Mighty_Rabite Member

I eat back most of mine usually but it depends. I actually do caloric cycling but I'm always emphasizing high protein intake too, especially since I've been cutting. These have been my general goals: Monday: net deficit of 700 or more Tuesday: net deficit of around 300-600 Wednesday: net deficit of around 200-500 Thursday:…

BEFORE - 183lbs 1/23/2011 Plenty of body fat, couldn't do a pull-up at all, size 36-38 pants were required as well as large shirts. RECENT - 175lbs 1/23/2013 Less body fat, I can do pull-ups galore among many other things.. I'm now contemplating trying size 30 pants if I can find any to accomodate my thighs, and I'll wear…

Mine currently says 180, and my most recent "official" weight is 169.2 My old one said 200 and during possession of it I was once as low as 159. I was surprised more people didn't do double takes upon carding me, haha

That guy should man up and go out and buy his own groceries if yours aren't good enough. That's what I do - the people I live with eat some of the worst crap ever. I go and buy my own stuff for 99% of what I eat. Works well!

I drink tea by the metric $h!tload. Usually either black tea or green tea, always sweetened with non-calorie sweetener (varies but I stick most often with Truvia). I can buy a gallon of Arizona Diet Green Tea w/Ginseng at the store and it generally won't last me 24 hours.

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No Valentine at this point, I don't expect to have one on such short notice and I haven't since 2005, but I'm thinking about just treating myself out to dinner somewhere.. ..who am I kidding. I'll be kicking some fitness butt. I'll use my continued singledom as gas to throw on the ever burning fire.

My tracked weight as of 1/1 was 178.4 My last weigh-in (2/2) was 169.2

I take pretty much every one of these studies, findings, etc.. with a grain of salt. I wouldn't be able to eat anything if I avoided everything I've ever heard "possibly" correlated with cancer. On the topic of cancer though.. you know.. I think pretty much if you're going to get it, you're going to get it. I have an aunt…

Mine are like 15" or so. Anyone do calf pressing on the leg press or V-Squat stations? I've done it on the leg press station before but switched to V-Squat station recently as I feel I get a better calf workout on that.

I'm nowhere near really optimized for big time weight loss and I've been over on my sugars almost daily. That said.. I'm down 15lbs in five weeks. It boils down most importantly to calorie balance.

At one point I used MFP's calculations which said I should be taking in somewhere around 2500 calories per day. I don't really recall if that was my TDEE (I'm thinking it might have been), but I arbitrarily lowered my daily goal to 2000 calories and have made it a point to eat at a ~500 surplus each on Saturday/Sunday, go…

This happens to me once in a while too, if and when it does I just use that Downey approach. Most common for me though is people will ask what I'm doing.. I'm like, "did P90X first, then kind of just started doing my own thing, but eating better is by far the most important part." That last part usually gets lost in…

I have a similar experience to that - I was on the treadmill and running.. my headphones cord was flailing around and my arm caught it. I was left with headphones hanging down and my cell phone on the ground. Luckily, I didn't try and grab it until I got off the treadmill >__> Another time, I was doing iso lateral leg…

I break a lot of those rules. Oops

I watched The Biggest Loser the other week on the elliptical and burned a machine readout of 1385 calories myself.. THAT was exhausting!

I think part of the afterburn also stems from the body pretty much ramping up to repair the muscle fibers damaged by exercise. Definitely hard to quantify, but definitely existent!

I am most often at Golds gym on Washington & Shortridge, but I can occasionally be found at other gyms, most often Bang Fitness Project on 146th St in Carmel, but I've been to the E Washington St Anytime Fitness and the nearby Planet Fitness as well.

Probably most "out there" thing I can recall is an unagi roll - eel sushi. It was pretty damn good!

What these people have said! Hopefully one day all of these myths about women and weightlifting will be dispelled. A lot of them are spread by people that know nothing about it - the people that don't take time to figure out that even us guys have to eat properly in order to bulk up, and that's with more optimized hormones!

I only tend to log caloric foods myself. Hasn't hurt progress!

More threads like this are needed ^_^ I averaged 2433 from 1/1 thru 1/25 myself (average NET of 1890) and cut from 184.2lbs down to 170.8lbs.

Great work, looking a lot better already! Keep it going!

Here's what I do personally: --I keep the estimates relatively low-ball --Saturday/Sunday I eat everything plus roughly 500 (this weekend is an extreme aberration from the norm) --Monday thru Friday I will leave at least enough on the table to displace the weekend's +1000, and usually more (I've tended to run around -1400…

I would say there are as many worthwhile workouts out there as there are people to do them, personally! I have for more than a year now been generally anywhere from a 16-32 set per resistance day workout guy, with the number of sets and reps variant on what I'm working out in a given day. These are my usual guidelines:…

Damn, killer improvement you have there! Well done!

Holy crap, I would be eating almost half a kilogram of carbs per day at this ratio. Good luck with that, but I'll keep to my magical ratio over the last month, which has evened out to around 37/44/18

I really don't even recall what prompted me to join MFP, but I'm glad I did - being publicly accountable with my logging and such has kept me on the straight and narrow and really bumped up my results and progress! My original motivational spark was actually all the ladies who have rejected me in the past, I wanted to give…

I regularly start and end each week with a +500 day (though that has varied anywhere from 500-1200) and I keep a running weekly log so I burn it off and then some through the week. I think an over day or two per week actually helps.

What I usually do personally is go by the machines at the gym (though I'll only bother with their numbers if I can input at least my weight) and subtract 20%. Often on a 15 minute elliptical session I will end up between a 245-260 calorie readout so after my 20% reduction it usually goes between 196-208 calories for the 15…