mcspiffy88 Member

holy mother of calories. you look 20 years younger !!! congratz on turning your life around!

Well this is awkward. You just summed up my exact routine. Well I don't know what to tell you other than this routine has been working for me for a year now. Lost 20 pounds, gained some when I quit smoking, now loosing again. I would tell you to cut back on coffee but I drink about 4 cups myself aswell ... To be honest I…

eat less or work out more. probably due to wrong calorie measurements.

you can't. best you can do is avoid junk bulking with hamburgers and crap food in general. than cut again.

if you are hungry, eat. that has been my way to diet at least. if you feel the need, divide your meals.

lol. well I agree that you can eat anything with a combination of tabasco garlic beer and/or whiskey.

Well to be honest OP it is absolutely impossible to measure it. Gym equipment manufacturers will have you believe anything and all is measurable because people looking to gain/loose weight want to see numbers because it gives them a psychological effect of reassurement that their hard work wont be in vain. While it is true…

well if you ask me you look pretty darn fit. I don't know what to say but it seems you have a self confidence problem rather than a weight problem .. also there is an anatomical need for some fat tissue to exist on the belly which is higher on women than men. 6 packs on women are flat out (pun intended) unhealthy. maybe…

3 pounds up and down is not a big deal. If you don't see a change within a month than you have a problem with your diet other then that.. Congratz on giving up smoking. thats a huge *kitten* deal. I totally feel you there. been smoking for 9 years, gave up on 1st of august and I put back 18 pounds since then. that might…

well Im all for fast weight loss but 400 cals a day for an adult male is pretty wacko. My salads have more calories than that.

the only way to drop stomach fat is to drop weight. period. it is the last one to go .. but just keep dieting steadily and you will get there. It took me ~5 months to get rid of a respectable beer belly. well most of it, I never got to the 6 pack stage. Now I have it again due to the fact I quit smoking, back to dieting…

I would suggest having your thyroid checked out. but at any rate your family physician should be able to point into the right direction. If it all checks out (hope so) you will probably have to do some strength training .. muscle loss is an issue with anorexia and keep in mind it is muscle that burns a lot of cals during…

Thanks for your very well informed, thought out and expressed input.

YES. 1200 is low to start with even without exercise. dont listen to ppl telling you to 'oh just starve yourself and eat them back when you slip'. They are basically saying it will be less worse when you develop an eating disorder and you start binge eating. just don't do it.

well I understand your frustration. I have been personally struggling with this problem for the better part of the year and so far without a solution. general tips: drink less and drink 'clear' stuff like vodka. hangover is way more manageable. Do NOT try this if you are not used to the strong stuff, its very easy to go…

Unless you are severely undercutting calories for a long period of time (months on end below 1200) you will not loose any noticable muscle. Sure you loose some but I wouldn't worry about it unless you are an athlete or a body builder (which I suppose we are not since we are posting here). This whole muscle loss craze is…

You look 15 years younger , congratz !

Mine is even whackier . :D

I doubt there's anything wrong with you. If you took a break from working out and you expect to go back to the same weights you used before, you are gonna have a bad time :) It happens to all of us when resuming training, just keep at it it shouldnt last more than two weeks to readjust. Other than that remember to eat…

Loosing 11 pounds 1st week ? Uhm no ty no one would buy that. Thats a DAILY deficit of 5000 calories. Unless you are a race horse on steroids that is just simply not possible to loose that much in a week. Obvious troll is obvious.

daaaaamn. Congratz !

You might feel fine now but in the long run its not very healthy in my opinion. You should keep in mind that the health benefits from exercise come when your body is an anabolic state (aka REST) not when you are pushing it...

Do some HIIT, it generally does the trick to shock your metabolism. Other than that yea you might need to reduce your calories more or maybe you are underestimating what you eat.

Weight spiking is normal if you weigh yourself every day. Building so much muscle suddenly on a deficit is nonsense though, it is impossible to build that much muscle in that short time if at all on a deficit to acount for the upspikes.

This is not good man, how much do you have left to loose ? It's always easier to cut back down on food rather than go overboard on exercise. If you post a bit more info about you I'm sure we can offer some advice. :)

Thanks very much for the tips. I will definitely try the carb approach, I have been cutting down on those pretty heavily. So as far as I can tell the consensus is to stop drinking. At 24 thats not really an option imho. I will have plenty of time not to drink when I got a kid. As mentioned I'm a bit afraid too of being cut…

Gaining muscle is not all that it is about . I was pretty sceptical about it myself when I started in december but just after a month I got comments like, hey , lookin better. Which was really surprizing since I havent lost any weight, or barely 2 pounds if that. On comparing some photos I concluded that lifting DOES…