arthurtom

Based on your weight and your activity level, your recommended carbohydrate intake should be visible in your nutrition tracker. On average, I'm eating anywhere from 390G to 450G of carbohydrate a day. This keeps not only my brain fueled but my body as well as I do an intensive workout 6-7 days a week. When carbohydrate is…

First off, to understand weight and gain you probably know as I've read in your post about water retention. Knowing that 1 pound equals 3500 calories, you would have to consume that much over in one day to gain one pound whereas if you eat the stuff you said you went running to the store for contains high amounts of…

Totally agree. When someone tells me their workout is tiresome, chances are they are cutting too far back on their calories in an attempt to lose weight and instead their body stores whatever the eat as fat and slows their metabolism WAYYYY DOWN so even ordinary tasks seem tiresome. Mon-Wed-Fri circuit strength training…

IDK...the Mayo Clinic is a pretty darned reputable place. I hit a plateau in the spring of 2009 and nothing was budging. My answer was (seems very close to the guidelines you posted from the Mayo Clinic) to increase my cardio from 8 hours a week to 12 hours a week and slice my daily caloric total from around 3200 calories…

I have found that you have to hit what you can tolerate, both physically and mentally. On December 13, 2007 I started my exercise regimen which was a light warmup on a stationary cycle for 10 minutes and then I did circuit strength training on 15 different life fitness machines. After the CST I would walk about a half mile…