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I do both, but the squat method seems to involve the core more and I am lot more tired when I do it. I vary by exercise actually.

Power clean to overhead press. Squats Bench Press

It has only happened to me a couple of times and it can mean you had a good hard workout. It can also mean you are pushing yourself too far and can hurt yourself if that natural "you should stop" mechanism is not there. I did it last week in fact, but not like a full Exorcist level pea soup spray, just a little blowback in…

I guess I should have started with "Breaking routine is the key here"

Routine is the key here. I was working out on the elliptical every morning at 5am for months and started sleepwalking through it literally and figuratively. Now I mix it up, I will still love 5am but get in a lunch workout now and then and a night work out fairly often as well to keep my body guessing and do all sorts of…

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On the days I don't work out at 5am I don't eat breakfast. This means that I eat my last meal at around 7pm and do not eat again until noon the next day. This is a 17 hour fast and some of my filttest friends have this method as a keystone of their regiment, so I am trying it.

A small mixed field green salad with a half cup of low cal chicken salad, two hard boiled eggs, and a small cheddar cheese wedge. Dessert was a handful of low sodium blue diamond almonds.

Yes, beer is food for sure. My heritage is Irish and German so it is a food group.

I think running the bathroom all the time is good for you too in the form of short activity bursts. I drink around 90oz-100oz a day most days.

I have been sick since Saturday and missed my normal Saturday workout, Sunday was a day off, then I missed a hard Monday and my normal Tuesday workout. I did ride the recumbent bike at home for 25 minutes last night and did some stretching just to stay loose. I had a boot camp workout this morning and went to that even…

A friend of mine who runs marathons and does mixed martial arts and is in crazy shape says, "there are not bad foods, only bad portions."

Any thoughts on how the Fitbit compares? I can't figure out how it gets an accurate reading unless it is going purely by kinetic motion/steps. It doesn't track heart rate does it?

Thanks, that will probably do the trick.

You are right, I was not keeping up. I did try to eat myself to death when I was married, but I was also married 8 years and she was super skinny, also super crazy. This is where our stories differ it seems.

Good luck, the site has been very helpful to me so far. I would put it 3rd behind diet and exercise.

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Okay for all the hard boiled egg people in this thread, how the hell long do you have to boil these to get them done? My granny always said 3 minutes, but that does not work. I like almonds, popcorn, and hummus for my usual snacks, I also eat oatmeal with peanut butter even for a late afternoon snack. My other trick is…

There is some new exercise machine that suggest you can work out for 15 minutes three times a week and do nothing else and end up losing 75-100 lbs in a year. Yeah, right.

It is hard to argue with this wisdom, especially the Carrot Top part, I think he may be a modern day prophet.

Agreed here, I just took a few days off logging my food which is good considering I did sample some of my son's Halloween candy (just to make sure it was safe of course.) I notice that some of the behaviors encouraged on this site can border on Obsessive Compulsive if taken to the extreme (like weighing your food in…

I use these Gold's gym kettle bells and have had great results with these videos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS_LLBUo7iM&list=PL690FC3C9B73E73BC&index=7

The best analogy I heard was this. Look at a marathon runner. They are gaunt, very often with stringy muscle, and generally may not look all that healthy. Look at a sprinter, lean muscle and very toned. I was told to be the sprinter which is accomplished in this analogy through high intensity interval training not hours…

I bought a cheap stair stepper from Walmart when I was 270. It felt like standing on a pogo stick and bent and fell over the first time I used it. This was sad for fat me.

I am in San Antonio too 4jenniferk and you are right, that we don't usually have anything. We do have bellydancing classes I think, but I am not sure where. Some of my female friends took them.

I like to wear as little as possible, but apparently my gym, the people around me, and probably the police like me to be more fully clothed.

I was the kid who knew it all and never shut my mouth. Thank goodness I grew out of that! :)

I have a colleague whose kidney's shut down with pre workout supplements being at least part of the reason.

I actually agree with robin52077 here, I was kidding a bit with my sales slant above, thus the smiley. I have a friend who is training fora triathlon and he currently eats around 4,500 calories a day just to maintain and has been actually dropping regardless.

It sounds like they are giving you more calories to be able to sell you more of their stuff :) I am in Sales, so it slants the way I look at the world.