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Your diet is the key to weight loss. The walking will improve your overall fitness and give you a few extra calories to eat per day.

Why use statistics when we can rely on hearsay and preconceived notions?

Water weight, scale inaccuracy, a full bladder, etc. If you weigh yourself daily, you'll see that sort of thing quite a bit. I usually assume a margin of error of plus or minus 3 pounds when weighing that often. Learn to ignore the noise in the individual measurements and just monitor the overall trendline, as daily weight…

No. Not even a little bit. The idea that stores are under constant threat of frivolous lawsuit is a foolish myth. Every example in those email forwards your crazy racist uncle sends around is either a complete fabrication or heavily distorted. Truly ludicrous lawsuits aren't that common and typically get shut down almost…

Techno works great on my bike, but it just doesn't hold up when I run. I need some downtempo, heavy, grinding metal, like Meshuggah or Godflesh.

You're already getting a ton of cardio, based on your other thread. Maybe try dropping a half hour of cardio and spend it lifting weights instead. As others have said, you won't bulk up (it's *incredibly* difficult for women to get bulky), but you'll gain a bunch of strength and you'll burn a ton of calories. Remember,…

Obligatory Stronglifts plug. Alternately, check out the body weight routines on nerdfitness.com. If the weight machines are all that's available, go ahead and use them; just stick with the compound exercises like squats, bench and shoulder presses, etc, and skip the isolation exercises. Don't be afraid of free weights, and…

I always laugh a bit when the Prodigy's "Take Me To The Hospital" comes on when I'm about 3/4 of the way through my cardio.

If you're getting up earlier to go to the gym but not going to bed earlier, it's probably simple sleep deprivation. Or, you're like me and just not a morning person. My wife and I work out in the evenings after work. It's just as effective, and it fits our schedule.

So many tasks have become much easier since I started lifting. I brew beer at home, and I've noticed a huge difference when lugging grain bags around, etc. I have a big 15 gallon plastic tub I soak empty bottles in to clean them and get the labels off. I used to have to empty the water with a scoop, but now I can just lift…

The bench. I've seen far more progress on squats and deadlifts, but there's something incredibly satisfying about a new bench PR. Also, afterwards I get the same wonderful feeling I get from a capsaicin overdose, so there's that too.

West African peanut stew is absolutely one of my all-time favorite dishes. My wife's recipe differs a bit from the one posted (she uses diced tomatoes, no kale/collards (though that sounds like a great addition), and she includes a very generous amount of cayenne and red pepper), but most incarnations I've had of it are…

I squatted more than my old body weight yesterday. I could give old me a piggy-back ride. That felt pretty awesome. Then I proceeded to jump up 12 pounds on the bench, pressing over 200 pounds for the first time in my life. I missed a couple of lifts over the course of my sets (5x5), but I didn't care; it felt amazing to…

A compound lift is any lift that uses a variety of different muscle groups, rather than just one or two muscles. Squats are the quintessential compound lift, but there are quite a few others as well.

I'm on week two at the moment. I think I need to get some new shoes, because my shins and ankles are having a rough time of it. I'm getting better at breathing steady, which helps immensely in the second half of the workout.

+1 on Stronglifts. It's only 5 total lifts to learn, and there are some form guide videos on stronglifts.com.

When I'm on a bike, I sweat like crazy. It pools up under my gut, so I end up with a great big wet spot on the front of my shorts. Yeah, it totally looks like I pissed myself.

If you aren't exercising, you're eating at about a 1.25lb/wk deficit rather than 1.5lb/wk. If you're doing about 60 minutes of cardio a week, you're probably back to about 1.5lb/week at that calorie intake.

Getting a better feel for your bike's gearing will help with the hills quite a bit. If you're in too high a gear you'll obviously struggle, but you also need to be careful to not drop too low; there's less resistance, but you have to pedal so fast just to stay upright that you'll tire out quickly.

I've been doing stronglifts for a couple of weeks. The thing that jumps out at me is that it seems like everybody else who has posted here is deadlifting at least as much as they're squatting, which hasn't been my experience at all. At this point, my lifts are as follows (I'm 6'3 and about 255#, down from 330# or so):…

The Devil's Backbone

Thanks for all the replies. I've been taking a minute or two between sets and was worried that I was slacking off. Nice to know I'm within reason. I've been struggling with the last couple of sets on the bench and overhead presses; I'll try giving myself a little more recovery time on those.

India pale ale.

Skinnytaste is awesome: http://www.skinnytaste.com/2012/07/crust-less-summer-zucchini-pie.html http://www.skinnytaste.com/2013/08/skillet-mexican-zucchini.html http://www.skinnytaste.com/2013/06/grilled-chicken-and-zucchini-yakitori.html http://www.skinnytaste.com/2012/07/sausage-stuffed-zucchini-boats.html…

My wife just pointed out that my protein intake has probably been lower than normal recently. A little over a month ago, she decided to go quasi-vegetarian. She's been great about coming up with meal plans that include some meat for me, but it's almost certainly less than it used to be. So that might be part of it. I'll…

Since I have no idea what that is, I'm going to go with no. I've mostly been shooting from the hip on my exercise regimen.