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Does everybody try to go for 2 lbs a week?!
Why the heck do people ALWAYS seem to try to go for 2 lbs a week?! Even if they only try to lose 5 lbs, are stick thin to begin with, and do know the healthy pace??? I overshot with this myself in the beginning although I only did 1.5! *lol* Any others? :laugh: What was the pace you inserted when first making your user…
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How To Get Ripped
I just felt like posting this article. Good stuff! Motivational and informative! :smile: A bit more "manly" approach, to writing about losing weight, for a change. :wink: For most guys in the gym, figuring out how to get ripped is a priority. Some just want to be "big," but they make up a very small group of the…
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Converting fat to muscle (rant)
I often see people telling each other that they are probably converting fat to muscle and since muscle weighs more than fat, that's why they are not losing weight according to the scales as much as at some point. Where does this notion come from? I honestly want to know! Come on!!! Fat and muscle are two completely…
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Fat rant
I was looking up info on fat as a macro nutrient and came accross this video. There are things that I don't agree in it, namely the notions that losing weight is futile and that obesity doesn't affect your quality of life at all. Quality of life problems might not show yet when you're young but I for one have always had…
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Going too fast..?
Okay. Here's the deal: I have been aiming at dropping about 1 - 1.5 lbs a week for the whole time I've been at this. Just two lbs more and I'm at the high end of the healthy BMI range and soon I'll start to slow the rate down to 0.5 - 1 lbs a week to ease into my target weight. For a long time I have kept my deficit at…
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Beginning tae kwon do
Hi. I just thought to say hi and maybe find out if there are other people here that are into martial arts. :smile: I used to do tae kwon do back in the days but life happened and years later I found myself in a pretty bad shape and looking for a nice way to exercise. I have been somewhat overweight most of my life even…
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How and how much do you exercise? (poll)
I'm sure something of this has been asked already in some form but the constant 'eat / don't eat your exercise calories' debate got me thinking. Obviously people have very different exercise routines depending on their goals and current fitness level, and how much you eat should mirror those so I'd like to ask a few…
