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^^^Cosigned. Very rarely do I eat anything before I run, and never before a 5k-10k race. Tops would be 10oz of Gatorade or something like that.
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Last post on pg2 :wink:
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Same thing with gaining it....strength gains don't equate to added muscle either.
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What are your stats...ht/wt/age? How long have you been eating so low? Also, can you make your diary public. With that information we can help you out more. To me it sounds like there is some inaccurate logging. There's no way that if you really were eating as low as 1050 calories per day you wouldn't be losing weight…
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Absolutely
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Total agreement, plus they've also go skin in the game. My neighborhood facebook pusher of plexus made all kinds of off the wall claims about it from it cured rheumatoid arthritis to massive weight losses paired with massive muscle gains to never needing to take her kids to the doctor because of it. I think there's been…
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What @TavistockToad is saying is; you may lose 5lbs but at such a steep deficit but you'll sacrifice muscle too. So, you've lost 5lbs got from 115lbs to 110lbs but because you've sacrificed muscle your Body Fat % didn't change a lick, so you look exactly the same in the mirror. Just because you lose weight, doesn't mean…
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^^^This. I can gain upwards of 6lbs in water weight overnight after a heavy lifting session. You body may retain water for muscle repair for a couple weeks after you start a new / raised intensity of a workout before all of the water weight flushes out.
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Totally and 100% agree. I'm 5'7" and cut down to about 162 restricting too much and did not like the way I looked. I actually went back up to about 172, lowered my bf% to that 10-13% range and felt a ton better. It took a ton of work and patience, but totally worth it.
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1200 calories alone is cutting at TDEE -50% for you already. To think that's enough for you to sustain yourself, plus a solid milk supply I find highly questionable...
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A) How long have you been eating so low? B ) Can you open your food diary? If you were really eating that little (literally less than my kindergartner) and breast feeding, the pounds would be falling off. This reads like something in your logging/Calories In estimation isn't right. This makes me question your reported…
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You're basically already at a healthy BMI, why are you trying to lose more than a few ounces a week? With your work day, plus all of the exercise you do your TDEE is north of 2300 calories. That means (if you're accurate) that you're eating less than half of what you burn each day. This usually isn't advised for those that…
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No, not if 1250 is close to 600 to 1000 calories under TDEE. If 1850 is your TDEE, that means any level of calories under that means that you'll lose weight. You are at a normal BMI for your ht/wt. You need to get your calorie deficit to a more moderate level (200ish cals from maint), and let us know what lifting program…
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Um...ya they are acting dumb and stupid.....for a reason.....PF caricaturizing them to perpetuate the stereotype that those individuals are your general gym goer and that you (the universal you) belong at PF, not with the morons (lunks) that fill every other gym. It's pretty straight forward.
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OK, you need to adjust your intake. From what I've found, someone your ht/wt/age and exercise activity level has a TDEE closer to 2200. You're cutting at nearly TDEE -50%, which is way...way to steep and sacrificing muscle.
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^^This, that's part of your problem. If you indeed are only eating 1250 calories you deficit is way too steep so when you did/are/were losing weight you were sacrificing muscle as well. This means you're losing weight, but your BF% isn't changing as optimally as it could. Now you're going to be looking to do either a…
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You don't understand why PF catches such a bad rep here....? Have you seen their ads and understand their business philosophy of: Caricaturizing the fitness enthusiast while calling those fitness enthusiasts dumb and stupid (you know...a lunk) all while preying on the perpetuation a non-existent stereotype that the gym is…
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Can you elaborate on how utilizing NEAT and getting calories back from exercise negates the point of weighing out your food?
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At your ht/wt/age...lift to preserve the muscle you already have, deficit to lose the fat. Building muscle is really...really hard to put on. We don't just pack it on that easily, why would you want to do 2 to 3 times the work putting the muscle you lose back on?
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I posted the below yesterday as well, so it's a copy pasta and yes many are going to tell you that you didn't eat enough because that's not enough to sustain my 5 year old. The user (Joe) in this case enters in all of his information and daily activity into MFP. MFP spits out a number to lose Joe's goal of 1lb per week.…
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This is incorrect if using the MFP method (NEAT). Let's do the math. The user (Joe) in this case enters in all of his information and daily activity into MFP. MFP spits out a number to lose Joe's goal of 1lb per week. Now remember....MFP does not include daily exercise when you enter in this daily activity information. MFP…
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I used to get up at 4:10 to be at the gym by 4:30, but my gym was getting way to crazy in the morning and have started going around 8:30-9 at night. It's to the point where there could be north of 15 people at that little gym in the morning (taking over communal areas for classes, etc...) where I may have the place to…
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This is completely and entirely untrue, especially the part about the sodium content. Diet Soda has a sodium content just above that of tap water.
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Who's talking about gaining muscle? I'm surely not, I'm talking about maintaining it. Bodyweight training can be used as a progressive lifting program too......you are your own gym and convict conditioning come to mind.
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Your body DOES NOT need a calorie surplus to get stronger. Adding muscle mass does not equate to strength gains (please see neuroadaptation) OP. When we eat in a calories deficit we lose water, fat, and muscle, that is why strength training is extremely important at this point. To combat that muscle loss we strive to hit…
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I don't think anyone is/was disagreeing with you. It's just important to point out that there are two types of stretching (dynamic vs. static). Dynamic stretching prior to exercise, static stretching after.
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If you plan on stretching before/ after, agreed.
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Before and after, but it is two kinds of stretching. Dynamic stretching before your workout and static stretching after. Static stretching before your workout can actually promote injury, rather than prevent it.
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Yes, since that's how the tool is designed and if I didn't I'd probably be netting in the neighborhood of 1300-1400 cals a day. I wouldn't last long before crashing.
