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* I prefer my scale that measures in .5 lb increments. * Right now, I'm working on losing weight as I've gone beyond my comfortable upper limit. * I do not step on it more than once. * I consider my weight to be whatever the number is on the day when I step on the scale. That is, I log whatever shows up and don't only log…

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I would try it, depending on the form. Probably not the milk-like version but the chopped nut version might be good sprinkled on a salad.

Not needing to go to the gym in order to be active has already been covered. I just want to touch on people choosing to be completely inactive simply because they don't like exercise/activity or they're busy watching TV or knitting or what have you. In the past few years, I've seen an increasing number of people in my life…

When you reduce calories, you tend to reduce your NEAT (non-exercise activity) calorie expenditure without thinking about it. The extent to which this happens varies but some people's NEAT decreases far enough to outweigh increases in exercise and decreases in calories eaten. I would suggest eating in a small deficit while…

Keep it up and it will get easier :) It's common to be weak when you start out. The only people who aren't are people who have built/maintained strength through their normal everyday life. Modern life doesn't require many of us to do that. If you are having extreme difficulty working with a weight, reduce the weight a bit.…

Did you do any progressive resistance exercise (lifting weights, calisthenics, TRX, etc.) as you lost weight? If not, you will have lost a good amount of muscle and that can cause you to look frail and ill. My suggestion would be to follow a good full body lifting program 2-3 times per week in order to get stronger and…

I agree that you should be working your full body, not just lower. You need muscle/strength in your upper body. One of the Strong Curves programs is lower body only but even that I'd only do if I was also doing upper body using a different plan. As for what you're doing, it looks like you've fallen into the "more exercises…

Pfft, 6 months! Did he say what would happen if you deadlift in the gym without 6 months of experience? Does the gym require members to sign an attestation stating that they have 6 months of experience lifting weights before they're allowed to deadlift? Sounds like an arbitrary rule made up by the trainer. I'd ignore it…

SC is a book with four different 12 week programs. Three are full body. One is lower body only. The book also contains a template for building your own full body program. SC is physique focused and balanced.

Couldn't you just multiply the normal nutrition by 8 and then divide by 14 (or 12 or 13)?

It's something like 24-40 hours. Just weigh yourself each day, plot it out, and see how your weight fluctuates depending on what you eat. Don't attempt to create a mathematical formula that determines how much poop is in the chute, so to speak.

Sometimes when I search in the app, it will first say that there are no search results for that items in my past history. Then when I click the magnifying glass so that it searches again, it does a broader search against the entire MFP database. Is it possible that you just need to click to search the second time?

I have never bulked (on purpose at least hahaha boohoo) but I've always thought it was somewhat due to price. It seems like there are more inexpensive carb sources than there are protein sources.

Hello. This is a good article for you to read: https://bodyrecomposition.com/muscle-gain/general-philosophies-of-muscle-mass-gain.html/

Never heard of it. Am I understanding correctly that you're specifically talking about losing fat from the bottom of your foot, so there's less cushion? That does sound painful.

You may get more advice if you post in the Gaining Weight section of the forum. There are many people who are focused on bulking who can guide you.

.4 grams of fat per pound of bodyweight is a good starting point as a minimum. 25 grams is crazy low.

Yes, you can gain strength in a deficit. It's not unusual, though results vary by individual. The size of your deficit and how much you have to lose are big factors. At 270, you have plenty of stored fuel even when eating in a 1000 deficit. It's not really surprising that your lifts are still increasing.

They are all equally ineffective for weight loss.

If you aren't measuring properly (i.e., using a scale for solids, measuring cups/spoons for liquids) then you don't know how many calories you are eating. If you aren't losing weight over time, you are eating at maintenance. What you currently think is a 400-450 calorie deficit is maintenance for you. The solution is to…

I don't know if you even actually call this a recipe but other than taking a veggie tray, my favorite thing to take is mini sandwiches. Get a package of the size rolls below (can be white, wheat, whatever.) Don't tear them apart. Instead, slice it open like it's one big sandwich. Layer on meat and cheese. Put the top back…

Go to the app's food diary and search "breastfeeding." You'll get a bunch of entries for negative calories.

Fat loss comes from a calorie deficit, which means eating fewer calories than you burn. I tend to see that much running as being hard on the body so if your only real goal is to lose fat, there are easier ways to do it. For example you could run 2 days a week and eat less on the non-running days. Or you could do some other…

So what? Amazingly, none of those activities are required in order for a person to work out. Shocking, I know. Thousands upon thousands of people train and work out and get fit without deadlifting, doing Olympic lifts, etc. To claim that a facility is not a gym unless its members do so is myopic and plain old wrong. Every…

No, I would not consider that overtraining. However, I also think that fast running six days a week is likely not a good training plan. What's your goal with the running? To get faster? To burn calories? To just get some cardio in?

I belonged to a place with a circuit and you would just do as many reps as you want until the beep sounded and then you'd move to the next spot. So it was a 30 second long set, beep, 30 second set at the next exercise, beep, etc. You wouldn't try multiple sets during one 30 second period but you could go around the circuit…

How much do you really put in a recipe? 100 grams of lemongrass seems like it would be a lot. (I'm thinking of how much space 85 grams of spinach takes up and comparing lemongrass to that.) If you're removing the lemongrass before eating, I wouldn't think that there would be much left in the recipe. I truly don't know…

I have no problems with them. I have Diet Dr Pepper probably 2-3 times per week. No issues. Also drink lots of tea (hot and iced) with Sweet 'n Low without problems.

Twelve classes a week is a lot. Maybe dial it back a bit. How many days a week was that? If it was 6 days, for example, cut back to 3 and do something else on the other days. Or pick your favorite 1/2 types of exercise and just do those.