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Funny, I was just thinking this the other night when I opened a stuck jar without banging it on anything. FEAR MAH POWAH!

The thing I know about it is that if you search Netflix for "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic", "Orange is the New Black" is the second result. Call me crazy, but I think there might be such a thing as pushing your new series just a *little* too hard.

Pickle craving is usually a mineral deficiency - could be sodium, could be calcium or potassium or any of those little ones you need trace amounts of.

Where do you find them? I know of ONE 7-11 (which is not at all near me) that sells them and I've never seen them anywhere else. And I'm not ordering a box off the internet until I know they're not gross. Edit: ah-hah, answered while I was asking! I will check the GNC.

There's nothing wrong with either program, but you're doing more of a bodybuilder program, and a 5x5 is geared more towards strength. A 5x5 or similar probably would get you to your goals faster, so it's not a bad idea to look into something like Stronglifts or Starting Strength if that's what you want to do. Most of the…

I don't really see anything in it that would work except the caffeine and maybe the red pepper; Cellucor is $79 for 120 caps and caffeine is, like, $10 for 200. Not that I'm saying you should be taking caffeine tabs, either. Just puttin' it out there.

It depends, but it's easier to get it back than it was to get it in the first place. Strongman training takes a surprising amount of specialized equipment or someone who can make it for you, which is seems wrong but there you go. You can do a lot with bodyweight stuff - I've used "Never Gymless" which is on the more…

Pretty much what you're doing - lift heavy, eat protein, rest. You could up the protein a smidge - 1g/lb of bodyweight isn't a bad idea. If "an event" isn't "sprinting", you're probably going to lose some muscle no matter what you do, but you can definitely hold on to more if you work at it.

It does sound like either overtraining or coming down with something. I'm going to assume that you're right about eating the right amount of calories for the exercise you do, but gosh you eat a tiny amount of protein. It probably isn't your main problem but it certainly wouldn't hurt to up that. Anyway, if it's…

Bodyfat is a much better measure, but you will lose *some* LBM if you lose weight. It's not all muscle - it's everything that's in your body that isn't fat. So you won't need as much blood sloshing around or water to fill up your cells or whatever. And probably some muscle will get lost too, that's just the way it goes.…

You'll have to get a little creative. I did the split-shift thing too, so I know how that can go, except I worked days so I could get up early and hit the gym before work, while my husband & kids were sleeping. It still kind of sucked. At least your son is getting to an age where you should be able to do some workouts with…

I used to be a terrible nail-nibbler until we learned about pinworms in health class, and then I stopped cold turkey. Just imagine all the bacteria and tiny eggs and itty-bitty finger-living-creatures that each bite transfers to your mouth and it's surprisingly easy to keep them out. PINWORMS: DO NOT WANT.

Yep, you still need rest days. For one, it's always kidney day. For two, everything's connected - just because you're doing "chest & triceps" doesn't mean that there aren't a bunch of little muscles helping out that you're going to hit again on "back & bicep" day. And the heavier you're lifting, the more time you'll need…

You weigh 120 lbs and are trying to lose over 2 lbs a week. No. Nope. Stop. Not going to happen, and you are going to a) hurt yourself and b) f' up your metabolism big-time if you try. Please find someone you can talk to about this.

I'm still the slowest swimmer in the pool, but I do it because I love being in the water. Endurance comes surprisingly quickly - I went from not being able to do one length to being able to swim 15-20 laps in just a few weeks. It's really unlikely that you'll sink - just relax and you'll float. And probably nobody minds…

I used to motivate myself with prizes for every howevermany days I went without missing a workout. Now my reward for not missing a workout is getting to work out, but it took awhile to get there. (Like... over a year of not missing any workouts. YMMV.) Constant progress helps - pick an exercise. Kick its *kitten* (while…

This Fall is going to be my first bulk. Even if you don't have some kind of competition schedule, it makes sense to do it that way - you just naturally want to eat more when it's cold out. And you wear more clothes. But other than that, I don't have much of a plan yet, still some time to think about it. I already get 1g/lb…

I can't even do this; I'm too straight and they don't have my hip measurement. :cry: Way to make me feel bad about my body, theoretically body-positive website! On the plus side, putting in my real waist and the closest hip measurement they do have gives me a "perfect hourglass" figure. To the padding store!

Probably not. Maybe a teensy bit. Usually when you get "stronger" - especially when you first start working out - it's because of neural adaptations, not muscle changes. Instead of a couple of muscle fibers twitching around randomly, they all start working together - you're using more of the muscle you have, not growing…

Both-ish? If you're doing a hard workout, you should have enough in your system to get you through it but probably not anything actually in your stomach at the time unless it doesn't bother you. The jury is still kind of out on fasted workouts - there are some studies that show them having benefits, but I think more that…

You'd think they'd want to promote physical activity at all levels - but I guess not. Boy Scouts: Only For the Right Kind Of People. Based on BMI, my trainer would have to get special permission from his doctor to participate. But a hypothetical x-box playing sedentary out-of-shape skinny kid wouldn't. Which one would have…

I let my daughter use MFP as a tool to learn about nutrition, but not for daily logging. And mostly no browsing the forums, except for that one "This is a Photoshop" thread that I made her read the whole billion pages of. (Well, I didn't make her but I suggested it and she did.) But I definitely think it would be a bad…

If you enjoy or have to work out in the mornings, get to bed earlier if you can - more sleep helps with everything (depression, stress, weight loss, um... tiredness), plus you have less time to make bad food choices in the evenings. I know that's kind of like saying "well, just eat less and move more!" - it's never that…

It's trickier the older your baby gets; you'll probably have to experiment. The most important thing is getting good nutrition; after that, you probably don't need more than an extra 200-300 calories a day if your baby's not exclusively breastfeeding. I found that I could pretty much just ignore the whole bf calories…

Yep, I pay $50/hour, and that's standard around here (packages through the gym are a smidge less, but not much). I would definitely do an intro session or minipackage with him first - even good trainers and good clients don't always match up, and you really don't want to get stuck with someone who isn't good for you.

I do think that's part of it; I think susannamarie got another big part of it. It is all calories in:calories out; the problem people have is calculating the "in" and "out" parts of the equation. In: there are a million reasons why a given food doesn't have the same number of calories as the bomb calorimeter says. Almonds…

Also, yeah, if your back is getting sore then it's probably a form thing. Don't do that. Your abs not getting sore is fine, anything else getting sore instead is not. Try overall core-strengthening work - most people don't realize their abs are actually quite strong, but they have weak backs from sitting around in chairs…

Fitness progress is pretty much never linear, except at the very beginning, which can be a shock once you get past that part. There are about a million reasons why, and not always good ways to tell which one it is. Most of them mean your capacity to recover being overwhelmed with the amount of stress you're putting your…

Relax, deep breath. And, still, yeah. I spend about 6-8 hours in the gym every week, mostly lifting with a little cardio. I do this because I enjoy it, I don't have any other hobbies, and because I'm lucky to have a family and job that can support that, not because you have to to lose weight or be fit. And my TDEE matches…

Yeah, the activity settings are pretty misleading, and most people should probably pick the one under the one they think they are, unless they think they're sedentary. The studies they were calculated from were from a time where people just had a lot more activity built into their day. There's another calculator that…