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You aren't going to build muscle doing insanity, it's an extremely intense cardio workout, women don't "accidentally" become bulky, it takes a lot of hard work and heavy lifting. The weight gain you see is water retention as your muscles work at repairing themselves. Three days also isn't that much time to start seeing…

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Skip the calorie heavy stuff like beer and go for the hard liquor with diet soda's if you need chase ;) Limit your drinking, you can't go out all weekend every weekend, and maybe incorporate a little extra exercise to give you a few more calories.

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Not detrimental at all, eat when you feel hungry. Lots of people aren't hungry in the morning and don't eat breakfast.

Honestly, weighing everything is easier than using measuring cups, and it's far more accurate. Less to clean, just pop the dishwater you want to use on the scale, zero it and weigh it, you don't add to your dirty dishes

Or lots of steady state cardio and not eating back your exercise calories.

I got a zip for free through work, and I like it, it has made me more aware of how sedentary I am. I don't know if I'll be paying to buy a new one aftter though.

Laziness is my obstacle, I have a hard time prompting myself to cut up some veggies and bring those with hummus, or a nice boiled egg instead of grabbing a bag of chips, and I find them even more difficult to log than a bag of chips because weighing and cutting and bleh. I found putting aside an hour or two one day a week…

Exercise is certainly not worse for weight loss, but you can lose weight without exercising. It's all about calories in vs calories out, if you're in a calorie deficit without exercise then you'll lose weight, if you're in a calorie deficit while exercising, you'll lose weight. If you're in a calorie surplus in either…

I'm 5' female, 130 lbs so that may be it. Sometimes it takes me by surprise when I see the amount of calories people are eating and losing on, so I suppose it shouldn't surprise me that people are burning more than me with their exercise. I could also just be underestimating, which is entirely possible. Edit: I do concede…

Oh yeah, I know he isn't saying ignore calories, just like I'm not saying don't exercise. All I'm saying is that it still comes down to calories in vs calories out, whether you exercise or not, for weight loss. Whatever changes exercise makes in your body, you still have to be eating fewer calories than you burn if you…

I guess what I'm saying is yes, exercise can help with weight loss, but it does so by increasing your caloric deficit or increasing your BMR. You can still gain weight while exercising: I've gained weight while exercising, and not the good bulking kind, the bad fluffy kind. People looking to lose weight and that's all…

I definitely wouldn't say that's the norm, most people, to burn that many calories in ONE day would have to do some pretty intense exercise, which wouldn't be sustainable to do every day. I definitely wouldn't say the average person who exercises regularly can attribute a 600 calorie burn daily to their exercise. That's a…

Just a couple of comments on your post: 600 calories daily can be attributed to exercise? What kind of exercise are you doing to burn 600 calories? I do a hardcore kickboxing class for 90 minutes and I'm not burning 600 calories doing that, even though I exercise regularly the rest of the week. Also the comment on…

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You need to find a way to do this while incorporating things you like. You can't just cut out all of the treats you like and expect to create a sustainable weight loss plan! Try upping your calories a bit, I'm 5' tall and a female and I'm eating around 1500 calories a day and losing. Fool around with the number, you won't…

The reason they're different from the ones you tried on is because they're a previous model, no one on here is saying it was bad of you to purchase a previous model, but in doing so you no longer bought the same pair of shoes. They're different and are going to have different support on the inside and be different from the…

I can't get one in yet, working on progressions from you are your own gym, I can barely do some of the progressions :lol:

It's only two days, pick yourself up and start fresh tomorrow, you've barely started this journey, still got plenty of time.

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Just got a ZIP through work for free, I'd love for people to add me for some motivation to get moving every day! https://www.fitbit.com/user/4CD55H

If you haven't already it might be time to start a heavy lifting program and do a little body recomp. to get the sort of body you're looking for without restricting your calories too heavily!

What I do with my veggies is I cut them up and weigh them when I buy them, then I'll divide the weight by 5/7 and log them in for my next week evenly each day. I may not eat the same amount each day, but it works out over the whole week so long as I make sure they're gone :wink:, I find that's been really working for me…

Under a strict exercise and nutrition regime it is possible, but it doesn't happen in a week and you generally have to be eating around maintenance. It's more likely that you lost some of the fat that was covering your muscles making them look more defined, or like you are gaining muscle, when you're just revealing what…

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This, I don't think your issue is the what, it's the how much. I think you'll start seeing improvements once you start increasing the amount of food your eating, you can either do that by adding in extra meals or increasing portion sizes in the meals you eat. You seem to know what you're doing in terms of what to eat, you…

Banana's are great post run, and if you need a few extra calories slapping on some peanut butter never hurt anybody. As for pre-run, I can't eat anything heavy right before or it comes right back up, just the general, fuel up on some carbs before a big run, pasta, rice, toast and peanut butter.

1280 calories while working out that much is not enough. If you want to improve your running you need to lower your expectations on how fast you want to lose weight. You can't maintain a good running regime while trying to aggressively lose weight. I'm 5' and 1200 calories is not enough to fuel me most days, you need to up…

If you want to lose those last few pounds you need to tighten up your logging, weigh everything you eat and log it, whether or not it seems trivial to you, it adds up. Guaranteed you're underestimating a lot of things, it's easier to lie to yourself about how much/what you're eating when you don't log it/don't log it…