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Great recipe, thanks.

Some great ideas here for when my oven starts working again!

Currently looking for recipes as I'm useless in the kitchen so this thread is great! Also looking for good packed lunch ideas for work.

I'm gonna go for it for the first time soon too, for my wedding. Nervous! Painkillers are going to be a definite.

People have posted studies above proving that race can and does affect BMI (Asians is the obvious one). Do you have any facts to back up your claim?

Yeah, I get that. It doesn't suit right now though. Here in Thailand, cooking yourself is prohibitively more expensive, and I'm saving for a wedding next month! I've starting bring my own snacks to work instead of eating the carb loaded ones, but again bringing a full lunch adds expense I can't afford right now when I'm…

Well, 2.5 months. Starts with 10days in South Africa, then a 9 week trip from Capetown to Nairobi going through 10 countries. Can't wait! Then we're home for Xmas and off to some new foreign land come January where I hope to get back into a routine, assuming it's a country that has gyms!

Thanks for the tips on lean protein, I know I should incorporate more of it but it's a slow process for me! Just aiming to up protein and stay within calories for now, but will look at more lean sources-a lot of my food is school lunch etc where I can control eating more meat/protein, but not what kind. Thats how I end up…

Thanks (you too Buckeye :)). I just want to make sure there's no major downsides. I'm not bothered once there's not. Just checked my settings and fat is really low, it's only 54g while protein is 120g (I aim for 100ish). I might just read up a bit and have a look at tweaking the settings. I'm only decreasing carbs to stick…

Finished my first June session. Had do do workout A backwards because of someone hogging the squat rack so went bench, rows, squats. Bench: 50lb- fail. Really found this hard. Managed 5,5,5,4,5 but it was a real struggle and one or two probably didn't come low enough. Will go again next time. Row: 50lb. Tough but managed…

I'm 5'7, 139lbs and maintaining. Eating a base of 1760cals a day. I don't particularly eat more on lifting days, I will if I'm hungry, but I actually find I eat more non workout days cos there's more time I'm sitting around.My exercise cals go towards my inevitable eating more at the weekend!

June is my final month at this for a while (get married in July and a 3 month honeymoon from Sep-December!). Might be able to do some in August though. So I want to push as much as I can this month and then have a decent place to start from when I start up properly again in January. Current/Goal at end of June. Not sure if…

Not moving very quickly, been away a couple of weekends and missed a fair few sessions. May-First months progress: Squat: Went from 20-50lb Bench: Went from 20-45lb Rows: Went from 20-45lb OHP: Went from 20-30lb Dead: Went from 20-75lb

Another teacher, 4 weeks left and have to be ready by then! Maintaining now but want to build muscle/strength and look good. Getting married start of July and I think it'l be all downhill from there :D

Yeah, I find it really difficult. Had a session today: Squat: 50lb (struggled. Legs hurt a lot from Monday, but got it done). OHP: 30lb ( a little better form than last week. Will be a little longer til I can push to the 40lb barbell though) Deadlift: 75lb

Wow, these numbers amaze me. I can't imagine getting anywhere near them tbh with how tough it is at tiny numbers! Did a session Monday, first in a week, and going back today. Monday I did: Squats- 45lb. Got better depth than last week where I also did 45, will move to 50 today. Bench- 45lb. Felt great to use the bar for…

Finally squatted the empty bar! Yay! There were one or 2 where I wasn't sure if I hit parallel but overall went well. OHP: Really struggling with this. Got it up but I'm doing this weird head thing and it's uneven. Basically my form is atrocious. A friend said it's probably because the 30lb is a tad too heavy, my form is…

Last Wednesday I had my 5th session. I fixed my squat grip and it felt so much better! Squatted 40, and I'm going to try the empty bar today. Might struggle as I'm really sore from a football tournament all weekend, and the last time I squatted was last Wednesday (missed Friday cos I was travelling). OHP today. I really…

Pork onion and tomato (deli meat) and Cheese and Onion Tayto (potato chips) sandwich. Yum! Someone said salt and vinegar crisps(chips). How is that weird!!

US tipping is alien to me, as with others. I'm from Ireland. You get paid minimum wage regardless of the job. Noone is surviving on other people generosity in this regard. We still tip, but only for good service and probably about 10% on average. Generally it's a keep the change kind of thing. Our service is completely…

Went to the gym Monday and tried the squat with 40lbs. Got through it but hurt my wrists. Researched a bit and realised my grip has been completely wrong the whole time! Just watched Rippetoe's video about grip so hopefully can do it better today! OHP: stayed at 30lbs and struggled I actually found it harder than the last…

Good plan, show someone how rude they are by being even ruder than they are! Good job!

Thanks. My main issue is I can't up by 5, it's only 10 from here. When I say struggling, I was able to do it, but it was tough. I'd be willing to go up 5 but I think 10 might be a step too far right now.

This is a lie. People have posted facts that show this in this very thread. So either you're simply ignorant of the facts, or intentionally spreading nonsense.

I'm shocked by the people who chose not to believe well documented facts because it makes them feel weird to see an older kid nursing. 'I don't believe it because I think it's icky'.....

Good tip. I think tomorrow I'll try extra reps on 30, see how it feels, and maybe move to 40 wednesday That makes sense, thanks :) Yeah. Using some of the ones posted earlier in this thread (page 2 I think). It definitely helped in my last session. Thanks again for the tips. This is all new, and a little intimidating so…

I'm Irish and a teacher. We don't have school lunches, so that's not an issue, but sweets/junk food etc are banned in most schools. A child eating a lunch of junk food doesn't learn as well and is more likely to be disruptive. It's our job to teach all the kids as best as possible, this policy aids that. If the parents…

Yes, opinions can be wrong. If I say that in my opinion one race of people are better than another, then I'm wrong, opinion or not. In a more clearcut way if I say it's my opinion that a tomato isn't a fruit, well again I'm wrong. Opinion doesn't mean it's infallible or unquestionable! Not really sure I understand the op.…

Tried the empty bar but unfortunately failed miserably :) No 35lb bar at my gym, but they have set 30 and 40 barbells so gonna use them until I can do the empty bar. Tbh I'm still finding the 30 quite tough for the squats. I think I'm very inflexible so working on that and form. Hopefully in a week or so I can build up to…

Do you think I should up the squat from 30-40 even though I really struggled, but finished, 30? No way to up it by only 5. I hurt my left thigh doing it last time, not sure why but it was much sorer than the right. Worried about injuring something if I add too much weight.