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If you're new to training you can do both at once! Gain muscle and lose fat. If you're experienced (1year plus) at lifting then you're lifting to maintain lean mass and strength as much as you can while in deficit. As your weight drops your power to weight ratio should drop with so you'll naturally find you're able to…

This! only 500 calories of broccolli is a lot more food than 500 calories of frozen waffles. And 500 calories of KFC won't keep you full very long where 500 calories of chicken breast with brown rice will..

Just try and eat whole natural foods (or recipe's made from whole foods) and don't add any sugar, you should be fine. It's refined sugar you want to keep an eye on. There's loads of fructose in fruit which will register as sugar but all sugars aren't created equal.

In my experience 30 day shred is a pretty decent 20 minute cardio/endurance workout. You'll never become an elite athlete or get any real muscularity, but it'll burn a couple hundred calories a day. Just a couple of small dumbbells needed. P90x is a solid mixed cardio/weights routine. Depending on diet, you should be able…

I've said this before and I'm going to say it again... In my opinion, the hierarchy of needs in terms of nutrition are as follows in order of importance: Calories in vs calories out - or 'are you eating less than you're expending?' If it fits your macros - or 'is your Protein/Fat/Carbs split on point?' Sweat the small…

Don't worry about the sodium as a newbie, you'll tie yourself in circles. Get the calories right first, then the macro's, then the micro's. Sodium comes in under micro's so you're a way off worrying about it just yet...

Granted, a correct macro split usually comes hand in hand with a correct calorie goal... I'm more thinking of the folk who worry about macro's too early and stop eating hundreds of calories short because they've hit their carb allowance for the day - don't worry about it! Just get the calories right first, then figure out…

In my opinion, the hierarchy of needs in terms of nutrition are as follows in order of importance: Calories in vs calories out - or 'are you eating less than you're expending?' If it fits your macros - or 'is your Protein/Fat/Carbs split on point?' Sweat the small stuff - or 'Vitamins and minerals = micro nutrients' My…

Ha! Just realised that... Damn Google for pointing people to old threads.

Edited to avoid a potential MFP rule breach...

This. Don't worry about what happens when you're no longer here, you won't be here for it to affect you. You don't worry so much about what went on before you were here, so why worry about what's going to happen when you're not here again? On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

To update your calorie and macro targets, hit 'goals' from your homepage, then 'change goals' then 'custom'. MFP makes you set macro's in percentage and in 5% increments, but you can get somewhere in the region. In terms of what your calories/macro's should be, it really depends on your goals but there's a few rules of…

When I first found MFP I lost 32 pounds with diet only. Naturally I wasn't happy with how that looked int the mirror, so I turned to exercise. 30 Day Shred for a month - very good results, but it would have taken years to give me the body I was looking for. P90X - struggled through 90 days of 6 days a week with adjustable…

I've been up and down over the years - purposely in bulk/cut rather than yoyo - so I'll answer in 2 parts: 1 - about 20 pounds before it was noticed by people who didn't know I was losing weight. 2 - about 12 pounds gain of extra muscular weight before people noticed I was looking bigger in a good way!

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I was celibate for 15 years once...

I've posted my philosophy on this on here once or twice before and heard that people have found it useful. It's simply my opinion after a few years of doing this whole nutrition thing, logging, learning, trying things out and figuring out what works and doesn't for me. Hopefully you can take something from it. In my…

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Over in the UK we call that kinda guy a Bell End! Deserves a punch in the pancreas for being so stupid.

Loving me some pineapple at the moment! I have a raspberry bush in my garden, once that fruits in about a month or 2, I'll have about a hundred raspberries a day for 2 months! I wish I actually liked raspberries.... Jay

I don't buy the 'toxins' thing... Just doesn't sit right with me. I haven't researched it, I could be wrong and y'all can feel free to make your own minds up, but it just sounds all too holistic to my mind. Acne - proper acne, not just the odd spot - is usually hormonal. Exercise can drastically affect your hormone…

There's no food on earth that tastes as good as looking this good feels!

I run out of necessity on a treadmill and I can go a couple miles, but I doubt it'll ever bring me joy like lifting does. Tried road running and I know, it's something I really should do but I'm just bleh about it t'be honest... Edit - I do intervals on treadmill, so I get up to 9 or 10 on sprints for 90 to 180 secs and…

This.

Well done! Lke I said earlier, get the calories on target first, then look after the macro's, then worry about the micros.

Your BMR is around 1380. This is the number of calories you'd burn if you were in a coma and didn't move. If you lift and do cardio at moderate intensity 3-5 days per week (which you'll need to do in order to lose fat and gain lean mass) your TDEE would be around 2135. This is the number of calories you'd need to eat to…

Hi there. Eat more calories. 1000 isn't nearly enough! Here's my suggested step by step to figure out your needs: 1 - Calculate your BMR here http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/ 2 - Multiply it by your activity multiplier found here http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/harris-benedict-equation/ (I'd…

I just bite em off - ha! After a few I find the new callus underneath starts to develop by the time the old one pulls off. Jay Edit - and if you want to use gloves, just use them.. I train in a proper heavyweight bodybuilders gym and there's some proper lifters in there who wear gloves and don't have any issues.

Here's my take on this whole thing - and it's simply my opinion after a few years of doing this whole nutrition thing, logging, learning, trying things out and figuring out what works and doesn't for me. If you don't agree, that's fair enough and your own call. In my opinion, the hierarchy of needs in terms of nutrition…

If your goal is 1460, eat 1460, not 900. If you burn off 200 calories, eat 200 more. MFP overestimates calories burnt - if MFP tells you you've burnt 200 calories, eat 100 more. Take my word for it. I've been doing this for years...