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You could try chair exercises. It can give you a pretty good work out.

I've been dieting for 3 days and I am starving and I haven't lost any weight. Help.

Take up knitting. You have to keep your hands clean to not get your yarn dirty. If you get a craving, do another row or two first. By then you may have forgotten the urge.

I have a rehab fitness program in the pool that I do. It is deep water, so I have to keep moving to stay afloat. We wear flotation belts. We work on abs, core and extremity muscles. After we go for a soak in the hot tub or sauna. This is through my community pool. Look around and see if there is something like that…

Lots of water and fiber.

I take it for severe depression. I will probably be on it for life. I did not have any side effects, except for a stabilization of my mood. I did not lose weight on it. I did become more active.

Yesterday, June 1, I got 10,848 steps. Today, June 2, I got 7648, so I am on track for averaging 8,000 steps a day. I also did a Curves workout yesterday and a Curves Body Basic with extras today.

I do not measure miles or minutes. I measure steps. I am going for 8000 steps a day.

Same as Suzyjane. As soon as they were too large to fit me, they went. For replacing them with smaller sizes, I have been hitting the charity shops to buy t-shirts and slacks. Two of them have fill a bag for $5 when they get too many clothes. Our local Salvation Army have a monthly senior's day and dollar day. Some of the…

I am pretty sure if you do a search on training schedule for recumbent bike, you will find loads of plans that you can check out.

I had the same problem. I saw my Doctor and she told me to reduce the dosage to where I no longer felt sick all the time. Then to use my common sense to increase the dosage until I was taking the full dose everyday. I think I had to start with half a pill 2x a day, breakfast and dinner and slowly increased it until I was…

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I'm on JC and record my food here. I am in Canada and found that the JC app did not have Canadian brands and foods that are not on the JC plan. I have been on JC for a year. I have lost about 20 pounds. My own fault that I have not lost more as I have been sabotaging myself. :( In March, I lowered one of my depression…

Bran-buds or Fibre-one every day for breakfast. I was like you, 1 bowel movement every 4 to 5 days. Started with the high fibre cereal in the morning and I already drank a lot of water. Now I am regular and go every day and sometimes twice. I cannot say enough good things about getting enough fibre.

Yes, I eat those things. What I don't do is eat out. I make the food myself, so I know how many calories I am eating. I have a scale beside me, as I am preparing/cooking, so everything is weighed and recorded as it goes in/on. I try to eat high fibre and nutrient dense food to keep me full. I also tend to eat the same…

I have a Fitbit surge. Not completely thrilled with it, but it gives me a good idea of how active I am during the day. Today, for instance, I used it to record a walk. The gps gave me the distance and the heart monitor gave me how hard I was working. It also recorded how long I was walking. I used MapMyFitness to calculate…

Joining this for first time. Goals for March: lose 2 lbs a week Eat to plan go to Bikram yoga 3 times a week-Tues, Thurs, Sun go to Curves 3 times a week-Wed, Fri, Sat I can lose the 2 pounds, if I do this amount of exercise. Phrase for March, "keep my eye on the prize"

I have the Fitbit surge. I get blister like sores on my wrist, then the skin peels off. The area also hurts. To stop this, I have to take it off several times a day and wash the area and the band, and thoroughly dry both skin and strap.

You should not have to break in shoes. If you do, it is because the shoes are too small.

I turned the show off when the guy put a slab of butter in his coffee in the premier episode. YUCK. I would like to see the participants in 18 months. See who had kept the weight off and was still following the diet. Of course, TV does not follow people that far. It is 12 weeks and they are done.

Track everything by weighing and measuring. Track your food before you eat it. When you see what the calorie count is, you may change you mind about what you want to eat. Add some exercise. Drink water. Make and follow a plan for weight loss. By following your plan, you will lose. It will be hard, but it will be worth it.

Some of the vitamins and minerals brands have been added to MFP. It is valuable to know your levels of micro nutrients. If you are going over or under a nutrient, you may want to add it or lower it.

I was looking at having gastric sleeve done. I also have a very large hiatus hernia that would need to be fixed. I was told that due to the hernia, there could be lots of scarring which would result in a lot of medical problems. I know someone who had it done. She is having a lot of trouble keeping her weight up and eating…

I had medical reasons. Once they were sorted out, I had given up on diets. Before May of this year, I had struggled to lose weight for 9 years. I had given up on trying and was only concerned with maintaining. In May, I joined Jenny Craig and have been losing. Right now, I am stuck. I am figuring out my pattern of eating,…

Depending on what country you live in, Weight Watchers bread is 50 calories a slice. I live in Canada, and can buy a whole grain, quinoa bread made by WW. It also lasts a long time without going moldy. I occasionally have 1 slice with 1 T (50 cal) double fruit jam for a snack. Works out to about 100 calories.

I am aiming for 10,000 steps a day. In the evening I check how many steps I have left to do. I march in front of the TV. The TV takes my mind off what I am doing. I usually watch PBS (USA) or Knowledge Network (BC, Canada), so there are no commercial breaks. Tonight I got in 2500 steps in 20 minutes to reach 10,000.

Did OK with the sugars. Nothing extra, outside of the JC food I eat. Only one more day for the sugars, before going on to the jumping jacks.

Today's side challenge is from Nov 20-22. It is to cut processed sugar and post how you are doing it.