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"Big Boned"
I am 5'8" and weigh between 125-135 (depending on the day, the week, or the month), so I am not overweight, but am also not a small girl. I am built exactly like some of my maternal relatives-- with a giant head, very wide shoulders, wide rib cage, and wide hips. There is no such thing as "one-size-fits-all" for my hands…
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In general, what BMI would be "best"?
I know BMI is not a perfect measurement because weight depends on muscle mass and other elements, but my question is IN GENERAL. Based on measurements of my wrist and elbow breadth, I am considered to be medium-to-large framed. I have a very strange build in which I have to be EXTREMELY underweight (BMI of about 16 or…
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NSV!!
I used to love to run. I would run and run and run. But that was when I was 17-18, when the only precaution I had to take was wearing a brace on my left knee, which had already been surgically repaired due to multiple tears of its "insides." I stopped running when I was 18 on doctor's orders (I had a raging eating disorder…
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Scale-- "fake weight gain"
I know I should only weigh myself once per week, and I had been doing that for a while, but for the past three days, I have been weighing myself multiple times per day (long story...). My weight has been fluctuating between 126.2 and 129.6 over the course of the past few days. I know weight fluctuates, so I was not worried…
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Fat on Backs of Thighs-- How to Best Tone/Lose Fat Pockets
I have a rather large "bubble" of fat on the back of each of my upper thighs. Each "bubble" is about the size of a softball. I need to lose these bubbles. They are really gross. Other than those bubbles, my legs are moderately well-toned and have so-so muscle definition. But there are those nasty bubbles. I need to lose…
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Net Calories?
Is my net calories for each day supposed to be zero? I am eating very little (probably too little), but my net calories each day is around 400-800. Is that too high?
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Why am I GAINING weight?
I have been doing this for two weeks now. On August 2, my weight was 140.5. It fluctuated a lot throughout the week (as would be expected), and then, on August 9, dropped to 138.5. I usually weigh at night, when I know that I weight the most, but I decided to weigh a few minutes ago and my weight was 142.9! In a week, I…
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Hi. I need to lose weight and get fit in a healthy way
I have struggled with an eating disorder (anorexia) off and on since I was nine years old. I have an intimate knowledge of calories, fat, carbs, and protein, including the values of each food and how many calories are burned in various activities. By January of 2009, I had dropped to a BMI of 15.7 and was given a goal of a…
