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Take care of you.

Are you making sure to take a nice deep breath and tense everything up before attempting the press? I find that makes a big difference so I don't feel like my vertebrae are being crushed. :-)

Awesome lifting session tonight. Still at 75lbs for squats for form purposes. Bumped my OHP up to 60lbs and actually did it! Sooooo hard and almost didn't make it, so I'll repeat it, but I'm so thrilled I actually managed all 5x5 on my first try! And then deadlifted 115lbs, which is more than half my body weight! I love…

I'm getting around 150g of protein per day, less than or around 100g of carbs, and the rest of the calories are from fat (so lots!). Got my scale a week ago and have been using it religiously since then. Have to say, my measuring cups/spoons are ridiculously accurate to the grams needed for each food, so that's good.

That was a really interesting article. Still blows my mind that my TDEE estimates so high, but if I go by the 10cal/lb that he mentions for weight loss, that puts me at 2190 calories daily, still higher than I am now. I wish the end of next week were here so I could take my one month progress pictures! That might help me…

I figure I'm about 50% fat. LOL

That makes it really high. I weighed in at 219 this morning *insert swearing as my weight went UP*, so multiplying that by 15 is 3285. Doing it times 14 is 3066 and by 13 is 2847. You said give or take 2 so I went lower since I'm pretty sloth-ish. That calculator with the sliding buttons (very cool by the way) puts me at…

This is fantastic! But cripes it's setting my TDEE high. Not that I'm complaining but 3 weeks of eating at a (apparently somewhat large!) deficit and my weight is bouncing around up and down 2 lbs. Patience, patience, patience.

Thanks for the link - bookmarked it to read later.

Not yet - I've just recently started weighing my food, and I think they ask that you give your plan several weeks before asking for help. I've only been trying this for three (and weighing for one), so I didn't want to bother them yet. Each calculator I've tried seems to give my TDEE as 2400 for light activity and 2700 for…

I'm on week 3 of Stronglifts. Feel free to friend me. :-)

Thanks for all the feedback. I'd love to see that TDEE scale with the sliding scale things if it can be found! I think I'd like to eat just a fixed amount, but I'm still unsure where to base that. I've been doing 2000 but it feels like an awful lot of food (not that I mind!) and I don't feel like I'm losing any fat. That…

Half and half or heavy whipping cream. HWC is the BOMB in coffee. Or on fruit. *drool*

Good solid lifting session tonight. Nothing horrible or spectacular, just SOLID, which I'm fine with. I am thrilled however because for some reason my squats kicked into gear and I made it below parallel. The first time it happened I actually exclaimed out loud, LOL. Good thing I'm in my basement. I'm still leaning…

I'm in week 3 and I'm at 55lbs. Tried that a couple weeks successfully so I think I'm going to try 60lbs on Friday. I hate the OHP. With the passion of a thousand fiery suns.

5'9" 215 2000 Heavy lifting 3x a week Not sure - 40lb loss? 50? Just going to go until I'm happy. You need to eat more.

Well done!!! Are you getting enough protein? That should help your muscles out some I'd guess.

AMAZING session tonight. Squats - 75lbs (3rd day at this weight but I think my form is slowly improving) OHP - 55lbs baby, all 5x5!!! I cheered for myself when I got that last one up. :-) Deadlift - So excited - TRIPLE DIGITS!!! 105lbs. It was hard, but I wonder if part of that was psychological, LOL. But I'm so proud of…

There aren't words to express how utterly fantastic and amazing you are! I just started the Strongslifts 5x5 and love lifting, but reading this just made me even MORE eager to go home and get my lift on! Congratulations on an outstanding achievement!

Workout was really hard tonight, and has left me feeling completely knackered. It's only 9:30 and I could happily go to bed and sleep through tomorrow. Squats 75 5x5 (going to stay here a bit while I work on form) Bench 65 5x5 (almost had to tip the weights off one side on my very last rep, but I managed to get it up with…

Slim pickings yet. Only one other person in my state. :-P

Thanks for posting this!

Sounds great - thank you again everybody! This forum is really great and I'm thankful to have such knowledgeable, helpful people here. :-)

That took major...cojones. Good for you! FR sent because you are indeed a BAMF!

I think a big issue with my squats is lack of flexibility. I see people in the squat demos squat ATG with their feet flat - the only way I can do that is going up on the balls of my feet. I don't know if that's a hip flexor thing or a hamstring thing? Or just a fat girl thing? LOL I think part of it is also apprehension…

Thank you for the feedback! I can generally only focus on one thing at a time while doing each rep. For squats, it's been mainly "knees out" or "weight in heels." Now I'll switch to "chest up." Same for deadlift. I do feel like I'm tightening up as much as I can - I take a deep breath, tense everything, do the move and…

Squats 75lbs OHP 50lbs (again. May try 55 next time. Just so hard.) Deadlift 95lbs Loving it!

I weigh around 218/220 right now. I've only been doing this for 2 1/2 weeks so I have nothing to show for it but an amazing sense of accomplishment and pride, and quite frankly, I feel like a badass *****! LOL Just do it - you'll keep lean muscle while losing fat. :-)

Kick butt with your lifting today!!! And as others have said, you only fail if you don't even try. You can do this!

Think of the hiney created by squats!