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My guess would be that you have a low body fat percentage already, so losing that bit on your lower half is going to be really hard. Your BMI (I know how inaccurate this measure is) is 18.7, which puts you at the border area between normal weight and underweight.

Add olive oil to whatever you can add olive oil to. :D

Your goal on MFP already accounts for the deficit needed for what you want to lose, taking your activity level into account. If you really are as active as you say, you log your calories accurately, and you log your exercise expenditures correctly, you will lose your goal amount each week if you eat your exercise calories.…

2-3 is normal for me, the heavier being at the end of the day where I'm lightest in the morning.

Which brand are you taking and how much of it? Maca Root is called an adaptogen in health food stores, because it is supposed to help you in areas where your body is lacking. I worked in a health food store for many years in college and a lot of people who took adaptogens weren't able to tell a difference until they…

More olive oil?

I haven't tried Seitenbacher, but I've been eying #4, the one with pumpkin seeds and apples (Muesli for Men).

Multigrain Cheerios if my wife does the shopping, muesli if I do.

I agree with littlemermaid though, delete them. That doesn't mean go private though, just keep trying.

I don't have a lot of friends, but I usually pick them up from interesting threads or through direct messaging first. I often get comments and make them back. For me, little things like, "Good Job!" on everything I post isn't encouraging. I try ask questions and have discussions with my friends on what they are doing, why,…

Tubers United is always looking for people like you.

I love that cook book, it makes eating organ meats fun. Microwaves, in the electromagnetic sense, are quite natural. However, I think all machines are unnatural by definition of having to be built.

As a dues paying member of Tubers United, I'm against the use of the word vegetables altogether. It groups flowers buds, seeds, leaves, buds, stems, shoots, tubers, roots, bulbs, fruits, legumes, and others together, which isn't fair to any one of them and causes people to make sweeping generalizations and perpetuates…

A user reputation would be nice, but I'm afraid that it'd turn into a popularity contest instead of being anything useful, like indicating who is full of ****.

If there is a like button, I want a dislike button too.

Nauseating.

That's true, but I was responding to the hypothetical situation she posed first. Thanks for clarifying it for me. :) A major contributing factor to why a lot of people are here in the first place is that they're ignorant of the body's physiological, specifically metabolic, processes and nutrition. It's difficult to make a…

A good place to start researching this stuff is with insulin sensitivity and glycemic indices. Look it up yourself, everyone who answers here doesn't know what they're talking about. As a quick answer, yes, it matters. Simple starches, refined sugars and flours, and other artificial food stuffs affects our bodies metabolic…

I've tried several brands myself, but Fage is the only one I like (actually, I love it). The texture and mouth feel of Chobani and Oikos reminds me of an overly processed food stuff. Like several others, I also get the 0% plain and add my own fresh fruit instead of buying the ones with the syrupy stuff in the side cars.

It's kind of heavy and not a one liner, but the poem "Invictus" by William Ernest Henley inspires me everytime I've read it.

The yogurt isn't bad, it's that little side car of syrupy fruit.

faithyin has excellent advice. I just want to emphasize the lifestyle change thing. Your diet looks great to me, though I'm no doctor, but you should be honest with yourself through the process. Listen to your body, if you're hungry and you aren't recovering well from your workouts, you're likely not taking in enough…

I can understand being self-conscious about being naked around someone else, but closing your eyes when you're by yourself? While I didn't have that same problem, accepting that I was overweight and forgiving myself for it helped me a lot to drop the extra baggage. When I'd mess up, it was easier to get back on track and…

I'm addicted to caffeine, though I didn't really know it until I tried to stop drinking pop. I started subbing unsweetened iced tea when I could and weaned myself off of pop and then from there, going to mostly water was easy.

I find it encourage and I think I've losing the weight as they predict. I've found that using a HRM and food scale help a lot with accuracy.

I don't think people who typically wear plus sizes are a demographic that exercises a lot. The people who do decide to make a change and drop the weight will eventually be a smaller size, so it just wouldn't make a lot of sense making those sizes. I'm sure neither they nor the retail stores would want the product overhead…

Maybe you should try positive reinforcement. There have been times when my wife has seemed extra attracted to me after working out for a couple of weeks or made a comment about looking better and it doing something for her. That encouragement is particularly powerful for me.

I'm not a female, but I am baffled by this too. Did you find yourself attractive and sexy with great self esteem before you lost the weight? If not, why should I have? I like curves on women, but I find obesity in either gender to be very unattractive. Sure, your personality can make up for it, but don't pretend like…

@Sidesteal has it right, go see a doctor. If you can't go, try keeping a food diary and switch back to foods you are used to (just smaller portions). Then start changing it little by little to try to figure out what it is. I am not a doctor and this is not medical advice. Go to the doctor if you can.

I don't know, there isn't anything inherently wrong with it. As long as the person is getting adequate nutrition and is not creating a calorie deficit (unless they are at an unhealthy weight overage), where's the harm? I think you mean an unsupervised diet. When you're under 18, your parents are involved in your trip to…