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THIS exactly

This makes sense to me. Thank you everyone for your responses! Breakfast sounds like a very subjective topic. Guess I will just start listening to my body instead.

Anyone?

yeah, I have some back fat, but I know that will come off as I lower body fat, what I'm more concerned about is what covers my sides below my armpits. I have broad shoulders and a larger chest cavity. Any recs on lifts I can do for this? Or should I not isolate and just continue the fat loss?

like, to the sides and underneath my armpit.

well that is pretty amazing foot-in-mouth speech. it honestly does not intimidate me going in there. I feel like men do two things when a woman enters a.) they won't even look at her for fear they'll be caught 'checking her out' b.) they get a little flustered and mucho it up in case they are being looked at. :) maybe I'm…

I rarely comment on these, but you look absolutely (!!!!!) amazing! such great work, and I love your story. hopefully your career involves writing, because you're not bad. ;)

Absolutely this! I'm only available to go to the gym three days a week for an hour, so I do lifting and then about a mile or two of HITT running/sprinting. It has done wonders for my still-looks-preggo-belly. Actually, in just 3 weeks, my stomach was relatively flat again and it did NOT look like that before. Good luck!!

Oh, well, I account for that. I thought she was speaking of the dumbbell bar.

The form part makes sense. Accounting for the weight of the barrbell? I guess I thought the weight was included in the labeled weight. How much is the barbell typically? I am benching 70lbs with bar and could barely do 60lbs with dumbbells.

This part is exactly what I was worried about and why I just set my activity level at sedentary to be sure, sure, sure that I was in a deficit and not underestimating calories.... especially considering part of my workout is lifting.

Well then my faulty assumptions are that if you're defending that statement, then you are definitely not a parent. Caring for young ones 12 hours a day, is most definitely, labor intensive. Especially once they are moving. And especially if you're out of the house a lot. There are a lot of variables, but it requires more…

Thank you... this answered my question!!

And you're clearly not a parent

Oops, I should mention I'm not going off of MFP suggestion... I used this site. http://www.1percentedge.com/ifcalc/ OK that makes more sense. Still think I should get a fitbit to see what I'm actually burning during my daily dealings.

Yes, you're correct, but I can't be sure what that calorie burn is accurately, which is why I set it at that activity level. sooooo I guess I should get one of those gadgets. Thanks for all your advice, everyone!

But 2250 is technically my 'accurate' TDEE, why would I want to eat at that, AND my exercise calories to lose weight. There is no deficit in that equation, know what I mean? And agreed, I'm not even stepping on the scale, I don't really care about the number, I was just using the math to exemplify that a weekly loss of one…

Did you have a c-section or vaginal birth? I know the "pooch" is much harder to rid after a c-section. I haven't done Insanity, but I have seen people have some great results from it. I will tell you that I, similarly, gained way too much with my last baby leaving me with about 25 lbs of excess. I was running, and running,…

Well, that's why I'm trying to get it configured correctly. I want to eat below my TDEE to lose fat, correct? Because I only workout three times a week, I incorporate that into my deficit. At moderately active, my TDEE is 2250... say that is the case, my deficit is only a daily average of 500 cals. That's a pound a week.…

This sounds exactly like my life (I wear my 4 month old a lot too). Do you have workouts on top of your daily dealings and walks or do you just count your lifestyle without workouts as moderately active?

Holy aggressive. I set it at sedentary and eat at my TDEE, which is 1750, so I'm not eating very little. That's why I asked this question, because I don't want to inhibit myself by NOT having enough fuel to function during my day and my workouts. And also, I do not eat back my burn. I lift three times a week and do about a…

I've heard that surgeons no longer do just lifts. Not exactly sure why that's the case, but you might want to look into it before you make up your mind. And I 100% agree that if you plan to have children and nurse... wait until then because those babies RUIN your breasts.

That's exactly why I kept it at sedentary. Thanks ladies! And I will look into the fitbit.

Ahhh! No! So much sugar and carbs, if you're going the weight loss route. I just have coffee since I go first thing in the morning... if you don't like coffee, maybe green tea?

I actually did this today for the first time. I'm not that hungry when I wake up generally, so I found myself just eating something to get my day going and then was still STARVING after my weight training. So, I skipped breakfast this morning, and was traditionally starving, so I had a shake and beef jerky after. It cut my…

As heavy as I could... which took about a week of fiddling around. I think I started out at 70lb deadlift, the bar for squats and the bar for bench press. I've gone up a LOT in squat weight (120lbs), and decently with deadlifts (90lbs), bench press is at 65lbs now and is my biggest struggle. I feel like I get stronger…

Actually, now that I think about it, on days that I deadlift, my lower back really aches the next day! But that's the only soreness I feel.

Just three days a week. I do about 15 min of HITT sprinting afterward and take the rest of the days off. I don't think my deficit is too large, I'm at about 1700 calories, -20% TDEE, but I do kind of struggle with eating enough protein. I'm about 150lbs and 5'6" and am averaging about 80g a day. I know that's probably not…