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Woops, apparently I lost my train of thought. I was finishing that paragraph by saying that you don't have to lose the weight by giving up everything you want to eat, you can eat what you want. :)

Looking for potential dates is something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy... The stress alone will put you on blood pressure medication! All I can really do is relate to you, I've been over 100 lbs over weight since 2007, prior to that I was still a big guy, and women were never responsive to me. My entire college and…

I think I'm at 35% protein 40% fat and 25% carbs. I'm 220 LBM so I have 215 on there, but even if I go eat a couple shrimp and get my 220 I'm still 800 under with my hour of workout I don't record that puts me at around 1800 deficit for the day?

I honestly don't know, I haven't had my blood taken in 5 years, and the last time it was taken the doctor simply said my tri-glycerides were high, nothing else. So, I can assume that 300 carbs isn't something to worry about?

The nurse just said high cholesterol, for all I know it could be the good kind, I'm not gonna take it too seriously. I've been getting good exercise, eating lots of fiber, getting plenty of fats, and I'm drinking a LOT of water, so I think I'll be fine.

I'm over my fat recommendation almost every single day, I'm just not going crazy with it, I get plenty of fat, no worries! 8 )

I'm not trying to be low in fat, fat just happens to have a ton of calories associated with it. So, reducing fat makes it easier to hit my goals for the day.

Oh, well now I feel silly... Think I need to spend some time on google then.

I'm not following anything other than what MFP says on its diet look up stuff, I've seen some inaccuracies but I'm choosing to try and trust the system as much as possible since it's been working for the weight loss. As for the protein powder, I'm consuming at least one protein shake a day, I'm trying to avoid more than…

Couple years back I started having horrible pain in my stomach after eating, so much so I would almost pass out, so I went to see a doctor. She wanted me to see a specialist, after two surgeries to look through my entire insides, doctor couldn't find a thing wrong... My blood work was normal, except my tri-glycerides were…

Only problem with all this 5x5 stuff that I can see is it's a lot of dead lifting and rowing, both of which would put a lot of pressure on my umbilical hernia, which the doc has told me to avoid surgery on till I lose the said weight, and my brother also does this with me and he's torn his ACL like 8 years ago and never…

So in essence I'd be removing the extra 500 calories from my diet by changing my workout to not really burn calories but instead build muscles? Seems counter productive... Are you saying I'll actually burn MORE calories by lifting heavier weight fewer times?

I have almost no appetite like I use to, once I started taking 220 + grams of protein a day, I basically don't feel hungry anymore. I actually struggle to eat that much food, which is why I was wondering if I could cut it down. I'm not sure I could maintain 1800 but it'd be fun to try for a little bit. If I eat 3…

No, that's the weight I started with and I haven't increased it since. The point was the maintain or even build a small amount of newbie muscle while burning as much calories as possible. I would do it over a bike any day. The high reps with the relatively low weight, I could easily curl way more, was just designed to make…

Precisely what I wanted to hear folks, thanks! I'll tell the doc to shove his pills, and keep winning on my own.

Well it may be a case of wanting my cake and eating it too... I want to do the low weight high rep workout, it makes me feel good, probably because of the hormone release and it makes me sweat and pant like crazy, something I could only match on a bike cause I can't run at my size. I just don't want to lose muscle. I'm 390…

The doctor suggested it, drug me into some like office seminar with this whole booklet and diary etc... I tried to tell them like 15 times I'm already doing work, but I'm sure they see 100 of me a day who aren't doing that... My question really, was can I take the phentermine and not lose the little muscle I've made.…

Yeah, I guess I should buy a food scale... Although I still don't understand how much weight I can eat each day? Assuming I have a 3100 calorie daily limit, wouldn't that be close to a pound of food? But, don't some foods weigh more than others and are deceptively lower in calories and vise versa?

Lifting lots Weigh lots protein getting eaten weight heavy wut do? Did I win!? DID I DO IT RIGHT!?

Can someone explain to me why you weigh your food, is that to subtract for your actual weight the next day?

I thought because I was lifting weight that was easy for me to lift, until the last like 2 reps, that lifting a lot of reps was good for losing weight. I'm not trying to build muscles per say, not that I don't want them, I just want to cut first. I didn't think that warranted as much rest, I thought 1 day on 1 day off…

Also, to clarify, I'm not lifting ANY weight on squats I'm just squating with my own body weight lol.

Thanks man, you are my new favorite person!

Yeah, I started the exercise on april 10th, and I've gained very noticeable muscle... Like, I know it sounds stupid but I think I would be ripped if I was 10% body fat...

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Thanks for all the responses, I got the message I needed to hear, and I'll be a lot better off for it. Thanks all 8 )

I think I've miss-portrayed myself in this little rant, and what I'm finding is that more and more people aren't really sticking to their macros... They're sticking to their calories and mostly proteins... I can hit calorie and protein all day, that's a sinch... Now let's work on my hypertension, let's work on heart…

Carbs aren't exactly the devil, it's just science, that's the entire point of all this... Too many carbs causes micro tears in the walls of your arteries, which can be filled with low density lipoproteins which is why everyone freaks out about cholesterol, but if you just lowered the carbs you wouldn't have the tears and…

Congrats, you lost weight, you also haven't addressed your risk for hypertension and at those levels of carbs for me your risk of heart disease... Losing weight isn't the only goal in being healthy.

Well, the major problem I have with all of this... is these are literally impossible... There is absolutely NO way a man can eat THAT much protein / carbs / fiber / fat without either going WAY over on calories, or being deficient in some way or the other... There is also NO way to do this on a low sodium diet... Please,…