JBanx256 Member

About an hour away - live in Catawba County

Not gonna lie, I clicked cause I love your screen name! :D Regardless, welcome!

There is ALWAYS hope & I love your "young at heart" attitude! Best wishes for success!

If you've only been working out with him for 2 weeks, then saying he's increasing the weight "every week" means he's increased the weight...how many times? Not exactly alarming. And he obviously started you at a very conservative load. Are you excessively sore or do you feel as though you are in danger of hurting yourself…

buckeyes are legit my kryptonite!

First, congrats on your progress so far! You've obviously done a lot of hard work to get your weight/prediabetes down like that! Secondly, do not put one single ounce of faith into what the silly doohickies that supposedly measure your bodyfat % tell you. At best, they can be somewhat useful for tracking progress as long…

Science says don't waste your money. Validity of continuous glucose monitoring for categorizing glycemic responses to diet: implications for use in personalized nutrition https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/115/6/1569/6522168?login=false Dr. Eric Trexler did a research review on that paper, and while for obvious reasons…

Hi Emery! 40/F here, have competed in bodybuilding as well as powerlifting. Not currently training for anything in particular (meaning no immediate competition plans) other than the love for it & keeping myself sane :) I post regularly (and curse like a sailor, so heads-up there), feel free to shoot me a FR if so inclined.

Randomly stumbled upon this paper & thought this may be a good place to share :) Give Your Ideas Some Legs: The Positive Effect of Walking on Creative Thinking https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/xlm-a0036577.pdf

Heck yea, with Thanksgiving & Christmas & all the goodies that they entail...*rubs belly* BRING IT ON

You are nowhere in the ballpark of 16% BF. This visual estimation guide isn't perfect, but it's at least reasonable: I will cast another vote for not trying to keep pushing your weight up at this point. You are really not in a good place for a decent p-ratio right now; you're just going to accumulate a lot of fat. While…

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@kshama2001 - any update?!? How are you doing?

Another vote here for good old-fashioned spiral notebook & ink in the gym. I've actually got my programming in a spreadsheet that I can pull up on my phone in Google Sheets, and I'll write down the movement/sets/loads/etc in advance, but then actually write down reps & any notes as I go along during the session. I just…

I haven't read through all 5 pages of comments, so forgive me if I'm repeating something anyone else has already posted. But there's an absolutely fantastic article on the idea of sugar addiction by Dr. James Kreiger; unfortunately it's behind a paywall so I can't link the full text here. However, I'm gonna copy/paste a…

Sorta-kinda on-off topic, but there have been studies about women's cravings during menstruation - depending on where in the world you live, your cravings are different. Eg, as a little girl in the US, if you heard your mom/big sister/whoever complain and say they were craving chocolate, that kind of "programmed" you to…

@CeeBeeSlim - forgot to ask - do you use an app that shows weight trend? That may support your sanity in regards to fluctuations. Lets you separate the signal from the noise.

@CeeBeeSlim TBH I don't like the idea...because what is going to happen when you increase your cals back up from poverty levels (and to be clear - "poverty macros" isn't supposed to be disparaging; it's a fairly common phrase in the BB/physique world. Absolutely not intended to be offensive, but apologies to anyone who…

@k8richly glad to have ya! @CeeBeeSlim - Oh yeah, it's not a perpetual thing. That said, the day or so after a particularly nasty leg session, I'll see a good bump up in scale weight. I'm pretty comfortable with scale fluctuations in general - a couple/few pounds up/down won't send me into a tizzy (I've seen up to…

@CeeBeeSlim It's very easy to get completely consumed by the details. "Majoring in the minors," so to speak. I like this image a lot: Make sure you address the big rocks before worrying about the pebbles, and most people really never get to a point where they need to lose sleep over the granules of sand.

@CeeBeeSlim - I'm sure that some foods do increase inflammation to some degree, but I really haven't taken a deep dive into it and I'm personally not at a point where I'm going to change my diet around that. I think it's one of those things where if there is a distinct health concern and there may be a benefit to some…

@CeeBeeSlim quick & dirty LBM calculations... First, use bodyweight & BF estimate to calculate total BF in pounds: (BW in lbs) X (est BF % / 100) = total BF in lbs Then subtract total BF from your BW to get LBM: (BW in lbs) - (total BF in lbs) So, if you're 129 lbs and you're estimating your BF% to be in the neighborhood…

On the other end of the spectrum, I've had to go to Urgent Care while on duty (LEO). When the nurse asked me to step on the scale I just kinda looked at her for a second like...seriously? And then she laughed; she'd just been on auto-pilot when she asked, cause I'm wearing >20 pounds of gear (ballistic vest, duty belt),…

@CeeBeeSlim and a bit more...(sorry I'm at work and the rookie is driving so I'm kinda all over the place here) Thoughts on macros: -any idea of your estimated bodyfat %? The reason I'm asking is for your macros, shoot for the neighborhood of 1g per pound of LBM. Or you can go with 1gr/lb of your target bodyweight. -your…

YIKES. YIKES AGAIN. 2 thoughts: -Are you willing to go at a slower rate of loss? Half pound a week? That would not have you going QUITE so low in calories. -Can you increase activity a bit - maybe increase step count? That would give you some more calories to play with too. Not a ton of course, but enough to be not quite…

I was vegetarian (lacto-ovo) for several years; the last powerlifting meet I did while veggie, if I'd made my final deadlift attempt, I would have totaled elite. I think I was 27 years old at the time. Now I'm omnivorous and the last PL meet I did, I totaled elite at 38 years old (IIRC, it was 315 squat, 215 bench, 365…

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY we frens now! :)

Atheist here too, but you'll be in my thoughts today. Please post and let us know how it went! <3

I turned 40 earlier this year (March)!

@CeeBeeSlim thank ya <3 I don't know if it's still this way, but at one point I know that MFP wouldn't actually let you message someone not on your friends list (you could type out the message and hit send, wouldn't get any sort of error message, but...it just wouldn't go through). So I just shot you a FR