pcastagner Member

Have you tried concentrating your carbs at dinner? That puts me to sleep. Otherwise I toss and turn.

Speed rope. Not right now though, if you never speed rope. First get your body adapted to it, then it becomes an awesome recovery exercise.

So I see you have some ideas about what paleo isn't. And you still cling to this notion that pre-Neolithic times were also pre-chronic disease. Sorry bro, you're following a religion, not science. Which is why you can't come up with a simple definition.

If you lie on your belly with your hands under your head, and lift your legs until you quads are off the floor, you'll get a burn in one of the crucial areas that need tension.

This is exactly what I saw! You're clever. Be my friend!

That cuts both ways. A man who skips out of a meeting because his kid is sick in the nurse's office doesn't get the same treatment at the office as a woman doing the same.

Are we seriously wondering why this is controversial, in a world where men take drugs to give themselves erections because they are no longer attracted to their partners? It's controversial because she's hot and no pill would be required.

No, that's not right. It might work for some people but it's coincidental. Just lift and give yourself 300 extra cals per hour of serious work. If you start losing too fast or not recovering well (don't overtrain!), eat more. I have been tweaking my tracking to follow the lean gains method (not sure if it works yet). So…

Get the book "starting strength". It's available as an ebook on amazon. He explains why "lift with your legs" is bad advice, but he will also explain that you do use your legs. He puts a lot of emphasis on keeping the weight directly over the middle of the foot (not the middle of the arch) at all times, and making sure it…

I'm the pesky type. So I'm gonna ask again. Is there a food scale in the picture? If not, it's not gonna work, sorry, and you aren't properly measuring food. You're going to have to choose between fun answers like "eat more" and boring but effective ones that systematically look of the answer.

That's not a unifying concept, sorry. It's a list. Just like being kosher means following a list. And the actual theory used to develop that list is so flawed as to be useless. It includes the idea that the human gut stopped evolving a long time ago, and that you can somehow promote health and longevity by eating only…

Because I owe it all to little chocolate donuts

I have the same suspicion. I was helping one gal out who was being told to eat more to lose more, and when we finally got her weighing her meat, it ruined out she was underestimating her portions. By about 300%

Arguing for its own sake is not my thing, sorry. I am responding to your "highly motivated" form of reasoning. And your ever-broadening definition which belies a complete lack of any rational unifying concept. I'd say the only Stone Age thing going on there is your tribalism, reflected in you use of the first person plural…

That's totally moot until she uses a food scale and figures out her real intake. Then she can estimate based on losses or gains.

You guys do realize this lift gets its name from the pull off the floor, where the weight is at a dead stop? They named it that because it's the defining characteristic of the lift.

Sorry, I have a gin fast planned

Your diary looks a whole lot like you might not be using a scale. If so, big mistake. You can't go measuring shredded cheese with a measuring cup and expect to get it right. Get yourself a digital food scale. I got mine cheap on Amazon and it folds up for travel

You only say that because you're outside the diet. From the inside, it all makes sense. Srsly

So... They wised up and stopped being paleo? Sort of like how I discovered bread and pasta at night helps me combat grain free diet induced insomnia? Or that counting calories works because there is no such thing as a prefect model but there are useful ones?

Don't forget you can also freeze cooked rice wrapped in plastic. Like hamburgers but rice. Reheat in the microwave and it comes out perfectly, or toast in a pan if it is sticky enough

In other words, you could drop all the caveman bs, stop trying to rediscover the garden of Eden, forget about being with the "in crowd", and just eat foods that help you accomplish your goals? Gotcha.

I got lumps of coal for gene Christmas. I put fat on so freaking fast! But oddly I seem to be able to lose it fast as well.

But that's exactly the point. We don't define "in a deficit" very well, and people wind up unable to communicate.

Who said we should look at chimps? Not freaking me man. No, we can ask actual anthropologists and evolutionary biologists, who will remind us that Homo sapiens is an omnivore that eats whatever is around, always has, and that's one reason it's such a successful species. They might also point out that to be successful, a…

I just take creatine four times a week. No need for cycling to spare your kidneys. It doesn't puff up your muscles as much, but it can still enhance performance.

Exactly It would be extremely useful for me to know because I already know the standard bulk/cut doesn't work for me. I put on fat incredibly fast, for one, and since I'm living out of suitcases most of the time I can't be going around with two sets of pants. So I'd like to maximize my gains within those constraints. Even…

So basically, it's an arbitrary hodgepodge of faux anthropology with a strong dash of bro science. But the really nice part is, since there is no real definition for paleo, or any actual data on rates of disease in actual ancestral populations (lets not start with this garbage about modern hunter-gatherer populations), it…

Chimps eat baboons, regularly. Just saying...

I prefer to think of myself as one of those "people".