HDStretchman

I read your profile as well. To be honest, you can work out at home very well, and you can do it with a minimum of investment. Look up Scooby's channel on youtube, and he can show you the right exercises for you. Thing about weights is, yes, it will make your muscles bigger, but muscle is much more dense than fat, and…

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BMR - Basal metabolic rate. How many calories you'd burn if you were in a coma. TDEE - Total Daily energy expenditure. This takes into account how much your body has actually utilized calorie wise during the day. If you know your TDEE, and everyone is different, you can then tweak your diet to either gain or lose weight by…

Drink a lot of water before bed. When the alarm goes off, you'll have to get up. And, you'll be hydrated.

Muscle Pharm Banana Cream is by far the best tasting protein I have ever had, and it mixes in both water and milk. I get it off of bb.com.

Check youtube for your bowflex model. It might have a demonstration video. You also might be able to download the manual and maybe the exercise chart. A lot of sites look down on the bowflex, but it is a great piece of equipment, that you get out of what you put in. Maybe someday, you'll be ready for more weight, but it's…

Maybe you should check Craigslist and build a gym at home? That's what I am in the process of doing right now. I alrady have a multi station weight machine, and am working on getting dum bells and then eventually a cage so I can bench/squat safely. Results in the gym, have to come from the inside. The only person you are…

You should try and understand something. The figures for calories that MFP gives you are generalizations that cover a broad spectrum of people. Basically, if you have more lean muscle mass and less body fat, your scale weight doesn't belie this as accurately as people who are carrying excess body fat and are trying to lose…

I used to drink diet soda. I switched to Crystal lite lemonade. Lemon supposedly has thermo genic properties. IDK, I just think it's better.

Whaddya mean bad *kitten*? J/k..

I like the Pure Protein Frosty chocolate. Casein is good, but more expensive than food, which works the same whey. ( Pun intended ) I gauge it by how I feel after I drink it. Works for me.

Check your macro nutrient levels, and see if you're getting enough carbs vs everything else. You might have to adjust what you're eating to focus more on carbs, because they determine your energy levels. Sometimes lack of motivation is diet related.

I've been on meds for a year, and started dieting about 3 months ago. I started with a low carb diet, but then, started training again, and although I was strong, I wasn't seeing any changes. So, I set up my macros to correspond to my diet a little more. And found out that it's not so much how you eat, but what you eat…