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Being unreasonably restrictive, especially on holidays and special occasions, is only going to set you up for long-term burnout and failure in your bid to lose weight and get healthier. Trust me - dropping 125 lbs over the span of three years comes with a fair bit of experience in the area.

Oh, and if your boyfriend is really THAT hung up on weight, maybe he should be the one getting his lanky *kitten* to the gym. Your weight sounds like a perfectly reasonable and average one.

I'm with the poster above. You've already gone ahead and said that you don't want to hear what is actually the solution, so I'm really not at all sure what you're looking for in the way of an answer here.

There's a link between everything and cancer, depending on who you talk to.

Sources?

If you want the "washboard abs" look, you have to train your rectus abdominis like any other muscle group. Their use in a secondary capacity in other exercises, ie. the squat and deadlift, *will* help you to build a strong core, but I wouldn't rely on them for building and sculpting your rectus abdominis, transversus…

You're going to want rest days in there. Working out 7 days a week is going to yield quick results in the short-term; diminishing results in the longer-term; and you'll burn out in the long-term. To use a cliche, it's about the journey, not about the destination.

I think the idea of a per-meal "guideline" is, more or less, bunk. There are no studies (to my knowledge - and I've looked, believe me) which suggest that a "calorie-burning zone" exists. It's basic thermodynamics: eat less than you're expending in calories. The difference meal timing makes is minimal at best, and really…

Seems like only yesterday that I was sitting at around 300lbs and posting here for the first time. :smile: Feel free to add me.

If you've still got a muffin top after two years, you've probably hit homeostasis at this point (your body has found a way to metabolically balance your calorie intake and calorie expenditure). I plateaued with this for about 6 months before I found out about "reverse dieting", which is essentially slowly lowering your…

I take this to mean that you either prepare your lattes in small buckets, or are on a ridiculously low-calorie diet. Either way, no. Drinking your calories is nowhere near the realm of "healthy". You're getting nothing in the way of fibre, vitamins, or minerals in what you've listed. That's an entire day's worth of…

If you set out to diet, you set out to fail. Take it from a guy who spent much of his teens and twenties in the mid- to upper-200lb range, yo-yoing between ridiculously restrictive eating and all-out binges. If you look at it as a "diet", it'll set you up for failure every time, and for two reasons: a) a diet suggests that…

Stronglifts, ICF, Wendler will all give you good results (newbie gains).

Don't come back onto the forums, bitching about a torn rotator cuff, aches, pains, or dwindling strength, motivation, energy, etc. This, to me, sounds like a psychological disorder. Many people with ED think in much the same way.

First off, congratulations! Secondly, I've given up entirely on the idea of a "goal weight" - when I started at 300lbs, my goal was 250...then 225...then 200...I'm now sitting fairly consistently at 180. I think it's more important to gauge how you look and feel once you start getting lower in numbers on the scale, because…

I'm equally interested in these studies. References? This is an unnecessarily antagonistic statement, especially with nothing to back what you're saying. The most I've heard are inconclusive (AFAIK) theories that the hormones in milk and other dairy products interfere with our own hormones and affect testosterone/estrogen…

This is spot on. Outside of a medical condition, there are plenty of reasons that someone might want to give up sugar (namely, refined sugar) and/or alcohol. I haven't touched a drink in months, because I hate the way it makes me feel. I get bloated; I feel lethargic; frequently, my workout the next day ends up being total…

I usually start with an SOS pad with a side of steel wool. Add lemon Pledge to taste. Garnish with Vim and drizzle in Javex. Mm-mm, now that's some clean eatin'.

Check out the book: "It Starts With Food" (the creators of the Whole 30 diet). While I don't agree with some of their opinions, it's a good place to start with good info if you're trying to eat reductively to see what your sensitivities/intolerances are.

I'm a huge backer of, and wholeheartedly recommend OP look up, "flexible dieting". tl;dr: you should strive to ensure that 80% of your calories are coming from nutritious foods to ensure that you're not only hitting your macronutrient goals, but you're supplying your body with essential micronutrients to function properly.…

My journey from 300lbs to my goal weight, I can and will completely attribute to keeping carbs in my diet. As mentioned above, they've given me the fuel that I've needed to get through a lot of my more intense workouts, aided in strength gains, and leave me feeling happier and mentally sharper, overall. If you want…

The database has become a total joke - I don't even know what's what anymore. Another example is that I saw some food item the other day (admittedly, can't remember what), but it was marked green as "Verified", but looking at the nutritional info, it was 50 calories, with 25g of protein. That math doesn't even work.

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Hi Marvin! I started off at 300 even, and I'm down to 177. Hit me up with a friend request!

None of these are right. THIS is "little Ryan Gosling".

People who drive to the gym on a beautiful, sunny day to WALK ON THE TREADMILL.

So, now that the mentally handicapped have been thrown out there in this thread, I guess we can all sit back and just wait for a reference to Nazis or Hitler before we call it a wrap.

According to your profile, you're a 54yo male, so I'll work with that. Assuming average height (5'10") and extrapolating a rough weight from what's listed as "to go" (I picked 275lbs), your BMR is likely in and around 2100 calories/day. 1400 is way too low.

This is wrong. This is right. You can lift heavy to train your neuromuscular system (namely, the fast-twitch muscle fibers), without inducing hypertrophy (which is highly unlikely to happen at a caloric deficit anyway).

Ride a tandem bicycle. Maybe go for ice cream, like a campy 80's sitcom montage.