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That's great and all... just make sure you go through all the "required newbie reading / frequently referenced threads" at the top of each forum. One covers the standard stages of weight loss; it'll come in handy if/when you hit your first plateau. Also; get as many measurements as you can. The scale is not the be-all…

1.) "Dinner" mostly consisted of alcohol today. 2.) I've been tempted more than once since hitting my plateau to abuse my Adderal script. 3.) If I'm not already ovulating, I wear a drop of pheromone supplement to the gym. I'm an amateur evolutionary psychology nut and the extra male attention it affords me makes me push…

I'm 5' 8.5", with a 6" wrist (so that puts me at a "small" frame, right?) also have a 34" underbust and wear an 8.5-9.5 shoe (3 pregnancies will do that) Goal weight range is 138-145. It's starting to matter less because my body fat is already at 19.8% calipered; there's only so much more to lose. What matters THE MOST to…

I lost 11lbs of fat and gained 5lbs of muscle per the calipers (yes, same trainer measured both times and he knows his sh!+) in 6 weeks mainly through circuit weight training 40-75min 2-4x/week. So glad I had that info, otherwise I would've thrown in the towel a long time ago as the Tanita scale read only a 6lb loss and 2%…

As a former Marine, I can tell you I knew of many guys who used all sorts of crap to bulk up, lose rapidly, etc. Many times at the risk of evoking enough suspicion to warrant specialized urinalysis. They were about as emotionally unstable as the Dex guy in The Program and not exactly fun to be around (we were 24hr shift…

I got flamed to bits on another website for saying I felt disgusted by some show on TV where all the people were like, beyond morbidly obese (like, 500-900lb range, bedridden, etc.) and immediately anyone who was even >remotely< obese jumped to their defense. It was just BEYOND me how (for example) a short 250lb woman…

I'm the oddball of the bunch, so here goes: Personally, I'm only attracted to "a man's MAN" - types. I married my Marine combat instructor-trainer. If you're going to look at me like a freak because I did 6 years in the Marines and was awesome at it, you can take your p#ssy-*kitten* and go pound sand. Like previous poster…

Um, the bones thing is kinda weird. I love crunching on ice. My fissure seals don't. I also made sure my tongue-stud was placed as FAR back as possible so I'm not tempted to play with it. I don't think your dental coverage is as comprehensive/cheap as mine though (through the military).

Don't need diet pills because I'm prescribed: 1.) Adderal/AMPHETAMINE Salt Combo for yes, honest-to-goodness ADD. (I hate that they dropped plain old ADD and lumped everything under ADHD. I'm definitely not hyperactive normally. I have what they fondly call "spaceshot" ADD.) I only take 15mg in the morning. My…

Dove Dark Chocolate: Kills the sweet tooth everytime and a little bit goes a LONG way. Especially if you store it in the freezer and let it slowly melt in your mouth like hard candy. I treat myself to a couple pieces every night. Original PopChips: Great for munchies. Fuji Apples: I started finding my old stand-by granny…

Hm. Ask her if she's heard about the "make my day" law? Just make sure she's got one foot in the foyer first.

We have a similar issue in our marriage save one major complication: I prefer guy friends to chicks. As a former Marine, I am way too um, honest to make and keep girl friends. The only females I get along with are similarly-minded active or former active-duty or tomboyish lesbians. Yes, I'm straight. Women annoy the hell…

I was in the Marine Corps and volunteered to go to the 3-week Marine Corps Instructor of Water Survial course at the Combat Water Survival Swim School. It would barely qualify as co-ed with only about 2% of active MCWIS's being female and as it was, the course had one of the highest attrition rates in the Marine Corps...…

Also... Get your body fat calipered!!! I would have pulled the plug a long time ago if all I was working off of was what the scale reported... a measly 6lbs or me just eyeballing my reflection in the mirror (SO subjective). Lo & behold I dropped 11lbs of pure fat and put on 5lbs of pure muscle :D

Ok... From one former KICK-*kitten*-AND-TAKE-NAMES female UNITED STATES MARINE to another... People on MFP are never going to understand that we hold ourselves to a MUCH higher standard. Shoot, when height & weight regulations are set so that 95% of everybody you work and play with fall into a tight BMI range of 19-25, it…

Yes! Circuit weight training!!! with it I went from 162lbs/26% BF (42lbs fat, 120lbs lean) to... 156lbs/19.8% BF (31lbs fat, 125lbs lean) in just 6 weeks! :) Basically, pick two complimentary machines or free-weight exercises (ie; skullcrushers and 21s, laying leg press & calf exercise, etc.) or just something where you…

You're absolutely right. I read up on evolutionary psychology studies for fun and I don't sugar-coat *kitten*. Works for some, not all. The first part of the sentence you quoted served as my disclaimer. The problem with women in general is that we errantly believe we are helping one another with self-censorship and being…

No increase with Paraguard here. There was a study though showing on average a 6lb increase in 5 years and an 8.5lb increase in 7 years, which I think can be better attributed to just getting older than the IUD. 6lbs in 5 years or 8.5lbs in 7 years is nothing. That essentially boils down to an "excess" of TWELVE…

Ok, I'm going to sound like a total b!+ch for saying this, but given this guy's implied socioeconomic status which generally takes some intellectual investment and the multiple spelling/grammatical errors in the OP, my brutally honest opinion as to why the subject always turns to sex is because he doesn't value you as his…

People who workout 4 or more times per week generally have a higher incidence of insomnia as it is. It really is up to you and how well you handle sleep. Personally, being heavily dependent on potent sleep meds makes it a bad idea in my case.

With an HRM JM 30DS burns around 10 calories per minute according to a lot of HRM users. I get up to 12/min though because Adderal speeds HR considerably. My burn is 17% higher in the morning close to my dose than in the evening.

Yeah, my "career" as a regional-level USS swimmer (it's been awhile, but my 100yd breaststroke time was somewhere in the 1:12-1:19 range?) came to an abrupt halt at 14 from just the kick alone. I had both my knees scoped an a dual lateral release done before my freshman year of high-school. Most USS coaches would never…

Biggest part of your hips. Tape measure should be right above your love button ;) -ok, at least that's where it is for me. Don't they still exempt you from taping if you rock a 1st class PFT?

Starting Weight= 156 lbs (adjusted, late entry) Week 1= 156 lbs Week 2= 157.8 lbs (ToM) Week 3= 156 lbs Week 4= End Of Month Weight= Ugh!!!

Starting waist? 30" Current waist? 29" Goal waist? As small as possible without compromising ideal WHR. Height? 5' 8.5" I'm not sure -how- small my waist can get. I remember it being 26"-27" before, but I'm a bit hazy if that was before or after I started having kids. It's probably a good thing I don't remember, because if…

Every morning, naked, after voiding & before eating. If I forget or break the routine, no big deal. I only record the lowest weight of the week. Having only one weigh in day puts a >lot< of pressure on what is essentially just a "snapshot" of fluctuations. You may have had more sodium the day before or your muscles could…

Ha! Love that about you :) Your brutal honesty always raining on my oblivious parade, lol. Really, thanks for paving the way for me to accept my body just the way it is... but I wouldn't be a chick if I didn't make a show of resisting (insert visual of me being dragged off kicking and screaming with my fingernails scraping…

Anytime sweetie ;) I wasted SO much of my youth wishing I had that uber-skinny non-curvy body the other girls had thinking that's what >boys< were interested in. Lo & behold, I actually had the ideal shape >men< were more innately drawn to :D

Yep... realizing that now. I just get kinda freaked out by the starvation mode stuff people put on here; like ignoring my gardening stuff from today, nbd... but ignoring over 1000 calories from spring cleaning? I guess it would be a big deal if I did it everyday, which I don't... so yeah, I can laugh about it now. I got a…

Hm, crud... just realized my maintenance calories per hour thing is horribly flawed because we make up the difference between BMR/RMR & maintenance/TDEE only during the hours we're awake. So my per hour sedentary rate during my avg 13 waking hours per day is probably closer to 89 calories instead of 76. (MFP BMR of…