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I do 5/3/1 and eat at 50% fat, 30% carbs, 20% protein, averaging about 2175 kcal per day net. I am 31 y.o., 5'4.75", 116 lbs, female, and can deadlift twice my bodyweight. Currently at maintenance or an extremely slow bulk. Here is a good site for eating healthy food on the cheap: http://poorgirleatswell.blogspot.com/ It…

Glad you're mostly okay. My husband was in a wreck at the beginning of this month and was also mostly okay, nothing that won't heal or be replaced (the bike was toast).

This is what I was going to chime in with. If you are physically able, being able to carry your baby close to you will bring the benefits of the weighted vest and generally make doing most anything with your baby easier. I never bought a stroller, but my mother gave me one that I've used a handful of times (my girl is 2…

Maintenance was the only goal I ever had. The only time I had to lose was after a pregnancy and I lost with no trouble. Confessions: 1, I zigzag my calories to an excessive extent. 2, I actually took the bathroom scale on my vacation this summer. And 3 (the big one), I keep extensive spreadsheets of net calories, gross…

I like my husband best when he smells like wood smoke. Sometimes he will wear nag champa oil, and I'm okay with that, too. Other than that, I just want to smell his skin. I hate overdone cologne.

Any of these: https://www.fitnessblender.com/videos?keywords=&minlength=0&maxlength=0&minburn=0&maxburn=0&trainingtype%5B%5D=16 This one is my favorite: https://www.fitnessblender.com/videos/daniels-favorite-lower-back-stretches-for-stiff-sore-muscles

Weighing first thing in the morning, nekked, and after using the bathroom, usually results in a less than 2 lb fluctuation day to day. Throughout the day, from that "empty" morning weight to after dinner, I can see a 6 lb swing in the same day. The graph is average morning weights for each month (from May 2011 to Aug…

When someone comments about how much a little girl like myself eats, I usually take it as a compliment. Although I've started replying that it just requires a lot of calories for this level of awesome, which is accurate.

I am a "naturally slim" person. I have never been overweight by BMI, even during my pregnancy. "Naturally not-slim" people have loved to tell me my whole life how one day "it'll catch up to me" and I "won't be able to eat like that forever" and of course the "wait until you have kids." Several years ago I started tracking…

31 years old, 5' 4.75" Prior to having a baby, my heaviest adult weight was 118, lowest 104. The various BF% calculations (from tape measures, calipers, and bioelectrical impedance) are all over the board, but they put me somewhere between 13 and 25% lol. Just eyeballing it, though, I think it's pretty consistent and…

Mine is the same. On the MFP website, under the "Check in" screen, it's added Fitbit steps, Fitbit sleep minutes, and Fitbit BF%. But the adjustment is not showing on the food or exercise diary.

When I see people posting about their fitness achievements on fb, my standard response is a like and perhaps a comment of congrats or encouragement. I don't scrutinize their stats to form an opinion of whether it is realistic because tbh, it really doesn't affect me in any way. I think it's great that they are taking an…

In college, I never tried and seemed to naturally stay around an 18 bmi, sometimes a little under sometimes a little over. I have found that after pregnancy (and weightlifting) I've been very happy at a 19 bmi.

Just in case no one has mentioned it, your calories burned for most exercises has to do with your current weight. If you weigh 110 lbs and walk for an hour at 3 mph, you burn about 215 calories, but if you do that same walk and weigh 310 lbs, you burn more like 615 calories. This is because it takes more energy to move the…

More of a fashion tip than a lifting tip, but you might try these: http://barbellapparel.com/collections/women

^^^ I wrote the above on here last year, May 28, 2015. Deadlift is now up to 228 lbs. Maintaining my weight (or maybe slowly gaining?) about 115-118 lbs.

I had gestational diabetes with mine. My doctor sent me to a little educational thing where they basically instructed me to eat about 15 g of carbs 6 times a day, checking sugar at intervals. She didn't put me on any drugs with it, just monitoring blood sugar. I was fine as long as I didn't eat a crazy amount of…

Honestly, I wouldn't do anything differently. I loved being pregnant. I had a good pregnancy, a good birth, and a happy baby. She'll be two next week. I think we are going to quit while we're ahead though. I have a teenage step-daughter also, and the family dynamic just works right now.

Just revisiting this since last July: Deadlift: 215 (up 10 lbs) Squat: 130 (up 10 lbs) Bench: 95 (up 5 lbs) OHP: 70 (up 5 lbs) bodyweight: 115 (up 5 lbs) I feel like that is not bad progress in 6 months.

I am in the same boat as you. I learned this a few years ago, but I still have a check in measurement for "hip" and an additional one for "butt." I learned the difference when buying clothes online and using the measurement guides. In a related matter, it is very handy to have a place (mfp) online with all my measurements…

Also you can log breastfeeding as a negative food in the database. I stopped adding back bfing calories when she hit a year old, but she's still going.

It depends on what week it is for what I'm using for reps, but my 1RMs are Deadlift 205 lbs Squat 120 lbs Bench 90 lbs Overhead press 65 lbs Honestly, I'm pretty proud of those since I only weigh 110 lbs. I think I'm going to have to put some weight on if I want those numbers to go up.

5' 4.75" Maintaining steadily at 110 to 114. Pregnancy weight is gone; lifts are going up (hit 200lbs on my deadlift!). All is well.

Wow, I have a coworker who is nearing retirement and has trouble walking. He never comes down for doughnuts or cake for birthdays or work anniversaries, but part of that is because he's a tad antisocial. Since he works in my lab, I usually bring him something from whatever the event is. I hope he doesn't feel this way…

Yeah, my little girl just hit her year. She's still breastfeeding, but she also eats anything and everything else put in front of her, so definitely not exclusive anymore. I logged breastfeeding as a negative food, but started decreasing what I was counting for bfing calories by about 100 each month and stopped logging it…

I think the real answer as a thin woman carrying is to have options. I like a thigh holster if I'm in a skirt, belly band if I really need it to stay put and am wearing a loose fitting shirt, ankle holster with jeans... I use non-holsters, too, like coat pockets, as long as its secure and accessible. Carrying is very…

A friend of mine has one of these that she uses for her LC9. She likes it very much.

I have to split mine up into prepregnancy and current with the breastfeeding. Prepregnancy, I was doing 5/3/1 and eating at about 1970 cal/day (on average, I tend to zig zag), and slowly gaining. I put on about 8 lbs over 1.5 years like this, going from 107 to 115. My experimentally determined maintenance is about 1730…

Nice work