Posts by mellenoire

Stay well hydrated, keep the area cool (I find damp tissues useful, they're less abrasive than a towel), take panadol to help with the pain and inflammation, and try not to burn on top of it. Try to wear baggy shirts/pants that are made from cotton as this will prevent excessive rubbing against the skin. Shame aloe doesn't agree with you, do you have any dedicated after sun lotion handy?

Sounds like it was totally worth it though!

That does sound freakishly high for someone in the healthy weight range who doesn't consume that much trans fat. Is that your total cholesterol, or either HDL or LDL levels? Get it restested in a month and see what it comes out as.

Just as an aside, why do you want to weigh 104 pounds?

Welcome to CC :)

Sounds like you're not eating enough - paradoxial, but it happens. Your body is holding on to the few calories you do eat to conserve it's energy stores. CC often recommends counts that are far too low for most people.

Have you tried calorie cycling, for example 1800, 1600, 1400, then back up to 1800 and repeat? Or bumping up to maintainence for a week (NOT weighing during this time to save your sanity) just to get you metabolism revved up again? Perhaps your body is happy at this weight - it is technically within the healthy BMI range and you might be better off shaping your body through strength training than dropping a few pounds.

You're not leaving yourself a lot of energy for your body to function. I'd recommend not going below your BMR ( I estimate it would be around the 1400's) to prevent your body slowing down and conserving the calories you eat as fat on the non excercise days, then eat back half the calories you burn on exercise days.

You can if you starve yourself, but you'll look tired, weak, just as heavy and you'll gain it all back +10% when you finish.

What's the rush?

Not really. Sounds more like you're eating out of habit instead of genuine hunger - the pills won't do anything to stop that. You're young, get distracted, find a hobby, just anything that doesn't involve food and will occupy your brain between meals.

Also, even if you were eating out of hunger, once you're off the pills you'll return to the same level of hunger you were at before and likely gain all the weight back you lost.

What do you do for cardio? Usually that helps with increasing your burn so you can get away with more calories, plus it's less easy to cram food in while you're running/swimming/cycling.

Because your body has latched onto whatever it can hold as you're not feeding it enough. While calorie counting is simple and logical, our bodies are geared towards survival, not fitting in neatly into the equation. I know it seems logical that eating less = losing more weight but you're doing yourself a major disservice eating so little. Also, how are you calculating the calories burned at the gym? The numbers on the machines are rarely accurate as they don't take into account your age/gender/BF%/other little things that make a difference.

I'm the opposite. I honestly can't tell the difference between regular Coca Cola and Coke Zero. Diet Coke, on the other hand, leaves this grotty aftertaste on my tongue and just tastes different. I don't know what it is about it, but I'm not a fan.

No you won't. Eggs are great for you on so many levels, they have a range of essential vitamins with a good deal of protein - they've gotten a bad rap in the past few years. I eat 2-4 eggs a day, every day (unless I'm travelling or something) and I'm the only one in my family with normal cholesterol levels.

Your BF% might not be high enough to kick start the hormone depended process of growing that lining, then shedding it. Also, while a BMI of 20 is "normal", it's not ideal for someone in recovery. Often people will need to go to BMIs 23-25 to fully recover physically, then your body will settle back down to the weight it's happy at (which might not be a BMI of 20).