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There's also the question of how far women should go to get pregnant, when there are over half a million children in foster care in this country alone, who desperately need loving parents.

Have you tried pull-ups and chin-ups?

No. She should adopt.

Right. Refeeding has *partly* to do with a chemical called leptin, which I'm not even remotely qualified to talk about. If you really want to torture yourself with the details, here's a Google link -- pay special attention to anything written by Lyle McDonald as he's an expert on the topic: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=leptin+refeed+group:misc.fitness.weights&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&group=misc.fitness.weights&selm=3D38BA0C.B899B8E6%40onr.com&rnum=1 The idea is to refeed occasionally to keep the metabolism doing what you want it to. It's not really a "kick in the ass" -- more like a nasty trick to keep it from slowing down. Most people refeed on weekends, since that's when it makes the most sense anyway. I can eat complete crap all weekend and still wake up Monday morning and weigh less than I did Friday morning! But during the week, I'm *very* strict with my calories... Refeeding also has great psychological benefits, especially when you're looking at a long road to reaching your target weight. It's much easier to keep away from your favorite foods 6 days a week for 6 months, than for 6 months straight. I think that's the primary reason people should consider refeeding. It's possible to do shorter cycles, but for most people I really don't think it's worth the trouble of trying to keep track of it.

Damn, what kind of gym keeps a rug under its squat rack??? If they know about your injury, you can probably talk them into putting down some matting that nobody can trip over... it's in their own best interest, too...

WHERE ARE YOUR SQUATS?!?!?

Men's Health covers make it looks so cheap... "Look Your Best in 10 Minutes or Less!" "12 Instant Muscle Builders!" (actual cover blurbs) It's probably one of the better magazines out there though, because it addresses different areas of fitness, not just muscle.

Yeah, they got caught. 90% of the people I know would be in prison if they got caught for every law they broke.

Stop trying so hard to be a shit... it won't make up for your mental shortcomings.

No no... see, I said that 2lbs/week is a realistic goal. An arm is much heavier than 2lbs. A foot a week is a perfectly reasonable way to lose weight! (And you can chop off a few fingers, too, to get that extra "definition"...)

Old School was funny... I also enjoyed Will Ferrell's Harvard address: http://video2.harvard.edu:8080/ramgen/pluto/ClassDay2003.rm (skip forward to when Farrell comes on at an hour and a half... the first part is pretty damn boring)

True story: In 5th grade, I had a classmate whose father was a plastic surgeon. One of his patients shot him to death because she was unsatisfied with her breast implants. :eek: Implants are DANGEROUS, people!!!

I don't read them myself; I just make it a point to get all my advice from people who do. Check out the newsgroup misc.fitness.weights... there are some VERY educated people (and a whole lot of idiots, of course) who post there.

Do I *have* to?

Are we there yet?

I haven't read the article, but I really doubt that's his actual workout. Bodybuilders get paid so ghost writers can use their names. Besides, you'd better have a healthy steroid regimen if you hope to avoid overtraining on most of the workouts those mags publish. Don't forget, folks, bodybuilding magazines are vehicles for supplement advertisements, which heavily affects the information they publish. That's *especially* true of anything published by Joe Weider. Sports journals are where the real information is at.

I'm definitely NOT black and I am posting in this thread. Now whatcha gonna do about it? HUH?

About 40 minutes. Too much longer and I start feeling overtrained and lose my motivation to go to the gym. This overtraining effect has actually been documented and linked to the catabolic hormone cortisol, which your body starts producing during intense exercise (assuming you're actually working out and not just standing around gawking at the gym bunnies). Cortisol also reduces your T-cell count, so shorter workouts are better for your immune system as well.

I often eat whatever I feel like on weekends (though when I'm eating healthy I tend not to crave sweet foods at all, fortunately). Refeeding is good for you and can actually help you lose weight.

That was my first thought too. Also... I've met bisexual women who at one point preferred women, but now prefer men, and vice versa. It doesn't make her a lesbian, it just makes her a bi woman who currently prefers women. I think of a lesbian as someone who generally doesn't even consider men.

I did it all for the peanut, the peanut, so you can take that halibut, and stick it up your nose, stick it up your nose, stick it up your NOSE!

Men who fuck lots of women are pimps, women who fuck lots of men are hoes. Isn't that how it goes?

I do cardio for my heart and lungs -- if it were only to lose weight I'd just focus on my diet. I run 3x/week on non-lifting days, first thing in the morning, because that's when it's most convenient.

Don't you think your focus on promiscuity might be getting in the way of finding someone you could fall in love with?

Crash diets are generally ineffective in the long term -- people tend to gain the weight right back. The most you can reasonably expect to lose and keep off is about 2lbs/week. If you gained the weight over a single weekend, though, my guess is that a lot of it is just food and water weight. Try going back to a sensible diet for the rest of the week and see what happens (like elementx said).