Recent content by MelindaJones11

This may be a stupid question. Everywhere you read, it says you can't change your body shape. If you are a pear (bottom heavy), you will always be a pear. I used to weigh about 5 lbs less but was much more muscular and 2 sizes smaller. Now, my body proportions are different since a lot of my...

How does working out at different times of the day effect your weight loss? I eat at about 5pm workout at 7 and sleep at 9pm without eating anything else, I don't feel hungry either. I've read here often that people work out first thing in the morning before eating, what does that do?

The gym I attend has a sauna that is never in use. It's a smaller gym. I've read a bit online of the benefits of using the sauna, but was wondering if anyone here uses it themselves, and for what reason? I'm not looking to lose weight, just more for relaxation and detox. I typically go to the...

what has been the best training style for making gains for you? do you follow a laid out program or hit the gym and instinctively train for the body part of the day? what rep range do you normally train in?

So I just got a new multi-vitamin. It's GNC's Women's Ultra Mega Active multivitamin and it is making my urine green. I don't really know much about good multi-vitamins except that they shouldn't contain additives. I know this one has cellulose, sucralose and carmine color which I think are...

I have been doing a set of 6 dumbell exercises, 3 sets of 5 at 22ib in weight for about 3 weeks. I am having a low carb whey shake after the exercises and following a palaeo diet plan. I am leaving a day in between doing routines, but my strength does not seem to be improving. I am warming up...

I'm supposed to go to kickboxing tonight, but I've spent all day huddled in an armchair dosed up on painkillers in order to diminish some truly bitchin period pains. Even just walking from one room to the next hurts. Sure, it's only a day or two and I can get back to training again no problem...

I'm not sure if anyone else is suffering from this but since I got back on to a diet last week, I've had such a bad rage and feel so fed up it's putting me off and I just want to go devour a mega bar of chocolate. Things got so bad on Thursday, my husband took me out for dinner and I ended up...

I'm not pregnant, but hope to be in a few years and I was just thinking this weekend about working out while pregnant. This is probably a "consult your doctor" issue, but as I'm not there yet I'm just curious if anyone here did workout while pregnant and what you did, call it planning ahead...

I may be a mutant or something, but I can sweat like the dickens. Either I'm freezing my butt off or I'm soaking through the arms of my shirts, and it's getting really annoying. We all know that deodorant causes those nasty brown stains in your clothes when you sweat -- but I didn't several...

Hi, I am a longtime lurker and my weight hit that enough-is-enough-point. I already lost five pounds in the three weeks I have been changing my lifestyle and started weightlifting three times a week, for stress relief, personal enjoyment and against muscle loss. Thing is, I noticed, that my...

This is me just wanting to whine... I'm 5'0 and 116 lbs, and according to the trainer at the gym, my BF is 26%. I feel like I'm decently toned everywhere else, but I've had 2 kids and the lower belly fat is the absolute freakin' HARDEST to get rid of.. And of COURSE the lower belly fat is one of...

What are the most surprising diet facts you've learned, in your journey to become healthy? I recently found out that fat isn't the enemy when it comes to losing weight, saturated fat especially isn't as bad as we were led to believe I want to compete in fitness category of bodybuilding...

I started this thread because i have ran into some issues on cycle. For example,test flu,pre/post injection pain etc... I want to see if anybody has the same or other issues they would like to discuss. Here is the first three things i would like to discuss. TEST FLU. INJECTION PAIN. IT GETTING...