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If you plan on having children you should wait until you are done with that. First, breasts can change before and after pregnancy. After two kids, each of whom I breastfed for over 3 years (they are both tweens now), my breasts ended up bigger than before I had kids. Other women have had theirs end up smaller. You really…

I don't know how old you are but I'm in my mid-40s and my skin is not as taut as it once was. I have lost 15 lbs and LOVE how I'm looking these days (138 - 140 lbs), but when I was in my early twenties I was around 128 - 130 lbs (I'm 5' 5"). Honestly, I think if I were to weigh that now I would not look good because my…

On your Home page click on "Goals", then scroll down to the green button that says "Change Goals". If you click on that it will give you the option of calculating them yourself or letting MFP do it.

Congratulations! I'm almost there (20 lbs lost) and I can feel your excitement!! Way to go, you look great!

Thank you, bellabananas, that response make sense and is consistent with the information I have found on the 'net. What frustrates me is just when I think I've got their system figured out I find something else I didn't know about. Why they can't just tell you flat out how many calories is in a particular drink at the time…

Now that you mention it, I have not been able to find a reference online to a sugar-free eggnog latte. I guess what I got was nonfat and no whip but not sugar free. Damn. Geez, thinking you are drinking under 200 calories and finding out it's more than double is a real bummer. Curse you, Starbucks with your evil…

When I make soup or other crock pot dishes I create a Recipe (look under the Food heading) and then I weigh the final product by pouring it into a container that I've tared on my food scale. I find it easiest to say I made 10 servings, then divide the final weight by ten to get the single serving size. Then I weigh out my…

When I was pregnant and breastfeeding I supported a chocolate-bar-a-day habit, lol. Breastfeeding mothers prioritize hydration toward milk production. If you are not sufficiently hydrated your body will direct water to milk production first, which is why it is so easy for breastfeeding mums to get dehydrated (and why…

I'd rather just go for a run.

One of my biggest downfalls used to be the idea that if I was "in for a penny" I was "in for a pound". In other words, if I "cheated" I might as well just pig out and not care because I'd cheated and therefore blown it. Now that I am tracking calories, there are degrees of cheating. Yes, some days I can go over my limit.…

Yes, plan ahead for those indulgences. Do some extra exercise on those days, and/or choose meals that are very light on those days. You can't expect to eat sustainably without being allowed those things, so instead of having them controlling YOU, turn it the other way around.

Are you people serious? speed = distance/time that's why it's called "miles per hour" And if the OP is meaning to say "pace", as in, how many minutes it takes to go one mile, you can either work it out yourself using the oh-so-complicated math formula (1/1.6 = x/30 and solve for x)...or you can go online and search "run…

Thanks for this thread. I am five pounds away from my goal weight. Actually, I'm at my goal weight right now but added five pounds b/c I had read before that I could expect to fluctuate a bit. I plan to keep exercising and slowly up my daily net calorie amount, about 100 calories. I'll do that one week at a time and see…

I would start with a TDEE assumption somewhere in the middle of your estimates from the calculators. Let's say about 2150. To lose weight you should take in about TDEE minus 20% which would mean you should aim for a total caloric goal of around 1720. If you want to lose a lot of weight (your ticker says 125 lbs) you can…

I'm not in maintenance yet, so I can't comment on that. But the key to sticking with anything is sustainability. Once I tried going to the gym four times per week. At first I was really motivated, but ultimately I didn't stick with it. I really didn't like doing it. On the other hand, I have always loved being outdoors and…

I was going to suggest that perhaps strength training with weights could help sculpt your body to something more like what you are looking for. It's hard to imagine someone looking "gaunt" at 180 lbs (unless you are like over 6 feet tall perhaps?).

Did that for about a year and lost a bunch of weight without even exercising but it was not sustainable as it really restricted my diet. I'm much happier now eating as many carbs as I want within my daily caloric goals. My weakness - pasta - is mostly out b/c it eats up so many calories and is not filling for me, but I…

I think you'd be better off setting a weight goal rather than a size goal. It is virtually impossible to equate a drop in dress size with a drop in pounds. Some of the conversations here involving dress size have been rather mind blowing. Women who weigh more than I ever have in my life are in single digit clothes while…

I am also a rider, and I run, cycle, and hike. While I agree with you that an intense riding session is great exercise and more so than a non-rider might appreciate, I do not believe you are burning 500 calories. This is based on my own experience with logging calories from various types of exercise. Yes, I am tired and…

To lose weight, you have to be in a caloric deficit. Breastfeeding or not. The benefit of breastfeeding is it adds a lot of calories to your daily burn, upwards of 500 calories per day depending on the age of your baby. So all other things being equal, yes it will help you lose weight. But not if you eat back those…

These days I'm digging homemade soup with a couple slices of dark, rustic bread and a wee bit of butter.

I agree with most of the responses. I will say, however, that there is the "sticker shock" factor. I mean, nobody should be surprised that a six inch tall slice of cake is going to be high calories, nor a heaping bowl of triple pasta delight. But the Starbucks stuff really shocked me. I picked up one of their nutritional…

1500 sounds reasonable and is my goal right now (well, 1450, close enough). My suggestions is to give it a try for a couple of weeks, log your weight, caloric intake, and exercise EVERY DAY, then after a couple of weeks you have enough information to create a spreadsheet to calculate how much your total caloric deficit is…

I don't. And I don't care, because I'm sticking to my caloric goals and I'm losing weight and after trying to go sugar free for a couple of years I cannot tell you how happy it makes me to once again have sugar in my tea, to be able to enjoy oatmeal with brown sugar, and to eat delicious homemade cookies.

Thank you! Some of these look really great. Can't wait to get cooking!

If you are not losing weight after all this time then you are not in a caloric deficit. Which would be darn near impossible if you were really eating only 1200 calories per day and doing all the exercise you say you are. I'm not accusing you of anything other than falling into the same traps many people do of…

I think it's interesting that you were able to quantify that for your own body. Yes, it is known that sodium causes water retention, but the degree to which that happens probably varies somewhat among people and also some people just never eat enough of it for it to matter (me, for example, as I don't like salty foods).…

That's a pretty judgemental statement to make, not to mention arrogant and ignorant. Medical science can't always provide a mechanism to explain inter-individual variability in reactions to substances such as prescription drugs, for example, but we know they exist (I used to be a researcher in this field). You don't need…

Exercise regularly, even if that's just daily walks. Don't be overweight. Eat a well-balanced diet. Don't smoke. I don't know. I'm thinking its the pleasure of eating that can be addictive, but whether that comes from chocolate, potato chips, or steaks really depends on the person. If I understand what you are saying I…

If you are just going to substitute your usual gluten foods with non-gluten varieties (eg. muffins, bread, buns, etc) than you won't see any change in weight from that alone. If you simply choose to stay away from such foods altogether, then you will possibly see a decrease in weight - all other things being equal -…