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Sure. His post still holds though.

He was not being any way rude. Your response is. My co-workers always see me eating, gobbling down hundreds of calories of chocolate, big macs, fries, massive chicken & spinach lunches, and have openly asked how I'm losing so much weight. The answer of course is that my calories average to about 1500/day over the week. I'm…

It's fine. 2-3 times a week I train in a public gym with co-workers in do warmup circuit & biking or running before doing a fairly fast-paced weights routine (minimal rest between sets). At home twice week I do powerlifting style training and the cardio comes after.

Great job. I'm 30 and have lost about 45lbs in the same time, with about 25 to go too. Best of luck!

It's complicated. Without medical supervision it's generally recommended to go to a more moderate diet. Lyle McDonald wrote THE book on PSMF and still generally recommends against it (it's an "if you MUST" kinda book).

I would be very complimented by the phrase "you'd look great if you lost 15lbs!".

I hope this isn't about Arnold's beach pics around the time he was having heart surgery (which doesn't tell us anything about steroids). No matter what he was or wasn't taking at any given time, he's been in shape pretty much his whole life, and is in unbelievable physical condition for a man pushing 70.

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That's more than a 100% increase

No you're not. You're at maintenance, or close enough to it that any weight loss is being masked for a prolonged period. I would drop conservatively (as your calories are low, but they may be underestimated) by 200 calories/day and see how the next month goes.

the difference? halitosis!

Cod and chicken breast are pretty much almost entirely protein in calories. If they're too filling you're having trouble eating enough volume, whey protein is convenient, might not nearly as filling, can be pretty competitive price wise with any protein source.

Hormones have an impact on many variables, but unless your goals require artificial help or you are doing something physically very extreme, you shouldn't need to ever think about them to reach your body composition goals.

There are three considerations I use for fueling a workout: Coffee, carbs and water. Sometimes I won't have the first two.

OP, how long exactly have you "stalled" for? This is absolute nonsense. If this was in any way true, people with severe energy restrictions imposed on them for long periods (concentration camps, anorexia, studies in controlled conditions, etc) would not end up consistently underweight. They do.

It's good. I either eat fatty fish or fish oil caps from Holland and Barrett. It's not essential for weight loss, but it's not minutiae when it comes to good nutrition.

My advice is kind of the opposite. Learn to appreciate people who make you feel bad for the right reasons (they're not trying to make you feel bad, they're just straight talking more than we're comfortable with and know what they're talking about and that makes us feel dumb when we staked our position out first), and be…

If you're not willing to learn from "negative comments", only treat them as someone trying to drag you down, and you dismiss the people who make comments that are negative towards your claims as miserable, you're not going to be learning much with any rigour. A lot of positive comments are bunkum, and reality frequently…

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Good advice for managing/observing your emotional reactions stoically - worst imaginable advice for learning.

My co-workers are great to me too. And if they didn't say "No, that's wrong" when I did something blatantly wrong, and went "maybe this way instead", that would be deeply bad and unhealthy for competence, working relationships, and my own relationship with my mental health. It's critical that I know and utilise the…

I don't see anything wrong with either. That is literally what my co-workers tell me all the time - at work OR in the gym (and it's really the only answer to any of the myriad of things I do that are objectively just wrong). It's also what I get done told on musician forums when I speak out of my *kitten* or there's a…

There's no way to resolve the issue with vague descriptions of how people made you feel. That could reflect any possible type of behaviour from anyone involved. Everything you said in the OP is consistent with either you, them, both or nobody being the jerk. People can only speculate from your vague description, which is…

For the most part, I don't disagree. It's not about people trying to make me feel dumb... I just feel dumb when somebody much better at something learns me on a mistake, or me assuming I knew better than I did. It's humility and especially with an ego as large as mine, it's healthy. On the phone in work the other day, I…

In work, I'm made feel dumb all the time (because I work a complicated job with minimal training and everyone else is more experienced and really good at their jobs). The trick is to recognise that this is a good thing, and to feel good about it (overall, obviously the heart sinks when you recognise a mistake). Here,…

Dismissing people as "know it all" etc. is too often a huge red flag for fragile narcissism, but that doesn't mean that it isn't a false positive, or that the OP didn't really experience bad behaviour from someone else. Going by the info in this thread we simply have no way to tell.

I experience this problem sometimes - in my context, I'm not always supported here, and am vehemently argued against, because sometimes I'm being silly, or people honestly disagree (and sometimes I think the other person is rude, but supporting me has nothing to do with that). That's very healthy, and I think it's…

No. I'll probably psmf over easter, back to chocolate in work on Tuesday!

I need to eat the same (or slowly changing) array of core foods for the basis of my diet because a) I'm on very low cals b) I'm in work 60 hours a week and just prefer to minimise my time and energy and maximise convenience w/nutrition with non-social eating. I eat plenty of variety but it's mostly social enjoyment with…

As everyone has pretty much said... medicines are drugs, I eat food for fuel and enjoyment. On my own/at home, I emphasise the fuel side. Socially, I emphasise the enjoyment side. But they work together... I eat more nutrient dense at home with convenience and nutrition being the number 1 factors, and more sweet things and…