vismundcygnus27 Member

I'm 5'5" and currently weigh 154 lbs, and I wear a size 7/8 in bottoms and medium for tops. My goal weight is 140 - I'm a little over halfway there from my starting weight of 177 in June! Granted, the weight is coming off much more slowly then it used to, but that's to be expected, I suppose.

Husker Du

It really depends. I've lost 20 lbs and haven't had a practical change in pant size. But that's probably due to two things: 1) the jeans I was wearing were a bit too small for me to begin with, as they fit much better now (I wear size 7, and I probably should have been wearing size 9s prior to losing this bit of weight),…

Spoon

I can definitely empathize - I'm a college student who lives entirely off of a living stipend from my university, so I'm on a pretty tight budget. - Stir-fries are a godsend for me - you use a lot less meat then you would if you just made the meat by itself, and I generally stick to cheap veggies. Rice is wonderful thing -…

Besides being both difficult and unhealthy to lose weight that quickly (unless you have quite a lot of weight to lose), wouldn't losing weight at that rate increase your chance of having saggy skin on your stomach/thighs/etc? Your skin needs time to adjust to the lost weight. In weight loss as in all things, patience is a…

Animal Collective

People never cease to amaze me. This type of thing screams for a "do you even science, bro?" meme.

Skin-on dark meat chicken, and fattier cuts of pork! I still eat both all the time, because a) those cuts are much cheaper and I am broke mother-f***er, and b) a life without pork and dark meat is a life not worth living IMO, but I've compensated with more reasonable portion sizes.

Indian and authentic Chinese are definitely my favorites. But I grew up with Colombian food, so that's probably the type of food I find the most comforting.

I would go absolutely nuts if tried to eat perfectly all the time. I'm rather diligent about cooking healthy meals and eating reasonably well when I'm at home or work, but if I have a night out, I'm not gonna sit there nursing a vodka tonic and staring at my friend's burger in bitter envy. If I started obsessing about…

Yeah, I felt the same way the first time I tried using MFP and tracking/planning things - I have a history of mood problems and anxiety, and the intensity with which I started tracking every bite of food that I ate worried me because it reminded me of old habits. I've been much better about it this time around - I've been…

Like you said, you're not trying to lose a ton of weight, so that's probably the bulk of your problem. I take Lutera, which contains both estrogen and a progestin, and it hasn't affected my weight at all. Hormonal birth control can have that effect on some people, but it's probably just that since your weight is already…

Like others have said, your total calories are really the only things that matter as far as weight loss is concerned. Long-term health is another, more complicated issue - I think MFP errs on the low side for sugar because the sugar intake recommended by national health organizations seems to be getting lower and lower…

The first couple of times I tried losing weight, I was the same way. I have an addictive/obsessive personality, so it's very easy for me to fall into that pattern. That's why I was very leery about counting calories - I know I have a tendency to go overboard, and I've gone through periods where I had a quite unhealthy…

I'm either going for Daenerys from Game of Thrones, or Ziggy Stardust era David Bowie. I always try to plan ahead, and yet I always end up putting the shopping trip off until two days before Halloween, so let's see if I can break that cycle :P

I'm 5'5", 164 lbs (GW is 140). I'm eating about 1400 net calories per day. I had been eating more like 1600, but I've been going out a bit more recently, so I'm trying to eat less when I'm at home to compensate for the occasional night of drinking and 2 AM tacos :P It seems to be shaking out just fine for now. 1200 is not…

Literally lol-ed. I'm surprised they don't get that answer more often. OP - there's no need to cut out grains. Most of the literature claiming that grains are dangerous comes from proponents of the paleo diet. While cutting down on grains can be good for loosing weight since you're cutting out carbs, there's nothing…

For weight loss surgery to make a difference in the long run, you do actually have to make an effort. My mother got liposuction several years ago - she was quite overweight, and her thyroid problems made it difficult to lose weight "the right way". So she got lipo, and made sure to have healthy eating/ exercise habits…

^ Same, the red pepper flavor is my favorite! Hummus is a life-saver - it's one of the few light snacks that actually fills me up!

Like others have said, there's no need to freak out over one less-than-ideal meal. Just factor it into what you eat this week. I ate a bucket of thai food earlier this week, so I'm just making sure to be quite mindful of what I eat this week so that it all evens out. And you shouldn't force yourself to skip meals, it's…

Spoon

Yup, I totally agree. The main reason logging has been so helpful is because it has made me aware of the calorie content of different food and what reasonable portion sizes are. I don't intend on micro-managing my calorie intake for my entire life - rather, I'm trying to learn good habits so that I can continue eating…

That's very true. Since I use FB as a means of direct communication with friends and family, giving my SO access to my FB account would be akin to handing him a record of every text I've sent in the past 5 years. But if everything you do on there is public, then it's not really a problem. I honestly just didn't know joint…

People do this? I've actually never seen a joint account like that. Although I guess I also have very few married friends (being 23). The concept kind of baffles me. I quite like having my own separate identity, both online and offline. Being open and honest with each other is one thing, but you still need to have some…

It was from the first episode of the second season, I think. It's Piper's bunkmate who is obsessed with astrology, and keeps charts on everyone, and is extremely distressed that Piper hadn't told her the specifics of her birth. She's nuts.

No. Eww. Also, this is a tough question to answer! I've been on Lutera for two years now, and it never caused any noticeable weight gain or water retention. And if anything, it's made my periods more manageable - they are much more regular, and I get 10 times less moody than I used to get. But that's going to vary from…

Yup, I've had it explained to me that it's because hot drinks make you sweat, and the sweat cools you off.