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I'm a personal trainer myself and I would NEVER give caloric advice. That's not my forte. I set up the workouts...recommend they see a nutritionist for their specific caloric needs. As for the pt telling you when to eat...does he have your schedule in mind or his? Are these arbitrary numbers that he just throws up? As for…

ME TOO!

AWESOME!! My scientist boyfriend does woodworking as a hobby. I am so going to have him make me one!!!

Agreed! I am doing 5/3/1 too. Enjoy it. I was doing SS but I missed my kettlebells.. WIth 531 I can do do my lifts..it's super fun and I don't have to give up my kettlebells.

The OMEN CARRIE Rocky Logan's Run. Btw..it's my birthday today!!! WHOO HOO!

I can write with my pencil.pen.......brush my teeth with my toothbrush ........with my toes . No I don't do it regularly...only when freaking out my friends. Or making my kids laugh!

I did a 23andme test. Wrote about it in another thread. One of my "traits" is that I only have slight reduction in BMI with exercise ...I always responded to weights well but I think this study may be about cardio.. I can do cardio till the cows come home and NOTHING happens. So I already have that stacked against me.…

I just found out I have Hemochromatosis . Definately going to get Veg life!

I've embarrassed myself plenty. I had a goal to do pullups and I still remember for weeks getting on the pullup bar and hanging there. And then falling off... One day..(ok..many weeks later!) I finally did not one pullup but I went from 0 to 3!! It took alot of falling down though and just hanging from the bar. I am sure…

burpees! Actually I did 10 minutes of burpees a couple days ago..killed me..and love the on the minute burpee/kb swings crystalhenry mentioned! I do OTM kb swings for 15 and 20 min workouts. Maybe I'll combine them with burpees now. AWesome idea!

During my TOM I can go up as high as 5-7 lbs! So of course when I put my weight after TOM people think it's amazing I lost so much weight at once. Not really true. I try to drink as much water as I can but that time of the month...just is POWERFUL. I have to really avoid weighing myself during TOM so as not to play head…

www.23andme.com It wasn't that expensive at all! It was $99. It used to be in the hundreds but the price has come down significantly. 4 weeks for the medical information and 5-6 for the ancestry info. You know I used to do marathons and never got a lot of bang for my buck out of it or long distance running for that matter.…

I doubt that the 1-2 days of your lifting is making your arms bigger. You say you are losing abdominal fat? So maybe because we can't pick and choose where we want to lose you are just losing it in your midsection first and it just makes you look a little disportionate. But things will balance out. But I just can't believe…

Have you heard of the me-ality booths? It does a full body scan and supposedly tells you what your true jean size is(amongst other clothes).I went to one at the mall in a chicago suburb. I was a size 2 in some brands, and a size 4 in others. It was interesting to see!

Because I was young, naive and stupid! I bought the whole 6 meal a day thing. Maybe ok for some...not for me. And because I felt like an idiot at the gym. And this personal trainer knew how to turn that into me thinking he knew the answers to everything and I knew nothing. It was my fault I was gaining weight. My fault for…

WAste of money. At the gym I saw this girl doing bicep girls while standing on a bosu. Uh..how about putting down the pink dumbell, picking something heavier and actually making a change? It really is a waste of money.

Today? Rotisserie chicken on a bed of sauteed garlic broccoli with melted mozzarella cheese on top. APple on the side. Coffee with creamer to drink.YUM!

I couldn't gain muscle without dropping my cardio! I used to do ALOT of strength training too..except I refused to limit my cardio. In fact I did WAY more cardio and had it first and foremost. STrength training was a distant second. I kept wondering why I was small but still didnt' have that look I wanted. I finally…

I know. Because that's how I pose to make my butt look better! But the pose looks really good if there is actually a BUTT to begin with! Regardless...she is hot! Certain poses fit certain models better. This one is really not good for her. I bet there are other poses her photographer could have put her in that would…

She is not fat. She is just overarching her back to make her butt stick out more. And in this case it makes it looks as if her stomach is out more than it is. Just the way she is posing. She's not fat at all.

I fast and it works for me....but it's not a one size all type thing. There are different types of fasting. I tried the 24 hour fasting once a week. Didn't work for me at all! But it didn't mean fasting doesn't work. Just that the variation of it didn't What works for me is usually 14-16 hour fast.(I do the leangains style…

I put full fat creamer in my coffee every morning...(it helps with my daily intermittent fasting) since i don't eat "breakfast" till about 11 or 12. It tides me over until then very well! AT the end of the day I almost always have an avocado as my dessert! I usually make a pudding of it. I mix a bit of chocolate protein…

love this!

WALKING DEAD! NO contest!

I lift heavy! And I defiantely still look very very female. I don't think I am bulky at all.

YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL!!!

I lost 5 lbs the month of december experimenting with this. Granted this kind of eating made me crave chicken and turkey like nobody's business! Did I lose weight. YES. YES! But I admit I felt sluggish. Thinner yet sluggish.. I am back to eating regular...and mostly good fats and proteins. I discovered through my lil…

I used to be the same..it didn't matter what the macros were for my breakfast. If I ate a good protein rich breakfast of eggs and veggies and bacon here or there..still hungry 5min after I finished. If I ate oatmeal...still hungry...5 minutes arfter I finished. And by lunchtime I was just as hungry as if I didn't even eat…

15 lbs for me. I can hide my weight pretty well. In fact when I was trying to lose most people didn't think I needed to(at that time I was still 20 lbs away from my swimsuit look and had already lost alot of weight and certain people thought I should stop.) In clothes i looked ok....in bathing suit...not at all. Some…

I can't get into Zumba either. I actually have done alot of salsa dancing in the past too..(as well as lindy hop, ballroom,etc) but I just can't get into it. I couldn't get into jazzercise either. I don't know but zumba just feels like jazzercise to latin music to me. I think if it gets people moving it's all good. The…