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LOL me too. Didn't want to sound like a creeper tho. (Thanks for doing the creeping for me! :tongue: )

^^^ This.

Binging or plain old overeating can sometimes be the end result of excessive caloric restriction - if you aren't getting enough fuel, eventually your body is going to scream "ENOUGH" and demand to be fed. Another contributing factor can be overly restrictive food selection - people who cut too many things out of their…

Daaaaaaang, woman. That's an impressive amount of lbm you got there. I'm 5"9 and bulking on about 2650-2700/day - I think I'm one of the bigger eaters here, too, but I'm also one of the tallest I think. Lifting 3x/week and no cardio. Started at 128 in August at about 18% bf. Sitting around 138 now, no idea of current bf%…

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QFT, the bolded stuff. My parents labeled and demonized foods, restricted foods, modeled cruddy obsessive imbalanced approaches to eating and weight loss. It messed up my relationship with food big time and my weight, body image and mental health suffered for it. It's taken me decades to figure out how to do this on my…

:huh: Speak for yourself. (Way to generalize. What does "toning" even mean, anyways?) Also, my understanding is that hypertrophy is best achieved with sets of about 8-12 reps; 12-15 is better for endurance. OP eat lots of food, get in lots of protein, and lift.

Are you doing cardio? If so, stahp. I've cut it out entirely for my current bulk. Otherwise I'd be eating 'till I ralphed, and that would just be unpleasant. Also, if all you're eating is sweetbrotatoes and chicken and broccoli, stahp. Get thee some ice cream post haste.

That's a fantastic update :) Keep it up!

+1

Awesome, congrats!!!

Now, now. Play nice, you two, or I'm going to call a time out.

Well, I've tried several times to draft a post that's not completely dripping with rage and/or sarcasm, and have been unsuccessful, so I'm out. I've stated my view. Have a nice day.

If it was an attempt at sarcastic humor, it wasn't funny. Her parents take as many precautions as they can, but basically you're saying that this child should live in a bubble and never leave her home? Because a select portion of the population thinks they're too special to help prevent and spread easily preventable…

Case in point. :huh: It's nice to know that you think my beautiful niece doesn't deserve to be protected from an easily preventable disease because she's "not fit".

Thanks SS.

I get mine every year. Not because I'm personally worried about being sick, but because there are people who are immuno-surpressed who are unable to fight off diseases like the flu. For these people, coming into contact with a sick person can be fatal. I have a 1 year old niece and 3 year old nephew who fall into this…

Yep still doing DBs. I suppose doing BBs could be enough of a shake up and add some novelty...hmm. I'm certainly not stalling out on AP yet.

^^ This.

Kill it!:bigsmile:

As do I, often. But I also decided early on in this process that I wouldn't deny myself of any of any foods that I enjoy - doing so in the past has inevitably led to failure - so to fit some of these foods into my day I have smaller servings. Not restricting my selection of food - just the serving sizes - has led to me…

Save your money. There's no magic pill or supplement that's going to do the work for you: weight loss happens by creating a caloric deficit by eating less and/or exercising more. If time limitations make workouts challenging, start by focusing on your diet - don't make any drastic changes, just start by tracking and…

Two things that helped me a lot were a) measure your servings always - after the initial shock wears off, you get used to seeing and eating the same amount each time (it becomes the "new normal"; and b) get and use some smaller bowls/plates. For me it was mostly bowls - I used to eat massive "servings" of things like…

While it's nice to eat whole foods when possible, there's absolutely nothing wrong with a protein bar or any other supplement-type food, so if a protein bar is helping you hit your nutrient targets, then go for it. Other good non-meat sources of protein are dairy (especially greek yogurt, cottage cheese, ricotta - plain…

I second a couple of eggs in the morning (or a few whites if you're trying to keep cals down). Some people like to add whey to their morning oatmeal to boost protein. The frappuccino seems to be "wasted calories". Have a black coffee if you're looking for a caffeine fix, and try a serving of low fat greek yogurt or cottage…

Oh my gosh, yes. Birthdays and special holidays like Thanksgiving, I rarely log and enjoy every bite of as much as I want, guilt-free. In fact, sometimes I deliberately plan "no-logging" days where I probably go at LEAST double over. It didn't hurt my progress in the long run one bit. Did the scales go up the next day?…

I started bulking in September and plan to go to the end of January; I'm on pretty much the same intake as you :) If you're interested, there's a group for women who are currently bulking, it's pretty active! http://www.myfitnesspal.com/forums/show/51470-women-who-bulk

Protein shakes make me gag, but yeah, the juice is a great idea - the same thing dawned on me this morning. It would be very easy to get a glass or two of juice down, I take in a ton of fluids as it is. Thanks!

I'm kind of dreading the inevitable comments that are going to happen when I visit my family next week. This summer my mom was like, "my friends think you might be anorexic" (Because I was dieting? Because I had been overweight and now wasn't? I have never had anorexic tendencies in my life. Also, um, you can't build guns…

Didn't you ask the same thing already for raw chicken breasts? Meat rule: for ALL MEAT, if you want an accurate idea of the calories and macros, you weigh the meat that you're going to eat RAW and enter that amount in your diary. Then cook it. Then eat it. If it's too complicated for whatever reason to weigh raw, just cook…