richardheath Member

I doubt the fainting is related to the weight loss. Do you feel healthy now? Is your body fat % dangerously low (like less than 5%)? What exercise do you do? What did you do to lose the 15 kg? And please: eat more variety than simply 500 g bacon and 14 eggs! To gain weight, you don't need to have such a huge calorie…

How much do you weigh now? Almost passing out during giving blood is quite common, and does necessarily mean you need to gain weight. It's called a vasovagal episode. It's an autonomic nervous response to certain situations. Tiredness, dehydration, standing too fast, low blood sugar etc in conjunction with the needle could…

I'm thinking OP parsed something through a gobbledegook generator. Lets see if we can't translate it back to regular English? Do any of you know how much phosphorous I need? How much should I eat? I got a report from my dietician and it doesn't make sense. No, seriously, it doesn't make sense. Anyone know what I should do?…

I don't care about sweating in the gym - that what gyms are for. But for those of you who sweat too much when not working out, you may have hyperhydrosis. It's a condition that simply causes you to sweat excessively. I would step out of the shower, dry off and put on a clean shirt. Within 5-10 minutes, the arm pits would…

Hmmm. sounds way too few calories. Are you also exercising? Have you read this? http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1175494-a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants

When I was using dumbbells, I would just let my arms hang down by my sides. It's not perfect for form of course, but it is doable. Or, just wait for the rack... :wink:

Weight loss isn't a linear process, unfortunately. Water weight can easily fluctuate by 3 lbs even during the day. Look at the overall trend, not one single day. Or simply ignore the scale, and use a tape measure or photos or something else instead? But obviously something is working, as you have lost 19 lbs. Gaining 3 lbs…

I started out using dumbbells, and was up to 150 lb (the biggest dumbbells in the gym - its just a small work gym, with no bars) before I got a barbell. Still, I unloaded down to just the bar to work on form before adding more weight. As others have said (and Rippetoe or Mehdi also suggest), concentrate on form for now,…

I don't think Lindsey... er Penny has ever been to a Churrascaria (Brazilian Steakhouse)! The salads at the one near me (a Texas de Brazil) are awesome: fresh, tasty, varied. I have to be very careful not to fill up on salad before they start bringing the meat round. Because you can bet I am going to eat all the meats I…

Don't think I've read that one, but I do remember maybe reading about it, or something similar! I'll look into it, thanks! Have to leave now, so thanks for the chat, y'all!

Michael Shermer had a special section in his book "Why People Believe Weird Things" on why SMART people believe weird things... basically they are very good at constructing rationales for themselves on why they believe what they believe (to avoid the cognitive dissonance) and so it becomes even harder to reason them out of…

Just because words are strung together to form cohesive sentences doesn't mean that something isn't nonsense, you know? But, as I feel like I am picking on the poster who made this original statement, and I don't mean to, I do want to say that I agree that milk/dairy are not required for life, and one can certainly chose…

I am! I'm going to go to Mars!

Yeah. Recombinant Bovine Somatotropin (rBST) (also called simply growth hormone, or GH) is used to increase milk production, and can be found to some extent in milk. The milk of cows not treated with the recombinant protein show low levels of the endogenous protein. BUT this protein is destroyed by the pasturization…

Any industry or business nowadays advertises and pushes their product in a certain way. It's up to the informed consumer to see through the hyperbole. And the whole "cow's milk is for baby cows" thing has been done to death in this thread already. No one food (with the possible exception of mother's milk) was designed or…

But what you are saying there is not the same as your earlier blanket statement saying "Cooked food is not as nutritious as raw fruits and veg". Both have their place in a varied diet. I'm not saying you should only eat cooked veggies: if my kids want to snack on a raw carrot, stick that's fine. But they also all ate the…

Other forums I've posted on have a

Sorry. But cooked can be more nutritious than raw. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/raw-veggies-are-healthier/

According to him, yes. He is a raw vegan, IIRC.

There are no "superfoods". No "supervillian" food either. They are all just food. Eat a wide variety of them, and you'll be good. And yeah, Dr Oz... just no.

A packaged food may round down on the calories, but up on the amount of protein it contains, for example. They don't have to be exact on the labels - IIRC, they are allowed like a 30% error. btw OP - good job on getting your calories/macros as close as you did!

I think that your friend's friend's husband is a misogynistic pig who wants to justify his hitting on all the women at the gym.

Lifting can be done when in a surplus or on a deficit. On a surplus, it's called a bulk, and you are looking to put on muscle mass (as well as fat). On a deficit (or a cut) your goal is to reduce body fat % while maintaining existing muscle mass. One can gain strength (i.e. lift heavier and heavier weights) on either,…

Love it! OP - send her that! Judging is OK, if done in moderation... :wink:

Yes, baby cows should definitely not drink people. Where would they get the juicer anyway? The Grammar Nazis.

She is naming some of the toxins, and stating that we get rid of them anyway. People who do fasts and cleanses to (as they say) "remove toxins from the body" are the ones who can never specify which toxins the cleanse is removing that the body would not normally remove. I want THEM to name one single toxin that is removed…

Then it will only be a rough estimate. For the sake of calories counting here, many people say to just eat back maybe half of the calorie burn a machine tells you, to account for the probable overestimate. If you do end up getting a HRM monitor, it will give you a better estimate, but even a HRM may not be 100% accurate.…

No - it doesn't add to the sugar content of the final beer (I'm prediabetic). The reason for adding sugar (dextrose, HFCS, etc, or even rice) is to increase the alcohol content without increasing the amount of grain they need to use, so they can keep it near flavorless. :drinker:

Just make sure it is GOOD beer, that's all I'm saying!

Both the "American" and "Domestic" monikers are incorrect. Bud, Miller and Coors are all now owned by non-American companies. Sam Adams is the largest true American beer producer.