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Gaining bodyfat since starting intermittant fasting
Help! I started intermittent fasting (8 hour feeding window a day). I'm a 29 y.o. female, crossfitting 4 times or so a week. I started IF-ing about one month ago. While I feel good …
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Body Fat drop stopped
I decided a few months back to hit the gym and get back in shape. I started off eating food with a diet center which provided me a gluten free diet (I have celiac), which had a com …
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Female equivalent of male 10% body fat
I was finally able to get a body fat percentage yesterday which made me wonder what I should be striving for aesthetically. I regularly hear men trying to get below 10%, which is c …
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Fasting on Fat (Paleohacks) vs Completely Fasted State (LeanGains)
I came from the LeanGains camp where you probably shouldn't be consuming anything above 10 or 15 calories during your fasting period. I've noticed a lot of people talk about using …
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Are there really 7700 calories in a kilo of bodyfat?
Google searches tell me that I need to burn 7700 calories to burn off a kilo of bodyfat. Is this right?
The reason I'm asking is that I'm trying to dial in my activity multiplier …
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Muscle gain rates for women
Hello everyone! I've been lurking around these forms for a while, and have learned quite a bit but I do have a question that's been in the back of my head for a while. I'll try to …
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Hack my (belly) fat! (Photo link)
I may have posted a similar question before, however I saw someone else post a photo once and received pretty detailed responses in comparison to just a description listed kind of …
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Lowest Healthy Year Round Bodyfat Percentage? (Male)
What's the lowest healthy, year round bodyfat percentage for men? As I approach single digit bodyfat percentage, I wonder how low I should go.
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3answers
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PCOS - NOT Insulin Resistant---Whats the problem?
Hello everyone,
I am wondering what is getting in my way of leaning out. I have a history of PCOS, but I had my full blood panel done and my insulin is fine, I am not insulin resi …
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Crossfit Female Bodytype Question
So I've noticed an interesting common thread that I see when I look at Crossfit Women and I certainly know that this isn't always the case, and this is not intended to be critical …
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Optimal BF% for Overall Health and Longevity?
I've been camped out around 12% for a while and through experimentation have found what choices make me a little leaner or a little less lean, so I'm confident I could camp out at …
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Can being too lean as a growing teen stunt height/puberty?
I aM a girl and i pretty much eat paleo but its not like im SUPER strict or anything because i dont let food control my life. Anyway, im healthy and all BUT im super short.
Ive b …
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Size, Muscle, Paleo, CrossFit, Carbs and Me.
Howdy Folks,
Okay, but seriously. I'm 6'1" 22 year-old male who just started CrossFit a month ago. I was relatively lean upon starting, probably between 13-11%, I don't really kno …
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Losing too much weight - paleo
So I've got a bit of an issue here....
I've been following a paleo diet for the past 4 months and prior to that I would consider myself a fairly "clean" eater to begin with. I re …
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Who else has a high BMI but normal bodyfat?
Discovered something interested today after taking a bodyfat test - while my BMI is considered high at 27.8, my bodyfat is 29.9%, just inside the "normal" range for a female.
I ha …