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Thanks guys! I know our goals are way different. Currently I'm 175 and looking to get to 160 then reevaluate. Also, he is 6 foot so yeah he will need to lose more. Don't get me wrong, I'll love him at any weight, I just worry about his health. Especially since his 24 yo brother was just diagnosed with diabetes a few weeks…

Man I've started taking quite a few but I do feel better. I take osteo bi flex glucosamine supplement but that is because I have bad joints and am hoping to run again. I take a fish oil capsule by nature made. It gave the fish burps for the first few days, but now none. I take a super b complex with vit c and folic acid.…

This is good to know cause I like to eat a half banana or strawberries on my oatmeal in the morning and I'm always slightly concerned that I'm half way to my allotted sugar amount. I've cut most processed sweets but man yogurt, fruit, even cheese and milk have sugar. I sometimes go over by an extra 40 g too.

Hello from Washington state! It's cool your going to dog grooming school! I was a vet tech for many years and love animals too! Trying to lose about 15-20 pounds but man they are stubborn pounds lol. Feel free to add me if you want. I'm fairly new here and looking for friends too!

Ok, got it. I set my calories to 1700 in goals so that is what I want to net in the end? So if I workout depending on how much I burn, I still try to get to 1700 or at least my bmr net. 1700 definitly seems more reasonable on weekends when i dont workout, it is really hard to stay at 1410 on weekends and going to my…

Cool, yeah I read that tdee includes exercise so I won't add that to what I eat, but I will log it to keep an idea of what I'm doing.

Ok went to scoobysworkshop and plugged in my info. It came out at 1578 for bmr, and tdee to maintain weight is 2499. To lose weight it is set at 1956. I set exercise to modertate 3-5 hours a week. My cardio is a combo of stair stepper and treadmill. On the treadmill I do lots of incline and fast walking. No running yet,…

Thanks guys! I am 5 foot 6 inches 33 yo female. Currently I am at 178 pounds. My bmr that I calculated at several sites is about 1580. I know I have a slower metabolism so it might be a little lower and that is why I like the exercise cause it fees like it bumps that up. I even had to hold ack last weekend and relax lol. I…

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I love my treadmill workout with my iPod app lolo beatburn. It has workout routines that are customised to your fitness level. They have walk, walk/jog and run modes. You import your music or they have some upbeat music of their own. Then it will tell you when to change speed and incline for interals. I find it pushes me…

Good to know. I'm usually under by 2-300 calories as well. I like a slight buffer to account for inaccuracies in exercise and portions even though im pretty spot on. I notice that my carbs are usually under, but my protein and fat tend to be higher. I eat things like avocado, almonds, natural peanut butter and such plus I…

That's what I'm doing. I started off a little too enthusiastically and started running on the treadmill, cause that is what I did in the past to lose weight. Well long story short, my knees can't take the pounding, so doc said no running. I was sidelined for about two weeks with mild patellar tendonitis. I've started up…

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Yeah I know. I had tried to buy shows when still limping so it didn't help, but now I am probably 95% better. Im not limping and there isn't any pain anymore so I was able to walk normally. Plus I am starting my exercise back up, and the old shoes weren't cutting it.

Yay got new shoes that are super comfy. Apparently I have a wide width and one of my feet is slightly larger than the other. Anyways I was wearing the wrong size shoe, and apparently I am an overpronator so ended up with the Brooks Addiction 10. Can't wait to try them out tomorrow!

I know how you feel! I injured my knee last week and haven't been on the treadmill or even a walk since Saturday. I went to the doc and they said I have patellar tendonitis. It was hurting alot so I figured better let it heal, as I don't want a chronic injury. Anyways, I've been icing when it is swollen, and alternating…

Thanks! I am doing better today and went outside wearing the new shoes but my pain came back but below the knee in the area of the pes anserine attachmement. I've been icing and using heat therapy and only took one aleve today instead of two. I really want to get back to my cardio but really dont want to reinsure myself.…

I feel ya! I'm dealing with pain in both my knees but my left is worse at the moment. It happened actually right around the two week mark too. I took aleve and still am. Mine was really bad all week that I stopped running and am just doing powerwalking with an incline. I went to the doctor on Thursday and she said that I…

Cool! I think I'll try the 1745 and see if that works. It is a cut of the tdee to maintain my weight which is 2181. I'm going to stick with the lightly active as some days are easier than others. Weekends are pretty low key as those are my recovery days. I still walk most of the time. I'm also not able to push myself as…

I was a vet tech for close to 15 years and yeah it is a work out! I stayed skinny for a long time, but my bad eating habits ie missing lunch because we were too busy, and eating fast food for dinner finally caught up to me. Even though I was still doing that job, my weight slowly crept up, maybe a pound here or there but…

Thanks guys! I had been doing a jog at about 5mph but it felt too slow so I had bumped it to 5.5mph and I think I might have over done it. At my walking pace I didn't get below 4-4.5mph. After my workout doing that I felt really good well until later and my knees were killing me. It got to the point where I popped some…