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Eh, they're celebrities. It's their job to put their bodies out there for the rest of the world to talk about. Most of my thoughts were along the lines of "She's too thin for my taste" or "He totally skips legs day". However, an unattractive trend I noticed this year was for women to be wearing dresses that were way too…
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After NROLFW I did NROL Supercharged. I'm just finishing that up and plan on going to Simply Shredded next. It depends on if you want to keep with the NROL style, go with something with a simpler setup (SL), or go to more of a split routine (tons of things out there, Simply Shredded is an upper/lower 4 day split)
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Snow's fine. What's not okay is the temperatures that create it. I'm ready for summer. Or spring. Or normal winter temperatures. Edit: PS what's not showing in the gigantic picture is the -39F windchill factor. Yay, Michigan.
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Blue Horizon Wild Tuna Teriyaki Surf Burger (just had it last night for dinner). It's big, it's tasty, it's "clean" if you believe/care about that, 130 calories for 21 grams of protein. I bought it at a local fair trade type grocer.
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No amount or type of exercise is enough to gain muscle without a caloric excess. If you are unhappy with the scale weight but happy with the physical changes that are accompanying this routine you have two logical choices: 1. Keep on doing exactly what you are doing. No one but you sees the stupid scale number anyways. 2.…
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I work in a chemistry lab, so definitely not. Even at my desk, I wouldn't, because my shoes touch the lab floor then touch the area under my desk.
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All the hype and it turns out they're just going to bold different thing and change a "serving size". If you actually bother to read labels, this will change nothing. The only thing that's really "new" is this idea of putting "added sugar". And honestly, I think that's a little stupid. Your body can't tell the difference…
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Yes it does. Medical problems (like depression and/or undernourishment) and solutions (medications) can very well make you BURN LESS CALORIES (i.e. slow your metabolism). But in the end, the REASON that you gained weight is that you EAT more than you BURN. Simple physics, matter and energy cannot be created or destroyed,…
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Pretty simple. I ate more calories than I burned. Now, I can think of some reasons (read: excuses) as to why this occurred, such as marrying an excellent cook, being in grad school and hence losing my free time, and aging. Maybe even some medical conditions that prevented me from doing activities I used to enjoy. But the…
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This was an entertaining read but, sadly no one else's experience will mean diddly squat to you. Your boob loss or not-loss will depend mostly on the relative amounts of fat tissue and mammary tissue in your boobs (varies by person). You will probably have as much (or more) mammary tissue as you did when you were younger…
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Do as much or little cardio as you choose, but realize that "building muscle" requires that you eat in a calorie surplus and gain weight, which will be hard to achieve with excessive amounts of cardio. "Toning up" (as far as I can tell) generally refers to the process of dropping body fat while maintaining lean mass (but…
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I was on crutches for 2 months last summer with a broken foot. I just took it easy and let my body heal. I reduced my calorie intake to make up for the reduced TDEE and didn't gain any weight. I didn't try to lose weight (as I was concerned with muscle atrophy) but that could still be accomplished with further reducing…
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SHE'S one of your Biggest Loser coaches in the UK? That makes me a little sad.
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It's the semi-nudity, right? lol @Gustaaf: Baratheon
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You look like a Dothraki to me ;-)
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It doesn't make me hungry. It doesn't make me crave sweets. When I crave sweets, I also know that is within my ability to NOT eat them if they don't fit my calorie goals. Therefore, I enjoy diet pop on a regular basis.
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Eh, I have one. It makes my boobs look good, which isn't generally my first concern with a sports bra. But it's one of the "high impact" ones and keeps them in place, as well. My complaint is that it doesn't fit like their other bras. I fit comfortably into a 32DD using the middle hook normally, but my VSX sports bra is…
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This. I'd never do it, and I think it could be improved, but a brand of exercise that actually encourages men AND women to lift heavy *kitten*? Better than most fads.
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<-- These abs were obtained by directly training them zero times per week. I do heavy compound lifts, 3 times per week, with 1-2 stability exercises (never crunches but maybe something like hanging leg lifts). I also occasionally practice yoga which is a great core workout. In reality, a nice set of abs is made in the…
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To imbed as I did, first upload to a 3rd party site (I use Picasa). Second, right click on the picture (in full screen mode on the website) and hit "Copy Image Url". Paste it into the reply box. Put the code [_img_] before the url and [_/img_] after the url, but without the "_" in there. When you hit reply with quotes, you…
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Lol that's from my dress. The whole thing was sequin-scales :-) ETA I looked closer, it's like a spotlight right on my bicep. Couldn't've planned it better if I tried lol.
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Not broke, don't fix.
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Post-workout pump: No pump flex: (added that second one because you know, "zomg lifting made your arms huge and gross and bulky")
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Just keep doing what you're doing. We all lose weight at different rates in different places, your tummy and thighs will likely be the last to go. But with at least 40# left to lose (according to your ticker), you'll definitely lose in those places.
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1. Fat doesn't "turn into" muscle. They are different types of matter and have little (if not nothing) to do with each other. You. most definitely do not have to worry about your fat transforming itself into muscle (oh how I wish this were a problem) 2. Neither losing fat nor building muscle is going to "tone" away loose…
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This is all true. I doubt you even gained ONE pound of fat in this time. Good luck to you in your recovery!
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"Those guys" at my gym are all PTs. They might not do *kitten* for the hour I'm there but I assume that they do actually get their lift on at some point in the day.
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We have women who stand naked under the hand dryers making sure ALL their hair is dry, if you know what I mean.
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I don't really care about all the things people do at the gym that wastes their time. I care when it wastes MY time (curling in the only squat rack on legs day comes to mind). However, people with poor form, making weird noises, or racing each other on the treadmill doesn't really bug me. For the most part, watching the…
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Sounds like you are a pear. Hey, that's a sexy body type to have if you ask me ;-) Going by "measurements", last time I checked my hips were an 8, my waist a 0, and my chest a 6. Women come in all shapes and one size doesn't fit all!
