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Keep It Super Simple?? Lol. Awesome post.
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Everything I eat is what I want to eat. Monday-Friday I have this insane urge to eat the best I possibly can. I keep a food scale and measuring utensils everywhere I go lol. Saturday and Sunday I don't really pay attention. I usually eat similar to my weekdays but then there are times I will kill several thousand calories…
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I eat an egg, a bowl of cereal, and around 4-5 ounces of chicken breast (sometimes ~10 oz) 5 days a week.
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This says it all. What made the difference for me is wanting to do what I do. I've tried several times in past years to get into regular exercise and failed after 2-3 weeks. When I finally got goin last year for real it came down to me wanting to feel better and be healthy, not lose fat, so I didn't focus on that part,…
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It's a sad thing to know some people don't enjoy their plain water :-( Water is too important for us to require something with it to want it... I fckin love water.
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I actually come up with more status updates for MFP than I do for FB sometimes. I wont say any of this stuff that I feel about motivation and fitness on FB, I'm pretty sure it just annoys everyone. The only things that FB has over MFP for me is the real life friends and the number of people that see what I have to say. I…
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I've calculated my calorie expenditure so many ways. I've compared my Timex Ironman results with quite a few things that tell you what you've spent. I originally bought a Nike+ Sportwatch, but wanted the Ironman instead so I switched it out. I used a friends watch that you press against your arm and take in intervals.…
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Super cute... And everyone has already said it. Tone. If you do need to lose anything, you will lose it while lifting. An extremely small deficit if any.
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Maybe your body could be doing that starvation thing. If I'm right, a female that is average height, around 125 lbs, and gets a moderate amount of exercise would need around 15000 calories a week to maintain. You are eating 10000. That's 2/3 of what your body needs. Seems to me like it's that starvation response where your…
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:-D Well done. Definitely wear the bikini no reason not to ;-)
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Right on! You are awesome :-D
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Glad you said this, I needed to hear it. Yeah I took sodium off too, so pointless lol. Turns out I'm great with my water/sodium intake so I don't really care if I have some soup one day that throws it way over. Gonna take sugar off it's just giving me negative numbers everyday and it's pissing me off. All the sugars I get…
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Actually I am trying to work on cutting some more fat off so I can feel better about a ~4000 cal/day bulk lol. After going through that first part of the weight lifting phase I felt like I could have had better gains. Even after you told me to boost it up to 3000 calories. I'm pretty sure my metabolism is ridiculously high…
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Oh, I thought there were like processed sugars which are artificially created and therefore break down way easier. Makes sense, we create it with the most cost effective / streamlined process we can, therefore chemically it's going to be easier to break down. I don't know the details though I'm just guessing.
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Trust me on this one, strength training now. I just got done with a solid year of nothing but cardio, lost a good 60 lbs. But a lot of it was muscle, don't make the same mistake. If you do cardio only, make sure you eat a minimum 1g of protein per lb of bodyweight. If your body dosn't have the protein in the stomach the…
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I would recommend something with a strap. If you don't I'm pretty sure you have to stop and check your heart rate with the watch by pressing something.
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It doesn't matter what they think. You are in the clear ;-D However, yeah I can almost guarantee you there are guys in there that have a bad attitude and don't like you using certain things if you could be using something else. Girls too. Or just straight up don't even care if you are doing it right or wrong, they are just…
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That settles it I'm just gonna find a routine that focuses on the upper body but includes everything. I'm only a few weeks into lifting now so I'm still short on equipment. I've been using a bowflex at work to do press and curls and that's all, it's such a pain in the *kitten* to switch the machine around... and I'm all…
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Sooooo I have some more questions about this lol. So BMR + TDEE + ~10%. That makes more sense, I was just following what MFP gave me for calories. I knew I was doing something wrong. What about days where I'm not working out at all? Just BMR + ~?% of some kind? I have an issue where I can't avoid doing cardio on the…
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Holy awesome, Batman! You are a rockstar.
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Great info, I don't know why it was such a complicated question for me to find an answer to.. I'm usually pretty good at figuring these things out. Nothing was accurate but the bodybuilding.com site is amazing I read a lot of stuff there. I decided to sign up it really does hook you up with some really good info based on…
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Bulk, I need bulk. So... little...
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I'm almost positive you have nothing to worry about. Over time it'll readjust over the areas it is supposed to cover. The lower levels of skin are made up of super elastic connective tissue, blood vessels, and other things that all stretch or contract based on how they are treated. When you lose a bunch of layers of fat…
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If it counts I buy more food to keep at work than I do at home :-D I spread my food out so I'm eating something every 30-45 minutes so I need to have food as close as possible at all times. I even keep lots of canned/packaged things in my backpack just in case lol. I'm going for weight gain right now but when I was cutting…
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Haha this is a social networking medium before information source. And on top of that it's a fitness resource, the same questions do NOT apply the same way to men and woman across the board. The answers could vary depending on the person, so I think new posts are perfectly acceptable no matter what the questions here. I…
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I love it when people tell me I'm wrong, oh god how I love it so. Sorry you guys get butt hurt over stuff like that, that sucks... Don't like what I have to say? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ If I don't like what you have to say. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Good old fashioned shame. I noticed someone else responded to this as a negative thing. But to be honest it doesn't have to be that way. Instead of thinking of it as making fun of people for being fat, think of it as not letting them think it's okay to be fat. I was told from 14-24 that I was a skinny guy. After looking at…
