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This is what comes from giving kids prizes for participating.

As a professional copy editor, do you even know how much this enrages me? Let's fight.

http://www.bodybuilding.com/ has a bunch of free plans. Youtube also has a bunch of free videos. Jillian Micheals is a good person to look up. She does 30 Day Shred and a few other videos you can access for free. There's also tons of phone apps which can help. Many of us are doing Stronglifts 5 x 5 for weightlifting.…

Any of the dance games are fun and will get you moving, but you need a dance mat for them, not the wii fit. There's a bunch of fitness games which uses the fit step, but most are kinda crap. Read reviews carefully before investing any money in them. They won't be very intense at all, you'll be lucky to break a sweat on…

You can get grilled chicken or a reasonable seafood option plus steamed veggies or broccoli at an awful lot of restaurants. Many now have menu options labeled for lower calorie or special diets, like low-carb. And don't forget that you can always split it and take half home. I do that sometimes with a large meal...I ask…

A few sessions with an experienced trainer are worth it in order to learn dos and don'ts, how to properly use equipment, and how to plan a routine. After that, you should be just fine on your own.

Muscle and fat weigh the same in the same way that gold and feathers weigh the same. A pound of feathers and a pound of gold are still both one pound. A pound of fat and a pound of muscle are still both a pound. If you're doing anything which might build muscle, you're better off measuring your sizes with a measuring tape…

Fantastic!!

I looked up the nutritional info and it says this: "All menu items are plated as stated on the menu unless otherwise noted" so the previous posters guessed right. The 1000 calories includes whatever sides come with the salmon on the menu. ETA: herb rice: 250 steamed veggies: 80 Still seems high.

*snort* Still baffles me why someone would automatically start with a pound of this or that when the goal is comparing weight. A cubic inch of muscle weighs more than a cubic inch of fat. It's pure silliness to take a pound of anything and a pound of anything else and compare them and say "OMG they weigh the same thing u…

Totally missed that! *blush*

What is the serving size? If it's just "one sweet potato" then that's not very exact. as sizes differ wildly. I'm betting that the higher calorie/sugar measurements were taken with a larger portion size. And sugars probably differ according to the specific strain of sweet potato each store offers. Some types are sweeter…

If muscle isn't heavier than fat, then gold isn't heavier than feathers, because a pound of each of those weighs the same, too.

Why, yes, Robert, I'm so glad that you suggested it!

I feel ya! I have been working full time and going to school full time, and just graduated today cum laude with my BFA. I can tell you that Fall 2013 semester, I LITERALLY had no time to work out. None. I left the house and came home 16 hours later most days. When I wasn't at work or school, I was doing schoolwork. I only…

I often don't hit mine, but when I do it's on days when I ate a lot of seafood, pork roast or chicken. And by a lot I mean way more than I should, like a whole pound of shrimp.

Yes, this! It's not a reasonable expectation that you should have to choose to give up foods that you love entirely, and never have them again for the rest of your life, or else be fat. Those are not fair choices. There's plenty of room to eat the stuff you want, within reason, within your caloric budget, and enjoy the…

Whoa. Dudette. Your diary says you're only eating around 600 cals most days. Is that accurate? You're going to do yourself some major harm if you keep that up. You need AT LEAST 1200 cals just to continue functioning without damaging your organs. Your heart beating, your stomach digesting, your liver making bile, your…

You can also think of it like your paycheck. Gross is the total amount of money you earn. Net is the amount leftover after taxes and stuff are taken out. So, net is the amount you keep. Same with calories. Net is the amount you eat that isn't "taxed" with exercise, so you keep it for your normal bodily functions throughout…

Not really, though. I mean, the whole point isn't just to lose weight, but to do so in a sustainable way so that you're not fat again in a year or five or ten. Do you plan to ALWAYS cut sugar and other simple carbs? Your whole life? Or would you rather learn to make peace with sugar and eat sugary treats in reasonable…

It's net as in gross vs. net. In other words, gross calories would be the total number of calories you ate today. Net calories would be the total number of calories you ate, minus the number of calories you burned off when you exercised. Basically they're financial terms, gross and net. Does that make more sense?

All those big fat Asians and their carby white rice carbs!!!

Try not to get too hung up on a number on the scale. 135 with lots of weight training will look very, very different than 135 with only lots of cardio or calorie cutting. You might find that you're happier at an even higher weight with more muscle.

Why hate on the carbs? They're just food, like all the rest. It makes sent to maybe cut down on the carbs which have little to no nutritional value, like sugar, but whole grains, beans, etc. are very healthy.

It means you've eaten 363 calories worth of food, and exercised enough to burn 277 calories, which leaves a net of 86 calories so far today because 363-277=86. I hope you plan on eating more today. That's obviously not enough calories.

Does the water not come out with a slight coffee flavor? I tried doing that at work and it was awful.

Who are these other three people eating your salad, and why aren't they helping to prepare it?

I just graduated. It can be very difficult to find time to do things like working out when you have deadlines and projects and papers hanging over your head. Most universities have at least attempted to make healthy food available in their cafeterias. Good luck!

What an awesome reminder that the number on the scale is somewhat meaningless! Great job, and you look amazing!!

Peanut butter and cheese are both good sources of protein and can easily help boost your caloric intake.