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What do you eat between breakfast and the time that you get shaky? You should eat every three hours or so, and eat the right things.
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Both of those things are good, and you should practice both of them. A healthy snack in the evening as well as good mental and spiritual discipline all day. Basically, effective meal planning should not give you a 6 hour stretch where you are not eating. Make the size of your meals smaller and spread them out more.
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I eat every three hours, including before bed. Your body needs you to feed it every three hours or so. (More or less depending on activity levels and other needs). Do this, drink lots of water, and plan on eating before bed. Allow yourself enough calories to eat when you're hungry in the evening. Again, it's OKAY to eat…
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You know, there's nothing wrong with eating late at night. As long as you log it and stay within your calories it's just fine. Despite the inexplicably popular belief, your body expends calories not only while you're awake, but while you sleep as well! (astonished gasps? no? okay.) So seriously, just make sure what you eat…
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That's a big stone?
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Umm, don't you want to lose inches? By itself, why does "weight" matter? If you weighed 160lbs and were absolutely lean and fit, would you still want to weigh less? If you reached your goal weight but were 50% body fat, would you be be happy? You should be far happier about losing inches than about losing weight. The whole…
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You can try it now at an indoor gym! Also, for those of you who feel that you need to drop weight first, you may also want to start climbing or keep climbing now instead of after you drop weight. Given just how great a burn it is, and given that its burn to fun ratio is the highest I've found so far (10 parts fun for every…
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What are the insanity workouts? Are they scaled for intensity and/or weight?
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"The Chess Artist" by J.C. Hallman. Absolutely fantastic writing. Interesting and true narrative that you hardly find in books. Hallman masterfully blends human drama, travel journal, chess history, and anthropology into a wonderfully informative, extremely entertaining, and often moving book. Check it out!
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No, do NOT work through it. A pulled muscle is like a broken bone in one respect; there is damaged tissue. If you broke a bone in your leg, would you consider "working through it?" No, well, mostly because it would be impossibly painful, but also because you'd know that you need to rest it to let it heal. A pulled muscle…
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The average person needs about .36grams of protein per pound of bodyweight per day. This is assuming their physical activity is low to average. If you body build or strength train, you should eat more. You almost certainly do not need more than 1g of protein per pound of bodyweight per day. Also, keep in mind that almost…
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If the muscle is stressed from an activity, say yesterday, it becomes tight as it recovers. If, say today, you don't warm up and adequately stretch the muscle, then do something which either requires it to contract suddenly or strongly or do something which stretches it suddenly, you can easily pull it. You were probably…
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You're burning over 1100 calories per day and only eating 300 more than that? Wow, why? How? Aren't you hungry? Start getting some gatorade in the mix and drink some calories. Get a protein powder and blend some calories into a shake. Liquid calories are easier to take in that solid ones, and when you're working out (or…
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One major problem with the so-called HCG diet is that because some studies have shown the hormone to be an effective way to shed fat in overweight people, a lot of vendors are marketing and selling HCG serums, and to my knowledge, there is little control and oversight, such that many of the serums are ineffective and…
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Now is your chance to use it and tell everyone what you think.
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As a man, you should eat at least 1200 calories per day, but you could limit yourself to just that and exercise as much as you want (within reason), resulting in a net calorie intake of a few hundred calories even. The important thing is to make sure you are giving your body enough calories to fuel your body for these…
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If 1400 is too hard then why start at 2lbs per week? Start at 0.5lbs per week and see how that goes?
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Also, this website (MFP) is telling you to eat 1400 NET calories. Meaning that you deduct exercise. Are the other websites telling you 1700-1800 NET calories, or total calories? It could be that they are assuming you may burn up to 400 calories per day from exercise, and that you should just not go over 1800?
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What sites are telling you to eat 1700-1800 per day? Are they considering that you are 20 years old, 5'4", and 174 pounds? I'm 5'7", 190, with a lot of muscle and relatively wide bone-structure, and it tells me that if I wanted to lose 2lbs per week I should eat 1260 per day. It sounds pretty accurate for you.
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Yes and no. There is water in it. But use your common sense. Is it dehydrating you more than hydrating you? But all of that aside, why does it matter? You should be drinking plenty of water without having to split hairs about what counts as water or not. DRINK WATER. Get a big water bottle (1 liter or more), and…
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I use it. I love it. It has a good balance of different types of protein, as well as good macronutrient balance overall, with plenty of Carbs, some Fat, and a solid but not overboard amount of protein. Basically, I have this powder in the morning with some fruit and a little bit of OJ and it's a great way for me to start…
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Make your dinner the right portion. Then sit down with a big bottle of water and your food, and watch a tv show you like. Eat slowly. Every now and then, get up from your food and do something.
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Are you eating before your workout? Are you eating enough in general?
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Increasing your protein consumption can increase the rate at which you excrete calcium. "There is no question that increasing dietary protein increases urinary calcium." "Individuals consuming high protein intakes, particularly from omnivorous sources, develop sustained hypercalciuria."…
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Did you discuss your concerns with your doctor? This is exactly the sort of question that you should ask the one who prescribed this drug to you. Please, for this matter, don't seek the advice of anyone on MFP until you've spoken about this with your doctor.
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Thank you!
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True, but you'd be quite surprised at what people pass for common sense in nutritional, health, or fitness information, when it is directly contradicted by scientific fact or research. For example, when people make claims like "you cannot have too much protein" or "try a no carb diet, it's healthy," what they are putting…
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I know that many people do try to educate themselves using good sources, and I'm glad that you do. I'm also glad that you post in forums and respond to posts. I think one of the great aspects of this website is that so many people ask questions and so many people try to answer them. That said, I think it would better for…
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Unfortunately, this isn't true. If you get all of your protein from whole foods (not supplements), then it probably is true, but if you're using protein supplements, you should know that you can have too much. What happens if you have too much? Well, if you over-ingest by a lot in a short period of time, then you could…
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I started climbing recently. Love it. If you're in decent shape, you should definitely give it a try. Just as an added incentive, it burns a TON of calories (more than any aerobic activity) and causes huge strides in strength. Also, did I mention it's super fun?
