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I had similar problems, too. When I was young and my parents got divorced, my Grandparents (who had survived the depression) moved in with us to help my dad raise us while he was working overtime. I had lunch at school around 10:20 am. I would come home, and if Grandma was cooking, I was not allowed to eat until supper. We…

AND a calorie surplus or at least high protein at about maintenance. Muscle is not easy to gain, it takes serious work and a caloric intake. Granted, burning fat will make the muscle you already have more visible ("toned" look) but it's only more apparent because it's not hidden under a layer of fat. That's not to say you…

Exercise is healthier even if she doesn't lose weight. She knows soda and sugar are not "healthy." She's still got every right to choose what she eats and puts in her body. Just be supportive, but don't police her. You don't get to return food she bought because you don't like it, that is condesending as hell. Besides,…

1450 Isn't maintenance for almost anybody that isn't bed bound surviving off their BMR, so i don't see why you'd need to reduce your calories if you're already eating at a defecit for weight loss. If you don't eat the excess calories needed to gain a pound, you don't magically gain a pound (of fat).

Yes. Your body doesn't run on a 24-hour clock anyways. I did this when I worked graves which was most of last year and it worked out fine. Just log and it's okay if some days are a little over or under. It was messed up when I worked graves, but I logged within 24 hour periods for record keeping purposes and it worked out…

Yooper?

My schedule will be changing at the end of summer, so I'm hoping I can get mondays off to work on ATS fundementals and technique at Rachel Brice's studio.

Sloppy joes, tossed in pesto over zoodles, 1 package of taco seasoning to ground meat, burgers with hoisin pork and Asian slaw. Meat is a pretty basic meal template.

Honestly, Bikram yoga was the best thing I ever did to improve my lung capacity. It was very difficult the first session to breathe the hot air, but it got easier even the 2nd time in.

Collagen is a connective tissue in meat that breaks down into gelatin. The "gelatinization" IS gelatin, found in animals meat and bones, and the process happens around 160 degrees fahrenheit in meat. The longer you keep the meat here, like in slow cooking, the more it breaks down. There are other ways to add enzymes to…

Sounds great! We don't use soy in our household due to allergies, but I bet a teaspoon or two of chickpea miso and rice vinegar would be a fitting modification.

If you don't like seaweed, why would you buy it? I love kelp snacks. I used to get them from Korean markets as a kid. There are plenty of other foods to snack on. Popcorn, veggies (like carrot chips) with bean dip/tzatziki, berries are super snack-able. Crunchy roasted and seasoned chickpea bites- recipes are online for…

I don't believe in anyone being apologetic for their diet. It's their body and their right to choose how to nourish it. She shouldn't walk on egg shells because you don't like it. However, you shouldn't have to be on edge, either. I do believe all relationships of any kind benefit at times from having boundaries. Set diet…

That's entirely determined by your genes. The fat pile on where the body is programmed to store it and will come off where the DNA template says it should. Mind and body don't usually agree. It's not weird, it's actually very normal for people to gain or lose weight in specific places first, and you may even share similar…

Just go! It's a no-pressure thing. Instructors are generally encouraging, but won't call you out or scold you for not being abe to keep up wit more trained cyclists. Tell your instructor at the beginning of class that it is your first time and they will likely be very glad to welcome you. It's a great workout. highly…

I use Avon's Bug Guard Plus SPF 30. It's worked for me.

I wear my clothes to the gym, then to dance class where my dress code is more strict (especially for ballet). I used to not get it until I actually started wearing moisture wicking, breathable fabrics. Less gym stank, no chafing, better skin (read: less acne from trapped sweat), less adjusting. In yoga and dance during…

AGREED. If you can't afford something-- Guess what? You don't get it. That's incredibly scuzzy, I can't imagine the ability to steal sans remorse.

Smoked Paprika. I love it.

Only when free running. It's easier to find motivation to maintain flow if you imagine being chased by enemy raiders in a dystopian post-apocalyptic society. Other people at my training facility do this, too. It's pretty common and it's cool to hear what seeds grow out of others' imaginations.

Water retention is normal. Look for overall trends over a long period of time. I weighed 142 yesterday. 137.6 today. 138.4 the day before yesterday. Even though I weigh in at the same time every day, my body is doing its own thing. Try not to let it get to your head, I seriously doubt you unwittingly ate a surplus of 3500…

http://sizes.darkgreener.com/ Boom. It goes by famous brands and their indiviual standards for sizing. Each has a different preferred cut. You'd be amazed how much the numbers will vary.

I suppose, but Dr. Oz has fans (somehow). U.S. Senate's only got the 1% as their fan base, unless politics can be more entertaining.

Yes, I like exercise, but not all the exercises I do. I do some exercises I hate just because they're beneficial to me. For example, I hate yoga. I hate stretching. I work as hard as I can but I am always ecstatic when class is over and I don't have to do it anymore. I LOVE dance. Yoga and stretching make dance more…

I don't trust the default "calories burned" on here and I don't own a HRM. I eat back a good portion of my exercise calories most days, and try to leave about 15-20% remaining under my calorie as a buffer. That's just my approach that works for me, though. However, I eat over budget some days and significantly less on…

Agreed. If you want it done right, do it yourself. Log all ingredients, double check. Triple check. Use the "recipes" section, often. Don't trust the system, it's more like guidelines, and we all see that "I'm logging perfectly and not losing weight halp" post every week and confirm that the information is not 100% spot on…

I ate too much today, too. Weekly net balances out, it's all Gucci. Don't flip out. Food is food- necessary and delicious. Log it and carry on.

Yes. I am very weak without red meat. I have heart problems and a blood disorder, and even taking iron tablets and eating red meat isn't enough sometimes. I do everything I can to avoid blood transfusions. I also need a lot of salt for my hypotension. I'm fine with people being vegan, but I'm not apologetic of my diet.

It takes a lot of effort and a lot of food (protein) to build muscle. It doesn't happen on accident. Eat at a defecit and you will lose weight. Exercise to *retain* muscle mass, not build it. That way you can see definition ("tone" if you're one of those) once the fat layers melt away. Any exercise you'll commit to doing…

7/14 - Learning new choreography. One hour dance practice. 7/15 - Foot work practice, traveling steps. 15-minutes as a warm up before a run. 7/16 - Dance technique class, lyrical fusion. One hour. 7/17 - Half hour of dance technique practice. Worked on transitions between 8 count sets. 7/18 - Went through new coreography…