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One of the key tricks to avoiding binging is not to deny 100% of the time things you crave. Instead work them into your plan for the day, especially if it's on a workout day when you can have more calories anyways. I eat at a 30% deficit on rest days, and 10% deficit on workout days, so on those workout days if I've been…

http://www.appforhealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Urine-chart.jpg It's this simple as to whether or not you're hydrated.

I know there are real women who are naturally very thin. But the OP isn't posting about women who are that way naturally, she's idealizing people who starve themselves into the runway look. And you're off by about 6% for what I'd think would be horrible to encourage in women, and again for the same reason I discourage…

It's not the fact that your proteins aren't meat based that's making vegetarians/vegans have issues. It's almost always the lack of healthy fats (even lean cuts of meat still have some fat) that's causing problems. Your liver does not run on glycogen (carbs), it runs on fatty acids. Your skeletal muscles and heart can run…

The runway is nothing but clones , why are you defending it? Seriously, you talk about respect and not bowing to other people's ideal images, yet the professional modeling world is nothing if not the epitome of bowing to an ideal image. Instead, you're getting snippy on people who support women being at a comfortable body…

4 whole large eggs sunny and runny, 1 slice multigrain toast

Thorough exfoliation when bathing and applying a lotion containing cocoa butter + vitamin E (Palmers) will help speed up the process, but you're still talking 1-2 years minimum so long as it's just loose skin and not both excess skin and fat. The exfoliation helps make way for newer skin cells, and the lotion helps restore…

That's why I eat whole eggs for breakfast, one of the best sources of fat you can ask for. I eat lean meats for lunch and dinner, and I still manage to get 80-90g of fat in a day.

I work out twice a day, while on a cutting diet, and don't have energy problems or issues making my lifts/progress. Starting at 5-6pm depending on my day, T (100%) - Th (90%) - S (80%), on a 5 week 2x8/2x9/2x10/2x11/2x12 rotation, upping the weight 10% when I get back to 2x8. Wide Stance Barbell Squats, Barbell Calf…

The other week Kroger had the bags of frozen boneless/skinless chicken breasts buy 1 get 1, I bought them out and came back later that day for a raincheck. I thaw what I need for the coming week overnight on Friday, poke them full of holes with a fork on Saturday morning, put em in a zippy bag with italian dressing, then…

The MFP default % are archaic and still based around late 90's / early 00's nutrition thoughts, pure and simple. In a decade now where we continuously find that these extreme nutrition thoughts of the last 50 years are increasingly wrong and have caused more problems than they've solved, a decade where we're learning that…

When the default setting for MFP's carbs is 55%, it's too high period. I also think you need to revise your stereotyping about weight lifting, bulging muscles takes years (or drugs) to create, and 1-1.5 times your lean body mass or 0.8-1 times your actual weight in grams of protein is never going to be over 40% of your…

Thanks, any tips to hold me through until my next paycheck?

It's actually cool to see women in the free weight area who don't mindlessly buy into the common misconception that they're going to suddenly bulk up if they lift weights seriously. I had to resist the urge to slap the woman giving a tour of the weight machines the other day (the dumbbell racks separate the machines and…

Give up laryngitis, take up lozenges.

Not so much a quote as it is an acronym I learned from my high school band instructor of all places... Personal Responsibility In Daily Efforts

Get your body fat % measured (calipers, BodPod, hydrostatic dunk tank, iDXA scan), if you're at 24% body fat for example, your lean body mass therefore is 76%. If for example, your weight were 100 lbs, time 0.76 = 76 lbs of lean body mass.

I use protein powder to help reach 221g a protein a day atm without making myself sick of chicken, fish, or eggs. As Docktorfokse states, protein powder has to be treated like any other food, it has calories based on grams of protein, fat, and carbs just like any other food, as well as whatever you mix it in unless you…

Personally I just do 2 scoops in 12 oz of milk and shake it, but here's a recipe for protein pancakes that's pretty tasty. Protein Pancakes Ingredients * 1/2 cup rolled oats * 1/2 cup fat free cottage cheese (or low fat or full fat) * 1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce * 2 tbsp flaxseed meal * 1/4 tsp cinnamon * 1 tsp vanilla…

Just make sure you don't eat too little sodium, a 2000 calorie diet needs around 2200mg (2.2 g) of sodium a day. The best thing to do is to eat less processed foods so that you are by turn able to salt foods directly to taste, which uses far less sodium than processing, and furthermore you are usually unable to taste the…

If you're using your lean body mass instead of your total weight, you can have 1-1.5 times your LBM in protein, varying on whether or not you weight train and if so how heavily. Fats are 0.5-1 times your lean body mass based again on weight training and/or if you're wanting to induce ketogenesis, and need to drop your…

Anything under 100g of carbs a day qualifies as triggering the ketogenic process in adults, and is where the term keto came from. It refers to causing the body to turn to fat stores for energy in lieu of carbs you're not eating, which causes ketone bodies to be released into the blood stream by the liver, which can also be…

Age, skin elasticity, and the rate at which you slough off dead skin cells to make way for new ones also play a role in this, but the biggest factor as already mentioned is going to be time. You can help the process along though by exfoliating thoroughly in the shower, and moisturizing with Palmers or other similar lotions…

Honestly the easiest place to make the change is just to cut 100-200 calories out of your diet for 3-4 weeks, if you haven't gone down then drop another 100-200 and repeat until desired weight is reached. Sounds like you're already working out quite a bit.

No problem, I'm no expert and I constantly pick the brains of more experienced lifters at the gym if I have a question, most of them are more than willing to share what they know, especially if it involves proper form for a lift, so discussing these things with someone else is never offensive to me unless the tone they…

Because from what I was taught, and if this is wrong then it's wrong and you can blame the guy that taught me, and the guy that taught him, etc, but the last 25% of your reps in each set should be a strain to finish, but no more than that. Do you honestly strain to finish in the first set if you're doing a lift that you're…

I was simplifying intentionally to keep the scope of the discussion on track, which was weight loss. The reason I keep the sets low with higher reps, is to keep the scale of progression closer in line with what you can actually gain in mass over time. When you drop back down to 2 x 8 but at 10% increased weight, your 1 rep…

The time it takes for loose skin to tighten up depends on age, skin elasticity, and the rate at which you're sloughing off dead skin cells to be replaced by new skin cells. It can take 1-2 years MINIMUM for loose skin to tighten back up, and the only thing you can really do to speed the process of your skin tightening up…

Read what you wrote, eating the same diet. Therefore, the deficit created by the cardio in person A on the same diet is not present in the diet of person B, eliminating the deficit. Yes, 2 people eating the exact same foods with one doing cardio, one will lose weight and the other will not. You're completely ignoring the…

Don't have to follow the days I'm going to outline here exactly, but the important part is not repeating the same lift without a day off in between. Sets x Reps Week 1 Mon - 2 x 8, Wed 2 x 8 @ 90% of Mon weight, Fri 2 x 8 @ 80% of Mon Weight Week 2 Mon - 2 x 9, Wed 2 x 9 @ 90% of Mon weight, Fri 2 x 9 @ 80% of Mon Weight…