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This was my goal last year. 280 pounds in December of 2014, and my goal was under 200 by 2016. Got down to 195 in November than went into Maintence to recomp and have stayed that weight so far. You can do it just keep your eye on your goal and you will reach it before you know it!

Listen to your body. What works for one person might not work for another. If you end your day and you don't feel starving or you don't feel like you need to eat, don't eat back the calories, but if you feel like you need fuel, you feel weak or exhausted than you can eat back some of them but all is not recommended. There…

It's all dependent on your body and how much your pushing yourself in your workouts... If your not giving it a big effort you could work out twice a day everyday.Everyone is different, last year I did cardio at least 5 days a week for at least an hour a day (sometimes low intensity sometimes hiit), and did just fine, now…

IMO gaining fat is way easier than losing fat, but gaining muscle is way harder than losing muscle

Preworkout supplement and protein powder with skim milk

I'm still pretty new to strength training, I am barely able (if at all) to get parallel even without a bar due to hip flexibility, I also have patallar tendinitis in one knee (I'm lead to believe it's because my knee is taking the brunt of what my hip should). Long story short lots of reading has lead me to believe that…

Sweet potato and oatmeal.

This is exactly how I felt, I haven't made it to the actual training of bls yet and even thou I'm going to read it cover to cover right now I'm happy with my stronglifts program, for me it was the nutritional side and the mental health side of the book that has really impressed me. I had a small foundation of what I read…

As others have said if your a beginner follow a routine.. I started lifting in November and after 3 months of not feeling like I was getting as far as I wanted I just recently (within the last week) started stronglifts 5x5... Already feel better about where I'm at and just overall feel like I'm going down a better path…

Yea I spent all last year out of the gym just counting calories and cardio, than started weight lifting in December, did 2 months of trying my own exercises and making my own plan with little to no gains, now less than a week into bls advice combined with stronglifts 5x5 program and I'm already making gains.

Your journey seems to be allot like mine, starting weight was 280, originally just wanted to see a number under 200 on the scale than figured I would be ok at 200-210, got there and still wasn't satisfied to dropped my goal to 190, now I'm at 190 and trying to do a body recomp and gain muscle, not really sure how much more…

You can lose weight not exercising at all. It's just easier when adding exercise. Read the stickies in the forum, losing weight is nothing more than simple math, I lost 85 pounds in 10 months last year the number one reason was my diet change, second reason was spending an hour a day at least 5 days a week on a treadmill

Absolutely. This book has really given me a great foundation and my only regret is that I didn't read it 14 months ago when I started my health journey. I recommend this book to everyone I know and I haven't even finished it yet lol

I have allot of the same issue so for me it's just learning to eat a large amount of the stuff you can and less of the higher calorie foods. For dinner I usually end up eating 3-4 servings of veggies, an entire sweet potato than a small portion of meat. For lunch I've learned to get low calorie bread... It's not nearly as…

+1 for optimum nutrition. Tons of flavors and the only one I haven't liked so far is salty caramel... I don't recommend that one.... :/

All depends on your goals. When my goal was dropping numbers on the scale I didn't take any supplement. ( prolly should have been taking a multivitamin), now that I'm trying to recomp and build muscle it's tons of protein powder and preworkouts (not chemically necessary but I love the mental push).

Diet is most important by far, you can lose 150 pounds without cardio or weight training if your diet is right. Others won't agree but imo If your strictly going for pounds off the scale I would do strictly cardio, I dropped 85 pounds last year without touching a weight and now that I'm close to where I want to be I've…

No offense taken at all I know I'm a beginner and I was basically just taking word of mouth from what others do and piecing it together, I'm definitely gonna give your ppl routine a shot, I'm nervous about only doing 6 exercises a day but maybe if I give myself more rest in between ill be able to do more weight. Short…

I originally did the dumbbell bench press on bicep day (not knowing) but I changed that and forgot to take it off my notes (which were copied and pasted directly over to this), so I don't do dumbbell bench press at all anymore with this routine, I focus on barbell bench press. I travel allot for work so I also have a…

Sorry should have explained better, By a curl bar or straight bar I meant barbells, so your able to do barbell lifts like deadlifts or bench press or squats with your powerblocks instead of needing a separate barbell. No matter what choice you choose you will be happy.

If you can afford the u-70 or u-90 set they are more than worth it because they are the only ones that have a curl bar or straight bar attachment. Yes they are quite expensive but the grip is more comfortable (imo) and they are quieter than the elite and sport sets, but being able to upgrade to a straight or curl bar, or…

We all do dumb things when we're learning, I was on the bench press without a spotter last week doing relatively lightweight when on my last rep I just lost all strength and couldn't get the bar back up on the rack, struggled for prolly 30 seconds of panic before I was able to get the bar back up finally. I knew people…

I use plantronics backbeat. For the life of me I can't figure out why these headphones aren't more well known they are perfect imo. They don't tighten in your ear like jaybirds (which to me is uncomfortable), they are so lightweight you barely know your wearing them, and sound quality and battery life are very respectable.…

It would be impossible to do but the real study would be to see consistency of fast food places and their calories. There's always going to be a small margin of error +- the stated calorie, but if restaurants are consistently way over the calorie count that is stated it becomes an issue.

For me it's protein powder or protein/granola bars. My daily routine is breakfast, fiber bar, lunch, protein bar, protein shake sometimes before or after dinner, and dinner. Keep your body eating small meals and it will help curb your appetite. If you eat a big filling meal your stomach will stretch and make you want…

Plantronics backbeat fit, they only go into your ear Channel a little but they will stay in place and are so lightweight that you don't realize you have them on. I've literally bought like 4 other pairs of Bluetooth headphones (including the highly praised jaybirds x2) as backups for travel and ended up returning them all…

My wife and I work out at the same time to keep us both motivated and to push each other to not skip our gym visit, but we both have agreed we like to get it our own zone and not lift together, plus she goes to orange theory fitness and I go to 24 hour lol.

I'm usually really good about my nutrition and I'm good about hitting my calorie goals, I'm just really really bad about when I go off track I fly onto the next continent lol

The Fitbit is a great tool to keep yourself moving and to get a general consensus of how your daily activity is, but take it from someone who used one for a year, they CAN be extremely inaccurate. Mine would log up to 40,000 steps on days I never left the house because of arm movements, not that I blame the Fitbit for that…

I almost bought a pack of these yesterday but decided against it... I just have no control with the amazingness that is Oreo. I plan to have 3-4 and end when the package is gone. I feel like it is scientifically impossible to stop eating them once you start, if someone could please show me proof that it is possible I would…