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It's very difficult to get your point across when people just shut you down, so could everybody just try to be respectful? While this was not the most perfectly formed post it is the truth. 56 billion animals live awful lives and then are killed, that is not natural, your hormone and antibiotic filled meat is not natural.…

I'm a vegan, went from vegetarianism to eating chicken then now to vegan, apparently I briefly forgot why I didn't eat from animals >.> Anybody feel free to add me, I'm gonna be making a lot of my foods from the veganeasy.org recipes, which is a great site, check it out. Started my challenge recently.

I'm pretty interested in this! I'd love more vegan friends too, don't know anybody who is a vegan IRL. I also learnt about raw till 4 etc from Freelee haha, I'm an Aussie so naturally proud :).

She didn't lose 150 pounds in a couple of months and I highly doubt she has ten pounds of loose skin. But I don't know that, and neither do you.

I thought it was clarified that it was over several months? :S I'm not sure, we don't have the U.S show in Australia.

Wow. This is the dumbest thread I have ever seen on here. Really. Congrats OP to respecting others and trying to bring positivity to the overall human experience.

So you're saying looking like you're 40 is inherently ugly and you feel bad for all 40 year olds. Gahd. I'm in serious doubt about the route that was taken to achieve her end weight, but plus 5 pounds (or not even, she seems to still be carrying a little around her stomach) and she's the same weight as a Victoria's Secret…

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Ahaha I was just about to be the first person to add in that I'm not exactly the same all of the time, I go through phases. I like edgyness always though, I wear jeans and t shirts or tanks and shirts, but I'd be happy to wear some hard looking more femme clothes like Aaliyah, Cassie, Gwen Stefani, Cara Delevinge and…

Because we read left to right and time goes oldest to newest, so makes sense to put before first, not that it really matters, but like you said you always look to the left first and get a bit confused haha. To the OP, don't discredit yourself! That change is huge, you look really wonderful, great job.

Thanks for the further info FightClubKat! Completely agree with this. Other suggestion would be to start measuring some basic points on your body or, like 1Cor1510 said, take pictures, but you'd need to set them up exactly the same way each time. You can't spot reduce, if anything you're adding more muscle mass to that…

First off, you are doing an amazing job, like really. I commend you, I hope you're super proud of yourself!! Think about all of the things you're doing right, not wrong. Now onto your issue, I don't know what you were doing food or exercise wise before these past three weeks or what kind of workouts you're doing now so if…

Thanks for your reply heybales, I really appreciate it as you've obviously tried and tested this method, I completely understand your point, it is quite slow unless there's a considerable gap between your goal maintenance and current maintenance, even then it would eventually slow down considerably, but for somebody who…

I know this is old, but I really thought this needed a bump! I think it's something hardly anybody discusses, but it actually would be great for people who find it very difficult to eat even less than if they were maintaining their goal weight. For example, to lose 1kg a week (2 pounds) according to MFP I can eat 1200…

Wow, they have no other reason than they have stereotypical ideas of women in gyms to act like that and you'd think as an adult they would know better. You're so lucky you have a brother-in-law that is going to help you, I hope you had a really good session with him. Well he should know that already but at least you taught…

Thank you, you're very knowledgeable and inspirational! I'll remember to stack the plates up next time, I definitely need some more back strength! It sounds so good to have a set up at home but hopefully by going to a gym I'll find a partner to train along with. I'm actually moving at the moment and haven't gone back to…

Lol!! Thank you, I had a good laugh then. You would think Barbell Rows were of normal difficulty, oh well. Yes exactly, the medium sized weights only go up in 5kg (about as much as 10lbs) so I really don't want to be using them. I asked him a couple of times about the olympic bar and he was just staring at me glazed over…

Hey, I've really enjoyed reading through this thread and the previous, I've just started Stronglifts this week and wanted to get some advice. I have only lifted free weights occasionally and used the machines a few times. When I went to the gym on Wednesday to begin I received so many negative looks and stares in the free…

There's a lot of good info at bodybuilding.com about supplements, I think it was Casein that most people had before bed time because it's slow releasing for about 8 hours, a lot of your muscle recovery will happen when you sleep so I think it's a good idea.

Whey protein concentrate is probably best to start off with, or isolate though it's a bit more expensive. Have also read the 1g of protein per pound of body weight but I have also read 1g per pound of lean muscle mass, so the weight of everything except for the fat (that would require knowing your body fat percentage), you…

Weet Bix with a tsp of sugar and semi skim milk. I just love milk! Though I think it's healthier to eat eggs for breakfast. Where is the sugary milky goodness though!?

Hm well, are you eating enough protein and fats? I saw a segment on poops on Dr. Oz once, maybe you could look it up :p?

Weight training, heavy weight low reps until you reach the amount of muscle/tone you want, otherwise you won't have anything under the fat, aka skinny-fat. It's also important to know that muscle is mostly hidden until you have a low enough body fat percentage for it to show. Don't worry, you can't get bulky without that…

Another reason to lift first! You can really concentrate on form and make sure you're putting 100% into your lifts, cardio is also good for your heart but doesn't do as much for toning. I agree with working smaller amounts of body groups each day. Remember to lift heavy with low reps!

I think most other people are listening to music/TV or otherwise paying very close attention to their workout, compared to the whizzing, whirring and clanking generally in the gym your squeaking probably doesn't bother anybody, maybe you have a very bouncy step :p. If it really bothers you I suppose you could substitute…

Everybody is trolololing, the answer is no, weights don't stunt growth it's just an old myth, they have a teen section and some info on it at bodybuilding.com I think.

I think around 100 hairs is normal, the longer your hair is the more it looks, that includes darkness, have you ever attempted to count or average the amount of hairs you are losing? You can check out thelonghaircommunity.com if you'd like to research shedding a little more, it's a pretty helpful site! Good luck and I hope…

I really don't know what my goal weight is. I was wondering if anybody could help me out with this? Age: 18 Height: 169cm (5"7/5"6) Weight: 101.9kg (224lbs) Goal Weight: 59kg (130lbs) Does that seem reasonable?

I totally agree with you, the database is huge and it just makes things a lot simpler which is great motivation in itself! Bravo to the MFP team!

Either Jillian Michael's Shred DVD, shredding fat in general or to reveal muscles you have worked on underneath, also known as cutting, then again I'm not entirely sure, different people may be referring to different things :).