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No, it will hardly be "a decent amount". It'll have around 4-5 % sugar. Which is less than what you'll get from a carrot, and about one third of what is in a potato.

I don't know how much you serve, but a plain unflavored yogurt will have about 4-5 grams of carbs / 100 grams of yogurt. Of that, 0 % will be added sugar, so what you get is whatever lactose the milk is carrying.

Yes, the numbers add up correctly, and while I'm no walking encyclopedia of calorific contents of various foods, what you wrote down seems to be about right. Don't confuse filling with eating enough, though. Especially not when "cheating" with things like shirataki noodles. You might just as well be stuffing yourself with…

I've tried them both, and I think that intermittent fasting (16/8) works a lot better for me than 5:2. The fasted days with 5:2 were just too low cal for me, but I got used to not having breakfast or lunch really fast. The only problem for me with IF was the social factor and the fact that stuffing down 2500-3500 kcal in…

Bah, give yourself a bit more credit. You have obviously figured out the hard part already, that is, how to lose the first 10 pounds. The rest is easy, there is nothing that you have to do, only a few things that you must not do. And what could be easier than not doing something, right? :-) Anyway, a great big congrats on…

No wonder. You should be eating twice that amount for lunch, and then the same for dinner. And breakfast. And as a snack. And for supper. And then once more for an additional snack. Seriously, a ~40 year old man with ~80 lbs to shed (which, quite incidentally is pretty much who I am, too) should be losing weight nicely…

It's my go-to program. Try the Boring But Big variation if hypertrophy is what you are after: http://www.jimwendler.com/2013/05/boring-but-big/

Oh, and FYI: A standard bar is 20 kg, a women's bar is 15 kg and EZ-curl bars are usually around 7,5 kg. There's probably a scale somewhere around the gym, you can use it to check the weights of various equipment.

Absolutely this. Just do the presses with dumbbells for as long as you need to. Just start light enough, pressing with dumbbells is going to be a bit harder than pressing with a barbell because you need to stabilise yourself much more. Then again, when you get in the groove with the dumbbells, switching to a barbell is…

The strength training exercises are listed just so that you can use MFP as your gym log. It does not count as "exercise" in the sense that it would affect your caloric intake for the day. Ignore the calories consumed when lifting weights and just make sure that you have a reasonable target set for your daily consumption…

A heart-rate monitor is likely to be the most accurate of the three, but even they can only give you estimates, which is really a fancy word for an educated guess. I find it much easier to just not even try tracking calories burned from exercise and go by an estimated cycle instead and make adjustments on a weekly or…

You are working out at a gym? Grab some dumbbells or see if they have women's bars, an EZ-curl bar, preloaded barbells or weight bars. If nothing else is available, then just use a weight plate. You could also try a different progression since you can push the empty bar. Go for 3 sets of 3 reps (or even 2), then 4 sets, 5…

Start by getting a stand-up workstation if in any way possible. That alone will make a big difference in your daily activity levels, plus it is very, very good for you health in general. If you can't get one, just stack a big pile of books under your keyboard, tilt your monitor up and you're good to go. That's what I do at…

1 lbs / week would be even better. If you have been spending 49 years to put the weight on, surely a few weeks more won't make any difference in getting it off.

There goes the coffee all over my keyboard again... :smiley:

Here's a good article on alcohol and fat loss, and how it can be done: http://www.leangains.com/2010/07/truth-about-alcohol-fat-loss-and-muscle.html

I have the Vivosmart, which I do like. Sure, the syncing with MFP is a bit iffy, but it's not like I really need the syncing.

There's always the more PC modern day equivalent:

Get a food scale, but try to learn what those numbers look like on a plate. That is, learn what a 100 grams of meat, fish, pasta, rice, veggies etc. look like on a plate so that you have a meaningful way of estimating portion sizes when you don't have a scale available.

Definitely not among those that I was referring to. I'll see if I have them somewhere in my history or if I can find some of them again. Exactly. I seem to recall one set of results were something like gaining 2,5 lbs lean mass and losing 7 lbs fat while eating 2000 kcal vs. gaining 8 lbs lean mass while eating 4000 kcal.…

I was referring to this: http://sportsscientists.com/2014/05/vibram-lawsuit-barefoot-running-common-sense/ That obviously doesn't mean that people can't find that the shoes work for them. I've been looking for a pair for quite some time now because I would like to try them out.

One can't compare how the bodies of professional athletes respond to training and how they recover to an unfit and overweight amateur. And the aforementioned athletes certainly won't train like that all the time, and probably not even the majority of the off season. Rather train twice a week than on back-to-back days if…

You can build muscle and lose fat at the same time. It won't just be very effective, but there are lots of studies showing that this can be done, beginners and more experienced trainers alike. You can improve your results by cycling your calories, that is, eat at maintenance or 100-200 kcal over on the days that you lift…

Yes, and the variable factors involved in determining said deficit are probably in the millions. Just as I said. Just by altering your intake you will create a myriad of other effects that will all play a role in determining your actual calorie burn. If you eat less one day, you will likely be less active just because of…

No, I'm saying that neutral shoes (not minimalist shoes, those are mainly just a bunch of marketing hokey-pokey) should be appropriate for anyone without actual physical deformities. If they aren't, fix the issue, not the shoe. If you have a physical issue, such as flat feet, then obviously you need to account for that.…

Can't really imagine them hiring a trainer who has no athletic ability nor any training skills and only a basic understanding of the actual sport in question, either... OP: If you feel that this is something you'd want to do, then go for it. Just don't take one of those crappy trainer classes that run for a few weekends or…

Go to another gym. That sounds terrible. You'd be better off with bodyweight training than trying to design a meaningful program around those things. Well, if the dumbbells go heavy enough (100 lbs or so) and there's a bench available you could try doing any "normal" weightlifting routine but just use the dumbbells instead…

Because, like I said, there are a million variables that affect weight loss. If you want to measure it to establish a baseline, you don't want to introduce *more* variables into the mix, but try to minimise them. Eating the same amount (ideally you would eat the exact same thing every day for a week or two) is one way to…

This is how I do it as well.