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All this stuff is certainly a possibility, but also possible is that her GF genuinely feels the OP is perfect as she is and might be worried about losing weight to an unhealthy extent (not sure how tall OP is but 110lbs is pretty light), and is trying to avoid confrontation over the issue through use of humour/teasing…

This group's probably right up your street: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/4601-stronglifts-5x5-for-women

Try strength training with a space rather than a dash. Or just search for strength.

Sounds like the beginnings of tendonitis in your tricep from the location/sensation you described. I suffer from the same thing in my left tricep, though by resting for a bit, some mobility drills for the elbow joint, and really focusing on forms, especially keeping elbows in as much as possible on bench press/pushups,…

Without knowing the exact quantities, and the presence/type of dressings etc, that sounds like less than 1000 calories (salads at 2x 50 cal, fruit at 3x 70 cal each, portion of meat/fish 150 cal, egg 70 cal, 150 cal of raw veg (and that's optimistic), 100 cal of sweet potato, 100 cal of greek style yoghurt = 880 cal).…

a) the protein figure isn't a hard cap that you mustn't exceed. Bad things aren't going to happen if more of your calories come from protein (within reason). b) protein and fat requirement estimates are based on lean-body mass/total body mass respectively typically, the caloric % is just a shorthand as mfp doesn't support…

You look really good - was just wondering for personal comparison, how tall you are?

You're on the right lines yeah. Say it weighs 150g after cooking. He's saying someone might weigh it after cooking rather than before, and record that they ate "150g of sweet potato" using the calorific data for raw sweet potato (either because they don't realise it makes a difference or the cooked data isn't available or…

Depends - are you barely caapable of squeezing out the 15th rep? If you could happily do more reps but the video just moves on to an exercise then no, you're not going to get much hypertrophy from that.

Your heart rate seems very high for your pace considering you're only 10lb overweight, and it's heart rate that hrm use as the main basis of their calculations. I'm a bit confused because your resting heart rate is fairly low which is often (but not always) an indicator of good cardiovascular fitness. Heart rate…

It's not the studies at fault here, it's the idiotic and sensationalist interpretation of them by the "trainer".

From the conclusion of the second paper cited (couldn't find the first one produced in full online): Conclusion: Exercise plays an equivalent role to CR (calorie restriction) in terms of energy balance; however, it can also improve aerobic fitness, which has other important cardiovascular and metabolic implications. ie it…

Taking a day off for recovery applies more to if you're doing something that really strains your body. If doing what you're doing now isn't particularly difficult for you then it's absolutely fine to keep doing it every day. It's more when you're pushing your body to perform near its limits that you need a decent amount of…

If you use the raw weight you have a reliable baseline. Depending on how you cook something, it'll weigh different amounts because different cooking techniques and cooking times will lead to more or less loss of various components, notably water and possibly a small amount its fat at high temperatures. e.g. a piece of beef…

If you're not a fan of the texture of cottage cheese, quark's a good source as well. The brand I use (Meadow Churn - UK brand): 139g of Quark = 100 calories worth. 100 calories worth contains 18.75g of protein. That makes it 5.3cal/g of protein. Availability in NA might be an issue though.

Perhaps this isn't what you're asking but if you go to My Home the Goals tab is right there.

MFP makes an estimate of your BMR based on the weight, height, age info you put in, and it turns that into an estimate of your TDEE based on the activity level info you put in. If you want more transparency you can just change your goals to custom settings rather than following MFP's recommendations.

It's possible that you burnt 790 calories in just over 3 hours, but the thing is the MFP calorie estimates are compared to a baseline of 0 calories, while in reality just being alive for those 200 minutes would have burnt somewhere in the region of 350-400 calories, so you've only really burnt an extra 400 calories…

It will, don't worry. Especially if you've not been lifting before, you may not see much movement on the scales but you will probably be losing some fat and gaining some muscle. Keep doing what you're doing for a few more weeks and see if you a) get stronger b) start feeling some differences in your clothes/seeing some…

Body fat estimation via electrical impedence is very, very inexact so don't worry about it. Getting skilled with skinfold calipers will give you much more consistent results - they may not be accurate, but they'll be consistently inaccurate. By that I mean, if your real body fat % is 20% the skinfold caliper reading might…