jdog022 Member

What does your doctor say?

Yet 100% of people will achieve weight loss in a calorie deficit. Not so different after all

Say what?

Care to reference some scientific evidence?

What’s up with you shoulder? Mines a mess

Your TDEE is 3400+ and your cutting at 1600 cals with two cardio sessions a day? Well anyways first your Apple Watch probably isn’t even remotely accurate. And second I’d guess you may not be accurately measuring your intake. And did you weigh every day or just twice total

People suck. That’s my summary. I’ve been counting calories for 3 years and to this day maybe 3 people know. When I get asked how I lost weight I never elaborate

I never look like I work out unless I’m actually working out. That natty life

The study was a 17 year study with very little to no control over variables. It’s your typical correlation does not equal causation. It didn’t find any biomechanical link between eggs and heart disease. It truly amazes me the amount of studies that are incredibly flawed in design, make wild claims, gain massive popularity…

Holy crap. That’s way to much per workout 3-4 days a week. I second what lemon says. Choose a program from the sticky. Upper lower or a full body

I don’t understand. pasta is like 200 calories. Half cup sauce maybe 70 cals tops. Your having trouble fitting that in?

Your on your second week of cutting at 12% body fat? Exactly what kinda bulk was this? How steep are you cutting cals/carbs? On my cuts I didn’t drop any numbers till like week 14

Or eat unhealthy, whatever that means, and have a snack, which I’m not sure we’re calling out snacks, and still be on track because you worked it into your day.

A good safe rule of thumb is 1% per week. Forget working in pounds as one number couldn’t apply universally depend on starting point

This is a very popular program. Lots of info in terms of sets, reps , progression, etc . The link above ( thanks kami) and general googling can find you a significant amount of info on this. More then I could type. YouTube for exercise form if needed and new to it. I think there are free iOS and android apps for it too.…

Strong lifts 5x5 is a great beginner program. Only 3x a week. Cardio can help create a calorie deficit but weight lifting in a deficit helps your body hang on to muscle. Don’t end up skinny fat. Prioritize weight training at the gym.

Your depleting your body of its immediate energy storage which is mainly Muscle and liver glycogen. decreased food is also decreased food in your gut which was weight. Plus the carb drop as mentioned which equals some water Drop. Changing your percentage doesn’t mean you didn’t decrease your carbs overall? Usually the…

You didn’t mention how many calories your eating nor if you are using a food scale to measure that intake. I also wouldn’t consider two weeks a stall especially for females where that water retention thing tends happens once a month and could mask fat loss

Ok. Then go give it a try. It’s on youtube so I’m sure it’s not BS

You’ll be starving and won’t last 3 days. Could it work? In what sense? Losing weight is about be in an appropriate caloric deficit. That’s literally it And being healthy is about meeting nutritional minimums and yes both are possible at the same time

I don’t need to find motivation for something I enjoy doing. Although to be fair I didn’t always feel this way so initially the motivation came from not wanting to die at 40 from poor health and habits

Reached it? Like ever? Absolutely but Because weight loss is not linear it usually won’t be spot on at 5 weeks but do this long enough and every once in a while it will be correct and you’ll get “there”

If you can add a third day then 3x a week full body can be a fantastic program

My injury is also my clavicle. But an overuse Injury where the bone starts to reabsorb and melt away. It’s called distal clavicle osteolosis. Interestingly my other AC joint is fine. When I was 20 I had a torn labrum surgically repaired and later an ac joint separation. Both ice hockey injuries and I wonder if that some…

Hey it’s all good. I appreciate that and I know words on a page don’t necessarily come off right anyways. But anywho it was over months. First bulk was 8 months. Second I felt like I needed even longer which was ten months and just ended. Sometimes I feel like a nice 2 year bulk might be worth it. It’s pretty hard guess…

Your maintenance calories are irrelevant. yes he’s probably a hard gainer but we don’t know what he’s eating now. Maybe it’s 1500 Thanks for pointing out that I simply don’t know what I’m talking about based on your opinion and without zero knowledge of my background or experience nor without siting studies that show…

Good grief do not start eating 4500 calories. You cannot force feed muscle growth and we have no idea what he’s at now to make such a suggestion. Calories should be slowly increased over time at stalls which sounds like now. Maybe 200 more calorie and see what happens over a couple weeks and adjust as needed. Aim to gain…

Deadlift is the biggest back builder out there . Yeah would rows and pull up be good? Absolutely. But the foundation lifts target all muscles well enough for a newbie for quite an some time before the volume lifts are required. Again the OP doesn’t wanna do much so...

If you want to think so. Sure

Huh? no. Compounds that train multiple muscle groups should be the focus. The core 4. Especially for a newbie and someone who said they can’t really dedicate much time and will only do a couple things