Posts by erikaams5

I think this is quite misleading to the people dumb enough to purchase it for added support during workouts ... seen a commercial on the spanish channel that offered a similar item but it was for giving you more cleavage and lifting boobs if they sag in tops. I have to wonder if this is the same kinda thing but just preying on people that are not that bright.

From your pictures it looks like you have never worked out before and if this is the case than it will be relatively easy to be on a deficit and build muscle. (you would be considered a newbie) You do understand that you will go up or plateau on the scale? If you eat healthy with enough protein (to keep the muscle you will be gaining by weight training) You shouldn't have a problem putting on a little bit of muscle. To get an athletic figure will take some time and patience... It took me about 4-6 months working out constantly to were I would consider my body to be at an athletic figure but I'm also considered Mesomorph so I had a fairly good foundation to start with. Every person is different; depends how serious and disciplined you are with diet and weight training.

*you could eat at maintenance with training numbers included; maybe even a little more, 1-200 calories, more since you said you are underweight.

*use weight training..there is a section on CC for workouts too; to give you options.

*and start with light weight (to get proper form) and once you have that down add more weight.

BTW..BMI numbers are not the best indicator of fit levels..mine says I'm over weight and my body fat is at 14-14.5% right now.

Hi girls. Well I didn't check in on Friday because the number has me so worried; every time I weigh my self i feel obligated to change my diet to accommodate the slight change in weight and it is sort of making me feel like a worrier. I just want to have a healthy image of myself and the scale isn't doing so..actually the total opposite of that. I know that the results of diet and exercise on me will be different than everyone eases but I just have a inner desire to be at 120's even though I know that it's not physically possible because I wouldn't have any body fat (only 30lbs of fat on my body).

So this is what I plan on doing...supporting you guys and checking my body fat every other week and posting that up! I will keep my low carb/high fat/ and even higher protein levels and exercise with total body-leg only days stacked with HIIT and do cardio on off days. I hope this doesn't kick me off the group because of the weighing?? I really do enjoy this little group we have. And I do love reading all of the insights of your lives!

On my way to college be back later.

Some women have dense breast made of mainly tissue and some women have breast made of tissue and fat..sounds like you're in the later one. Your body will lose weight first were you normally gain it last. If your fingers got bigger last or your cup size went up last than this is a perfect example. If we could lose it where we wanted to first, most of us would have big breast. Good for us with big chest that we love, that that isn't the case. As if we need super models with big breast and a beautiful shapes walking all around us making us mad by them not having a problem eating too much!

I believe in utilizing all compound movement. Only when you see a part of your body not developing the way you want it to; that's when you add in isolate movements for that part.

Great site for information on weight training from women who are into fitness is called http://www.figureathlete.com/archives.do?y=20 08.

I've seen others try to say that it's not all that great but I don't see any of them pictured in the girls on the photo section of the website or writing articles on board for proper diet/training/ and health information! I've learned to only take advice from people who look like they utilize the advice that they are giving.

Tod: Every time I think I will pull myself away from the weight training I fail miserably and end up in the gym with my wraps and bottled water ready for another hard workout. So I decided to switch from 5x- 5 or 4x- 8 to 5x- 10. I feel less drained and more motivated to do cardio afterwards. Even though the last 3 days I haven't done any cardio. I think I just need a break for a week or so. The same thing happened to my shoulder last week while doing reverse flys.

Today I did total body day and no cardio..also had the most delightful blueberry muffin with a crumble topping on it. I actually need to steer clear of them at the local grocery store because they are becoming a sin..in Sin City. Also a guy at the gym came up to me and said I had great legs..mind you I was wearing long paints and not matching at all; so I guess I will believe him even though I actually think he came up to me to make small talk and try to hit on me.

19. You have given me a chance to learn things that I didn't know from others.

20. By having people on here with actual supporting information (sites & links) other than just giving out numbers and information with no evidence behind it.

I intended to get on the scale yesterday but completely forgot..I had some cottage cheese this morning prior to this weigh-in so I suppose it could be a tiny bit off but otherwise it is saying 147.8...not too good! I have been sticking to my diet about 90% of the time but never go over calories and always have some sort of deficit. I think I will be putting myself on a harder diet. I don't know? Kinda lost because the period is over and I've been eating really healthy lately. This week I haven't really seen any change in my butt, but my body looks really good for being so heavy.

I was thinking about going off my routine of total body for a week and just doing the cardio on Mon-Wed-Fri, taking Tues-Thurs-Sunday as HIIT days for a week to see if the scale moves next week. This means that I will take Saturday as a rest day; which is today. I'm also going to stick with a harder diet of 1250 calories with a lot of protein shakes...actually the Velocity Diet. http://www.figureathlete.com/readArticle.do?i d=1690447 I will need to get some flax seed and maybe some more peanut butter than I'm all good for the diet.

edit: I don't know what happened to the body of this post.

Original Post by maha-kisa:

Hm, this seems too high to me.

I also have Polar F11, VO2Max = 45, 24 yo, but only 100lbs. I burn 550 kcal in 60 minutes running, with avg heart rate 175.

When you look at File->Daily-> pick that exercise and scroll down twice, it will show the max heart rate during the session and the average. Anything unusual there? Sometimes Polar gets crazy and reads something like 230, which throws off the estimate.

I was under the impression that if your heart rate gets that high that it wasn't good unless you were doing HIIT. That seems really high to keep for 60 min. On a hard cardio session where the machine resistance and incline is maxed out I only get my heart rate up to 160-165 max...but for HIIT I can get it up that high but then that is a total different type of cardio and I do it for 30 seconds and slow way down for 1 minute.

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Read this!

Although biotin deficiency is very rare, the human requirement for dietary biotin has been demonstrated in two different situations: prolonged intravenous feeding without biotin supplementation and consumption of raw egg white for a prolonged period (many weeks to years). Avidin is a protein found in egg white, which binds biotin and prevents its absorption. Cooking egg white denatures avidin, rendering it susceptible to digestion, and unable to prevent the absorption of dietary biotin.

http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/vitamin s/biotin/

http://www.ithyroid.com/biotin.htm

emily...don't know how you can look at Lohan and think in any way shape or form that she has huge thighs..you may have body self issues if I can be frank.. If you gain muscle easily than you will have to just work that much harder to loose it because that just may be your body type..

http://quiz.ivillage.com/diet/tests/bodytype. htm

take this test and follow the information given in the first paragraph!

Spot reduction is a myth and doesn't work, muscle burns about 6 calories vs. fat carried on your body burning about 2-3 calories (daily)...embrace your muscles because it is actually the reason you are your current weight..if your muscle was fat you'd be fatter, less calories burnt daily, and wear bigger clothes...muscle pound for pound weighs the same as fat but is just denser- consider it 1 lb of muscle a pound of bricks vs. 1 lb of fat a pound of cotton. Both weigh the same but the lb of cotton would take up more space! Same thing as fat vs. muscles.

If you are looking for weight loss and not muscle gain than do cardio (HIIT- which is the fastest way to lose fat in the cardio prospective) do some light weight training to not lose the benefits of muscle burning the fat. Something like 4sets of 15 with decent weight and stack that with cardio for no more than 60 min. On your off days do cardio for 60 min at a decent resistance. If you do only cardio than you will get skinny fat and it isn't sexy; that is why TV people were making fun of Tara Reid, Lohan, Mary Kate and Ashley Olson.

nikidust- wasn't able to have the pancakes today because I don't have regular pancake mix...I will stop by the grocery store tomorrow and pick some up so I can have them on Saturday.

I did back/shoulders/and arms today and 60 min of cardio...haven't stacked those in a while so it was definitely different. Tomorrow I go to college and my math teacher wont be in so I only have 1 class and go straight to the gym for legs and chest w/ 30 min of HIIT. My only problem is I have been snacking on muffins a Lot lately...had a cinnamon and cream cheese one today with tea...need to steer clear of muffins too because I just can't stop eating them. I'll have one and the rest of the day keep thinking about eating another one. daydreaming is such a sin for me because it always leads to bad diet habits.

Well banksn440...I would also agree with them; If you raised your calories to your BMR and on workout days raised it another 300 or so you may see a difference. For one thing you never want to be under BMR when doing weight training...with the exception for cutting for comp... also if you seen an increase (BF) you could toss in some HIIT after weight training for 20-30 min to make up the difference of any fat gains from the change in diet...the body will adjust it's self to the new diet. I am assuming that you are a male because if you are female at 11.6% (unless entering competition) you should never keep your bodyfat that low...from what I'm aware of anything in the single digits will cause period loss. For a guy it is perfectly fine.

**the more solid you are the more your body burns = more calories needed .

http://www.figureathlete.com/free_online_arti cle/training/4_things_your_girlfriend_should_ know&cr=

Oxygen could use some up dating too though...most of those magazines are pretty off on information...You are better off just educating yourself from the net because there you can get all the information you could ever need plus if you go to places like figureathlete you will see it done right and the real way. Also you could even chat with the ladies who are into fitness and most of them will help you get your diet, training, and head in the right place without all the BS on stuff that doesn't ever work....if you are serious.

Original Post by nikidust:

hey, everyone! Sounds like we're all in better spirits this week, and back on track. My scale finally moved to 162.5 yesterday and then 162 today. Yay! I was starting to stress about that 164.

In other news, I have lowered my calories back down to 1200-1350. I think I'm an all-or-nothing kind of person and I stay on track better at 1200 than 1480. Plus I have a tendency to go over my goal by a hundred or so calories, so the lower the goal, the better.

I made pumpkin pancakes with chocolate chips this morning. They were delicious! It's basically the regular bisquick recipe with a little canned pumpkin and pumpkin pie spice. yum yum :)You can use skim milk and egg whites, and skip the chocolate chips if you want. Top with cool whip and it's like pumpkin pie! I also like them sans chips with powdered sugar on top. I love Fall!

I'm intrigued about the pumpkin pancakes?? How would you make them with egg whites/canned pumpkin...maybe with milk to thin out? Pancakes are my fave and I make the protein kind w/mashed bananas; but I bought some canned pumpkins and would love to make pancakes with it...If you could give me an idea with like 4 large egg whites and exact amount of the pumpkin I will give it a try on Tuesday.

Yesterday I did leg day and strained my thigh (quad). I didn't realize it until later on in the night so now I'm walking around with a annoying pain in my leg..not terribly painful but definitely annoying. I'm supposed to do cardio today so now I'm stuck here concerned about pushing myself too hard...which I always end up doing...I would try to skip today but STUPID me, I went to a friends house last night and ate about 40 malt-balls...the chocolate was just what the period wanted so I indulged; regretting it today.

ladyfirelyght...the stuffed mushrooms are so easy to make and on the food network website they give you a whole bunch of ways to make them..they are good you'd like them. Also not that expensive to make either...the imitation crab is usually the most expensive part, but you don't need much.