DanIsACyclingFool Member

Here's another trick I use. Sometimes I want something bad. Something I maybe haven't had in a while. My wife is always bringing bags of potato chips into the house and leaving them lying around. Maybe I get a hankering for them. There's a couple ways to handle this. I can leave them alone. Likely as not I will leave the…

[/URL] Another formerly obese guy. Never going back.

And while I totally agree about no such thing as "good" foods or "bad" foods, you do need to clean up your diet. You can eat whatever if you log it and stay under your goals but you also need real nutrition that fuels your body and keeps you healthy and feeling satiated. I'm all about including "bad" (and yummylicious)…

^^ This It's easy to put off things that we don't want to deal with, and every day put it off a little more. What's another day? But if you always say "tomorrow", you never deal with it. Because we don't live in "tomorrow". We llive in "today". Here's the really cool thing...once you reach out and take hold of what you…

Soooooo this. ^^^

^^^^ Should start here actually.

Don't be so sure. Part of most "career" jobs is getting other career people to buy into your project, idea, vision, whatever. A fundamental skill necessary for having a successful career is the exchange of ideas, and communication with others. There is more to communication than just meetings and emails. Sometimes a sales…

I'm not old enough to be your father.... but The Apprentice is a gold mine of material...

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All the hard work has been done for you. Watch some episodes of "The Apprentice". See if you can get Omarossa to make an appearance.

I think it bears mentioning here a slight clarification: In a CALORIC DEFICIT, as far as FAT LOSS is concerned, meal timing has no appreciable role. It's really only the relative number of calories you eat each day that matters, not when you eat them. For this reason eating after an exercise session poses no danger of…

This site is a breeding ground for misinformation. We've all been taken in by it at one time or another. Follow that link. Sara and Sidesteel know their stuff and just as importantly they present it in a clear, organized, accessible fashion. If you're going to follow any advice you read about here you could hardly do…

^^^ yeah read it. Because if you're concerned about going over in protein you could stand to learn more about nutrition and how it applies to weight loss. No one is suggesting there is any shame in that! But knowledge is power. :flowerforyou: A high protein diet, unless taken to ridiculous excess won't hurt you. Unless you…

My 36's are now ridiculously loose but the same make/model of jeans won't even make it all the way up my thighs, lol. I'll try again in 5 lbs! Keep on keepin' on. That's what I'm doing.

Congrats on being from ON, Canada too! Gotta represent! (PS I used to work for Sinclair Radio Labs/Sinclair Technologies based in Aurora, although I was part of the R&D Group set up in Niagara. But my paycheques came from your neck of the woods)

That. You've been at a low level for a long time. There is some amount of metabolic adaptation as a result. Were you losing or maintaining at 1200? Adding 500 cals a day = about a pound a week difference from what you were at before. There will be some weight gain in water/glycogen etc when you go from a low level to a…

^^^This

If you think about it, all you really need is more good days than bad!

I have SUCH a thing for you.

Yup. I love you, mom, but you're so wrong.

I didn't think 5 lbs would be enough to feel very weird, or make you unbalanced. :ohwell: I guess it depends how heavy you lift. Like dumbells I was thinking some extra benefit might be had from the small extra balance needed. In that case lobby for 2.5lb plates.

Whaaaa? No 2.5lb plates? That sucks. I wouldn't bring any in, guaranteed one way or another they'll end up disappearing. Maybe mention it to the gym staff. Probably they won't care, but still, it's not like 2.5lb plates would cost them a lot. In my humble, relatively inexperienced opinion it's asking too much to make 10lb…

My story doesn't hold a candle to some of the others on here. But yeah. Early 2012 I was at least 335. Not many pics exist because like many others I shunned the camera. Now I regret not taking more before pictures. There's some before's in my profile, and some during's as well. No after pics yet. I'm a work in progress! I…

I'm gonna go ahead and dare you to throw it out. Go on. I DARE ya. lol, it's hard to believe this is a serious post. Can people really think like this?

Congrats! PS - You know you're majorly cute, right?

ditto. sometimes I find out later. don't care. It's a friend request not a date request.

We'll all stay skinny cuz we just won't eat. except for the selected few mentioned throughout this thread

Once for each ear.

Ummmmm....even with a damaged hypothalamus CICO is still fundamentally true. It just becomes very difficult to balance the equation. But, difficult though it may be to achieve predictably, a deficit will still result in weight loss, and a surplus a gain. Remember, energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it just…