate, so I'd say no!

I always thought people would just understand that automatically, but lately I've realised they really don't! I have a different JM DVD and she mentions doing 3-4 workouts a week, and I'm pretty sure she says that on all of them. I've been an athlete all my life and the thought of even 7 days without a break sounds too…

I'm 102 at that height. Even with a reasonable amount of fat left (I'm working on less fat/more muscle so may end up smaller) that's a size 6 - and in my case, with long legs and a really short body, it's a size 4 on the top!