hmhall85 Member

I spent the night in a chest pain unit at our local hospital. That was a *big* wake-up call for me.

I use a Fitbit Charge 2. I have it linked with my MFP account. Some days I consume my "extra" calories, other days I do not. It really depends upon how hungry I get. When I work hard, I'm a bit more hungry than on my days off. My goal is to stay at the 1500 recommended by MFP. When I began my lifestyle change, I used MFP…

Try the Fitbit group. There is a FAQ that helped me get my synch problems sorted. http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/1290-fitbit-users

A weight bench and some dumbbells will get you started. There are also some excellent body-weight exercises that you can do at home with no equipment required.

No; you don't need to join a gym. The only reason I go to the gym is for access to the weight equipment I'm working to build muscle because muscle mass is smaller and consumes more calories at rest.

Same here. Fitbit Charge 2 has really moved my program forward.

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55. Started MFP last November when I was discharged from the chest pain unit. I'm not losing record amounts of weight, but I am dropping significant inches, dropping my blood pressure, and dropping my resting pulse rate. Hope to lose 40 lbs eventually.

Stay with it. One day at a time. Small steps. Try to do one more rep than you did the last time. The soreness will go away. I started MFP last November when I got out of the chest pain unit. Here's what has worked for me: Find something other than the scale to measure your progress (scale is important, but you need other…

Weight training 3x week (1 set each of 10 movements, heavy lifts, fifteen seconds between movements) and minimum of 30 minutes on a treadmill 3x week. I do not do the weight training and treadmill on the same day.

I have a BS in industrial management. I have spent my entire career in IT, first as a developer, then a network engineer, and more than half of my career in IT security. I have a lot of certifications. It has been good to me. Would I do it again? meh....

I've been a basic member for three months. It is clean, open when I want to exercise, and inexpensive. I use the weight machines (at my age and with my history of injuries, machines are only safe alternative for me). Even when crowded it has plenty of capacity. I've never heard the lunk alarm go off. I have a lot of weight…

Today I did not want to go to the gym. I went anyway. My body did not want to cooperate. I still worked everything to failure. I had bad numbers, but I went. Will power won today.

"You don't look good/healthy." I I had a nickel for every time I hear this, I would have a lot of nickels.

31 days tracking CICO and exercise on MFP.

I eat a small breakfast every morning. About mid-morning I have a protein shake. That seems to help me regulate how much I eat at my other meals. If I'm hungry and I skip breakfast, I tend to over eat at other meals and snack into the evening. I will also feel like crap until I get some food.

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That switch flipped the day after I got out of the chest pain unit. When my doctor cleared me I began my training.