ElizabethKalmbach Member

Same. My "normal" is 90/55 though, they've put me on adderall for my ADHD and that's got me up to 100/65 if I remember to take it in a timely manner.

I have a similar problem with low bp and poor sodium retention. I like a lot of very salty broth (when I go camping my friends make me eat "medicinal ramen noodles" once a night to keep me upright), soy sauce, pickles, and lean ham. And while I make a lot of my own salad dressing from yogurt and fresh veggies, I've learned…

OK well, If you're using dumbbells and barbells and have rests between sets you should time your workout and pick an accurate weight lifting entry under *cardio* to get an appropriate calorie adjustment for your workout. If you're using machines and no rest periods, you should again time your workout and pick "circuit…

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You should recalculate your calorie goal every 10-20 pounds lost to make sure that your activity level, weight, and desired rate of loss all still match up, as they're moving targets that need to be reviewed as they change.

Are you planning on doing a progressive free weights program or circuit training? There's a difference in burn rate there, though generally speaking, I'd say just up your calories by 50cal/day/week as you start and gradually ramp up your eating calories as your workout calories ramp up with gained confidence and intensity.…

You've done an amazing job from what I've seen in your posts! *fistbump*

The jorring belt I struggled to get on over my hoodie and jeans in September fell down around my knees when I put it on over two hoodies, compression pants, and jeans...

3# away from shifting to maintenance eating and recomp.

For back problems, my chiropractor, doctor, and PT all push posture, posture, posture. Pay attention to what you're doing with your body when you're at rest or working on things that cause intense concentration. My desk posture is terrible without a couple of ergonomic aids, and I've had to alter my sleeping position to…

Depending on your lifestyle, which I'm assuming your trainer knows more about than we do, I think 2000 calories seems perfectly reasonable for weight loss. I'm a 5'5 woman weighing in at 148# and eating about 2200-2300 calories per day to lose about .5# per week. That said, I'm pretty active, for all that I have a "desk…

Depending on where my protein came from tends to determine whether my carbs are high (plant protein) or fats are high (meat) and I don't really fuss to much about the ratio between fats and carbs as long as I'm meeting my protein goal (111g) and varying my protein sources. Some days I get lots of plant protein from lentils…

Depends on how many chairs you use. :) I have a conference room off my office and 12 non-rolly chairs available. I DO NOT recommend chair dips off a rolly chair.

I don't think the Forerunners are designed to track strength training. I can log sets and reps from my VivoActive 3 and I specifically got it over a Forerunner, because of this enhancement. It doesn't estimate the calories very well, but it at least gives me a reasonably accurate number for time under tension so I can do…

Unfortunately, you can't spot reduce fat on your trouble spots. Where the fat comes off and where it likes to go on is largely genetic. The only way to reduce fat on your stomach is to keep losing weight until your body decides to start using up the fat on your stomach. Working out can increase the number of calories you…

It kind of depends on your total training volume. You're doing 12 reps per set, which is higher, but we don't know how many sets you're doing. I generally do 5 sets of 5 reps with a minute to minute and a half rest in between, because I'm working on maintaining strength. The "sweet spot" between strength and hypertrophy…

Hypertrophy usually calls for greater numbers of reps. Strength can be built up with fewer reps, though there's plenty of fuzzy grey area in the middle. Strength training is heavier weight, longer rest, fewer reps, generally speaking. Hypertrophy is slightly lighter weight (relative to your 1RM), shorter rest, more reps.…

ALSO, raise your monitor so that it's at eye level. I had to order a few assistive devices to correct my posture when working with laptops for long periods of time. Sit with your feet flat on the floor and your back as straight as possible, and make sure your arms have proper support and a decent working angle. It may help…

I've been lifting for a while, but still suffer from a bit of quad dominance, which doesn't help with any of that. I try to make sure that my back and shoulders get worked the maximum number of times per week and tend to back-burner anything for chest. I'll do maybe once a week. Sitting at a desk all day works my front…

Chair dips, forward folds, body weight squats, some twisting at the waist...

I'm cold all the time, no matter what my weight is... I'd just assumed it was WISCONSIN. :P I have a heated mattress pad and smaller heating pads stashed in all my "sitting still" spots. I wear clothes under my clothes for most of the year, and can honestly say that my treadmill desk is the best purchase since I moved…

No one can entirely tell you what supplements you should be taking, because we don't know what you're eating or what's available in your water, etc. The first thing you need to do is REALLY work on your medication compliance. It helps a lot to *always* take your meds at the same time every day. When I first started, I…

Crucifer likes to supervise the kids at the bus stop in the morning from the warmth of my hood. Zoe and Wash prefer to do their morning patrol at 5:30am before there's too much traffic, so that they can check their pee-mail in peace.

:smiley: I'm in IT for a living and a gadget junky. I think I *prefer* to do my journaling long hand because I track everything else with spreadsheets and databases at the office. I can export from most of my gadget interfaces if I need to, but for the most part, at this phase of my game, I'm tracking how I *feel* and…

Your sheet is super cute and way more stats than I track. I'm sorry I have nothing to share as I tend to do things long hand and on the fly based on the stats recorded by my fitness hardware, but I wanted to compliment you on your awesome tracking sheet. All those ticky boxes look super satisfying. :)

Fantastic transformation! Great work!

This is my saddest NSV. I was caught off guard by the amount of calories I burned yesterday, so I got a box of glazed donuts, which I remember eating several at a time, "back in the day." ... It doesn't appear that I like donuts as much as I thought I did. There are four left in the box and I'm not even tempted by them.…

I meal plan and use a day planner, so I just took notes on how I felt and did a 1-5 rating system on how full I felt over the course of the day. The 1-5 helped me flip through things QUICKLY and look for patterns. The notes helped me notice things like I'm more or less hungry based on TOM. In the end, *meal timing* ended…

Your muscles have adjusted to the training load. If you take a couple weeks off or change your routine significantly you'll be back to a couple weeks of ouch, but what you're experiencing is normal and the only reason I can stand to train as much as I do. If it hurt like that ALL THE TIME, I'd never get anything done. ;-)

Almost never. We had sliced raw veggies around almost all the time for grazing, but dinner was usually just a single pan hot meat/potatoes kind of affair. Usually pretty poorly done until my brother and I were old enough to kick Mom out of the kitchen and cook things more adventurous than Hamburger Helper. >_< My Mom is…