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A few questions Anonymous
(Breaking this up because it's too long)

Hey /fit/. So far I've come a long way, but I still have a long way to go. about 5 or 6 years ago when I was a wee lad, I was about 280 pounds, which was grossly overweight. I started eating better in high school and with that technique alone, I dropped a good 40-50 pounds of fat. Then I started working out and put on many pounds of muscle and lost many more pounds of fat. Today I am about 203 pounds with fairly prominent muscles over most of my body, but I still have flab hanging from my midsection and flab on my nipples. If it was gone, my chest and abs would look quite carved out and nice, but it's been a bitch to try to lose it. My friends tell me it's just skin and that I just have to wait, but it feels like there's still some fat there. It's not nearly as bad as some of the threads I've seen here, but it's still discouraging. When I get really pumped up, it's not that bad, and it's hard to see through a shirt, but if I bend over, it looks a lot worse. This is frustrating because I know I have intense abs under that fat, since I've been doing crazy ab exercises 5+ times a week for over a year now.

I'm thinking of starting to do HIIT, and I've been going out with friends and playing random sports lately. I need to better my eating habits even more, because I've lapsed into poor eating again from not seeing results, which is lame.
>> Anonymous
I need all of your best weight-loss/toning advice in the context of better eating and what exercises to do more of. I already know how to work out for building muscle, but I really want to broaden my knowledge.

My other problem is this: I've had a bad knee for a while now, probably the past few years. It's always got this faint glowing pain, that feels like it's right behind the kneecap. When I'm working out, I don't feel it, but when I'm sitting around doing nothing, I notice it and it really bothers me. I went to the doctor and he said it might be some sort of inflammation that's fairly common in young men, resulting from tiny pocks in the back of the kneecap bone, and he said I should just keep doing squats and stuff and take painkillers if it really bothered me still. I don't know if that will help though. Have any of you had anything like that, and what did you do to fix it?


Picture related - it's me. Inb4hairy.
>> Anonymous
tl;dr
>> Anonymous
>>63218
about your knee:

This could be an abrasion of the cartilage.
Not uncommon for overweight people.
Between the bones (femur and tibia) there is a layer of cartilage that prevents the bones from grinding against each other. The kneecap is protected in the same way.

What you can do if your cartilage is worn down:
Go easy on the knee, avoid further damage.
Wear a bandage.
Strengthen your knee muscles and tendons with proper exercises, like biking.
Wall sitting may help too.
Supplements you might look into: Glucosamin and Chondroitin.