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Hi, I'm about the same number of kilograms from my ideal weight as you. I've been doing this since last November and don't really have anybody who bothers to comment on anything I do or say. I don't need anyone to hold my hand just someone who's out there willing to throw me a thumbs up every once in awhile and a "good…

It was the only thing preventing me from doing Triathlons, which I always wanted to do!

I did this last year with some friends and it was a blast. Now I'm training for my first sprint triathlon this June 2nd. So you can do it! Here is what I learned last year. An open water swim is a whole different ballgame than a pool swim. amruden is right train for twice the distance of what the tri swim is. Open water…

Boy am I glad this week is almost over! We have been so busy. My daughter had 3 soccor games this week, and my son is in a community play so all this week were late night dress rehersals and now finally the production Thurs, Friday, Sat and Mon. Work has been insane which is consistent with this time of year. One more…

Good Morning All! Having a great day so far! :drinker: Got up at 5:15 and did a quick 750 yard swim and then ran about 2.5 miles with a 10 min run 3 min walk 15 min run...my most consistant running so far........so overall very pleased. Have had a bit of a problem with a stich in my right side the last 2 runs but it seems…

Hey Everyone: Good day for me here. Got up and swam this AM 1300 yards. Tonight is a 12.5mi bike ride. Hope I can squeeze it in between daughters soccor and dark! Down 1.5lbs this last week! YEA! Hope everyone has a great day! :flowerforyou:

Hi Everyone! Well some minor changes to my plan this week. I didn't do a DARN thing on Thursday..:frown: ..ended up taking it as my rest day instead of Friday.....just couldn't do it. :noway: Also, skipped early AM staff meeting on Friday :bigsmile: and slept in which also means I didn't swim either...BUT.... I did do my…

Hi Everyone: So yesterday I stuck to my schedule of swimming 1500yards at 5:30am and then worked all day and then last night after my daughters soccor game and getting kids in bed did my wt lifiting and upped most of my weights, so was feeling completely awesome today when I suddenly hit TOM 3 days early and was completely…

Ran and biked today for a total calorie burn of 1230c! Ran 8 minutes straight which for me is a big deal. My new running shoes are weird. They make my toes fall asleep when I'm about 7 or 8 miles into my bike but otherwise they seem OK. Maybe a bit too cushy I kinda can't feel the road....but my knees really seem to like…

Hi Everyone: Sounds like everyone is busy busy busy! :bigsmile: I'm finshing week 3 of my triathlon training. sdereski it is just a Sprint Tri (500yd swim, 12.5mi bike and 5K run) it made my day to think you thought I might do a half iron man or something....uh...no! :blushing: Good news and bad on that front, the training…

I mix whey protein usually vanilla or chocolate flavor ( I like Body Evolution Brand), with powdered peanut butter 4T, and flax seed 2T. It's right at 400 calories, gives me 21carbs, 11g fat and 55g Protein. I have baggies made up of the mixture and can toss it in my bag and go. One of those mixer bottles you can get,…

Hi Everyone: Checking in since I haven't been around for a few weeks. I've been lurking...and reading posts, tracking food but that's about it. My brother 53 passed away suddenly so have been dealing with that. :cry: Since he lives here by me I'm doing most of the footwork etc.....in the meantime I have started training…

Hi Everyone! Great to see everyone doing so well. I'm really looking forward to Spring and the better weather. Need to plan out my excercise goals for OUTDOOR stuff! I haven't been excercising much but am doing a great job with maintaining my wt and eating well. Hope that the lbs will start to fall off when I add back in…

What worked for me was going to a good local running store. The person there spent a good 40 minutes. First she measured my feet and then watched me run barefoot both on a treadmill and on the running track in the store. Then she had me try on 5 or 6 different pairs of shoes. She had me squat and stand up and watched from…

Hi everyone! Beeps..gotta love being pleasantly suprised with measurements and wt...way to go! Have fun in HI Sedreski.....loved your comment about Chris.....had the same thought but couldn't think of a way to say it....you did it very nicely Swiss.....good luck with your last 8lbs....wish that was all I had to go!…

Met my husband in August 1991, started dating October 1992, engaged Dec 1993, married 8/12/94. We were both 24 when we got engaged and 25 when we got married. Will have been married 18 years this August. Good Luck with your class! :flowerforyou:

Awesome...that was a real eye opener for me at the beginning too! What?! THAT's one serving? Made me realize all that I was consuming. :flowerforyou:

Hey all...heading out to ski again today....I thinks I like it! :love: Beeps what's up with the protein bars? Inquiring minds want to know! Oh and what does HIIT stand for? :cry: To the guy who lost 10lbs and Dr. adjusted your BP meds......AWESOME!!!!!! You'll be off them in no time! :drinker: Gotta go.....keep up the good…

Hi Everyone! Happy Valentines Day to all of you! :heart: Successfully avoided the frosted sugar cookies at work today...YEA!!!!! Had a great long weekend. Took off work Friday thru Monday and took off for our cabin...lots of snowshoeing and sledding, then Monday headed up to the local ski resort and skied most of the day.…

Hey Everyone! Wanted to take a minute to update everyone on my month long experiment. I decided to go to the MFP rec calories for a 2lbs/week wt loss, not do any other physical activity other than my daily activity level and see if I would lose at that rate just based on calories consumed. I did this because I wasn't…

Finally found you.....THANKS CHRIS! :flowerforyou: BUMP

I allow myself one mini hersheys special dark chocolate bar daily as part of my food plan. I tell myself that I DO get to have chocolate everyday and still lose wt! :flowerforyou:

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Hi Everyone TGIF! :tongue: Good week for me I am doing a good job of keeping my calories b/w 1200-1300 daily. I'm trying something different this month...when I got back on the wagon from the holidays, I decided to set my wt loss goal at 2lbs a week instead of 1lb/wk for one month and to not do any set excercising other…

It's been my experience that the MFP calorie burn is much higher than my HRM readouts. I started getting much better results with wt loss once I got my HRM FT7, it is very accurate I think. I think I was overeating because I was eating back "all" of my excercise calories. Interestingly, on my excercise bike it has calories…

Hey everyone: Had a great weekend at our cabin. Got a foot of new snow. Sledding and snowshoeing so much fun. Will be weighing in tomorrow, so will see how that goes. Everyone sounds like they are doing a great job taking care of themselves! Welcome to all the newbies! Chris, Alf.....think we better start thinking of…

Hi everyone! Great to see all the posts....WOW!!! Umpire57 good to see you....last year sometime I ran across your wt loss success story on one of those evenings I was reading on MFP to keep myself from eating something I would regret later. It was very inspirational, especially the part where the coach who hadn't seen you…

Hi Everyone! Sounds like everyone is doing an amazing job taking care of themselves. Love all the posts! Good Job Everyone! :flowerforyou: My week was very good. Did a good job of tracking and stayed within my wt loss calorie settings. Lost 3.5lbs from the prior week just from making my diet clean after the holidays but I…

Hey Everyone! Happy Monday......SLOW...SLOW....SLOW at work today so I'm taking off early. Gotta love being the boss! I'm doing OK..have been getting in some regular logging of my meals over the last week and have my calorie count back down into normal wt loss range. Haven't picked back up any excercising yet but am…

leafygreens: You don't have to do anything.....Just log on and post questions, comments, support. Some people log in daily, others post once weekly on friday, just whatever works for you! :flowerforyou: