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The point of the rest periods is to help you increase your strength. If you don't rest between sets you won't be able to do as much weight as you could if you waited the full amount. I got bored too just sitting around, so I started walking around the machines area to time my rest periods. Each loop was 30 seconds, so it…

I think it's unikely everybody is going to be watching what you're eating. Move around the room, talk to different people, always have something to drink in your hand (water, diet soda, tea, whatever), and remember that the party is about your neighbor, not you. Also you could plan it into your day - plan to have a slice…

I've never seen a Zumba instructor who looked like the women in the ads.

Only some of the workouts last 90 minutes, and there are ways you could break it up if you need to. For instance, doing the HIIT on a different day than your lifting day, When you get to stage 3 and face the body weight matrix you could easily move that to later in the day, since you could do it anywhere. If you're in your…

It's not a specific kind of diet, I mean not low-carb, gluten-free, or anything like that. The focus is on getting far more protein than most of us are used to - the author recommends 30% of our calories come from protein. The main purpose of the food guidelines is to explain why you may need to eat more than you probably…

If you're only eating 25 g of fat per day there's no point in putting yourself through the side effects. Going by the ads, it only prevents 1/3 of the fat calories from absorption. 25 x 9 = 225, 225/3 = 75. That's not much of an additional deficit, and you're already under your goal by a significant amount.

Hi there - welcome to MFP! I had a similar onset of symptoms when I was diagnosed in 1999 - numbness in the legs and my left foot kept "dropping" (I tripped over everythin until I realized what was happening). I've had a couple of hospitalizations from MS, been on all the ABC drugs plus Rebif, and now I'm off all…

I use it every day in my coffee. I don't know - or care - about it's status as "natural" or not, but I prefer it because it only takes me one packet where I always needed two of Splenda/Equal/whatever.

Did you fall off while tring to get in the right poisition or did you have trouble maintaining the position on the ball? If it's the former, I find it helpful to place the ball near a wall, put one leg on the ball and brace myself on the wall to get the other leg on the ball. Then, I walk forward on my hands until just my…

I don't think you're supposed to eat your exercise calories back - the maintenance levels already figured that in. What you might want to do is eat the 1500 level - your maintenance calories without exercise. Then let your exercise creat your deficit. As for that one pound, I've had to give up on weighing myself while I'm…

It varies, even within stages - they all got longer after stage 1, largely because the rest periods increase and you'll add in HIIT. I'm on Stage 5 now, and 5A took me 90 minutes but 5B only took an hour. When I added in 15 minutes of HIIT I was still done in 90 minutes.

Why would your height have anything to do with what kind of exercise you do?

I'm on stage 5 and I've had no trouble doing this program even though I have a quite a ways to go with my weight loss.

Look for ways to lighten up what you like. If it's crunchy tacos, try taking all the taco fixings and making it into a salad with a few chips nroken up to get all the flavors and crunch you like with half the calories. For cupcakes, look for alternatives that are more reasonable, or other kinds of sweet things that satisfy…

It's not terribly helpful for telling you where to start - the 1 rep max is what you could do just one tme and be completely spent from the effort. You should be able to tell what you can handle,and everybody is different (hence, no guidelines on what weigt to start with). How do you feel at the end of the 15 reps? If you…

Congratulations on all the progress you've made! When I left the military I did the same thing - within a few months I had packed on so much weight there was no way the army would take me back (subconciously I think that's what I was trying to ensure). It took me more than 10 years to finally do something about it, when I…

I think you only need one - you're get to have Korean food without guilt tonight IF you run.

I have no desire to lift 500 pounds either, I just want a simple workout. I'll increase weight only when it starts to feel easy. After this is over I have to get back into cardio training because there are some runs I'd like to do this spring that I am, at the moment, in absolutely no shape for. I've had knee trouble for a…

There isn't a whole lot to it - StrongLifts 5x5 Workout A Squat 5x5 Bench Press 5x5 Overhead Press 5x5 StrongLifts 5x5 Workout B Squat 5x5 Barbell Rows 5x5 Deadlift 1x5 For each workout you try to increase weight by 5 pounds. There's a free guide (that I haven't downloaded yet) that goes into more details and has workout…

I've been thinking about this, too, and I'm considering doing the Stronglifts 5x5 program (Scroll to the bottom of this page: http://stronglifts.com/stronglifts-5x5-beginner-strength-training-program/), because it's focused on only 3 compound moves, 3 times a week. I really like the squats and deadlifts, and the compound…

At my gym I have to stalk the squat rack to get into it, and sometimes I just have to find an alternative. There are also smaller barbells available and I just take a 60-pounder and find a spot to do them seperately. It's limited to how much I can lift up to my shoulders straight from the ground (60 pounds is the upper…

If you read through all the stages you'll see that is exactly what happens. I'm doing stage 4 right now which is 2-3 sets of 8, and stage 5 is 3-4 sets of 4. The first stage gets you used to lifting heavier while also working on form. Go by how your body feels - if you finish your set and feel like you could have done…

Possibly because it's hard to measure if you've actually lost fat. Now that I've been doing this program for a while I wish I had done things a little differently from the outset, and after the next rest week I plan to shake things up a but (I'll finish up stage 4 this week). I don't think this is the program to use if you…

At first I wrote it down on a 3x5 card that I folded in half - one half for workout A, one for Workout B. I slipped that card inside my arm band or a pocket, and found I didn't need to use it after the first few times. Now I write it down in a note on my iPhone, review it before I get started, and don't need to refer to it…

Cogratulations - you look great! What was the bodpod experience like?

Before this program I was already eating more than the book recommended. Now that I'm not doing anywhere near as much cardio I cut it back to the amounts the book recommends, but it can be hard sometimes (especially right now). The numbers suggested in the book were for just maintaining your weight, and when I'm in my rest…

I find the whey isolates easier to digest, and mix them with either soy or almond milk. It's great to get your protein from food, but when you need 150 g per day, it's hard to do and still stay under your calories.

Silk soy creamer, French Vanilla, with a packet of truvia - I can't drink my coffee black.

Tropical fruit gum helps me. The flavors don't mix well, and I find the fruity gum satisfies the sweet craving. I haven't been completely successful, but I have managed to indulge only in things I really like. Luckily, sea salt carmels are only 45 calories a piece and two will do.

I'm in Port Orchard, WA, also on the other side of Puget Sound. I love this side of the Sound where i can see the downtown Seattle skyline without any of the hassles to get there.