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I spent a long time convincing myself that I'd hate the gym and that I'd be out of place, that everyone would be looking at me, that I was too fat for the gym etc. 6 months ago (and 60 pounds ago) I started at the gym and can honestly say that nobody has ever stared at me or made me feel out of place and I was really out…

I'm not currently doing intermittent fasting but when I was, it was every other day, 500 calories alternating with 2500 calories, for an average of 1500 calories per day. This worked for me because I personally did not enjoy eating 1500 calories every day, it always left me wanting more, but with alternate day fasting I…

Also I think that thinking negatively about the gym just reinforces the not wanting to go. I think you kind of need to lie to yourself and tell yourself that you love the gym. You loooooooooove it. Even if you're lying right now, think in positive terms, I truly believe that the subconscious DOES pick up on that.

MaryJane, that's why I hired a personal trainer, there are several days where I would have chosen to not go to the gym if it was an option :) But losing the 40$ or whatever it costs me to cancel at the last minute hurts more than the 50 minutes of pain, so I go :) I do better as well when I'm accountable to someone else.…

I don't love the gym, but I love the high I get when I'm done. I feel so proud of myself. I am one that for years didn't want to go to the gym because I felt that I was overweight and that everyone would stare at me, I wasted so much of my life being worried about what others might think of me, shying away from putting any…

Hope your first day on plan goes smoothly for you Amanda :)

I highly recommend the book "Brain over Binge", it helped me a lot.

I do alternate day fasting, so on one day I eat a max of 500 calories in a day, and the next I eat 2300. I alternate between the two, which averages to 1400 per day, but doesn't give me the diet fatigue that eating 1400 per day would give me. I've been doing this since early January and it's been great for me, easy to fit…

Wondering if the "white stuff" she sees in the toilet might be cervical mucus... lovely stuff. Yum!

I weigh every morning naked. I record all weighs on a spreadsheet I have in Google Docs, but only record the losses on MFP. I don't consider the gains to be true gains, just fluctuations in water weight.

And I think that's a very SMART way to look at it... read up on things and draw your own conclusions... I am not a nutritionist either but over the years I've read a lot and it's led me to look at things from this perspective, but honestly you could probably also find medical journals that showed something opposite. That's…

I would not eat in bed. Make a new rule, no eating in the bedroom. Make another new rule: Don't put anything in your mouth until you've logged it in your food journal. If you write it at least you're being accountable for it before it happens.

I agree with you that you need to do whatever you can sustain, if you treat Atkins like a fad diet, it will be a fad diet. THAT SAID, I understand that YOU think that it's madness but ketosis is not harmful, ketones in your urine is not harmful... you can get ketones in your urine even if you're not on a low carb diet.…

What? Meat and veggies IS a keto diet. If you eat nothing but meat and veggies, that's not very high in carbohydrate at all. High fat diets are usually very satiating.

I wish he had defined a plateau... too often it seems you see people freak out because they haven't lost weight in a week and they think oh noooo a plateau. One week of no loss, it happens a lot to me! And then I have weeks where all I do is pee and then lose 2-3 weeks worth of weight. My weight loss is not linear it's…

We have 1 year of maternity leave here so I stayed home for the first year of my daughter's life, and then I returned to work. A few years later I had my son, and again had a year of maternity leave. At the end of THAT, we decided that I would stay home. There were several factors in our decision... my shifts at work were…

I know that's the common opinion, but I've read many studies that showed that saturated fat was fine. My cholesterol improved a lot eating pretty much nothing but beef, butter, veggies and full fat cheese, which is contrary to everything you'd read. I realize that I'm only N=1…

You can also skip the fad diets, be healthy and energetic while eating butter and saturated fats and full fat dairy. Mmmm butter. Some of the fatty cuts of meat are just way more flavorful than the less fatty cuts too.

Actually "Paleo" (again, encompasses a whole lot of different stuff) is usually done for health and not just for weight loss, so it does in fact promise to be healthy. Atkins does say it's healthy as well. South Beach does say it's healthy. I don't know of too many diets that say "This is a really really bad way to eat and…

Ok I have no idea what the French Diet is or the Skinny Biotch diet, but I know Atkins well, South Beach, Paleo (many different shades of that!) etc. I think they're all fine if you can do them forever. I lost weight well on Atkins, but since it wasn't a life change it ultimately didn't work to keep the weight off. Some…

I like "Eat Food. Not too much. Mostly animals" :)

If you know that you always like eating at 8pm, then save some calories and eat something at 8pm. It's no worse to eat it at 8pm than eat it at 5pm. Maybe push your supper back a bit and have a late supper?

You'll probably get varying answers to this, but my opinion is that you don't "need" carbs, so I wouldn't worry about trying to hit a certain goal amount. Low carbers will try to keep their carbs under a certain amount, but I wouldn't strive to reach some arbitrary number.

I used to consider what I did bingeing (like, the eating an entire bag of chips, or eating a cookie and then realizing you just ate the whole box). I've struggled with this for a long time. A few months ago someone recommended I read the book "Brain over Binge". Since i decided that 2012 is MY year and I'm going to fix my…

I retain water around ovulation too. Lovely hormones!

I weigh myself daily, with the less variables possible. So, naked, first thing in the morning after I pee. Since I always weigh right after getting up and naked, the weight should stay consistent from day to day (barring sodium/hormones etc). I change my weights in my tracker when I'm at a new low, I don't track my…

I love so many things here: http://genaw.com/lowcarb/recipes.html I'm not sure what you have in your pantry, but some of my favorite recipes: Mom's Crazy Cabbage: http://genaw.com/lowcarb/moms_crazy_cabbage.html Green Enchilada Chicken Casserole: http://genaw.com/lowcarb/green_enchilada_chicken_casserole.html White Castle…

Not light whipped cream if you're doing low carb though, you want the good full fat stuff! :)

I do intermittent fasting and take an EC stack. I have also been trying to heal my mindset and I'm approaching things a lot more sanely than before I think. I have stopped beating myself up over less perfect days and instead I'm focused on the long term. I started looking into cognitive behavior therapy and other things to…

Oh, nuts of course. I also ate sunflower seeds in the shell because it took me forever to eat a small amount of them so the fact that they're seeds wasn't an issue. And olives and pickles.