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I live 2 miles from my workplace and walk every day. If I don't, I usually am not active enough to get to 10K without exercising.

When I was a lot heavier I started learning racewalking because didn't want the joint impact of running. I run now but still do racewalking sometimes for variety. It uses slightly different muscles. Useful life skill, to walk somewhere quickly when in a hurry without breaking into a full run. :) I'm walking around a 10…

You don't have to get over the fear. You just need to gather the courage to do what you need to do for your health, despite your fears. "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear." --Mark Twain

I feel better and have more energy when I've eaten in the morning. Also, when I allow myself to get starving hungry, I tend to make poorer choices about how much and what kind of food to eat, so skipping meals tends to backfire for me and can trigger a binge. So I eat breakfast. If you don't have those problems, then it…

If you tell it to lose 2 pounds per week but it is physically impossible to do that without going below 1200, MFP will just give you 1200 as a calorie target and disregard your setting. It won't give you a plan that would cause you to actually lose 2 pounds if that would cut your calories unhealthful low. If you want to do…

Yeah, just hang in there and do what you have to do for your health. My friends and family have tried to be supportive, but there is only so much another person can do to carry you through--you have to find the motivation from within. It is especially hard for others to be supportive when they are in the same psychological…

When I add exercise or change up my exercise, I often plateau for a few weeks due to water weight, then have a sudden drop. It is a common thing to have happen. Don't forget to factor that in. Also, a person losing a couple pounds a week will usually see a loss weekly, but at a half pound the normal weight fluctuations due…

1. They aren't as interested in you as you seem to think they are. They are worried about their own stuff. 2. The others in that gym don't have their act together as much as you seem to think, nor do you have as big of an issue as you are blowing it up to be. You basically are an overweight person who is losing weight and…

At 5'11 and 147 pounds you are a perfectly normal and healthy weight. Even if you weren't, that's not a reason for self-hate--it would be a reason for loving yourself enough to start doing some healthier things for your body, as I did when I finally decided I was tired of being morbidly obese. The problem, therefore, isn't…

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I'd go mostly to enjoy their company and eat something light like a salad or veggie plate.

Being underweight won't ALWAYS lead to health complications, just like many people are morbidly obese and manage to not have health problems. Yet I don't recommend that anyone easily maintaining a healthy weight intentionally become obese either! Underweight people are especially prone to being tired and sluggish because…

You are at a normal BMI now and your desired BMI would make you underweight. Might be a bad idea with medical issues. Maybe set your calories to maintain and work on nutrition and getting a little bit of exercise to improve muscle tone.

I can't help but wondering if you've misunderstood them. I've known a lot of people who are pretty preachy vegans (online mostly) but I've never heard one who makes blanket statements about all living things. Animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, viruses, they are all living. The ones we care about are the ones who are…

No, it doesn't really. I'm not the one allegedly worried about the feelings of plants. I'm just saying that if the people who harass me about "Oh the plants" really meant that then they would be happy to know that I am saving more plants on a plant-based diet. Not that they really do care--most of them anyway. Most are…

If you're tired of vegetarians/vegans judging you, rest assured that we judge your apostate friend more. ;) LOL just kidding... sorta. But I also have some sympathy, in that it is a major life change and people try and fail at being vegans/vegetarians for a lot of the same reasons that people try and fail at weight loss…

Vegetarians hear this all the time, normally by people who would flip out if I beheaded some puppies in their back yard, yet they carelessly behead millions of innocent blades of grass each week as they mow the yard. Same thing, right? Seriously, I beleive that a pig or cow or chicken has awareness of what is happening to…

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I've reached a point where I feel this way about meat, eggs, and cow's milk (they gross me out), but it took a long time. Still not there with cheese--it is discipline. I've spent my whole life liking and enjoying meat and I gave it up as an ethical choice, not because I stopped liking the taste. I didn't instantly stop…

It came up because I invited friends to dinner party at my house where I served vegan food (at the time I was vegetarian, transition to vegan). I was asked by someone if there was dairy in the food (she was lactose intolerant and wanted to know for her own purposes) and I said no, at which point someone launched into a…

Yes, I usually do what you do. But, to be fair... most people haven't educated themselves about where their food comes from and what is in it. I don't assume about people specifically (meaning I don't assume that you personally don't know since I don't know you) but about people in general... lots of ignorance about all…

I understand how that must sound, but at the same time... if someone eats animals and their products, they ARE causing pain and suffering to creatures I care dearly about. It's hard for me personally to navigate these kinds of situations socially. On the one hand, I don't want to preach at people and be rude. On the other…

I was an omnivore for years and heard the stereotype of preachy vegans, saw a few on social media but not in person. I'm sure a few exist. But when I became vegetarian I started getting hate and anger that I was totally unprepared for. Not just with comments on social media but in my face at the dinner table. Not just…

Any amount that is below your maintenance calories is enough for weight loss. The further below maintenence you go, the faster the weight loss....and the bigger your risk of burning out from not enough nutrition, being hungry all the time, etc. You'll have to balance those two things and find something you can healthfully…

See my other post. Maybe the problem isn't that single girls are that way, but that the single girls you find yourself drawn to are like that. It seems they suffer from low self esteem and lack good judgement about men... that's the kind that finds "dickhead" sexy. I wonder if a confident and classy woman--the kind who…

I purposely didn't read the responses yet, so this is my uninfluenced reaction. For the record I am a single woman but probably a little older than the women you are dating (I'm 42). I'd say that you need to stop thinking of girls as one monolithic group--"girls" don't all like or do one thing. We are all unique…

I'm glad it was so effortless for you to just go do what I've been struggling for 42 years to pull off. Thanks for letting us know??? Guess this thread isn't useful for you, but some of us slow people need more direct instruction on the "how" of doing this.

You can go on the Fitbit website and in the settings, turn off "calorie estimation". Then this won't happen (it will base your projections based on no activity--rather than your daily average--and only add calories to MFP that you've actually "earned" already).

Yes, I believe it because I tested it.... log faithfully for a couple of months with a fitbit adjustment, then figure out how much weight you should have lost (calories below maintenance for that time frame /3500). Compare to what you actually lost. Mine is very accurate, with a slight error in the direction of my losing…

I hear this stuff a lot when I mention doing 10ks to people...oh I can't be a runner. When I ask why, it is RARELY someone who mentions a legit medical condition that would make running a bad idea. They usually say something like that they tried running one time and could only go a block and it was hard and they looked…