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I am 5'2" and trying to get to 145 lbs. Currently 156.8 lbs and a size 6-8.

Whoa! That's pretty interesting.

I think they taste pretty good, but maybe that's just me. They have a coffee flavored one that was my favorite.

Seems reasonable. Are people who have gastric bypass at higher risk for infections then, since they can barely eat anything? I'm not having gastric bypass, it just made me think.

There is a documentary on Youtube called Why Thin People are Not Fat or something to that effect. There's a lot of science. What happens to the extra calories depends a lot on the individual. Some of it is burned off as excess body heat. Some gain almost all of the excess as muscle even if they are not lifting weights.

Optimum Nutrition milk chocolate whey powder is pretty good. Combat is pretty good too but i bit more $.

You can either go to maintenance and do a recomp, which will be slower, or you can set it to gain a small amount, and then do a cut after a few months. Either way, if you want to gain muscle you don't want to be in a deficit, and you will want to get enough protein and lift heavy.

The foods we eat today are nothing at all like what existed in caveman times. The animals are bred to have more meat and fat. Fruits and vegetables are much larger, have a lot less fiber, and a lot more natural sugars. Grains had a lot more fiber and had to be painstakingly processed by hand to be eaten.

Wait, nevermind! I figured it out.

I like Combat protein powder. It's a blend of whey, casein, and egg protein I think.

It's not hard at all. At my heaviest I would eat two donuts and a pint of chocolate milk for breakfast every day (about 300 per donut, and over 400 for the milk). Lunch was a sandwich, a cookie, and a 20 oz Pepsi from Quizno's (about 800 for the sandwich, 300 for the cookie and another 300 for the soda). Dinner was an…

OP if it makes you feel better, at my highest weight I was eating 5000 to 6000 calories a day. That was 7 years ago. My weight has gone down and up a few times since then, but i'm currently 50 lbs less than I was at my highest, and I can't eat like that any more. Even when I have days where i feel like a bottomless pit and…

No, not unless they completely stop eating fat, which is dangerous. You will gain fat too, but only proportionate to the amount you eat.

First of all, where do you get this idea that vegans don't eat fat? That's ridiculous. Second, while my links are not directly to scientific studies, they do cite their sources which are just as reputable as yours.

Those articles include links to or data from actual studies. Also, while you might gain weight from eating a surplus of protein or carbs, you will NOT gain fat.

Not true either. https://www.t-nation.com/diet-fat-loss/protein-will-not-make-you-fat

A calorie is NOT a calorie http://www.precisionnutrition.com/digesting-whole-vs-processed-foods http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2011/12/08/why-calorie-counts-are-wrong-cooked-food-provides-a-lot-more-energy/#.V9jt5j9lC2c

I don't have a goal weight. I have a lot more lean body mass than I did last time around, so it's not going to be the same. I just want something that will not be super hard to maintain.

Bananas Avocado Whatever fruit is in season Broccoli Carrots Potatoes Bell peppers Cucumber Celery Bagged Cole slaw mix (just the shredded cabbage and carrots. I use it for salad and add it to stir fry) Frozen Gardien vegan "meat" products (my meat eating family loves them and they are easy for my teenager to make for…

Read "Rethinking Thin" by Gina Kolata. There is far more research out there than I can condense into a message board post. "Why Diets Make Us Fat" is another good one written by a neuroscientist.

Except with women we are mostly in a healthy weight range at the time of our first diet. If I could go back I never would have started. It's not just "going back to your old habits" either. Dieting changes your chemistry. It changes you on a metabolic level, and the changes persist long past the point where you've regained…

There is a lot of research to back this theory up. You're not wrong. I was 12 years old and 110lbs when I went on my first diet. Ten years later I weighed almost 100 lbs more.

Exactly. I get tired of the whole "you gained a few pounds? You MUST be eating more than you are admitting to." It doesn't work that way. A person can gain a lot of weight without gaining any fat.

Not to derail this conversation but this annoys the *kitten* out of me. A caloric surplus is NOT the only possible cause of weight gain. My husband went to urgent care because he couldn't stop coughing and had gained a lot of weight really quickly. At first they treated him like crap. Just another fat diabetic guy who eats…

I use the gardien teriyaki ones, I just don't use the sauce that comes with it. And i use the tofutti sour cream. Pretty close to the real thing!

Fajitas made with vegan chicken strips, bell peppers, vegan sour cream and cilantro and vegan refried beans on the side.

Well, right now I am 162, so 1.5 lbs a week would be a bit less than 1%, right? I am still wanting to lose 15-20 more. Hard to say what I want my goal weight to be because I've never had this much lean mass before, and I'd like to keep as much as I can, but I have no desire to be much less than 25% body fat. It's just too…

PBJ, protein shake with frozen fruit and/or raw greens, protein bars, Odwalla or Clif bars, a banana or apple, hard boiled eggs, yogurt, a whole grain bagel. I almost never cook breakfast.

This is a false equivilency. It's cheaper to cook healthy food at home than it is to eat outside the home all the time, but those aren't really comparable. If you are already eating at home most of the time anyway then grocery shopping is going to run you a lot more eating lean proteins and produce than it will eating lots…

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