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Lately I've noticed that eating a big breakfast makes me sneezy and sniffly (it's the strangest "full" mechanism), so I've been making an english muffin with peanut or almond butter, or else a protein shake. I have a mid-morning snack within a couple of hours so I don't get too hungry. Breakfast comes in between 200-300…

I take my measurements every two weeks as well and they seem to be the same, and my clothes fit the same as well. Since it's been two months I thought any fluid retention would have worked itself out by now. Right now I'm focusing more on lowering my intake a bit and upping my cardio to increase my calorie burn. We'll see…

I wish I had a body media to track my actual calories in and out and I've been debating between the BMF and a Fitbit. I gained weight this month while lifting heavy with the NROLFW, and I tink it was because I was overestimating my calorie burn during the workouts and eating beyond what I needed. I looked at my data for…

You can do the dvds on low volume while the kiddo is sleeping, and you can do body weight exercises anytime.

I struggle with that concept. If I want to lose 20 pounds of fat, wouldn't that also be weight lost? I want to lose weight the right way so that I lose more fat than anything else, hence the slooooow method (I was aiming for 1/4 to 1/2 pound a week) with more weight training than cardio. I think I'll just keep playing with…

I eat pretty carefully - six meals a day, 30% protein, balancing complex carbs with protein - but I do have trouble with sugar. If the not-so-good stuff fit within my macro goals I haven't worried about it, but perhaps I'll pay more attention to sugar for a while and see what happens. I'm also trying to stay closer to the…

Did anybody else gain weight during their week off between stage 1 and 2? I track my weight daily, going by weekly and monthly averages, and this past week off has me climbing back up, even though I dropped my calories down because I wouldn't be working as hard this week. It's frustrating and I don't understand why. A day…

I started as #3. I initially thought I wanted to lose 100 lbs, but I've since reevaluated after realizing I'd have to lose more than 20 pounds of muscle to realize my original goal.

Fat2fit isn't talking about net calories. They take your BMR and an activity multiplier to determine calories, which figures in exercise calories on an average for the week. If you'd rather eat at the sedentary level plus exercise, that works too.

My goal for the first one was to hit 5MPH or 12 minute miles. That's the speed that takes a fast walk into a run, and I wanted to be able to do that for a whole three miles in a row. Now I'm aiming for 6MPH, or 10 minute miles. Someday, maybe, I'll see the 7 minute miles I ran while I was in the army a million years ago,…

That's right - I forgot to mention that part. I have my macros set at 40c/30p/30f, and I also increase my fiber goal to 30.

My husband took pictures for me yesterday now that I've finished stage 1 and I can see the most significant change in my midsection and back. I'm not ready to post pictures of me just yet, but I do know that I can also see more definition in my arms, shoulders, legs, and especially calves (lost a whole inch there).

I've gone back and forthon this and finally just changed my setting to "Active" and used the custom setting to change the # to 2000. I needed to see the macro targets in a more accurate light and I wanted to know what to aim for when I plan my meals for the day before I work out. When I enter my exercise calories it's more…

Soy milk tastes better to me than regular milk. Make sure you're mixing really well.

I was in your shoes and when I started listening to the fat2fit podcasts I agonized over whether I was doing the right thing. Now I look back and see that every month my weight is lower while eating an average of 2000-2100 calories a day, and I never feel hungry or deprived the way I did on much lower calories. It's slow…

Do you mean your body fat percentage? Those things are notriously inaccurate.

Re fat2fit podcasts I've listened to every one of their podcasts and they really do provide good information. Their philosophy is all about living as the thinner person you want to becomeand they advocate eating the maintenance calories of your goal weight. That's why I upped my calories several months ago and I started…

Try reading the New Rules of Lifting for Women - it has six months worth of a progressive plan to increase strength, with pictures and all to help you figure out the moves. There's a whole topic thread here: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/372438-new-rules-of-lifting-for-women-group-part-2

Red Robin has an app where you can build your meal in advance, adding and removing items to see the calorie impact. I always go for a salad with chicken because I'll eat all the chicken and only half the salad. With the dressing on the side so you can control it, a 500 cal or less meal is possible.

Well, hello there - we've moved! Hearing all of you talk about Stage 2 is making me want to skip the week off and just get started, but I know my weak knee needs a break.

I just finished stage 1 and I'm looking forward to moving on to stage 2. About the week off - is it supposed to be a break from all exercise? Or can I just do cardio and still get the rest I need?

What's helped me is seeing where yo-yo dieting gets you. Let's see...if you'd been working on losing 1 lb per week over the course of the summer you would have lost 12 pounds. If crash dieting, as you've seen, you probably lost a bit, quickly, then slowly gained it all back, plus some and you're up 25. Now which was the…

This weekend I braved going into a nutrition store to find a new brand of protein powder because I was sick of the ones I found at the grocery store. The vanilla Designer Whey I'd been using was...let's just call it unappetizing. Anyway, I picked up a great big jar of Precision Engineered Whey Isolate in chocolate and OMG…

I think it depends on what you're doing. It's perfectly safe to walk every day, so I don't see why you couldn't be doing thta at a gym. What kind of workouts are you doing?

Re: diet foods I avoid them in general, except for milk and yogurt. I don't like the taste of whole milk and I like eating solid food for my calories. I drink soy milk with my protein shakes and the light version tastes the same to me. Fage greek yogurt has so many good flavors at the 0% rate that I always choose that over…

I started upping my calories when I was just over 200 because the scale stopped moving for me. Once I upped the calories the weight started coming off again, slowly but surely. It's not linear, but I haven't seen 200 in over three months.

Hi there - 5'5" and 194 pounds. I'm currently at about 26 % body fat and aiming for 18%, so I still have about 20 pounds to go. Since joining MFP I've lost 13 pounds or so, total of 33 since I started losing weight, and I've been trying to follow the philiosophy of eating the maintenance calories of the weight you want to…

I went this morning and the place was completely empty except for the oldsters who just like to gab while doing 10 pound leg extensions. I think I'll stick to a morning schedule!

Grr! I went to the gym tonight to lift and got thwarted by a group of young guys who were hanging all over the squat rack. There were 5 of them taking turns doing squats with some massive amount of weight and they would all count loudly with the guy doing the squats. I only had an hour to work out so I mentally rearranged…

Yesterday I did the first session with only 8 reps per set and it felt oddly short to me. I was able to increase every area by 10 pounds, (minus the pushups and prone jackknives) and everything felt really good, but oddly quick. I've also wondered if I was doing enough until some recent workouts really stayed with me and…