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Greek yogurt, baked chicken breast (skip the sauces), whey protein :)

bump, thank you ladies :)

1 - got an unexpected recognition at work (with an associated $200 on my next check) 2 - boss approved my request to work from home during march break to keep an eye on my kiddos 3 - my daughter being totally like her dad (choosing to do something the "hard" way for extra self-challenge)

Grats, keep it going :)

Kickboxing with a bag rocks, because you can visualize people/concepts you dislike ;)

Ouch :)

Well, at my work's wellness center, the leg press machine is right in front of a row of treadmills (Basically its under the TV's), so here I am doing my whole stack (400lbs) 15 reps, 4 sets workout, and near the end I had to give it everything I got, and in the compressed position some air escaped at the wrong end pretty…

Its not the age, its the person. Be very very very very very very very very choosy, because things that are small now, will magnify and become huge pains in the rear end. And yeah, 15 years of living together as of today, and perhaps on track to not even last another 15 days..... so listen to me at your own peril, I'm…

I welcome very much this kind of post, every story has more than one side, and glad to hear. However, I was really hoping for a good "debunking" as hey, I am after the truth, no matter what it is, but the doctor in the article didn't do much debunking beyond saying "that Time guy is wrong". Would have loved to see a point…

Exactly, I had the same mindset, I'm active, and lift heavy weights so I'm ok at 220... well that quickly became 249 when working out was interrupted with a month in bed with a torn achilles. Only at the end of january did I finally get the food part, and thanks goes to the Fit2Fat2Fit guy, I was checking out what he ate,…

There is a part that says that a study found that a pound of fat burns 2 calories a day, and a pound of muscle burns 7, so I think that's where they came up with the 40 change.

Woo hoo, my first bump ever. TY :)

Neither. The point is that exercise as central part of a weight loss effort is doomed to failure. The article meticulously supports it with research (and I experienced the same over 10 years of being a gym-rat), and lays out the plausible argument on how our bodies were NOT designed to be stressed at a high level for short…

I know right!. Sad that it took 10 years of following the conventional advice "Exercise more to lose weight" 'till I saw the sign.

Incidentally, I wanted to add that MFP has been a godsend. The first few days was a shock in how little amount of food did it take to hit my daily goal, and I though oh boy, this is going to be a horrible multi-month battle against hunger. Surprisingly, hunger has not been an issue. Love the site/app and love the good…

Judging by the responses, not so much. What I found extraordinary is that the findings of the article (well researched and supported with studies cited) runs contrary to popular belief for the last quarter century, and that it absolutely fits my personal experiences over a long term period. 10 years, countless of hours of…

"Last year the International Journal of Obesity published a paper by Gortmaker and Kendrin Sonneville of Children's Hospital Boston noting that "there is a widespread assumption that increasing activity will result in a net reduction in any energy gap" — energy gap being the term scientists use for the difference between…

I love that, just became my new mantra :)

The article points this out. Converting 10 pounds of fat to muscle, a MAJOR accomplishment, only burns you extra 40 cal. Sure, 40cal is "more" but practically nothing when cast against a 2000 cal daily intake.

Yep, exercise is very important (reduces all kinds of disease risks, countless studies support this), just not in terms of weight loss. I still work out quite a bit, but now its more of building myself a "buffer" on my low cal/high protein MFP diet in case I get hungry in the evening, then I can go 200-300 cal over my goal…

I'm starting week 5 today, but I always push myself to the "next" week by the end of the current week.

^^^ THis is correct, reps of 6-8, 3 sets (should do some weight that works out to ( 8 7 6 per rep at maximum effort--ie, you just can't do no more, but be careful, squats + failure can easily equal injury. Once you can do 8 8 8, up the weight by 5-10%). That's how you build muscle mass.

Oh, and I use whatever the big bag is from Costco. Used to be EAS, now its Cytosomething. I find that the chocolate flavors tend to be the best (even when I was mixing it with punch gatorade power lol). By "best" I mean "most non-weird tasting".

Gives you proteins to repair the microscopic muscle damage that occurs when resistance weight training. (This is a good thing, the damage/repair cycle is how the muscles get bigger and stronger). If you take it once, take it right after the workout. Some people do before/after workout.

Greek yogurt, chicken breast, soy beans, whey protein.

Same here, except July, and 2001 :)

The military teaches navigation (field navigation that is) to deliberately aim off. For example, I want to get to the crossing of two roads on the map, instead aiming to the intersection, I'll aim half mile to the left, that way when I hit the road I KNOW that i have to turn right for the intersection. Even if my…

Ah, I just heard about this from the wellness center folks here. As long as your activity is at least 10 minutes, it is practically equivalent to have 3x 10 minute sessions as a single 30 minute session. I found it strange personally, but apparently this is something the FDA backs in its recommendations.

Fiber - too quick of an increase can lead to issues in the bathroom (think #2) Protein - way too much over extend periods can cause liver issues. Way back when I got interested in protein nutrition (for weightlifting), I did a lot of reseach, and what I came away was to take 1gramm of protein per KILOGRAMM of body weight…