Recent content by wanderlusty

thanks! eh well I'll trust my clothes and my habits more than the body fat numbers anyways... oh and i think i carry the fat on upper body more than on the lower... i wear a larger size up top.. of course that could also have to do with the damn boobs.

nope.. 40%, 37%, and 34% were each taken with caliper measurements of lower belly, tricep, and thigh at 24 hr fitness by different trainers and the latest, 27%, was taken with caliper measurements of just lower belly and tricep by a trainer at my college.

short version because I realized I wrote a frikken tome: Six months ago I had a body fat of 40% today I measured at 27%. I wear pretty much the same size in clothes and while I know I've gained strength, I just can't believe that I actually lost that much body fat % w/o a change in clothing...

I'm a big believer in a genetic set-point, that some people are mean tot be bigger than others. I think that, perhaps, the first article supports this. Skinny kids probably have fast metabolisms, so the weight gain is probably a sign of poor lifestyle (since they don't have a heavy set-point)...

hey, fat woman coming in :) I think in some cases it's okay to descriminate against the obese, but only when their size impedes their ability to do their job. Really fat folks probably shouldn't be flight attendants because they couldn't fit down the aisles easily. However in MOST cases, size...

luckily my upper body is what really needs working.. lower is quite strong from toting the extra weight all these years ;) Of course, lower body is much more fun to work cuz I feel like I'm actually moving some weight! the sprain isn't tooo bad.. the pain doesn't bother me so much (it's...

of course. the first time in recent history I've really stuck to an exercise routine and I sprain my ankle.. walking! I'm very frustrated. Right now the only cardio I can do is swimming, but I find that super tedious. Maybe if I do intervals it'll be okay, but I can't see 60 minutes three...

well I use my heart rate monitor.. i get up first to put on the transmitor and wet the electrodes, then I get a glass of water and sit down in front of the computer.. wait a few minutes until my heart rate is back down. I tried taking it by hand immediately upon waking, but I could hardly feel...

thanks.. i'm gonna compromise.. eat a little less.. especially carbs during the day.. then indulge and expect not to lose that one pound this week :)

hey guys, I've been checking my resting heart rate first thing in the mornings for the past few days. It has been 72 bpm which matches what it was a few years ago. This morning, it came in at 68 bpm though. Is it normal for it to fluctuate so much? I know that an elevated resting heart rate...

I don't really believe in willpower... at least it won't always get you where you want to go all on its own. you gotta arrange your life so that willpower isn't as much of an issue... have healthy alternatives around, make conscious indulgences, have reminders around of why you want to keep...

Minion, hmm.. well for one thing I think it would be good to maintain what muscle I do have. I'm a girl, so I don't think I'll bulk up particularly. I do 20 minutes of cardio every day and 60 additional minutes 3 times a week, and I'm keeping to a 1,800 Calorie diet.. so yeah, the focus of my...

green tea tastes better too :)

Just keep your diet clean and do the cardio! Don't think it's impossible to gain weight on lots of cardio though.. I have *eep*

yeah it's 1.5 cups cooked, and .75 cups raw :) I'm not sure why I use kcal sometimes... a weird habit I picked up I guess. In a sense it IS more correct than cal.. but everybody knows what you mean when you use cal, so that's probably a better word to use (can you tell I'm a linguistics major?)