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44 year old female, 200 pounds, want to lose 50. 5'6". Love to kickbox!! Friend me if I match you!

I had mine for 4 years and it recently starting giving me false readings. It said my resting heart rate was 185, which I know isn't right. After a week of tinkering with it, I just gave up and bought a Polar FT7. Should be here any day and I can't wait to use it!

Totally agree with this one! I can't make heads or tails out of the microwave labels! I just buy the already popped stuff and weigh it out.

With the smoothies, I keep it simple. It's easy to let it get away from you, add in all these extra little things and suddenly you have a 400 calorie smoothie. I keep a "recipe" by my NutriBullet and make basically the same smoothie every day with spinach, mixed frozen berries, chia seeds and Greek yogurt. I weigh out all…

I have used my NutriBullet most days for more than a year. It's a habit now and I love starting my day with 2 cups of spinach and a cup of berries, plus water. The usefullness has not worn off yet. I've gotten way more than the $90 I paid for it out of the product.

I would absolutely count unsweetened iced tea or even sugar free lemonade as water. It's calorie free and it's liquid. Enjoy it! Whatever gets you drinking is the point.

I usually bring leftovers from the last 2 days of cooking at home. But I always keep a couple cans of soup in my desk or the add water and heat pasta/rice/potato containers. I pack a lunch most days in my lunch box with a big ice pack so I don't need to refrigerate it. Keeps everything cold all day.

#1: Food scale. I use it several times a day. I have a Salter brand and like it, but wish the platform was a little bigger. The TARE button and grams/ounces switchover is great. #2: NutriBullet. I make a smoothie nearly every day. #3: Rice cooker. Perfect rice every time!

I have a standing desk at my job and love it. It makes me shift around all day and I find myself walking around more since I'm already upright! I also use the bathroom 2 floors down (take the stairs), and since I drink a lot of water, it's every hour for sure I go. Can you walk around for 5 minutes every hour? Or are you…

I make a smoothie most mornings and drink it on my way to work. I use 65g of spinach, 125g of frozen triple berry mix (blackberries, blueberries, raspberries), 10g chia seeds, 75g Fage Greek yogurt and a couple packets of splenda to sweeten. I add water to thin it out and blend in my NutriBullet. Delicious and filling and…

There are a couple great books to start with that will help: The Beck Diet Solution and The Mayo Clinic Diet. One offers help on WHY you eat too much, the other offers a sound nutritional and exercise plan. I found them very helpful.

That video was very eye opening! Thanks so much for posting it! I have a food scale at home and recently bought another one for work. I have snacks at my desk and it's always helpful to measure out my portions instead of counting out the number of chips the bag says I can have. Sometimes I get more, sometimes I get less,…

I'd prefer to work out in the morning, but I have a full time job that starts at 7:30am, and 2 kids to get up and on the bus before I leave, so that's not happening. Plus my gym doesn't open until 9am. So I work out right after work before I get the bright idea to sit on the couch "just for a minute" which turns into the…

Are you getting the chest strap wet before attaching the transmitter? That's important on my Polar FT4. If I don't get it wet enough, it doesn't always read my heartrate. Polar also has a website with troubleshooting suggestions. Try there too.

Stay within your calories. I think of exercise as bonus calories lost, but I'll lose weigh if I stick with my daily calorie goal even if I don't exercise. Many people have said you can't out-exercise a bad diet, so make the diet good in the meanwhile until you can exercise again. Good luck!

I didn't realize Splenda had calories either. But I think the negative comments on this board aren't really helpful. Yes, 30 calories isn't a lot, but when I'm really trying to stay within my calorie range, I don't like knowing that I'm going over by 30 calories every single day. It does add up over time. From now on, I'll…

Worst case, you buy it, try it for a few days, and return it if you didn't like it. That's what I did.

I had the Fitbit Charge HR for all of 24 hours before I returned it. I didn't like wearing it all the time, and I didn't find it as accurate as I had hoped, both with steps and with stairs climbed. It told me I slept well that night, but I knew that anyway. I found my Polar FT4 heartrate monitor with the chest strap to be…

I go back and forth: gym for a couple years, home for a couple years. To me, the biggest cons to a gym are class times I need to work around since I really enjoy group fitness. I love to kickbox, but don't have the bag equipment at my house. I found a kickboxing gym near me that doesn't have class times and I LOVE it! I…

I drink several cups of tea a day, always with a packet of no calorie sweetener. It gets me my liquids since I don't love plain water and prefer hot drinks.

I want to say that this is a really good site with sound, polite advice. I used to belong to Weight Watchers and found the message boards there to be very clicky and rude and accusatory. Glad I found a home here!

Thanks for the feedback! I am 44 years old, 5'6" and do want to lose 55 pounds. I work out kickboxing for 30 minutes 5x a week at a 9Round gym. I try not to eat back my exercise calories burned to give me a little extra deficit. But I will go back in to MFP and reevaluate my goals, probably change to 1 pound a week. Maybe…

Thanks for the answers! When I go into MFP to get my daily calorie estimate to lose 2 pounds a week, I get 1,200 calories. I've been eating 1,500 and doing about 340 calories of cardio (according to my HRM that I wear when I exercise). Seems like the math is off. I should be eating 2,034 calories? Seems so high to me.

I have a feeling I'm watching a love connection (or two!) happening! I agree that if you don't need her to motivate you to go to the gym (sounds like you are plenty motivated on your own), just start going when you want to without her. I wouldn't even mention that I'm going to the gym, and just go. You can meet up with her…

I bought a foot brace at Walgreens. Wore it every night for a month overnight and the pain went away completely. Give it a try.

I have a desk job, 40 hours a week. I have a Veridesk where I can stand or sit. I pretty much stand all day long, except at lunch where I sit for 1/2 hour or get in my car to run errands. Then I go home after work, change right into my gym clothes, and immediately go to the gym for 1/2 hour. No excuses, no sitting on the…

I also work full time and have two kids. I don't know how old the OPs kids are, but mine are 10 and 7. They are old enough to be home alone for an hour or so. So right when I get home, I give them a few minutes, then change into my gym clothes and head out for an hour to get my workout in. I know if I make dinner or sit…

Maybe a boxing speed bag? They can get your heartrate up in just a minute. http://www.amazon.com/TITLE-Boxing-Balanced-Speed-Medium/dp/B002XP18R4/ref=sr_1_17?s=sporting-goods&ie=UTF8&qid=1423518517&sr=1-17

I was apathetic about exercise too until I discovered kickboxing! I joined a 9Round gym a few months ago and look forward to that workout every single day. I started at 3 days a week and have worked up to 5 days a week. The workout is only 30 minutes, it's different every day, it incorporates strength, core, and cardio,…

Lower back pain and knee pain from carrying around extra weight. Not being able to go into my own closet and wear everything in there. I wear about 10 percent of my clothes because the other 90 percent don't fit me.