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I don't know about more, but these exercises will certainly work toward different fitness goals. Cardio will do some things for you that squats and deadlifts never will. And squats and deadlifts will do things for you that cardio will never touch. Sounds to me like you're going about this exactly the right way. Getting…

Better to use a tape measure. Jeans sizes are very unreliable. First, they're cut to sit well below your true waist; and second they're not consistent. I'm reasonably sure that Levi's jeans are at least 2 inches larger than they were 30 years ago for the same waist size on the label.

Whenever I feel like it, but I only "officially" weigh myself for the record once a week.

I'm guessing he's giving his jeans size. I take jeans with a 30 inch waist, but if I measure my true waist it's more like 33". (6'1", 170 lbs, recently dunked with bf% measured at 11.85%, 54 years old.)

Bread. Yummy, yummy bread.

This is why you're not supposed to inquire into someone's fasting practices, since it's an additional temptation toward pride if you're observing the rules fully but someone else is not. Observant Russians often find Greeks to be too relaxed about these things. After all, the ordinary fasting rules even when outside of…

You're right about shellfish. No one seems to quite know the reason for the exception. Some say it's because they don't have a backbone. (But the rules don't mention a backbone. Maybe the way the Fathers looked at it that makes them not-animals? John the Baptist ate locusts, after all.) Some say it's because, in some…

Nothing "current" about Orthodox fasting practices. They've been the same for a very long time. Fish is also a separate food category as far as Orthodox fasting is concerned, but that doesn't matter for most of Lent since fish is also not eaten on fast days. Exceptions are when a major feast like Annunciation falls during…

For me, it's usually happened when I'm focused on something other than the sensations coming from my stomach. If I'm unfocused or bored I get hungry right on schedule.

I've done it. That was the first time I concentrated on weight loss, about 10 years ago. Did a lot of running, a lot of lifting, but paid no attention to my diet at all other than ensuring I got enough macros, and went from about 220 (my heaviest ever) to about 180 at my lowest. I didn't look too bad, but I could have…

Seriously?

Doesn't sound too out of the ordinary to me. Try a foam roller.

I don't understand why you think fasting should interfere with your weight loss goals. There are other types of fasting that Christians have practiced for millennia. I'm no longer a believer, but when I was, I belonged to a tradition that called for regular weekly fasting, and more intensive fasting certain times of year,…

I friend I've known long enough to remember from when he was skinny -- now he's not -- asked if I lost weight on purpose or if there was some... medical... reason for the weight loss.

Weight loss is not linear. It's normal to plateau for a while. You may have gotten used to losing at a nice, steady pace, but that's only rarely how someone's weight loss journey works. When I was losing, I'd go weeks without losing an ounce -- and then, suddenly, 5 lbs would come off over a couple of days. This will…

Hm. I just had myself dunked the other day, and I have to say the Navy Method -- which I hadn't actually heard of before seeing this thread -- was almost spot on for me. Now, if only I looked like the picture for my BF%, I'd be very happy.

I regularly get my naughty bits and upper legs waxed. Since I have hardly any body hair anyway, there's no point in keeping what little I have.

I take mine off for exercise, generally speaking. They just get smudged.

If your T3 and T4 levels are off, see an endocrinologist and take care of that first. CICO always works, but this messes badly with the CO half of the equation. And you need to have them properly balanced for good health anyway.

I have Hashimoto's and my thyroid pretty much stopped working entirely about 10 years ago. (Come to think of it, it been just about exactly 10 years. How time flies.) After that, my biggest problem was motivating myself to start exercising again and taking my fitness and weight seriously, not my hormone levels, which are…

Since I just got dunked this morning I know exactly what my lean mass is, and my BMI is pretty much spot on. Guys should just admit they're a bit on the heavy side and deal with it.

It depends on the serving. As I mentioned earlier I prefer Fage for my Greek yogurt -- the "Total 0%" nonfat kind -- and by itself it may not serve OP because I eat it plain and it's not particularly sweet. However, they list the serving size for their 1 kg container at 227g. This gets you 23g of protein in 130 calories,…

It thicker. When they strain it -- this is what makes it "Greek" -- it removes much of the liquid. My favorite is Fage. Tried Chobani for the first time the other day, and it tasted like pickles. Not quite what I was hoping for.

Yes, that's why I mentioned more than once metric.

Organic molecules are often named by splitting it up into discrete groups and then naming off the groups. "Phenyl" is a ring of 6 carbon atoms, similar to benzene but with a missing hydrogen atom making a bond available for attachment to other groups. (Hence, "phenylalanine".) It has nothing to do with the "phen" in…

The number of syllables in the name of a substance has nothing to do with it being poison. "Lead" has only one syllable, after all. Phenylalanine is an amino acid commonly found in, among many other natural sources, breast milk. It plays enough important roles in our metabolism that there's a minimum daily requirement…

It "can be" not 20% off, but within a 20% range at most. When there are at least 51 calories in a serving, FDA rules allow rounding to the nearest increment of 10. At 50 calories that means an error of +/- 5 calories -- which is 10% above or below, not 20. See…

I'd say that "thinking differently about food" is the very definition of "naturally thin". Approaching food mainly as fuel doesn't have to be dreary, and it doesn't mean you don't enjoy food. It means that you don't indulge yourself in that particular pleasure unnecessarily. Most pleasures can be harmful if overdone, and…

Check your waist-hip ratio. If that's good, don't worry about your BMI so much. If you have a reasonably accurate measure of your body fat and it's acceptably low, worry about your BMI even less.

If bread is so bad for you, I wonder how Western Civilization ever survived.