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^This^ A lot of "experts" suggest that you must start the day with breakfast to lose weight. But they usually don't explain why they say that (and many don't even know). There is no fundamental requirement to eat breakfast to lose weight. Your average over time of calories in and calories out are all that really matters…

^This^ Two of the most important fitness points in the entire world right there in that one short little post.

^This^

I used to have quite a lot of cramping issues during my workouts until I started sipping a sports drink slowly throughout the workout. That seems to have taken care of the issue. But be careful of the calories in a sports drink depending on your dietary goals. Also make sure you are adequately hydrated throughout the day.

1. Strength training is absolutely something you should add. Greater strength makes all other goals (including fat loss) easier to attain. 2. Pushups are an EXCELLENT exercise and you should learn how to do them. 3. It does not matter that you cannot do one right now. As others have said, do them against a wall, do them on…

No, that's a loaded question.

I am glad to see that you have gotten a strength trainer (let's just hope he knows what he is doing because there are a lot of bad ones out there that don't know any more than what they read in last month's muscle magazine). But assuming you have a good strength trainer, I think that is an excellent start. I eventually was…

A few points based on my own experience (and a lot of research): 1. If your profile pic is recent I am guessing you don't have much left to lose. The last few pounds are MUCH harder than when you are 50 lbs. overweight and start losing from there. 2. Like many others have said, too few calories can halt weight loss. There…

Well that didn't take long. We have now have a new front runner. But this one isn't really funny.

I have no idea what this had to do with the topic, but it made me laugh a lot and out loud.

There's a lot of stiff competition, but so far I think this might be the front runner.

You must be joking!?!?! I think I would have run to the dean and demanded a refund on tuition.

With all due respect (especially having looked at your pics and clearly see you are doing something very right), I disagree with this advice for a beginner. Full body, highly compound exercise routines are the best choice for a beginner (and I would add that many people are so eager to start calling themselves intermediate…

Well, I see your point, and thank you for pointing out the differences in rice type and possible water weight affecting the numbers. I had not considered that. So I went back to the same site and compared raw long grain white rice to raw long grain brown rice (100g each). Still nothing to get too excited about, though I…

This was one of my reasons for posting the question originally. I was diagnosed with diabetes some months ago (which led to the lifestyle changes that led to this site in the first place) and I had also been told essentially the same thing about spiking blood sugar. But then I look at the GI of the two (again using the…

Well, that is simply not true based on what I have been reading. The brown rice is higher in some good stuff while the white rice is higher in other good stuff (presumably b/c it has been fortified, but the numbers are still the numbers). Of course I know that nutrients are good for the body. But as I clearly stated in my…

First of all, you shouldn't necessarily worry if it feels like you are not doing enough. A good beginner's lifting routine actually does feel pretty easy. But this ensures that you recover thoroughly between each workout so that you can continue to add weight and progress rapidly. As long as you are seeing roughly linear…

At $10/month what is there to think about? There are clearly advantages to real gyms and to home gyms. But for only $10/month extra you can have it all.

As far as just weight loss is concerned, and for a typical healthy person, there is no specific benefit to a low carb diet. If you consume fewer calories than your body needs for daily activities (on average, over time) then you WILL loose weight. There are plenty of reasons why some believe there is value in this or that…