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The problem is there is becoming a shift of people celebrating obesity. The whole celebrating "dad bods", girls with huge butts, and some cultures actually have a strong attachment to women being obese. Not saying dad bods and big butts aren't attractive to people but it's not healthy to promote people to be that way.…

IDK you're experience with fitness or the program you did so keep that in mind but: When I train clients that have been very sedentary and have desk jobs I typically start them out on a very basic workout the first couple of weeks. Even more so if they're over 40. Typically, lifts will be 1-2 sets with light weights for…

Both are important for different reasons. First you have to have fewer calories in vs calories out. Macros don't matter if you don't do that first. Second, macros will help you maintain muscle/strength and the right mix can help increase the Thermic Effect of Food. Eating more protein, for instance, requires more energy to…

The first week or two of exercising is painful, particularly if you weren't very active before. Your program was probably too strenuous for your fitness level if you are overly sore. Best thing to do is keep moving. You may have to dial back the workouts until you get conditioned better, but don't stop. Your soreness will…

Yeah, mine is 33-37 (fair-average). I'm 42 and male.

I was 37 when I was diagnosed with Celiac Disease I had probably been living with it for many years with out knowing it. At that time I felt so horrible I'd do anything to feel better. I had migraines, my joints swelled so bad near the end I could hardly walk and needed help getting up from the floor, my stomach pain was…

Stronglifts isn't intended to be done without barbells. If you're not using a barbell then the program really isn't going to work as intended. If you have a rack, might be good to invest in a bench. You can get them cheap off of craigs list or online.

Mine went down from 84 to 66 when I started losing weight and exercising. Exercise seems to have made the bigger impact.

Be weary of any calculation for calories burned on any device. My fitbit tells me I burn about 3200 a day. I eat 1800 a day, I lose 1lb or so per week. That's with tracking everything that goes in my mouth and weighing everything. If my Fitbit were right I'd be losing 2+lbs per week. Using Katch-Mcardle I should lose 1lb…

I like bikes and treadmill the best. But tried and Arc Trainer last time I was a the gym for the first time and like that too.

age: 42 Male When Obese mine was 84 After losing weight and exercise: 66

Back when I started losing weight (250lbs @ 5'6") my BP was 140/95, now I'm down 118/75. That was losing 70lbs and going from no exercise to 5 days a week and eating better. From what my Dr. says that some people respond to diet and exercise better than others do. Some will always have high BP regardless unless medicated.…

There are no "fast" ways to lose weight that are also safe. Best place to start for someone like you (assuming little or no exercise & bad eating habits) would be to start by making a couple of meaningful changes. If you don't exercise, start walking 30 minutes a day. If you can't do 30 minutes, try breaking it up over the…

Unfortunately the starting point determines how long it takes to get to certain life changing events when it comes to weight loss. You're doing great and if you keep at it you will get the result you are looking for.

I'm no fan of her's as a trainer but she has a valid opinion on this one .

Personally, I think it's a point that needs to be made more by fitness folks when they're asked. Jillian clearly also said: "I'm not saying you are not a beautiful person, I'm not saying you're not physically beautiful, but I'm saying being obese is not a beautiful thing, it's actually a sad thing. Dying early,…

Yes, of course chicken and pork are more efficient sources of meant but obviously not dairy. I believe pork is already the most eaten meant world wide so... So, yes, we could shift to more chicken and pork but they are probably even more industrialized than cattle. I've worked on an industrial chicken farm which is one…

No, there are fat people that eat all sorts of ways. Just saying that vegan diets are not optimal for maintaining muscle mass.

I already posted an article above about it. #1- Goats require more manual labor than cows. #2- The nature of goats means they get more diseases. #3- If it were true you could produce more meat and milk on a same sized farm as an average cattle based farm farmers would do that but they don't. There's also very little demand…

It is. Unless you want to tell people they can't eat meat or have to eat less than the RDA. Even the RDA isn't suitable for active people though.

May be but for people into fitness and athletics the protein requirement is even higher than the average person eats right now. If we want a bunch of skinny folks running around we could all go vegan. Personally, I don't think another person's morals are to be pushed on everyone else but I know a lot of people that think…

I never said that calorie burn was the main reason to do RT. It was clearly for body composition, in my posts. I was giving the OP several points on why RT is good and I would say if you can burn and extra 100 calories a day while at rest that's a positive bonus. It's a better than parking your car farther away at work…

Exactly, I'm not speaking about going and lifting weights one day an getting a metabolism boost. It's more of a cumulative effect, so no, on day 1 you might not see any effect but if we're talking lifestyle change and you do this long term and regularly it can affect metabolism. If it's 7%, IMO that's significant increase…

See below, pretty clear. 7% is pretty significant, if your RMR is 2000 it would be about 140 calories per day extra. To our knowledge this is the first study to use a whole room indirect calorimeter to measure changes in 24-h EE, RMR, SMR and substrate oxidation 72-h after the last RT session in response to a long term (6…

I agree for homesteading goats/sheep are much better. I think that's clear just from the size of the animal and relatively small amount of food and variable diet you can feed them. I was mainly saying they are not practical for supporting the current population of the planet.

That's obvious. Nobody is disputing you can't use goats and sheep for milk. Have you ever seen how much milk 1 cow these days can produce? Average cow now days produces 9 gallons a day, goat 1 gallon, maybe. A cow will eat 100lbs per day, goat 4lbs. So yes, for pound of food in to pound of food out Goats are better that…

If that were the case the industrial farms would use more goats and sheep. It would be much more profit for them if it really worked that way. industrial farms are all about profit so I think it's pretty illogical to think that goats an sheep could produce the same as cattle.

This last part is factually incorrect. It is proven, go look up the studies, that you burn more calories over the next 72hrs when you lift than when you do cardio. You burn fewer in the session, though as I stated super setting can mitigate a lot of the difference, but metabolism is raised over the next 72hrs. Also, yes,…

I really, really, hate it when people push the answer is more regulation and government. You are basically using the government to enforce what you feel is morally correct. And blaming companies for packaging...good one. It wouldn't be possible to deliver the amount of food to market as we did now without packaging and…

Your diet creates most of the deficit. You can choose to eat 500 calories or exercise for 1.5hrs , not eating the 500 calories is easier than 1.5hrs at the gym everyday. Lifting, in fact, is better than cardio in many ways when trying to change body composition. #1-Cardio burns more calories during the session but Lifting…