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Start with the bar over the laces of your shoes. When you bend over to grab it it should nearly be touching your shins, or actually touching them. Then drop your hips slightly (but not as much as a squat), tighten your lats and pull the bar up in a straight line. It may (will) bump your shins on the way up and will rest on…

That's fair; I did hijack the thread. Apologies.

Yes, I understand fundamentally how calories in, calories out works. I feel like there's a big push on the boards to just yell "CICO!" at the mere suggestion that there is strategy involved in weight loss/gain, or that there is slightly more to it than "eat less, move more". I can drink 1900 calories' worth of Frapuccino…

That's oversimplifying it a bit. A calorie is a calorie but it's easier to drink 200 calories of apple juice than to eat 200 calories of apples. And for people who have issues with insulin resistance or similar blood sugar maladies, the amount of dietary sugar *does* matter. Although whether that sugar comes from fruit or…

I dropped fries and hashbrowns years ago. I never liked them that much in the first place and I don't miss them. It helps tremendously when you're trying to behave. You may love fries though -- but I bet you can find something else you eat that you could eat better.

It does sound like you may be overtraining a bit. If you aren't satisfied with your progress at the moment, use where you are now as a starting point and make incremental changes.

This is my first go-round with MFP, but I've done several bouts with Livestrong over the years. And they worked, but if I look at my long-term weight loss, I'll usually drop 10-15 lbs. and then get about half of those back, sometimes more. So it's been a very steady slide downward over years and years. I would guess that…

Chicken omelette at IHOP; 1000 calories. For a chicken omelette!

Har! I have some old hats that never fit well and now fit or are bordering on too loose. The notion of scalp fat is... odd. But if you consider losing some fractional amount of fat around the entire circumference of your head, it makes sense. Do you wear rings? Are they starting to slide around?

Thanks man, that helps. That's like, almost exactly where I am.

Do you find the carb cycling throws in a lot of water retention?

This is the right answer.

This dude is the business. You should check out his headstand push-up progressions as well: http://www.startbodyweight.com/p/push-up-progression.html Basically for any press-up variation - hand and knees, hands and toes, etc. - you can go incline, flat, diamond (index fingers and thumbs touch to form a diamond), decline,…

Sometimes it takes a while for the sync to occur - like a few hours. Other times I found it wouldn't sync until I clicked "complete this entry" in MFP. Lately though, it's been working fine for me. I'd just give it some time.

Could be like... confirmation bias. That is, the people out there who are maintaining but are not logging daily are less likely to be lurking on the MFP forums.

I hurt my shoulder trying the snatch with a relatively light weight so definitely take your time to perfect your form. Olympic lifts are notoriously susceptible to failures in technique, I think.

Come on man, those ingredients tho... So it's a vegetable fiber paste, with a thickener, with a bunch of flavoring agents (but very few of the things that actually provide that flavor). Except for the cocoa powder. I imagine you could get something similar with like, psyllium husk powder, water and a thickener -- like the…

I found my FitBit suggesting what was probably way too many calories. Some days it would approach 400-500 calories difference between MFP and FitBit. Or more. I'm always leery of "eating back" calories from exercise anyway so I would take the numbers with a grain of salt, even with heart rate.

Yes it's a workout; but try not to re-consume whatever calories you burned with too many rewards. It's probably fewer calories than you think.

Glutamine really helps with soreness and I've had some luck with creatine as well. I find they both help with quicker recovery. Some protein supplements may contain one or both of those -- or you can get them individually.