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I'm a bit late for this, but I started T25 2 days ago. A year ago I was losing 1-2lbs per week on it, with eating better and logging calories on here as well. Since then I had some problems, let go of my workout schedule and gained even more weight. So now I need to loose anywhere between 20-40lbs. I hope to have regained…

Hey everyone- I am 27y old and I need to lose about 35lbs to my goal weight. It can be less, since if I have more muscle I can look the way I want to and still weight more. My goal is more the overall shape/strength/energy. Weight is just a detail. I have been in and out of MFP during the last year, because I just have too…

Thanks for this one! I was reading the thread for a different reason, but this video might help me too. I dance and I do have issues with ankle mobility in both directions, so this video might help with one direction.

Well said! Now, on the topic: I keep seeing people comment on the diet habits only, so I want to ask the next obvious question. While the flow chart was nicely done and touches on the basics, it's missing one detail...how do you exercise? When did you start exercising and what have you been doing? Your body adjusts to…

I am so with this. I don't have quite as much to lose, but I dance so it does matter a lot to me. I am 154 right now, I think, and I want to take off 20, may be 30lbs. Which I know doesn't sound quite as much as a 100, but I still have been struggling to take off any weight. I have build muscle, I have more energy...but…

I totally get the impatient part! Especially when you are working hard for it. I agree with the said about. Small changes and goals are challenging. I would break down that goal of yours into few goals, that way you would feel like you achieved something even earlier. Also, I work on flexibility too, and for me there is…

I had a point when I was doing 20min daily, that's all I was able to do...And honestly if you do that daily it gets better results that 1h 3x weekly...Daily working out is great. At least in my experience, it definitely had better results. Also, if you have little time you can find targeted workouts on Youtube. If your…

I hope you get a chance to get back to it, at least as a hobby! In my group we have people of all ages, and all standing(working, studying, taking care of family, even pregnant) and when we are in the studio, all of that doesn't matter, we are just dancers. I would guess with kids it's hard to find the time for a while,…

I agree with all said above. I have had times like that with less money...and I was living in dormitories with only one kitchen for a whole building(which you have to reserve in advance). Partially for lack of time, partially for other reasons, I didn't take that challenge well at the time and also ate a sort of a diet of…

That is the book I got actually, and it has been helping SO much, really!! And I am on pointe already and absolutely love it! It's hard but it changed something in me as a dancer. We are going really slow since we are all adult dancers going en pointe for a first time. It's still awesome though, getting to do it a little…

That is so familiar to me. Except when I was binge-eating I was doing it with a lot of potato chips, croissants and fast food. I have also been underweight briefly(even though at the time I had so wrong body image that I couldn't even see that). I was 168cm and 53 kg, and it wasn't just that I was skinny, but that I had…

I don't dance as a living, I started 2 years ago and I was already 24, so that isn't too realistic. But I hope in time to make it as a semi professional thing(to find a way to earn something with it so I can do it more- it's my passion). Earning with it means not necessarily teaching or performing, just something that…

I was in beginner group for the past 2 years, and I've learned something in that time- being the fattest but good technically and learning well is better than the opposite. You can get yourself in shape, and you will with time, trust yourself. Technique is much harder to get your brain to follow well...I for example know a…

I started dance and classic ballet 2 years ago as an adult, in quite bad shape. I've been working on it for 2 years...And from this week our new season is beginning and I am officially in the middle group (I was in beginner/recreational until now) and we are starting to work towards pointe(of course who gets to it faster…

I'm in too, 20-30lbs is about what I would like to have lost until Christmas and New year...I started 10 days ago and I have already lost 3 lbs but extra motivation can be useful if I want to keep at it for this long. Some days I can't wait to begin, but some days I'm really distracted by other things and it's hard to even…

That's great! Breaking through plateau is hard whether you're overweight or obese or slim or anything. Losing weight isn't like magazines make it out to be, 3 week quick things with exact plan to follow to the dot...It's very individual. I couldn't get the will to lose weight (even while not liking myself and insisting I…

I got 30lbs to go. During the last year I dropped at least 1 size from doing ballet and so on, but it all went from building muscle and shaping up. I stayed the same weight, although it looked like I lost. So now I have decent muscles and still so much fat over, so I need motivation to concentrate on the weight loss part…

Lol...I know the feeling to some extend, I've taken control over my dance training and it's been amazing to defy what I've been told is my nature (can't get into splits for years because of body structure, most inflexible, too old for ballet etc. etc.) - it's great seeing how hard work changes all of that faster than I…

1. Make habit - and always workout on the same music, helps your body remember 2. ...or join something that you will have to attend since you paid for, group activity so no excuses (sport, dance, zumba)- something to keep you accountable. 3. Motivation is a muscle, keep finding inspiring/motivating quotes, videos, people…

I started one only recently, this is it: https://adultballetharbor.wordpress.com/