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I had the same problem. Two young kids. I wasn't motivated to go in the morning, plus I'd miss seeing my kids in the morning. And after work I was too tired, plus I felt like I was missing out on seeing my kids. So, I worked it out with my job so that I take a 2 hour lunch break every day and spend 90 minutes in the gym…
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I love Belvita breakfast bars. They're 230 calories each. They're easy to eat driving in the morning to the gym, and give me enough calories to last through a 2 hour workout.
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Make sure you're reading the fast food menu calorie counts correctly. For example, Subway's Tuna sandwich is 470 calories for a 6" sandwich. That's on their lowest calorie bread, without cheese or any condiments. Simply put it on a wheat roll, add cheese and mayonnaise, you're up to 630 calories. Maybe they put a little…
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Apple Watches are on sale at Target for $199 until Saturday. The Apple Watch Series 2 is on sale at Best Buy for $299 until Saturday as well.
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The Apple Watch gets my vote, as long as you have an iPhone. FitBit Blaze is $199. The Apple Watch Series 1 can be had for $199 at Target this week until Saturday, May 13. Same price. (Series 2 is $70 off this week at Best Buy) 1) To charge the Fitbit Blaze, you need to take the display off of the watch and put it into a…
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The average weight for people from 1960 to 2017 has changed immensely. These are pictures of two people, one from 2017 and one from 1960 which are the average weight and height (5'5") for those years. The 1960 one is a healthy weight (23.3 BMI). The 2017 one is not (27.6 BMI) From:…
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Belvita snacks are great. 230 calories. Not just for breakfast, but for snacks to keep you full, and they can easily be put in your office desk. No refrigeration. 5 packages of biscuits in each box, good for a whole week, and about $3.00 I used to eat a 2 pack of Fig Newtons, but now I eat these.
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Exactly! All this logging helps you figure out what you're doing. It's a great history of what works and what doesn't. And then in, say, 2 months when you've figured it out, you can look back and understand what your difficulties were. 'Wow - I actually ate 3 bags of chips! Ridiculous! I'm glad I don't do that anymore and…
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Steps can vary. A lot depends on your heart-rate when you're walking or exercising. For example, if I walked slowly downhill for 268 steps or I jogged up the 268 steps of the Cape Hatteras lighthouse. I would burn many more calories from the latter.
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My boss required a 1 hour lunch. Most of that was wasted time. So I asked to take 2 hour lunches every day. I workout 1hr 45 minutes and then have a 15 minute lunch. My work days are 7:00 to 5:00 instead of 7:00 to 4:00. But by the time I'm back home, I don't have to worry about the exercise, it's all in my schedule.
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Same here. I went from 223 to 169 at 5'8" since January last year. I'm amazed that I could do it, and I know how hard it was for me, and I can relate to you. Quite a bit different for me too. I used to struggle and get winded from walking from my workplace to my car. I had back problems and foot problems. I didn't want to…
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Most of the drinks I see on the Starbucks menu are 400-600 calories each. I can definitely not afford those in my diet. A whole meal of mine is less than 500 calories!!! I need to drink my coffee black, or with a little milk. I don't think anyone can lose weight drinking almost anything on their menu if they do it daily.…
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I had a mandatory 1 hour lunch. It only took me 15 minutes to eat - so I had 45 minutes to waste every day. It was too short of a time to go to the gym and workout, so I asked my boss if I could extend that to 2 hours. He agreed. For the last year and a half, I've been working out every day 11am to 12:45 and eating lunch…
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Try this calculator: http://42.195km.net/e/treadsim/ From your stats, it shows you burnt around 1200 calories.
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I tried dozens of times until it finally stuck. I was fat every day for 5 years... hating being fat and trying to lose, but I didn't really understand how to. But I kept persisting, reading these message boards, and getting information everywhere and trying lots of things. Last year is when I finally had that 'a ha' moment…
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Note, that I said you CAN eat fast food all the time and lose weight. You'll be hungrier doing this than eating better foods with the same amount of calories. But you can start this way, then find other foods with more nutrition, carbs and protein to allow you to get through the day easier. And drink LOTS OF WATER. Water…
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You can still eat out. You just have to eat less. For example, for breakfast get a coffee black or with milk. Get a Dunkin' Donuts ham, egg and cheese breakfast sandwich on an English muffin (320-350 calories) For lunch, eat a McDonald's Big Mac with water (563 calories) For dinner, eat a McDonald's Artisan Grilled Chicken…
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Diet Dr. Pepper was my go-to for something that tasted more like real soda. And it has more caffeine than Mt. Dew. You can also start by buying both a Diet Mt. Dew and a regular, and mixing 1/2 and 1/2 together until you can bear the taste, and going more towards Diet slowly. Water is the goal though.
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That's a 165% increase I meant to write. :)
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Big red flag there - burrito bowls. If you actually WEIGH out what you're getting, you'll find in many cases restaurants serve 50-100% MORE food than their nutritional information says they do. So it's 50-100% more calories than you thought. If you eat something like a sandwich, also make sure that you're actually…
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If you work out an HOUR (say 60 minutes on an elliptical) for 3 times a week, you'll burn about 1500 calories. That's LESS than a 1/2 pound loss (1/7 pound loss per workout). The majority of your weight loss will be from food. You're not eating between 1500 and 1700 calories a day - you're probably well over that, eating…
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There should be somewhere where I can walk on a treadmill in front of a large 180 degree screen / IMAX where the scenery moved with me walking. Could walk around the pyramids in Egypt or streets of Rome. Anything interesting. Similar to where I see indoor golfers whacking the ball into a screen that shows real golf courses.
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Eating late doesn't matter. It's just calories. The type of calories you eat only matters in that if I eat too much of the 'wrong' things (things without the right protein, carbs, vitamins), I'll feel really hungry or just not well and dieting will be REALLY difficult. For example, if I eat a lunch consisting of only a…
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Are you sure you're not snacking during the day and not counting those calories? Like a few nuts here and there? Are you counting your drinks? The extra milk/cream in your coffee? Do you have a glass of wine or beer at night and aren't counting that? Are you failing to account for condiments like butter, dressing,…
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Cooked jumbo shrimp (no breading) with homemade cocktail sauce (horseradish and a bit of ketchup). I can have 10 jumbo shrimp for less than 200 calories total. About 2g carbs total.
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If for each of 5 days, your calorie deficit was 1,000 calories, you STILL could have ONLY lost 1 1/2 pounds. That's it. It's only 5 days. (If you had less of a calorie deficit, you'd have lost less) If you would have NOT exercised, you would have likely lost that 1 1/2 pounds. But since you DID exercise, a pound and 1/2 of…
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It's because most people either (a) celebrate after losing weight and reaching their goal, and go back to their old ways of eating and never think about diets again, stop looking at the scale and thinking they will now stay at this goal weight forever .... until oops! or (b) after a big weight loss, haven't reached goal…
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30 calories is about half of a saltine cracker. It's really nothing at all. Did you input more exercise or that you're more active? Maybe it thinks you're losing weight too quickly - is that in the algorithms?
