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I generally have the opposite problem. I want to eat, but I never feel hungry. Once you start eating does your food taste good to you? How much variety is in your diet?

how's your appetite? do you get hungry at all?

if you want suggestions on how to eat cheap, if you don't already own one get a good crocpot. trust me it will be the best $100 you ever spent. braising is the key to making use of meats that are always on sale. I don't know what its like where you live but around here I can usually get a chuck roast for $3.50 a pound…

what are you talking about poor treatment. the small animals I see in the larger pet stores live just as well as my rats. there cages are cleaned daily. they have plenty of toys and such to stay occupied. they spend time outside the cage everyday. I have never seen more than two ore three in one cage always the same sex,…

your liver and kidneys cleans the blood, but what about the build up in the gi tract. high fiber diets may help push solid waste through the colon, but all that cellulose can cause a buildup in the stomach. high protein diets can lead to a buildup of solid waste. periodically going on a bland diet, or better yet a full…

I'm not on here all that regularly, but I really should be. ever since I was diagnosed with gastroparisis my primary goal has been to maintain my weight I have discovered that short duration high intensity workouts has done wonders for my appetite and logging my food has helped a great deal in figuring out what causes…

mint, not mint gum or hard candies actual mint leaves, or even mint tea. the oils put your salvary glands into overdrive, your body thinks your still eating. also good for hunger pain.

if you really want to do a liquid diet, here are some suggestions. first off don't even try to give up solid food entirely, eat at least one solid mean, if nothing else have some soup. don't limit yourself to shakes consider all the food groups. when I go on a liquid diet, something I absolutely have to do periodically do…

Only in the short term. In the long run the body builds more muscle tissue to prevent ferther damage.

First off if rowing, swimming, and running is not resistance training define resistance. Second any time you stress your muscles beyond what there used to they break down, after that the body repairs them. Do it consistently the protects itself from farther damage by building more muscle fibers. This is how streangth is…

you did gain muscle. one cannot get stronger without gaining muscle.

I never claimed to be a body builder, I'm an athlete. I've won three national championships, placed in both amcan and the junior international open.

to pack on massive amounts of muscle mass rapidly, hell no. to gain muscle mass while steadilly building steangth over time there are many ways to skin that particular cat, weight training is ionly one of them. just as loosing weight is all about calories in vs calories out, buildiong streangth is about steadilly…

that wasnt the picture I was looking for, I'm only 200 pound in that one no idea what the body fat is. I've got to do some more digging on my other computer.

first off you obviosly don't know swimming. second I'm not saying that swimming is the exact same workout, i'm saying that it works the same muscle groups. for example a propper sissor kick will work all four quads. the first half of the stroke lifting your arm out of the water workes the upper back, while the second half…

Ok here are two pictures of me from before my weight loss, though not the ones I was looking for. http://i1212.photobucket.com/albums/cc457/soysos1/kevincouch.jpg

Don't,be so quick to dismiss swimming. Swimming freestyle is like doing lats leg curles seated row and chest fly all at the same time. Do it in sweats you increase natural resistance ten fold. As for pictures I have some of me at 220 I'll post them this afternoon.

Consistent training for 12 years got me those results. Then I took two years off eating half as.much now its all gone.

Actually I'm 6' tall in my picture I have 10% body fat at 180 pounds. Mass and stragth go hand in hand. And to build strangth all you need is to steadily put more stress on your muscles. Again not hard just time consuming and heavy lifting is not vital to success.

Look I have been an athlete my entire life. In my prime I had 9% body fat at 220 pound, never touched weights. After my third championships I started lifting in one year I only succeeded in gaining 15 pounds of fat.

I'm not talking about body building here. If your only goal is size this is not for you, if however your goal OS strength, speed, power, and indurance this works results come quickly and continually. One third intensive cardio one third resistance training one third insurance cardio. As for swimming in sweats this is purly…

any pool that caters to teams or boy scouts have seen it before and will usually allow it, if you know what your doing. when I did workouts like this I was in a team. when I became a lifeguard I picked it up again and never had an issue.

try this some time and see hown you feel. warm up with 500m, then do another 1000 in 100m intervals with 30 sec in between, then another 500 in sweats seat pants sweat shirt, then cool down with another 500. do this 3 times a week for a month and you will gain a pound of muscle.

I'm saying its not hard to gain muscle mass. consistant athleatic conditioning over 5-6 years will gain as much if not more muscle mass as serius weight training over one year. again not hard just time consuming.

most household scales are not very accurate they can be off by as much as 5 pounds just in the way you stand on them. don't get disscoraged.

it does not take a lot of effort to gain muscle mass. it doesnt even take heavy lifting. what it does take is time. I've gotten more results, mass wise, swimming in sweats than I ever have lifting. though I generally go more for indurance lifting than max.

I generally go for the herty bakery breads, between 50-100 caloies per slice.

Even if you ignore biological factors, scales really arn't that accurate. You can loose a pound or two just by standing differently. If your going to weigh yourself everyday than I highly recoment excel, punch your weights and dates into a spread sheet than you can map the long term changes.

Its not a question of how many calories you eat, but how much water you drink, and how much you sweat. In the average person two healthy kidneys need one liter f water to remove one gram of sodium. Sweating however removes it much more efficiently. 1500mg is not a maximum, like all recomended daily values it is the bare…

For something at the opposite end of the spectrum. I have mine set at 60/15/25 I do eventually want to up my carbs with less fat. I have found that a high carb diet really isn't dffcult to maintain. take it fore what its worth I'm trying to maintain not loose.