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Also, my wife loves to bake and I'm a beer fanatic. I've just learned to track what I put in my body. I still drink my beer, I just drink less of it and enjoy it more because I know the downside to not tracking it.

I try to contrast knowing how great I feel every day I push on vs. how crappy I feel for every day I do bad. I love that I can start to beat my wife in just dance sometimes now, I love the amount of energy I have now, I absolutely despise the way I feel after I abuse my eating habits and see the scale rocket the wrong…

For your signature, go here: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker/ complete that, then select the get code option and copy/paste it here: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/forums/signature As for the profile pic, I'm not sure but maybe if you resize the picture to a smaller image it may not crop? It's worth a shot.

^This. I've been taking a B-Complex which is pretty much the pill form of the 5hr energy drinks. Combined with my daily multi-vit, I've noticed a big difference in energy level. With all the B vitamins, you can also throw sweet rave parties with your glow in the dark pee......

I've found that drinking protein shakes close after weight training helps with that as well as with muscle soreness. They don't have a significant amount of calories either.

sure thing

Protein shakes are great as long as you're demanding your body use what you put in (ie. weight training to build muscle mass). If you don't it ends up getting stored as fat and is counter-productive.

I'm no Dr. but I'll share with you my thoughts and reasoning/history. I used to be severely overweight (330-ish lbs) and decided to drop to a pure liquid protein shake diet. I was consuming maybe 400calories a day, however I was doing an insane amount of cardio every day (20+ miles high intensity in-line skating). I did…

Nice work. How long have you been going at it?

ya I'm in that ball park, feel free to add me as well

I could be off on this, but here are my thoughts: Weight training builds muscle. Muscle burns fat. Muscle weighs more than fat. You won't lose weight, but you'll redistribute into a healthier physical form. For this reason, I rarely care about my weight since I'm a big fan of retaining muscle mass. I'm more concerned with…