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First off, you ARE seeing progress if you lost inches somewhere but the scale didn't move. You can be losing fat, and gaining equal weight in muscle, causing no scale movement, but your health is being improved. Later you will see progress once your body has built up the muscle it will. Also, being through this type of…

The more you can keep this deficit with weight training and calorie restriction alone, the better. Aerobics *may* bite into some muscle. And of course yes, the slower the more likely to not eat LBM, but conversely, I find it harder to reliably maintain a steady low loss and keep weight training consistent, if thats your…

OK, I'll answer the two most common answers on this site to do with weight gain: Obviously you weren't eating enough to drop the last .5lbs! Either that or it was all contained in your stomach and undigested/water weight until you came home and gradually eliminated the undigested food or you counted the calories wrong and…

I have guys offer to help load more plates on when I work in all the time, or when I've asked someone to spot me, they also help. Never had one walk over to help put a plate on as far as I can remember unless I've talked to them before, but some people have said I look mad when I work out at times. But even if I don't want…

Yours sounds in the ballpark, running uses more energy too and your LBM is higher than hers too.

Although I think you are referring to the peeking cartoon guy about being rude (I know he's blunt and opinionated but in this case probably right), I hope you read my post and realize I'm trying to show you the high probability that you are eating more than you think and burning less and you asked for help. Why do I say…

First off, losing inches is great progress! Better than actual weight coming off for a while, it indicates fat is being absorbed and muscle is being built, meaning you can burn more later. The general other posters consensus is probably right too though: since you aren't losing, you are probably both eating more than you…

Calorie deficit daily, with relatively reasonable macronutrients eating any foods will = loss of weight. And this will be a good health effect. Healthier foods can/will have other positive effects though, depending on what your individual stressors/health conditions/sensitivities/genetic makeup/environmental conditions,…

For people looking to lose weight or get healthy, "exercise" should be something done for the purpose of raising your heart rate significantly for a prescribed period of time (15 minutes or more) for the purpose of promoting either your health or calorie loss. If you walk around the store in a low martial arts posture to…

Aww man, did you have to post that? I had a double portabella bacon melt burger, but it still made me hungry...

I'm sure you are doing great, making gains, feeling energized, and congrats on that! However, if you gained muscle 10% faster or slower, even if you think you could notice this (muscle growth does not = strength increase in a 1:1 fashion), how could you compare it to anything else? Fact is you can only know what you've…

Your above attitude and description sounds good and good luck to you, but I hope you can be happy with/proud of 1-2lbs/week and not be disappointed if thats what happens after you got rid of the "turkey glut" weight :) For perspective, as a guy who was a lot heavier than your start weight, I did lose 10lbs in one week one…

A 6' male should eat about that much to lose weight at a reasonable pace and keep his lean body mass constant. If you stay at 1200 cals per day you will lose faster, but you will lose lean body mass (muscle) and you may stress your body to use calories more efficiently, leading to increased weight gain later when you are…

Don't do it, so far its just another fad with no convincing evidence it does anything except lighten your pocketbook, and cause stool loosening in some.

I've done a similarly fast loss before, lost 10lbs in one week, my deficit was all by exercise, over 3k cals/day, weights and elliptical every day with hiking/swimming/biking thrown in as well. I just wanted to see how fast I could lose for a competition, and though I did it, it was really tough by the end, and I ended up…

Well most of the time people on this site get the idea of what generally effects weight loss the most right, most of the time. However this does stick out like a sore thumb. No company has your best interests in mind. Its profit. Period. Satisfy as many laws as necessary to achieve it and try to change them to maximize…

Short answer: Its not a problem to work them out a couple times/week unless you are relying on fatigued and sore abs to guard you through heavy compound lifts, but then just move your deadlift/squat/overhead press an adequate distance from abs, work them same day after or dont get them sore a few days before. Whether you…

The first thing someone usually thinks is dieting (restricting calories) can cause you to lose weight. You are beating a dead horse to tell them you don't need to exercise to lose weight. So its kind of "Obvious(wo)man to the rescue!", but gives the impression exercise isn't important. Whereas advice that exercise can help…

It is *possible* you gave the bacteria enough heat and a chance to multiply to dangerous levels and you increase your chances of food poisoning, especially if you have someone with health issues you will feed it too. I thaw my turkey outside the fridge every year with no problem though. However, there are many variables…

You are right here, and ANY moderately vigorous physical activity 150 minutes per week (like just plain walking) has been shown to significantly reduce serious health risks. However you always come off as poo-pooing exercise as the takeaway in your posts. Looks like from your posts about being "toned" from your activities,…

+1000 there. I also take issue with green hair doll and the cartoon guy who like to regularly pop in and advise things like eat less and you dont need exercise, which are against "best practices" for keeping people safe and healthy. Yes calorie management is essential to losing weight, nobody in their right mind denies it.…

^^ this is why he probably told you you would get "boxy" etc. He wants to sell you on his products is my guess, maybe he even believes what he said, but he's wrong. I have more education and degrees that directly apply (I'm not going to say in what and you shouldnt believe anyone over the net anyways, so it makes no…

To me the question is what cant you eat with cottage cheese? It goes well with both salty and sweet foods and by itself and is such a great low cal increased protein food. I usually eat it plain several times per week and its the most satisfying "what do I do, I'm still hungry but I want to go to bed" food. And a fast "I…

I love Indian buffets, and they'd help easily in the quest to gain weight. I eat 2500-3400 cals/day to lose weight and keep my muscle. One nice Indian buffet lunch, go back for seconds or thirds and you can get to 2k cals easy, lots of carbs with rice and lentil dishes, naan bread and dessert mango or bread puddings, and…

The reason for what you state at the bottom is mostly due to the fact that the richer nations eat more protein yes, but they have an equally or much greater difference in the reduction of hard physical and weight bearing exercise. Weight bearing exercise is your body's primary stimulus for depositing more calcium to…

This "metabolic acidosis" theory of calcium depletion is an old 70's and 80's idea and really not something most should worry about even if it were truly a risk, except in certain extreme cases. Its not really an issue from looking at newer studies. And from a logical perspective, when you weight train and eat increased…

You can feel nauseous while or after working out if you: -Push yourself too hard -Haven't eaten enough recently -Have eaten too close to your workout (especially aerobic exercise, not usually anaerobic) -If you are pre-diabetic or diabetic if you haven't eaten very recently. -Not hydrated enough -Hydrated very excessively…

Great job ladies! These are the kind of pictures you'd be expecting with the kind of statement from the other thread, but all they had were obese women pics, not average, that felt like it was basically propaganda for promoting obesity from what I saw too. But these are all great, MFP version is real pretty average size…

Well, I guess the exorcism was delayed and when you exorcised your calories they were not immediately banished... ;)