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I put it on the same level as any other priority. I make sure I get it done daily. It is really that simple.

When eating in a deficit you are much more trying to hold onto muscle than gain a lot. Lift as heavy as you can on a proven beginners lifting program, hit your macros, and keep at it. I don't know why this topic is so beat to death, but there seams to be a new thread here daily about it. If you want to lose weight, eat in…

Good news is you already have a great idea of how to lose it. So go do it. You could easily drop that 10 pounds in 10 weeks without breaking a sweat. Don't wait for a Monday to start over, do it now. Good luck!

Great job!

Agreed.

If you cant understand the simplicity with taking a calculation, running it through a simple cal burning estimator, which btw is the exact thing this site depends on, estimated calculations for your age, weight, and activity to then give you your estimated calorie needs to lose weight, then I don't know what to tell you…

You couldn't. How much do you weigh? You do understand heavier people burn more calories than people who are lighter.

Pretty much exactly what I was saying. The problem is, you would have to have your heart rate already up to 150 when you started. So in theory, you could burn 115 cals with a high heart rate in 7 minutes. Try running a seven minute mile on an incline and see how many cals you burn in that seven minutes. Depending on your…

Take your weight and age and heart rate average for the workout and plug it into this ---> http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/calculators/heart-rate-based-calorie-burn-calculator.aspx For example, for me, if I got my heart rate up to 150 and could keep it at that or above for the entire 7 minutes of working out, I…

Don't buy this year. The same people who made 21 day fix will come out with 14 day fix next year for the new years resolutionist.

Stop separating the 2. Seriously, look at it this way, you took 5 days of eating right and doing what you know you need to do, and you are going to trade five days worth of work for 2. That is not a trade that I would want to make. Get a good jump on your day by going to the gym in the morning and getting a calorie deficit…

I have found over many months of dieting on here that what really helps is to pay attention the first couple of weeks and identify times you are about gnaw your arm off. For the most part that time of day won't change. For me it is around 3:00. After lunch and before dinner. Have yourself a good snack set aside for this…

Well the first step of knowing you have a problem is to admit it. How do carry around so many sodas with you? If you are stopping by gas stations to grab them, that is an easy fix. Stop stopping. If you are packing them in a cooler and toting them around, get a smaller cooler.

I like dr pepper 10 too. I have lost over 40 lbs, and like I said, I drink around 1 to 2 daily. It is not going to stop you from losing weight. There are worse addictions to have than diet soda, I can live with mine.

You are eating to much. Over calculating your calorie burn in the gym, or you are wiping out your weekly totals by your weekend estimating. It is not uncommon for people who just get started to have a plateau, especially if you are adding strength training. You muscles are storing water and glycogen to heal. Why don't you…

Coke zero ftw. Seriously, it is amazing what you can adapt to. Now regular coke tastes syrupy. I drink one or 2 a day.

I use IIFYM to set my calorie and macro goals. I find that it is better for people who are doing weight training than MFP. I use MFP to track each of those calories and macros. The calorie counts are usually really close to each other. Like within 50 or so calories. However, the macros are not. I like to eat more protein…

Progress photos are a great way to help keep yourself on track. Another one is to take a picture that you hate of yourself, and put it on your refrigerator. My fridge has a bunch of pictures on it anyway. I however make sure that I have one there that is a picture of my former fat self that I hate. It is a constant…

When I began using MFP I did the same thing. The reason I was not logging though had more to do with me knowing that I was not eating right on the weekend. This accounted for me not losing weight and I found that I needed to stop separating the 2. You can easily wipe out a weeks worth of calories by going on a cheat day…

Love the enthusiasm, but why not slow down and adjust your calorie goal back where you lose 2 pounds a week without needing to do 2000 calorie a day deficit? Are you going to do that much cardio forever? If not, you need to learn how to eat within your calorie range, do a mix of weight training and some cardio on your non…

Cinnamon, Splenda, and throw in some type of fruit. Blueberries, blackberries, etc

Actually no, and I agree with what you are saying. Those get thrown around a lot on here. However, with him looking to gain, and weighing in at 122 pounds, he could eat and actually grow with a program of this sort a lot better than most people here that it has been suggested to.

The fact that are a beginner, and have a leg day is you first mistake. As others have said. Go find a program that was made by a pro and leave your own programming out of it. Starting Strength, Stronglifts, etc is what you should be looking into.

You can do it as long as you have a high body fat percentage. Once you get down under 20 percent, it becomes a lot harder to maintain. At that point if you going to add any amount of serious muscle you are going to need to eat in a surplus and fat will come with it. 3 lifting days, 3 cardio days. That is my current split.…

I like protein because it helps to keep me full. Low cal protein, dannon has a light Greek yogurt that is 80 cals for 12 grams of protein. Egg whites ring in at around 17 cals per 4 grams of protein. Good protein powder is usually going to be 130 calories for around 24 to 25 grams of protein. So it packs a good punch for…

Like I said, find a beginner program and start following it. You will see noticeable difference in your body composition in 8 weeks. I don't know how much, but you will be able to tell that you have put 8 weeks worth of strength training in. You really can't spot reduce unfortunately, it is going to take time and effort to…

The girls who have muscle, worked really hard for it. I wouldn't worry to much about accidentally becoming a "She-Hulk." It really isn't easy to get that way. However, weight training and "toning up," all follow the same principles. If you followed a she hulks workout, you would find that you would get in good shape and…

I wouldn't put a time limit on the body you want. As others have said, 8 weeks is really not that much time when it comes to body recomp. It is a good start though and this time next year you could easily have that body you want if you are willing to put in the hard work and start thinking long term instead of short term.…

Being tone takes a lot of work. You need to strip the layer of fat off of you and you can begin to "tone" up. Do whatever exercises that you can do that will speed up the process. I know youtube has a lot of free exercise videos if you go looking for it. However, the quickest way to get to the body composition that you are…

3 weeks is nothing. Seriously, I had a plateau that lasted the entire month of September last year. I would go back to tracking on MFP and forget about the 5:2 method. Track everything you eat. If you are running 5 or 6 days a week add that into your daily needs for calories. Eat back half or less calories burned. Weigh…