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I would not wait until midnight to eat with my husband. Do what you want butyou are describing emotional eating, which is unhealthy in general--guilt, being fulfilled by eating with him, etc. We prioritize family dinner time for the time spent together but if schedules preclude it from happening it's fine. If I'm late he…

Maybe they are tired of being invited to your yoga classes. It would be annoying to constantly be invited to yoga (or church or checkers or waterskiing or anything else that was my friend's specific interest rather than a mutual interest.)

I've not been harassed and haven't witnessed it. I'm not going to comment on how often it happens to others though since I have only lived my own experiences.

I will second the idea of having an intermediate goal. Not because of your skin but because you may want (and certainly will deserve) a break. There's absolutely nothing wrong with not doing it all in one fell swoop.

I prelog by day not by week. Also, I usually treat going out to eat as a regular meal , not a treat. I order grilled meat and veggies. If my plans change it's not a big deal. I don't go to places where there's not food I like.

I had to get mine tightened after losing 50 lbs.

stannman, Thank you for sharing this. I didn't realize in your first post about Starting Strength that it's a program. I'm looking more into this now. [/quote] There's also a book called The Barbell Prescription, which is focused on lifters aged 40+ and gives info on using the Starting Strength methodology. I really like…

LOL. You are clearly being deliberately obtuse so I'm done here. Best of luck in your journey!

Strength training while losing weight helps you to prevent losing more muscle than necessary while you lose weight. It also helps you get stronger in general (meaning being able to lift more weight) and helps your bones to get stronger, which is especially important for women whose risk of osteopenia and osteoporosis rise…

Nobody is saying it does. I'm saying you're burning and extra 30 or so calories just by eating 300 more calories than you were 7 weeks ago. Your NEAT very likely has gone up at least a bit without you realizing it. So perhaps your total calorie burn has increased by 125. Between that and the fact that delayed weight loss…

Well then the laughers need to be educated. https://bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/3500-calorie-rule.html/

Sounds like you are eating below maintenance. You're not going to exactly back into your maintenance calories by taking your weight loss calories and adding back the caloric equivalent of your average weight of loss. That's only going to give you an estimate. Once you start eating more, your body burns more calories due to…

For me, a pedometer is a great tool to ensure that I get plenty of activity. Whether or not they are completely accurate is not a big deal. In other words, I may aim for 8000 steps but in reality 7200+ is good. I don't care about 7900 vs 8000.

Water weight. Any time you start dieting after a period of unregulated eating you drop several pounds of water weight to start.

That part made me snort. As a child/teen I slept great. As an adult I currently find it more difficult to get enough sleep. It's a stupid comment, similar to how eating "like a bird" is said when describing somebody who eats very little when in fact birds eat up to half their body weight in food per day.

I feel like that on days when my protein intake is low. I feel best when my protein and carb intake are both around 150 grams per day. Mostly, I think this is a case where you need to experiment a bit to see if you feel better with a certain macronutrient line up as it can certainly vary for each person.

I think it's human nature to get frustrated sometimes with how the weight comes off. I'm the opposite of you in that my legs lean out first (which is unusual for women) and my upper body last.

Would you be willing to trade two of your cardio workout days for full body training days? You could do a simple full body workout in an hour on each of those days and then still be able to devote your full training time to cardio on the other days.

Doing both is what gives me better results. Lifting helps for strength and physique. Cardio for my heart/lunges and, yes, a bit of extra calorie burning while dieting so I can eat more. I'm not a fan of lifting more than 4 days per week (for me, that is, I don't care what other people do) but find that doing some sort of…

I think that the OP doesn't know and is asking for more information and the fact is that there are times when raising calories eaten results in increased weight loss. I'm not sure why you object to this being mentioned. You are the first person in this thread who mentioned "starvation mode." If a person wants to ask about…

If eating more causes her to move more (an amount of movement that requires more energy than the extra food provides) then yes, her weight loss could increase by eating more. I know we like to act like "but, math, durr" but rarely does one part of the equation change without another changing as well.

I'm really sorry to read about your Lyme disease. A family friend has it and I know he really struggled with energy for a good period of time. I don't have good advice other than to say take it easy on yourself. Prior to our friend having it I didn't truly understand how much Lyme could affect a person on a daily basis.…

Rocky Mountain oysters are both manly and calorific.

Do not engage. It is your body and you are not obligated to explain anything. Additionally, the odds of your explanation convincing them to stop commenting are abysmally low. People like that see your explanation as an invitation to give more advice or share more opinions. If you say anything at all, let it be "I'm not…

Good work! Keep going!

When you talk about your routine, what exactly do you mean? Are you talking about what you do when lifting weights or doing other strength-oriented activities? Or do you mean your overall week and what you do on what day, as in how many days you do cardio vs how many days you strength train?

Awesome! Congratulations!

Still not clear. Contradicts And then

Nobody really pays attention to what/how much people are eating at my family's get togethers. I've never had a "why are you starving yourself" comment.

If you are eating in a deficit and have started exercising, you are going to look different than you did before. And that different look is unlikely to be exactly how you imagined yourself to look, whether you're in the middle of losing weight/getting fit or have already gotten there. Your posts are pretty vague (i.e., you…