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I was crippled with it! Started doing a shot of "Just Black Cherry Juice" every morning and some very low impact and careful back strengthening exercises. A lot of stretching and Plaquenil <--- med for arthritis. After about 3 months all of my symptoms went away and never came back. That was about 5 years ago and I lift…

I track my macro's, so I don't give up anything.

I like it. I've been using GNC Lab Grade Creatine in my pre-workout. I don't find that it gives me any extra energy but it does promote faster recovery... not as sore. I find my weight lifting progression is going faster than before I was taking it and it certainly helps to maintain the muscle I have while doing a clean…

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Simply Protein (whey) protein bars are great. Minimal sugar, a good amount of protein and only 140 calories. And they are yummy.

Yes! I am really struggling with eating more calories to build more muscle. I am doing a clean bulk and I'm just so used to being in a huge deficit it's just hard for me to reverse my thinking. I'm eating enough now so my body doesn't think it's starving but not enough to gain real weight, just keep the muscle I have and…

I've done this too and tore myself down to the very rock bottom... with a lot of hammering and insulting comments along the way. Once I was bare bones I began to re-build, which was my plan from the beginning but no one trusted my process... no one except for my trainer and my husband anyway. So I did some reverse dieting…

Ha! This is almost exactly what I do too! I am up at around 3:45 AM and chug my iced coffee w/aminos. Hit the gym by around 7:30 am, have my shake about 9 am and then eat my real breakfast at about 10-10:30 am. I stop eating by about 6 pm at night, usually in bed by 9ish. The only exceptions are Tues & Wed I have late Muay…

The evil twin heehee

The novelist who gets framed for a murder

yes... beef jerky, hard boiled egg whites, turkey jerkey, celery with PB2, air popped pop corn (if it fits in with your carbs), turkey rolled up around celery, plain yogurt (low sugar), with PB mixed in... kale krunch (paleo), mediterranean bars (also paleo)

Oh I totally agree... like they say, misery loves company. I have plenty of friends and people in my life who would have had me stay on the fat-drinking-no fitness routine train right along with them. I even had one friend with whom I'd been friends with for over 20 years, call my husband on the down-low to tell him that I…

You know who noticed I was getting fat and who pointed it out? Me! But yeah... once I was losing a lot of weight people were quick to notice and at first they were saying things like "nice job", "keep it up". And after a while that turned into things like "you're getting too thin", "you're withering away to nothing".…

Really? Could have fooled me! My last Rank test in Muay Thai calculated the hell out of my calorie burn. I wasn't moving my feet too much... just dancing around really, as MMA folks do. The calorie burn based on my heart rate (HIIT), was off the charts!

This exactly. I guess the wording is what bothers me about it. Feeling the need to go all out to me means you've been depriving yourself and using food as a reward. That's a bad habit to get into.

Okay so what will be the next excuse? Your birthday? vacation? a friends birthday? family event...?????

This is why I like the HR monitor... even if you're not taking steps it's calculating your burn based upon your heart rate which is super accurate.

You can get past it. Just change up one or two small things in your plan. It could be your calorie target +/-, it could be one of your workouts or even the time of day or evening you eat. The body is super smart at adapting to routines and it's beneficial to change things up about every 30 days or so to keep the body…

I don't know about the blaze but I have a Fitbit Charge HR 2 and it's extremely accurate.

Timing doesn't matter and I agree that it's personal preference. For me, I've tried both fueling up before a workout and doing a fasted workout. I prefer a fasted workout. If I eat first, no matter what it is, it just makes me feel lethargic and heavy on my feet.

Get a good quality knee brace and ankle brace. For exercise you could try boxing / kick-boxing (without the kicking) / Muay Thai... just no kicking. Working with a partner or even on just a bag. You'll get a huge calorie burn and you won't be moving your feet/legs around too much. Once you start losing again and gain…

Agree! But I don't agree that genetics has anything to do with anything. It ALL starts with food.

Totally this... Most people are super busy with work, kids, commuting, school, etc. We don't find the time, we make the time. I was posting about this the other day because people were giving me a hard time about the amount of time I use for workouts and the amount of workouts I do per day. Not that it's anyone's business…

Bi-Polar!

A shoe box full of nail clippings from the past 10 years.

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I didn't care or even think about what I was eating. I indulged in anything I wanted, at anytime. I ate nutritious foods about 50% of the time but consistently over-ate. I ordered out way too much during the week and ate out way too much over the weekends. After I lost all of the weight and was way too skinny... skin and…

Yup! I Love it and I eat it as much as I can... as long as it fits my macros :smile: Bread is good for the soul....

Eat less, move more, get into the habit of weighing and measuring your food & beverages, track and log them to make sure you're having the appropriate portion size. It helps to eat nutritious foods... by that I mean foods that are high in nutrition and low in calories. There's no "bad foods" but if you're trying to lose…

..... why would you put it in your head that you're planning to go "All out"! If you feel the need to go all out and are actually making a plan to do so, I'd say you're current nutrition plan isn't realistic or sustainable.