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It's really about how you feel when you look in the mirror. Hopefully you're doing this for yourself. Things will get more confusing once friends/family notice your results. You'll get the "you're too skinny" comments when you know you have XX lbs more to lose. As you show results you begin to shine an uncomfortable light…

I use the military calcs. Just stick with the same approach and you'll get the 'relative change'. ie I've dropped 5% of my BF via the military calc over the last 2 months. It doesn't matter where you start, it matters if you improve.

nope and i log everything. even the stuff i don't wants peps on my FL to see.

2.5 months doing the insanity workout and eating @ a 600 cal deficit.

I travel every 3rd. My co-workers are pretty cool and regularly shift the 'lunch spot' to meet my food requirements. Keeping up w/ my p90x workouts is harder. I usually end up doing the cardio in my hotel room @ 5 AM. I do my best to make up any missed weight workouts friday/saturday.

I've been trying 16/8 from leangains.com. Down 2.5% BF in 3 weeks. Only dropped 1 lb <-- exactly what I want. I'm doing IF to shed BF _not_ drop lbs and it's working so far.

If it's a special event, make it special. Hotdog,nachos and go for the dew....

this ^^^ i think you're on the cusp of discovering that nearly any food that comes out of a box is holding you back. It's been processed to death and probably contains some sort of high fructose corn syrup or other artificial sweetener.

Ok I'll take a shot that you're not a troll. I think you need to rethink hitting a BMI target. Set a real body fat target and go for it. But here's the thing. Hitting a low <12% BF target probably will not happen for you until you stay on a weight training program AND you begin eating MORE food. The scale is just a number,…

Ditto ....

I usually opt for the wheat is it's a more complex card than the white bread in spite of the cals.

I don't see problem w/ fitness models at all. or bikini models. Jealous of others success?

I use the same scale every week. I only weigh in first thing in the morning once a week.

Time and effort solve all problem areas. Remember the body doesn't spot reduce, but once your body hits it's magic BF% your stomach/lower abs will be targeted for drastic reduction as long as you stick with the plan. Men generally store fat in the abdominal area first, so it's the last spot to clean up. Frankly it took me…

I think we've stumbled onto my favorite topic. Having a tight mid section or 6 pack is a pretty big deal. It takes a lot of disciple to get get there. Most workouts are one hour or so. We sleep 8 hours leaving us about 15 hours/day to be discipled in pursuit of our goals. Many choose to be undisciplined for those 15 hours.…

Amen. Cardio endurance training lead to me being skinny fat. I'm correcting that over the next 6 months or so. The bad part is that I _believe_ if I'd just done weights and lite cardio over the last year I would have already achieved my goals.

I have a few friends who live the gluten free lifestyle. It's not for me, but they have dropped some serious weight. As for the unsolicited advice from coworkers, just ignore it. Fact is that we're all different in terms of maintenance levels, diet preferences, etc. Just think XX+lbs in the future when your support from…

I did 3 rounds last year. It's hard. I dropped nearly 50lbs. There is alot of jumping, but I just did squats instead. It is hard on the knees, you'll need good shoes. Not running shoes. Cross training shoes. It takes about 2 weeks before you begin to actually believe that you can do it.

I didn't read past the 1st page of comments. I think the 1200 cals/day is for men and 800 cals/day is for women. But hey I'm a guy so I just might be wrong :) That said I've never been below 1400 cals/day when shedding body fat. I'm usually close to 2000 cals +- 300.

I cycle my carbs. Pretty strict Adkins/Paloe M-F, Carbs are allowed on Saturday, Sunday is for getting back on track. Works wonders for me. The Paleo aspect to my Adkins implementation keeps me away from _any_ processed carbs on weekends.

I usually shoot for a twelve hour fast over night. Currently breakfast is after my workout around 7 AM, so I TRY not to east anything after 7 PM. I think the goal is to reduce empty calories @ night.

That's about what I do. I target 1700 cals/day (need 2200) so I eat @ a 500 calorie deficit. Depending on the day I burn 300-500 cals cycling or 800-1000 doing an Insanity workout. If you're bonking on the workouts add some carbs into your snack 2 hours before working out. I know when I workout during my lunch I _need_ an…

I use EAS Whey. The small containers for $11-$12 @ walmart. I also like the Body Fortress brand. Just to complicate things for you, I'm thinking about going down the meal replacement shake route w/ EAS Myoplex. Protein shakes aren't just for jocks anymore, it's hard to hit a solid protein target just eating lean lunch…

Hype - I just completed 2 rounds of Insanity. You only need your body. No equipment needed. Lots of Cardio (some high impact jumping), lots of pushups. Insanity is marketed as an advanced workout for those with a solid fitness level. I did insanity as a beginner. I just did the month 1 workouts for 60 days and then did the…

I just finished 2 rounds of Insanity and am looking for a break. I did a week of the month 1 revabs workouts (as my insanity recovery week), they're pretty good, but not as extreme/strenuous as the p90x/insanity workouts. I'm going to work revabs into my routine beginning next week (6 June). I'll either be doing an…