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Because it is? I doubt there's a really well thought out reason for it rather than the person thinking up this feature figuring that 5 weeks was a good time span.
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In the morning before breakfast tends to be the time where you have least fluctuations due to what you ate or drank that day. Whether you way daily, weekly or monthly is up to you. Scientifically you get the best insight in your weight if you way daily. More measurement points mean that the average is closer to the actual…
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I've not come close to the estimate myself, but have lost weight. I guess the real reason for showing that is so you can focus on the big picture. Eating healthy for a day might give you 0.1 lbs off. Wow. Not! But by see at the end of the day that all those little bits per day add up over 5 weeks time, well, that's…
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Your TDEE is your total daily energy expenditure. You calculate it based on your height, weight, age, gender and (for most calculators) activity level. But on days you exercise more than your base activity level your calories used on that day will be higher. So if you use TDEE -20% you'll need to eat back some of those…
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I eat chocolate every day as part of eating healthy. There's no way I'm giving that up ;) And that's the great thing about calorie counting, you can fit chocolate in your diet if you want. It doesn't restrict you in what you eat, just how much you eat.
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My BF has been playing this excessively since November. It CAN work as a weight loss game, but there's plenty of people for whom it doesn't work like that. In the game you can chat with other people playing. From what I've understood from BF is that about half the people just drive along the portals (generally art/statues…
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The only thing that breakfast is important for is to stop you from eating junk half way through the morning. If you just move your healthy breakfast to the time you would otherwise start eating junk that's fine.
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I'd take soaring heat always. If there's snow I'm not going outside. I'm basically a cold blooded person, even after running a 5k I'm not warmed up yet if it's below 10C (50F). If there's more than 2 Beaufort wind I need to cover my ears to prevent a brain freeze from occurring for the duration of the run. Rain I just…
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Cut off a leg, that will do it. But seriously, why the requirement to lose 10 pounds in one month? A pound of fatloss approximately means 3500 calories eaten less than you've used. So for 10 pounds that's 35.000 calories deficit. You approximately burn 2000calories a day (TDEE), without any extra workouts, so for a 30 day…
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Way to go! :)
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Your body also burns quite a lot of calories by keeping you alive. Your heart muscle is pumping the entire day, you're longs are working, your immune system is doing it's thing, your creating new skin hair and nails, and also your brain consumes massive amounts of energy. If you search on this site on BMR you'll find how…
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I just (like 5 mins ago) downloaded it at half price. Unfortunately I've already finished my run for today, so I need to wait to start using it. The idea sounds brilliant however :)
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If your overall trend is downward that's a good reason to celebrate. Don't care what the scale says on a weekly basis (cause it's lying a little bit to you every time you step on it) but look at the overall picture. So yes, celebrate!
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I'm really really surprised at all the 'break up' 'run away while you still can' comments here. The OP said that exercise is the only thing he makes comments about. There's so much more to live than that. To me that's a lot more shallow and mean that saying _once_ that he doesn't fancy her anymore now. Yes, he's made some…
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Hoi allemaal, Ik ben Sonja, 31, uit Alphen aan den Rijn. Afgelopen jaar was een slecht jaar voor me. Ben in de eerste 3 maanden van het jaar ruim 10 kilo aangekomen (en de paar maanden daarvoor ook al wat). Het meeste hiervan is er nu af maar merkte de laatste tijd dat ik wel weer erg snel door de paaseitjes heen ging.…
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The result you see on the heart rate monitor will give your accurate heart rate, but your heart rate will, with some medications, not be an accurate reflection of how hard your exercising. I know my MIL has medication that basically limits her heart rate around 120. Which for most people would be barely exercising is going…
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Personally, if my BF (of 10 years) would gain 20 lbs I would also fancy him less than I do now. I love his well shaped buttocks and I'm sure they'd be gone. And I'm guessing if you're honest with yourself you probably would also have less of a physical attraction to your fiancé if he gained a lot of weight. Love, that's…
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BMI is a statistical tool to determine the health of large groups of people. So on average it is a perfectly realistic way to measure health. In real life most people are around the average, meaning that for most people BMI is a good way to determine what a healthy weight should be. Yes, I know it doesn't work for a very…
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The 'problem' of things like a juice fast diet is that they are not sustainable. If you do not change the behaviour that led you to be you current weight permanently a diet will always only work temporarily. If you're the type of person that needs to see some results fast the juice fast might help you get started, but keep…
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The only one who decides if you're a runner is yourself. There's the good weather runner, that hates rain and snow and fog and dark nights. There's the fitness runner who only runs on the treadmill. There's the obsessive runner who sticks to his or her schedule no matter what. There's the summer runner (Me!) who hates…
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As long as your urine is a right colour pale yellow you drink enough. If you sweat a lot it'll be more than 8 glasses, if you're in a very damp environment it'll be less.
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Yes, absolutely. As long as you follow the couch to 5k workouts you should be fine. Don't overdo it as you'll risk injuring yourself.
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During the c25k you're not only building stamina, but also stronger bones and tendons. By doing more days a week your stamina will get better sooner, but your bones and tendons take a lot more time. So don't go to fast, don't do more than the three days a week. Really it's not worth it.
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I'm not familiar with the 30 day shred myself. But what you're after here are two different, and almost mutually exclusive goals. To build muscle you need to eat enough calories and protein so that you body can you the excess to build the new muscles you earned by working out. To lose weight you need to eat too few…
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If you're having trouble with doing some squats and things then the 30 day shred is not for you just yet. Of course, try it out if you want, but remember that it will be Very Very heavy for you. I strongly suggest looking into the walking program other people recommended, or try swimming. Yes swimming is scary, but it has…
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^This There is so much testing being done on artificial sweeteners. The only 'evidence' against it I've found is anecdotal. I drink diet coke a lot, I use Stevia, I use Aspartame, and I'll gladly use whatever else non-sugar sweeteners they invent. The only effect I've noticed is a loss in weight from not drinking so many…
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The brain does not use significantly more energy while studying than while doing every day stuff. The difference over a day is a few calories. Your brain uses about 20% of your resting metabolism, so for a woman that'd be about 280 calories. But it is common to be tired or exhausted or hungry after studying. Read this…
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2,5 lbs is definitely achievable. If you're in some sort of ultimate weight loss challenge where you're constantly working out and being helped with perfect eating. Other than that, for most people (especially women) it'll not be possible to keep this up week after week, while eating a healthy amount of nutrients. My…
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It's quite likely that those 20 pounds isn't all bodymass that's come off. If you drank less in the day/hours before weighing yourself than you did when you started that will have an effect. That could explain up to 3-4 pounds. Also, if you eat less, you also have less half digested food in you, including a lot of fluids.…
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I run on the non-curves days (or more accurately, I go to curves on my non-run days). For me Curves just doesn't build enough stamina. But if you're looking for a general ok health those 3 sessions (assuming they're hard sessions) should be enough to get you by.
