LexyDB

Obviously not by your reply.

From what you've written, it isn't what you think about yourself, it's what you've beleived from being told by someone. No one person, besides yourself is worth the time and effort. Stop thinking about it if that exacerbates the problem. Do you still put your hand on a hot surface, knowing it will burn you? So why…

Could you not of just had a coffee and grabbed something later on?

Portion size is irrespective, the calories consumed per day is what counts. If portion size dictated fat loss or gain why do programmes such as lean gains and carb back loading work? You can eat as much as you want within a certain timeframe, I know that eating up to 1200 kcals during this window, portion size is not…

Self restraint would be a good place to start. Eating to excess is what produces excess body fat in the first place.

Why eat there anyway? The biggest reason for most people on here is bad food choices. regardless of how much they protest. Which is why most are here to begin with A sandwich may have a lot of good veg and meat but it is wrapped in bread. Over comsumption of bread and carbohydrates are a huge factor in body fat gain. Keep…

When you're 14 and don't know better. Why is this so difficult? Someone calls you names, so what? Ignore them or tell them where to go. As for overthinking what someone else says about you, life is too short to worry about such things' get something in your life that means something instead of dedicating time to something…

It is a supply and demand business, they have to cater for everyone and exercise has become either a part of everyday life or trendy for some people. As stated, either find a bodybuilding gym that is dedicated to strong lifts, which has the environment you're after. Get your own equipment and train at home or carry on at…

I'm sure you could find web sites that cater for your need without reqesting picture of semi naked men.

It's all a state of mind, the fact you class them as significant implies they have meaning to you. You really care what others think? Are you not the best person to comment on you and who knows about you? Makes those who call names insignificant, drop them from your life.

A common sense approach, quite rare on here!

Alcohol is second only to fat for calories per gram, 7 and 9 respectively. Why jeopardise all your hard work and effort by drinking? Leave it out of your diet and you'll not only feel better but lose weight.

Why leave it so late? Expect to lose it at the same rate at which you gained it and plan accordingly.

What is the reason or purpose of weighing yourself every day?

I wouldn't worry too much about going over on fats, as long as they are the good ones such as HDL as opposed to LDLs. Ideally, you should try and stick to your calorie goal or requirements for the day. Fats have bad press for the wrong reasons, you need fats for your body to function on a daily basis. Yes, in excess will…

Really? How about losing one and gaining the other? That would negate weight loss or gain. Water retention from muscles repairing themselves? Since when? Amino acids repair muscles, carbohydrates assist with the fuel in the form of glycogen. Water binds to carbohydrates but unless creatine is being used in excessive…

If you don't believe it, I suggest you read more or don't believe everything you are told. Take into account the first law of thermodynamics for a good starting point. Secondly, human biology and how the body works. This would involve hormones secreted by the pancreas namely insulin and glucagon. Insulin shuttles glucose…

Absolute nonsense, diet is 80% minimum of your weight loss success. You can't outtrain a bad diet, no matter how hard you try. Get your body fat percentage down low enough and your abs will appear 15%-12% for women and 12% to single figures for men.

Blame the industry as a whole for the state of mind it inflicts on people. Everyone, well besides people who have commented accordingly in this thread is obsessed with weight loss when they should be concentrating on body composition and losing body fat. Countless threads on I'm exercising but gaining weight, yes, exercise…

Your body regulates its temperate with either perspiration or respiration. Also, you need oxygen within your cells to convert sugar into glucose for use by the body. Also, ATP requires oxygen to convert glucose to glycogen, fuel for your muscles. So breathing is rather important.

Helps with insomnia.

This process takes how long? Do you have a link to a case study or published research study? This is like saying you go catabloic after a day if you don't meet your calorie requirements. Taken with a pinch of salt, no pun intended. Edema is caused by storage of fluid, not lack of them. A prolonged calorie reduced diet that…

Exercise is only a small percentage of weight loss. Diet is 80% of achieving your goals. An effective balance is 40% protein, 40% fats and 20% carbohydrates. This is what I have used and look at the progress I've made. Restrict carbohydrates to post workout for a few weeks, rearrange your diet to cater for this eating…

As I said, protein does not promote water retention. Sodium on the other hand does. Eating carbohydrates also promotes water retention. Someone is worried about water retention and you're advising drinking more water?

You don't have to increase body fat when increasing muscle; this is still routed in the 70's bodybuilding mentality of bulking then cutting. Nutrition timing post workout will eliminate most of the unwanted fat deposits from excess calories if timed correctly. Hypertrophy is the growth of muscles from the trauma of stress…

Protein does not promote water retention, no exception. Macronutrients carbohydrates, fats and protein are used by the body in that order for both conversions to lipids (visceral and subcutaneous body fat) and as a fuel source in the same order. Protein being the last on the list for an energy source and producer of fat.…

How often and how long were your cardio sessions? What does your post work out nutrition consist of, macronutrient wise?

Strength training without weights? You're negating progressive overload to produce hypertrophy if you don't use weights. Your own body weight will only take you so far as in press ups etc., I'm afraid you'll have to use weights or look for an alternative form of exercise as both compound and isolation exercises with free…

Really? Heart rate monitors are designed, surprise surprise, to monitor your heart rate during physical activity, not just aerobic exercise. Any exercise that increases your heart rate, weights, running or HIIT will be given a far more accurate calorie expenditure reading using a heart rate monitor than the option on my…

Anything above 15 reps in a set builds endurance not hypertrophy. As tabi26 pointed out, up the weight and aim for six, no more than eight with heavy weights; you'll get your increase in strength.