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Until you have logged enough to have a better idea of what to eat when you're out or at lunch, you should definitely download the MFP app. It helps SO much to be able to look something up in 10 seconds instead of writing it down and looking it up at home. It will seriously surprise you what the nutritional information is…

Good job starting with compound lifts, and having a program! Having an outline of what to do makes it SO much easier than just showing up and being like "hmmmm, legs... squats? Hamstring curls? Decisions, decisions..." Regarding the pain in your back with deadlifts: I have noticed that if I am not tightening my core very…

You could wear sweat pants over your shorts to walk to and from your car, then work out in your shorts. I still wear shorts or capri pants when I work out in the winter, because it still gets pretty dang warm in the gym. You could just pull them on and off right by the lockers when you get your coat.

I use it to cook sometimes, mostly when making Asian foods (because of the sweetness), and I mix it with coconut flakes or coconut butter and eat it with berries. When I do eat it outside of cooking, it is because I like the way it tastes and because it makes my snacks with fruit more filling. Other than making me less…

This is definitely the main reason that I am trying to avoid wheat products. I can start off eating one piece of toast, then I'm still hungry, so I have another, and the next thing I know I've eaten five. I'd like to know why so many people are convinced that cutting out wheat/gluten/grains will harm your overall health…

That's what I was thinking, lol. I don't swim regularly, but when I do, I'm exhausted and STARVING after swimming a mile (~50 minutes - 1 hr of swimming). I understand it getting boring, but man, it is a good workout.

Regular old peanut butter. I used to eat spoonfuls of it at a time, but I switched to fresh ground almond butter for a while, and now regular peanut butter is weirdly sweet. It's a little unnerving.

Those pictures are great :) Bumping so I can find this again when I'm feeling like I've made no progress.

Empowered Sustenance has a lot of nightshade-free recipes. She just posted a tomato free bbq sauce recipe (empoweredsustenance.com/tomato-free-barbecue-sauce/). The recipe itself is from Sarah Ballantyne's The Paleo Approach Cookbook, but it's made of: red palm oil/coconut oil, onion, apple, molasses, apple cider vinegar,…

I started to read these at work, and I had to stop and send this thread to myself to read later, because I was afraid I was literally going to snort trying not to laugh, and all of my coworkers would think I was ill or something. Those people have some amazing descriptive talents :)

Two slices of bacon, then two farm-fresh eggs and some grape tomatoes cooked in the bacon fat :) I'm excited for when the tomatoes are from my garden - hopefully all those suckers will get ripe soon :) Oh, and coffee. Always coffee.

Definitely mostly because I want to feel hot :) Secondly because I like lifting weights and hiking and doing active things, and I want to be in good shape so I can do those things well. Finally, because I want to find a good healthy weight and a healthy way of relating to food that I can maintain before I have kids. My mom…

I like how many girls are on here to compare! Yay :) 28 years old, female, 135 to 140 lbs I haven't done my 1RM on bench or squat for a while, so...yeah. Also, I just started deadlifting like a month ago, so I'm very proud of my 1RM, lol. Current: Bench - 115 x 3 - I did 145 lbs x 1 a few months ago, but I stopped focusing…

My sister roller blades to and from work sometimes. I think she was averaging about 20 miles a week for a while, and her legs were AWESOME. All I know is that I lift weights, bike, do tae kwon do, and I don't think I'm weak by any means, but the last time I tried to keep up with her I almost died, seriously. It is so hard,…

I am at work by six am one week, seven am the next (it switches every week), so trying to wake up early enough to lift before that is just not going to happen. My husband would hate me. However, it means that I'm off work by 2:30 / 3:30 pm, so I just go straight across the street to the gym and lift with my sister. If I…

Also split squats, where you put one leg up on a bench behind you and squat on the other. I hate them, but they're so good, especially if you have an imbalance (I tend to use my right leg more than my left when doing conventional squats, and this has helped balance that out).

Lift weights. If you want to have muscle mass ever, just start now, and you won't regret it. If you're dieting and doing cardio without lifting weights, you're probably going to lose a good amount of muscle mass along with the fat. Lifting will help you maintain the muscles you have, so you'll look better once you get to…

I use protein powder because it makes tasty shakes, and it is a nice thing to have right after working out. I probably could get my protein goals filled without it, but it IS fast and easy, especially if you've got a high protein goal. It won't hurt to take it, unless it puts you way over your calories for the day. I find…

You might want to go look through the Eat More to Weigh Less group. Not that you won't get responses on this board, but EM2WL already has a bunch of posts about similar topics that you can dig through without waiting :)

Bump?

I'm sure that makes it a lot easier :) I'd be hard pressed to eat 1g / lb of body weight, lol. That's a lot of chicken.

I try to eat more grams/calories of fat than I do protein, BUT I try to get 1 g of protein per pound of lean body weight (about 100g for me). It doesn't always work out, especially lately, but after I reach that goal, I definitely try to put those extra calories into fat.

I didn't realize how much difference there was between gyms of the same brand. I go to an Anytime Fitness, and like half of the gym is super stoked because we just got a new power cage, two deadlift platforms, and new bumper plates. There are people doing oly lifts all the time. I had to wait for like 45 minutes (and the…

But...butts! Who doesn't want a nice butt?

Truth. In addition to your workout, try squatting below parallel without any weight at all and hanging onto a wall or something to balance yourself, and then just sitting there for a few seconds. Doing that a few times a day actually helped me get a lot lower in my squats, especially once I could do it without hanging onto…

I just started adding deadlift to my routine; my sister doesn't do them because she hurt herself using bad form in HS, and we lift together, so I never had time until now. I was feeling good about myself last week, working my way from my 95 lb warmup up to 2 x 175#, then some guy comes in and does sets of 8 x 495# superset…

This sounds like an excellent plan :)

My cholesterol is the same no matter what I eat. Five years ago I got it checked when I was running two or three miles a day, eating oatmeal for breakfast, avoiding eggs and dairy and bacon, and eating a TON of veggies/very little red meat, and it was around 300 (so terrible). I got it checked last year after I'd been…

^^This, except for basically any carb. Everyone that I know thinks I'm weird for trying Paleo recipes or avoiding potato chips or not having a bun on my hamburger, especially my husband. I've told him this, but it doesn't actually make sense to him that I could literally sit down and eat an entire loaf of banana bread with…

You're probably right. I have anti-vaccine acquaintances, and no matter how often I try to tell them that there is more aluminum in aspirin or baby formula than in vaccines, or that the doctor who said that vaccines cause autism was a quack, or that measles and whooping cough are REALLY REALLY TERRIBLE diseases for a child…