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If you want to see if there is any skew in your REE/RMR due to your condition you can get a metabolic test done at most medical laboratories for around $100. That said, if your dosage of meds is indeed in flux then you might want to get everything normalized before you do any testing.

LOL. 1RM 280 lbs right now. Medium term goal of 300.

Deads: up by 120 lbs (although I was a complete scrub at the beginning of 2017)

You might find it helpful to think of this in terms of diet and yoga being two variables in an equation - the equation being your body's energy balance. If you continue eating at your standard level (which I assume is presently at a level where your weight is static) but do yoga, you'll experience a very minor weight loss…

As someone who's never owned a car but managed to pump gas for his girlfriend without blowing up her car on the first attempt let me say: any able-bodied people who are complaining about this are absolutely bonkers.

Don't feel bad - my squat blows (partially due to my body geometry). Just over bodyweight 1RM right now. My DL isn't awful though. :smile:

What's your squat? I don't use machines so I'm curious what the relationship between leg press and squat is, if indeed it can scale linearly between them.

I don't think this is likely to be a magic bullet for you but there's a really good book called 'Diet Cults' that devotes a good amount of its length to sensible discussion of what makes for prolonged weight loss and maintenance. I think it (very slightly) overestimates the importance of exercise in the equation (and I say…

On my low-calorie cycle days (rest days) I eat about 2300 calories but also have to hit 173 grams protein, and I don't eat meat. Basically all I eat on those days is protein-geared dairy items with a little veg and some snacks on the side.

I gained 25 lbs at .5 lb per week (so, reasonably slow) and of that, during a heavy weightlifting regimen while supplementing with creatine monohydrate, about 17 lbs were muscle and 8 were fat. As a woman you'll gain proportionally less muscle. Slow and steady wins the race for good body composition, in my books. Edit: Oh,…

Well, I'm just a sysadmin by day and a guinea pig for Dr. Bandegan, but if I'm reading the study's RDA correctly, 1 g per lb / 2.2 g per kg lines up for strength athletes, but for endurance athletes more is required - which I find interesting and unexpected. It was only one study, mind you, but the methodology seemed…

I've only ever really worried about hitting my initial quantity in grams without adjusting it for eating beyond my original calorie goal, except on days of very high physical exertion (2000+ calories worth of exercise) where I let it drift upwards of 200, say, from my original 173. That said, I was a study participant with…

Funny coincidence - another Londoner here.

True - although speaking for myself I do protein by grams (1 g per lb bodyweight) and fat and carbs by percentage because I favour carbs on lifting days and fat on non-lifting days, and broadly don't care about their amounts in grams. But that's just to fit the vain aspirations of a weightlifter.

I'll never forget the moment I stopped after a day of bicycle touring (a large distance, so I could afford the calories) and had a dinner at a Cracker Barrel near Saginaw, Michigan. 3000+ calories in the dessert, not even beginning to include dinner. I only logged when I got back to my hotel room, and my jaw actually…

From what I can gather it looks like your desired ratios are: CHO: 5% of calories FAT: 75% PRO: 20% And you ate honey containing 17 g of CHO, and creamer containing 1 g of FAT. So of what you've logged today: CHO: 80% FAT: 16% PRO: 4% (I assume this has to do with fractional grams / rounding due to the small quantities of…

I find the observable results from my weight management very encouraging - when I was cutting down to my leanest I found it rewarding to note how I could climb hills on my bike faster, or improve on my half-marathon times. I remember the first time I went running and realized my pectorals didn't have any fat on them.…

Psychological discomfort aside, scales can be a big asset here. If you don't have one already, let me be the first person to recommend you get a good digital food scale, which is a huge help for accurate logging of meals at home (and at work if you have a secondary scale like me, the token weirdo in the office, at work).…

Well, as far as I can tell you are a statistical outlier that way - you'd have to weigh a fair bit to be able to lose a pound per week at 1200 calories and a sedentary level of activity. I see how the app's 'one size fits all' approach that way might gall you; if it's fair to squawk at everyone regardless of height for…

I'd just add a suggestion that you lift heavy, whatever heavy is for you, with a goal of progressively adding more weight. I only bring it up because I not-so-long-ago saw someone on these forums suggest another person start deadlifting with 5 lb dumbbells and I still have nightmares about that, haha. :smile:

Two-plus year user here, semi-accomplished amateur athlete, blah blah blah. :smile: People can readily point you at some stickied threads here in terms of frequently given tips, et cetera, but beyond telling you to use the app to calculate your number of calories, to weigh as much of your food as possible, to log…

What are your daily protein requirements? I eat a ton of it as a vegetarian, and you can get a very high ratio of protein to other macronutrients from things like: Low-fat cottage cheese - 14 grams per serving 0% Greek yogurt or skyr (Icelandic yogurt) - 22 grams per serving Whey protein isolate (powder) - 20-24 grams per…

My FR920XT syncs through Garmin Connect to MFP just fine - the API that interconnects Garmin and MFP is device-agnostic as far as I know. What have you done to connect the two?

I personally switched to Wendler 5/3/1 (the newer revision from 'Beyond 5/3/1', and I do a longer cycle before deload weeks). The final working sets are As Many Reps as Possible (AMRAP), although the actual number will vary. You could also do the 'Boring But Big' assistance sets, which are lower weight, higher repetitions…

I have a light frame / skeleton (which is a possibility but still only within certain limits) and used to think I was naturally skinny as I was never muscular in my youth, ie. before I started lifting weights. When I started paying attention to the facts of my metabolism and my nutrition I realized that a) I had been…

I try to be level-headed (or skeptical, depending on my mood) about a lot of 21st century tech wank (and I say that as a tech worker of more than a decade) but I can say from two years of personal experience that the nutritional tracking enabled by MFP and comparable apps is revolutionary. If you put in the work on…

I eat 170-190 grams of protein per day, and my kidneys haven't shut down yet lol. I'm sure serious roid rage types eat vastly more than even that.

Feel free to add me; triathlete, weightlifter, IT worker by day. I log daily and stay pretty rigidly on track.

On the plus side, your wife may have slipped up: reduction of adipose tissue contributes to an increase in serum testosterone levels. :) https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ije/2012/789653/

If you're looking to get stronger you're going to need to be bigger. I was down to a BMI of 18.75 for my racing weight in 2016 and strength wasn't even remotely on my radar. I bulked from that to my current BMI of 22.2 eating 3400 calories a day, plus exercise calories. If 2200 feels like a lot to you, you're going to have…