rawley69 Member

I like to lift weights. I hate cardio. When I tried to lose before, ~they~ always said you had to cardio your butt off, then I didn't have energy for weights. So I quit all together. This time I focus on diet and weights. Now I'm down quite a bit of weight.

People forget drinks and food weigh something after it enters your body. Your daily recommended water intake of half-a-gallon weighs 4 lbs. Depending on what food you eat during the day, you can be consuming 2lbs or so. This is why I only weigh in the morning, after I poo. Even then you see fluctuations and stalls and…

"sturgle" eh? Urban dictionary defines sturgle as: (verb) to act somewhat foolishly; to be farting around, either with self or others. o:)

I started out squatting with dumbbells until I got up to 50lb and then switched over to the barbell.

Yea, it's a sad reality. Just deal with it. You're not going to die. It will get better. You are master of your own body.

True dat.

Jeez, squats are one of the best exercises you can ever do. If some mischievous deity showed up and said you could only do one exercise ever again, you should choose the squat.

Start lifting. You can gain a bit of muscle weight and look like you weigh less.

Do the stronglifts program for a while. It's good to be strong. :) http://stronglifts.com/

What's the problem? Ripped ladies are awesome. If people don't like your arms looking better than theirs, tell them to hit to gym.

squats

I found Applebees has some good lower calorie options.

You are losing fat. You said it yourself, your muscles are getting bigger. Meaning they're growing. Muscle WEIGHS something too. Muscle is more dense than fat...meaning a pound of muscle is around 82% the volume of pound of fat.

all of this stuff. and what people always seem to forget is that poop weighs something. so does water, and urine. hell, 16oz of water is pretty much a pound. I can weigh myself. then slam a 16oz glass of water in 10 seconds. then weight myself again to see the scale go up by a pound.

meat is always weighed raw. (unless you've bought a precooked meat product, then the weights are for it as received--like a can of tuna) It's always hard to estimate volume well. weight is the number you want to believe.

You should really do some strength training. It'll help firm everything up.

I think 60ish is the preferred resting heart rate.

Two months ago, it was pushing 90. Now that I've been at it for almost 2 months, it's down in the mid 60s. I quit vaping in there too (quit actual cigarettes a year and a half ago). Getting off the nicotine made it drop faster than anything.

Personally, never saw any real results (gainz) until I learned how to do freeweight exercises. Was scared of them. Got a good competent trainer to actually show me how to work with them. Now not so scary.

I feel the same way... "I eat nothing every day, and run 12 marathons a week, yet, I'm at my heaviest of 700 pounds!" ;)

HAhaha, that's more fat than an avocado! Hell, that's almost as much as your average slice of bacon.

You have to be really working at it to get bulky. No woman naturally is going to look ripped by accident, that takes steroids.

I just go it black now-a-days.

A person could still log calories without MFP. I did this a long time ago with a notepad and just nutritional label information. Nothing changes, you just don't have the handy software.

Haha I didn't notice that. Yea, muscle IS lean muscle. Unless you're talking about a yummy marbled steak with nice intramuscular fat.

If one ever came around here, I'd join it just for the tanning bed and massage chair access. Plus it might come in handy while traveling, since the gym I belong to is a local, no-frills power-lifting gym (grunting and dropping weights encouraged).

I started Jason Blaha's Ice Cream Fitness 5x5 three weeks ago https://www.muscleandstrength.com/workouts/jason-blaha-ice-cream-fitness-5x5-novice-workout Already seeing results.

If your clothes get too loose, you'll lose those too.

I haven't cut it out, but I have cut back. It's the one thing I could actually binge on.

Holy cow, that's funny.