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It occurs to me that I must provide a lot of entertainment to the other people in my gym. Hey, I'm here to help! Dropped my iPod/towel/workout log and shot it off the back of the treadmill? Check. Occasional lip-synching on the treadmill? Check. Laughing at my own butt-print on the weight bench? Check. (Yes, I wipe it off…

Woot!

I started off by buying myself fitness goodies. "No you can't blow cash on whatever gadget you think you need until you've gone to the gym every day for two months" really helped me get the good habits started. And the rewards scaled - I can't remember what "every day for a week" was but there was something. I know "every…

*A* quick glance? I don't think anyone would care. Ogling and glancing away whenever they notice you to try to qualify it as "not staring", yeah, that's creepy. I don't think anyone *never* looks. I mean, you at least need basic situational awareness to avoid smashing someone in the head with a dumbbell, and that's gonna…

No, you can ignore that unless you have some health issues that make you need to exercise slowly. Which is better, to burn 70% fat of 170 calories or 50% fat from 400 calories?

Sure. I can't go too late in the mornings or I run into all the stay-at-home moms in my neighborhood. I mean, I like them and enjoy talking with them, I just don't usually have time when I'm at the gym. Weekday afternoons? All the high school guys hanging out in the weight room. They're... mostly ok, except when three or…

Heh - peas are another one I can't stand, but my kids like those so I always make myself brussels sprouts or something else they don't like and pretend that I'm only giving them peas as a giant favor. Protip: If someone asks you why you don't like peas, NEVER EVER ANSWER that you just don't like their "pea-ness". (Twice.…

A few weeks ago a friend asked me how I could be so confident about my weird goals. At the time I couldn't answer, but it kind of got me thinking about it. And it sort of comes down to - there is one "pretty" for women in our culture. Men have a few options, but women pretty much get what you posted. And I'm never going to…

Spaghetti squash. Bleh bleh pleh ptooie. Bleck. I buy and cook one every year and my kids and I all eat it together. My theory is that it's good for them to see me eating something I hate (because they're way pickier than I am, there are very few things that I won't eat just because I don't like them) but sometimes I think…

Diet breaks are good and good for you. They're better if you plan for them in advance, but it's not the end of the world if you didn't. You use the time to get in micronutrients that you might have been missing while restricting, repair your muscles a bit, reset your metabolism... all kinds of useful things. And then you…

If you are committed to eating both vegan and 30% protein, I'd say it's better to rely on a daily protein supplement than it is to restrict yourself to the extent that it takes to get that with whole foods. I've done it, and I don't think it's sustainable. Even if you could get it perfect physically, the mental side of it…

If you're vegan and trying to do 30% protein, you pretty much have to plan out every calorie. It's hard but doable. The short version: does it have equal or greater grams of protein than carbs? Eat it. Is it a leafy green? Eat it. Is it neither of those things? Then it's not your food. What's a vegan deviled egg? Intrigued!

I dunno, ask this guy: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/fit-at-102/2013/03/12/786a7e96-8346-11e2-b99e-6baf4ebe42df_story.html "'I was getting a little lazy at home, and I decided I’d go down to the exercise club,' he recalled." "That was more than three years ago, when Clark was 98. As he turned 102 last week, Clark was…

I don't really laugh at the gym, but I do smile a lot. I'm totally a sucker for a grandma in a velour tracksuit, with the matching head-and-wrist-bands and everything, and my gym has a pretty good selection of them. The track runs around the outside of the cardio room, so every time one speedwalks past me I want to pump my…

Hadn't really thought about it, but it depends. If I'm doing something I hate, like running, it's totally mental. If I'm doing something I enjoy, it's physical. And that's way weirder, because in everyday life there aren't that many times I come across something I feel like I should be able to do but then can't.

The way I do it, when I'm being careful, is to make sure that everything I eat is either a protein or a leafy green vegetable, with a fruit or two thrown in for variety. It's not as tedious as it sounds, but it takes a lot of planning. The benefit, I guess, is that the fats more or less take care of themselves and you can…

When you eat vs. when you exercise isn't important, as long as you're not making yourself sick or anything. You want everything to balance over a few days, generally. Your two main options: 1) Figure out what you burn on average, and eat the same amount every day. In MFP, this is what you get if you set your activity…

Yep. I got the Ironman Yurbuds based on a recommendation from here and they really are worth it. Bonus - if you get the earpieces adjusted right, the sound quality is quite good. And if you don't get them quite right, you get about the same quality sound as you do with cheap earbuds, so you pretty much win either way.

I have never felt more high fashion than while reading this thread. If I'd known all it took was not wearing workout clothes when not working out, I'd have been on the cover of Vogue ages ago.

I focus on strength and let the cardio take care of itself, usually. Right now I'm doing C25k and it's a big pain in my butt because it cuts into my lifting time. Anyway, you should be aiming to get in at least three strength days - if you do them on the same day as cardio then do your strength first, and keep the cardio…

It looks like a lot when you write it out like that, but I went through and it's not much different than what I do except for working shoulders and back on the same day, which I don't. But... did you go over what you wanted out of weightlifting when you started with her? (This should be one of the first things she asked at…

Oh, I just meant "older than me" (which none of the complain-y coworkers are), not "so old I don't know how she totters into the gym". Now, that 102-year-old guy who started going to the gym at 98, he falls squarely into the category of "older gentleman".

The DEXA scan is more accurate; that doesn't mean it's 100%. The heavier (well, thicker) you are, the less accurate it is. And like all BF-measurement systems, it's really least accurate when you try to use it to measure body composition change in an individual over time; DEXA is especially likely to overestimate decreases…

Exhausted and tight? First step is to make sure you're eating and drinking enough. If you're not giving your body enough nutrition to recover, it won't, and you'll start getting that constant feeling-like-death thing going on, which is not good. Then make sure you're not trying to do too much too fast. Pushing yourself is…

^:flowerforyou: Load up all the plates Eight reps at eighty percent I lift like a girl

It's a cliche, but it's true - there is no finding time, there's only making it. I get up early and nap in my car during my lunch break. I also work with a trainer twice a week in the evenings, after putting the younger one to bed. It all comes down to priorities - ok, I did not mop my kitchen floor this week, nobody's…

Eighty pound dumbbell Quarter inch range of motion Do you even lift?

You walk your path and let her walk hers. If she doesn't like where she's getting on hers, and she asks what route you're taking, you hand her a map. WW is great if you eat a certain way. It's also really easy to game and has some weird anomalies because they're trying to obfuscate what you're actually doing and encourage…

I got one co-worker into the gym and lifting heavy, and she's an older woman (dunno how old, but her daughter is in medical school). So that's pretty awesome. But mostly I just say "yeah, been working out" or something and try to change the subject when people bring up weight loss because if I actually engage them on it…

I started out with once a week, but have had better gains since I went to twice. And I go to the gym 3-4 times per week on my own. I think it probably would have been better to start with twice, because then there wouldn't have been so much time to forget stuff between sessions, but once would probably be ok once you got…