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  • No - please don't!!! Fish bladder is isinglass - a fining that has been used in beer for centuries. It helps settle out the yeast to the bottom of the fermentor, and the beer is then racked off, leaving the yeast + isinglass behind. Caramel has colors from the melanoidin reaction. Sugars plus amino groups from protein. The…
  • You are NOT building muscle. While in a calorie deficit, your body will use existing protein (i.e. muscle) to fuel it's activities. When exercising, your body breaks down and rebuilds muscles. Combine these two, and you could be losing 150 g of muscle per day. Now, the food you eat you will help replace what is lost, but…
  • If you are drinking Light beer and near beer, try good beer instead.
  • You are losing weight - 2 lbs in 6 weeks isn't bad when you only have 9 lb to go. 0.25 - 0.5 lb a week is a good target rate. The less weight you have to lose, the harder it becomes sometimes (you have less fat reserves to use). Go on too big of a deficit, and you'll be tired, hungry, will lose muscle etc. Just stick with…
  • TDEE is daily activity plus exercise. MFP just gives you daily activity calories, then you add in exercise calories when you "earn" them. So, if you burn 300 in one day, by the MFP method, you'd get 1420 + 300 = 1720 total to eat. Which seems to fit with the "lightly active" TDEE calculator. Either method (TDEE or MFP)…
  • With the press, it is OK to move your body some, according to Rippetoe. He suggests leaning back slightly then bringing your shoulders forward to get under the bar as it goes up. If you keep your body absolutely still, then I think it is called a strict military press (rather than an over head press). From what I…
  • Neither of these studies actually refute CICO. The one in NY Times link said that people who eat lots of french fries gain weight faster than people who eat vegetables. Well, duh. French fries are high in calories. People were simply reporting what they ate, and how much they weighed. There was no specific calorie counting…
  • It was interesting, but it was a small study and the results need to be confirmed in more controlled setting and on a larger scale. A couple of things to note: *They measured body fat % at the beginning of the study but not at the end? At least, they didn't report a final bf% number. Was the fat:lbm loss ratio the same in…
  • I did counter you, but you've apparently not responded to my post yet...
  • I thought you and I went through this whole "meant" think the other day? We are "meant" to eat. Period. WHAT we eat is a personal choice (at least in the land(s) of plenty). Modern choices like veganism are really only possibly to us due to modern technologies, so it is hardly the way we are "meant" to be. My Doc and…
  • Um, no. Ethanol does not turn into sugar. C2H6O (Ethanol) → C2H4O (Acetaldehyde) → C2H4O2 (acetic Acid) → Acetyl-CoA → 3H2O + 2CO2 But virtually all foods - carbohydrates, fats and protein (via gluconeogenesis) - do turn into sugar.
  • No, not popular, because we are just jealous ;-) A "standard" bar fits plates with a 1" hole, not 2" like an Oly bar. The bar itself is also lighter (18 lbs?) instead of 45 lb. As it is thinner and lighter, it will hold less weight: the one in the link below has a max loading weight of about 250 lb; an Olympic bar will…
  • No. Just no. First off, good form allows you to target the muscles you want to target. Doing a biceps curl while swinging your entire body may get the weight up, but you are not efficiently using your biceps to do so. So why bother doing a biceps curl in the first place? Secondly - injury! Doing a heavy squat with bad form…
  • Yup. What ^^^ said. Do a mix of weights and cardio. If possible, use free weights over machines. The machines can be OK to get you started, but are not the best choice long term. They can force you into an unnatural motion, and target very specific muscles. Free weights require more muscles for similar moves (stabilising…
  • What they said ^^^ Gaining muscle really requires being in a calorie surplus [insert usual caveats here about newbies, obese people etc]. BUT you can get stronger and maintain muscle while lifting and being in a deficit. Just Do It.
  • I hope you don't HAVE to eat egg whites. I hate eggs. Especially the white bit.
  • Get a blood sugar monitor. Your insurance should pay for one (you will need a prescription from your Doctor). If not, get one off Amazon. The meter can be almost free, but the strips can be costly, although I found that Amazon doesn't work out to much more than my insurance charges me anyway. Use it on waking (fasting…
  • I agree with this. It does sometimes seem to be the case - especially with some of the cleanses/detoxes/fasts that go on.
  • I can't imagine doing barbell squats without some sort of rack, especially working out at home alone. Having the safeties to catch the bar if I fail is a nice insurance policy! That said, you can do dumbbell squats without a rack. I used to do that at my small work gym, but I soon got to the max dumbbells (75 lb each) and…
  • But isn't that actually just one way to achieve moderation? You don't eat Doritos everyday, but you don't (apparently) cut them out of your diet completely. And I don't read these sorts of posts (the OP) as saying you HAVE to eat everything (in moderation). Just that, if you do really love something and chose to eat it…
  • OK, but that is quite a bit different from saying meat is not meant for our species. I agree we don't need it, although I'm not quite so sure I agree that the epidemiological studies are quite so clear cut on the harmful effects of meat. Plus, it tastes good ;-) Processed food and "man made chemicals" are a whole 'nother…
  • Yeah being veg* is a perfectly fine choice today, due to modern technology like modern farming, refrigeration, transportation etc. I don't knock it. But we evolved to eat a variety of food: whatever we was available locally that we could kill or harvest, basically. If there was nothing to eat, we moved.
  • Well, if we can get nutrition from it and it doesn't kill us, isn't that pretty much the definition of food? You can bet that someone, somewhere is eating it (whatever "it" is) right now...
  • Ahhh - that makes more sense!
  • Who decides what food is "meant" for humans or not? I wasn't aware that evolution was a conscious entity.
  • NO! Don't simply cut out random foods just because someone half remembered some crappy book/documentary/advertisement... If you want to "mix up" your diet, as you suggested in the OP, how about just ADDING new foods to it? Go the grocery store and try a vegetable you've never had before. Get a new cookbook. Go to a new…
  • Step 1: don't drink Mich Ultra - drink good beer! Step 2: carry on as you were before. It is going to be mainly water weight, so it will come off in time.
  • Diet and exercise can definitely help - and any good doctor is going to tell you just that. Ask your Doctor for a consult with a nutritionist - ideally one who specializes in diabetes. When I was first diagnosed prediabetic my Doc sent me to series of classes on nutriotion, medicine, exercise etc for diabetics that the…
  • I think that is you are on anabolic steroids, it might affect your libido. Otherwise, no. If you feel you have an issue in that department, go see a Dr and have your testosterone levels checked. It seems to me that you want to bulk. If you want more muscles/bigger arms, then you need to put on some muscle (well, putting on…
  • You are a nursing student. You should know better than this. Yes, there are toxins that we pick up from everywhere. No, detoxes like JM's do not work. It will not clear out any thing that your liver, kidneys, skin wouldn't clear out by themselves. If you were talking about a detox from opiates, or going on dialysis, then…
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