ironanimal Member

Because it advocates in favour of the idea that it is easy. Which it is not. The whole idea that it can happen by accident or as a side effect is highly insulting to people who put hours every week into getting "bulky".

Did you even watch the ****ing video? The girl squatting at 5 mins in looks like she'd weigh less than 45kg soaking wet.

Exactly. There were small issues, but that's to be expected at near-maximal exertion, and there was nothing terrible.

She was trying to sell an ebook in the intro, so I'd take everything she says with a pinch of salt, whey and olive oil.

Can you squat more than the people in this vid?

If you're exercising just to burn calories, you're exercising for the wrong reason. The reason people eat them back is simple anyway; too high a deficit, and you will use energy from sources other than fat more easily, and recovery, mood and consistency tend to be impaired.

Olympic Weightlifting and Powerlifting are two entirely different sports. Oly features the Clean and Jerk, and the Snatch. Powerlifting features the Deadlift, Squat and Bench Press. Some of them were doing strong(wo)man exercises as well.

When you're pushing the bleeding edge of your limits, something not being a little off is incredibly rare.

... I could grow shoulder length hair and a decent beard.

How many calories and how much sleep are you getting?

Chloroform!

White noise, TV and radios when I'm trying to sleep make me rageful, so sure, turn them on - if you never want to wake up ever again.

The whole room? Do you have REALLY bad gas or something? :tongue:

Flat.

One day we will reclaim the rebellious colonies.

Ah okay. Overall your loss has been great so far - well above normal expectations. But, it fluctuates; using myself as an example, I lost nothing last week after 2 weeks of losing, but lost again this week. Stick with what you're doing :)

I'm not entirely sure what you said, but does this belief favour the use of hoods, candlelight, meeting at odd hours and ritual sacrifice? If not, I'm not sure it can help weightloss tbh

The second is likely to be a huge factor, as we see a very similar thing here all the time when someone starts resistance training; their muscles swell up, they panic thinking they're going to turn into Ronnie Coleman overnight. And then there's everyone that attempts to move to maintenance, but panics and reverts to…

Huh? 13lbs in a month is hardly stuck :indifferent:

I think you owe it to a partner to do your best to maintain good health, so I'd find it difficult to deal with.

If you're not in a deficit (by scientific definition, not assumption), you won't lose weight.

No. Nobody from my school or from my area has really achieved much of anything, and I don't really count having kids as exciting or worthy of envy.

I've had it, but not from ultra long distance stuff but from working on a 37C, very humid poolside for too many hours. I'd only had water that day.

Nutritional science is still in its infancy, and the information available is heavily influenced by personal and corporate agendas. I do hope it improves in future though. I was taught literally nothing about Nutrition in school (finished in 2006). I didn't even know what a calorie was.

You're very odd.

Now consider a time where nobody wants anything to do with you because you look like crap AND they place no value on your personality, intelligence, achievements or work ethic.

It diminishes a person's value to their external appearance, without recognition for their hard work or intelligence.

Wah wah, woe is me. The fit people worked for it. Jealousy and loathing does nothing for your physique. Get working.

I would leave it be, and just continue eating back your calories; reason being, you're a tiny widdle person and eating a good amount for that rate of loss. If you get to the 50lb to lose range and are still losing at that rate, then I'd consider bumping up the calories by 100 a week or so until you're at a 1lb a week loss.…

Exercises don't target fat. It's not an active mass. It can't be exercised. Strengthening your abdominals can help flatten it somewhat, but most of all you just need less fat. A small deficit and regular progressive resistance training will achieve that.