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Without even looking up brain studies I'm going to say that for most people sugar causes a brief but intense release of a host of brain chemicals including dopamine and seratonin. I have experience with addiction and a good sugar buzz could be momentarily compared to a low dose opiate buzz. The sugar high is fleeting but…
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Two things on self control: If I cheat early in the day then I will lose all control for that day but if I eat clean all day and especially if I've worked out as well then it's easy to eat clean for the remainder of the day. If I eat clean for one day then I get more motivation on the 2nd day and once I put a week of…
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Around 18% seems like a good guess. You have a bicep vein which is usually the first sign of vascularity/leanness. When my abs are just about faded like your are I also have a big gut and a fat face. You don't have either of those so I would say you are carrying the weight really well. This is probably your natural bf…
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I've done ~3 lbs weekly with lifting, daily cardio and a super strict diet - lean protein, good fats (good ratio of omega 3, 6, 9 and saturated fat), moderate to low complex carb, no sugar, some fruit, tons of plain vegetables. But my last cutting phase was much slower as I ate much more fruit and kept my complex carbs…
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Hmmm, I do think it's a cheat day. How much more evidence do we need that food can be really bad for us. Obesity and type 2 diabeties are higher than ever. Eating a large extra cheese pizza and 1/4 gallon of ice cream with caramel added (one of my cheats) will significantly shorten your life if eaten daily.
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Boost is not a good choice for protein, not the ones I've seen. I saw one with 15gr of sugar and one with even more. This is junk food. You can buy 2lbs of powder in most supermarkets with 1 or 2 gr sugar per scoop (30 gr protein per scoop) for around $20. Body Fortress is decent. Beware of yogurt also because it tends to…
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Goal weights are tricky because muscle has weight and you also might have a certain look you are going for (for example a slight 6-pack). It's very hard to say how much bodyfat we have to lose to look a certain way. You could hit your weight but still have more BF that you want or your weight could be too low and you have…
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Try hitting each muscle only 1x per week. So you can do like chest-tri one day, back-bi, shoulders one day then legs. On a few of the off days come home and jog in place, shadow box, jumping jacks, whatever, in front of the tv for 30 min. Muscles don't recover in 2 days the micro-tears are still healing so you can't grow…
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You don't need a leg day. There are no strict rules here. However you mentioned athletic look as a motivation, there isn't anything more athletic looking than having well built legs. I'm not talking about huge bodybuilder legs either. Guys in the gym who look in shape but have skinny legs do not look remotely close to as…
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It's a tough subject. When I was married my wife went from 155 to 185 and I loved it. But it's because she's curvy, she has hips and a big booty. I thought she was sexier at her heavy weight. But when she wanted to lose it that's fine too. But I've dated women who went from curvy to round (just fat) and although we were…
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Kitchen. When I get abs do do lift plus daily cardio but I do that year round. The only time I get abs is when I get my diet under strict control along with working out. So I have to say kitchen. This most recent time I got lean I NEVER did any ab work and I have the best abs I've ever had. This is because I'm a little…
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Nice. I never got why people get so worked up over aspartame. I spent lots of time in the 90's looking for actual papers on the dangers of sucralose and aspartame but only found positive reports. It's very true how pseudo-science will become gospel with fringe substances that have only anecdotal evidence for it's harm. But…
