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"If you're going through hell... keep going." - Winston Churchill

Just turn it into a hobby. Practice fart ventriloquism. See if you can actually make small animals lose consciousness. Work up to children or even adults. Farting an entire octave is a nice goal. I had a friend in college that was actually put on an FBI watchlist after eating eggs. Seriously? Not a whole lot you can do…

You're in luck. someone already has! www.stronglifts.com OR http://www.thenewrulesoflifting.com/nrol-for-women I am doing stronglifts, my sister (8 weeks postpartum) is doing NROLFW. We both enjoy our programs. Find one you like and go with it!

We had that at my old office. The maintenance guy would always walk by and say: "MAN, it smells like someone shT a pine tree in there!" at home: Door open for a quick stop. Door closed for a major transaction.

See bolded part. If you recently started with weight training, your body is holding onto water/glycogen. Don't depend on the scale for measuring progress. Use the mirror/change in clothes fit/measurements to gauge progress. Trust the process, but give it time to work.

Your diet? Neither. Your marriage? Hinder. Seriously? Sometimes "cheating" on your diet takes some of the pressure off, as long as you don't beat yourself up over it. "Cheating" every day is going to hinder your progress.

What's brown and sticky? A STICK!

Born in Germany. Raised in Indiana. Currently from Beijing, China. Work as a Electrical Engineer.

Rest is important. Even if you don't take a day off... reduce intensity for a few days to allow your body to rest. and... GREAT job on 21 days in a row!

No. Muscles are "participating" and burning more calories. Fat is just along for the ride... burning fewer calories.

Love my Garmin! 310xt. Website is great for tracking running, biking, etc. I use it for all 3.

This. The research I saw said: If you stretch, don't stop. If you don't stretch, don't start. Stretching does not prevent injury. However, changing your routine CAN cause injury. However "warming up" and "cooling down" DO help. So, instead of static stretches, incorporate some fast walking or light running into your…

Always weigh-in first thing in the morning. No clothes. This makes sure you're getting a consistent measure. Sounds like you've been changing things up recently. Be consistent, and as long as you're maintaining a deficit, the weight will start to come off.

You're also exhaling moisture.... one of the reasons you lose weight overnight. I think I "lost" 5 or 6 pounds during my first half-marathon. (my body weight was around 200 at the time) I sweat like a freaking monster, though.

Well, you don't share your food diary, so I can't say. But yes, #1 guess is that you're not eating enough. take a rest week... cut your mileage by 30% or so, and don't do any intervals or hard runs. See if you feel better.

Not quite. Teenagers are *oblivious* But, by being courteous and polite adults, we can help them to become the same. I used to work with teens on a daily basis. They may not be the most observant group of people, but once you've alerted them to some issue/problem/need... for the most part they become genuinely involved. I…

Please continue. As long as it's not keeping you from sleeping, you're doing a good thing!

This for me as well. For me, the keys are: 1. LOG EVERYTHING and make sure your diary is public. This gives me an enhanced sense of accountability. If I had to stand at the top of a hill and announce everything I ate, would I be embarrassed? 2. Redirect. Find something to do so that I'm not "bored" and just wandering…

The scales are not accurate under all conditions. You clearly did not gain that much fat. don't put too much importance on any one reading, especially from an electronic device. Have someone check it with calipers or go get measured at one of those hydro-measure thingies. Rest easy, you did NOT gain pounds and pounds of…

I sure would. Anything to "ease the transition" from loss to maintenance. If you all of the sudden up your calories by 20% on the day you hit your goal, I'm sure your body will respond with some wacky weight fluctuation. Why not make a smooth transition?

You should start by just eating CONSISTENTLY. And make better CHOICES. You *could* offer to go grocery shopping in the middle of the month, so that your family doesn't have to resort to fast food.

Because you're not. huh, I wonder why we would think that? Saturday, June 8 - Over 571 calories Sunday, June 9 - Over 1,199 calories Thursday, June 13 - No logging at all. Friday, June 14 - Over 785 calories. And no other meals logged. Saturday June 15 - Over 1,163 calories Sunday June 16 - Over 305 calories Tuesday June…

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It seems you followed the process, and you know your numbers. As the other poster said, in order to actually build muscle MASS, you need to be eating around 2100 calories or so, and lifting heavy things. If you just want to build STRENGTH without gaining mass, then you should lift heavy things and eat around 1880 calories.…

In that case, yes. You should be eating more calories. You should never NET below your BMR. Which means you should be eating even more than that, if you have ANY activity during a day.

You're either lying to us, or lying to yourself, or both. You've already said in this thread that you don't actually log what you are really putting in your mouth. There's days missing. You have many days that are over your calorie goals. Do you see the pattern yet? If you were actually, truly, in a deficit (not just…

YOu don't need to eat so few calories. If you're not miserable, you can keep doing it. Eventually it'll slow your metabolism down and you'll have to change things. You need to be NETTING that many calories... If you're not eating your exercise calories, you're headed for a crash... trying to exercise with too little fuel.…

No, you're not. If you were, you'd be losing. YOU'RE NOT LOSING BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT MAINTAINING A DEFICIT. Log better. Log what you ACTUALLY eat. the right foods, the right portions. THEN come back and tell us you're not losing weight.

Yes, that's the "Smith Machine" That Medhi keeps warning you about. Don't use it. I also had a hard time with being afraid to fall on my tookus. In fact, I had to mess with my form a bunch initially, because I kept going up on my toes to avoid falling backwards. (because I wasn't quite leaning my upper body forward enough)…

Oh, 20 months. Hi, I'm back.