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Well, since you are taller and more muscular than me, with similar visible fat, and I weigh 139, I'll guess close to 150. You look great, though.

Very impressive on those squats, Dawn. Wow!

When the Keurig first came out Costco was demoing it and giving free samples. I thought it was awful...tasted stale and reminded me of instant coffee. Recently I was dining at a friend's house and she had a Keurig, but she was using it with her own fresh ground coffee and it was much better. I don't get the Keurig mania…

Nice job! Very impressive.

My squat improved immensely the moment I started looking down. I have always known not to look up...that is very outdated advice, but I used to look straight ahead and I think Rip might have recently added the "look down" advice to the tennis ball under the chin description to further clarify the correct position, as I…

Same here...can't get enough of it.

Yay! What a great feeling it is to get strong, huh? As for the OHP, everyone has problem's moving up on these ...even the guys if you follow the other non women specific SL forum. Our shoulders are not among our bigger muscles, so we ...and the guys...need those fractional weights to keep moving forward.

I am enroute to Oregon now where my daughter lives and will be married on Saturday. I didn't reach my weight goal, but I did drop fat and the dress fits fab! So, I guess I'm out now. Good luck to everyone!

I would say don't worry too much about the bent wrist for now. I have been very careful to get my grip perfect, including the straight wrist, then while I watched the dvd I noticed that several of the trainees had their wrists bent, although their thumbs were on the top of the bar, and Rip didn't even mention it. So, I…

Since I am better acquainted with Starting Strength than I was with SL, that is how I learned to squat. After reading the 3 editions of the book, I bought the Starting Strength DVD. The squat section was long...in it Rippetoe coaches a variety of trainees doing multiple sets at increasing loads. As much as I thought I knew…

I think that's all you need. I'm not even doing that much. I have the vitamins and the fish oil, just too lazy to remember to take them. The lemon flavor in your fish oil is to help prevent fishy burps, or at least make them less fishy. Now you know. As for the protein, the more you can get from food the better. I have a…

I think Rippetoe would say that if you aren't forced to lengthen your rest periods between work sets when the work sets become very heavy, then you probably aren't lifting as heavy as you are able to. He even talks about ten minute rest periods once one moves beyond intermediate status. I try to stay at two minutes between…

Yep, and that is the reason for the change in body composition over time. It is definitely avoidable.

When I transformed my body while in my forties, I lifted four days a week and rarely did additional cardio. I maintain the results I achieved by lifting three days a week and no cardio, except the occasional weekend hike or bike ride. The reason age is blamed is largely due to body composition changes over time. Once you…

Six weeks is not very long. At six weeks I would expect to just begin to see visible results. But if you are getting stronger, you are getting results. Give it six months then see where you are. Seriously, you will see results, but it does take time.

As are you.

It is possible to get down to the size you were, I wouldn't worry about what the scale says. With diet and New Rules of Lifting programs (lifting heavy...other programs would also work), six years ago I got down to my current weight, which is ten lbs. more than my high school weight. But I am much fitter, more compact, so…

I believe 15% is a conservative starting point. If you have a significant amount of fat to lose, you should be fine at 1800 calories, unless you are very hungry and having compliance issues.

I believe it was you who pointed this out to me in a recent thread. It was very exciting news. I went out that day and bought a lb. of bacon, read the label with glee and "pigged" out. From now on I'm using lard to make my pie crusts. Thank you for that!

Fantastic progress! Amazing difference...good job!

Yes...exactly!

I misread...when you said you calculated TDEE I thought the calories you posted were what you should be eating based on TDEE. There a few ways to calculate your calories. If you want to aim for a 1 lb. Per week weightloss, simply deduct 500 calories from your TDEE total, and adjust from there depending on your results…

If you are using TDEE that is a daily average of what you should eat regardless of whether you exercise, since, as you said, exercise is added in. So...no eating exercise calories back...eat the TDEE calculation each day or at least average that per day over the course of a week.

It is just a matter of losing fat until it goes down. I have always had one, even as a kid, so mine will probably never go away. But it does get smaller. Keep lifting heavy and monitoring your intake for fat loss and the fat will slowly disappear even from your belly.

Always better to go heavier if you want any visible results. When you are first starting, you should not go too heavy as your tendons and ligaments adapt more slowly than your muscles, so pick up a weight that is heavy enough that you can't do more than 10-12 reps for the first couple of weeks, then drop the reps and…

Okay, they are comparing bench press to a chest press machine. When I think of a chest press, I usually think of a dumbbell chest press, which is sometimes called a dumbbell bench press. A bench press is a chest press. Dumbbell chest presses are good, but harder to increase on weight because you don't have a rack to help…

No breaks between warm up sets is the only way I know to shorten the workout. I am not up to long rest periods yet and it takes me 75 minutes. Worse on days when I have to wait my turn to use the power rack.

Squats 115 OHP 53 BOR 97 Went up one pound on OHP and two on BOR. Everything felt pretty easy today. I was happy to repeat 115 on squats since I struggled to get there. But they felt considerably easier than last time, so I feel confident moving up next time.

Today: Squat 115 finally! BP - 5 @ 85, 18 @ 83 (will try 83 for 5 sets next time) DL 160 ... decided to stay here because it felt really heavy.

Yeah, no kidding!