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Everyone says that you can't build muscle and lose fat simultaneously, and that's kind of the accepted answer. As in all things, you need materials to build something. I feel for you, because a year ago I tried to ask this same question on the boards and got roasted for it. People love to get really worked up about these…

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What I do is subtract the fiber from my daily total as I go, but I would recommend you keep track of it on a meal by meal basis too. If you eat 50 carbs in one sitting you are going to crash afterward and feel extremely hungry later (due to insulin spike and drop) rather than if you eat 50g slowly over the course of a day,…

If it helps, here's what I looked like at 299 lbs (5'8'') the day before going into labor. Needless to say my son is a chunk. This was at 5 months pregnant, probably around 245 or 250. Here was pre-pregnancy (around 210) and please excuse the outfit, haha. I had very few pictures to choose from. I was around a 14-16 here.…

EvgeniZyntx I was looking for exactly the answers you provided. Thank you so much. What I did not want to see were a ton of personal stories, I wanted real information with as much science as possible. I've been doing as much research as I can on my own by reading the actual studies and trying to understand more of how the…

I also do a keto diet. I stay between 20-50g/day. If you're dedicated to low carb you really have to cut out most fruits and most high carb vegetables, but keep in mind that with low carb diets you only count NET carbs (which means you subtract the fiber.) So if you have something with 5g carbs and 3g dietary fiber, the…

I love low carb! I'm doing keto (<20g/day) and I feel absolutely great. I haven't gone through any horrible adjustment period or anything. Some of my favorites are meat and veggie stir fry, burgers with no bun, tuna salad, lunch meat spread with cream cheese (be careful, not all brands of cream cheese have <1 g), and…

I ask for no trolls complaining that I opened a new thread because the other threads are 20+ pages of no one talking about science, and then that's exactly what I get. The existing threads were taking way too long to read and they were just a hundred people chiming in with opinion about the biggest loser and not a whole…

Keldunk I'm hanging in there! Send me a message if you want to get in contact! I work out at the LA Fitness in Kennesaw.

I always work out in a fasted state (when my insulin levels are at their lowest) because your body will use stored fat as energy for the workout. I do my cardio and strength in the morning or on alternate days so that I can get both of them in before I break my 16 hour fast. It has been working for me. I've only done IF…

I found this post just now googling about it because it happened to me this morning. I ate a banana for breakfast on an empty stomach as I have done many times in the past but was doubled over from cramping stomach pain high in the stomach, (above belly button.) I'm also having cold chills and nausea. It basically feels…

I dress my salads with malt vinegar, seasonings, and a little olive oil, but if you really like a creamy dressing you can make your own with plain greek yogurt and ranch seasoning mix. It even has protein so it can help you feel satisfied longer even. I wouldn't user sour cream personally because yogurt has probiotics and…

My gym has free childcare. I have a 5 month old and I go to the gym immediately after dropping him off at daycare, but if your kids don't go to school or daycare during a time that you could get to the gym, it's an option. I haven't taken my baby to my gym's childcare center yet because I get 5 workouts in during the week…

I have done this before, and while it wasn't during a time that I was trying hard to lose, I remember how disorienting it can be. Here's my advice: 1. Results will come very slow. Expect that. 1-2 lbs per week feels like nothing sometimes. The reality is that eating healthy food feels hard and like it's not making a…

This is the thread where I shared my before and after pics at 105 lbs down. (From 315-210) I'm 5'8'' with a large frame and curvy figure. community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/950940/105-lbs-down-before-and-after-pics/p1

Having a healthy pregnancy turned out to be the best benefit of all the weight I lost before I had my beautiful son. :)

[/quote] You will inevitably lose LBM while cutting. There are ways to minimize it, by eating enough protein, keep a moderate deficit over severe, weight lifting - however you will lose some. How much is impossible to say. [/quote] To those asking why I'm pushing for the most accurate measurement possible- that's why. I'm…

Hey, another thing that just came to mind is that if you read anything about intermittent fasting they're pretty adamant that CICO doesn't matter as much as it does on a bigger scale, like weekly. So if I do go over my calories one day, I don't give up, I just resolve to maybe do a 12 hour fast later in the week or do a…

Maybe not when I'm sick because I tend to eat less if I feel queasy or if my nose is too congested to breathe while I'm eating. I hate that. I don't really work out when I'm sick though, too afraid of getting sick in the gym. That would be awful. Usually I just take it easy and eat bland foods, then get back on the wagon…

As an afterthought, eating healthier foods does typically tend to work. You know why? Because usually they have less calories- as I tried to explain to my sister in law who is following a fad diet where she "doesn't have to count calories" and "all she has to do is just" follow a meal plan and recipes from a book exactly…

It gives me hope for humanity that so many people are quick to call out a quack when they see one. Pseudoscience is becoming a serious problem. Don't fall for this crap. I know you WANT to believe bold claims about weight loss because it's hard and we could sure use a break, but the science is the science. Energy in vs.…

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I know this is a very old thread but still applicable so wanted to weigh in- I was curious about my burn so I used the heartrate I achieve during my sprints and recovery periods to calculate the calories (there are lots of calculators online that do this.) I haven't decided to buy a HRM yet so I honestly just use the heart…

Thanks! And agreed. My main purpose isn't to hit a certain %, it's just to monitor that I'm not losing muscle and verify that my losses are fat losses.

- THANK YOU! !! finally an answer to the question lol. I would still be a lot more comfortable with a method that took all of your measurements though as opposed to just a few even if it is assuming a percentage of fat exists on the chest, because at least it would have a better guesstimate of how much. It's a factor that…

You are completely missing the point and do not understand what I'm asking. I'm not subtracting bust, I am saying that I'm afraid the method doesn't take it into account, thereby exaggerating my lean mass, which is the opposite of the assumption you're making. I take offense at the suggestion that I'm trying to take a…

When I look at the pictures I look between 40-45%.... curious to see what a 50% with proportional fat distribution would look like because the person in the picture had a poor body shape to begin with which makes it look worse I think. I'd need to see 50% at my height, not on a 5' tall person.

I still haven't seen an answer to how the measurement methods take bust into account, because they don't. In that case, no, not all the same methods work for men and women. If you have 20 lbs worth of chest as a woman and it does not ask for that number, it makes an assumption about your distribution based on making your…

As an update I tried the method with the hand plates and got a 47.55% fat and 138 lbs lean mass. I think I'm just going to take the average between the two numbers I've gotten and use that, so each time I check in I'll do both and keep the average.

It just occurred to me that then knowing your lean mass would be a great way to calculate goal weight, which I've been having a lot of trouble with. Although they say anything as low as 130 is healthy for my height, if I'm carrying 119 lbs of lean mass (and I don't lose any lean mass) and my goal is to get under 30% body…