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Honestly, depending on your size and weights that you used, probably only 100 to 200 cal. Resistance training has 1 million wonderful benefits, but calorie burn is not one of them.
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I call BS as well. He just wants to sell you training sessions. You can already deadlift! Run away or find another trainer, if you feel you need 1 or 2 sessions for pointers.
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The one that works best for you. I did shift work for 20 years. I tried lots of different patterns to find what worked for me. For example, I HAD to eat during the night shift, and I found protein worked better than carbs FOR ME. I found not eating and going straight to bed worked FOR ME. You need to just experiment and…
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Warning, skip to 35 seconds in to avoid profanity. :o
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Absolutely. Google "twice a week full body workout" and you'll find suggestions and reassuring articles like this one: https://muscleevo.net/training-twice-a-week/
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I don't see the problem here. You lost 6 pounds and a ton of size. What do you want? If you're smaller and your clothes fit better, what do you care what the scale says? Or would you prefer that the scale read a smaller number but your clothes were just as tight?
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The US Navy measurement is at the belly button for men. For women, it's taken at the smallest circumference of the torso between the ribs and the pelvis. I'd measure under excess skin.
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If you're swallowing it, yes; if you're putting it on your face, no. :p
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Reminds me of a joke: A CrossFitter, a vegan, and an atheist walk into a bar. I know this because they all told me within 30 seconds. :smiley:
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Here's a good article on the topic: https://www.aworkoutroutine.com/how-to-build-muscle-and-lose-fat/ His short answer:
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OP, you still left out the most important data point: weight.
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Yes. You have about 21 lbs of fat, giving you about 18% body fat.
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Fix this first.
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I've had the same weight 11 days apart, with up and down variation in between, then woosh, down 1.5 lbs for good. Of course, Trendweight showed that I was losing steadily and consistently during the entire period.
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Trader Joe's plain non-fat Greek yogurt is excellent. I usually put Splenda in it. It also makes an excellent sour cream substitute.
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There's something I've heard called "The Paper Towel Effect." If you pull a sheet off a full roll of paper towels, then look at the roll, it looks exactly the same. But as you get farther down the roll, every sheet off makes a noticeable difference in the roll size. People will start noticing left and right all of a…
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Trendweight.com You need a (free) Fitbit account, but you don't need a Fitbit. Just enter your weight manually into the account, and Trendweight will pull the data from there. It generates a weighted 10-day moving average graph of your weight, which allows you to see that you're still losing every day, even those days when…
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What are your goals? You clearly don't need much or any fat loss at this point. Figuring out what you're working towards will go a long way towards finding your mojo!
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I always weigh frozen. If it says a serving of 81 grams is 30 kcal, I pour it out of the bag to 81 grams and log 30 kcal.
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If your activity levels are pretty consistent from day to day, many people find it simpler and easier to go with a TDEE based calorie deficit. In your case, you could just eat 1800 kcal every day (which seems like a reasonable starting point) for several weeks and see what happens. We're all experiments of n=1. Just don't…
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LOL, seriously. Why would anyone volunteer for a colonoscopy prep? :s
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You haven't mentioned your age, your sex or your height. I agree that you appear to have issues that anonymous strangers on the internet cannot help you with. Google "eating disorder hotline or help" in your country and seek professional assistance. There is a way out of this prison you feel you're in, but it's…
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OP, you've gotten some good advice. Take a deep breath and relax. First of all, the chance that you burned 400+ calories in 50 min. on a bike at your weight is about zero. From one 5"1' person to another, it sucks, but that's a fact. To lose weight, you need to concentrate on your caloric deficit. If you really and truly…
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If the scale hasn't budged in 2 months, you are, by definition, eating at maintenance. Adding Kcals will not help. Usually, you need to tighten up your weighing and logging and subtract 250 Kcals each day from your current total, then give it a couple weeks to see how it goes.
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I'd bet 5'9" and 125 pounds will not look at all like the body you're imagining. You won't have the strength to pedal around the block.
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1) MFP 2) FibBit and Aria scale 3) Trendweight.com 4) Digital food scale 5) Trader Joe's non-fat Greek yogurt and cottage cheese
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It might indicate a need for reduced dose, but many times when people change to a more nutrient dense diet (think broccoli for example), their warfarin dose needs to be increased. An INR of 4.5 is above normal, but it creates no danger of life-threatening bleeding and generally doesn't require treatment except to stop the…
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You are a unicorn-like exception! :) Seriously, almost no-one gets away without some day to day variability. That's why there are posts here every single day from people practically crying, because they don't understand that the scale can go up and down and you can still be losing fat.
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These forums don't work that way. A thread does not belong to the OP. Anyone may read and comment, and anyone may stop reading and commenting--including the OP.
