LaurenGetsFit2 Member

I definitely use a food scale & have been keeping my meals relatively simple just so nothing is missed. I’m 116 and exercise 4-5 times a week for at least 30 minutes; end up sweaty & exhausted. According to my Garmin I usually burn around 200-300 Calories depending on how long I exercise & what all it involves. I don’t eat…

So long as you're eating the same Calories/macros within the 24-hour period, it doesn't *really* matter when you eat them. But I don't know that I'd eat them all at once haha; maybe over the course of several hours. But that's the basis for Intermittent Fasting (IF). But if you choose to save most of your Calories for…

I've used it before and I had pretty good results--granted it was only for about a week haha. Personally, "skipping" my lunch and going that long without eating really messes with me. I'm not sure if I legitimately have low blood glucose, but I get dizzy, tired, faint, and an overall awful feeling overtakes me whenever I…

Firstly, I know this post is really old haha. Secondly, I'm glad I'm not the only one! I use an app to track the Shark Week patterns and I've noticed I happen to retain water TWICE during the cycle: once before/during ovulation and once before/the first few days of my actual period. -_- It makes trying to lose a few pounds…

The fries should be included with the meal; even wit just the wrap, the grilled chicken, and plain shredded cabbage (no dressing, no cheese, no fries), it's really hard to believe it's that many Calories though. Unless they use half a ~210 Calorie wrap per roll. Plus about ~200g chicken.

The recommended time to do HIIT is only 25 minutes at most; it's generally used by bodybuilders and other athletes to shed quite a bit of fat in a relatively short period of time (15-20 minutes instead of doing an hour of cardio) per session without crossing into the "muscle loss zone", which happens to be at about 20…

The issue is that I'm *not* losing weight at ALL. Just stay in stagnant. And this was after I was eating my TDEE of about 1,700-2,00 Calories. Plus a long time of eating above that (hence the steady yet-unyielding 2 years of slow weight gain). I try to stay upward of 1,400 because I know going too low can cause more issues…

Just 0.5-1.0 lb a week. Really before the gain I was too thin; I'd like to just lose 10 lbs. I've been sticking to this deficit for maybe 3 weeks at most.

I'm not asking to be diagnosed over the Internet, I'm just asking if it's possible that once I get my (possibly) imbalanced hormones straightened out of my body will finally start losing weight if I keep the same Calorie deficit & activity level I have now.

I'm sorry for this super late post, and if this has already been addressed, but what did you focus on more: cardio or strength/circuit/resistance? I've heard adding any muscle to thighs just makes them bigger, while cardio does the "fat burning thing" to get rid of the fat and make thighs smaller. A while a go I got into…

Thank you! I have a kitchen scale, but I'm admittedly lazy and tend to just use measuring cups and "prepared" things like apples, a medium banana, an egg, etc.. I really don't eat much food that I thought I have to *really* worry about measuring precisely (like pasta, for example). Most of that is vegetables, which are so…

I also do it to help control sweets & the overall carb intake; if it weren't terrible for you, I'm the type that would eat bagels & French toast for every meal.

If you go to bodybuilding.com and look up topics about carb cycling on their forum, you're likely to find all the info you need. It's kind of a lot to explain, and it's already been nicely laid out there. :)

Gosh I'm so proud of & happy for you! GO CELEBRATE! :D It's like our stories are the same, except I'm probably a little younger & I wasn't really overweight, but I was out of shape for all my life & I finally got fed up with it. Last summer, I used C25K to start running for the first time EVER in my life and I haven't…

200 Calories for a 30-35 oz serving, depending on how "fluffy" I make it (which depends on how much ice I add). I start with a protein-powder base blended with water (instead of milk), blend in some ice, add some fruit, cinnamon powder, some cocoa powder or milled flax seed, and then blend again until it's smooth.

I make it myself. With apple juice. And Greek yogurt. :) Weird, I know. But it's tasty! I got the recipe from here: http://www.mnn.com/food/recipes/stories/homemade-granola-for-a-healthy-snack But I modified it to make it even lower calories and less fat. 3 cups rolled oats 0.75 cups dried fruit of your choice 0.75 cups…

Is it a "dairy" or "lactose" thing? I went dairy-free to avoid lactose for a while. But then I started eating Greek yogurt, because (supposedly) it has less lactose and the added pro(or is it "pre"?)biotics help with digestion. Supposedly. But I haven't had any real troubles with it. With fake cheese and stuff with a lot…

Either that, or (as mentioned above) IF--I usually eat breakfast, skip lunch, and then eat a healthy, normal-sized dinner around 6pm or 7pm and then not allow myself to eat after 8pm. Most of the time I'll have a healthier dessert option like fruit sprinkled with cocoa powder or cinnamon, or plain popcorn (I get the…

Whoa. Unsaturated fats are the best kind of fats; both of them lower LDL (Low-Density Lipoproteins---the BAD cholesterol); they're found in things like olive oils, fish, nuts/seeds, flax, and avocados. They also help to RAISE HDL (High-Density Lipoproteins; the GOOD cholesterol). Saturated fats--things that are usually…

I drink Eas Lean 15 (Vanilla Cream, which clocks in at 100 Calories for a serving) with ice, water, and frozen fruit (usually a peach or blueberries) with the occasional handful of spinach. I LOVE the Eas Lean 15 with a peach--it tastes just like an Orange creamsicle to me. Or a vanilla shake topped with fruit, when you…

I did this (along with a couple of others, for variety) last summer, for about two months while incorporating it with my efforts to pick up running (for the first time in my life); I remember it being the closest thing to torture I had ever experienced. I was about 115 lbs, 5'2" and a 20-year-old, hard-studying college…