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I'm not a woman, but I'm finishing the fourth week of Stronglifts. I had been losing weight prior to starting Stronglifts, weight loss stalled for the first couple of weeks while I got used to it, and now I've dropped about 5 lbs in a week. It's water retention while your muscles re-build, absolutely nothing more.

Not sure how spendy you want to get, but I have an Omron HBF-514C and it has been very accurate weight-wise for me. If I weigh myself on the scale and then go to the doctors office I'm always within a half pound, and if I weigh myself multiple times I'll have. at worst, a fluctuation of about 0.4 lbs, usually 0.2 lbs. It…

Honestly, the best place to start is probably with your college's counseling center (every college I've been involved with has one, and it's usually free). They'll probably have much better advice than random people on the Interwebz (except me, I have good advice...:)

This is exactly what happened to me from October-March. I got a little skinnier (not much), got stronger and in better cardiovascular shape but lost no weight. March 2nd I started watching my diet, and eating a proper amount of food for my height/weight (see…

I will say that most of the popular lifting programs on here (starting strength, stronglifts, etc) do recommend eating 3000+ calories (even 4, 5, 6000 in some cases) in order to build muscle. The idea is that building muscle is hard and will only happen if you are running a calorie surplus (plus some other things), and if…

Two things. First, you don't have to eat breakfast. I'm down 17lbs in a month and a half and I rarely eat before I've been up for 4-6 hours. The only exception is if I work out in the mornings, then I eat something after the workout because you should eat something shortly after working out. Not eating a breakfast helps me…

Quit spreading this bullcr*p. Everything's fine as long as it fits your macros.

It'll get better. Actually, the best thing you can do for the pain is to keep at it. Exercise increases blood flow to the area which increases healing. Pop a couple over the counter pain killers if you need to, get out there and do it. You'll thank yourself later. Edit to say - keeping at it won't make the pain worse,…

Craigslist can vary. If you aren't in a big hurry then there probably will be a deal on there eventually. You could also try looking at surrounding areas, a couple hour drive to save a few hundred bucks is worth it to me.

Caffeine works for me, but not for everyone. Water. Food usually does a pretty good job suppressing my appetite too (sorry, couldn't resist).

Craigslist. I just scored an olympic barbell, a standard barbell, an olympic curl barbell, two dumbbell handles, a weight tree, a weight bench, 279 lbs of olympic weight plates and 125 lbs of standard weight plates for $150. Figured that's probably about $1000 new. There's also places like play it again sports around here…

I have a big hill in my backyard. I sprint up it as fast as I can, then walk down. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Quite right, I did neglect that, and it's actually significant. The latent heat of water is 79.72 cal/g, so it actually takes 79.72 + 55 = 135 calories (approximately) to warm a gram of ice cream to body temperature. So that 100g serving of ice cream actually burns 13,500 calories. or 13.5 food Calories. Yes, I am this…

MATH to the rescue! 1 calorie (small c, not a food calorie) is the amount of energy required to raise one gram of water by one degree Celsius. A food Calorie (big C) is 1000 calories. Let's assume ice cream is water, or at least has similar thermal properties to water. Further assume your ice cream is stored in a freezer…

So, you feel good, you're not hungry, and you're losing weight. What you are doing is obviously working for you, so keep at it. Three notes: 1. When you plateau (unfortunately, this is most likely a when, not an if). This means a few weeks with no weight loss, I'd recommend eating 200-300 more calories to see if that…

I actually usually skip breakfast. I find that if I eat breakfast (especially a big breakfast) I keep wanting to eat and eat throughout the day. If I put off eating until between 10 and noon, I don't get very hungry in the morning and I am satisfied eating less throughout the day. I'm down 13 lbs in a bit over a month…

A coworker is doing it, and I was talking with her about it. The points system seems weird to me. My morning oatmeal (3/4 cup) is like 6 or 8 points, even thought it's only 210 calories. But the 100+ calorie banana or apple I put on it is free... Just doesn't add up in my book. Seems like it would be a very easy system to…

3 cups oatmeal 1 cup almonds 1/2 cup maple syrup 6 Tbsp olive oil 1 tsp pure vanilla extract 1/2 tsp cinnamon 1/2 tsp salt Bake @350 until your house smells like heaven, about 20-25 minutes. I'm sure you could put a half cup or cup of wheat germ in there and it would taste great.

I homebrew beer. One problem that you can have with beer is that it does sometimes get "infected" with bacteria. If you ferment the beer in plastic buckets (common practice) and you get an infection, it is a well known fact that the bacteria will take up residence in those scratches, and you can't clean it out. No amount…

Yeah, I have heard about this, and like many things, the basic story is true, but the details are being munged. A couple of dairy lobbying groups are trying to get the FDA to allow them to put artificial sweeteners in dairy products, and still call them dairy products. Right now if they were to put aspartame in chocolate…

I had to change my goal weight. I'm currently 238 lbs, down from 248. When I started I put my goal weight at 165 lbs (I'm 5' 10"). My lowest weight as an adult was 174 lbs right when I started college, and I looked OK but still had some fat around the belly, so I figured 165 would be a good number for me. Anyhow, I…

Definitely small children (if available). Plus, as you get stronger, they get bigger, which is perfect! If small children aren't easily accessible, then body weight stuff is great, as mentioned. Burpees kick *kitten*, especially if you add in the pushup and the squat jump.

I'm curious what I'd look like ripped.

Nope, that's a feature that has been requested (http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/112617-track-percent-calories-from-fats-proteins-and-carbs), and one I would really like, but right now we are stuck figuring it out on our own (not that it's that hard to do).

Chicken and fish are good lean proteins, nearly 100% of the calories are from protein for both of those. Beef is also high in protein, but also higher in fat than fish and chicken. I can't speak to the total calories, but it doesn't look unreasonable to me. You've lost 15 lbs in a month at those levels, so they seem to be…