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Great thanks that makes me feel better. Ill probably start using my university gym as well as riding my bike, and have a slight deficit.

I'm going to try what this article has to say.. To burn my body fat (use it for fuel) while gaining muscle so that you can lose fat while gaining muscle :) . http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/fat_loss_muscle_gain_trick.htm

But I'd say 7/10 people on this site insist HEAVILY that lifting heavy would be ridiculous and pointless to do if not eating at a caloric surplus. But do you think I should first eat at a large surplus until I've gotten a lot of my body fat out, then start eating barely at a deficit while lifting heavy? Still seem…

so what do you suggest I do if I want to lose my weight and body fat to get back down to 155, but also get definition which you say is gaining muscle? do I eat at a deficit for losing the fat, or at a caloric surplus for gaining the muscle? This is what annoys me, I don't understand how this can work. Please suggest to me…

That's because that is my workout I do every day (or ever other day) after my 10 mile bike ride at 16 MPH :p, I've always had a problem with my legs being disproportionately more muscular than the rest of my body (before I started bike riding, I was an ice hockey goalie in highschool... huge explosive legs :p)

Oh ok that makes sense. These first 5 days I've only been doing pushes and crunches. Ill actually soon be adding some kind of curls and planks.

Yes I do, and you're supposed to - MFP already adjusts your caloric eating to your weight loss plan, and what's safe for you. If you only eat 1200 calories a day, and exercise 300 off , 900 calories a day isn't good. I eat about 1500 calories, exercise 300 off, so that my net is 1200 to safely lose 2 lbs a week. (That's…

Sorry I forgot about this topic, but YES I do have a digital food scale, I totally forgot I could just weigh it with that... Thanks everyone!

Blah, well I suppose I'll see how things go. for some responses to particular posts: -No I definitely was NOT planning to gain 20 lbs of muscle mass in 3 months, LOL. This is just my starting planning, the 176 lb is a very long term goal. -For people suggesting I drop to 10% body fat before starting, it doesn't fit into my…

that was extremely helpful, will send a friend request!

Haha yes I live within 30 minutes of 5 walmarts, no joke. But the vanilla body fortress sounds like exactly what I was looking for! Thanks guys, MFP never let's me down ^.^

Thanks guys, you made me feel much better! I was starting to feel guilty about eatig apples, bananas, and yogurt, and that's when I thought.... Wtf lol. I'll go ahead and turn my sugar tracking off, as I am largely a number tracker it annoys me to see it so negative. And I've been able to hit about 140g of protein a day…

Competing with myself... to see if I can look the best I know I can! =) TBH i actually want to go for about 15%, but I shoot a little high (or low depending how you look at it) on my goals. @Acg, I saw ice cream and I like you already 8). Haha jk :p, but i'm scared of pasta... I'm told that pasta and other bread like…

No one :(?

Hey! Screw how other people eat, it's about how YOU will eat! First off, like the previous user said, eat at a caloric deficit. This can be found by putting your height and weight into MFP, and then setting it to lose 1 or 2 lbs a week. They will calculate the calories so that just eating the right amount of calories,…

I wouldn't ask about an idea weight, but rather and idea BF% for your height. Or at least include BF% into your question, as it is literally such a big difference. There are pictures floating around this site of girls at like 105 lbs, and the same girl at 115 lbs after lowering her body fat and gaining muscle (which is…

Ok, I'm in a better mood today! I'll take your advise, and eat at maintenance while going to the gym, and I'll see how i feel/look in a month and a half, then reevaluate if I'd like to focus on muscle, BF%, or what. Thanks!

Says I'm lightly active because I'm a student, and it says 3-5 times a week of moderate exercise (ride my bike 5 times a week) and I told MFP that I am sedentary , because I'm a student, and that I exercise 5 times a week (same as above) I thought with healthy eating and exercise I could work on my body , but from what I…

Yes I'm a male. I used to be at 1260 calories, but after it recently wanted me to have it recalculate it put me down to 1200 My settings are: started at 174 Goal weight was 156 Activity was: sedentary, because i'm a full time student so I sit in class all day. My exercise was set to 5 times a week, 35 minutes a week.…

I'm just so confused. I hear for muscle gain you want to eat surplus calories so that your body has calories to use to make muscle. But if i'm over my calories then how can I lower my body fat percentage? ARGGGGGGG. All I want to know is how to lower my body fat percentage and gain muscle :(... Why is it this hard :l edit:…

I did that, and I got this. According to this, I should eat 2800 calories a day if I ride my bike 3 times a week..... That doesn't seem right at all to me

Hmmm.. well thanks everyone for trying to help but i'm still kinda depressed. I didn't think that once I LOST the weight that's when I'd feel WORSE. I feel like I worked hard to get to now over the last nearly two months, but now i'm here there is nothing more to help me from MFP. MFP asked for a "goal weight". That's kind…

oh no no no the point of my post was to say that I am basically no longer going to go by the scale, since I've got to the weight I wanted. I now am going to try to lose fat and gain muscle so I realize that I may only maintain my weight, or even gain weight. I'm totally ok with that, as I'm going to start going off of my…

Unfortunately I think there is really no way. When it is that cold, theres not much you can do for your lungs. A lot of my friends also hate treadmills (I hate running in general :p), and I know they prefer to go to their local YMCA or university gym and run the indoor tracks. Many of these have windows to look outside at…

Love the pic of you girls in the old pair of jeans. Great job!

That first suggestion worked great!! Thanks so much! I love the bike, I could average 20 MPH on that thing all day!!

Ok glad I'm not at a deficit lol. It's working, if I do the math for my 45 days/13.6 lbs lost that's 2.05 lbs per week which is right on track. And I do want to gain muscle but not "bulk up". I understand that I need to get a low body far percentage to show off muscle I already have under a layer of fat, but I have next to…

What do you mean a "caloric surplus"? Right now I just eat the 1200 calories a day MFP suggested for my height/weight/age to lose 2 lbs a week. When I start working out should I change some kind of settings so that it knows I'm now building muscle and therefore gives me more calories or something? I just want to tone and…

ok thanks! I guess I'll just talk to some free personal trainers at my universities gym, and so what your saying is when I get to look how I want to, then to talk to them again about maintaining? and also I've heard that I need to get a decent amount of muscle and to also make sure I have a low (but safe) body fat…

not quite sure what body resistance is, but if it's like using your own body (like in insanity) it isn't quite for me :x.. I'm really weird where I like to see numeric progress in everything. For example, myfitnesspal worked so well for me because I could SEE how many calories I was taking in. SEE how many calories I would…