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talk to your doctor, I have a naturally high heart rate and my fitness trainer was freaking out when she took my pulse during warm up and nearly had a heart attack of her own while I was in full work out mode. I tried to reassure her that I have had a cardiac stress test and while it was noted I have a naturally high heart…

seriously if my husband just signed up without talking to me about it first (even if I happened to be supportive of him signing up for one more thing that keeps him out of the house) he would be at Starbucks with you. Although if he left the house to pout he'd probably be coming back home to round two of a fight since…

40 with 2 kids, and my second time around as well. Hope you have success and welcome back.

sounds like blood sugar to me as well. If eating something before your workouts doesn't help, you might consider talking to your primary care doctor or a medically supervised fitness trainer or nutritionist at your gym if it continues because there could always be an underlying undiagnosed medical condition.

my weakness is chips and salsa which we always have as snacks for when our friends come over for card and game night, because like you I can't stay away from them we had to stop buying them and now I feed them fruit or popcorn or something I can moderate. You might just need to give up making your class cakes, besides odds…

Not a problem I can see myself getting into on facebook, I don't tolerate other people's drama all that well. My advice and it maybe bad is that you should cut and paste what you just wrote into your facebook status, maybe she'll get the message since she hasn't bothered to talk it out with you unless of course you just…

this is not meant to be be mean but seriously if your thinking about giving up after two weeks you might want to ask yourself how serious you were about dieting in the first place and how you're going to over come a true plateau that can last over a month. take some measurements and stay off the scale for a month then…

vitamins that boost metabolism are a myth if you want a vitamin and have a sensitve stomach you can alway try chewables but also take them with food.

check out some diabetic cookbooks from your local library and build a variety of new menu combinations.

I eat some sort of nut everyday as a snack, walnuts have the highest omega3's but almonds are good and I even enjoy some of the flavored ones you can get.

I think I may have said this before in a thread similar to this one but take some measurements. I found that I can go 2-3 weeks without losing a single pound or even with a small gain but it's in those weeks that I lose an inch or two and then I see the scale move for a bit and stall again. I've really had to learn not to…

cravings don't just come from addiction sometimes they are your body's way of saying you need something. like getting thirsty or pregnant women eating odd things. adding "cheats" in my diet keeps me on track and makes me think consciously about the other food choices I make that day and through the week. I don't expect I…

I see a fitness trainer through a medically supervised program and they have had me doing strength and cardio together on the grounds that building muscle helps burn fat faster and has metabolic benefits when your not working out.

chips and salsa, who can really eat 7 chips and stop when there is tasty salsa to put on them?

only 18 pounds as of today (been stuck at 17 for a few weeks) but 9 1/2 inches just off waist and hips : ) makes me happy with my hard work.

If you haven't done it yet, take your measurments. This is the first time I've done it and it's the only thing keeping me sane as I haven't moved the scale in over 3 weeks except to gain a pound. I was feeling really bad about my good eating and hard work at the gym until I just thought to measure and realized that while I…

my daughter was selling chocolate bar for school and I thought I was going to go nuts before they were finally done with the sale and gone from the house. I don't usually crave chocolate but it was right there and always on my mind. My true weakness is chips and salsa, who ever decided one serving was like 7-15 chips…

like so many other's here I snack as part of my plan. I do it in part to help my blood sugar stay even (diabetic) so basically I eat every 2 hours or so and it makes me feel like I'm snacking all day. The trick for me is what I eat and how much not when. I have to avoid carbs so my true bane of chips and salsa are off…

Remember muscle weighs more than fat. For me I started losing right away but I'm also very overweight so I have a lot of fat to lose, whatever muscle I am making is just helping burn more fat. Since you are losing inches I wouldn't worry too much about the scale it will start moving when your body is ready.

I like to roast it and toss it with a little balsamic, garlic, and olive oil.

If you are making dry bean they are referring to dry measurements. The only way I have figured out how to cook them is to measure them into the pot including any extra salt I cook them with, then measure them when they are done cooking. So for example say I measure 4 servings into the pot to cook and when they are done I…

I don't agree with all the posters telling you to stop using SF because there are better ways to do it, to each his own and more importantly I can understand completely why someone might choose SF. I myself used it for just under a year and lost 60 pounds back in my late 20's with only adding exercise 4 times a week. If…

saw a personal trainer for the first time about a couple weeks ago and where I was averaging 2-3 times a week pre-trainer, the routine she built for me was so fun I'm averaging 6 times a week now. I see her again next month and can't wait; I had no idea how much of a benefit it would be for me to have someone else build my…

I think the jist is you'll have to experiment and find out what's right for you. between my PCOS and recent diagnosis of diabetes I have some pretty strict carb counting. (max)15g for breakfast 15g for snack, 30g for lunch, 15g for snack, 45g for dinner, 15g for snack. Yeah I eat 6 times a day. what I've learned though is…

not to highjack your thread but, I don't crave sugar aka chocolate but I do crave salt snacks any ideas for me?

I had to stop drinking after a certain time in the evening usually about 2 hours before bed save for a small drink to take some meds. I was sort of embarassed because this is the same thing I do to my 4 year old so she won't get up in the night. I'm glad this topic came up so I don't feel so odd about it.

I'm always under M-F but usually over S-S, it doesn't seem to affect my goals as I'm losing about 1-2 pounds a week. I wouldn't want to be under all 7 days as I would fear my body going into starvation mode; but I feel that any achievement should be acknowledged with positive support and if you really feel there is a…

it really doesn't matter either way so long as you take that hour gap so you don't get sick. I prefer after because my appetite is decreased by exercise. I do however believe in eating when hungry so if I'm just feeling the need I will have light snack that might keep me focused on my routine instead of my tummy.

I'm 5'4 and my goal is 150, when I reach it I will reasses my goals based on what I see and how I feel, but I have been less than that before and due to being top heavy looked very odd if I don't keep a little meat on my hips. I remember having to always tuck in my shirts because I looked like a tent being supported by two…

these were great comments thank you all, I think I am sold on dance central as my next purchase due to all the positive comments.