anotherghost

Start weight training. I know you're trying to lose pounds, but gaining muscle mass helps with this. It increases your metabolic rate, and it will make you much more ABLE to exercise if you have strong legs, arms, chest, back, and core. I wish I'd known about weight training earlier, I always thought I should lose weight…

If you don't have a gym to go to, you can still get progressive with your strength training by getting into bodyweight exercise. It's true that bodyweight does have an upper limit where you'll plateau, but that is a long way off for a beginner; I wouldn't worry about it. Do serious bodyweight exercise though, on a serious…

Are you taking creatine? If so, during the first week or so you will experience an increase in water weight. It will stick around for a while.

Honestly, if you're capable of doing squats and lunges 5 days a week, you're probably not squatting enough. You should be pretty sore afterwards. I do two leg days per week and my friends think I'm nuts. But, most importantly, you're going to develop a muscle imbalance if you do the same exercise 5 days per week. You don't…

Basically you want about a gram of protein per pound of bodyweight if you're trying to build muscle, 0.8 for maintenance, and no lower than 0.4. You can go over that at any point - it's really difficult to enough protein so that it's a problem, you pretty much have to be trying. Also, the first symptom of excessive protein…