stefjc Member

Ah but you said it was not sustainable. I agree there is no magic here. I use it purely because I like to socialise over food. It fits with my life - and that of many others I know in real life and on the web. But I have found it to be sustainable, that is what I asked - I am fully aware of the health criteria. I suppose I…

So it is a fill you upper! Ah well, the very thought of creamy coffee makes me feel ill, so not one for me. Maybe a hot chocolate version...... :) Thanks.

Having read all of that I will add that I have been on depo for about 20 years and have recently lost a lot of weight. I was overweight and had back pain when I started depo and I never blamed it for those 2 things staying with me. Not saying it isn't your cause, but it does seem to be readily blamed by some, so I thought…

Can we forget I bit and snarked? :)

Bear in mind I drink my coffee black..... What on Earth is the reason for bulletproof coffee and what does it taste like? I read the 'inventor's' blurb and giggled, so I really don't get it! But so many others here drink it I am feeling nosy...

Just shoot me now! I started here with no intention of doing that! Reading me back I wasindeed a bad teachery type. But hey, if you can't accept I meant well, was not trying to snark but am having an attack of the back to work weirds, so be it!

Ah, but I have boobs and hips and am tapping 50 - it ain't so easy and I would look utterly emaciated. And I suspect you may not have read all I wrote... ... and no I am not in the least jealous of anyone who can/has regained their teenage body - grrrrrrrrrrrr :D

Yeah yeah. I know all of that - I am back in full on lecture mode, term time is starting! I am not splitting hairs just annoyed that my passion for something I gained an education on is so bastardised by the wannabe strength gurus that people here are gulled into using terminology incorrectly - usually thinking they have…

No it means your muscles are in a constant state of partial contraction due to ennervation. It has nothing to do with body fat %, muscle mass or the look of a muscle. And you most certainly can have tone with any amount of fat, in fact you simply MUST have tone in all muscles unless they have sustained serious damage, it…

I hadn't done the maths on the Dr Joel thing, let me see, 95 + (4 x5) =115lbs, just over 8 stone. Sheer lunacy! I am no elite athlete currently competing at World Championship levels. I hate to think how hard I would have to train and screen my eating to achieve that weight.

What? No way. That is just silly. You simply don't have the same body or metabolic system. Your body needs to weigh more as you get older for all sorts of perfectly reasonable reasons. You simply cannot sustain the weight you were at puberty, especially if you have spent the intervening years giving birth, overweight,…

No, it won't.

Hypertrophy exercises? What on earth are they? ALL resistance training causes hypertrophy....

Wait til you try cutting back on it. You will realise you are not immune, just already addicted. You don't get the caffeine affect as a buzz as your body has adjusted to having it and relies upon it being there. Trust me, I went through it about 10 years ago and it was not much fun. Now I drink 2 - 4 cups in the morning,…

I'll be no help, I can't stand adulterated coffee. Add water to the grounds and drink (OK put it through a mokka first.

BMI was invented as an insurance tool - to decide when to hike up premiums. It is a very outdated measure of the average American. I would also comment on how fat caliper numbers were once calibrated, but cannot find a published source and won't post my old Professor's study experience stories as fact. Not that fat…

Fair enough. But I am not assuming anything (I read nothing in the OPs post that intimated mental illness) and offered my advice... and the good luck and smile at the end.... as motivation. And some of your advice is identical to that I gave, just phrased differently :)

I have a set of scales that include BF but that was just luck of the draw really. I sort of look but don't necessarily track it. I do use a tape measure though. Cheap and cheerful and amounts to the much the same thing if you eat well and exercise. I tend to track my cholesterol and other bloods once a year or so anyway…

Me? Oh Lewis Carrol and Brass Eye.... mix well don't they? :D

Oh! I was responding to the original post here that referred to such posts. I have seen a few of them scattered around the site and they are often unwarranted or unhelpful, in context. And I have also responded to the 'Do HIIT' responses in a similar vein - any 'just do this' post deserves to be challenged. I'm not against…

No! But it will show a trend. Calipers are not much better, human error etc. The only way is a bod pod and. to be honest, is it that important? A general trend in numbers and a tape measure is accurate enough for me.

Another one who talks sense and expects to get any response..... :)

That's called navel gazing and is the direct cause of death for many good intentions. Get your trainers on and think about it whilst you are running. Get an iPod and blast out the running blues, get a grip, get on with it. You have hit a wall, deal with it - NOW! Good luck :)

It might be because we all have different body composition - the lift heavy brigade probably react well to it because they have a goodly % of type II muscle fibres. Others may not get the same physiological response. If it were info shared that would be great. But I have to agree the short, snappy post of 'lift heavy eat…

That's why they are General Practioners. They do come in handy for all sorts of health advice and treatment though. I am working with mine to monitor my bloods and other doctory stuff. He is quite happy that I know more about nutrition and exercise than he does.... I really wouldn't call anyone ignorant for trusting their…

Behave! I did say imagine. And I gave an extreme example to show how daft the two separate camps can be. And I do know one extreme lifter who cannot play with his kids in the back garden as he gets breathless very quickly. He can lift heavy but can't play out with a 3 and four year old. He is fully aware that he needs to…

Belly fat is often the last to go, your body likes to store at least 2 types of fat there on a more or less permanent basis. Increasing the kcals used to exercise any way you care to will eventually get to it. Spot reduction does not work, etc etc. Cardio is NEVER to be dropped though. You cannot be fully healthy without…

Sorry ben. I get irritated with students who do tests to improve their fitness. It is lazy science and I get gnarly over it. Doing a test won't improve anything. It gives you a number, a baseline to use. But the test itself won't change anything. So testing your metabolism won't make you lose weight - as you say, you need…

And you can't rely on exercise for weight loss. Simplest explanation is that you will be gaining muscle mass in place of the fat you shed. Inch for inch it weighs more, so you may be getting smaller but not losing weight.

If you haven't already now is the time to start using a measuring tape. You'll soon notice that you get smaller even if you gain a few pounds.