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Originally Posted by TBMorgan
outstanding advice, especially the % body fat - you can buy scales nowadays that measures this ($25-50/each)...gives you other data as well (lean muscle, body water, bone). The soda advice (even diet soda) has really helped me. Bread and alcohol are the tough ones - I'll try to your recommendations about light beer on weekends only.
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Thanks.
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Originally Posted by Returning2USA
OP hasn't been back in a while.
For those seriously...and I mean seriously....trying to get a 6-pack to show, they ought to buy a digital food scale and whey their portions/meals.
For example, 3 oz. of boneless chicken is about 30 grams of protein and X amount of calories.
Also, people ought to keep a food log of what they're eating every day, IMO.
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That's not bad advice, but I don't think it's necessary if you just stick to a few principles. Everybody is different, but I think sometimes when something seems to be too much of a lifestyle change, it can be discouraging. A lot of times people who give fitness advice are people who have devoted their lives to fitness. So advice that works for them isn't going to work for someone who just wants to not be sick, have more energy, and look better in their underpants.
When it comes to building muscle, primarily it's about doing a lot of reps with a lot of weight, tearing down the muscle, and building it back up with food and rest. That's why you hear about bodybuilders doing bulking and cutting. They train hard and eat a lot (bulking), then train and limit their diets to lose the weight to show the definition (cutting).
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