Tarah1218

Nice to see this worked for you....right now I am trying to bust through a 6+ month plateu...only have lost the 20 pds of babyweight since my daughter was born 16 months ago and am sitting at 24ish% bf and my body won't seem to give it up, even with a 1-2 pd a week deficiet. i have officially decided I needed to do…

My mother is in ongoing recovery for anorexia....I say ongoing because the affects of it have never left her. When she was in her 30s and I was a young child she was very muscular, bodybuilder, great physique, 5'8, 135 pds, 12-14% bf, and maintained it well and in a healthy manner. Bodybuilding helped her get over her…

How'd you break it? Me too! No luck with breaking it yet, giving it one last effort this next 10 weeks (2 weeks into this cycle) and seeing if I can break it before I decide to just turn to maintance for a year and do a recomp, than reevaluate when 2013 comes around. It is very frustrating. I want to get to the teens for…

They stopped selling bronkaid over the counter...the fda recently pulled it off. The other stuff that was the same...started with a P.

Caffine Pills.....tried fat burners (100mg caffine in each) and tried doing half a caffine pill (sensitive to caffine)......same effect. Energy and poured buckets during my workout....one is 50 bucks a container and one is a few bucks at wally world....I'll save my money thank you very much.

Do you take a mulivitamin? Eat enough fruits and veges?

You seem like such a laid back person (based off your profile). I'd probably love to have a friend like you to spend my free nights out with, when I get them away from the kids and husband. You also look just like a girl I went to high school with. You look so young for your age too!

Yup!!!! Most people would probably look at my journal right now and be like wtf is this? She is eating protien shakes, rice cakes, and "basic" and blan foods and not much for her activity level....what they don't know though is that due to allergies I had no idea I had, I put stress on my body, my entire GI tract swelled…

I am 5'8 and my goal is 140 (14%bf) for the long term.....125-130 (8-10% bf) for the short term (a month or 2 this summer)

Not even 1x my bw for bench. I tried it out last about 4 months ago and got 120 up. Once my cut is over this summer, my plan is to work on getting to the big boy plates. Right now I am just working on dead hang pull ups. My back and shoulders strength keeps increasing while my squats have taken a huge hit. I was able to…

I like the "bulk belly", muscles (big, not cut), I like beefy men.....They need to have matching legs, men with a big upper body and no legs=fail!!! Bald head or really short hair is a win A man that is no excuses type, gives it to me straight, no B.S. and can take it right back If he is a huge tv watcher, he is out! I…

I don't think there is a shame in it if you need it to prevent pain and to increase your lifts. But, if you have developed traps and you have found that sweet spot to place the bar, you should not have enough pain that there is a need to use the pad. My 1RM is a bit of discomfort, but nothing that I would need the pad for.…

There really is no "too much" unless you are feeling worn down, tired, crabby, etc. Any symptoms of overtraining and I would scale back but if you like what you are doing go right ahead doing it. I do an hour of lifting on mondays, 45 minutes the rest of the week (4 days), cardio 6x a week, and I take sunday off. You won't…

I like their taste so I have stuck with them. If you don't get it right though it can be kind of chemically tasting and it does have a slight chemical smell to it. People say that the myofusion is nummy....the banana kind at least. I have fallen in love with banana...it is like a laffy taffy. Or throw some strawberries in…

My husband use to be like you with the grills....I bought him one of those 2 in 1 grills, both gas and charcoal and told him no other grills allowed on my deck! He gets upset though because he cooks a lot at one time in meat and complains about having to do it in 2 or 3 rounds. Cooking in batches saves my booty around here…

Nope, I switched. Still no results on the scale though. I am eating more food, finally! He took me off the 1000-1400 cals she had me on a day and upped me to 1800-1900 a day. I eat "cleaner" foods right now because I love volume. Being able to sit down and eat enough to feel that stretch in my stomach is so wonderful. I am…

Poptarts, oh how I miss them! Come June I will eat 3 boxes in 1 sitting....wildberry, strawberry, and blueberry...safeway brand preferably. I have been frustrated lately...no weight change but pictures say my legs leaned out slighting, same with belly and low handles....You ever have a problem with the scale moving the…

As a personal trainer, I would not want to waste my clients money or time on stretching. They should warm up and stretch before their session so they can use the entire time on the workout that they pay me for. If they need help with stretching ideas I would of course be glad to put a stretching routine together but I just…

Me too...started a week ago. Killer stuff. My legs hurt everyday now, ahha. So much easier to get my heartrate up without feeling like my lungs are going to expload. I am a forever lover now...the first week I hated it though! Today I loved it. I think I just needed a week to get used to it.

Squat and pass it under your legs. It might take you a few times to get an idea of how low you need to squat. If you squat too high you can't get it into your other hand. Squat too low and you can't pass it under.

My training book says you need this much: Sedentary Adult: .36g per pd Adult recreational exerciser: .95 per pd Adult Competitive Athlete: 1.4g per pd Adult Muscle Mass Building: 2g per pd Dieting Athlete 1g per pd Growing Teen Athlete: 1g per pd Hope it helps a bit.

Same here, just ignore and do my thing. I know what my goals are and ignore MFP. What kind of exercising do you do? How much protien you need is subjective to your goals and what you do for activity. I tell most "normal" people to try to hit .8g per pd on workout days, .6 per pd on non-workout days. But most people I have…

I think you mean dieting, not doing cardio. You can get abs to show without cardio...you just need to have a low enough bf percentage. So you need to be in a caloric negative if they are not showing yet.

Really? I think it depends on what exercises you are doing and if you are giving it your all....it underestimates weight training (if you really lift HEAVY) and it has been pretty close for the stair stepper (I do it on random mode). I think you should eat back some, if not almost all, of your "Free" calories you get with…

I take the same stance on body weight exercises and ab works as the rest of my body. Muscles grow in rest, and the abs are a muscle group, so I give them a day rest between sessions. Core strength is extreamly important for your lifts. To build strength in your abs do the exercises with weight. I do my decline bench sit…

Both of these reasons are why the milk was cut. I bloat like no other with milk and I can save those calories for other protien rich sources later in the day. I did it with half the water today and much better...I am thinking I can probably cut it down again too. Did not want to puke. Lesson learned the hard way.

Next tub I will order from strawberry-banana and throw in my fruit in the blender. I use Malt right now , it tastes great with milk, with water not so good. I have a huge 5lb tub and only about 1/3 or so through it.

I use a "cheap" gym with old equipment and a daycare. I go every single day and the equipment has not been an issue. My kids love the daycare. I was worried about it at first but honestly, my oldest goes to prek 4x a week and he gets sick from prek more often than the gym. 1x a year from the gym and 6x+ a year from the…

That is my biggest worry with my coach. She has me on so low carbs, even when I had fruits at 20 weeks, that I am always under 100g, higher end until yesterday, yesterday around 60g. When I hit 18% bf what is she going to do to get my body to let it go? More cardio? I am a hard fat loser but a great muscle gainer. She…

Food porn first thing in the morning is not good. I am checking into that ice cream and cake today. I am fitting that cake into my macros, or at least some form of a protien cake, I want CAKE!!!!