sgthaggard Member

Since you asked, I think you're eating to few calories.

Day 1.

My cup holds 2.15 gallons of water or, depending on my mood, 23 beers.

I disagree.

Are you weighing your food, or using measuring cups? If you do use a food scale and are accurate in logging your food, my next question is - how are you determining your exercise calories? Depending on your exercise, MFP, cardio machines and even HRMs can overestimate your calorie burn, moving your deficit into maintenance…

Maybe don't rea Yes, but apparently, we're the ones with the problem. ;)

Yeah, too much protein does that to me too.

Your body's like a toddler - you can keep pushing it in the right direction but it works on its own schedule and takes a lot of detours to look at bugs. Eventually, it will get there.

I agree with the suggestions here - watch portion sizes, substitute for lower cal. foods when you can and stay active. Most of my vacations tend to involve a lot of walking/swimming and I never feel the need to eat everything on my plate just because it's there.

If you are putting on so much perfume in the morning that it is still following you around in a cloud of fumes after work, you might want to reevaluate how much you are using 'cause chances are it's not just affecting the guy next to you on the treadmill.

Replacing fat with muscle is a matter of semantics too except for those who mistakenly believe that replacing is synonymous with 'turning into'. If I say I replaced my old running shoes would you infer that I magically transformed them into new ones? If I say I replaced the carbs in my diet with protein would you need me…

Replacing fat with muscle is a matter of semantics too except for those who mistakenly believe that replacing is synonymous with 'turning into'. If I say I replaced my old running shoes would you infer that I magically transformed them into new ones? If I say I replaced the carbs in my diet with protein would you need me…

I find more motivation in weighing daily. I understand the fluctuations but I also know that I would miss some of my 'lower' weights if I only weighed once a week.

Woot!

Mine too (8km/hr).

+1 to all of that but especially the first part.

People are all about semantics today.

Yes, for a given volume, muscle weighs more than fat. If you are eating at a deficit, the scale is a fairly good meter of how you are doing in terms of fat loss. If you are eating at maintenance (or surplus) and lifting heavy, I would rely more heavily on the tape measure.

I start my last week today. I did it on the treadmill because 1) it's been a bitterly cold winter and I wasn't about to run outside and 2) I can ensure a consistent pace from run to run. My one bit of advice is take the runs at your own pace otherwise you won't be able to keep it up as the sessions become progressively…

'Yeah no' to what part? That the decimal means a fraction, that we measure in feet and inches, or that I get his confusion?

I kind of feel bad for anyone reading this thread who is trying to get some actual helpful information but then I laugh and don't feel bad any more.

So he thinks that when he gets older he'll make better food choices. Until then, it's your job as a parent to do it for him. It's not like he's going to learn those habits through osmosis. Keep the food you don't want him to eat out of the house and model healthy habits. Hopefully, some of those habits will stick.

Egg whites, peameal bacon, jack cheese, and lettuce on a toasted whole wheat english muffin. Crumpets with nut butter and jam and a protein shake.

Take out Chinese is a sodium bomb.

I'm right where you are (1lb to go). I set that goal (122) from the beginning, have been focusing on strength training, with some cardio thrown in to basically allow me to eat more. That goal is my absolute bottom. Once I hit it, I will start to gradually up my calories to maintenance, continue lifting heavy and start the…

SW: 136 GW: 122 CW: 123 5'6" 45yo

I've heard that biking is a good choice for cardio when you're trying to preserve muscle.

I've been doing it on the treadmill (too freakin' cold here) and I'm on my last week. The one thing that helped me was taking the run as slow as I needed to. I didn't do that my first attempt and failed miserably. This time, the progressively longer runs were much easier. I've already upped the speed so that I will be on…

Maybe relevant to your interests, but not to reality. ;)