sgthaggard Member

DOMS sucks. But the good news is that, as bad as it can get, it only lasts a few days and it won't be anywhere near as bad after the next time.

No! Start now. You may not gain muscle on a deficit (although I'm quite proud of my noobie gains, TYVM) it will reduce your muscle loss so that you are starting from a stronger position when you hit your goal weight and start eating more.

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Probably because I'm not satisfied eating at a constant deficit. I have to make sacrifices and constant sacrifices wear on a person. I certainly have no plans to do it for the rest of my life. When I'm on maintenance, I'm going to have to get used to eating in the real world. Sometimes, occasionally, that means I get to…

It means that you have eaten more protein than your daily goal. As someone who is trying to maintain muscle mass, I never see that as a bad thing. Personally, I wouldn't eat below 1200 calories - hunger makes me cranky. YMMV.

I'm not hiring them to take care of themselves, I'm hiring them to give me fitness advice. As long so their advice is sound, I'll stick with them. Some doctors smoke. As long as they are telling me that smoking is bad for me, they are doing their jobs just fine.

I started back at MFP at the end of December. Weight training is my priority but I added C25K training - I'm half way through and I haven't had much difficulty with it yet, although I feel it coming. I'm eating at a deficit but still seeing some good noobie gains which I'm hoping to keep up until I hit my goal weight and…

Daily, first thing in the morning after my bathroom break before eating or drinking anything, naked.

See, this kind of what they are talking about. She says 5pieces of pizza and you hear 5 pizzas. People say that eating junk in an otherwise healthy diet is fine, you hear that eating nothing but junk is healthy. Set up your straw men and knock them down if it makes you feel productive but it's not really contributing much…

I'm another OCD tracker but, when I go to the Caribbean in July, my food scale and HRM are staying at home. I still plan on eating reasonably and staying active but tracking calories is going to be almost impossible.

You should weigh-in at the same time every day. 153 at night and 150 in the morning is not a huge fluctuation.

Coffee is something that I'm not willing to compromise on. Coffee, 4tbsp of half & half, 2tsp sugar - 114 calories. As an added bonus, it keeps me from killing my office mates. ;)

I haven't for the past week or so (out on site at client) but typically, yes, I hit 10+K steps every day. I walk during lunch and here and there after work.

For women? We see our abs way before 12%. Maintaining a BF% of 12 for a woman could lead to health issues such as missing periods and depressed immunity.

Prune juice.

I prefer the taste of full calorie, full fat options. I just eat less of them.

I weigh with the peel. So, I'm eating a couple fewer calories than I've logged. Somehow, I'll survive.

Because there are just too many variables (weight you are lifting, speed, range of motion, etc) to accurately calculate burn.

FTW!

We have one set of 17.5lb dumbbells at our gym and, this morning, they were being used by a guy doing shoulder presses. I asked if I could borrow them between his sets, did my set of shoulder presses, then handed them back. He looked at me, paused, then said I could keep them, he was going to increase to 20lbs for his last…

Yes please!

Ooo, I love the raspberry and white chocolate ones!

Deadlifts. Squats. Repeat.

I'm in. I started on Monday.

Yes.

I'm a dyed-in-the-wool introvert. I'd rather shave my head with a cheese grater than attend a group class.

And then what? You get to the point where you're happy with your composition then continue lifting eating at maintenance? I know I'm being rather obtuse but I've never looked that far ahead.

Yeah, but think about how many more times I have to increase to get anywhere near what you are lifting.

Me? No, I'm doing 16 workouts in Stage 1, times 2, divided by 3 workouts per week (carry the one. . .) that's around 11 weeks and I'm already on week 4. I just want to feel secure in both my form and strength before I move on and, hey, more squats is a good thing, right? I envy your lower body strength. I tend to do better…