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I completed day one!!! I forgot how much I hate burpees. Broke everything into 3 sets and added in the oblique and triceps to make one workout alternating body parts and cardio with strength. Then did my own warm up and cool down. I'm not sure if the leg lifts are meant to be double leg lefts (abs) or side leg lifts…
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I'm in for all three as well! Eep. I'm going from not working out at all for several months to jumping in with both feet... I also have knee issues with tendinitis in both knees but I think I can manage everything as-is. Could use an accountability buddy, preferably female!!! Message me if you're interested!
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Hey everyone! It's great to see all you ladies over 40!!! I'm 41, a single mom with zero free time, and looking to somehow lose about 7 kg in the next 3 months or so. Not only that but I'd like to get my muscles back! It's been a hard year for me and I'm coming out of a bad depression during which I didn't eat right and…
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So, I just ate my first durian fruit. That's the stinky fruit that smells rotten. Blech. It tastes almost exactly how it smells, but more pungent. Can't say as how I recommend it!
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I recently found glorious Hass avocados at the supermarket! OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!
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You say you're eating "over 1200 calories now", meaning... what, you were eating 1200 or less than that before? If that's true, then that's probably why you're losing weight. That's not a maintenance-level amount of calories and would be too low for most people. You need to calculate your BMR and TDEE and figure out how…
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Thirded. I'd be really surprised if she doesn't have an ED. She needs a psychological evaluation. Probably it'd be best for her to hear it from a medical doctor and to get medical treatment. I don't know how you can get her to do that, but please don't leave this one unchecked. An untreated ED can lead to serious medical…
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This is a great question! My home country of China has 5000 years of recorded history, and my city has had inhabitants in the area for at least 10,000 years. As a Canadian, that boggles my mind! Ten thousand years ago, my country was nearly empty - the first people had only recently arrived (from Asia, no less - a fact…
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I'm a 38 year old woman, 5'8", 61.5 kg (136 lbs.) and maintaining at around 2100 calories a day. I do 40-60 mins. of HIIT 3x a week, and 25-60 mins. of intense circuit training with weights 3x a week, with one day of rest. Also, I am breastfeeding a toddler. I should mention that even though I'm maintaining my weight,…
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Yeah, you don't lose the muscle, it just shrinks. So when you train the muscle again, it comes back much more rapidly than it took you to build the muscle in the first place. Which is great for those of us who fell off the exercise wagon and have finally hopped back on - results are way more rapid than the first time…
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Welcome back! It's been dead around here, though. You're doing Insanity? I've had awesome results with Insanity and T25 myself.
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Okay, here's my new rant. Here in China women are supposed to be "weak". That's the ideal. Be soft and skinny, unable to get up a flight of stairs without nearly dying. That's okay, because there are *~teh menz~* to help you with everything! If I had wu mao for every time some man tried to help me open a bottle of water...…
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I've done the full Insanity program twice through, nearly finished the T25 full three-month program, and I have also started Insanity Asylum (dipping my toes in with the odd workout on my day off, going to go whole-hog in two weeks when I complete T25). My opinion is that the Alpha level of T25 is a really beginner-level…
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LOL, yeah, that's what I was thinking! Guangdong, famous for all the weird stuff. You're quite adventuresome to try out all the crazy foods!
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Wow, that's effin' awesome!!! Good on you!!! I'm starting to feel like 40 is the new 20.
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Wow, thanks! Honestly though I'm always impressed by people on these boards - people around here kick some serious butt.
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I don't understand why your pediatrician said you shouldn't do any cardio while breastfeeding. Frankly that's bull. People do it all the time, and not only is it fine, it's pretty healthy and will help you get back in shape and feel better. Just a guess, but she may have been concerned about the calorie deficit from a lot…
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Dude, I'm 38, have a black belt in kung fu, and can beat my teenage student athletes in a sprinting race up 11 flights of stairs. Also, I'm a woman, had a baby a year and a half ago, and am in the best goddamn shape of my life, with muscles like you wouldn't believe. Age is no excuse. It does get harder as you get older,…
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That seems like a very low calorie count to me. Just about anyone would lose weight very rapidly on such a restrictive diet. So if you're not losing weight there are some things to consider, mainly that you are probably not counting your calories correctly. If you're not measuring and weighing foods and just estimating, or…
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This made all the difference in the world for me. I HATED the gym but I forced myself to go... Then I joined a kung fu class with a friend and within a week quit my gym membership forever. One hour at the gym felt like eternity but I could do 6-8 hours' worth of kung fu in a single day - not just because I love kung fu…
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Congratulations on the twins! They are wonderful but it sounds like a lot of work! Good on you! I personally lost all the baby weight over the course of about three months after giving birth, while nursing one child, and doing zero diet and exercise - in fact, eating like a hog! I was ravenous constantly for the first few…
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Uggggh that sucks so much! Sorry to hear about that. Why don't they like you? Are they just a-holes? What is the point of a lease if the law won't enforce it! Damn.
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God, there's nothing like a good Chinese BBQ with beer on a hot summer night, am I right? Yeah, the beer has also got a lot of empty calories, especially since they're always the big bottles and you don't get as much kick out of it because the percentage is so low, like 2-3% usually. But I always have at least one bottle…
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You think? Haha. I'll be diplomatic and just say that none of those flavors are my cup of tea. Though the Green Tea Ice Cream one isn't so bad. It's just not good, either. When I first had one I guess in my mind I was expecting mint flavor because of the green. But mint is NOT popular in China, not even for chewing gum or…
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I measure out portions like you said, on a separate plate, and log that. It's quite easy to eat too much if you just eat and eat and then estimate. You ALWAYS under-estimate what you have eaten. Once I sat and ate out of the bowl of dumplings. I would have estimated I had 10 dumplings, but in fact I had 18 (my husband had…
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Thank you for being the voice of scientific reason here. In China people have grown much taller over the course of two generations. I literally tower over the grannies here, whereas I'm only slightly taller than those in their 20s. It's not evolution, but the fact that those grannies were children during the famine,…
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Wow, I'm surprised that people like American accents, and even more surprised to hear that about Canadian accents (I'm Canadian). American accents do nothing for me - though I like a lovely Georgia drawl, I just don't find it sexy. And some American accents turn me off completely, like the Arkansas accent. I think…
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Green Tea Ice Cream flavored Oreos. Blueberry-Raspberry flavored Oreos. Peach-Grape flavored Oreos. Mango-Orange flavored Oreos. I'll post more photos of other weird stuff later!
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Haha, in the olden days before MFP we all logged meals using a nifty thing called a notebook. They're smaller than a device, cheaper than a device, fit right in your purse and are even biodegradable! No data plan required. Ah, kids these days.
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Yeah, that's kinda weird. I log on my phone all the time and nobody asks me what I'm doing. They probably assume I'm sending a text or playing a game or checking email or whatever... how would they know I'm looking at porn? I mean, "logging meals"?
