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I Just want to cry. Today is my weigh-in. I don't understand why Ive now GAINED weight since last week. don't tell me it's muscle, I'll bite your head off. I've been dieting now since March 1st. For the last 9 days, I've been logging all food and exercise calories, eating most of what I exercise off. I've been DOING IT.…

I could give them all up except taco bell. Mexican food is my weakness.

yes, I do all of that!

I think we all get a little hot and bothered when watching a steamy love scene. Especially (for women) if there's an emotional componant to it. it doesn't mean that we want the man in the scene more than we want our husbands. Sometimes it feels that way :) but really what it is, is we want to be the object of passion. We…

I can't imagine doing it in the middle, but I do it before and after. just briefly, I'm not a huge stretcher. however when I go to my spin class we only stretch after class when I go to my core class, we warm up with some different stretches and mild cardio, do all of our core work, and then stretch for 15 min at the end.…

but does anyone else find it difficult to eat all of your calories on a good exercise day? I find that since I only work out 4 x a week, I get used to eating my 1450 cal. Then on the days I work out, I have a hard time eating all the extra calories. Now that I'm not eating junk food.. it just seems like a lot. After my…

If we're talking strictly bodies here. it's a six-pack belly with a little mohawk of belly hair up to the navel. mmmmmmm Also a nice toned back and shoulders. I really like the slender boys, who are toned, not the bulked-up muscle boys. I always tell my boyfriend he reminds me of a horse, those rippled muscles below the…

I don't think there is any perfect way to target fat from one area. Yes, you can tone those muscles which will help some, but if you are like me, the last fat you'll ever lose is that in your belly. I'm an apple, that's just the way it is. From my thighs down, I'm skinny, but my belly and love handles...they're the last to…

I'm 10 years older than you, but the story is the same. I met my boyfriend just over a year ago, and I've gained close to 20 lbs in that time period! and yes, he (the boyfriend) and his brothers and sister and their spouses are all sticks. I hate it! his ex-wife was really thin also. they're a runner family and all the…

Waist 31 inches (belly button) I'm doing well. Did 100 reg crunches yesterday, plus 60 oblique crunches on each side. did 45 "girl" pushups and 45 squats but also did a 45 min long spin class which really works my legs. Today I did... well an hour long "core conditioning" class. so.. I didn't count. but a lot of pushups,…

25 inch waist? wowzers! don't think you'll be able to get an inch off! don't think you need to!

cool, thanks! good to know, I'll have to start eating there more often!

do you guys really believe the 6 inch sub calorie counts on subway's menu site? My boyfriend and I split a footlong turkey breast and ham sand (no cheese) with lettuce, onions, peppers, tomato, pepperocini and mustard. subway's website says a 6inch (half of the footlong) is only 290 cal. I find that so hard to believe as…

I think the main point is to not starve yourself while pregnant. If you continue to eat your new "lifestyle" foods, maybe add a certain number of calories per day (if your doctor recommends) and eating good, nutritious foods, then there shouldnt' be a problem, your baby will get all the nutrients he/she needs. I guess I…

fajitas, not sure if steak/chx/or shrimp yet.

tuna salad

don't know if they're "bad" but I did try them and did not find that they supressed my hunger at all. maybe it's just me. I too have heard a lot of raves about hoodia, but no luck for me. in fact the only diet pill I ever tried that worked was ephedra! yuk!took it for about 3 mo in 2000 (before all the scary science came…

My boyfriend forwarded this to me, from a coworker.. they are just notes taken at a lecture : Lecture Notes from “ Postive Psychology and the Science of Happiness” Given by Shawn Achor from Harvard University At One Day University on 3/29/08 Some info on studies: Langer Study of 1979 showed that mental construction effects…

yuck, first day of measurments. lost 1lb in the 4 days I've been doing this diet, so that's good. weight 150.5 waist 31 pooch 38! (darn those 2 babies!) hips 39

I'll join. but a couple of questions? are lunges better than squats? I can do squats fine, but lunges seem to hurt my knee a bit. also, are we measuring at the biggest part of our waist, or our "true" waist? (which for me is the smallest part of my waist.. my pooch is at/below my bellybutton) thanks~!

I cheated too but I dont' even feel guilty. I believe everything is okay in moderation. I am not going to live a life of misery, trying to be a rabbit every meal of every day. I went to a barbeque after work yesterday, the first work party of the year, and had some chips and dip and 2 small margaritas (also had salad and…

welcome! explore the site and the boards, there's a lot of info and support here!

I'm in too! great idea! the pic is a great idea, even if you don't have the guts to ever post your "before" at least YOU will get to see it and see how your hard work has paid off. I also do my measurements x3 : smallest part of my waist, biggest part of my waist, hips my extra pooch is below my "waist" so I measure that…

thanks, I put "light activity" because I'm a nurse and it specifially states it thinks a nurse qualifies for "light activity" although some days I would severely beg to differ. (especially in the ER!)

bruce springsteen song lyrics. always thought it was a good metaphor. nice imagery.

isn't that wrong? My BMR is about 1440 cal, yet myfitness is recommending I eat only 1200 cal a day. to me, that seems counter-intuitive, given what we know about 'starvation diets". Won't my metabolism just go down if i eat 1200/day? how can i change my setpoint so that I feel good about myself for keeping "within" my…

Is this something that will change soon? I've only done the strict calorie-counting for the last 2 days (today is the third) but both nights I was EXHAUSTED by 9pm. I feel like I'm not eating enough to sustain myself through a full day. It was especially bad yesterday because I worked (12 hr shift, ER nurse), by the end of…

I agree with waking up more easily, but I DO NOT HAVE MORE ENERGY. Oh my. By the end of the day. .. uh, like 9pm, i'm practically falling asleep mid-sentence. What's up with that?I feel like I have no energy I'm eating so little that brings me to another topic, but i'll make my own post about it instead of embedding it…

goal: don't go over my calorie limit even though there's a barbeque work party tonight! ack! drink my water! drive through coffee better be ok. as long as it's just coffee, not a mint mocha or something!

I don't know, but it seems skewed to me too. I always go over. I think it's fine. the whole atkins diet is based on high-protein