Tme to share some WL tips
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BJBroxton
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I hope this wasn't already posted somewhere and I did not see it, but I thought it might be time to share some food/exercise tips with each other. Mine is nothing special other than (of course monitoring my calories and cardio every other day) although I have been seriously slacking in the cardio dept. the last month I have still managed to drop the pounds, but have felt sluggish because of little exercise.
My wife and I use a combination of 2 recipe books and pintrest to keep our intake around what MFP suggests........
Recipe books: The Body Gospel (this is a book along with cardio DVDs we bought, belongs to the "Beach Body group" we don't use the exercise DVD but the recipe book isn't to bad. I am willing to share the recipe book to whomever would like ( I will scan and email the recipes to you (10 day recipes with 5 meals per day) http://www.gospelworkout.org/
Hungry Girl Recipe book: This one can be bought at Walmart or you can see quite a few recipes on the website ( http://www.hungry-girl.com/diet?ref=realfood ) This recipe book has a larger variety of food by far and is less...ummm...."diety" lol.
Then there is Pintrest ( http://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=low calorie meals ) for those spur of the moment cravings you might have that the "recipe books" just might not have.
I myself have issues when it comes to losing weight and feeling halfway decent health wise. I have to (of course) keep my calories in check but also have to keep my sodium well below what MFP suggests (mine is around 1500mg but can only really go between 1100mg and 1200mg. Now this often leaves me well short of my caloric goal ( I often only get between 900 to 1200 cals a day whereas my MFP goal is around 1500)
My usual exercise plan for cardio is M,W,F go to our fitness center in our apartment community and hit the
'ole Elliptical machine and burn as long as I can (which at the most is 30 min so far) I do a preset program on the machine, which is a high intensity run (where you warm up then, sprint for 1 minute then slow the pace down to a fast walk or slow jog for 2 minutes....wash rinse then repeat for the 30 minute duration. Of course during the sprints the resistance is increased and during the jog decreased. Additionally on Wednesdays we go to Church in the evenings and they have a walk/run small group there that we partake in (we interval run/walk the 2.4 mile course there)
My wife and I use a combination of 2 recipe books and pintrest to keep our intake around what MFP suggests........
Recipe books: The Body Gospel (this is a book along with cardio DVDs we bought, belongs to the "Beach Body group" we don't use the exercise DVD but the recipe book isn't to bad. I am willing to share the recipe book to whomever would like ( I will scan and email the recipes to you (10 day recipes with 5 meals per day) http://www.gospelworkout.org/
Hungry Girl Recipe book: This one can be bought at Walmart or you can see quite a few recipes on the website ( http://www.hungry-girl.com/diet?ref=realfood ) This recipe book has a larger variety of food by far and is less...ummm...."diety" lol.
Then there is Pintrest ( http://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=low calorie meals ) for those spur of the moment cravings you might have that the "recipe books" just might not have.
I myself have issues when it comes to losing weight and feeling halfway decent health wise. I have to (of course) keep my calories in check but also have to keep my sodium well below what MFP suggests (mine is around 1500mg but can only really go between 1100mg and 1200mg. Now this often leaves me well short of my caloric goal ( I often only get between 900 to 1200 cals a day whereas my MFP goal is around 1500)
My usual exercise plan for cardio is M,W,F go to our fitness center in our apartment community and hit the
'ole Elliptical machine and burn as long as I can (which at the most is 30 min so far) I do a preset program on the machine, which is a high intensity run (where you warm up then, sprint for 1 minute then slow the pace down to a fast walk or slow jog for 2 minutes....wash rinse then repeat for the 30 minute duration. Of course during the sprints the resistance is increased and during the jog decreased. Additionally on Wednesdays we go to Church in the evenings and they have a walk/run small group there that we partake in (we interval run/walk the 2.4 mile course there)
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