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I generally eat most (generally all, but the odd day I may eat a bit sooner due to how the day pans out) of my cals between 2pm-9pm. It's just how it works best for me (when I'm hungry, when I have time). I eat a relatively small lunch (500ish cals),then generally a bigger supper (800ish), and leave around 500ish for…

Thanks everyone. I do cat/cow into kinda child's pose as well as doing cobra, though not in a sequence

Thanks again. Today I focused even more on tilting my pelvis under to create a neutral spine. It felt like I was overdoing it (in my mind), but it really did help prevent my lower back from acting up so maybe I just simple wasn't quite going far enough with it before. I think I'm gonna try to bite the bullet and bring a…

I am constantly up and down for my job, I also do a several sets of stairs throughout the day as I work from my basement and greet clients on my main floor, and especially the days I don't have an assistant I stand for about half of my workday (varied standing and sitting throughout the day). So the workday probably…

Thanks everyone. I have seen physio and chiro for it. It's something I've had issues with for years before lifting but it's annoying it's interfering with my lifting now. I don't have a belt, I honestly feel like I'd feel like a poser at this pointing in my lifting journey haha. I'm just doing 'normal/fitness' lifting, not…

Lower body (hip thrust, single leg rdl, leg press, Bulgarian split squat, abductor, adductor), and walked the dogs.

Upper body (lat pulldown, single arm cable row, bench press, shoulder press, bicep curl, skull crusher, lateral raises) and walk the dogs.

Thank you! That’s a great explanation.

I would just enter it as a normal day and not worry about trying to enter it in some IF way. I IF in that I happen to eat generally between 2:30pm-9pm (it just works with my day well/when I'm hungry) and I just enter it normally. If you were doing something like eating between 10pm-5am where it's going overnight then you'd…

IF only works if it helps you to eat less calories. If you still eat too many calories it won't help at all. I IF but not 'on purpose' it's just what works well in my day to eat/when I'm hungry.

My brother is taking it, at the lowest dose, and he finds it very helpful. It simply makes him crave food less. I'm doing it 'the old fashioned way' and I'm hoping not to go on it. I'm doing great currently. I'm 4 months in, really enjoying the gym, and not struggling with my eating, but also not being restrictive in a way…

Thanks everyone. I tried to go to a thrift store the other day. I don't enjoy thrifting haha. But I was gonna try, but the thrift store had no change rooms and especially since I have no idea what size I currently am it was impossible to actually do any shopping. (even if I knew my size, pants can vary so wildly in how…

Thank you. I don't thift much, and I find our thrift stores fairly expensive, but maybe I'll take a look for a piece or 2.

I'm not there yet but I seen some tips and I would slowly raise your calories up. Maybe add 50 per day for a week, then add another 50 the next week and ease your way up. That way you won't see much of a weight jump initially and you can ease your way up to see where your maintenance cals really are.

More of a lunch since I don't eat early in the mornings, but a breakfast type meal. Breakfast sandwich of egg/egg whites, bacon, cheese, sriracha sauce on an everything bagel. Premade a bunch of egg so I can just heat it up for meals.

After 35 pounds (or about that, I haven't weighed since Dec 1) some of my pants are finally starting to feel looser on me. All still wearable, but at least starting to feel looser. I know most of my pants are of stretchy material or have elastic waist band or such, but I was still starting to feel like I'd never notice a…

I don't like squatting cause it takes all the breath out of me. I generally don't have to take a break for my muscles, I have to take a break to not pass out.

I’m still on my way, but I felt quite good yesterday in the purple sweater. I’m almost 4 months in, lift weights 4 times a week. I’m trying to focus on health and how I look rather than the scale but I’m around 35 pounds down (only weigh once a month so not sure what I am exactly).

Today was leg day (hip thrust, squat, RDL, bulgarian, abduction, adduction) but let me tell you that it sucked. THe last couple days I have been really tired for some reason and I barely finished my workout and most exercises I either did less reps or less weight than previous. I yawned the entire workout. I also did my…

I did upper body today, it was however not a great workout. I just felt really tired today and had a hard time pushing myself like I usually do. Chest Press, shoulder press, skullcrusher, bicep curl, lat pulldown, lat raises, bentover row. I also had to do my physio exercises.

Try to find exercise you enjoy. Last time I worked out, I did multiple days of cardio and weight training. I'm doing just weights now and I'm over 3.5 months in and I don't have to force myself to the gym, I want to go. I do try to walk my dogs a bit more to get some extra steps in for 'cardio' (and I do dog sports that…

I did a light upper body pull day and just a couple leg exercises. I'm having a shoulder flare up and have a mild leg tweak so I'm having to be light and careful. (which is driving me crazy haha)

Thank you. I had given some thought to the types of cardio that I thought would most effect it but that did make me think more of it and decide to keep my cardio to walking the dogs for now. It's a super minor tweak. Just feel a tiny bit when I do something that resembles an rdl movement (like picking up my tiny dog from…

Do you have a recommendation?

Thank you! I'll swap leg day for cardio till it's feeling 100% then ease back in. I think it was probably a combo of form and too much weight maybe. I haven't gone to the gym in years and only started back up at the start of September and I have never done some of these exercises like Hip Thrusts and RDLs and I did…

Thank you everyone. I'll look into the suggestions!

Thank you everyone for the advice!

Thank you. Cross trainers are what I have used in the past so I'll have to do more searching for that. I could do the deadlifts with dumbbells possibly, I would have to see what weights my gym has. Thanks for the info!