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Anyone else who doesn't count calories?
For me counting calories is really boring and it makes it feel like I'd be on a permanent diet all my life. I just eat whenever I'm hungry, but the key for me was to eat until I feel satisfied and not until I felt full. I'm not afraid to waste part of a meal If I feel that my body is satisfied with what it already got I…
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The morning banana diet. Too good to be true?
This is a diet were you eat a banana for breakfast, and then eat whatever the hell you want for lunch and dinner and still lose weight. I saw this and thought, this is too good to be true. Eating bananas for breakfast and then eating something like McDonalds for lunch everyday and still being able to lose weight? It just…
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BMI Vs How you look/feel
According to the BMI I'm underweight. Only by about 5 pounds, so I'm not extremely underweight, and yet I look perfectly fine. Yes, I'm skinny, but you can't see my ribcage . I feel more energetic, I feel stronger (Cause I've been lifting more) and people tell me I look good. And I do eat (McDonald's is my happy place). So…
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How much to you allow your weight to go up?
Weight obviously fluctuates, and the number of the scale can't stay the same all the time. So how high will you let the scale go up until you realise that you're slowly falling back into you're old ways again? I like to keep my weight at about 130-135 pounds. So far the highest the scale has gone up for me is 133 pounds,…
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Has anyone lost body fat by doing cardio only?
The popular opinion on here is that to lose body fat you need to do strength training, but as anyone on here lost body fat with no strength training and only cardio? Stomach fat especially
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Exercise on a poor diet
As anyone ever done this, and did you still see good results? My diet isn't the best in the world, but I'm still exercising and eating at a calorie deficit. Some say that what i'm doing now is fine and I'll still see good results, but then others are telling me that i need to eat a healthier diet to see good results.
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Fat loss and weight loss aren't the same thing?
I've heard this so many times. People say that losing weight and losing body fat are two different things, but that never made any sense to me. When you lose weight the weight as gotta come off somewhere
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Do you eat when you're only a little bit hungry?
This may seem like a dumb question, but once you've reached your calorie limit for the day and you're only a little bit hungry afterwards do you eat or do you ignore it? For me I ignore it because I figure that even though I'd a little bit hungry I can still survive. I'll only eat something when I'm starving
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I think my mother is trying to stop me from losing weight
Whenever I start watching what I'm eating my mother always ends up buying tons of junk food for me. Things like Cake, Doughnuts, Tons of chocolate etc. She says she buys them because I like them, but I find it suspicious that she does it whenever I want to start losing weight. When I tell her to stop, she tells me to stop…
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So I lost 1 pound this week even after drinking last weekend
Last Friday and Saturday night I went out and drank quote a bit of beer (Coors light) and then on Monday-Friday I went to the gym by doing cardio and weightlifting, and this week it says I lost 1 pound. Is this a good thing or Is it just a fluctuation of my weight? I figure that after 2 nights of heavy drinking last week…
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Question about my daily summary
After I put in the amount of food I ate and the amount of exercise I did and my daily summary said I had 854 calories remaining. Does that mean that I'm aloud to eat 854 calories after exercise?
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Can't lose weight by swimming?
I hear alot of people say this but i don't understand how an exercise that can burn 400-600 calories in an hour and is known for working every muscle in the body be ineffective for losing weight.
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Will drinking beer once a week effect my weight loss goal?
For 6 days of the week I eat around 1300 calories a day and on Monday to Friday I do weightlifting and jogging. But on Saturday night I do like to go out with some friends and have a few beers. Will this effect my weight loss goals? I hear that it's OK to have a cheat day so would it be OK to drink beer as part of my cheat…
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Swimming and weightlifting question
Lately I've been weightlifting and jogging but I'm getting bored of jogging and I want to change it to swimming just to make things more interesting. Will I still see good results if I mix swimming and weightlifting instead of jogging and weightlifting? I'm in a calorie deficit so I'm looking to slim down and lose weight.
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Exercising with not the healthiest of diets
My diet is not the healthiest in the world. I only like to eat most processed foods and I hate most vegetables. I try to eat a little healthier but what I wanna know is will I still see good results by exercising with a diet that isn't that great? I have changed some things. I started eating whole wheat bread instead of…
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5:2 diet - What can you eat?
The 5:2 diet days that for 5 days you need a normal amount of calories and then for 2 days you only eat 600 calories. But is there any types of foods that I should be eating? They don't make it clear if you got to eat healthier food to be successful or if you can eat whatever you want.
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Body aching the next day after weightlifting
I don't go insane lifting weight. I do 3 sets of 12 but the next day my body always aches. Should decrease the amount of weight I'm lifting or decrease the amount of sets/reps I'm doing? I know of the saying ''no pain, no gain'' but i don't wanna risk injuring myself This is what I do: Monday - Arms, shoulders chest…
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calorie deficit question
According to this site my calorie deficit is 1770. So does this mean that if i went above that it would turn into a calorie surplus? Also 1770 calories seems like a lot of calories or does it sound more than what it actually is?
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Swimming builds muscle?
I always thought that swimming was a cardio exercise, but i was told that it also builds muscle. So is it also a strength training exercise as well as a cardio exercise?
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Exercise with a poor diet
Can body fat still be lost with a poor diet if you exercise? I hear that if you have a poor diet exercising is a waste of time cause you need a healthy diet to get rid of body fat. But then I hear that as long as you're in a calorie deficit you'll lose body fat no matter what you eat. I'm asking this because I really hate…
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Is 3 days a week at the gym enough to lose weight?
I see people recommend 5-7 days at the gym but with work and college I don't have the time. I can manage to get about 3 days a week exercise at the gym. Will that be enough to see results?
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''But you're already skinny''
Has any other slim person on here gotten that reaction from people when you tell them that you want to join the gym? I'm 5'10 and 150 pounds, and when I tell people I try to eat healthy and go to the gym regular the reaction I always get is ''Why are you doing that? You're already skinny!'' I've even been accused of being…
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losing weight better without exercise?
Whenever i exercise and watch my calorie intake the scale usually stays where it is or it sometimes goes up, but whenever I don't exercise and watch my calorie intake i often find that the scale drops quite a bit for me. Usually about 1 or 2 pounds a day I don't know if there's any explanation for this but does anyone else…
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Trying to eat healthier but not getting enough calories
Lately I've been trying to eat more healthy foods such as vegetables, fruit and lean meats but every time i try to do this my calorie intake for the day ends up being quite low (at a guess i'd say it's anywhere from 600-800 calories a day) cause calories in fruit and veg are usually very low. Is there any other kinds of…
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Weightlifting and spot reducing
Lots of us know that you can't spot reduce body but then why are there weightlifting exercises that target different parts of the body? If you can't spot reduce and fat will come off certain parts of your body when it wants to come off then wouldn't just doing bicep curls 3 times a week (Or any other weightlifting…
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Weightlifting question
I just started adding weightlifting to my exercise workouts and right now all I'm doing is bicep curls 3 times a week. Is that enough or should i work other parts of my body when weightlifting? I know that you can't spot reduce fat so i figure that working different parts of my body when lifting weights wouldn't be…
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Drinking vodka and diet coke twice a week
I exercise Monday to Friday every week but then at the end of the week I enjoy going out drinking with friends on a Friday and Saturday night. I try to pick an alcoholic drink that's low in calories so i picked vodka and diet coke, but will drinking that twice a week effect my weight loss? I don't want those 5 days of…
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Has anyone lost body fat not eating clean?
I've seen a few threads around here asking if anyone as lost weight not eating clean and most of the answers are yes but as anyone lost body fat not eating clean? I hear that to lose weight all you need as a calorie deficit but to lose body fat you'll need to eat clean
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Have people's concepts of normal become too fat?
I'm speaking about people from the UK here. I'm not sure about other countries, but this is something that i find interesting because i'm 5''10 and my weight is around 135-138 pounds, which is normal under the BMI but people tell me that i look anorexic and that i need to eat a cheeseburger. I don't think it's me that's…
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If i exersise 5 days a week and drink beer once a week
Will drinking the beer ruin my 5 day workout or will exersising 5 days a week burn off the beer i drink once a week? I work out monday-friday, drink beer on saturday and relax on sunday. I will be maintaining a healthy diet while doing all this btw
