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I'm in between 5 9 and 5 10, so close. When I started, my lowest weight ever was 180 lbs at 17, so that was my first goal. When I got to 190, I realized that I could do better, so I re-set it to 170. When I got to the low 170s, I looked at myself in the mirror and checked bodyfat with a few methods (all of which agreed)…
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A lot of times I just open a can of tuna and eat it with a spoon. It's not the most exciting meal but it's quick, easy to carry around, low-cal, high-protein, blah blah blah.
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whooooo boy, smokin' hot!
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It looks like you've only recently gotten the food scale -- is it possible that you were eating less than you thought before (i.e. rounding everything down just to make sure you weren't over) and have increased more than you thought?
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Do you need a specific premade sauce? I do my chicken with small amounts of cayenne, ground mustard, ginger, garlic powder, salt, pepper, then I spritz it with lemon juice and soy sauce (you could probably use low sodium) and bake it -- it's quite spicy.
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I'm 5 10 and in the low 170s. I started at 230 with a GW of 180 but have gradually moved it down as I still see pudge. Losing slowly now though and aiming for 160. Currently wearing size 10 but it's quite loose and needs a belt.
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For lean/trained individuals who happen to be male FFM is probably quite close to actual body mass so it's not going to be super relevant. For non-lean individuals, females who aren't SUPER lean, or non-trained individuals, your recommendation is unnecessarily high and is likely to be expensive and unnecessary (can you…
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But they're not saying what you're saying. They're saying that ingesting additional protein, beyond their habitual diet, may be beneficial, but there's no reason to push it as high as 2-3g/kg.
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Start with your food. If you can get your calories under control, you'll start losing weight. As you start losing weight, it'd be a good idea to incorporate exercises, and healthier food, but imo you should focus on one thing at a time, and the most important thing for both your health and your weight loss is to get your…
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Yes. Usually when you see a phrase like that in an abstract, it means "there are a few studies, but there are also other studies that contradicted them".
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How about we not demean anyone's body?
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+1. The abstract you pasted does not support your recommendation. As a matter of fact, it says that there isn't much convincing data to support 2-3g/kg.
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Seems to me you might be better off leaving yourself more energy for training harder instead of heading into a race on a hard cut just to drop an extra couple of pounds.
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Here's an article which also cites the research study: http://baye.com/calculating-the-daily-calorie-deficit-for-maximum-fat-loss/ With respect to 'a ridiculous amount of time' -- that depends on your current fat levels. With respect to the crash dieting, these people are usually medically supervised so that they can raise…
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botanically it's a fruit, in a culinary sense it's a vegetable. I'd recommend tracking what you plan to eat in advance -- that'll teach you where the things you prefer not to eat are. For me, one easy place to cut calories was most baked goods/pasta. When I tracked them, I saw that they weren't contributing much other than…
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Only if you get angry and quit/hurt yourself by trying to hard if you're losing.
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Yeah, but you'd be losing a lot more than just fat at that deficit. There's a limit to how many calories your body can get from each pound of fat per day -- iirc it's just over 30 cal/pound/day.
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No, but you must have very developed jaw muscles! ;)
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It is possible, although incredibly rare, to consume too much water. I doubt you're anywhere near that. Any weight jump from drinking extra water will be extremely temporary. It only takes water a few hours to go through your system. That being said, that number of ounces is probably unnecessary. If your urine is light…
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Try eating light, eating heavy, not eating, see which one gives you better workouts.
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Does it need to fit with the yoghurt? Could you munch on some broccoli out of a bag or something? Mixing veggies with yoghurt sounds unpalatable to me.
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Ditto to both. She looks smashing. If I looked like that at 30% I'd have stopped losing there.
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It's a common weight-loss guideline. One reason is that there's a *correlation* between people who eat late at night and being overweight. This is because late-night eating tends to be eating large amounts of food while watching television and/or partying late and eating pizza while drinking alcohol. It is not the…
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Yep. Good news is that part of that is going to be water weight.
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Yeah, it's like Monica Lewinsky as a spokesperson for Jenny Craig -- after all, she's learned not to put things into her mouth that aren't good for her.
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Nope, other than the starchy ones. A pound of broccoli (the vegetable I eat most of) is about 120 calories. Even if the one-pound bag is off by 20%, that's an error of less than 25 calories. Similar reasoning applies to spinach, celery, etc. It's just not worth my time.
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Well, my knees hurt a lot less, I can train martial arts longer and harder (giggity), and my bloodwork is all excellent. As an unexpected side bonus, I get a lot more attention from guys.
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Does MFP actually say you're set to lose 2lbs/week? I'm guessing you clicked 2lbs/week but it won't actually set you below 1200/day. If you go to home/goals it will tell you what your actual deficit is. I looked at your diary for the last month. I don't see logging on Mar 30 or Apr 6, incomplete (hopefully) logging on Apr…
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I weigh every day, but I record in 2 cases: 1) When I've hit a new low. 2) When I haven't gone back to the low or below it a week later.
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You're not very fat, 1lb/week is probably going to give better aesthetic results and result in a lower bf% when you hit goal.