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Zany
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Black Licorice
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Life has bumps and detours but you are back on track and will conquer your fitness goals!!! The community has got your back!! Don't give up or give in! Now get some cardio or strength training in...and watch those empty calories.
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Keep using your scale just be consistent - like others said. Try to weigh yourself every morn after you use the bathroom. Remember weight fluctuates with water, salt ingestion, Time of the month (bloating).
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I will be succinct. I do Intermitant fasting (Google it very good articles) (I even train fasted) and go 16 hrs without eating and with slight caloric defici and exercise - I lost (fat)and put in appox 10 lbs of muscle. The starvation mode from my own anecdotal evidence seems to be highly exaggerated but everyone is…
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I wear dry-fit clothing because I dislike sweaty clothes. You can get some nice gear at Walmart also. As you slim down you might want more form fitting clothes to show off your gains!!
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There are such things as "Active Rest days" on these days I go to the gym but only lift a fraction of the weights or do not do as much cardio. I am still active and moving. I feel like I am rewardingly myself with a light day. Plus going to the gym everyday forms a good habit and 1 day off for me can Avalanche into 3 days…
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Strong and athletic are a turn on for many people. Stay the course, your profile picture says it all. Keep fighting. Relatives often are uninformed about health and fitness so you will have to forgive their ignorance.
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You can not spot reduce fat as others have mentioned. Everybody has trouble areas. Stay the course with the diet and exercise and eventually the fat will yield. My trouble area wa my waist but I kept hammering the workouts and voila it happened although it took 6 months. Was by no means overnight!
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Yeah MFP has me at a lot higher sugar. Fruit has fiber (typically) and other vitamins and is processed by the body differently than say High Frutose Corn Syrup. The body metabolizes these different sugars differently. Of course anything in abundance is bad. Fiber delays the delivery of Frutose to the liver. This is why I…
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Technically you can get away without cardio - just depends on your body - I find I need just a smidge of cardio to really stop down into the single digits.
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Don't completely eliminate cardio. It is a vital tool. I lift every day but often finish with HIIT (high intensity interval training) by doing battling ropes or prowler (aka weight sled). You can pay $20 for planet fitness and they have all you need (well 95% of everything you will need). Small amounts of Cardio mixed with…
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I put it in my smoothies and mix it with granola and honey for a snack
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so although a lot of literature and conventional wisdom says you can not do both of them simultaneously, I personally went from 15% to 10% fat and stayed at 165 lbs. I was at definitely at a caloric deficit. So this means I gained muscle and lost fat. Again, this is just my experience. At a caloric deficit (I weigh my food…
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Breathing is important in my humble opinion. Your body like the combustion chamber (engine) of a car needs oxogen at the right dosages to fire/work optimally. To get the most out of your workout , you will need to practice your breathing technique.
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I trained fasted and have noticed more fat loss. Now I train in the evening but eat lunch at 11am so about 6 hours before I exercise plenty of time for food to digest. I have trained early in the morning but often lack the energy. I'm rambling but yes I see more fat loss. I am also doing some tweaks for a competition.…
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Sorry jjimmmer didn't mean to quote you!
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Everybody's arms are composed of different types muscle fibers - some respond well to more volume and some respond to high weight. I do both to cover the bases. Find out which one works best for you.
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I am very active in the gym and on some days doing lunges, battling ropes (also no way to track HIIT without a heart monitor ). No good way to track calories burned so I just put down " leisurely walk". My heart rate is elevated during my workouts. Fitbits are notoriously "off "for lots of things outside of walking. I use…
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As an alternative you can also use calipers (AMAZON has them really cheap) and do a 7 point measurement . There are tons of online tutorials to teach U how to do it correctly. Again use it as a another point in addition to the scale of you want
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Increase cardio and reduce sugar intake as some suggested "stevia". Beware cardio increases appetite. I haven't seen your diary but if you are eating foods higher in protein and fats (good fats) within your macros you will feel more satisfied and "full", leading to less binging (not implying you do). Eliminate juice and…
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Are you warming up? Are you increasing weight? Do less weights to warm up and foam roller on legs.
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The weight gain 5 lbs could because of water weight. Perhaps you ate more sodium the days before. You should consistently weigh yourself (every morn?). Weight can flux thru out the day. And using the eye ball method to measure can be wildly inaccurate. Remember your body doesn't always distinguish between clean food and…
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Weigh your food. For sure. Sometimes the metabolism has adjusted but essentially you may not be in a deficit. More cardio and weighing food. Remember every pound of muscle increases your metabolism allowing you to burn more calories. You as a female won't become the hulk or even remotely more bulky or masculine by lifting…
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Depending on if feet are wet, callous on your feet the results may not be accurate. Also, if you store more fat in your legs then it will give a higher estimate. Fat% in one metric and all metrics need to be looked at holistically. Don't just fixate on weight either. Other metrics (I Use that term loosely) are Energy…
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I think weight is only one metric. I'm not challenging your fitness goal. Just remember that fat %, strength levels , energy level (how you feel), and how you look are all important and of course weight. No one metric is perfect you need to look at them holistically. If you hit a plateau then add weight training. Muscle…
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Sugar in general. When I cut down on sugar I saw good results. Bread makes me drowsy and sleepy so I try to avoid it.
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Well hypertrophy is the increase in muscle size thus body builders often refer to this. Strength training typically invokes increasing slightly more and more weight and volume (progressive overload) which increases muscle size and leads to hypertrophy. Of course those power lifters training for strength will experience…
