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Hey guys, I'm here! I hadn't realized we got a new one now. Was posting still in the old one :). I've lost a good measurable bit of fat from my waist, and I'm pretty close to my goal weight but I think my real goal of 13% body fat is still a ways off. When I measure my body fat I'm at roughly 16 or 17% so yeah I'm starting…
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Really good point. I'm one of those, the most I've put on has been maybe 20 lbs overweight and the last 10 lbs are very hard to lose and mean allot. It's usually that 10 lbs that separates someone from flab to fit and everybody wants to be fit.
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+1 on the cottage cheese. Definitely the way to go. I take down a half cup cottage cheese before I go to bed most nights as a nightly summer ritual for me is to blade 6 miles or so around the loop in chicago near midnight. I get home hungry, have a half or full cup of cottage cheese and go to bed. Don't worry about the…
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I don't get it. Why doesn't she just throw her excess food away? It's the same thing isn't it? Doesn't it take self-control to always spray windex and soda on your food? I'd find counting calories easier than doing that. There would be a little voice in my head saying, 'don't spray that on that pizza, it looks good, just…
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Really??? Do you have any more details on that - like proof or something? If an ice cream has pig fat, I will definitely be no longer eating it, but this is the first time I've heard such a thing
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Yeah I've taken my 6 yr old son with me walking 6 miles once with no complaints from him, whenever we're at the playground I challenge him to race me running about 270 yards (0.15 miles) sprints and he keeps up pretty well. Kids really have tons of energy, they are metabolic machines at optimal capacity. What stops a kid…
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ChaLean is more safe for beginners or non-athletes to become athletes and in great shape. If you think you are out of shape, then go with ChaLean - it's level of entry is below the level of entry required by P90X. P90X is really effective for people who think they are in shape (but actually not quite) or were once athletes…
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Yeah an HRM is important. I blade allot and I'll go for about an hour of pretty leisurely blading will yield about 300 calories for me while MFP wants to log close to a thousand calories so you really can't trust what this site puts out. I don't have a problem with that b/c for me, rollerblading is so much fun, I enjoy the…
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idk why, but McDonald's iced coffees, latte's, whatever taste horrible to me. Every time I order from there I regret it, the coffee looks good but then its god awful. I don't know how they can screw it up so bad but I can make instant coffee that tastes better than that stuff. Has anyone else had that same reaction? I mean…
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Hmm... I didn't know that, that's pretty cool. I know allot of people don't know how to read them, but it's not so difficult to learn how to read them, and when someone has an incentive (such as an awareness that their eating habit is killing them) then they will learn and with such information right up front it will give…
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Yep, kids really rachet it up when it comes to challenges in life. I've got 4 of them all under 7 years old, 6, 4, 2, and a 1 mo old, and it's quite the challenge. Part of the reason I'm trying to get in shape is b/c I can't run on coffee forever and both me and my wife need some renewed strength and energy to help these…
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Right on! You are absolutely correct Azdak, but I think as people we have this psychological problem where there must be some sort of "trick" to losing weight and being atheletic. We're trained to look for short-cuts and hidden passages, to get the "edge" above the mainstream who struggle through the basics. We're consumed…
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If the govt is serious about tackling obesity in this country they should mandate by law that every fast food item display: Cals, Carbs, Fat, and Protein on all ad signs/posters and beside the menu listings right where the prices are! Honestly, imagine what an impact that would make to Frappe sales and McDonalds crap. It…
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Hmm... idk, my only thought is you were jogging too fast and taking in too much air maybe? Or maybe you weren't hydrated enough, or maybe it was really dry outside. But I'd suggest you take it easy, alternate between jogging and brisk walking outside and really pay attention to controlling your breathing. The breathing is…
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Protein shakes and chicken salad. If your work has got a fridge, make a big bowl of salad every morning and take it with you work and keep it in the fridge or even on your desk and every 3 hours or so snack on that and/or drink a protein shake. Don't go out for lunch and drink tea often if you can. That should keep your…
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Maintenance, Nice! I still got a ways to go before I can get to maintenance. I'm almost at my goal weight but not at my goal bf% so I'm not sure I guess I should just keep setting a lower weight goal. The last time I checked my bf% was at 16% and I'd need it to go down to 13% before I think about maintenance. I'm not sure…
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If you're gonna run, walk first, at about half or even 3/4ths of what you're planning to run. Run light, and little, take it easy and be super patient, practice self-restraint otherwise you'll get them back. When I had them I had to take almost a month break to recover cause I would ignore them until they got worse, so…
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Dang, that's one insane dinner. I don't think I've got the stomach to eat like that anymore, but hey, call it the zig-zag diet and eat a little under your daily req for today and you'll be good. Lately I've been pretty successful avoiding the breads, rice, and pastas and just getting in tons of veges so I've been under my…
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Isn't it? I've been using it for my weigh-ins as well, and the thing is obnoxious! I thought it'd get nicer once I moved from the "That's Overweight!" slogan to the "That's Normal!" but somehow, even when telling you your normal it manages to be irritating about it. It makes me want to strangle the owner of that annoying…
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Bump. Man my legs are sore. I've been cutting my cardio sessions down in time and just increasing the intensity. Jogging daily alternating between 5 and 8 mph on the treadmill with a 2-4% incline for about 20 minutes, that's been it for the cardio, and I was able to keep it up until the weekend. But my quads are pretty…
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You can do exercises to help strengthen your shins but ultimately it's due to over-training. Usually when people first get into running regularly they get them. I struggled with them for over a month from mid-feb to mid-march this year. I never thought they'd go, they linger on for a while, but I'm so happy to be done with…
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I got this EatSmart scale from Amazon for $25. It's got really good reviews and it's been reliable and very useful for me: http://www.amazon.com/EatSmart-Precision-Digital-Kitchen-Silver/dp/B001N07KUE/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1272651454&sr=8-7
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Peanut butter as everyone else said. Or, if you don't feel hungry, don't try to stuff yourself. One day won't bring your body to starvation mode. It's something that happens if you consistently under-eat. If you want to call it a day, it won't be a problem, just make sure to eat your cals tomorrow. btw, cottage cheese is a…
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I don't want to jump in but healthy_is_best is probably right in saying that the added weight increase is not muscle, as it usually takes up to 6 weeks for new muscle mass to be built in any measurable way. That's not to say you aren't getting stronger for the first 6 weeks of training, you actually get much stronger, but…
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Slightly off topic, does anyone know how i can make that link url blue and clickable here. I tried typing: "["url=http://abcnews.go.com/Health/mess-ernestine-shepherd-body-building-grandma-benches-150/story?id=10480184"]" the link address "["/url"]" (without the double-quotes) but it doesn't show up as a clickable link.
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Yeah, doesn't it seem impossible to de-junkify the house? There's always something really bad hiding somewhere, and the bad stuff is always easier to eat, just open the bag and put it in your mouth.
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Yep, weight fluctuates allot even in the same day. I can gain or lose 4 or even 5 lbs in day these days and as you get through this you start to realize that in a short time scale, the scale isn't really helpful. Once you build up a routine and start getting the energy, enjoying the workout and get into a rhythm, checking…
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I agree with thumper. The fact of the matter is you getting thinner than him and succeeding at something he failed at previously simply means that you're better than him. You're better than him - you succeeded at something he failed at, and you rub it into his face every day with all this healthy eating, exercise, and…
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Yeah, I agree with Azdak on this one. If you are doing actual cardio exercises, like jogging, aerobics, etc then the HRM is a helpful tool for calculating calories. Strength training with weights are not aerobic exercises and don't really fall into the category of activities that HRM calorie equations cover so whatever…
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For most salads, the salad dressing covers close to half of the calories and the added meat covers forty % of it, and 10% of the total calories is from the actual "salad" part of the salad.
