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I used to use that as my base and subtract 300. It doesn't work for me any more because by body fat % got so high that my current maintenance is actually -less- than maintenance for my goal weight and composition. I'm at a size that I should be able to safely lose 2+ pounds per week, but I can't manage to cut that many…

The flip side to this is that one can also be "healthy" according to BMI but have an unhealthy body fat percentage due to a low Lean Body Mass. This is actually even more common than the "obese" athlete, especially among older people. Aside from the fact that BMI is proxy data and doesn't actually measure anything with a…

BMI is a height to weight ratio, nothing more. It's useful for statistical averaging in large population studies, but it's use in individual health assessment is, to be blunt, a wide-spread major misapplication. The truly relevant number with regard to body mass related health risk/status is body fat percentage. If your…

I've got my protein target set to 1g per pound of the lean body mass I want to achieve.

pretty sure I also fit into the "new lifter" category as well :smile: Diet wise, I'm doing low net carb due to the type 2 (trying to keep carb calories at or under 20%) so I'm looking for a variety of foods that are high protein with low calorie density. I know chicken, turkey, lean ham, fish and protein shakes. Anybody…

I've known people (my brother in law, a former neighbor) who looked so repulsive shirtless it could almost be considered assault. I would certainly not try to mandate that such people wear a shirt in public (I'm too libertarian for that to sit well), but yet I would hope that people in my shape or worse would have the…

I believe you are correct. At least I'm certainly more comfortable with a shirt than without.

I actually had to 'build a floor' for mine. My bathroom is too small to keep the scale in there, and the hallway has carpet. It's only commercial grade carpet squares on concrete, but it was enough to screw up the consistency of my scale. I had a box of stick down parquet tiles left over from when the previous owner did…

Thank you for the chemistry math. My head hurts now :) At least you didn't pull out Avegadro's (sp) number.

Presently, I'm at 258#, down from 292 when I started my present weight loss. My goal is to be 220 at 15% body fat. This will require some recomposition. To hit 15% body fat at my current ratio of fat/lean mass loss, I would be between 200 and 205. I need to start an exercise program within the next week or so to stop…

It kinda is in my case. I turn reddish in the summer and people think I'm horribly burnt and in pain, but that's just my summer color. What I meant by the intensity of the sun is that I can feel the direct rays of sunlight on my skin, and that is uncomfortable when it's hot out.

When the humidity is over 94%, sweat doesn't evaporate quickly enough to do much good and ends up just sitting on the skin and feeling nasty. Is it really necessary to explain every detail of context?

Personally, I would prefer all men stay covered. I don't wanna see that. Women, on the other hand, can wear or (better yet) not wear whatever they like >:) Seriously though, I don't understand the shirtless thing from a comfort standpoint. I hate the feeling of being covered in a sheen of sticky sweat (it's humid here in…

I do. Like Gallomere said, it's my public courtesy to prevent vomiting.

Even the most accurate of scales can give an occasional off reading depending on how you stand on it, and it's basically impossible the step on the scale the exact same way every time. I've done the exact same thing with my digital scale, got a number that was up in spite of no intake. But when I stepped off and back on…

So that adds up to under 400 calories. If you are on 1500/day but you tend to wake up light-headed and needing to eat right away, your breakfast should probably be closer to 500, and made up of something solid. Liquid food generally digests and leaves the stomach more quickly, leaving you hungry earlier. I would consider…

Wow :D my wife would boot me out of the house! I considered at one time doing a week of only eggs and spinach as a kinda sorta 'cleanse' thing. Basically shock the body with a period of complete, yet minimalist nutrition. She said, "you do that some week when I'm at summer camp or something, so I don't have to be here to…

25% body fat is a decent place to be for a woman. But you literally can't be at 25% BF and only 39% Lean Body Mass, because LBM is everything that's not fat. You might be 39% muscle. I'm not sure without looking it up, but that might be on the high side of normal range for women. I know the normal range for men is like 38%…

And people think eggs with spinach is a smelly fart recipe. :o

If her goal is on the low end, like around 1200, and she's not eating back exercise calories, I can see where her smoothie is pushing 1/3 to 1/2 of her target... and since she's staying up late, not getting enough sleep, that's a lot of awake time to stretch the remainder across. I know the feeling. My target isn't nearly…

I personally don't do the protein powder as a regular thing. I mainly just use it when my percentages are off and I don't have a lot of room left in my calories to play with. Which means I'm also usually just mixing mine with water and not adding so much stuff to it.

Creamy usually, sometimes I get in the mood for chunky, but never on bread, only when I'm just eating it off a spoon. That's usually how I eat it either way, because I don't really care for celery and everything else you would normally put peanut butter on is high carb. Anymore, I don't eat as much of it at all, because…

Hmmm, and here I thought the thread was going to end up at least semi-serious. Bulk while cutting is AKA recomp, right? Doesn't seem like it should be that overly difficult, at least not for a beginner who's only looking to get fit. If someone has been body building for a while and is looking to get into competition form,…

All I know is plenty of people swear by keto and Atkins type diets. I don't go that extreme myself, but I generally have no problems staying within my calorie target if I keep my carbs to less than 20% of total calories. Of course I also am doing this for blood sugar control, as I do have diabetes. If I go too far over my…

That depends. A lot of people find that a low carb diet reduces hunger and makes it easier to control calories. As far as the OP question, if talking strictly about carbohydrates in the chemical sense, then all carbs (except fiber, which is not digested) contain roughly 4 calories per gram and become glucose in the blood…

That'll do it, especially if this is a common thing... speaking from experience.

I'm a part time custodian at a school and a self-employed handyman/electrician. Most of the heavier lifting I do is things like lumber, drywall, bags of concrete. The lighter stuff of course would be trash cans and ladders and such. And of course lots of walking, bending, reaching, etc. I'm not claiming to have a large…

Just to throw this out there, I just had blood and urine samples taken this past Saturday and got my results back yesterday. My A1C is down to 5.8, which would be considered "pre-diabetic" if I hadn't already been diagnosed. (normal is <5.7 and prediabetes is 5.7 - 6.4) My fasting glucose was high for that particular…

Because I want more strength than what I currently have, and you don't increase strength by reducing muscle mass. My neck is 18". It was 19" when I was 281#, dropped to 18" over 6 weeks and has stayed the same in the 8 weeks since. That 1" difference looks noticeably more lean in the mirror. You are misreading. I didn't…

Can you cite a source for that 97%, please? The only recent adjustment I'm aware of is when they lowered the "healthy" range from 27 to 25. This was done in response to the addition of studies in more countries where they previously had come mostly from North America and Europe. A significant portion of the new additions…