avalynsmom

I have changed up my workouts on non-weight training days a few times. When I started NR, I was doing Couch25k, but it got to be too much to do both, so I took a full week off cardio right in the middle. Since then, I've been doing intervals on the treadmill 2x/wk on the days I don't do NR, so I workout 5 days/wk. I was…

I have the Gold's Gym ones from Walmart, they're cheap, only $8 and they work pretty good, but my Target has ones that feel nicer, in the store anyway, for only like $13. I do still get a little calloused with the walmart ones, but they help big time!

Just at the end. Like I just finished stage one, my last 2 workouts were the special ones, special workout a on wednesday and special workout b on friday

Thanks! Not gonna lie, all these compliments are just going straight to my head lol:) So glad to have found this group and New Rules

Thanks! You know I will, I'm obsessed now:)

Thank you so much:) You're gonna love it:) I've been telling everyone I know who is trying to lose to eat and lift lol:) When I get really brave, I'll post the bra/panties pics, cause they're even more impressive!

Great work! I'm jealous of your floor pushups, I can do like 3 lol:) Good for you, can't wait for Stage 2!

PSOAS is actually a very important muscle and it's rare that anyone has a healthy one! lol:) Healthy meaning not tight in some way. I'm a massage therapist, and PSOAS is one of the least stretched and least worked (as in, when you're getting a massage) but most used muscles in your body! It attaches to the front of your…

Thanks!

Alright, I was asked to post my progress pics here, so here goes! This is after 6 weeks of The New Rules of Lifting for Women, and after 8wks or more of Eating More (I actually only TRIED 1200 cals for about 3 days lol:) The weight difference between these two pics is only about 5.5lbs, but it's about 19" overall, and,…

Thank you. I'm not following the diet, but I am pretty much following the cals and macro ratios. I actually use fat2fitradio.com to calculate my cals, so I eat 2300 every day, and sometimes I did/do eat 200 extra on weight days, just kind of depending on how I'm feeling. And I also shoot for 1g of protein/lb of bodyweight.…

Aww thanks everyone! I'm loving how lifting is changing my shape so fast! Several years ago I lost a bunch, and it was by eating, not by starving myself, but I wasn't lifting like I am now, so I was still like "skinny fat" but this time is just SO different! I'm just loving every minute:) And yes, I'll post my pics to the…

You're welcome and thank you! I feel so much stronger already, I'm just pumped to see what happens after 6mos!

Thank you:) Glad I could motivate you! I'm just loving it and loving the muscles:) I've always been rather muscular, no matter my weight, but I've never had great definition, and even under the layer of fat, you can start seeing awesome definition, like individual quads, my calves are getting an awesome cut, and I'm loving…

Oh THANK YOU!! Lol:)

Thanks! Yeah, idk what I'm doing with the pics lol:) How are you liking it so far?

I just changed the one in my profile to the actual one, the one that was on there was from last week:) and Thanks! I can't figure out how to put them in the post, I did it the same as with previous online message boards, but it didn't work:(

Thank you:) Yes that's overall loss from my hips, waist, thighs, and calves, and chest. It's mostly come from my hips/waist. My profile pic is a comparison pic from the day before I started NR and this last Monday, 5wks in. I'm taking pics/measurements again on Monday and I'll post my final numbers then:)

If your TDEE is calculated correctly, it includes exercise cals, so no, you don't eat those back. The only reason you eat extra is if you NET below your BMR, so in your case if you have a day where you exercise and burn more than like 200 cals. Again, this is if your TDEE is calculated correctly.

My body likes to store fat if I don't eat with consistency, seeing as how being INCONSISTENT with my eating is how I got to 227lbs

Once again, I'll say it, I know my body and what I do and eating 2000 cals at one meal does not do for me what eating 2000 cals over 6-7 meals does, it never has. I'm 28yrs old, and I know my body. FOR ME it is not strictly and solely what I eat but HOW I eat. Period. Having some random person online tell me otherwise…

Say whatever you want, I don't get offended easily, and esp not by people whom I don't know. THIS is what works FOR ME. Always has been, that's why I eat the way that I do.

Ok well I 100% know that that's not how my body works, and I was talking from personal experience.

It's 15 lunges of each leg, and my understanding (and how I do them) is they are static lunges. So I step forward with my right leg, lunge, step back, then step forward with my left leg, lunge, then step back and that is 1, repeat til you get to 15. Static lunges are so much harder than walking lunges!! I HATE lunges, but…

Well we all know that every body is different, I'm just saying if you're just starting out/changing your diet/trying to eat TDEE or a cut or whatever, that consistency, esp at the beginning, is important. If I ate 1200cals one day and 3000 the next, my body wouldn't know what to do, even though the average of those cals is…

Well, not in my experience, but ok. Most of the people on this board will say that you need to be consistent. In my personal experience, if I don't eat with consistency, not just in amt of cals but also in how frequently I eat I won't lose. And if you read the post on TDEE and BMR it says to eat the same number of cals…

I have the same snacks/food pretty much every day, you're welcome to check out my diary if you'd like! I find that if I'm getting low on cals, the easiest thing to do is to add whole grain starches (bread/pasta/rice) and/or peanut butter. If I get to my afternoon snack and I'm pretty low on cals for the day, I'll have a…

Oh AND I'd like to say that consistency is KEY here! If you're "averaging" your cals over a period of time, but you're never eating the SAME number of cals day to day, then you're not giving your body the SAME amount of fuel each day, and you're body might still be holding on to stuff as it's confused.

I'd have to say I'd try and go for what some of the calculators estimate for your TDEE/BMR unless you can get a fitbit or something like that to actually calculate your TDEE. I've been using the Fat2Fit calculator, which actually has higher numbers than Scooby and I have a significant amount of weight to lost (still…

Oh, I eat according to the fat2fit BMR calculations, which are higher than NROL4W