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Yeah, I mean ethical on both ends, I guess. Ethical in terms of treatment of animals during their lives and towards producers, and then ethical towards consumers in terms of not including things that make people addicted/not be able to get enough of it while putting smiley faces on it and labelling it healthy for growing…

Yep, listen to your feet. They are packed with nerves and are always talking to you. By wrapping them in comfy cushioned pillows, they are isolated from gathering important feedback.

I think it's two separate issues. One is losing weight and having a good body composition, and the other is eating food that has less chemical preservatives and is produced responsibly. You might get ripped and lean eating McDonald's, but they aren't the model of ethical food sourcing, and you can be sure they have…

OP, when and if your pain goes away, I highly recommend checking out this YouTube channel I just found, The Gait Guys (by the way, thanks for inspiring me to look up even more exercises to do to strengthen my own arch). This particular video of theirs addresses ankle rolling, which you mentioned, and it has an exercise to…

Sure, if you wanna make it that way, why not? :) I would personally forego the dripping part.

Why don't you just eat some real, non-fast food (read: non-fake) Chinese food? And some real non-fast food pizza? I haven't had fast food in about 8 months, but I have had burgers and pizza. It's not the shape of the food that makes it junk, it's the quality.

I think it's because when it measures resistance, it has difficulty distinguishing water from actual lean body mass. When you have just worked out, your muscles are all "pumped up" for repairs (often you can even see the swelling visually), and the scale counts that weight in your LBM == muscle.

I am not sure if this is the case you are currently experiencing, but squishy fat/whoosh it is an interesting phenomenon tied into suddenly elevated scale BF% readings despite actual fat loss. In this case though, it's my understanding that even calipers will not display the drop in BF% until after the whoosh:…

I think ideally the weight progression is more incremental. If you can't complete the full move once, you aren't really building strength through the whole range of motion. Also, in terms of starting with a weight that is easy, it's a case of being so overly cautious that it won't have any appreciable effect. For example,…

Yep, OP, right now, you are in a state of injury, which needs to be dealt with before you even start looking at future exercise options. Anything you do now puts you at risk of increasing recovery time or doing permanent damage, depending on what the root of the problem is. As we are unable to diagnose your actual issue…

@Doodlewhopper Yes, I think the notion that encasing our feet to give external support hinders the way the body needs to move is not without reason. It is similar to how gym machines are said to overly externally stabilize and restrict natural movement during exercises. While they may avoid you from hurting yourself doing…

I have very flat feet (my wet foot prints are like triangles), and for years I was told to wear really expensive custom made orthotic inserts all the time, blah blah blah. Kept having shin splints and knee injuries all the time anyway. Few years ago, when I moved from a city where I never walked to one where I walk all the…

I second this. First time I tried to drink 5 table spoons in water and it was like quaffing saw dust mixed with sand. Then I thought I would mix some into oatmeal and this happened. Luckily, I have since learned the maximum quantities to use it so that it doesn't interfere with the taste and texture of what I am eating.

Thanks for understanding me! :drinker:

Eat enough so that you have sufficient energy to train hard during your workout. There is no rule that says you can only consume food AFTER you have expended the corresponding energy (especially seeing as the process of calorie intake/output is cyclical and continuous). If you do not have enough energy ready, your…

It's normal for your arm to move freely when you are not flexing your triceps, no matter what shape your arm is in. To reduce "bingo wings", strength train your arms to give the underlying muscles shape, and lose fat to have less to "flap". ETA: Remember to work your both biceps and your triceps, even though the tris are…

Ah, I live in France, and it would seem that it isn't mandatory information. Nevermind! (Either way, cholesterol still would not be my first choice to track.)

What, may I ask, are you doing for exercise? While a clean diet may help you cut out stuff you are consuming unintentionally (included with processed food), I doubt that that alone would give you much additional definition and firmness. Those come from low body fat and having muscle. To lower body fat, you need to maintain…

Agree with what was said above. Just want to add that I don't see cholesterol information on many food packages, so even if you tracked it you would be working with incomplete information (and therefore useless if you are trying to stay under a maximum).

Sorry to be nitpicky but just for the sake of putting as much helpful information out there as possible, fat is a macronutrient, so if you watch it, you are watching a macro. Protein and carbs would be the other two macros. Great work OP for getting something positive out of the feedback! Best of luck as you continue, I'm…

Why wouldn't you? I find that doing pull-ups, even using a chair, is so much more complete as an exercise than sitting or kneeling and using only a resistance band. If you have the possibility of installing a bar at home, I would HIGHLY recommend it. I have only tried P90X, and love it. I am halfway through week 9 as of…

I have one and it has really helped me get a better measure of my TDEE day-by-day. I was overestimating by a lot using online TDEE calculators before. I do use the wristband for sleep tracking and alarm. The alarm works surprisingly well on the wrist, I haven't yet overslept (which I do frequently with sound-only alarms),…

3-5 lbs overnight is usually water retention. Was the food pretty salty? Drink a lot of water to keep hydrated and the water should "release" in a day or two.

Makes sense. Good luck with the recomp and bulk!

Oh wow, are you planning on bulking back up, or is your goal to stay there? I'm surprised you have so much muscle but weigh so little. Guess density varies hugely between individuals. I always thought I was already on the relatively less dense side for my height.

But I consider unflavoured to be an upside! I was thrilled to discover this was an option. I use Bulk Powders' unflavoured right now and prefer it by far to the sickly overly sweet flavoured products.

Deadly honest opinion, 5'9"/52kg (114 lbs) is an unnecessarily low goal unless the goal is underweight and skinny? May I ask how you picked your current goal weight of 54 - 55kg? Even those seem low to me. I am 5'8"/59kg and could do to be less mushy but not much lighter. I have an absolute MINIMUM weight that I would ever…

Yeah, exactly what you said. Protein in the morning helps sustain satiety. A couple scrambled eggs (140 calories) takes the same amount of time as oatmeal? Also, you don't need to answer publicly, but sometimes as a girl, time of month makes some difference (if it was really only just the last few days and not an ongoing…

How much is loads? The rule of thumb is 1g/lb of body weight, so you would aim for at least 134g of protein a day. The MFP default macro ratios have a pretty low protein requirement, no where near what I try to get (40/30/30). Correction, the brain needs energy to function. That can come from food you just ate (whether…

To be honest, I'm not sure how much more you can lose from 5'9"/134lbs without actually depriving yourself of what your body needs? There might be a good reason you are ravenously hungry at this point. Believe me, I am not criticizing at all, I am actually just wondering if your goal isn't to lose fat rather than scale…