Huffdogg Member

edited when i realized what I said had already been said.

You will frequently see the quote "abs are made in the kitchen, not the gym" on this site ;)

Neither cardio nor weight lifting is going to help you lose weight. A calorie deficit does that. Lifting while in a deficit helps your body resist its impulse to eat its own muscle instead of fat, however.

You of course do not have to do these things. HOWEVER, if you do not do some kind of resistance/strength training work, you will suffer from muscle atrophy (particularly in a deficit where your body thinks you're dying of starvation and keeps fat instead of muscle by preference) and be more prone to bone deterioration…

I cut my exercise calories in half for something like 20+ miles on a bike, because my fitbit estimates those rides at more than my daily allowance of calories. When I do strength training, I usually just allow myself about 250-300 calories as a flat amount. Essentially, eating back your exercise calories is the right thing…

Played consistently since the AQ war effort, have zero interest in Classic. Vanilla WoW was a job, and I already have one of those now. No thanks. A *remake* of Vanilla with the modern QoL upgrades would hold my interest. A repeat of the nightmare of actual Vanilla...no thanks.

I think you should maybe look a little further into it. There are roughly a dozen entries in the database here on MFP and not only they, but most food service websites that sell gyros meat alone (like the cones that restaurants get) list a certain amount of carbs per serving. Like sausages, there are fillers added to the…

I don't know that I think it's true that gyros meat is just lamb. I mean, I think that the stuff you get from a restaurant is often a big processed hunk of meat that's largely lamb but also some other stuff mixed together. Maybe I'm wrong about that.

Fixed that for you.

...which means it's heavier. In the same way that bricks are heavier than feathers. "Heavier" means that the same volume has greater mass than an equal volume of the "lighter" material.

Shoot for half that and you've got a good, solid chance.

ME3 Multiplayer was one of the greatest gaming experiences of my life. I still play it from time to time. Really looking forward to Andromeda.

At 6'3" and 217 lbs 1680 is an awful low mark. To answer the original post, as long as you hit your minimum amount of protein and are doing some sort of resistance exercise to preserve whatever muscle you do have, fats are your friend in a deficit. Olive oil, higher-fat dairy than you might normally use, nuts and nut…

Plain greek yogurt with vanilla protein powder added tastes an awful lot like cheesecake filling.

Macros are the way to go. Trying to chart foods via food group is going to get exhausting. Most salad dressings are either mostly fat or mostly carbs, but the majority have a certain amount of both.

Is your problem not getting satiated or not liking the same foods? Everyone who says "order something different when you go out" is pretty much on point as far as that goes, but for the at-home stuff, there's plenty of ways for him to dress up a meal to add calories, and for you to dress it down to reduce them. Prepare a…

It's pretty hard to eat too much salad. As long as your macros are within range, you're good.

i prefer starting strength over stronglifts, personally, but ymmv. Definitely start now. Also stop worrying so much about *weight* and start paying more attention to measurements, inches, clothes sizes, and how you look and feel. Most people think they want to be much lighter than they really need to be, and would look and…

No offense, but dancing with weights in your hands is not lifting weights.

for years I logged my weights sessions as 350 calories and it usually worked out very well in terms of my diary balancing out with my results.

calisthenics and kettlebell exercises are often used in HIIT, which sort of sidesteps the point of the whole HIIT thing. They're supposed to be an all-out five-alarm fire for your heart and lungs. They are meant to be done in exercises that are more strenuous for the cardiovascular system than they are for your…

If anything I'd look into adding some bodyweight resistance training like a Convict Conditioning program, or you'll lose some muscle tone along with the flab you're trying to shred. Aside from that, keep doing what you're doing for aerobic activity and handle the rest in the kitchen.

In the actual city or somewhere else in the area? I didn't think one was actually coming to Chicago. I've been planning to try to do a Spartan sprint this year, too.

This is pretty much verbatim what I would have typed.

lol @ Team Beach Body

Thanks for all the commentary, everyone ;)

I might just see you on there. If I can pry myself away from farming multiplayer characters on Mass Effect 3, I might pick up playing again. I'd like to get all my toons to 90 on Duskwood before the next xpac.

wut? Anything that requires grip strength is a grip strength exercise.

No. Priority of fuel usage doesn't mean a thing in a consistent deficit. Adequate protein and protein-sparing stimulus do, but splitting hairs between different types of carbs is pointless if you are maintaining a consistent moderate deficit.

balsamic vinegar and a splash of olive oil.