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Mmm that sounds great - I think I can do that! Those are great ideas, thank you!

eh, if I eat until I am full, I stay fat/get fatter. If I stay hungry for a period of time, over several months, I get thinner. My dad was in the Olympics for greco-roman wrestling, and coached both wrestling and football at the University of Alabama and Chattanooga; was a professional football player and wrestler for over…

Denmark! Originally from Alabama. Have also lived in Durham, UK and 10 years in Oregon.

Yes, he is really one of the leading experts on this. I highly recommend any of his books also.

There is no reason to be deficient in protein on a vegan diet, unless you just eat potato chips and salad. The healthiest proteins in the world come from vegetable sources.(ref. "The Spectrum: A Scientifically Proven Program to Feel Better, Live Longer, Lose Weight, and Gain Health" by Dr. Dean Ornish.) Assuming you are…

Please see a doctor, it is an emotional issue. You gotta love yourself enough not to do that to yourself. I played around a bit with trying to make myself vomit several years ago when I was in a bad place, but then I realized, it's better to be fat than to ruin your esophagus and teeth and possibly lungs with all that…

need citations from proper medical journals to support each claim and example - journal titles such as "the American Journal of Medicine" and "The Lancet" etc. Most of this information goes against mainstream medical research, not sure one would find citations to support this stuff in proper academic medical journals.

Every time I hear people say "eat more" to lose weight, I think of the things my father said. He was a professional wrestler for 30 years and was a Greco-Roman wrestler before that, and made it to the Olympic finals, so he was a proper athlete. Coached football and wrestling at the university of Alabama and Chattanooga,…

Thank you for your imput! It's interesting you say this, because my sister says that back in the 60's and 70's when they used to go out for burgers and fries, the portions for adults were EXACTLY what she sees in a child's happymeal - i.e. what they used to eat before everybody got fat. I will try that. hey, one extra toy…

I'm 5 foot 2 inches, losing weight at 1200 cals net and also hoping for the ability to eat more for maintenance. I just about have to skip a meal to do 1200 calories. sucks to go get a burger OR fries, but never both! Interested to hear short successful maintainers' cals also. At the calories you all are quoting, 1650 -…

Thanks! Yes, I was using "girlie" handweights when I first started, then then were so light I went to several sporting good stores to get heavier ones. I could find them easily when I lived in Oregon, but I live in Denmark now and all the weights are under 5 lbs in all the fancy exercise equipment stores. THEN I went to a…

YES, I agree with this - SEE a dietician. Doctors get, on average, 4 hours or less of classes on nutrition in their 8 years of medical school, and they often quote dietary advice that is decades out of date - please get a referral to a dietician, for your baby.

About 24 lbs is the MINIMUM you should gain when you are pregnant, because this is the approximate weight of the baby, the amniotic fluid, placenta, etc. Certainly a few more pounds than this is better than a few less pounds - you don't want to go under this number, for sure. Also, my doctor told me that the mothers eating…

I can't remember how to do it, but if you have google chrome, there is a way to install "google translate" as an app sort of attached to your google browser, and it automatically translates any foreign webpage. We live in Denmark so I live by it! Sorry I can't remember how we added it but some techie person or website…

yes, please! tears came to my eyes when I saw you had named your files "ugly." You are not ugly. I am not sure there are actually that many truly "ugly" people in the world anyway, but YOU are lookin' JUST FINE! You deserve better than to call yourself that, o.k.? :flowerforyou:

I used to eat 5 huge meals a day, including fried chicken and mashed potatoes and two burgers plus fries and milkshakes and and Dairy Queen and all kinds of horrible things and was a size 4, and now I eat about a third of that, in respect to both quantity and calories, and am a size 12. My exercise level was approximately…

This is a great list. Don't forget the vegetarian and vegan staple - hummus/hummous. recipe for hummous: Put all this in a blender: 1 can chickpeas, including half of the liquid in the can (save the other half of the liquid in case it turns out too thick and you wanna add more juice to thin it), plus half a cup of tahini…

Actually, I feel like I am in the same boat as you! I am scared about being hungry forever. (the people who say 1200 is too little for 'anybody' should go and punch in some short people stats into MFP - even MFP tells us shorties to eat 1200, and I spoke to a famous author of fitness books once, and he said short people…

The best post was the day somebody posted a topic called something like 'starting a diet and no more *kitten*!' and *kitten* of course means cigarettes, but some of the non-brits were up in arms before '*kitten*' got defined lol

Just wondering - the your profile pic showing your face - you don't "look" large, though of course I can only see your face. Can't see any other photos of you or what weight/height you are on your profile, but I expect you might have an unhealthy body image, if you are living with a mother and sister like that. When I…

Thanks for all the replies so far! About how many minutes per day/week are you guys doing these exercises? Cheers, Voodoo Lady

My doctor told me that the body will stop ovulating and/or stop having periods if there is too much stress on the body to support a healthy pregnancy. Could be anything from lack of enough calories, protein, healthy fats, and/or iron. I did ballet and a lot of the really skinny girls who ate very little and did a lot of…

I never did eat anything mushy - they didn't tell me to do that, so I just ate normally. First of all, use the pain pills - it will make the pain minimal. I never did really feel much pain, though I was definitely poppin' those pills lol. Main advice I would give you - get a pack of frozen peas and put a…

I have also lost pounds but not inches. I have lost 8 lbs but my measurements are exactly the same as when I started. I still wonder where those 8 lbs came from!

Thank you for clarifying the difference between gaining muscle and getting more muscle definition. I think the latter is what I am after. I was doing just cardio for 2 months, saw no changes, then I started the 30 Day shred (weights/resistance with a little cardio stuck in between), and I am finally seeing the results I…

I remember when I was in college in Tennessee, all of my groovy hippy friends were drinking herbal teas with honey in it. I had never had "hot tea" as we call it - not anything except for Southern "Sweet" tea - i.e. iced tea. However my husband is British, and so when we are in the UK I see a lot of tea drinking. My…

I always start drinking tea (black, green, white, herbal, you name it) with no sugar/sweetener or milk when I am trying to be healthy or dieting. And for the first week, I am GAGGING on it. Hate tea. Just want coffee. However, after a week or so, I start to develop a taste for it, even crave it. Right now I have a cup of…

That is an amazing difference in just one month! GREAT JOB!

What they said. Pick something you enjoy. So I do Samba or Bellydance DVD's. After a couple of weeks of panting and feeling like I was going to die, you start to look forward to it, even miss it if you can't do it (because you start to feel better, sleep better, be more relaxed, and less stress after you start working out…