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I had a friend with that problem, when we were in high school he could sit and eat 4 burgers in a meal, a whole pizza for dinner, and not gain anything. Then we grew up, his metabolism changed, he's now balding and got a tummy ;) Anyways: focus on weight training, make sure you use good form and use weights you can do in…

I'd tell you cigarettes have TONS of calories...if it makes you consider not smoking... So yeah, stop smoking so you don't get fat :P

Aside from the you can get cheaper food, and making food yourself is better valid issues, my main issue with Advocare stuff (aside from very high cost and just enough nutrients to say "its there" in many mixes) is its full of Sucralose and artificial sweeteners. I'm not sure about "Shakeology" but from what I've heard its…

What would I steel? Bronze isnt a choice?

You have to remember all calculations are estimates. You said 4.9 miles was registered at 600 calories...I'd guess thats high but you also didnt say how long it took you, and it depends on how fast you were going and how the calculator gets to those numbers. If its just a multiple of time vs your weight for say "walking…

You don't even have to be creative: walking up mountains (hiking) and walking my dogs is my primary weight loss exercise. In fact if I wasn't doing any weight training, I'd have lost a lot more weight, because I'm trying to gain muscle and not let my calorie deficit become the biggest obstacle to achieving my strength…

Not if they cause a market to collapse, then the banks and Wall Street gets a bonus from the government. Its somewhere in the constitution right? :P This has to be the real reason they are coming to an agreement today: http://www.theonion.com/articles/heroic-broken-sewage-pipe-floods-congress-with-hum,34237

Yup Bonehead, I mean Bohner may do a last minute switch so we can have some more drama for tomorrow.

Ah just having fun, I couldn't pass up the image of a couch instructing you on lifts :) I wasn't paying so close attention after all either since you are a girl and I quoted you saying "movement" when you wrote "move" too.

You need someone to look at your form, I highly suspect from how you describe it, you are standing somewhat uneven, and favoring your knee, leading to scraping that one more than the other. The evidence is your bruising, if you were even throughout, you would not bruise one side more than the other. Frankly though, I also…

Hey you weren't paying attention, he said he had an "amazing couch that understands the human movement system". So that's safer than taking all your instruction from typical crossfit instructors. ;)

A third head sounds pretty serious, I'd look at getting it removed and your weight loss problem will disappear. Unless you are a Siamese Triplet, then unfortunately you'll have to live with each other.

One very glaring thing I see is you are not getting enough protein on ANY day the past week. At first as you start exercise, you should be building muscle and not seeing much in the way of loss is typical. Not eating enough protein could stretch this phase out a lot longer, never allowing your muscles to recouperate…

Its just math. Exercise more, eat more/day. Exercise less, eat less/day. I'm eating 2,500-3,800 calories/day and building muscle and losing weight at the same time. Didnt make it to my goal weight yet, but that's irrelevant: once I get to my goal weight, I can actually keep the same diet. Remember, your calorie goals…

I lift heavy, but I walk my dogs daily, and I walk up hills (hiking). I burn most of my calories while walking, it is my main weight loss tool to be honest. Even when I go in the gym and do my 720lb leg presses, it doesn't compare to the calorie burn while walking. Don't let anyone get you down over walking! Several…

You shouldn't try it, but you are in the obese range of overweight for your height, so if you are starting with a lot of muscle also, and you increase your amount of exercise to several hours/day, you can. If you want to see if you can survive being starved and not cause health problems or worse, that's another way. Either…

You don't always need to drink that much water no. In fact several recent studies show no benefits at all of drinking that much water, one was a nice study where all stationary bike riders got fluids through IV so nobody could tell how much water they were getting, and no performance differences were noted in the…

Well, there is unequivocally "a thing" as muscle tone, but to "tone", is yes kind of an invention of the fitness industry, and kind of a real thing depending on what you think "toning" means. Many think if you have fat in an area you can "tone" it, by working out that area, which is very false. But, the underlying tone of…

Dammit! Why did this have to be on Fox news?? Now nobody will believe I'm just trying to be healthy when I give this as a reference!

It is kind of amusing isn't it? "Please give me some advice on this, I want to know if its safe to take long term"..."Wait I don't to hear anything negative about it, I said I wanted to hear its OK to take".."Aren't you listening? I think its perfectly safe! Now someone, tell me its safe!"... "Hey, I said I only wanted to…

With the above statement, it looks like you have made up your mind and want someone to tell you its not dangerous and validate your decision. However none of those drugs are "safe" really, its a weighing of negatives that you have to do here. I hope you can hear this, here is the truth of the matter: it sounds like you are…

You are self-admittedly out of shape, and HRM will be more accurate as you progress. I'd ignore all the side comments and issues about x or y monitor being more accurate than another and what percent error rate it has and put all the focus on strength training into building muscle and strength for strength training, and…

No its true, its a relative statement of what the monitor shows you, if you re-read. Said maybe more clearly, the ACTUAL calories burned do not change, but if you are out of shape, your heart rate will stay higher for longer and the monitor will record "more" calorie burn, and as you get in shape and your heart rate does…

You won't gain weight BECAUSE you didnt eat after a workout, but you will not make as good of gains and may force your body to break down muscle tissue by eating nothing after a workout since you are sleeping a while after (fasting for many hours). This can reduce your calories burnt throughout a day. Any weight increase…

Pretty much! Unless you are talking about what/who he is, then I have no idea :)

In general less reps with more weight, eating enough protein and calories, not doing aerobics or stretching excessively before strength training and mixing up the type of exercise you do for the muscle group can all be solutions for common problems people have trying to strength train. However, its very hard to know what…

It is definitely possible for 90 minutes, but not probable, it depends on the weights you are pushing, the time between each set and knowing these monitors do over estimate, especially if your heart rate takes a while to catch up (the faster/more in shape you are, the "less calories you burn" according to the monitor).…

I find my body gets extremely hungry anyways after a big workout and I naturally want to eat a lot more and it usually balances out. I do have a problem with more intense mountain hiking sessions when I burn 2k+ calories: I really cant eat back all those calories without forcing myself on 'good' foods, so I usually do…

One time I thought this girl kept looking at me, smiling...I didn't know who she was...but she was attractive, was looking right at me, and so I smiled back. This happened a few times, then she waved for me to come over...I was very flattered and I almost got up, but then a girl's voice a bit behind me laughed and she got…

Because their opinion is that not as much fat is prettier, and somewhere inside yourself you also probably think so, and it makes you feel bad. You are recognizing you need to lose weight after all, you are here :) Whether or not someone should give you their opinion is a different issue, but I think most of the time,…