Posts by dancinauni

I eat 5 times a day... about every three hours or so to keep my metabolism working all day (My trainer and nutritionists both recommended this). My breakfast is normally a little larger and the rest of my meals and snacks are about the same size. I think it just depends on your body. I agree with skinnyogi though, try a couple different things and see what you like and how your body is reacting.

well well well this is my kind of post!!!!!

I am a dancer. I have been dancing for the past ten years, I am 19 now. I am currently doing a scholarship program where I basically live, eat, breathe, and sleep dance. I am dancing for a minimum of 8 hours a day in all styles... jazz, ballet, contemporary, hip hop, tap, the list goes on. It is great exercise but I think most of us dancers have the worst eating habits! I am having the hardest time staying away from the junk food I used to eat, but its slowly changing. Also I think after a certain amount of year, your body adjusts to it. It could also be the age thing too but I recently started working out with a personal training and going to the gym each day on top of  the 8 hours of dance. I know, crazy huh? But its different exercise so my body is starting to change from it.

Anyway I like the show to bust mostly just cause I know a lot of the people and choreographers! lol It's a lot of fun to watch your friends on t.v. and maybe next year I will audition if I'm not touring with Justin Timberlake or Janet Jackson or maybe doing Rockettes in NYC(hahaha those are some of my dream dance jobs!)

Hi There! I am also 19 and started CC not that long ago so I am also working on adapting to my new healthy life style.

I have incorporated many more fruits and veggies into my diet and I try to stick to clean foods (foods that are not processed like no chips or junk food like that). Portion size is also important. You can have a brownie, but limit yourself to only one. If you totally cut out foods like that you will go crazy (at least I would, I love brownies ). I struggle but if I let myself just have a little bit then I am ok.

Also exercise is a very important part of a healthy life style! Good luck

Sorry I dont have any advice but I feel like I am in the exact same boat! Ive been on here for a while now and started working out basically every day (and I'm not kidding I am sort of obsessed with working out) since April 24th. At first I lost a couple pounds but then I gained it back. I am assuming its muscle but I wanted the scale to drop! I know the scale isn't the only important thing but I wish it would drop some so I know I'm heading in the right direction.

I want to join too!!!! I'm 5'8'' and weigh about 142 pounds. I dance for about 6 hours five days a week and then work out each day on top of that ( the gym workouts just started about a three weeks ago and I'm doing weights now!). I want to loose pounds but I am pretty muscular and don't feel like the pounds are really going to come off so I am not as worried about the scale as I am the measurements dropping.

TODAY:

Breakfast- 1/2 cup egg whites, 2 morning star sausage links, and a piece of wheat bread

Snack- luna bar, apple, and activia yogurt

Lunch- spinach salad with grilled chicken, little bit of crumbled clue cheese, and grapes

Snack- Turkey lunch meat, 2% reduced fat cheddar cheese, and carrots

Dinner- Turkey sandwich with cheese and more baby carrots

It kind of seems like a lot of food but only comes out to be like 1,300 calories. I burn about 2,200 calories a day with all the exercise and working out so I normally try to eat more after dinner to get my calories up to about 1,500 or 1,600 calories. Any ideas on how to loose the weight? I feel likes its never going to come off!

I've never tried making it with soy or almond milk, but it normally calls for three cups of milk and I do one cup of nonfat milk and then 2 cups of water and it sets just fine. I think next time i might try just making it with the water. Anyone every tried that?

HAHA I love slurpees!!!! The crystal light ones are pretty good but in Seattle they had diet coke ones that were even better! Not really sure how to log it though.. sorry... you could just log it like it is the drink (powder mix or whatever) because I think it is basically the same just with ice.

The weight you have gained is very little and most likely just muscle. Dont worry about that at all. When I first started on here, I was the same way, just wanting the scale to go down but really it is not as important. What I have been reading on here over and over again is that the scale doesn't matter. You will loose inches and look like you are loosing weight even though the scale may be going up.

Just continue eating healthy and make sure you are eating enough calories otherwise your metabolism will slow and you wont be burning as many calories and loosing the weight.