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If you're happy with the way you look, and you are at a healthy weight and BMI, I would stay at that weight, and just work at maintaining it. 140 lbs is a very healthy weight for someone your height.

The weight loss will be slower than from cardio, but that's partly because you will be gaining muscle while you're burning fat. If you keep doing cardio while strength training, either do it on days that you aren't doing weights, or do it later in the day. For example, do weight training in the morning, and do a cardio…

I would keep doing both the cardio and the weight training. While cardio burns more calories while you're exercising, weight training actually burns more in the long run by increasing your metabolism for up to 48 hours afterward. Plus, if you stick with just cardio, you will be losing muscle along with the fat, which will…

Do not cut out the strength training! It is actually the most important form of exercise for long term weight loss. More muscle=higher metabolism=more calories burned! Keep up with your exercise program, get back on track with your diet, and start logging everything that you eat, junk included. Don't let a temporary…

You can add whatever exercises you like, or find a similar exercise and adjust the calories burned to whatever you believe it to be. I usually just use the info on calories burned as a very rough guideline.

What about mushrooms or red or green peppers?

Yeah, there's a few of us on this site, we're just greatly outnumbered! You can add me as a friend if you want. Us guys have to stick together!

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Your net calories is how many calories you consume in a given day minus the calories that you burn off exercising. This should be equal to your goal calories. If your goal is set for 1200 calories, then your try to keep your net calories as close to 1200 as you can. So a net of 539 is definetly too low. A calorie deficit…

That's awesome!

I certainly don't see why it would be considered tacky. If anybody asks why you brought your own food, just explain that you wanted something a little bit healthier. If they don't understand, that's their problem IMO.

If you know that you can't control yourself around certain unhealthy foods, don't keep them in the house! Why would you even buy these foods in the first place, if you know that you'll just binge on them? You've obviously lost a lot of weight, you just have to remind yourself what you did to lose that weight in the first…

I'm pretty sure that your body tends to live in the present. If your calorie expenditure is greater than your calorie intake, your body doesn't wait two weeks before it decides to use fatty tissue for fuel. Conversly, your body doesn't wait two weeks to start storing that Chinese buffet as fat, either!

I would suggest wearing a pedometer to get a rough idea of how much walking you're actually doing. I wear one at work and find I cover about 6 to 7 miles per shift. That adds up pretty quick!

Pushups mainly involve the pectoral (chest) muscles, triceps and deltoid (shoulder) muscles. Bench presses and triceps dips will help develop greater strength in those areas. I know how you feel. A couple of months ago I could only do one or two full pushups myself, but after a couple of months of weight training, I can do…

At the gym I used to go to, there was a guy there that was nicknamed "Ninja Neil". He was a skinny little guy, and always talking about how he was building a "Terminator" robot, but was having trouble finding the proper parts for it, so he was also building a time machine so that he could go into the future and get the…

One gram of fat equals about nine calories. So just take the grams of fat on the calorie counter, multiply by nine, and you've got your fat calories.

It's not going to hurt you to go over on your protein, anyways. It's better than being over on your carbs or fat.

You could adjust your settings so that your protein level is higher and maybe decrease your carb or fat settings. The default protein settings are ridiculously low, anyways. I would suggest increasing your protein setting to 25 to 35% of your calories.

Not really. Some people like to think that too much can damage your kidneys, but studies have shown no ill effects in people consuming up to 2 grams of protein per pound of body weight. A good general guideline for an active person is 0.7 to1 grams of protein per pound of your target body weight. More than that is…

I don't think that apples would qualify because of their high sugar content, but lettuce, carrots, and celery do have very few calories. I don't think that they are actually "negative calorie" foods, but they do make good low cal snacks!

If your calorie intake is too low compared to your caloric expenditure, your body will hold onto it's fat stores and start using lean muscle for an energy source. This is exactly what you don't want. Less muscle means a lower metabolic rate, which means that it will get increasingly difficult to lose the fat that you're…

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Bodybuildingforyou.com, muscleandfitness.com, and menshealth.com are three that I use quite a bit. Lots of routines, diet tips, and exercises to keep your workouts fresh and challenging!

I find that the Wii greatly exaggerates how far you run. For instance, according to the Wii, I can run six miles in half an hour. I don't know about you, but to average a mile every five minutes is a little hard to believe. Half of that would be much more likely. I also find that the Wii can under estimate the calories…

I usually try to do my cardio workouts before I eat, but my weight training after.

VeggieCarrie is exactly right. If your husband doesn't exercise, protein shakes won't do him much good and would just be extra calories in his diet. You won't get big and bulky from drinking protein shakes, especially if you're not doing any strength or weight training, but they will help repair your muscles after a…

I agree with this blog 100%! I hope more people read this, because it's true. People need to stop making excuses for themselves, what they eat and why they don't exercise enough.

Smarten up and stop slacking off! If you expect to lose weight you have to eat better and exercise more. Do you expect the weight to come off with no effort? Sorry, there is no miracle cure! You know what you have to do. Now get busy doing it!

A one day (or weekend) slip isn't going to do you any harm. At the most, you might gain a pound or two, and that will be mainly water weight from eating too many carbs. Anything that you might have gained should disappear within the week, as you get back into your routine of healthy eating and exercising. Don't sweat the…