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My experience: CICO vs. P90x vs. Whole30 vs. Keto vs. OMAD
Happy to say I've hit my target weight and I'm doing great! After realizing I was a solid 60-70+ pounds overweight, I tried a lot of different things the last few years to get back on track, with more yoyo-ing than I would like. But I've finally hit a balance the last year. Here's what I've discovered. For real weight…
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Ulcerative Colitis? Crohns? Others?
Hey everyone! So last week I was hit with a 4-day hospital stay after some brutal symptoms and discovered through the process that I have ulcerative colitis... it's not SUPER common but enough that I wondered if there were others here navigating complex diets to help alleviate and prevent issues with these kind of stomach…
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What is your Myers Briggs (MBTI) Personality Type?
Here's a good test! http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp And a classic old site with descriptions: http://typelogic.com/ I've been an ENFJ my entire life (borderline on P and J). Pretty squarely accurate for me. Never have taken it too seriously -- but can be a fun distraction and has led to some pretty cool…
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Going way under your IFFYM
One thing I've noticed since I've been getting serious about IFFYM and weighing/logging food. On a weekday, I seem to rarely "hit" my target goal. Instead I'm closer to 1500 calories in a day (as opposed to the recommended 2000) and often hit the sack with 500 left in the bank and 1000kcal under estimated TDEE. I feel…
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Need a good lifting rotation. Advice?
So -- my first goal was weight loss. Yesterday, I hit my target weight of 185 pounds (down from 235 in January). Throughout it all, I've been doing some sporadic weight lifting and a lot of cardio (Beachbody Insanity, running stairs, standing squats etc). My "program" for weight lifting has been a lot of dumbbell bench,…
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Frustrating food database. No idea if this is right.
Trying to find an accurate macro count for a couple things I eat ALL the time:* Quinoa cooked in chicken stock * Cooked chicken breast Does anybody have a hyper-accurate count for these? The food database has some versioning that is wildly different. Any advice for how to "find" out the truthful answers on these? Some…
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Food scales? Advice?
My wife wants to get a food scale -- any recommendations? She needs it just to accurately measure meals. I'm going to put in an order today if I can find a good one on Amazon, but see a VERY broad range from $10 to $200... just want something simple, accurate, that won't break on me :) . Thanks!
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ONE meal a day?
So, with friends in from out of town for restaurant week -- we ended up going to a restaurant every night. I didn't want poo-poo the idea (and it was a freaking blast with some great food)... but what I did do is skip breakfast and lunch both days to account for the Restaurant Week 3-course meal and drink at the end of the…
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Stress fracture? Toe hurts awful
My fourth toe hurts terribly, particularly when walking or applying pressure -- but I don't recall injuring it in a direct way. I've been running and doing Insanity quite a bit, but this has me struggling and needing to take a rest for cardio. Not sure if it's a go-to-the-doctor thing, yet. But damn, it hurts, radiates out…
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Injured :( How do you stay motivated?
So I tore a tendon in my foot. Which means -- I need to recalculate my macros based on this new period of NOT doing a mixture of Insanity and weight training for a bit. Recommendations? Anybody had to do this? How do you stay motivated? For me, the fitness piece of it is a huge component and helps a lot of other things…
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Counting that MASSIVE meal out (1,914 calorie dinner)
So best friends are in from out of town, we decide (it's restaurant week) that we're going to go to our favorite Indian Restaurant. Of course eating out on a weekday goes against rules I've set in 2017 -- but it's a special occasion so what the hell. For the day so far, I've had a cucumber/chicken salad and 20 grams of…
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Your magic metabo-meter: what do we actually know?
I wish I had a monitor that could show me exactly what my body needs at any given moment. Am I in ketosis? What just happened to the food I ate? What nutrients do I need the most in any given moment? Am I getting enough X? Do my muscles need more protein? Does eating this or that really boost my metabolism? I have these…
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The science is in: exercise won’t help you lose much weight
This article came up on my feed: (link) At first, it seemed a rather irresponsible headline and meta image -- making exercise seem worthless because your spinning class can be usurped by a few drinks. But what about the rest of it? For folks on this forum who often delve into the NIH articles and peer-reviewed studies,…
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Just hit a healthy/normal BMI!
Okay! So I know BMI isn't a great indicator of overall health or fitness (because of other factors like muscle mass, etc) but it was one of my first major benchmarks to cross into "Normal" as I continue to get fit and lose weight. At 6'1, 189.2lbs, I finally hit that goal -- 6 months after getting back into a steady…
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Did I really gain 12 pounds in 14 days?
So I left for vacation weighing in at 190 (I'm 6'1 m). While I definitely let my diet slip -- I didn't go overboard and stayed very active (running, hiking, biking, kayaking, horseback-riding etc) but w/ a lot of big dinners out. Yet, back from vacation last night I weighed in naked at 202, which seems crazy to impossible.…
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How do you measure success? BMI? Body Fat %? Weight? Feeling?
So right now after 6 weeks of aggressive dieting and exercise, my BMI is 26.8, and my body fat percentage (according to my tape measure and this Army body fat calculator is 25 percent) Curious as to what folks are using as their measure of success or measure of most importance? I've probably been weighing myself a bit too…
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Can 1lbs of food make you gain more than 1lbs?
So this is purely a theoretical question. Let's say you decided to drink a pound of olive oil (3,998 calories). This is the best example I can think of, because even a pound of dense caloric food like sesame butter only has 2,707.25 calories (which is less than the estimated 3,500 calories for a pound of human fat -- if…
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A Calorie Math Problem... Calories in? Lost 20 pounds in 1mo
So I recently finished Whole30 (and started another round). I'm a 32-year old 6'1 male who weighed an average of: 224-227 at the start of the month, and now consistently weight in at 204-207 at the end of the program. I lost 20 pounds in 30 days on Whole30... that's a loss of 70,000 calories. Curious, I wondered what this…
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Holy Paleo...
Hello, FitnessPal! It's been awhile. After an awesome 3 months with p90x -- I kept up some soft workouts but went back to my SAD diet -- slowly regaining creeping back up to 230 (I'm 6'1). My love for pastas, pizzas, breads, sandwiches is hard to go back to in moderation. So I said screw it and decided it to try this…
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A week off :( -- missing workouts
I've been solid on p90x for the last 2 months, but after vacation and a conference in Phoenix, have fallen off and haven't worked out for 5 days due to random factors (not feeling well, exhausted after traveling all day etc). Now I know I'll be out all day tomorrow traveling again, and may not be back into it until I can…
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The Thug Kitchen Cookbook
This made me laugh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar7g_26QWu0 Eat like you give a *kitten*. I may need to gift this book to some people...
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Red meat is GOOD for you! How Americans got it wrong...
Great article: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/06/how-americans-used-to-eat/371895/ "About one fifth of the U.S. population was over 50 years old in 1900. This number would seem to refute the familiar argument that people formerly didn’t live long enough for heart disease to emerge as an observable problem."…
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Need advice! P90x vs P90x2
Hello! So I started P90x five weeks ago (my second run of the program -- did it last year) in preparation for an obstacle course race in October. At the rate we're going (I'm managing workout schedule for the team) we will finish the p90x program with 7 weeks left to do final training (hills, cardio, stairs, outdoors,…
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Does P90x3 work? Prepping for tough mudder w/ friend
I'm a p90x fan. My buddy and I are prepping for a Tough Mudder, but also work a hell of a lot (70+ hours a week) so we do morning workouts. To prep, our plan is pretty simple. Great diet, and the following workout schedule:* 2 months of p90x * 3 months of p90x3 and extra cardio / hot vinyasa classes Finishing up the first…
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Who has done the Tough Mudder? What was your training like? Tell your story!
I have a sister thread on this, but wanted to get a better sense of:* Who all has done the Tough Mudder * Do you recommend it? * What training did you do to prepare? * What training did you WISH you had done? Or would recommend? Already getting some great advice about hill and interval training. Right now tearing up P90x…
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Getting better at pull-ups: FASTER
So I'm a month back into p90x (finished my first round last year). Pull-ups are still pretty rough, even assisted. I find I can do a solid 5 unassisted on a first round, but then after a couple more and a 1-2 rounds of assisted, I'm burned out for the next sets. I switch to bands, which I don't feel are doing the job (and…
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I LOVE brussels sprouts. How do you cook em?
Tonight's dish -- sautéed w/ olive oil and some seasoning. Served w/ salmon and quinoa boiled in chicken stock. What are some other awesome ways to cook this amazing veggie? Share!!!
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Is Diet Coke actually Satan?
I've always had a suspicion that Diet Coke and diet beverages in general probably weren't that great for me. But lately, a number of articles / studies are claiming it does all kind of crazy things to our internal chemistry and and even metabolism. It's slowly killing you) -- -- and just as associated with all the evils of…
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Any other p90x folk?
I'm in my second run of P90x finishing up the first month. My first run was about 5 months ago -- so there's been some loss, but I'm surprised at how quickly I've been able to pick it up. Biggest challenges still:* Pullups: I can do 10-13 the first set, but then I'm dead for future sets. Reliant on the chair and have to…
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How much olive oil is too much?
Hello. I am Daniel. I love (and may be addicted to) olive oil. I'm pretty liberal with it, too. When you're cooking with it -- are you really consuming 119 calories per TBSP? Because if so, I have to think I'd be 300lbs heavier on crispy salmon skin alone. What about you? When cooking do you tend to measure it out and take…
