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Certainly keep up what works for you. If you're working up a sweat, you are probably burning calories at a decent rate. I was encouraging my mom to use her Gazelle until she hurt her knee (hopefully she can get back to exercising soon).

I often use MFP for meal/recipe planning. It helps me get organized and plan my grocery shopping.

Maybe. Or maybe I wasn't doing it right. Which is why a HRM would be useful.

You can buy some exercise DVD's. Jillian Michaels has a lot of good ones, and TurboFire is also popular with MFP people. As for cooking 2 meals in the house.... I personally don't think that should be necessary. Cook healthy food, not "diet food". Your husband should be able to eat it too, just in larger quantities. My bf…

I have used a Gazelle and an elliptical trainer, and regularly use a x-country ski machine. I can't really work up a sweat on a Gazelle. I don't think that it burns nearly as many calories as an elliptical trainer, and I don't think logging it as the same would be accurate. This could really affect your weight loss efforts…

I have been losing approx. 1 lb every 10 days. If you've been losing 0.57 lb per week, you're doing quite well. It's difficult to go faster than that when you are at a healthy BMI. I think it's important to not eat less than your BMR (~1350 for me). I also eat back most (if not all) of my exercise calories. If you are…

I came across this post once, and thought it did a great job of explaining healthy weight loss strategy. Please don't starve yourself. It will backfire eventually. There are many, many examples of that on MFP. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/6556-the-answers-to-the-questions

I guess it all depends on how you feel. Like others say, MFP is way under for recommended daily fibre, people should aim for at least 25 g. Sometimes I end up with over 40 g a day because of what I happen to eat, and I have not had problems.

Depends on the person/body type. I am also 5'5", and started on MFP at 164 lb and size 12 or 14. I had only lost about 7 lb when people I know started doing double-takes, but I was the same size in clothes. I dropped to size 10 at the low 150s.Around the mid-140s I got to a size 8. The mirror is another issue altogether.…

My HRM tells me that I burn about 20% more than MFP estimates for 30-Day Shred/Circuit training and for cross-country skiing. I log what my HRM says since it is taking into account how hard I am working out. I've closely tracked calories in/calories out and weight loss for months, and am very close to predicted, so I take…

Mine keeps pretending that he can't see me when I turn sideways. He's like, "Hey, where did you go??? You disappeared!"

I don't know what a voila is, but if you're making it, can you simply enter the ingredients/amounts? Presumably you know what is going into it?

Consider the Polar FT40. It is more expensive than the FT4 or FT7. But I like it because it simultaneously shows time elapsed, plus either heart rate or calories burned or time of day. I find that to be really useful during my workouts.

Obviously this is my personal opinion, but it doesn't sound like you need to be too worried about gaining weight. If you want to make sure you get/stay in shape, try changing your exercise routine to half toning, half cardio. I've done some 30-Day Shred, and notice big improvements in tone and shape, but there are other…

I think that's a great suggestion. Your body doesn't really know if it's a Tuesday or a Wednesday. You can adjust that way, I'm sure of it.

Hmmmm. Sounds pretty active. Maybe the BodyBugg isn't that far off? Hopefully someone on MFP who uses those things will post a comment? For your height, your BMI healthy range is about 118-160 lbs. You are well within that, and probably don't need to actually lose weight. If you don't feel in shape, you might want to focus…

What are your height and weight, and average daily activity? I'm not an expert and I don't know much about BodyBuggs, but 2700 calories a day sounds like a lot. I've been closely tracking my exercise/food/net calories for 6 months, using MFP's estimate for my normal daily burn rate, and it's been very accurate in…

Sitr-fry: http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes/moo_shu_vegetables.html

I am down to the last 10 lbs too. If anyone wants to add me as a friend so we can encourage each other, please feel free. :flowerforyou:

I just bought the DVDs yesterday, waiting for them to arrive!

I am looking for a HRM too, and I think I am going to buy the Polar FT40. It looks like that one will show you heart rate and time elapsed at the same time. The FT4 and FT7 don't show time elapsed without switching screens, if I understand correctly.

Thank you for the feedback, everyone! I'm going to order the set.

I'd rather not buy instant rice because it is more expensive. If you are using white rice, I'd say just get regular uncooked, in bulk. White rice only takes ~15 minutes to cook. It's pretty easy to work around that. I just bought instant brown rice for the first time in my life. You need to boil regular brown rice for an…

In general, uncooked rice expands about 2-3x once it cooks. Instant rice is partially cooked. That means that you would start with a larger amount of instant rice if you are following a recipe (because it has already expanded a bit). So by starting with the same volume of uncooked rice, yeah, you got yourself a lot of…

To eat less sodium: Avoid fast food. Avoid processed food (even the "healthy" processed foods can have a lot of sodium). Eat more whole foods, i.e. fresh/from scratch. Start gradually reducing the amount of salt that you add to food when cooking. In time, you no longer notice that it is missing. I don't think you need to…

I think you have a great chance of losing most of the weight by January. It's a bit ambitious to lose 6 lbs per month, especially as you get closer to your goal weight. But as you start seeing the weight come off, you will feel so much better! Even if you aren't quite at your goal in January, you will be much closer! You…

That's what I would do, not eat back all the exercise calories today. I like to think of things in terms of weekly totals. A little more on one day (esp. rest days), a little less on other days. What I especially like about this approach is that you do not end up starving yourself on rest days.

I made this today, and it was delicious: http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes/lemon_chicken_stir_fry.html The Eating Well website in general has some great, healthy recipes.

As counter-intuitive and scary as it sounds, you may need to eat more. If you're working out a lot and only eating 1400 calories, your net calories could be so low that your body is afraid that it is starving and is therefore holding onto the weight. I did a quick search on the forum and found this explanation below. I…

Would an extra 30-45 minutes of cardio tonight help offset it? That's what I try to do when I over-indulge.