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Wow, Nate Chandler made it? We really need to be on the phone with Jake Scott.

We just cut Patrick Brown per Person.

That's what I was thinking... That or as Scot said, perhaps he just didn't fit the new system. Would love to bring him in and see what he has.

I did a thread on our successful castoffs a year or so ago. Will Montgomery went on to be a serviceable player for the Skins as well. If I'm not mistaken, he was their starting center for a year or two. Without looking, I have no idea where he is now. Dave Ball was another preseason standout we cut that went on to be productive for Tennessee.

I called Melvin White back in my review of basic preseason stats thread.

All I needed for my verdict on Florence was him getting broke in half on that Shanie McCoy juke. Lol...

This song makes me want to put on my tiger striped zubaz and neon fanny pack and cruise the strip in a mazda miata.

Question about the calorie stuff again... Anyway, I punched my info in the MyFitnessPal app and it is giving me this weird breakdown for the carbs, proteins, and fats... it has like 55% carbs, which seems counter intuitive. Furthermore, I'm already at 53% for the day on carbs, and then it has me over on proteins by 22 grams... it makes no sense. And I can't find anywhere to adjust it. I thought you want to take in more protein if you are leaning out or bulking. Second, it asks my level of activity. I stay at home with my kids during the day, so I'm not doing much physically during that time, but insanity is pretty strenuous for an hour a day, so I think it makes up for it. So, should I be choosing sedentary or very active? And for anyone else using MFP, are the automatic calories assigned to you from your goals pretty accurate? Under the very active setting, it has me needing around 2,000... but as I said, the macros seem quite off.

OK, cool... I have BF Calipers as well as the scale, so I'll see what I can come up with.

That's awesome Jase. So, which of those formulas from the bb post did you use?

I know its been discussed some throughout the thread, but is anyone aware of a concensus as to what happens if you intensely workout regularly, but you don't take in enough calories? If you still have fat to lose, should it matter early on? I believe I'm supposed to take in 2,600 and change a day. I haven't been counting my calories, I've just been eating cleaner and healthier. In the past, when I did try to meet that caloric intake, I end up feeling bloated and less motivated to workout and more motivated to hibernate. It just feels like way too much food and I feel as though I'm over-eating when I try to get that many calories and I've counted them. I'm guessing that I'm getting between 1,500 and 2,500 on any given day. I also assume that to this point, I've been losing healthy weight, as throughout the week thd scale fluctuates but ultimately averages out to me losing one to two pounds a week, and I've lost 2-3 inches off my waist in about a month. But, now I question if I'm getting enough b/c I've started month 2 of insanity where the intensity definitely ramps up and I feel as sore as I can remember being since starting it. I'm talking legs, triceps, shoulders, ribcage... pretty much everything. I'm just curious b/c I don't want to be counter all the good I'm doing if I'm not getting enough cals. Although I know I read at some point that the whole "your body will start eating away at muscle to compensate" is a myth...

I had known about the weeknd for awhile - about as long as he has been out, but I never listened to his songs mainly because the lyrics and content I had heard about overindulged in drug and sex references... but, I finally gave it a liten and downloaded his compilation of mixtapes... wow. Apparently, this song is nowhere to be found on youtube... http://m.soundcloud.com/xoxodananicole/the-weeknd-the-morning

Was just wondering, can't remember if it was Irv or Lomez, but who was it that said they were using Garden of Life Raw Meal? Everybody in my Beachbody group talks about shakeology, but I started using Raw Meal after workouts and I was wondering if anyone else knew how it stacked up? Are they similar? I thought about starting back with my protein powder usage as long as I limit it to one or two scoops a day, but Raw Meal has 30-some grams of protein in each serving, as well as carbs and micronutrients from veggies and such... So I've just held off of it for now.

Man, how quickly fans forget... Beason was everyone's favorite leader until the achilles injury, now it seems popular for everyone to write him off and want to release or trade him. I'm still believing in Beast, and hope he retires a Panther. As was said above, it shows what kind of guy he is with how he has handled the situation with Luke. Also, did people forget that despite being one of the youngest players on the team that he was the guy that pulled Smitty off of Lucas a couple years ago? And his production/heart on the field prior to the injuries, as well as his work ethic??? I really hope he pulls off a TD and proves everyone wrong. This is gonna be a sick defense. As an aside, I was surprised that he specifically mentioned that he had a micro fracture injury/procedure... That's the first I have heard of it, and that's troubling as it has ended many a player's career in basketball, which is obviously a lot less violent. That being said, I know Beast will prove everyone wrong. Can't wait for this season!!!

Good job floppin! What was your regimen for losing? I'm gonna try to get a month of Insanity in before Huddle Jamz to get myself semi-ready, lol.

Definitely did, thanks Bronc! That's kind of the approach I'm taking this time man. I'm sure I've posted it earlier somewhere along with the pictures of my "prime" fitness level, but even back then my diet wasn't clean. I ate like crap then, I just didn't do it as often because of lack of resources (less fast food, junk in general b/c I didn't have money). Now, I'm eating crap, but much more of it because I'm able to keep buying it. As I've said, I'm a mentally tough person and I've always been able to cut stuff out when I needed to or what have you... I mean, I've never had a drop of alcohol in my life, nor have I ever used any drugs. So, it's not the mental part. It definitely is the physical and I'm guessing some kind of psychological/physiological deal. The other difference was, even though I ate like crap back then, all I did was play basketball like 4 hours a day and do sets of crunches and lifts until I went to sleep at night. Now, I think the lack of social structure (no school/work buddies to meet up with to workout) makes for an easy out and I just end up doing nothing. But, I'll definitely apply what you suggested. I was kind of approaching it that way this time instead of cold turkey to begin with, so hopefully I maintain it this time. Aside from the diet, it's just making sure I do SOMETHING once I'm done with Insanity to keep burning the calories. Okay, I'm done rambling.

Yeah PSC, what's weird though is midway through my first round of Insanity, I actually started to enjoy eating clean. I really didn't think it was that bad, and I'd reward myself with one cheat meal a week. But, then falling back into those bad habits, for some reason it does feel like a chore now to ween myself off of the crap. When I started Insanity the last time, I quit soda cold turkey, but for some reason I keep making exceptions for them since I started back this week. I'm a strong-willed person, but I really do think all of the crap and processed food is designed to be addictive. I know I'll get it in check over the next week or so, but I feel like I'm not ready to and that's the problem. But, like I told my wife, once you start eating clean, you feel different and it's like your body is thanking you - so I'll try to keep that in mind going forward. Problem is, my body also momentarily thanks me for a double bacon cheeseburger and large Dr. Pepper.

Dude really is Clark Kent, lol... He seemed really uncomfortable in accepting the award and even tried to walk back down the stairs to his own seat, lol. Keek is awesome.

Keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!

I've avoided the thread out of shame... BUT, I started another round of Insanity this week. I think I updated after I finished Insanity (everything except the last week of it) the first time. It was sometime around October, I had dropped into the 170s, I believe between 173 and 176. Well, I kept hesitating, feeling like I couldn't start for various reasons and hectic schedules, and I of course lost all discipline and started drinking sodas on the regular and eating out several times a week. I was back up to 190 when I weighed myself Tuesday. I haven't ate all that great this week either, still had some eat-out nights, but I'm planning on being done with it after this week. I felt like I had to ween myself off of the soda b/c of the caffeine... But, my plan is to get through this round and then most likely do another round consecutively to get down into the 160s and my body fat below 15% by the summer. The biggest challenge for me is cleaning up my diet completely, but I feel like as long as I keep working out I'll be fine and work myself into eating better across the board because I believe my metabolism is naturally high. Forgot to add that I also am going to have to eat tons more Greek yogurt because I have to lay off the protein shakes since I may or may not have had kidney stones after the last round. Oh, and I had to take yesterday off and start back today because I could barely walk after the first two days, lol...

I did one day of Insanity last week. Still hovering below 180, but I have to get back on Insanity consistently because I'm starting to get reckless with my diet again. I'm planning on finishing the last week of Insanity this week and then starting another round of it.

So... I was wanting to wait on updating everyone until I finished the entire "process" but, may as well just do it. I did all of Insanity EXCEPT the last week, smh... That was about 3 weeks ago that I completed an entire week. Possibly 4 weeks ago. Part of it was because I started thinking ahead to starting another round of it, the other half was that I tried to change my workout times up. I was doing the entire program usually after midnight or later because it was easier once all my kids went to bed. But, that got so taxing because I'd end up working out at like 2am and finishing at 3am and then I'd end up not being able to lay down and sleep until about 5 or 6am everynight. I was tired of that schedule so I tried to start doing my last week in the morning right before or after I took my oldest daughter to school. Then that got thrown out of whack because I seem to take the workouts a lot harder in the mornings and if one of the two younger ones got up during the workout, I wasn't able to finish it. Then I thought I'd try doing it after my wife got home from work, but it was just hard to start b/c we'd end up catching up on everything or running errands then. So, here I am, still contemplating how to finish my last week of Insanity, lol, almost 4 weeks later. One measly week, and I just can't finish it, lol. Meanwhile, I stopped taking whey protein because in my last completed week I took almost 4 scoops within 24 hours (still within recommended amount) and had a pain in my lower back - I assume my kidneys. Told my doc about it at my physical last week and some trace amounts of protein and blood show up in my urinalysis as well. The doc thinks I'm trying to pass a kidney stone, lol (TMI, I know). So, I'm avoiding that now as well and will be trying to get all of my protein from whole foods for now on. In the meantime, while trying to decide whether to finish the last week or abandon it and just start the second round of Insanity instead, I have been doing 20 pushups, 20 diamond pushups, and 20 reps of various abs exercises every other night. I also purchased the Classic 50 Powerblock Dumbbells and THEY ARE AWESOME, so I've added in some curls and shoulder presses as well. Just been doing that to keep some strength up until I figure out my plan of attack. Amazingly enough, apparently Insanity kickstarted my metabolism and I had some delayed results from it. Started at around 188, as high as 189, and have been hovering between 177-179 since my last completed week. I've thinned out quite a bit in the waist area compared to where I was at before, and I feel much better in general. Now, if I could just figure out what to do and how to do it from here, and get down to my goal weight of 160-165. Sorry for the novel, but there's my update.

I'm in my second week of the second month of Insanity. Started at 188 or 189, I'm holding steady at 183 give or take now. At one point, I actually reached 177 a few days ago... Would probably be even lower but ate out about 5 days out of the last week and a half. I'm still drinking more water than I ever remember drinking in my life and I've only had soda with the take-out meals and one other time. Regardless, seeing huge differences in my body. My cardio is clearly better as my avg and max heartrate have lowered by about 10 bpm each since I started the program. If I measured correctly, I've lost two inches off of my waist so far. And again, I'd probably be even further along if I was eating like I should be... Just gotta recommit myself diet-wise. Other than the multiple-cheat days, I feel really good about where I'm at. The two inches off my waist, definition in my chest and abs again, and veins popping out my arms like they used to... All great progress. I just gotta get the diet right to rid myself of the layer of fluff that is still hiding some of it. But, for the most part, I'm really excited and the progress I've seen is just pushing me further. I think once I'm done with this round of Insanity in two weeks, I'm just going to start it over immediately and keep going until I'm where I want to be at completely.

You fapped to that Irv? LOL

Yeah, I have no middleground when it comes to soda... I'm all or nothing, lol, so I just have to cut it off. And I think the BBF calculator for LBM I used said mine was like 144 or somewhere around there. So, I think I need 140 g of protein a day.