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hells yeah IDEL. wait. is it it "I do even lift"? "I even do lift"? IEDL? IL? man, this is harder than my latest smith machine front squat PR.

generally in colloquial english we say "weighs more" when we mean something is more dense in scientific terms. correcting someone on that is a great way to show you are smart enough to learn, but too lazy to teach

for a bunch of people right now, this is funny because it's not them. mission accomplished.

I think I just forgot to watch my sodium and drink enough water. Either that or I ate too late in the day and gave myself metabolic damage.

Also by eating clean I've been able to build muscle without a surplus. I got heavier too, so obviously it's not true.

Oh snap! I meant to post this in the derp section but all I found was chit chat, fun, and games. ;)

you'll have to get crazy strategic then. maybe ask for ingredient lists, or for all you know they may even have ready made calorie estimates AND macros. then you just use your nifty scale to correct their portions.

this link should help you clear up any barriers to measuring a great deal of the food in the catered environment. http://bit.ly/Kq3VCo

you mean, FAT IS ESSENTIAL?!?

i gained back my "last ten" (on purpose) and now I'm losing it again, and I plan to do this many more times, so I feel you. have you tried eating at maintenance for a couple of weeks, then starting up again?

I don't have any kind of hard data to back this up, but I often see these statements together in the same thread from an OP wondering why this isn't working: 1)I'm working out hard but I'm gaining 2)I don't measure my food but there is no way I'm eating too much From my own experiences losing weight (photos are in my…

get some cottage cheese when this happens, and hit that hunger with half a cup of it every couple hours.

how are you measuring food, and can we see your diary?

but it DID happen

pervs are my favorite kind of people!

using dumb bells to squat is going to significantly change the nature of a squat, resulting in a much higher back angle and more tension on the quads and the front of the knee than a back squat. You'll also be lifting much less weight that way, and putting your entire frame under heavy load is what produces the most…

I'm pretty sure eating every 2-3 hours is something that actually happened, and not a myth

well gee, thanks for laughing at my progress! I thought I was doing pretty good until that. :( ;)

Look at my profile pictures if you have any doubts.

well, you just have to decide. do you have time to get creative and figure out a way to fit weighing your food into your life? lots of people do it with very busy lives, so there are many time saving tricks you can use. the question you need to answer first is "am I serious about losing weight?". If you are serious, you…

no, this isn't a good plan. a better plan would be to properly measure your food with a scale. you can get a cheap digital one that folds for storage on amazon in europe. and by the way, I have not eaten breakfast for one year now. no worries there.

this can be so frustrating! but help us help you. can you describe how you get a meal together? do you cook? do you weigh things before or after cooking?

remember this changes slightly if your pool is 25 yards instead of 25 meters also in these shorter pools try to limit how hard you kick off the wall.

wow. just... no! I really wish I had started with a dedication to learning compound lifts instead of waiting so long. If you have a bit of kinesthetic sense and moderate intelligence, you should be able to read the book, take it to the gym with a buddy, and get your lifts good enough to avoid injury. what you say is…

set your program according to your goals, THEN figure out how to handle it emotionally. I've made this mistake, and I think lots of otherwise smart people often make this mistake: training too frequently when the goal is weight loss. It's taken me a year of KNOWING I should train less when I eat less to actually do it, so…

Oh, right. Then when you fail you can beat yourself up for not wanting it badly enough, so that eventually all your commitments get made in an elevated emotional state. "Next time I will have to want it more". So you work yourself up and want it more the next time. Forget all that. Want willpower? Train your willpower.…

Body weight workouts can't replace putting your whole frame under a heavy load and the resulting adaptation. It's also worth pointing out that for most beginners, "bodyweight" is going to be a series of moves heavier or lighter than the correct starting point for progressive overload, with very few being "just right", so…

I waited 8 months too long to get my copy of starting strength, which is ridiculous considering it was a simple kindle download and now it's on my ipad and all my computers. absolutely start with that book! do not start with a trainer. after teaching yourself the lifts, you'll be working there one day at the gym and a…

you train willpower with progressive overload, the same as any other kind of strength. you accomplish your goals using the willpower you have by being clever though.

losing weight is 90% diet. The other 10% is exercise but only because it helps you feel like you are accomplishing something and helps you stay focused. so basically, you need to be thinking ten times as much about your food consumption, and ten times less about exercise (without forgetting altogether)