ericcalaniz Member

I think you meant horizontally challenged...I clicked on this hoping for some wit and wisdom from a fellow short person haha

Have you had a cheat day in a while? It's counterintuitive, but sometimes if you go over your calorie count for a day (but still be reasonable), the scale may fall (NOT THE NEXT DAY but) over the next few days. Also, if you're working out 5-6 days a week and not losing weight for a while, there's a couple possibilities: a)…

Oh man these are my pet peeves. I think I can add about 3 to your list. "Can't walk my dumbbells back to the rack guy" - Seriously, bro, you can't pick up your 20 lb weight after you just curled it 20 times (which was probably useless anyway) so you gotta kick it and roll it halfway across the floor back to the rack? Yeah,…

Everyone's weight will fluctuate from day to day, depending on your sodium intake, and generally how much food you eat. The only way for you to lose weight is to expel waste (and you can lose a little bit by sweating) so even if you ate like a perfect angel the day before and you haven't gone to the bathroom yet that day,…

You can do both, but it's a very slow process. You'll lose fat very slowly and build muscle very slowly, but that's better than packing on muscle and fat, or losing lots of fat but also making losses in the weight room, right? I've been operating at about a 300 calorie deficit (gotta make sure I get those carbs and…

Also for the people who have hit a plateau, try varying your workout from what you've been doing. Most physical trainers will tell you that doing the same workout for more than a few months at a time will yield continually diminishing results, to the point where you're making no gains at all. When you perform the same…

Everyone's weight fluctuates, it's part of the way your body operates. Depending on the amount of sodium you take in, your body stores water in different places and amounts, and so that's one part of the equation. You also eat food over the course of the day, and this obviously will make you gain a pound or two, and the…

Drink lots of water! Keeps your stomach full (ish) and you'll have to pee about every hour hahaha

Change your workout. Most physical trainers will tell you that changing the types of workout you do, and the strategy you use, about every 8-12 weeks will get you seeing more results than consistently doing the same program.

That's kind of what I've been doing (logging it as time spent weight training x.75 minutes of high impact aerobics) but I'm not sure realistically how many calories I'm burning. Advice on that?

First off, your goal is very unrealistic/unhealthy. You'll be losing a lot of muscle mass as well as fat. I'm no biology expert so I won't go into details about why it's unhealthy, but I do know you'll gain it all back in very little time. I agree with what everyone else says...pills are not the way to go. This is just my…