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Nuts, seeds, avacados.

Ya think? :wink: Hey garethshaw, I'm a geek too - show me the science. Peer reviewed. Published.

Outstanding job, young man! You should be oh so proud of yourself!!!

5'6", medim frame, reached my goal of 120 and now looking to gain back some weight through strength training.

You're saying that two overweight parents aren't predisposed to have an overweight child because your two thin parents didn't have a thin child? In my books, one doesn't have to be true for the other to be true as well.

Seems logical that having parents who model poor health habits would predispose children to be unhealthy.

I typically eat half of the portion that is served to me, focus on fruits and vegetables and, if dinner includes dessert, I hand it off to my husband who can eat pretty much anything without gaing weight.

A latte, an egg sandwich and some fruit.

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Reading along just fine thanks. Just answering the question as asked: Has anyone heard of diatomaceous earth? Maybe try dialling it back a notch?

As a supplement? No. As a filter for fish tanks? Yes.

When you log cardio on Fitbit's site, it overrides the calories calculated by Fitbit for the period you exercised. You won't be double counting. For example, if I run for an hour, my Fitbit picks up the steps, calculates the calories burned of let's say 400. My HRM says that I burned 495 calories. When I input those 495…

I agree - spend time with your mom and get your real exercise some other time.

I squat until my quads are parallel to the floor.

Basically, it's a pedometer on 'roids. It tracks your steps, stairs climbed and sleep and translates everything into calories burned. It's not fabulous for cardio (it's a pedometer so it's not going to accurately track cycling or rowing etc.) but in terms of tracking actual activity level (I set my activity level on MFP to…

I guess you could say I'm in maintenance. I hit my goal weight and now I'm going to try adding some muscle through heavy lifting. I've gradually increased my calories from where I was when I was losing to where I need to be to add/maintain. It's not an easy thing to do, psychologically, after months of limiting my intake…

The assumption is that most people here have a level of intelligence that doesn't require us to spell everything out for them like they are 5-year-olds. The idea that we can be smaller but weigh more due to the development of muscle is a very basic fitness concept. My bet is that even those parroting the tiresome mantra of…

It would be flawed if someone had said a pound of muscle weighs less than a pound of fat. Nobody said that. The comparison used on another thread is arguing that gold is not more valuable than manure because $1000 worth of gold is just a valuable as $1000 worth of manure. There's no need to get overly pedantic about it -…

A cubic inch of muscle takes up the same amount of space as a cubic inch of fat. :smooched: I think that people are smart enough to understand that, when someone says that muscle weighs more than fat that they are talking about at a given volume.

Fit? A combination of cardio and strength training. There are many options for both cardio and strength, it's just a matter of finding what works best for you.

I could just as easily say - What do you mean it takes up less room than fat? - a cubic foot of fat takes up the same amount of room as a cubic foot of muscle. We are talking about two different variables here - volume and weight. If you hold volume constant, muscle weighs more than fat. If you hold weight constant, fat…

Do you think if I tell my fat that I'm not planning on using those ovaries any more that it will bugger off? :laugh:

It's been explained on this thread a number of times. Given the same volume, muscle weighs more than fat. A cup of muscle weighs more than a cup of fat. A cubic centimetre of muscle weighs more than a cubic centimetre of fat. Take your pick.

Which means that you are over the amount of protein that MFP recommends (a ridiculously low recommendation, btw). That's a good thing.

Lots of changes in my body but, strangely, the one that fascinates my the most is the development of my erector spinae muscles (those rope-like muscles that run along either side of your spin on your lower back). I love those!

Nobody has said that 'a pound of muscle weighs more than a [/i]pound[/i] of fat'. You inferred 'pound'. The rest of us inferred 'volume', as in 'a volume of muscle weighs more than the same volume of fat.' Basically you are disagreeing with something that was neither said nor intended.

Excellent advice.

The pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 mm high at sea level and 0 degrees centigrade under standard gravity. :wink:

I'm warming this bench. It irritates me to hear people say "A pound of fat weighs as much as a pound of muscle". Really? No kidding. :yawn: And a pound of feathers weighs the same as a pound of lead and a pound of me weighs the same as a pound of you. A person capable of making intuitive leaps would assume that what is…

MFP set my default at about half of the protein that I want to consume.