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Don't feel limited to 'breakfast food' for breakfast, either. If you can't stomach it, that's one thing, but there's nothing wrong with reheated leftovers for breakfast. I ate on this diet at <20g net carbs for 6 weeks and had a lot of meat + steamed fibrous veggies such as broccoli at every meal. FTR, my weight loss was…
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Depends on what you're looking for. I started doing them in large quantities a few years ago because I wanted to build up my ability to take ukemi (falls) quickly and jump back up again over the course of a several-hour training period. For this, I wasn't looking for strength or size, but solely for muscular…
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Maybe not, but FWIW, I always thought I was a banana, but as I lose more weight it seems that I was more of a fat hourglass.
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Learn to cook, ask your mother to help you. Start with simple recipes, like roasting meat, steaming vegetables, that are really hard to mess up if you follow the directions. I'm guessing you picked 101 lbs as goal because you're 5 2 and that's the minimum healthy bodyweight according to the charts? If you haven't been…
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You can cut portion sizes, or if you want to include fattier/bigger cuts of meat, balance them out with low-cal sides such as steamed vegetables etc. I recommend pre-logging what you plan to eat. Then you'll have time, before you start cooking, to make it work.
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Beer only counts as water if you drink American beer ;)
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Nothing's stopping you from tracking it in both places.
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I don't track water. (that being said, it may be appropriate for some people who struggle with hydration without something to click) If your urine is odorless and light yellow or colorless, you're hydrated enough. If it's strong or bright yellow, drink more. If it burns, see a doctor. If it's blue, stop eating smurfs.
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Not really, but weight training will help you preserve more of the muscle that you already have, so that when you get to your goal weight your body fat percentage is lower and you look slimmer.
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... Are you saying now that your belly is NOT cold?
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I have been working on chinups since august and have just this week succeeded in doing them unassisted. I plateaued for a long time but that had more to do with being on a pretty hard cut for a while. I've backed off and my lifts are going up again. I can do a wall handstand for 60sec but still working on strength/balance…
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no. When you have a cold belly it means your belly is cold.
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I agree with Neandermagnon, that's an awfully low number of calories for a guy of your height, age, and activity, and the protein's pretty low too, did you tell MFP 2lbs/week or did you just decide to eat 1800-2000?
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If it's your first week, it's normal.
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Goals: 20% bodyfat freestanding handstand for 60sec 25 unassisted chinups
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Call in sick ;) No seriously, as Aaron recommended, drink loads of water tonight, pee pee pee, don't eat before you go for your weigh-in, and suck it up because you're still going to have to shell out a few bucks. :p
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Some people have done it and report wonderfully good things happening to their health. Some other people have done it and reported that although they felt great at first, after a few months or years on it they started having serious health problems. (teeth falling out is a common one). It's also quite expensive (because…
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A lot of it's water. Probably a pound max of real gain. Drink lots of water, eat sensibly, and watch it go back down.
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1% of body should be reasonable.
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Man, I didn't even notice the join the military part. OP, you can crash it off, but you're never going to survive boot camp if you lose as much muscle mass as your plan will have you losing. For *your* goals, you need to be incorporating weight training as well.…
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Right, but this puts your average for the week (assuming 700 on those days and 1200 on the others) at a bit over a thousand calories a day, not including exercise calories). This is not really enough for proper nutrition or for care of the body between workouts, unless you are very short, very slender, and older. Again --…
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That is not how 5:2 works -- if you're going to do 5:2 you're supposed to eat maintenance on the other days. Don't try and mix and match like this -- either pick 1200 or do 5:2.
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A "cleanse" is crackpot and I'd be very worried about that as well, especially not supervised.
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Snipping only for brevity because most of your post I agree with. I agree with this as well -- I just don't think that cutting out sugar is going to put a kid at any risk. I'd be concerned about a parent who put their growing kid on Atkins (especially induction phase), but it sounds like her kids are still getting fruits,…
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Wait, I'm confused -- is the nothing over 200 calories per meal for the low days or the up days?
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But we have yet to see that the children in the book were at any risk of malnutrition. I would consider it highly unlikely that simply cutting out added sugars (even if the mother became a little neurotic about tracking down sources of added fructose) would in any way put children at risk for malnutrition.
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If your TDEE is 19-something, that should include exercise. Therefore, you shouldn't be eating any exercise calories back, unless you do something that you haven't accounted for in your TDEE calculations. Example: If I schedule myself for 3 workouts a week and account for that in my TDEE, I don't eat calories back from…
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Yep, just bump the calorie goal by a bit. It looks like you're losing about 1lb/month, try adding 100 calories/day?
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I'd really want some sort of evidence of harm required before staging any sort of intervention. As far as I can see, there's no evidence that the woman's children suffered any sort of harm from a year-long food experiment on cutting down on sugars, even if SHE became a little neurotic. Only the word of a few people on the…