Ellyabell Member

I'd be happy to have more motivated friends to support each other. I want to lose around 10lbs, but need to seriously up my fitness regime again (martial arts, biking, running and recently a bit of bouldering). Happy to be friends with anyone who is supportive and dedicated.

Wingtsun here and sometimes a bit of Escrima, but the latter is just for fun. WT is the best motivation I ever had, it even got me to start running, which nothing before ever could ;-). By now I learned to enjoy it as well.

If I wouldn't workout even though I am tired I would get hardly any workout at all. I normally sleep between 5-6 hours. I am aiming for 7-7.5 hours each night but that hardly ever happens. So yes, I workout when I am tired. If it's been less than 4 hours sleep for more than one night I may consider skipping one workout and…

Yes, I am eating. I also eat a lot of protein powder, because it's convenient, fills me up and I actually like the taste. Chocolate protein powder that is ;-). I eat less carbs because it does not fill me up that much and then I end up going over my calories. But I eat around 2000-2300 cal each day, including exercise…

I realised that I need to snack on something when I am stressed out, but it doesn't make much of a difference what it is. So I often eat tons of raw carrots or other raw vegetable that are healthy and low in calories. Cucumber is good as well. And for me drinking lots of tee helps as well. Apart from that, regular workouts…

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I make resolutions all the time, so New Year is not special as to that regard. But I take any excuse as to why I should start something now and not later, so New Year is a nice one to use.

I don't drink alcohol for no other reason than I don't like the way it makes me feel and my body reacts pretty badly to it. People tend to get confused, although it has gotten better. My friends are used to it by now and many of them hardly drink at all either or only small amounts. And they are normally happy to have a…

Would love to go, but the gym is closed here on the first. If it's not too cold outside I may go for a run, although with an already sore throat that may not be the best idea to do.

Workaholic here. Right now it's been full time internship (40-60 hours a week), preparing for the bar exam and doing a masters course aside. Living abroad and not having much of a private life makes working out easier, but I will have to see how things go when I am back home in January. Will stick to my training schedule…

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Right now? Cereal, pretty much all sweets, most dairy, fast food most of the time and if I eat it only in very small amounts. I don't drink alkohol or soda, so thas just didn't change. I gave up drinking diet coke, not for weight loss reason, but is was easier to cut it out together with the real sugar. I also use a lot…

Well, 5"3, but apart from that same here ;-).

Good question. Unfortunately I can't help much. I have upped my protein intake by using protein powder a lot. I eat about 80-100g protein powder per day right now and was wondering myself if that's a bit too much. I can just say that it certainly did not hinder my weight loss, but I am not sure if it is actually still…

I haven't so far, but the idea sounds great. Will try soon.

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I have been working on doing pullups for a while now. Will totally try your advise. Thanks for posting.

What about just telling the truth and that's it? I don't play those kind of games, neither at the beginning nor at the end of a relationship.

I always obsess about things I am interested in, so this is no new phenomena to me. As long as I don't feel bad about food or my body, all is fine for me. I do have an eye on it though. I can have an occasional treat and not freak out, so that's fine. And yes, I try to find out how much calories it is and log it, but I…

I was a vegetarian for about 16 years and started to eat meat again beause I wanted to travel in countries were you just can't know what's in the food all the time and my body was not able to handle any meat at all at that time. It took me over a year to enjoy meat again. Started with fish and chicken, only one or two…

Sounds good. 5"3 here.

I eat proteinpowder with half soymilk, half water and fruits pretty much every day. Types of fruits differ, often kiwi, figs, sharon or apple. sometimes mango or pomegranate, depending on what I get on the market.

I eat back most of my exercise calories because I am hungry after a workout. But I log the exercise for less than MFP tells me to, normally between 20-25% less. Since I am doing that I lose weight again, when I logged it the way MFP estimates, I just maintained my weight. And yes, HRM is best, unfortunately mine is…

Appointment with the trainer at my gym at 8am Saturday morning. Buying food afterwards. Looking for new trainers afterwards as well. Need them and I feel like I deserve treat. Studying the rest of the day, spending the evening on skype probably. Sunday going to the gym, if I am still able to move, studying afterwards and…

Got a pretty bad sinusitis right now and have been sick for a week, being on antibiotics for three days now (and will have to take them for some more). Food wise I just stick to what I was eating before, just trying to cut down a bit, because I don't have many exercise calories to eat back. I still try to go for a walk or…

Well, I see two different things. I don't try to convince people to live, eat or workout the way I do. Neither my beloved ones, nor friends or family. It's their choice, I am not going to argue with them. If they are interested, I am happy to talk about the way it works for me, give advise or train together, but I am not…

I am looking into parkour as well, there is a lot of good stuff on youtube to start with. Just look up "training parkour" or something similar. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTJgOcbgqDY Here are also a lot of resources: http://betterfly.com/category/freerunning-parkour Unfortunately I'll need a while to build up my…

Wing Chun and Escrima on and off. Would love to do it more regularly, but moving a lot due to my work and it is difficult to find good schools in some places. Hopefully will have a good one close by from January on again at least for Wing Chun, until then I train whenever I can get hold of a good friend who owns a school.

German, living in the Netherlands right now.