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Eating how soon before you exercise? If your stomach is still digesting food while you exercise, of course you will be sick. This is why you need to eat something that is easily digestible (something with lots of short chain carbohydrates, like fruit), and eat it early enough so that your stomach isn't "busy" while you are…

Thanks for posting this. A lot of people underestimate the importance of eating the right things at the right time, and I like that your advice is stamped with the imprimatur of medical and dietary professionals.

Why did you stop for 10 days because of 1 binge? You need to draw determination from within, and log and record what you eat even if you eat an outrageous amount on one day. The next day just stay within your calories and keep moving. Failures will happen. Even Olympic runners trip and fall, but when they do, they don't…

You should exercise seven days a week. What you do and how intense it is should vary day by day, but you should definitely exercise every day. At least one or two days during the week I would make sure that it's very light, so that your body can adequately recover, and try not to make your workouts too intense more than…

You do need a day or so of rest between strength training sessions for a given muscle group, and for obvious scientific reasons. The purpose of strength training is to cause stress and trauma to a muscle so that the body will respond by repairing the muscle and strengthening the muscle fiber and/or creating new muscle…

Just so that you know, I don't think it helps you to eat the calories that your body burns on Friday, two days later on Sunday. Your body needed the calories on Friday, and if you didn't give them to it, and you don't have adequate fat stores, it's going to enter catabolism and break down muscle tissue for fuel. After that…

30 minutes of any dancing would be beneficial, but you should know something. You cannot control where your body burns fat. There is no such thing as choosing an activity to burn fat in a specific area, so just let go of that idea. That said, if you enjoy bellydancing, it's exercise, so give it a try.

First of all, STOP WORKING OUT IMMEDIATELY! Why did you continue to work out? Anyway, without knowing what you were thinking, I'll move on. It's called R.I.C.E. To help the muscle heal sooner, you must apply the following to the muscle: Rest Ice Compression Elevation Now, you can't quite elevate your butt and thigh, but…

I just have one question. What is wrong with mixing techniques, theory, and exercises from different so-called "disciplines?"

Irony indeed. One man's gorging inspires another's exercise.

Working out is not nearly as fun as biking, climbing, swimming, hiking, et cetera. Sometimes, what you want to accomplish physically requires you to supplement those "pure" and "natural" exercises with artificial training. Weight lifting once or twice a week will probably make you perform better and have more fun at those…

Get a food scale and a measuring cup. Use them until you can estimate well. Problem solved. Remember when you were a kid and learning how big an inch was meant using a ruler to measure things until you got a good idea? Yea, well it's just like that. Problem solved.

I'm sorry, but this is just wrong. Your body needs carbohydrates for more than just post-workout recovery. Also, you CAN ingest too much protein. Depending on what kind of strength training you're doing, I seriously doubt that you need more than 60-80 grams of protein per day. You do need, however, to eat at least 3 times…

You cannot control where you lose fat. I'm sorry. You can, however, focus on developing your muscles in those areas so as to tighten them up, but the fat will go at its own pace. It sounds like you are already strength training those areas, so don't worry about it.

It could definitely be real. It's easy to be surprised by the good changes that strength and resistance training can cause in our bodies. Also, even if you WERE dreaming, (which you probably aren't), it's making you FEEL better about yourself, and that a lone is reason to keep it up; even if noticeable changes didn't…

Yes, here's your meal plan: 1) Eat a balanced diet. 2) Eat at the right times. It's really that simple. The key part is to eat, or refuel, when your body needs it most. After you finish a strength training session, your muscles will have sustained damage as well as depleted their energy stores (your body stores energy…

One potato has almost 300 calories. With NOTHING added to it, 300 calories. The problem with a potato is that people eat a whole one, thinking that it's healthy (which it is) but not realizing how many calories they just ate. If you want a potato, cut it up. Otherwise, it's probably the only thing you'll be eating for that…

You say that you used to be a bone. Tell me, could it be that you are gaining lots of muscle mass? Your pants could be getting tighter because of growing muscles in you butt, thighs, hips, abs, obliques, etc; of course, I have no reason to believe this is the case, based on the limited information that you gave us, but I'm…

I agree with some of the responders who said they exaggerate the other way around. I make it a policy to under-estimate my exercise while over-estimating my calories. Just make it a conscious policy. Your sub-conscious can't force you to do something differently when you have a conscious and deliberate policy.

I don't know why many of you are operating under this misconception, but your logic is absolutely flawed. "I was doing all those things before I started and they didn't make a difference so why would they now?" The answer is simple; because NOW you are also reducing your caloric intake and increasing your exercise.…

Try something new. Do you belong to a gym? If not, can you jump rope, do pushups/situps, and run? If so, set up a circuit with jumping rope, jogging, situps, and pushups, or squats. The idea is to setup a few stations. Station A: Jogging, your active rest and recovery station. Station 1: Jump rope Station 2: Situps Station…

Also, I just took a look at your profile, and you've done a fantastic job so far. Maybe the best advice for you is to focus on making your new way of eating and exercising a permanent part of your lifestyle, and then focusing on life. If you continue on track, you will lose the 10lb's eventually. Now, if you really must…

Have you tried interval training?

Her problem is that she works part time, if I understand correctly, so that her daily activity level would over-state her exertion because she only works, say, 3 days a week. If she sets her activity level at sedentary, therefore, she needs to account for the calories expended from 6 hours of active work. Also, for those…

If you're burning 3.5 calories per minute while working for 6 hours, you need to factor that into your daily calorie budget. It's not just about calories in (from food) in and calories out from "exercise," it's about ALL calories in, ALL calories out. If you set your activity level to sedentary, it's not taking into…

There's no objective answer. To know if it's interval training, consider your heart rate. Your heart rate during easy cardio should be between 50-65% of your maximum (you should be exerting yourself but not so much that you cant carry on a conversation. During interval training, you should spike your exertion level to…

Set your activity level to sedentary (if you work less than 5 days a week), and count your time spent working as exercise. Input it at the same rate as the slowest pace of walking. You'll be underestimating your calories burned but it should work out decently.

What is HCG?

What is HCG?

Thanks.