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Not doing intermittent fasting, but I finally made over 40% fat intake! Went over protein goal for the first time ever! Anybody else peeing like a pregnant racehorse during this?

Juicing only, will definitely make your pancreas very overworked. Nothing to slow the glucose entering your bloodstream. It's also extremely expensive and a waste of good food. if you need to consume to get you to take your veggies then do smoothies. Takes less produce to make, contains all the fiber and if you use fruit,…

It, nor it's proponents claim to do so, it actually does. It acts the same as lifting heavy in that your metabolic rate remains high for hours after your workout.

Whelp, I've been out of it for several years now. I finally figured out what I actually need to fix in order for me to get my hips under me so that I don't become broken when the weights get heavy again. I got a bit depressed over December due to suddenly not being able to go to a fancy dress up event we'd been planning…

So I have some questions for you.. (I also have some crazy neck problems) Are you a desk jockey? What's your posture like? Are your shoulder's rounded? 3 things that have helped me are rotator cuff exercises to strengthen the muscles that are overstretched from slumping at my desk. And laying on a foam roller so that my…

Oh and I have a ninja IQ and I lourve it. It also has single serve sizes so you aren't tempted to make too much and thus consume too many calories. It's also excellent for making your coffee super frothy and of course, frappuccinos.

You are soooo much better off making smoothies. No fiber is bad. Everything is taken up quickly and as such converted to sugar, so then your blood gets a huge influx of sugar with nothing to slow it down. Additionally most of the really important vitamins yielded especially from dark green leafys is fat soluble, so you…

Drinking distilled water was enlightening for me. It tastes soooo much better than tap. I found out later that I'm extremely sensitive to fluoride. My life has improved leaps and bounds since moving to an area that doesn't fluoridate. btw the only way to filter out fluoride is via double reverse osmosis. When water doesn't…

I'm working my way into it because I have no gallbladder so a sudden increase in fat is not a great idea. but recipes would be awesome.

Swimming is non-impact HIIT, or at least it can be HIIT. I dropped 20lbs just with calorie deficiet and HIIT style swimming. It is also full body resistance. My method was to go in whatever forward stroke, i.e. face in the water, as hard as I could until I couldn't breathe then switch to resting mode on my back doing slow…

look into stronglifts 5 x 5. It is a progressive thing with heavy focus on form. If a barbell is too heavy at first, start with dumbbells. Depending on the type of barbell you have, it could be between 35 and 45 lbs. Make certain you do the warmups, don't add weight until you are confident in your form. It consists of 5…

You ladies are awesome! I'm finding myself more encouraged than I have been in years! As much as I was looking forward to getting my boots for doing my lift, I was even more jazzed about reporting that I'd succeeded. We had a useless (except for the fact that it gets me money off my copays) health exam at work yesterday.…

Great progress ladies!!! I successfully pulled my slated 3 reps of 200lb deadsquats (trap bar)! My prize was a pair of boots (that I'm wearing today) and I get to try to push and pull 100lb benches and rows tonight x's 3. The really exciting/scary part for me is that next week I get to lift more than I weigh for the first…

Rage Against the Machine got me through my first attempt at 200lb deadsquats last night. Particularly the "Fk you! I won't do what you told me!" part.

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Testify by Rage Against the Machine, Here Comes the Boom- P.O.D., Pistol Grip Pump- Rage Against the Machine, Respect Walk- Pandera. Fear would probably be good but I don't have any of their stuff currently. Almost the entire Rage Against the Machine catalog. Rammstein is good too.

1. log more accurately and make certain it fits my macros 2. Don't let bad lift days get to me 3. Use bad days for other reasons to help me lift. 4. Hit 70 on OHP with no grinds. 5. Get my garden in. 6. Finish the course of brick around the fire pit. 7. clean the gravel mess. 8. get benches made and start looking at making…

I have an UP 24 which I bought a few months before the MS Band came out. I kind of wish I had waited, though you do get a little more out of it if you have a Windows Phone. It works with IOS and Android as well. I'm waiting for the UP 3 to come out because it is Waterproof. You do have to enter weights manually. But that…

Oh it also has a name: Insulin push. :s

indianarose2, slow release protein is casein. It is often found in cheeses and it is a normal part of protein in whole milk. A lot of the whey isolate shakes don't include casein, but it is something you want at bed time to make the fasting time of sleeping sort of on an even keel. Super important for diabetics. I have…

Friday night OHP, definitely can go die in a fire. did my warm ups and got to my working weight of 64 lbs. I could only get 2 up. Then I cried like a little baby. Went and put a note on my sheet. Came back and got 3 more up though I was trying for 5. Waited a bit and then tried again and couldn't get one up. Then I did…

Read something today about aloe juice affecting collagen production. Thinking of trying it. Reduction in collagen is greatly impacted by aging so this could be of real use.

You ladies are all so cool! Thank you. My favorite quote of all time is "I was being patient! ...it took too long. " lol. :p Sadly my favorite form of HIIT that is injury free is the most difficult for me to get. Swimming. I swim until I can't catch my breath, then I backstroke to recovery and do it again. It was also the…

Better to stop than torque your knee! Yes. OHP can go die in a fire. Mine are tonight, but thankfully a small deload. Awesome lift on the dead!

I completely know how that feels threnjen! take care of yourself and make sure you get sleep too. Tonight I added incline/decline and 20 yards so 135 farmer's carry up and down a slight hill x2 for 120 yrds. One stop at the halfway point. Also really freaking tired before I started. It also looks like I might make my base…

Theoretically, you should have 2 days in a row of rest at some point. When you do, the morning of the 2nd day is the day to weigh and measure. Even if you don't weigh, do your measurements, because we see ourselves daily and changes are not only hard to detect, but if we don't see or feel them, we get discouraged. (at…

[ It might at first, but stick to the program and only add 5lbs each time. It gets heavy fast! also be sure to stretch and do foam roller if soreness is unbearable. Watch your form too. Even if you have to film it and watch it.

For farmer's carries, try a trap bar. you can search Amazon either for trap bar or shrug bar. Additionally, get some chalk! :D

I struggle with this too. Usually on my really hard workout days. I will chug a protein drink after a workout even if I'm not hungry. To put this in perspective, usually the day after that work out is "eat everything in sight day" It's also when my body is in recovery from the night before ( I have to work out at night…

My first recommendation is raise your protein goal. What I did was manually set my protein in grams at the same number as my goal weight. I mostly ignore carbs from veggies. I have to watch my sugar because of diabetes so I count any starches, garbage I might eat, and fruits. #2 is do NOT cook with EVOO. Heating it…