david_swinstead Member

Water retention is something I've never bought into (seems like an easy excuse to me) so I would disregard that personally. Could be muscle gain. Again, this is often used as an easy excuse, and in many cases I very much doubt it's validity as an excuse for gaining weight, but in this case (only 2lbs in 2 months) it's…

Same as everyone else said. You're not eating enough. Clear as day.

This ^^ all night long. People (mostly women, in my experience) get obsessed with cutting carbs. It's nonsense.

Don't forget your half time snack in the middle of your "workout": cous-cous and lentils.

Yoga is just stretching for middle-class people.

It sounds like you're doing everything more or less by-the-book, but there has to be a reason somewhere. Open up your diary as public so people can take a look and be better poised to give advice. Also give us your stats: Height, weight, and BF if possible. Until seeing stuff in more detail, my best guess is that 1200…

People say that the accurracy of calipers is massively affected by the person using it. But I go with what someone else said: Ignore the numbers and just focus on trends, using whichever method you like (but stick to the same one).

Before anybody flames me, I need to point out that that was sarcasm.

It will give him angry, aggressive, violent mood swings. Be careful!

Like someone else has said, it depends on what you eat. But why would you do that? Keep working out!

Finding our your BMR is easy - just wear your HRM while you do a more "normal" daily activity level for an hour (whatever normal means for you) Then multiply this by 6 (hours), and work out the difference between this figure and your 1600. The difference is what you need to eat back.

Well over the course of 6 hours you would've burned a lot of them anyway, whether you were "exercising" or not. 1600 burned doesnt mean 1600 more than you wouldve done if you had sat in bed all day.

I dont even know why somebody would comment on that anyway - pork isn't unhealthy at all!

Ive heard of StrongLifts before but never looked into it properly. Ive just been on the site and had to read through several pages of preaching and promises just to get to an email form, so they can send me this spreadsheet. I'm skeptical. Everything about this looks like a ploy to build a subscriber list. Is this really…

Put the [ img ] in lower case Also, use smaller photos :)

http://frylight.co.uk/ ;)

I do secret press ups in the toilet. Obviously I have to use the disabled toilet as its the only one big enough. I am concerned that one day somebody will see me exiting the toilet red faced and out of breath.

My goodness, you're right! Now that I think of it, skinny models were to blame for the London riots aswell!

I vote we ban Israel

Totally agree with Eric and BerryH. What's life without our simple pleasures? You need to just stop stressing it, and go eat the fried food goodness. What's the worst that could happen? It takes 3500 calories to make 1lb of fat so even in a worst case scenario, if you ate up to your daily goal, then past that up to your…

Theyre only selling it because we buy it!

From the article about it in TIME magazine:

That's how I got fat in the first place! ;)

Well be careful. If you put in your target that you wanted to gain weight, MFP will have given you a surplus of 3500 calories per week (500 per day), for each 1lb you said you wanted to gain. Just make extra sure you hit the weights really hard, otherwise a lot of those extra calories will turn to fat. Personally if I was…

Great work, there's definitely a difference. With regards to your plateau: your diary looks pretty good so you shouldn't be struggling too much. But there has to be a reason somewhere... Was there a reason you didn't log on Tuesday? Was it a treat day? Are you weighing all your food to make sure it's accurrate? You could…

The reason they only keep you full for 2 hours is because they aren't very big. Eat more of it. It's oat-so-simple. I know you say you're not keen on a huge caloric load - but come on, we're talking about oats here. The calories are minimal.

here we go, just pick up one of these and you can do the bruce wayne workout easily

You can buy special workout devices that enable you to do all of this... hold on Ill get a photo to show you one...

Oh yes, fight club! I don't know how I didn't think of that. I guess I didn't necessarily mean just big guys, but any iconic images of guys in great shape. Wolverine is a good call too, I'm also a big Marvel fan (one of the MFP tribe of geeks) so that would be cool.

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