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I tried eating unprocessed, but I lost too much weight trying to catch it and keep it between the slices of bread. When I can catch it seems like half the time unprocessed meat eats the bread before I can! Now I generally try to have the meat slaughtered and butchered before I try to make a sandwich with it. BTW:…

Fish and cottage cheese have become major sources for me.

This. Pardon the rudeness, but it sounds like your doctor is one of the following: - a drone, who can't see past the numbers on the first page - a tool, who is paid to not see past the numbers on the first page - phoning it in - graduated from med school last in his class

I get a fair amount of "you're doing it wrong" as feedback. I keep records, and have graphs that make it pretty clear how right the path is, whether or not I'm doing steps heel-toe-toe-heel or heel-toe-heel-toe. Iron: make your hemoglobin *and* your willpower out of it.

It's hard to eat back the calories that you have used for exercise: those calories are generally exhaled as CO2 and water. I would suggest eating the nutrients that your body needs to build the muscles that the exercise makes it want. Or note that what you're doing now has allowed you to drop 14lbs, and soldier on. : )

Crossing 200lbs I had a 2 to 3 lb per week loss while eating toward a goal of 1750 and achieving 1500 to 2100 cals per day (except for one or two days where I goofed and only ate about 1250). I was doing a lot of cardio though: biking about 6 1/2 miles to work most days. If I also walked at lunch, I was closer to 2000, if…

An "a calorie is a calorie" thread is not an "a calorie is not a Calorie" thread. (That discussion would be da Bomb.) Perhaps we could also include discussion of the caloric value of a pound of keratin ... the amazing "output only" calories, Need to lose weight? Just make more keratin, then cut it off! Eat it in unlimited…

Then cook instead of talking about cooking. In the scene you described here, he's objecting to an idea, and if your description is correct, the idea is one he is not prepared to imagine. The aroma a good meal is far more convincing than any description of a good meal. And afterwards, he *can* imagine that meal, you can ask…

Get one that sits still well, and you don't mind leaving it where you can use it. If any move around, the numbers move around too. At fraction of a pound precision, where you step on it, what is under it, and if it's tilted can make pretty big differences. I personally get the most *useful* information from a sewing tape.…

You're still likely to get a couple of bouts of growth between now and 21... just work out and eat clean (make certain you get good protein consistently, and enough fuel for muscle growth), so your muscles outgrow the fat. That will probably work better for you than trying to diet it through on this one. You might need as…

(Paraphrased the quote a bit to show the important parts.) I would never be willing to follow any diet that is so far off that vitamins are recommended to be injected instead of ingested. Particularly while I have kids to set an example for. I started at somewhere between 200 and 205 in July, and am losing two to three…

For people who have a hard time getting potassium, they are a good source. Probably not worth the severe cramping for you.

As a guy who refused to drink from 12 to 22, I got my fair share of weird looks and comments. Still don't drink much, and really disturb coworkers sometimes by not taking "team building" events as a drinking occasion. Stick to it, and you'll find the ones that matter the most will respect you for it. Doing something is a…

Relatives bearing desserts: "Oh my goodness. That looks so delicious and rich, and I barely have enough energy to burn off half of a piece - thank you for a small piece!" (presuming fruit pie, yum! Fruit!) Chocolate in the fridge: I have that, and it has a very specific purpose. It is there to provide a bit of an insulin…

Planning meals would make it easier, but has been a significant failure point for me in the past. So I put some effort into finding healthier foods that appealed to me this summer, and now I'm finding myself again on a wrong side of caloric balance, but the other way. And a lot of the higher calorie foods that I used to…

You're not alone. There's a lot of people who's "best shape ever" has been mild enough to make that true (noting that "mild" here might mean "only" lifting 2x bodyweight, or only carrying 15 extra kilos while running 6-minute miles ($%^# college commute-by-panic) - it can still be pretty intense), and I suspect that's why…

When first getting started, you want to breathe more often than you might later on. For the breaststroke, since you mention that's your primary stroke at this time, I recommend lifting the head and inhaling every time you pull your arms back, and then exhale slowly through the nose during the glide and kick. If you find…

The way of the 16-year-old: "Sorry, I already ate. I'll just have a coffee. Doesn't <uncle's girlfriend-or-better> look lovely today?"

Long term, I'm in a pretty similar boat. Ripped is not really sustainable for decades if you have other goals that are simply more important. Now, this coming Christmas is a bit different, but that's a gift for a specific person at a specific time, and while she's not really into the bodybuilder physique, I know some…

When I get bored of oats with whatever fruit I have on hand, I have been known to make it a little different to mix it up: 1/2 c oats, tablespoon cornmeal for texture, one egg (stirred in while cooking), one tablespoon butter, black pepper to taste. Sometimes dandelion greens, generally only in the spring when they taste…

Thanks for the feedback. I may have to try to find time to add another meal, because I honestly can't imagine eating more at one sitting. As it is I'm feeling stuffed for a half hour to an hour afterwards, and breakfast is already so large that I have to make certain that I have an hour afterwards to digest before biking…

Yes, but not for weight! I take a dry weight (after waking up and using the bathroom, but before drinking anything) every morning to help manage my water balance. I know I usually vary about 3.5lbs over the course of the day, and that my scale, as precise as the electronic ones seem, is actually randomly off by about a…

4,9,7,10 should be 1 through 4. Those are spot on. I would add "listen to what they want 'in bed' (or out) so that you can work with them on it". "Realize they might change from year to year"

A different view: you tried to include him in the activity, but not in the goal. He picked you, and obviously likes that. You want to make a bit of self-improvement, and chose a goal - leaving him out of the buy-in step. He's still bought in to you as you are. Back to the pictures: bet he'd be amused if you included him in…

What works for motivating me: photo site favorites. I think there may be a bit more honesty in labeling attractive in the anonymity of the internet than in asking a specific person how you look. And remember, "hot" members of the appropriate sex are used to being pickier, so their favorites are a little more…

Just so you know we're not all blowing smoke, check the fence supports. Looks like you went from covering 4.5 spaces to 3.5 spaces. At most .5 is from the camera distance/angle change, so you've shrunk at least a couple of inches on the width. And much sexier legs, BTW. They have shape now.