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losing*

My arms are finally tank top-ready. I still have a strong tan line starting at my elbows from last summer. Definitely wearing the tank top this summer.

Just my skin.

I haven't failed yet because I haven't gotten to my 5RM yet. I always squat in the squat rack, but I'm thinking it will be a good idea to practice bailing with an empty bar. I would only throw the weight behind me if I were about to die; my gym is deathly quiet, and I think I would give everyone in there a heart attack if…

I'm having trouble finding a facility to get the test done at. Searched the Internet to no avail, called a couple hospitals and my doctor's office to no avail.

I wish it wasn't so hard to look at your body objectively. In the mirror I look OK, in some pictures I look relatively less fat, and in other pictures I look like lard. I really have no idea what my body looks like.

Your lean body mass will reflect the amount of fat you carry around, so it does account for carrying around extra fat.

Just overeating. I was overweight even before I started playing video games 5+ hours a day instead of backyard football and skateboarding. Of course, the gaming made me gain even more weight because I was overeating AND not being very active. Then I started playing videos on a PC and got addicted (not literally) to the…

My weight is never lower at night than in the morning. After being continually disappointed, I learned to stop stepping on the scale more than once a day.

^Capitalization abuse.

I feel like I haven't lost any weight in my face. Sucks.

Bump for my sanity.

What makes you feel like they act superior to you? Are you sure you're not just projecting your insecurities? Anyways, I'm sometimes insecure when I see dudes that are younger and smaller than me lifting more weight than I can, but it helps to remember that I'll probably surpass them within a couple months if I remain…

I'm going to check out my local PF and see if I'm one of the lucky ones with squat racks and Olympic bars. $48/month for my YMCA membership is killing me, though I adore the facility. There's another local $10/month gym that I checked out that would have been perfect, of only it had a squat rack instead of a smith machine.

It's in just about every thread in which somebody asks about calorie goals, which gets annoying as these people never consider: 1) inactive people can safely dip below BMR, and 2) metabolic slow down has nothing to do with BMR, but rather one's overall deficit relative to their amount of stored energy (fat). For some…

Smaller people have proportionally smaller nutritional requirements I would think.

I made a thread asking the same question a couple weeks ago. It didn't go well. Most people just don't understand, and parrot the same thing everyone else says. They think that BMR and TDEE are totally different energy requirements, but don't realize that BMR is just the basis for TDEE and nothing more. The reason doctors…

Your problem is that you're double-logging calories burned from exercise. Calories burned from exercise are already figured into your TDEE (unless you use method 2 below), and then you're manually logging your exercise calories. You need to either (1) account for weekly exercise when choosing your TDEE activity multiplier,…

BBQ sauce is the only source of HFCS in my diet. I only eat about 2 TBSP per day, so I highly doubt it's a big deal at all.

My god, that place looks obnoxious. It looks like an indoor jungle gym for kids.

My suggestion: figure your TDEE not including exercise, set your goal to TDEE - 20% regardless of what your BMR is, and log your exercises and eat back the calories they burn.

It doesn't matter if you're eating under your BMR, but if your TDEE is 3238 and you're only eating 1800, that's too big of a deficit.

In high school, my bench press started at 65 lbs (and ended at 120 lbs), I don't remember what my squat was, and I didn't do those other lifts. I started lifting again a couple weeks ago after about 7-8 years of inactivity and my bench press 5RM started at 120 lbs. I don't know my 1RM or even my 5RM for squats or dead…

I asked the same question on here a few months ago. I don't remember getting any good feedback, but I pretty much came to the conclusion that if I can stay above my anaerobic threshold for 60+ minutes, then it's not my true anaerobic threshold because I simply would not be able to sustain that level of activity for that…

Everyone at my gym is pretty inconspicuous. Sometimes it gets quiet... too quiet.

There's nothing derogatory about "newb"! Newb = someone who is new at something Noob = someone who sucks at something

I'm proud that I've eaten like crap for the past week but still logged it all, whereas before I would just say screw it and not log anything for the rest of the day.

As long as your legs don't feel fatigued, I don't think there's anything wrong with it.

^^^ Pseudo-science and math. None of that is necessarily true for the same reason that your body doesn't go into "starvation mode" when you eat below your TDEE (technically, your metabolism slows with any caloric deficit). If you don't eat your TDEE in calories every day (maintenance), then you aren't consuming enough…

I figured that was common sense, considering it's dangerous to even walk in high heels.