SXMEnrico Member

no need for junk food. Just get yourself some protein powder, add fruit, peanut butter, etc and drink your calories.

on workout days anywhere between 3000-4000. On rest days about 2500. On Leg day it's more like 4000-4500. My metabolism is extremely fast at the moment. When I want to lose weight I drop my intake to about 2500.

every Wednesday is Donut/Bagel/Muffin day at my office. A table full of probably 3-4 dozen. Every Wednesday I walk over and grab a handful of the packets of peanut butter. Would I like to go to town on everything else? Yup. Do I? Nope.

in short, yes. If your goal is to lose weight then the priority should be to count calories and learn how to get into and stay in a calorie deficit over an extended period of time. Also, don't look at it as a daily deficit either, look at it as weekly. That way if you do have a binge day, you can still adjust in order to…

more realistic and achievable is 1 - 1.5lbs weight loss per week. Anything higher than that and youd have to be in such a deficit that your metabolism will slow to a crawl making it incredibly hard for you to continue without losing motivation. not trying to defeat you here and anything is possible. But be ready for a…

this goal is highly unlikely if you're talking about losing fat/muscle only. If you include water weight then I'd say maybe. But that's kind of useless anyway since you'll gain any water weight immediately after you go off your diet.

you don't need a gym. If you're committed you can get better results than 90% of the average gym rat right from your own living room. People do it every day. They're doing it right now. I personally haven't stepped inside a gym in my life. Every workout I do is at home. Everything you need to know can be googled. It really…

haha...I enjoy a dram of single malt every now and then as well...all you can do is log it.

your physician is just going to put you on a calorie deficit diet and then you're going to be back to where you started which is figuring out what you are logging incorrectly.

this.

forget the scale and go by what you see in the mirror.

reverse diet and a solid lifting program. Then cut next year. Always lift heavy when cutting.

damn that's amazing. You look like a different person. Congratulations! fwiw a lot of guys can't even bench 120lbs...lol

doctor or not, someone else placing limits on what you can do with your body is complete and utter *kitten*. Pardon my french.

Alcohol has a thermogenic effect, but that's not the same thing as saying that it burns fat. Every gram of alcohol you ingest is about 5-7 calories, which is higher than both protein and carbs, which are 4 calories per gram ea.) Couple that with 9 calories per gram for fat, then wings and beer are probably on the higher…

your body uses what nutrients it needs, stores what it can in the form of fat and the rest gets ejected from your colon. This applies to chicken wings and any other food you eat.

it's not uncommon for people to dismiss something they either don't understand or don't have what it takes to commit to.

well icing is just gross and not all chocolate is created equal. Try a lindt ball and see if you have the same reaction

just get enough sleep and stay hydrated, your muscles will repair and adapt to the resistance within a few workouts. You wont feel that pain again unless you keep progressing to mechanical failure with each workout

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order a salad with a low cal dressing. Crisis averted.

I love my home gym. I have a power rack. Treadmill. Up to 95lbs in DB's. An LCD with tons of videos. Dip station. Whatever. I get in there and put my headphones on and spend an hour working on me. I'd never trade that in for sharing equipment at a gym. Building it was as necessary as say building a kitchen.

I was doing P90x kempo and I uppercut myself...hard.

bring your own food.

I am not familiar with 5/3/1 but I have done 2-8 week programs of SS. I started by reading the book to understand where Mark Rippetoe was coming from. It explains the mechanics of the various lifts (DL, Squat, Press, Bench, Clean) and most importantly how to avoid hurting yourself. The beginner program has 2 workouts (A/B)…

works out to just over 1.5lbs/week. Very doable if you're determined. You log everything you eat/drink and stay within his recommended calorie limits (assuming he knows what he's doing) and you get at least 15-30 min of light to moderate activity per day. These are all generalizations of course and nothing is simple or…

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you don't sound like yourself. Have a snickers.

he should be supporting you, not enabling you.

Unless you log every single thing you eat and drink there is no way to know how many calories you are taking in. And guessing/assuming is not going to do it.