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I like Quest Bars because I think they taste good and have a good texture, as well as having a decent amount of protein and (soluble) fiber, at a reasonable calorie count. (It varies by flavor, but it's roughly 20g protein, 20g fiber, 200 calories per bar.)

I use IsoPure zero carb unflavored. I would rather add it to something that already has flavor than deal with it changing the flavor of what it's added to. It's quite good.

Soreness during exercise might be lactic acid, soreness the day after definitely isn't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_onset_muscle_soreness#Mechanism </pedantry>

If you're looking for something that has a similar profile to Quest Bars but tastes a little different, you can try Manbake bars. Similar amounts of protein and fiber. You may or may not like the taste better.

I do barbell squats, but I imagine similar principles apply. Here's what I would say to a barbell squatter... If you're tending to push forward onto your toes: 1) Make sure your chest is up through the whole rep. If you drop your chest you will tip forward a little. 2) Make sure you're pushing your knees out as you squat…

I just started eating them, after reading a thread here in which someone complained about them being overrated, lol. They taste good, go down easy, have a good texture, and decent protein and fiber. They definitely do not do much for my hunger, though. (Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough is my favorite flavor so far.)

This is based on the research I did before getting my sleeve, so please correct me if newer studies have contradicted it... First off, that's just wrong -- patients can on average expect to lose 50-60% of their excess weight. That's the median result, not the best-case scenario. About half do better (some much better),…

I recently did the sleeve. At my highest BMI, the actuarial data showed that I clearly was at a greater risk from my weight than I would be from the surgery. So I had the surgery. I'm still in the honeymoon period, where the weight is coming off easily, but I gotta say -- it was totally worth it for me. I have lost large…

I was recommended to do strength training as well as cardio so that I maintain my muscle mass and bone density while losing weight.

As another novice lifter who is in the process of losing a lot of weight, I really recommend Starting Strength. It goes into pretty deep (but accessible) detail on what's going on during strength training, both in terms of the specific lifts, and in terms of the adaptations that are making you stronger. It gives you…

Anything involving water. Swimming, obviously, but if you're not a strong swimmer, you can also just do cardio in the pool -- running in the shallow end, holding the edge and kicking, holding onto a floater and kicking our way across, whatever.

Man, if it has 20g of fiber, it is clearly also a fiber supplement. It's like saying that a calcium pill that also has 1000IU of Vitamin D isn't a Vitamin D supplement. I had never heard of Quest bars before this thread, but I'm gonna try one on the way home. I'm on a restrictive diet and I have trouble hitting my protein…

The only protein powder I've tried that was genuinely flavorless was Isopure Zero Carb unflavored. After my stomach surgery I blended it into everything and it worked really well. Low calorie, undiscernable flavor, doesn't smell bad.

That was my thought, too. I didn't do a ton of research before starting HIIT (I mostly just searched Wikipedia), but it's never occurred to me to do less than a minute.

I think a 4:1 work-to-rest ratio is excessive, even just to start. I can't speak to your health, but I was almost 400 pounds and completely sedentary when I started HIIT, and I was able to start at almost 1:1 from the get-go, and these days I do 2:1 (which appears to be your eventual goal). HIIT is really hard, by…

I really recommend Starting Strength over Stronglifts, mainly because it goes into fairly detailed depth about correct form, the biomechanics of each exercise, etc. I'm using it and it has helped me a lot. The author also did youtube videos showing off each exercise and explaining it, so it's really easy to get started…

Speaking as someone who used to be a little heavier than you... how are your joints? I recently had weight loss surgery and am trying to get fit. My knees and feet and ankles still suck from years of obesity, though, so I have been focusing on exercise bike interval training (google Interval Training and you'll get the…

I always sing the praises of Isopure Zero Carb, unflavored -- it really is flavorless, and blends in pretty well with most things. I add it to soup, omelets, whatever. When I want an actual protein shake I go with a premixed Worldwide Pure Protein, mainly because they're convenient.

Literally the whole point of the elliptical trainer is that it is lower-impact on the joints than walking is. I mean, this is the first line from the Wikipedia article on ellipticals: "An elliptical trainer or cross-trainer (also called an X-trainer) is a stationary exercise machine used to simulate stair climbing,…

Honestly I don't really like the ones at my gym :) They are sturdy as heck but the stride length is not adjustable.

Agreed! You and I clearly disagree on the most productive way to talk about weight loss, so we're arguing about it. I'm okay with that, as long as things don't get personal! :smile: I guess my rebuttal to this is that it's easy to accidentally make things seem more simple than they are, and to underestimate the extent to…

I'm saying that there's all kinds of things that affect weight loss other than "number of calories ingested" versus "number of calories burned in exercise and at rest". Two different cars that have the same weight can get different mileage on the same amount of gasoline. I don't think it's actually a controversial opinion,…

As far as I can tell, it's something like this: I am trying to say that bringing jargon into a conversation about weight loss is counterproductive, especially when certain oversimplifications are very deeply ingrained in the public consciousness. (For example: most people don't understand the difference between "calories…

I had a broken quote tag and moved some stuff around to fix it. Did I accidentally change what you said? Sorry if I did.

Obviously, I disagree. I enjoy theory but I think weight loss (and general health) can be approached as a practical matter with practical principles. A real understanding of body science is a great thing, but there's a reason we pay chemists and scientists for their work: it's something that takes a lot of time, effort,…

I am sure you are a very smart and special person, but please do not purport to tell me that classical physics cannot answer the question "how long will it take a baseball to reach home plate". Ballistic scientists put men on the moon and snipers hit targets from kilometers away. You can understand physics while also…

We're not practicing biology, we *are* biology. Invoking physical laws in the quest for fitness is like telling an engineer he should choose his materials based on their subatomic composition and not on their observed qualities. You bring up "calories used by the body" as if that's even a thing that is within our power to…

Sure, and if I exactly model the behavior of every single quantum in a baseball in flight, I can calculate how long it will take that baseball to reach home plate. Or I could just do a Newtonian equation and get the same answer. Trying to apply the law of conservation of energy to weight loss is more like the former than…

People who bring up "the laws of thermodynamics" are not thinking it through enough. If I eat "3,000 calories" of... stuff... and do "2,000 calories" of... stuff... I'll gain weight, right? THERMODYNAMICS! ...What if I have diarrhea? Some quantity of the food I put into my mouth will come out the other side without full…