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Seconded Muscle and Fitness Hers. Fitness RX is pretty good, too. My personal rule is that I won't buy any "fitness" magazine that has a headline about sex on the cover, any kind of headline that's a variation of "Get Skinny Quick!", or a feature about lipstick. You'd be surprised how many that knocks out of the running.

^ This. Trying to lose X amount in X amount of time is only going to make you nuts.

Size numbers are completely arbitrary, as in they aren't connected to anything standard in between clothing brands or anything like that. So, some people may wear 0 in one thing, and a 4 in another. It depends on how something is cut. My best friend wears a zero at places that cuts hips really wide, and higher sizes…

heaven, 5th one, totally stylin! (and you have gorgeous eyes, btw)

This seriously made me get all teary. Absolutely beautiful and inspiring, thank you for sharing that.

SO much fun. The feeling when I finished my first 8k one last year was a crazy high, I immediately set the goal to finish a full Tough Mudder this year. Just save some shoes and count those suckers as gone. Totally worth it.

Not at all. I've got nothing against tattoos but I've yet to see one of those that didn't look incredibly tacky.

OMG you look amazing! Check out that muscle definition, nice job!

I like to go places where you can get a tasting menu, so like 5 or 6 courses but they're on itty bitty plates so I don't feel like I'm eating much. Sure, it's full of fat and lovely deliciousness but.. but.. the plates are tiny! And then I just weigh the next day, shrug, and soldier on.

@newb, them arms.

@Tamora- hang! (and I'd get some hair tips.)

My trainers are super adamant about not being dieticians, they may mention something they like but always with a caveat. The gym has nutritionists, one of which I see every couple of weeks, but honestly I have one registered dietician that has been with me for a year and a half, and she's the only one I listen to. A lot of…

Greek yogurt is really a better alternative. In a perfect world, the ingredients in yogurt would be, well.. yogurt. Milk, cultures, and maybe "natural flavoring" if it's a mass produced flavor one. "Light Yoplait" yogurt ingredients: Cultured Pasteurized Grade A Nonfat Milk, (fruit if it's a fruit flavor), Sugar, Modified…

Oatmeal Raisin Cookies and Bold Chex Mix. I'll let myself have one or two individual cookies I get from Fresh Market (if I bought a whole pack I know they'd be done for), but those bags of Chex Mix still vex me. Like others said, water water water.

Weight training has made the biggest difference for me. I met a lady who lost 100 pounds in about a year but she didn't really do any exercise besides walking and she had a crazy large amount of loose skin. Toning up, strength exercises make a big, big difference. Planks and squats, pushups, good old fashioned calisthenics.

Every time I've gotten "stuck" while losing weight, it's when I decided I could start drinking again. For me alcohol stops my weight loss in its tracks, so I've had to cut way, way back to only very special occasions. This does not make me happy, and I kept trying to find a way around it. I thought I could outsmart it,…

Lentils! I make a pot full on Sundays and throw them into all kind of things throughout the week. Cook them in some broth and herbs, om nom nom.

I'll read Muscle and Fitness Hers, and Experience Life. I looked at some other ones, but one of my rules is that I won't buy any magazines that says "Slim Down in 7 Days!" or "Get Thin Quick!" or something like that, or anything that promises "Better sex now!". I want tips on kettlebells, not kegels.

' Same here, and I never ever ever thought I would feel that way. I do think it's a matter of finding what you enjoy, and for a lot of people that can change or just take some time to find. Personally I find running to be a chore but I have to do it in order to compete in obstacle events, so I get it out of the way so I…

Me too! I do a yoga class on my rest day, so at least I feel like I'm doing *something*. We'll call it "active recovery".

My set goal is 1200 but I eat back my daily exercise so I end up between 1500-1700, feel free to look. :)

White bread tastes like cotton candy to me now, it just dissolves.. gone, poof. I tried to eat Wendy's and it tasted like a salt bomb. *sob*

What helped me bust through my last plateau was making a concerted effort to drink way, way more water. I think you may find that helpful, especially if packaged meals and Chinese is a regular occurrence.

Oh this thread just reminded me.. when someone gets on the treadmill right beside me when there is literally an entire row free. What is that? A guy did that to me yesterday, I was the only person in a row of 10 machines and he gets right beside me. It's not a big deal, I just thought treadmills were like bathroom stalls…

They're a short term cosmetic fix for if you're going to an event and need to fit into a dress or something like that, not a weight loss technique (because the minute you drink and eat again, the water weight you lost comes back.)

Get it girl, you look fantastic!

Gluten Free stuff is expensive because it's trendy. Look into a CSA, for a monthly or yearly fee you can get locally grown fruit and veg delivered right to you in season.

Yeah, I Googled it and one of the top results pointed to Dr. Oz, so that pretty much told me what I needed to know. :ohwell:

Ugh, I hate this. There's only one assisted pull up machine at my gym, and I'm headed over there and a lady and her husband reach it and take over, using it, then doing squats and burpees after, alternating with one another. All in all they had the machine blocked for 30 minutes. I was not happy.

Pretty much what everyone else said.. "gluten free" and paleo is a trend. The actual number of people with actual Celiac disease and real medical need to remove gluten and all that is somewhere around 1 in 200, but you know how people are, everyone self diagnoses (remember how everyone was "lactose intolerant" in the early…