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I totally would love to try all the strongwoman stuff... probably would have a go at competing too, just for the hell of it. Do they have weight classes? Cause I'm not very tall. Although being a little short-*kitten* is an advantage for some lifts. And I have the ideal body type for surviving ice age winters. ETA: on…
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someone on my friends list dropped two dress sizes while her weight stayed mostly the same, because she lifted heavy weights :drinker: I gained 10lb doing heavy lifting (stronglifts 5x5) + eating at a small surplus and stayed the same dress size. (to lose fat while doing strength training, eat at a calorie deficit... that…
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I don't remember the first one I had. Was probably one of Disney classics made in the late 70s or early 80s. The earliest record that I can remember listening to (which belonged to my parents) was Planxty, the black album (I don't think it has a title). I had my own record player as a kid and I had a few that I bought at…
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organ meat is good for you, good sources of vitamins and minerals. And protein.
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that's fantastic... you could fit two of you in those trousers now!!
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it's not necessarily dangerous - but it's not the best for optimal health for everyone the more fat you have, the faster you can lose without suffering from ill effects. The main things you want to avoid are loss of lean body mass and getting into a binge eating/excessive restriction cycle. If someone has lots of weight to…
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A refeed day once a week - where you eat at maintenance rather than at deficit - is a good idea for two reasons... 1. it helps with compliance as you get more calories for one day, so you can do stuff like have a restaurant meal or something else that's harder to fit in with the rest of your week. 2. there are some…
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more education and more technology = a more sedentary lifestyle, because of all the things we invent like cars and all kinds of machines that remove the need for physical labour to stay alive combine that with food becoming more available because we're better at agriculture, industry, retail and social welfare... sedentary…
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I wouldn't put breatharianism in the same category as religion... well, maybe the same category as scientology.. I'd classify it as charlatans taking advantage of the mentally unstable. Scientology is an out and out scam. I'm not sure with the breatharian gurus how much of it is self-delusion and how much of it is…
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no, don't stop lifting weights. That is what's going to protect your lean mass. You mentioned some medication to suppress your appetite - I don't think that's such a good idea. You could be retaining water (medicines can do weird things like that). You can't eat as little as you are and not lose fat. You can't be…
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you need to ask your ob gyn or midwife about how much weight you should gain in pregnancy. A certain amount of weight gain is healthy and failure to eat enough during pregnancy can put the pregnancy at risk. No-one on this site really knows enough to say how much you should gain (or not) during pregnancy. They have charts…
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You must take him to see a paediatrician - preferably a specialist in his condition. Get a second opinion if you have to. Putting him on a diet may be an option, but it needs to be under the supervision of a doctor who understands your son's condition. Additionally, the thyroid meds might not be quite right for him, so a…
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The whole extremist puritanical aspect of it gets me the most... this whole thing of eating = base/low, and that the less variety you eat, the purer you are... really, I hate that mentality. Vegan can be healthy (though there are plenty of vegans who aren't because of BS like this convincing them they don't need to care…
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At your weight and age, if you're new to weight training, then you probably will see some noob gains, i.e. gain muscle in a deficit in the short term. But the weight on the scale should start to come down as long as you're in a calorie deficit once these changes (noob gains, increased glycogen storage, increased bone…
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If you define calories in as calories that are actually absorbed by the digestive system into the blood, then yes. Maybe there are some medical exceptions, whereby calories in can't be used, e.g. type one diabetes - the lack of insulin means that the sugar can't get into the cells, the sugar ends up in the urine and the…
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I know what you mean. And I'm going to be blunt. I find it hard to believe that people can be so f***ing stupid as to believe in breatharianism. I saw this http://www.liveloveraw.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/food-path-pic-2.png and it made me want to cry, like Sheldon. What makes me really angry about it though is people…
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What's your current weight? current activity level? current calorie goal? A lot of people set their calorie goal too low, then get mega hungry and end up with rebound overeating. You need to rule that out as a cause before you decide that you lack willpower.
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yeah and even a plant can't do that.......... but given what lift all the pizzas pointed out.... sugar is considered toxic by these woo woo people so the lack of water plus the desire to avoid producing sugar means that photosynthesis is out I think they think they are jinns. IIRC from Arabic mythology, jinns are made of…
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it means you're not overweight, either by BMI or body fat percentage. Both are in the healthy range. However, if you want to generally firm up and look fitter, then lifting weights will help you a lot. With those stats, I would advise you to ignore scale weight and monitor your progress using a mirror and tape measure.
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like this you mean? BTW to get the lean, non-defined bikini model look, as opposed to the fitness model defined muscle look, you train exactly the same way, only you keep your body fat percentage a little higher 18-21% body fat = bikini model look - no muscle definition, soft, lean look 15-17% body fat = fitness model -…
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OMG all life on earth is DOOMED!!!! DOOOMED!!! I tell you!!! DOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!!!!!!
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Any small amount of alcohol? What, even the small amounts present naturally in fresh fruit?
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LOL I would have thought she would have made the lack of direct sunlight her excuse for it not working. Follow up study: put breatharian in one of those old style castle keep thingies with the high walls but no ceiling, so he or she gets a sufficient amount of sunlight (plus a shelter in case it rains, I'm not cruel) with…
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Tobacco is a plant so maybe it counts as a vegetable. I'm just waiting cynically for the day that someone figures out how to implant chloroplasts into their skin cells (IIRC they're like mitochondria in that they have their own DNA and reproduce within the cells and so will be in daughter cells that come from the original…
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if someone's missed just one or two meals, the body gets its energy reserves from glycogen, not fat. If someone with very low body fat is having problems like you describe, then that'll be due to glycogen depletion, and eating more carbohydrate will fix it. Fat is the long term energy store (to survive famines/food…
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7 hours before I have to get up. if there's no time that I have to get up then I aim to get up around 8am, which means going to bed at 1am.
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^^^^ this and also lean meat is easier to fit into your macros.... especially if you want to eat other fatty foods the same day as well.
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yeah I agree, it is... and their excuse that the fat was in the mincer from before also shows a lack of understanding about food hygiene, so with all that and the fact they can't get a simple order right and instead of fixing it and doing it right they gave her excuses and something else that she didn't want would equal me…
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^^^ this did you put in the same goal? e.g. did he put in to lose 1lb a week and you to lose 2lb a week? thta will make a difference, as will your activity factor.... but even if everything else is equal, he will get to eat more calories than you due to the above. if you want to get to eat more then do more exercise you…
