Posts by mercy_bobcat

holy effin crap, 140? NO!

eat more than 1500. you'll still lose weight. 1500 isn't enough unless you are one of those infamous nerds made fun of in movies that literally sit on their rear ends and study all day.

i recovering from an ED too. and i drink v8 every morning. when i first started getting treatment i was on gatorade for my electrolyte imbalance.

V8 is a great way to go about it. its good for you. its not processed sugar, its natural, almost identical to the sugar in you  bananas and apples. i know its hard to get past that number of sugar grams, but remember, its just a number, and a little sugar is necessary for the body to function right.

optimum nutition 100% whey is da bomb. soooo many good flavors

1. I say this to everyone. toned/toning doesn't exist. as a verb its a joke. you can't "tone" or "scultp"

2. 1400 is what you should be eating should you ever be in a coma. To find out how many calories to consume, subtract 500 cal from what you burn each day. To do that you need to find a TEEN calorie calculator. For activity I'd say you're very active

3. protein is sooo important. aim for a 40/40/20 ratio

4.you're never going to fully attain your goals without weight lifting. it builds/maintains muscle. on a caloric deficit it is near impossible to gain more that 1-2 pounds of muscle. you WILL NOT get bulked out. even if you were on a bulking diet you would not gain mass muscle.

cardio helps a smidge when it comes to cutting fat, but not significantly. ppl here will prob disagree with me on this, saying they lost weight with cardio blah blah blah. well, they lost a sh*tload of muscle, not fat.

so, in all, at every meal, have a portion of carbs, a portion protein, and veggies in at least two of those meal. if you do this, and eat human sized portions, you don't need to count calories. by taking the right portions of carbs and proteins at every meal, you will be building a healthy eating foundation for a lifetime.

If all that unhealthy crap was taken away there would be some dogooder out there who will file a lawsuit saying that their freedom to choose to eat what they want is being taken away.

Speaking of freedom of choice, it is every person's own choice to choose what they want to put in their body. Most people  choose to eat the bad crap. And they have every right to, its their choice. Its up to every invidividual themselves to make the right food choices. Cant make the choice if its being taken away from them.

also, a cookie every now and then isn't bad. it may be filled with fat and sugar, but a little treat is deserved every now and then

1500 cal isnt even a binge. I eat 1800 when in SEDENTARY

One word. Gravity. Its gonna pull em down and there is nothing us women can do about it.

1.) Erase the word tone from your vocabulary. Forever. It does not exist. Your abs and glutes will get tighter through overall fat loss which is acheived through weight training and a clean diet.

2.) You are not gonna get very great results using just the machines. Throw the ad/abduction machines out the window. The lat pulldown, leg sled, leg curl, and leg extensions are the only machine exercises I would keep in the routine. Other than those, you need to toughen up and make your way to the free weights. Why? Because when you use the machines you are only targeting ONE MUSCLE. ONE. On the other hand, when using the free weights you are using multiple muscles -the muscles you target and the muscle the exercise employs to stabalize the body to perform the exercise. Take squats for example. When you think of the muscles you are using when doing a squat you think "hammy, quads, legs etc". But you are also using your abs and back to stabalize your body under the weight of the barbell. Catch my drift?

Your boobs are fine. Go boobs to the wall when you're lifting. Good luck

The only way you are going to acheive a flat stomach is complete fat loss which is acheived through weight training. Not crunches, not yoga, not freakin pilates. Weight lifting. Cardio aint gonna cut it either. I bet you will not get a flat stomach if all you do is pilates and yoga. Take a gander at the fitness forum or bodybuilding.com and they will tell you yoga and pilates is a bunch of crap for losing fat.

I went trick or treating... and didn't eat a single piece of candy. Gave all my candy to my friends. All in all yesterday was just like every other cutting day.

beckkkahhhx3, i really hope you're being funny.. 1500 calories? Whoopy damn skip. I cut on 1800.

TONING DOES NOT EXIST. ERASE THAT WORD FROM YOUR VOCABULARY. Ab exercises are NOT going to get rid of the flab. Especially non-weighted ab exercises like crunches and sit-ups (which don't even work your abs).

If you want to get lean and get rid of that flab you need to do a full body weight lifting routine with compound exercises.  A real one, not a sissy one, not one done in your bedroom lifting 5 pound db's. That means squats, lunges, deadlifts. Your parents need to know what your goal is. You never know, they might even help you.

I must give you kudos for wanting to lose fat, not weight. So many teens on here are into that I wanna lose weight crap and then they go about it all wrong. However, at a bmi of 18 I don't see where this "fat" is coming from. One bmi point below 18 is considered unhealthy.

im sure it exercises different muscle groups... but when i see people doing it at my gym i can't help but think they're nuts....

hey there, i'm 15. not for long though. i used to have the same problem as you a long time ago. idk how, but i managed to just quit cold turkey. this year i started bodybuilding, and seeing the results made binging all that much easier to avoid. if you ever wanna talk you can pm me, or email me

no time to pack your lunch? outta a 24 hour day you can't find time to pack your lumch? I don't think so. Stop searching for a magic answer and just pack one the night before!