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We all go wrong from sitting around all day shortening our hams and calves. Don't let your babies use chairs; they'll thank you when they're 80. ;) If your form is good, keep it up - but as you increase weight, keeping your knees plumb over your ankles becomes more important (well, I guess all aspects of the form become…

If you have a tendency toward low iron (in your blood, not in your diet), ask a doc to reccommend a supplement - they come in lots of different forms that have different bioavailabilities. If you're not eating enough iron and don't want to eat more iron-rich foods (beeeets!), consider getting a cast-iron frying pan or…

Www.nerdfitness.com -- workouts on the cheap, with plenty of links showing what good form should look like (although I've done extra research on that to supplement, as not all the videos are great). And an an in-a-pinch alternative to pull up bars.

Focus on whole/ clean foods. Eat often enough that you're not starving when it comes to mealtime. Meal plan and prep ahead so that you are not having a "need food NOW" situation and there's nothing that will take less than an hour to cook, thus justifying takeout. If your're gonna eat something off-book (outside of your…

At my local gym through the city's parks and rec department, the attitude is generally positive-- usually if someone opens their mouth to me, it's to say something encouraging, and the people-watching is great (little old ladies in hot pink SUITS on the weight machines? Par for the course). There are fit people, little…

Posture is the big negative with the elliptical. If you use the hand thingies, it tends to cause you to hunch forward, while a natural walking or running posture should use neutral spine. Let go of the handgrips - improves your balance, ups your heartrate, and saves your back. It also promotes shortened hamstrings (as do…

APIARY is the word you were both looking for. An aviary has birds in it. Bird vomit is not as nice. To the OP: raw honey has a lot more micronutrients than pasteurized honey, but sugar is sugar.

:( Cook just for you, have some semi-healthy snacks around that you might both enjoy, and make him budget for his own takeout. And maybe send him in for bloodwork - he doesn't have to change his eating, but he should be aware that his food-stubborn-ness is (probably) not without consequences.

I don't shun Marvel/DC, but I find the continuities aggravating... I cherry-pick for writers and artists I like. That said, X-Men Forever. All-Time Favorites: Kabuki, Planetary, Astro City, SAGA (oh my god, are you not reading Saga? GO PICK UP SAGA) and Hellboy. I had to trim a lot of titles due to some financial…

This was a really tough stumbling block for me, and I had to do a lot of "research" to quit it, and had about ten different sources of motivation as well. I suspect your answer will end up being quite personal. For me, writing stuff down helps me to process emotions and entrench things that I know, but can't seem to…

Epsom salt is not for ingestion. Bath? Go nuts.

Applejack, is that you?

My local comics shop. My butcher. A shawarma place, but only because the dude has an INSANE memory. I used to have a few others (Vietnamese place: we're friends off now that I'm broke; my local independent video store, which folded shortly after Netflix' arrival in Canada) but time marches on. Edit: Oh yeah, and a cat lady…

Just want to say thanks to all the muscle bros (and lady bros) who have explained why I am gaining arm inches despite losing pounds. I wasn't afraid of getting "bulky," mind - I look forward to the day I can put on a gun show - but it seemed a little far-fetched.

May not apply to you at all, but when I started getting more water and eating less, I noticed thirst more because I stopped interpreting it as hunger.

I'm not a slow cooker master, but every slow cooker instruction guide I've read says not to put frozen food in the slow cooker because it will spend too much time at an unsafe (read: bacteria farm) temperature. If you plan ahead you can put frozen meat in the fridge for 24 hours, and that's usually enough to defrost it…

I eat ten to twelve yolks a week and my cholesterol is AWESOME. Try this one weird old trick: buy the highest quality eggs you can find (pasture raised; or failing that, free range omega3 enhanced). Of course, I'm really big so eggs don't really make or break me calorie-wise; if I was having to cut down for fat grams or…

According to canada food guide, 3 oz is a serving of meat, or a portion the size of the palm of your hand (bigger hands get bigger servings). "the size of a deck of cards" is another common serving size for meat in Canada. You will notice that these are all drastically different sizes. Personally I find that extremely…

I'm sorry I missed this before I replied - and I'm sorry for what you are going through. This is family violence. You need a lawyer on your side. You need domestic violence services on your side. You are being held hostage, and this will be difficult, and there will probably be days when it seems like court or police are…

An alarming percentage of abusive partners start intensifying their abuse when their partner becomes pregnant. It's a sign of a power and control issue on the part of your man - he is losing some of his control over you (he gets a smaller percentage of your attention and effort, for example) so he starts to escalate his…

Someone on the first page said "log your spices!!11" like they were some kind of a) secret calorie bomb or b) relevant for other mysterious reasons. Anyone know why? I sometimes don't log water that I add to recipes, and when I'm adding recipes for (e.g.) indian food I don't always log the spices (especially if adding from…

"Fat *****" shouted at me from a car window while walking (more than once). Extra infuriating as they were too cowardly to stick around to hear my response. When I was a kid (11 or 12) a group of older guys who must have been in an older sibling's car used to follow me home from school and throw candy at me from the car…

Hmmm. Limiting my meals to 500 cals would have me eating 4-5 500 cal meals a day to hit my fatass BMR. Which would totally bone my blood sugar. I know it's not wise to have undigested food hanging out in the gut, rotting away, but... wait, whatever. Pretty good list overall.

He competed in a SPORT where doping is commonplace, but he bullied everyone on his team into doping harder and faster than they would have without him (transfusions etc.). With respect to the ruining people's lives thing - I really don't give a **** about this story so haven't retained the details, but there was at least…

No way. -7 F is a typical winter day here; it's on warm days that the gym clears out (errbody be running). Come prepared with some layers and/or towel. Bring a hat. Good to go.

No, my TDEE is 28-something, sedentary, because I am very fat. Also, the website I quoted in my post lists both calculations as BMR calculations - as does this site, when you set your goals, IIRC. Edited for more info: I checked, and I DON'T recall correctly: It's when you use MFP to calculate your BMR that you get that…

What does your sugar intake look like now? Your mileage may vary, but I found that after I Stopped Eating Sugar I no longer experienced the intense cravings for sweets that I always did when I Ate Sugar Occasionally. Also, a spoonful of peanut butter or a serving of almonds can stave off a lot of food cravings (of course…

Awesome! Hopefully the more you stick to your guns, the more he'll learn not to wheeeeeedle you into stuff. :)

I'm of two minds about this. Some people make a decent argument for working out on an empty stomach because it will burn more fat; others make a reasonably cogent argument that this will cause your body to try to hang onto fat. If your liver has a big glycogen store, you need to burn through it so that new sugar intake…

Some people will say yes, some will say no - if you're diabetic, it matters a lot. If you're insulin resistant, it matters. How would you know if you're insulin resistant? A glucose tolerance test would actually tell you, but the Paleo people would tell you that if you tend to collect fat in the belly area, that's a big…