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You can't really tone muscle. But what you can do is to continue losing body fat while maintaining lean body mass as much as possible and as your body fat % gets lower your definition will increase. You can do this on just food intake just fine, but a supplement can possibly help protect lean body mass if you're really…

Supplements have their uses, for the everyday person, not that important. IMO. I use Optimum Nutrition 100% Gold Standard Whey and also their Casein protein as well for pre-bed smoothies with glutamine. I haven't really felt any effect of the glutamine though, was under impression it'd help with soreness. But I *did*…

Weights, okay I can see a use for it. Cardio, you do not need supplements. Both cases you'd be looking at protein powders, most likely the common whey protein. I use it, I don't think it is that special, but I am not a body builder so it is only to help aid me in recovery really. It has helped with some muscle building…

I'd start with why do you think you need a supplement? Where are you now and what are your goals? Can you do something dietary to move towards those goals first?

How so?

When 1 food item is giving you 4-6x the sodium your body needs for an entire day, that isn't something to really scoff at. I don't worry that much, but people SHOULD be aware of sodium. It does have some effect on your cardio health. I personally would like to protect my heart as much as possible. Have you seen the monster…

I guess recommending non food products that have 0 calories isn't an awful suggestion, since the majority of the people who are in that situation are eating stuff that is calorie heavy barely passable food products. I'd also debate as to how much this is "helping" anyone. The great majority of people who would use this…

I totally apologize. What I thought I was responding to was apparently 100% made up in my head. I have no freaking clue where I read sodium=calories in your post. My bad! (Seriously, wth....)

Awwww, no meat. This makes me very, very sad. :(( If you're at a maintain weight, then you want to be eating around your TDEE or lower, but no lower than BMR, but that shouldn't be a problem. As for how your body handles the macros, I'd say try a few different things out. Everyone seems to have different responses…

If you really need to fulfill a desire to eat "out of the approved foods" for your diet, then work for it. If I ever wanted an extra snack or something, I went and walked the calories for it, or ran. I earned it by working harder. Win, win. Now, I just eat peanut butter, don't starve myself(actually, almond butter more…

0 calories and fills appetite? Water.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/569276-nrolfw-before-during-pics That is actually an example of the change. Can you tell she has muscle now? Yes. If she had regular clothes on would you be able to tell? Nope! I mean look at the legs, HUGE improvement and thinning out, but there is no unsightly mass muscle bulked…

Bwahaha, hells no. :D

You are not running around on "no fuel." Serious lack of understanding how the body works. You store fat, fat is fuel. And if you are starving(which means your body is releasing a hormone telling you to eat) then that is a WHOLE different issue. This person is not having an appetite, which means they are not hungry and not…

No skin/not breaded reduces some of the damage.

Agreed. Lately I have been slacking so hard and eating out too much. That will be changing once GF gets out of school. Schedule calms down and I can get to cooking my own damn chicken. I am going to be making my own wings.

Sodium doesn't effect calories.

8 Boneless Buffalo Wild wings. 3.3k mg sodium in what is 1 or less than 1 meal for a lot of adult males. THAT is brutal. Subways meats are also brutal too, I think I managed to make(and I so ate it) a sub that had like 6k mg in sodium. Safe to say I will never be under my sodium requirement for workouts. I am currently…

That is all a mental conditioning. It does not mean you are actually hungry. Back to what OP is saying. Eating a dinner and snacking until bed is not bad for you. When you eat is irrelevant. If you're not hungry, don't go about forcing yourself to eat. http://www.leangains.com/2010/10/top-ten-fasting-myths-debunked.html

http://www.leangains.com/2010/10/top-ten-fasting-myths-debunked.html Feel free to actually read and see where you get. I am not going to continue beyond this, when I hear a reference to "Big Mac" diet of any kind I mentally check out.

I am very skeptical your body will be happy at that weight range. Lifting weights will not cause you to build massive muscle like a man, you lack the hormone necessary in appropriate amounts. (Testosterone.) You really should do research before ruling it out. The scale just tells you a physical weight. Body composition…

Your hunger hormones don't have a watch to go by "when to eat." Hell my appetite changes daily. If I eat a lot of carbs, my appetite comes back <2 hours. If I eat protein and fat, it can go 3-4 hours easily. Last few days I have been skipping breakfast and eating a later breakfast, which has dropped my appetite to like 3…

Your metabolism does not change because you are eating like that. I mean when I sleep I rip through 1k calories, 8+ hours of no food and I am killing calories when not awake.

Just saw your goal weight... I highly recommend ignoring weight as a measuring tool. If you're wanting to get thinner/look better, work on weight lifting. New Rules of WEight Lifting for Women is REALLY well received by the ladies on here, and it gets AMAZING results. You'll most likely actually GAIN weight, but you'll…

1200 calories is a rubbish number. My girlfriend is your size, ~115 lbs, she easily eats 1400+ calories a day. And when she works out, its more like 1800-1900. I would recommend looking into this link and see how you feel about it. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/lillebanon/view/my-take-on-eating-more-to-weigh-less-254554…

Your body does not work on a clock like this. You cannot train your body to get hungry at a specific time.

I would spend more time focusing on food/dietary intake more than supplements. Most people should be able to cover the wide array of stuff with just eating well. I only take a mutlivitamin MAINLY for the fact that I am missing nutrients from veggies, so I use a mutlivitamin to help some. As for what ones to get, you're…

Eating one meal a day is not a bad or "hard" thing to do life long. I am pretty sure people didn't have timed meals during history and they survive just fine. As long as you get a good nutrient intake and calories to take care of your metabolism, awesome. If you can find a way to spread meals out to help get more…

Workout harder than you party. Done and done.

Eating does not "wake up your metabolism." But if your system works for you, keep doing it, not saying don't., Just wanted to clarify there is no "wake up" for metabolism.