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lol yes, how terrible. I must go weep now. Over chocolate protein pancakes in coconut oil with peanut butter and avocado and 10hr smoked BBQ pulled pork and salads with nuts and goat cheese and deserts *weep* btw the desert was so good there were tears of joy

prunes bananas avocado potato

kickboxing and yoga sound like 2 fantastic choices for fun and physical/mental health! I hope you are feeling up to it soon.

^beautiful

I'm one of those lifting at home but goes to the gym and jumps on treadmills people. My legs deadlift over 100lbs.

And from what I've found this is something that needs to be done because many of the people promoting it are doing so completely ignorant. For example there was a thread not to long ago where a girl was promoting her 'heavy lifting' with 5lb weights. Yep, people jumped on her. And she got defensive because after gazillion…

Yeah I'm with DavPul, I don't get your observations because I've never seen them, so I'm kind of skeptical. And I've been around for some time. I don't think DavPul is trying to turn it into something negative. If you just answered the question I'm sure things would move on. I don't think he thinks hard enough to put…

This lady deadlifts over 200: ^fittiephd, I would not be complaining if I looked like her lol.

It's totally possible to look good period without lifting weights. But for those who ask for advice on how to lean out, the most efficent way is to lift...and lift heavy. I don't want to be hulked or lift 900lbs. I just don't want to feel chubby. Heavy lifting helps greatly with that. And the people you have mentioned do…

^I agree with this. I've done HIIT and cardio and dance and pilates and yoga and heavy lifting. They all have their benefits. I'd like to get into more bodyweight stuff for convenience since I move around allot. What bothers me are the people who have a goal to try and get lean relatively efficiently and they are getting…

That's pretty much my centement. I'm use to being small but wasn't a fan of the squishy. There's nothing wrong with cardio, it's great for your health, but it certainly doesn't help with re-composition if you're trying to get leaner, which if you're concerned about LBM, seems to be the case. I'm also sedentary other then…

The last time I punched myself into one of those I was 120lbs and fat2fit gave me 25% fat though BIA gave me 17% fat (in my case, 17 was more realistic). We all carry weight in different areas. Those calcs can be off by wildly random numbers. You're 5'6 and now you're lighter then me. I got to 120lbs, and tacked on 10lbs…

There's a reason those pushup apps want you to touch your nose off the screen.

in for nut gifs! woops wrong kind

doh

FYI from my understanding T25 is mostly cardio/endurance training? So if it involves lifting it probably involves light weights below the 20lb mark for many reps. That's a beginning. But it's more of a endurance thing then a strength thing. I was doing HIIT previously and found that I topped out within a month and couldn't…

tough prodding :wink: :flowerforyou:

First I'd like to point out before I post that I was at 120lbs and sedentary, bringing our TDEEs to the same, 1700 calories a day. I wasn't trying to lose weight fast, and my deficit, like yours, was 400 calories. I knew I was slim, but I wasn't fitting into my older clothes and I had a gut I wanted to get rid of. Back in…

I have to say I'm not surprised. Someone implied that the problem was the delivery, I asked how would you say it? Notice how I got nothing. Saying to stay the way you are is not an attack. It's an option. Not every single persons opinion has to be pixie dust and butterflies. From the looks of it others have a similar…

For the record the chances the OP would start gaining a chunk of muscle on a calorie deficit is slim to none. She's more likely to lose both fat and muscle. With strength training, it would be a higher percentage of fat. For the record, I do stronglifts 5x5 a few times a week, I am lifting some things that are finally…

I liked beans post, it's honest. I was basically thinking the same thing but didn't say anything. So, for future benefit, how would one say what bean said with however amount of tact that you in particularly were wishing for? I'd like to be able to say what she said but since you don't like it I'd like to know a way that…

^this. But I do love the olympic rowing machines. They're great fun, particularly when they have the fishy games on them.

The pill often makes people gain because it makes you hungry thus it makes people want to eat more. I wouldn't contribute it to the pill. If you've only weighed yourself once and you're still eating the same and you're on a larger deficit, I'd contribute the weight to repairs. The only reason I gained on the pill was…

The thing is, a lot of people think you gain muscle just by gaining strength or exercising. This is not how it works. When people try to grow muscles, they go on a calorie surplus. When people want to lose fat, they go on a calorie deficit. I got to be skinny but still had fat (I didn't lift anything at all) and no muscle…

Sorry, but you're going to have a hard time trying to convince others that she's gained 10lbs of muscle in a month on an even larger deficit then she was on previously and acheving it via cardio. That's not how the body works. You need a surplus in fuel to grow denser tissue. And I have no idea where the muscle mass will…

So you've measured yourself once and now you suspect you're gaining? Just FYI I can gain 10lbs in a day after a long hike. It's not fat or muscle, it's just fluids trying to restore my body back to shape. I wouldn't call that a gain. It's more of a help towards a loss. I would eat at least some exercise calories.…

Read the link above. But also: how often do you weigh? how long have you been gaining? how are you measuring your calories? how are you measuring your exercise calories? are you eating back your exercise calories (all/none/some?) are you measuring yourself with a measuring tape? If so what has changed and over what period…

Why are you trying to rev yourself, do you have a petcock?