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Polar FT7! It was my Christmas present from my husband and I love it.

By that logic I could say "Hey, your profile picture is a cake. How can you say you care about your health when you're [note the spelling byw] putting things into your body that that are very detrimental?"

Dear pharmacist, I told you I wanted a refill on my Accutane 40 milligram... so you can imagine my confusion when I got home and I found out that instead of ONE pack of Accutane 40 mg, you had given me two packs of Accutane 10 mg. How the hell did you manage to get the amount AND the dosage wrong? Now I have to waste hours…

I wish I could run, too! Every time I've tried, I only lasted a few minutes... but the pain in my joints lasted for days. I'm 23 and in reasonably good shape but it feels like I'm the Tin Man sometimes! I could never get past a week of 30 Day Shred for the same reason - it kills my knees. I also wish I could do a decent…

That makes me wonder, what happens if you get lipo all over your body, or almost? Are you going to start building fat deposits in weird places like your forehead or the balls of your feet?

Thanks a lot! I don't think that the display shows how many times you've been around the track - at least I haven't noticed that when using the machine. I guess the best thing to do would be to divine the number of revolutions by 640 to get how many quarter miles I've gone. ... either that or just go to the gym which was…

Didn't Harper just scrap the gun registry? So he wouldn't even have to do that...

I'm already enjoying Canada. I live there. No, I didn't move here from the US. I notice that in your reply you didn't address my actual point. You made an incredibly stupid statement. I provided an article refuting it several times over, with official statistics and numbers. Again - more people die in the US from not…

I'm sorry - are you high right now? That is such a ridiculous statement. Try reading this when you get the chance. http://www.acponline.org/advocacy/where_we_stand/access/cost.pdf "It has been estimated that lack of health insurance leads to the death of 18,000 adults ages 25 to 64 each year—making it the sixth-leading…

It always makes me laugh when Americans complain about the Canadian health care system... Someone in this thread said something about people in the US getting insurance through their jobs - yeah, because most jobs just THROW benefits at their employees, right? And people without jobs can obviously afford to pay out of…

When I started losing weight, I lost pretty proportionally all over my body. I suppose that's the best way to lose - it avoids the unfortunate pants situation you described. At the same time it was frustrating because I couldn't see the change when I looked into the mirror, since there was no visible difference in my body…

Hahahahaha, glad to hear I'm not the only one! My gutter mind was probably at its worst when I was planning my wedding - I was a member of a forum where the brides-to-be threw around acronyms like BM (for bridesmaid) and STD (for save-the-date) all the damn time. /off-topic

I'm the one who probably creeps out everyone else by staring at them while they work out... Sorry, I'm just trying to get ideas for new things to try!

I wasn't saying that it's a BAD ending. I'm actually a bit confused by some of the posts in this thread... some people seem to have trouble with endings that don't explain absolutely everything, like it's a crime for the filmmaker to want to make the audience THINK after they leave the theatre and come up with their own…

I should have specified that I live in Sandy Hill and would like a place that wouldn't require long periods of time spend on buses. My current gym is a 10-minute walk from my place. I've also heard a lot of bad things about Premier Fitness...…

I absolutely loved Atonement, but the end was so heartbreaking. The scene at the very end where the two of them are running around on the beach being happy, and you know it never actually happened... that was crushing. But I don't think that makes it a bad movie.

Another New Rules of Lifting fan here!

$200 for one year is a great deal, but I don't think their opening hours would work for me :( Also it looks like I missed the registration deadline for 2012...

So if I lift weights at a slight calorie deficit, I'm going to burn fat? I don't care so much about losing weight as losing fat and getting slimmer. Sorry if that's a stupid question, but there's so much conflicting information here.

I track calories, carbs, protein, fat, sodium and Vitamin A. Sodium for health reasons. I think the FDA recommends 2500 mg a day... Health Canada says adults don't need more than 1500. My mom has high blood pressure, so I'm trying to avoid that. Vitamin A because I'm taking Accutane which is a strong vitamin A derivative.…

What's wrong with legumes? The last I checked, they're low in fat, high in fibre (and occasionally protein), antioxidants, assorted minerals...

I HATE cottage cheese and oatmeal but I'll definitely be giving the shrimp and Greek yogurt a try. I had no idea that shrimp is so high in protein! I've had Greek yogurt before but it was the plain flavour because I was using it as a replacement for sour cream. I'll look for some fruit flavours, or maybe stay with the…

I'm 5 foot 3 and 174 pounds. I'm currently a size 10 and my ultimate goal is to be a size 6 again. I don't really care about the weight so much - I'm trying not to focus on the number on the scale because it's far from a good indicator of health. I've been trying to bust through a plateau for more than 6 weeks now so I'd…

Thank you for the encouragement. I'll re-evaluate my calories and ask the question again (maybe in the general Fitness forum to get more input) if I haven't lost pounds or inches by the time I finish stage 1. It's hard to figure out what works best for you and everybody gives you a different answer! I saw a nutritionist…

I am currently doing New Rules of Lifting but I will have to take a break because I'll be at my parents' place from the 17th to the 27th. (I've checked out gyms in the area and their day passes are way too expensive! So my plan is to bring some small hand weights and my copy of 30DS and just do that while I'm there.

A rowing machine might do the trick.

I make a protein shake from one bottle of Boost meal replacement for diabetics (I'm not diabetic but it has more protein than even the "hyperprotein" formula and half the carbs!), a scoop of chocolate-flavored whey protein. I can't stand the taste of Boost, so I add a few strawberries and sometimes a bit of coconut milk…

I used to be at a 1 lb/week deficit but when I started NROL I changed it to half a pound. I also changed my macros from 50/30/20 to 40/30/30 but it's honestly a struggle to get even 100 grams of protein every day (my target is 150). I'm 10 workouts into Stage 1. I haven't lost weight - in fact I'm up 1.4 pounds from my…

I'm not doing a whole lot of cardio right now. I wanted to start Couch to 5k but it's getting too cold for me to run outside (can't do it on the treadmill because I can't change speeds that fast/often on it). I walk instead of taking the bus unless it's super cold outside. I get very bored on the treadmill or elliptical so…

I use RunKeeper to track my walks (and occasionally my pathetic, short-lived attempts at jogging!) and I find that it gives me much higher calories burned than MFP does when I input the same time/speed. I usually double-check with a website like http://www.healthstatus.com/calculate/cbc and I find that MFP is typically…