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My heart rate monitor battery light came on and the glass on the watch was cracked so I didn't feel too bad about wearing it to Jits. 1324 calories in 2.5 hours. 1 hr instruction and 1.5 hrs competitive rolling. It was an average night. Humid. Doesn't mean it was accurate either. Watch and strap actually survived the roll.

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Blue belt. I train 5 days a week for 1.5-2.5 hours. I am the oldest student on the mats. We do 1 hour of instruction followed by 1.5 hours of hard rolling with sprints between rolls. I love it. It's addictive. Not a martial art for people who want to progress quickly. Belts progression can take years…

3 lbs/wk is not sustainable. I've done that and more to make weight at tournaments but it is a world of pain, dizziness and deprivation. 1500 calories is more AND less than we think. If you were eating way too much before then 1500 may get you the results you want.

Now to keep it off.

I do Wendler's 5/3/1 before work. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday It takes about half an hour or less. I also workout at other times but faithfully do that program on those days. So up at 6:30, workout til 7. Shower. Off to work for 8

Sure. Try "compound lifts" that use lots of muscles together. Weights are not that expensive. If anything, it is better than using machines because it is more like real life. Stuff like http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=118920551

I use whey isolate only on the heavy workout days. Like a day where I cycle home from work, roll at Jiu Jitsu and then do weights. Maybe 2 to 3 times a week. Otherwise nothing but a multi and fish oil. I plateau, drop, plateau, drop with no identifiable reasons for the stops and starts.

Works for me. Day 11 of "Fast 5". This is a 5 hour eating window of your choice. I use 5 pm to 10 pm. I'm losing abdominal fat fast. The weight comes off in spurts but the inches come off faster. It is not for everyone though. I'm the only person I know who actually favours this approach. Other people get light headed or…

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I watched the movie and bought a juicer. Went crazy for a week and then because I lack discipline, backed off to a juice a day. Downside? I go through a lot of kale, carrots, apples, swiss chard, ginger, lemon, celery, sweet potato, beets etc that I NEVER ate before. So from that standpoint it has improved my nutrition.…

Why is it a myth? You eat...you gain weight. Fact. Go ahead, eat yourself fat.

Remember being a young person? Remember that rejection just hardened your resolve? Pro ana people need to be included in conversations so that they get a real world sense that what they are doing is not the norm. Shutting them out just isolates them. Young people with eating disorders have a distorted view of their body…

'People" are doing their best. Look around...the fact that they are trying anything puts them ahead of most people. At any given meeting at my workplace, 2 out of 20 people might be at a healthy weight. The rest are not just a bit out of shape. Many are 50 lbs overweight...far from a healthy situation. Ideally everyone has…

If it's just a myth then 10000 calories or 15000 calories should be good too. As should 1000 or 500. And how, in 21 days do you offset for transient lifestyle changes, thermogenesis, and water retention. Put your money where your mouth is and do it for a year. And get a reasonable sample size, and double blind it so that…

Yes I could have if I had intended to have people look it up so they knew what I was saying. Wilks Formula is a coefficient that can be used to measure the strength of a powerlifter against other powerlifters despite the different weights of the lifters. Robert Wilks is the author of the formula.""- Wikipedia

Just finished my deadlift workout. All that matters is relative strength. A 220lb muscular man needs to deadlift a lot more than this girl to have the same strength to weight ratio. Pound for pound she is plenty strong. And it's also obvious that lifting heavy doesn't grow crazy bulk in her case. She looks very fit.

It gets easier to say no after a while. I just tell them I already ate. I refused pizza at a going away party yesterday. But I stayed and chatted and told them it looked good but I can't handle the fat and sodium right now. Good natured, light...it got me through.

As for 20 years in the basement...In the realm of logical fallacies that is I think, a burden of truth fallacy. A bit esoteric maybe. I wouldn't want to spend 20 years listening to country music or rubbing my face with steel wool and strangely neither of those examples has any bearing on calorie management either.

Guideline for men over 50 is 1500mg or less of sodium per day. 2.4 lbs lost overnight again. That's 4.9 in two days. The only thing I changed was less sodium. Best yogaX workout ever last night. I hate it and love it (mostly when it's over). Flexibility is different side to side but definitely improving. Still no issues…

Family reunion, playing guitar took me from 8600 to 16000 steps on the fitbit. DO NOT PLAT GUITAR while wearing a fitbit flex.

I got a flex. It connects to myfitnesspal and will make positive & negative corrections to your calories burned, track your steps and sleep. For me it is motivating but everyone is different. I like that if I plan my day, that it nulls out my exercise until I actually do it. It also sends you encouraging emails about your…

Hmmm. No headaches. No weakness. No shakiness. Feeling pretty sharp actually. Really enjoying my workouts at the moment. Deadlifts up to 325 which is almost double my body weight (280 a month ago). Can do 16 pullups. Must not be reporting calories consumed or expended correctly. Biggest reason for weight loss (which is not…

AND...results of my MRI are in - degenerative disc disease in c3-c4-c5-c6-c7, two impinged nerves, one herniated disk, stenosis (narrowing of the nerve passage) and flattening of the cord. It explains the extreme pain. Fortunately the doc and the physio guy say that because I now have very low pain levels after all the…

I find it amazing that the weight on the scale can change so much overnight. Reasonable day with food, lower sodium (water weight?) and a P90x Rest day and this morning I am down 2.5 lbs. I now have a "2 pack" - 2 upper abs. Lower gut still holding on to fat around the belly-button. I seem to carry all my fat around my…

I understand the theory. But I am not losing weight and I AM gaining size. Bigger biceps etc. I am simply surprised at how little my body seems to require to fuel the effort of living, exercising etc. I still think I need to pay more attention to calories eaten and burned if I want to model the whole thing properly. If I…

Nah I'm just reacting to the other posts. I'm in for the long haul. I want to lose weight fast due to back and neck issues and then transition to maintenance. I'm not losing weight but I had one of the machinists here at work drill a new hole in my belt because my cell phone in my pocket was pulling my pants down. My…

Yeah you'd think so but I am plump and energetic so maybe I am not tracking something right. "Maybe" my body is in starvation mode and I'm extracting my calories from the air because I'm gaining weight bit by bit. Regardless, after a month of tracking calories, trying to cut out junk, and exercising like a maniac, I'm…

Was really diligent yesterday and watched every calorie. Definitely underestimated contribution of olive oil. Also, the calories burned on my heart rate monitor include the calories I would burn anyway during the time I work out. The amount of salt in a can of baked beans or a "Healthy" Request Herbed chicken and rice soup…

168 lbs 5'9" Tops M-L Bottoms 32" :smile: We men are lucky - most stuff is S-M-L-XL etc. Our clothes don't have the micro designations that women's do and we rarely wear anything that fits because we have no sense of style.

Good point. I missed that.