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what are your goals? What do you like to do? Where have you come from and where do you want to go? Ok that sounded a bit mythical. Add me if you like. Sometimes I really need help but I try to be helpful. My diary is open too :) I like eating...

Water, coffee, soymilk, green tea (plain) I have 'replaced' soda by putting lemon and lime juice into club soda. It really helps because I LOVE COLD BUBBLY DRINKS!! I still have sodas sometimes but not every day. And I feel a lot better honestly. I also drink beer but have had to cut back. I *really* like beer. But I like…

Went into the room with all the mirrors at the gym and did my 55. Got to see my big ol thighs in action! I might be sore tomorrow..

If you go low and squeeze your glutes as you come up you can feel it more in your bum, but not right away of course. That's like using your butt muscles to push yourself back up!

yarp. I wish someone would have told me this stuff in High School. We had weight training as a class option! But I thought it was for meatheads. Instead I joined ROTC because I thought their PT training would be amaze. Sadly the ROTC at MY school didn't focus on PT. Fatty stayd fat. WHICH IS LAME BECAUSE THE KIND OF…

you make a good point. We're girls though (my friend and I), we want to lose body fat. Gaining some muscle weight wouldn't matter a bit if the body fat is lessened as shown by loads of ladie's success stories/pic. I still run because I like it but I no longer do it as my primo weight loss exercise.

by 'strength training' we don't just mean deadlifts and squats, right? Apparently I've been doing what's considered body weight workouts using weights just because I feel like I should. I only deadlift a barbell sometimes. And now I need to go to Mexico to see those creatures!

OMG What ARE those adorable creatures??!?!!! I hope the strength training and weight stuff I'm adding helps me as much as it helped you!

short and sweet, I like. Will cut and paste :):):)

100% agree. Last time we worked out together she was listing like 10lbs while I was doing more (I can't lift more than 50 anyway) I just wanted to show her a few things and teach her form and tell her the benefits of doing more than cardio. I'm just crap at explaining things.

hahaha. I know lots of people will probs be offended by this but you're right. IF the comparison was comprable, it would be fine. I enjoy success threads where the OP started like me (or me at some point) and got to a goal that I'd like to be at. Then I can see the benefit. but a 250lb chick who's never touched weights…

haaha awesome. Me too. Her husband is uber fitness and trying to get her into it too.

this seems to be what happened to me. in total I've lost about 50lbs over the past few years. I looked just as crappy as I did before but... I'm SO MUCH SMALLER OMG!!!! Yeah.. I may be "tiny" but I sure don't take my clothes off in front of people. *shudder* skin and celluite everywheres!!! I started adding in weights a…

That helps too! many of my friends have lost weight just through diet and cardio and put it right back on. Somehow this post gives me a better understanding of why. If you just lose bf% but have stronger muscles to maintain your loss (now I'm soundsing like an idiot again lol) then you have a great chance of keeping the…

Ok, I've only ever had the one HRM that I have right now. It seems to be just fine. If my HR is only like 90 it shows me burning hardly any calories, which makes sense because It's close to resting heart rate. When my rate is up, I burn more. Make sense to me. I have to put out there than whenever I do any lifting or…

Thank you! This is helpful too!

That is a pretty awesome article. not as helpful for chicks who want to lose 100lbs since she lost her fat doing cardio BUT it's a great example for how lifting *IS* actually good for women and how it isn't going to make us look like radioactive muscle monsters. I'm sure she could have gone from her 179 to 143 by lifting…

This is me. I just want my fat to go away. I like my muscles! I don't even care if I'm defined or ripped or twiggy; 100lbs or 182. I'm just tired of the fat. Go away fat!

This makes a lot of sense when put in this way. I sound like a nutter when I try to say this. Thanks!!

yes you did. Lifting alone and eating 13 burgers a day is not going to help weight loss of course BUT I think the idea many of us girls have in our head is that lifting doesn't burn calories like cardio. And what we girls want it to lose fat. From my own experience and HRM I found out that lifting totally birns calories…

that made me post the question. It doesn't really explain much. BUT I have seen loads O threads that show bomb results, which makes me a proponent for lifting even if I don't use weights a lot or even know what heavy lifting is for sure.

Did mine this morning BEFORE my coffee. Harder than expected!

Under 'Strength Training' in the 'Track Exercise' section of my profile. There is already an exercise "squats" I just searched for 'squats' and put in the number of squats I did. I'm not going to include it in my calorie burn for the day. a few minutes of squatting isn't going to earn me a sandwich or anything :)

Maybe you ladies who are posting thatyou eat 1800 calories a day need to also include your activity level. Seriously. And not just that you go to the gym xx days a week. -__- OP: it's best try to find out YOUR TDEE and then eat at the 20% reduction. If you sit all day you'll need to eat less than if you are on your feet…

I'm hungry now. Thx.

added the squat schedule to my Google calendar :):)

yes and yea and then, no. diet pills that aren't total bollox are just additional motivators for the body. Usually caffiene or green tea, vitamins B, triptophan and chromium and things that have similar effects on the body. These are great natural boosters and would help even if you didn't eat perfectly. Problem there is…

had to reply because I Love cottage cheese. I have since I was a kid! I have to eat the lactose free kind now, but whatever. I eat it plain, with a spoon. Sometimes I eat crackers with it, some tomatoes.... I like to have some meat along with it as a super snack (chicken breast or turkey breast meat). I'm not into fruit at…

So I looked here because I have sort of hit a plateau. Since the beginning the calorie calculating method I quoted above has basically been my method. (Just the x10, not highter) But now that I weigh less it seems to not work so well. My thought was that my body got used to eating so little. So I'm bumping up my calories…

This. My thighs, knees and booty are still fat but look better since adding in toning exercises. I carry most of my weight in these areas but have lots about 40lbs in total so I have the sexy extra skin thing going on. *sad face* I've seen before and after pics of ladies who made sure to do leg toning so when the fat was…