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Like I suggested: read the book and give it a try. Works for me and ANYONE else I've ever talked to who has tried it. It worked for Duke, the Army, the many who've trained under this regimen including Casey Vitore...I'm busy. I'm adding reps and/or weight to every exercise, every week based on the notion we're not giving…

Whatever works for you man...I'd weigh EVERY day and take swings with a grain of salt...the more frequent you weigh in, the less momentous each number you see becomes...you see the trend, the development of good data. Rather than periodic measurements that may break your heart on weigh-in day due to some water gain,…

A good workout would satisfy both...follow the High Intensity Training guide for a great 2-4-1. No rest between sets, single sets to true failure, 15-30 minutes for a total workout that keeps your heart rate around 150 BPM and shreds muscle tissue...rest one week, repeat.

Since we're on a forum I'll add to this that if you're lifting more than once a week you're wasting your time. And if you're doing more than one set you're not working to true failure. High Intensity Training works and I think everyone should put their lifting routines away for two weeks, read the book by Dr. Ellington…

I don't believe sodium is as bad for us as it's made out to be...it's one of the few substances (other than vitamins B & C) that can be easily flushed out with water. Not a single enzymatic, hormonal process required. Your body will hang on to water if you can't get it flushed out and maintain a minimum water level. No…

Like I did on Thanksgiving, weigh a slice of whatever cake you want to eat! Enjoy the day...MFP isn't about sacrificing...it's about getting the calories you need to live and you should eat the food you love...it just may not be the amounts we're used to eating. If it's about the cake, skip the ice cream. Skip part of the…

Keep up the good work! One phrase: water weight. With all the work you're doing, you're quite possibly retaining water in swollen muscles...not to be confused with bulking up (adding muscle tissue) but the inflammation process while your body is recooperating. You may be overdoing it and your body is overwhelmed with the…

Joe Frazier would shudder to hear boxing referred to as "upper body." If it's done standing the ankle will be tested, and boxing is no exception. That said you can work a speed bag with little or no impact to an ankle. Heavily taped the ankle could be spared punching a heavy bag but I'd find another way. Other than the…

About 3:1 ratio...for every 4 lbs of weight loss under ideal caloric restriction conditions, 3 are fat and 1 is associated water and circulatory system located in that tissue...and remember that the volume of a pound of fat tissue is bigger than a pound of water...so how does this thread end? Can we add a poll and vote to…

^^^^@ACG: what bodyfat % are you at with that midsection? I'm getting there thanks to MFP at 8.5% and want to end up at 6% eventually.

Not quite true here...steroids are a hormone that trigger muscle growth...they do not build it themselves. You still need to eat the calories (or have them stored on your body) plus exercise to stimulate the growth.

Depends on your caloric deficit on the intake/food side...if you're north of 1200 there's nothing standing in your way from building healthy muscle/lean body mass. Taken another way: if you're losing 2 lbs per week OR LESS then you're not truly in deficit. You'll know when you're in true global deficit: you'll feel weak,…

@ Shannon: You're welcome! Continued success to you and you WON'T be able to with any honesty say you're just a fat housewife...you'll live a longer more vigorous life in the smaller, stronger & healthier body you're building!

Tracking body composition during weight loss is important if you're going to try to make quantitative statements about muscle/fat gain/loss...simple...pics are misleading...as are simple circumference measurements. I had fat 16" biceps (flexed) but lost an inch to 15" with my drop from 24% to 8.5% body fat yet my arm curl…

Holy crap, Shannon, congrats!!!!!! I like math so here goes: at 304 lbs you carried 147 lbs of fat leaving lean (skeleton, water, muscle, connective tissue, circulation, blood, brains, etc.) of 157 by subtraction. When you dropped to 280.5 and pushed fat down to 40.8% your fat mass went down to 114 for a loss of 33 lbs you…

Opinion battles are always fun, but here goes in support of the OP. You're not in true caloric deficit from a global standpoint IF you have adipose tissue storing excess bodyfat. That total comes from calories harvested from reserves and those that you put in your mouth. Your body can only access so much of that reserve in…

It's good to hear someone talking to the science, even if overly simplistic...especially when so many experts are touting carbs/whole-grains as the solution when the data simply doesn't back it up. Much of our human evolution has occurred without grains so I personally think it's foolish to think that our bodies are…

One month in I had a weekend over labor day that I tracked loosely but clearly blew my caloric limits...that was my first big cheat event. The next one was Halloween, then the day after Thanksgiving (wife worked T-day!), then Christmas day...roughly once a month I blow it big time...I mean by eating & drinking 600-1000…

Also, check out a book by Gary Taubes called "Good Calories, Bad Calories" or at least catch a podcast here: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/11/taubes_on_fat_s.html Brings up lots of data that flies in the face of the conventional wisdom that low fat/high-carb is the healthiest choice...there's little to no real data…

I would listen to your body...1200 calories is L-O-W! But doable...as a 205 lb dude I started here and shredded 2.25 lbs per week for 10 weeks but by the end of the 10 weeks my body was telling me to up the calories...I was shaky before meals and feeling cranky/moody...slowed my weight loss target to 1.5 lbs per week and…