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Thats a very big difference, good job so far!

You almost never need to track potassium. It is in most all common foods, and very few nutritional information panels ever list potassium. Its actually dangerous to get too much from suppliments, much more dangerous than sodium (which btw now with recent studies, we are unsure if sodium ever was anywhere near as dangerous…

Wear heels next time, the no need to loose weight. Or dont tighten the weight in the first place.

I'm guessing if everybody else is losing weight and you are the only one gaining, that they are probably doing more hiking around, have heavier packs, do day trips, swimming, maybe day trips to fish or such and are burning more calories. There is nothing inherently weight increasing about pack foods, and they are usually…

Odd how this post turned out! I would recommend looking at how important strength vs thin looks and abs are for you since you are in a healthy weight range. The lower body fat you go, the harder/longer in general it will be to gain strength. Abs are 90% about body fat, not strength gain. I use this example all the time:…

Cheese is life blood, it is akin to all that is good in the world. Whoever said that must be trying to get you not to eat cheese so he can save it all for himself. It's the only logical explanation.

Why would you want him to lie? Of course gaining a lot of weight is going to change almost everyone's level of attraction to their significant other, only the amount of weight to cause a change, and how they deal with it really differs much...

Yeah I saw that, and I addressed that. If you read above, both SideSteel and I are talking in general about most of the posts bombing new lifters with "you arent making any new muscle". You posted a general attitude type post, and the attitude annoys some people, because it gets applied to people who do not deserve the…

Yup, I've done it before too, several times. I never tracked very closely until the last time where I ate very "dirty" (included beer, bacon, chocolate and coffee every day on purpose, ate fast food), and I lost 10+lbs over a month and a half, gained 150lbs strength for leg press, mostly over 30lbs lifting strength in the…

Yes exactly, I'm also talking about the majority of these threads I see, where the new lifters being talked about are pelted with "you aren't making any new muscle", but they are in one or more of the "newbie", "overweight", "obese" or "retraining" categories, so the fact that they probably are gaining *some* muscle is not…

Those are all different cases, so different responses, and yeah in the new person's case its tough with bad responses telling them its all muscle. But to tell them they cannot build any muscle gets the next response: well why am I even working out then and getting sore?? Plus, with the made up rules, they are in the newbie…

Yeah, no, there is no scientific proof that you cannot build muscle on a deficit, and no scientific proof you can. I find it interesting that many of the people who believe you cant gain muscle on a deficit, also seem to have an un-reasoned special category for the "elite athletes" saying they can do it too, when in fact…

Actually, if you want to play the probability game, they probably are in your category #1 and sedentary and obese, and probably are building a little bit of muscle, because even 30 mins of exercise is significant for a previously sedentary obese person. They are also probably not weighing their food and are probably not…

Your body will almost always take care of that in time, just eat at a deficit and exercise. Lotion isn't really going to help you much, except maybe for... it rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again...

And then you were hungry 15 minutes later...

No, you cant "tone" back fat. Just lose more weight, the skin will resorb some in time, and it will go down. You are probably getting more skin rolled up since you lost some underlying fat and its not necessary to stretch to cover the fat thats gone anymore.

Usually, yes, very much so. As I said when I was 15 or 40 and in between. Age tends to beget experience, which increases your ability to make smarter decisions. Some less so than others, but almost all the time better decisions than when the same person was less experienced. And everyone starts at different levels and…

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I like to wear free shirts from a different gym than the one I'm in when I work out for entertainment.

I'm a pseudo-Vegan, but since almost nobody knows what Vegans really look like or that they can reach our solar system, I can pull it off pretty well I think. Of course I get some odd looks from people though...

The odd thing about soreness after workouts (if it is not from an injury or doing an exercise incorrectly) is that people experience it after different exertion levels and to different extents. Some almost never get any soreness, and some, like me, get soreness very frequently, almost after every workout unless I'm going…

Arnie did shrink, but he's also in the foreground, which gives the illusion of more height. Good pic though, I thought Statham was pretty small too. And Stallone probably has 4 inch heels on ;) I'm just not sure which part of Statham Bruce would beat Arnold with still.

We don't know Arnold's fighting abilities to really know. But, there is one sure way to see Statham beat Arnold. Put both of them vs Bruce, and at some point during the match, Bruce will beat Arnold with part of Statham for certain ;)

Without a toilet close, very dangerous.

Yes on both counts. But, the company pays for someone to make the label, do the marketing and review this, and they make money off the listing, so they have the responsibility to be accurate. And this is not a "small" company with little money either. Consumers can have drool on their chin and nobody is mislead...if you…

Don't eat from his utensils, share a sandwich with, french kiss, have sex with, handle his excrement, puke or draw blood from him, and you should be fine even if he's "hiding symptoms". Usually you don't do these things with your doctor...

Everyone loses weight from different areas first, maybe you lost more proportionately in your face and need to lose more for the rest of the body to catch up. Unfortunately it is true that when you lose weight, you can usually tell age better. But really, you can do what people above said to change your look, and isn't it…

How dare she post a recipe! Maybe its from the grammar Nazis for the use of "to" instead of "too" too, no commas, periods, capitalizations and run on sentences. If so, people who want to "loose weight" will be flagged :P Eventually, they may work on some of the problems with the new, all around poorer forums, I hope... but…

Every time I read one of your posts in this thread, I imagine the massive flame war that would be on you for suggesting your gf is fat and her fatness is your business and main concern... Maybe it would help you if you think about what you'd say if a close girlfriend came to you and said her fiancee said she was too fat,…

To quote my friend: "Lady, this wasn't about you, why are you trying to make it about you to complicate things?". I didn't know anything about your information, your calorie burns, intakes, anything, so really, I wasn't talking about you, and because of that, we shouldn't talk about you. You kind of inserted yourself as an…