BigNate17 Member

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Liking the new hair colour

I respect your enthusiasm to compete after only lifting for 2 months! However, that really isn't a long time and I would still consider you a beginner. It's hard to make judgments seeing as we don't know what your current physique looks like, but I would recommend to continue making progress and building a good foundation…

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Lol woah ^

I lifted heavy during my half marathon training as well. I had to stop doing legs though because it negatively effected my runs. Just be sure that your nutrition is on point! Completed mine in 1 hour 52min doing both heavy lifting and running.

Agreed

Broke my finger wrestling a friend.. had to bench with suicide grip for a couple months

Yeah she squats

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Lol ^

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If you don't want to get injured, then yeah

I'd suggest reverse dieting back up to find your new maintenance instead of going by what the calculator says. Increase calories by 100-200 every week until you find your new maintenance.

I hope you mean "Retain"

I've just started back at the gym after 3 weeks off due to an injury and have noticed no visible body composition changes and my weight has stayed almost exactly the same. I agree with eating at maintenance, maybe even just slightly over. You might come back after 2 weeks feeling even better and more motivated than before.…

Not exactly... alcohol provides no nutritional value except for calories and can actually have a negative effect on your metabolism because unlike proteins, carbs, and fats your body doesn't have anywhere to store alcohol and it will actually work on getting it out of your system before metabolizing other macronutrients.…

Not sure what you're getting at with this, but I do agree with you that performing steady state cardio outdoors will have more variables to consider and at times especially hills will have you exerting more energy for a short amount of time making it a mini interval of sorts. However, I'm not sure what you mean when you…

Nope, I laughed a little too hard at "homemade nut milk" myself.

Sorry, I should have been clearer. What I was trying to say is OP also mentioned that the surgery has taken place 3 years ago. This could mean that she might have stretched her gastric pouch in the process leaving her to think that she is consuming her same 900 calories when in fact she is consuming more to fill her…

Not a problem. Yes this study was done using obese men, however that should just prove the case even more. Individuals that are leaner actually require a higher protein intake than obese individuals while in a caloric deficit to preserve LBM.

"Beyond that, there have been some recent studies looking at this. The first put obese men on either a very low calorie diet for 3 weeks or a low calorie (both of which contained a stupid 50 g/day of protein which is still too low given that the dieters were about 107 kg; they needed 150 g/day or so) diet for 6 weeks to…

That is definitely how it works, the surgery reduces the patients stomach size to that of an egg meaning that it takes less food to fill up the stomach.

This made me laugh

The more you walk the more calories you burn, therefore the more calories you burn the more calories you will have to eat to gain weight. Simply eat more calories. Edit: You can wear a fitbit or other tracking device to see how many calories you are burning at your retail job to determine how many calories you need to eat…

Alright guys it seems like everyone is missing the point where she says she had surgery to lose half of herself. I'm assuming it is bariatric surgery? If that is the case, then it is absolutely possible that 1200 calories is too much. I know people who have done that surgery as well and were told to stick to about 1000…