rjt1000 Member

how does jumpstarting weight loss work?

12 days isn't very long. How are you measuring calories burned by exercise? Are you really really logging all the food you eat and accurate portion sizes? If you're exercising more, you can be adding water weight as your muscles will temporarily retain water while they recover from exercise.

sign me up. I need somebody to yell at me once in awhile......

dropping weight will help some but you also have to rebuild the abdomen muscles. My wife had 2 csections and lost all the muscle strength in her abs and lower back. Start doing daily exercises to strengthen your core. Planks, burpees, etc etc will help with rebuilding the muscle strength.

Garmin FR220 costs around $250. My polar 4 was $70. Some people don't need all the bells and whistles.

Polar makes several with a wide variety of capabilities and price. I use a Polar 4 (I think) and it includes count of calories burned. Cost around $70. I'm not concerned about matching workouts against each other, historical tracking, water proof, etc. All I wanted was "how many calories did I just burn in my workout" and…

depends on which polar you buy. I have the 4 and it does. I got it for around $70. One of their more expensive ones (don't remember which) does not show calorie burn. Go to polar website and it shows all the features for all their HRMs.

I have found that the machines significantly over estimate the number of calories you burn. When I started using a heart rate monitor to figure out calories burned, I found the machines were usually 15-25% higher in their estimate than the actual count from the heart rate monitor.

Death rates from cancer, heart disease, etc are higher now than in the 1800s because in the 1800s, people died of other things before they got to the age where heart disease, cancer, etc became an issue. When you're dead at 21 from typhoid or smallpox, you don't have to worry about dying of heart disease in your 60s or…

Detox idiocitis?

I think OP has serious issues of her own and needs some serious help. Other threads she's posted are at best confused and at worst very distrubing. OP needs to pack up, move out and get some psychiatric help for herself.

"These lumps aren't for sale, BILLY!" - my kids got me hooked on it. My 10 year old has the hat. She was Fiona for halloween.

net calories of 50 is crazy. when you say you have yet to get to 1200 calories, are you meaning getting to 1200 calories burned through exercise? 1200 is minimum you should be eating each day. If you are logging your calories accurately and have trouble getting to 1200, eat a little cheese, peanut butter, or something.

seems a waste of time/money to me. Is the difference between 18.5% and 18.0% that important to you? If you're obsessed with the numbers, at 118pounds, the difference between 20% body fat and 18% is about 2.5 pounds. At 20% you have 94.5 pounds of lean and 23.5 pounds of fat. at 18% you have 96.7 pounds of lean and 21.3…

that would be a big problem for me.

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battery is dying quickly because the fan is drawing power constantly. fan comes on because the thermometer inside the case is saying that the CPU is getting too hot, OR the bent/crached case has pushed the power contacts of the fan close enough together that they're making a complete electrical connection. Not something…

when life gave Chuck Norris lemons, Chuck made life apologize. Chuck Norris can turn toast back into bread. Chuck Norris died in 1997, but the Grim Reaper is afraid to tell him.

mighty ducks with that bland short guy, was on LA Law long ago. And he was in Diner, played the weird older guy who helped out the Mickey Rourke character. Michael Oliver? Michael Boring? Michael something....

"A scientist follows clues to chase a theory, ends up in a remote area of the world with his nephew and a good looking mountain guide, falls into a volcano deep into the ground, discovers and lives a day or two in a hidden world, eventually the three of them are shot back out of a volcano and end up in Italy. " Journey to…

excuse me, stewardess, I speak jive....

2nd guess would be a turkey baster.

I'm confused, an animal (cat, not quite as quick thinking as a human) killing a bird is cruel, but a human killing a cat is OK?

double up on your pain meds, time will seem to pass much more quickly when you're unconscious.

Surely you don't mean that.....

1) No, because there are too many idiots in the world. 2) I've yet to see any scientific studies that show that the chicken actually crossed the road 3) no, vegans can't be happy. 4) women's perfume is not supposed to appeal to men, it's to be a distinctive smell so other women can understand "hey, *****, I paid $100/ounce…

a pound of muscle weighs more than a pound of fat......

Every day I'm shufflin'...

I hate all Geico and Progressive insurance commercials. Oh, and Elephant insurance commercials as well. I like the Mayhem commercials, though, for Allstate. Those are funny.

Discover Credit Card commercial running on radio around here. Hate it. "With Discover, you can pay your bill online or by phone right up until midnight on the due date without a late fee...." Seriously, if I pay on time, I won't get a late fee? Damn, I need me one of those cards......