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Add me! Mostly running now because it's minus 20 outside, but sometimes do spin bike rides to stay in shape. I'm a long distance rider in the summer, but am also starting to train for triathlons, so just short ones for now! I would like to lose 20-30 lbs, but more importantly increase my cardio capacity.

If I drink, I drink vodka soda with lime or lemon. That way I am only getting the vodka calories and I am staying more hydrated. You can save "extra room" by eating a little less in the preceding days, but what I would really watch out for is drunk snacking. It's my downfall. Try an plan out what food you want to eat so…

It's Health at Any Size, not Healthy at Any Size - which means that anyone, no matter what their current weight can strive to be more healthy, i.e there is no lost cause. It's been distorted to mean that anyone at any size can be healthy.

Daily, and then I plot it in excel to see the over all trends.

Exercise is important for yur health for sure, but the most important aspect of weight loss is maintaining a calorie deficit. Think about it this way, you have to work quite hard to burn 300 calories 3x per week though exercise, but it's fairly simple to alter your diet to remove 130 calories below your TDEE each day. So,…

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You eat at a deficit to get your body fat down. You should include weightlifting and adequate protein intake to help preserve the muscles you do have while losing that weight.

You need a calorie surplus to build new muscle, and you need a calorie deficit to "see" that muscle if you've got body fat covering it. There is no reason not to lift heavy weight just because you can't see it yet. You won't see the definition until you lose body fat, but you need to build something underneath there to see!

Sad that some feel that acheiving thinness is the only reason to exercise. It shows that in general people don't understand that the main contributor to weight loss is diet. Keep on with your bad self and get those muscle (and health) gains. You'll be glad you took care of your cardiovascular, muscle and bone system as you…

I sent you a request! I'm a powerlifter. I am aiming on dropping a weight class (~20 lbs) in real weight loss for may of next year, but I've had some decent luck with cutting water weight on 24-hour weigh in events, close to 6 lbs. Unfortunelty, half the events I do are 2 hour weigh ins, so that doesn't really work.

I feel so much better after giving it up. I'm not entirely inflexible, but I wil only drink on very special occasions and if it has been preplanned. For example, I went out for my friends milestone birthday ths weekend which included drinking and dancing. But the fact that I was so sluggish and awful feeling the day after…

Revia/Depade and Wellbutrin. Zyban is Wellbutrin packaged for smoking cessation.

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Hope it works for you. It will be interesting to see what the pharms package welbutrin as next. First it's a smoking cessation aid. Now for weight loss.

No. Food calories are "Calories", which are 1000 "calories", which is the unit of measure people use to perpetuate this ridiculous notion.

Good thing we don't use inches to measure conductivity. Just like we don't use calories to measure micro or macronutrient content.

Yay strong lifts! I did like the program, and the app is the best I've ever seen for tracking exercise. I have since switched to periodization work. If you can only do two days, then do what you can. Some is better than none. I would invest in microplates - a set of four 1 lb (half kilo?) plates to move up no more than 2…

Think back to when you gained the weight. It was gradual, creeping, right? It will be the same for the loss. Focus on your health. You know you need to lose the weight. Would you rather be content with the status quo and ravaged by the health effects of obesity, or get healthy and face the *slim* possibility of feeling…

This! And how will you keep up with the physical demands if you aren't treating your body right?

It's a hard habit to break, but once someone is truly honest about how much they are eating, it's a lot easier to make healthy and satisfying choices that will let them maintain the calorie deficit in relative comfort and then make good decisions to maintain the loss. You need to be honest about everything entering your…

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I find bodybuilding.com to be very useful. Please remember that it takes eating at a surplus to build appreciable muscle, so you'll probably want to eat a deficit (and strength training of course) until you're happy with your body fat, then start eating at a surplus with serious strength training to build the muscles. I'm…

+1 Unless someone asks for advice, I'd consider it rude to give.

I'm poop scientist.

Of course you should talk to a medical professional, but I have about 11% curvature, and I lift heavy! I find that a barbell pad really helps with squats, but my deadlift and benches are fine.

Toronto here :-)

How do you measure your food? It's all to common to underestimate. I used to do it myself! I would highly recommend buying a food scale. Maybe those 1200 calories are closer to 2000. Or course, it would be wise to see a doctor about the fatigue and coldness, as that may point to another issue.

I'm eating a deficit right now, but my the big lift part of my routine right now is: Deads: 125lbs x 8 Squat: 105lbs x 10 Incline bench: 55lbs x 10 1 rep maxes I can recall at about 10-20 lbs more than I am right now were: Dead: 175 Bench: 90 Squat: 135 Been lifting since May 2013.