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Switching back to eating meat after being vegetarian?
Hi, I've been a vegetarian for about 3 or 4 years now, but recently I've noticed that when people ask me why I'm vegetarian, I have no answer! I actually became vegetarian for pretty bizarre reasons--my OCD was exceptionally bad at the time, and in my head, meat became synonymous with "bacteria laden and disease…
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Non-diabetic Hypoglycemia...?
Hi, this morning I went to the doctor and was diagnosed with non-diabetic hypoglycemia. Basically, whenever I don't eat for a couple of hours, I get really shaky and dizzy and feel like I'm going to pass out, It's nothing too serious (i.e. not related to diabetes,) and it should sort itself out by itself provided I eat…
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Active vegetarians: how do you eat enough to maintain?!
Hi, this is kind of a weird question... Basically, I've been in maintenance since January and have been slowly increasing my calorie intake. I'm female, 18, 5"4 and 121lbs. The thing is, my weight has stayed about the same since I started maintaining, but the other day, my mum commented in passing that I was looking kind…
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(Finally) introducing myself and looking for friends :)
Hi, I'm Katie, and I'm mainly on here to maintain my weight loss and keep an eye on things as I "reverse diet" while building muscle (uh...hopefully...) I stalked the database on here for about two years before I was old enough to get an account; it was the advice and calorie counting technique which allowed me to go from…
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Activity level?...
So I'm on maintenance now and have started to slowly increase my calories up from 1200. So far so good as far as maintenance goes--I've stuck around the 125lbs mark-- but I really have no clue what to aim for! I tend to work out four or five days a week, at least half an hour at a time (my exams start next week so I really…
