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"You would weep if you saw my harvester salad bowl. It's mostly blue cheese dressing and bacon bits ;) maybe some lettuce and sweetcorn to justify it!" Lol, I think you rescued it with the lettuce :-P The reason I people watch is because I eat out a lot on my own as I am very often travelling for work. But don't worry,…
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It's a free country and I can think what I like about other peoples food intake. Mainly because it has no impact on them at all. It's just what I thought quietly to myself in the corner whilst I was people watching.
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Nothing wrong with a 600 calorie salad, if it's made up of good stuff (I regularly eat salads that are like this). However their salad were effectively a pile of mayo with a potato on the top. Which along with the 1500 cal rack of ribs/meat platter combo things these particular people were scarfing (I could see them as…
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Kickboxing ????
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Hi, there are plenty of triathlon training plans available free on the internet (Google it). My advice would be enjoy it, I have been doing triathlons for several years now (and did my first sprint of the season last week) and the reason I keep going is because they are so much fun. Don't stress yourself out about times…
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I am a vegetarian. I don't eat much junk food, I eat healthily about 90% of the time. I cycled and played football yet I still got to over 200lbs at my heaviest. It doesn't really matter what you eat, if you eat too much of it you will gain weight. My suggestion is weigh everything, portion control is king (at least for me…
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I had a similar experience today in a Harvester. There is an all you can eat salad bar. Fine you would think. I had some lettuce and cucumber, sweet corn and tomatoes and low fat vinaigrette. I was watching what everyone else chose.Quite honestly it made me a little sick. People were obviously thinking salad = healthy, but…
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Some of that will be water weight so if you lost 2 lbs per week that's put you at 88lbs and then 4lbs of water weight. Sounds reasonable to me. Your weight loss probably won't continue at this rate, I'd say give it another 2 weeks and if you are still concerned then up your calories a little (maybe 200/day to around 1500).…
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I spend somewhere between 30 minutes and 3 hours exercising (and I mean really going for it) every day, I usually end up with a 350-1800 cal burn. But I am naughty because I tend not to eat them back *sits on naughty step*. Edit: Would also recommend an HRM, they are ace (I also have a Polar and would recommend it, even if…
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Awwww, poor thing. I know how hard it is to be looking forward to an event like this, especially if you've been training for it. It's a difficult one to give advice on too because I don't know exactly how you feel in terms of pain. That said if you are feeling pain and dreading your runs then those are not good things.…
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That sounds like a plan to me :-) honestly was panicking for a minute!
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Tuna salad, it was a buffet and really really hard to resist. But I did :-). 1 scoop tuna, lettuce, tomatoes and 1 piece of rye bread.
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You would be absolutely fine I'm sure, stranger kidnap is very rare. But you could run on a treadmill in the gym. You could run with a friend (I do this cos at 31 years old I'm still afraid of the dark!). I would always recommend running in a well lit area (i.e roads instead of a park at night). In the day chose parks…
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Not quite marathon or half but I do triathlons which have halves in (1/2 Ironman), if it's close enough please feel free to add me :-)
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MFP ? Myfitnesspal
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My mum kept telling me I should get fitter and lose weight (only because she loves me, not in a harsh way). I only started actually doing something about it once she left me alone and stopped going on about it. The choice had to be mine and whilst she was telling me what to do there was no chance of it being done. That's…
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Snap and yep, it happened to me. 5 years ago I weighed over 200lbs (at 5ft 7) and hadn't run since being forced to at school. Fast forward a little and I am well within the normal weight range for my height and I run\bike\do triathlons just because I can :-). Sometimes I take it too far (I find it very hard to have rest…
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It takes a little while to realise that a 'portion' is not an actual portion as per the nutritional info on the back of the packet. For me cereal particularly is ridiculous because the recommended portion size as actually only about 3 mouthfuls. Once I got the hang of it I stopped weighing and now only weigh my portions…
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On telling my boyfriend I've lost 3kgs in 3 weeks as of this morning (with 11kgs to go): "That's nice" I was literally blown away by the enthusiasm ;-)
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That is totally out of order! Honestly some people have no idea. Personally I spin twice a week and I have for about 4 years now. I was a whale on a spinning bike when I started and I'm pretty sure I nearly died on several occasions. Out of everyone exercising in the gym (classes or not) I have the most respect for those…
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Absolutely! I mean that's 1 week in 4 where you won't work out otherwise. Besides which exercising really helps me with any symptoms I'm having. I work straight through, barely notice the cramps when my legs feel like they're on fire! :-)
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Hi, Welcome to running!! And also congratulations on starting out because that is always the worst bit. The first time I ran I couldn't make it to the end of the road (~100m) let alone 4.1km! My first suggestion would be (if you haven't already) get some proper running shoes because they will provide more support than…
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Thanks all :-). I do understand the biology of everything (I actually have a PhD in molecular biology) and I completely know that exercise is for health not just to burn calories. If for some reason I couldn't do my triathlons and other fun things it would break my heart. However, you could be the most logical, intelligent…
