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Your program looks really weird. Too many exercises, too few core exercises, too few sets, too many reps. Where is the bench press in there? Try with something that has been already tried by others? There are several if you just google, or ask at the gym, they usually offer some basic ones that more or less are ok for…

Lightly brown some garlic and/or onion, add lentils and water and boil until tender. When almost done, add salt and pepper to taste, plus some vinegar and oil, again to taste. Honestly, it is that simple and you do not really need to add anything else. But if you do like adding other things, you can try different herbs,…

I assume that you are new to this. If not, absolutely ignore me :) As new to training, you cannot actually build any sort of routine, unless you start very simple perhaps and spend several years until you can have a routine, which is not really an effective strategy. So start with the basics: 1) What do you enjoy? You…

Being classified as obese, does not make you just not thin. I know it is not what you want to hear. I cannot find now the links, probably you can do your own research, but a BMI in the obese range puts you at serious health risks, even if you are an athlete, I recall a while ago several studies on this, including…

No need to make a "final" decision. Set this goal for now, maintain for a while and see how you feel.

Are you sure about your logging? Can you open your diary?

Were you eating 1000-1500 to lose weight and it got out of hand? Have you been diagnosed with an eating disorder? It might be a good idea to consult your dr and perhaps a therapist to let you ease into more "normal" eating without worrying about gaining or losing.

Nutrition alone will not help with bipolar disorder. It will of course help with overall health, and keeping a routine will also help you but please do not rely on dietary choices to control the illness and follow dr's orders religiously. Where nutrition will indeed help is to control your weight. Discuss with your dr…

CICO still applies when breastfeeding. With additional CO for nursing. No magic, no violence of basic laws of physics.

You cannot measure accurately, but you can make guesses. Then based on what happens after a few weeks, if you are losing too fast or too slow, correct your guesses in one or the other direction.

You are within the range of healthy BMI, so losing fast is not really an option, if you also wish at the same time to remain healthy and to improve appearance. Since you say you are not muscular, and you are at the upper range of healthy BMI, I doubt you are skinny fat, whatever that is supposed to mean. You are probably…

I am very sorry you feel this way. My intention was to offer advice, based on personal experience. In all "bad" habits we have as humans though, I feel no advice can be heard until we are ready to actually listen. So, I will summarise to "use MFP as it is intended, and it will actual work, CICO is a simple principle and…

If you are ok with McDonald's (or any other place), why would you worry about what others think? And if you are not ok to eat there for yourself, why would you let your child eat there? If it is ok for your kid, it is ok for you, right? What others hate or love, it is their problem.

She is eating for 3, which is why she is gaining fast. To maintain supply, she just needs to eat for 1. https://kellymom.com/nutrition/mothers-diet/mom-calories-fluids/

It depends on how you define jiggly honestly. You can be in terrific shape and at an ideal weight and still have excess skin or these last bits of body fat hiding muscles. Same as you can be really muscular and technically overweight. But there is nothing that will happen when you reach your goal weight that is not…

Physical activity never hurts. It might not be needed for weight loss, but it absolutely helps both with help and looks. If you are thinking like visible muscles, abs etc, no, this is not going to happen anytime soon, but, still you can look more "firm" even with having fat.

I used to take magnesium for a while on dr's orders at a much larger dose though. The side effects were so bad, than now I avoid it like the plague :(

I suffer from panic attacks, more so in the past, now they are very rare. When are you more likely to have an attack? If it is when you are alone, can you try exercise in group settings? Like a class at the gym? If you feel more calm when alone, then running or walking should be safe. It was among the reasons, along with…

I answered from experience. I have 3 kids, breastfed all 3. Ate as before kids, probably a bit better, because I was more conscious of needing calcium and protein more, so was more like to pick a yoghurt or some almond milk as a snack over a cookie. Did not count calories, overall ate as pre-pregnancy. Lost weight, to the…

If you were to eat as you ate pre-pregnancy, yes you would have lost a lot of weight . The "problem" is that a lot of women assume they have to eat a lot more than they need to not affect their supply, or that breastfeeding means you can eat whenever hungry, without paying any attention to what you eat. The good news are…

And a medical survey stating the opposite of "carbs cause diabetes": https://www.pcrm.org/news/blog/does-sugar-cause-diabetes "The roots of type 2 diabetes remain in insulin resistance and pancreatic failure, and the blame for the current diabetes epidemic lies in an overall dietary pattern emphasizing meat, dairy…

Yes you messed up, you are human. You cannot go back in time, you can do better in the future. A few days will not change anything in the big picture.

Hmm, it is the opposite fro me, anything that is not mostly cotton will cause irritated skin when I sweat and even rashes, no matter how expensive the brand is. I just wear a cotton tank top and bring a couple of towels with me.

It depends on what you want to achieve and why. Is it to just burn more calories short-term, where any cardio will do as long as you reach your goal, is it to become overall more active, improve stamina, build strength? There is no single exercise that fits all goals for all people. In general, it is great to be active for…

I have been doing pilates for several years now, to be honest out of necessity (permanent disability progibiting my preferred types of exerice). I have come to love some classes, not all, and it depends a lot on the instructor. While I am definitely "advanced" and have done some really hard classes at time, to be perfectly…

I have serious post traumatic arthritis at my ankle, which has also caused a series of tendon issues in my effort to compensate for the problem. According to my dr, anything involving running, dancing and hopping around, even power walking, is off limits for life and so is cycling. Also strength training that involves…

At this weight for your height you have a BMI in the overweight range. Which is not muscle since you just started training. If you are trying to do a recomp, so that you convert the excess weight into visible muscle, you probably need a really good program, and have several years of effort ahead of you to see really…

It depends on height, weight, age and physical activity. If you really need to further lower you weight, given where you start and your age, unless you are physically active, 1200 sounds more like your maintenance that something that will let you lose. I am taller and 40 lbs heavier than you and unless I exercise, I very…

No, you do not need low carb, you need to count carbs and distribute them throughout the day. This is just an assumption from my part, but I assume your dr said to limit carbs and not to eliminate carbs? Even a diabetic can eat bread daily, as in have a sluce of bread with cheese for breakfast, but not have the entire loaf…