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I plan to ditch my current routine and only do Insanity (mainly for time reasons).

^ This!

Jillian Michael's has a DVD that uses a kettlebell in the workout. It's called Jillian Michaels: Shred It With Weights. There are 2 levels of workouts, about 30 mins a piece.

I eat the Yoplait Greek Yogurt. It's fat free and is only 100 calories per cup for 10g protein. They have several different fruit flavored ones. I really like them. It's a good low calorie (and yummy) snack to help me get my protein.

^This. If I only had one weakness, I probably wouldn't need to lose weight :ohwell:

^ This

Up at 4am, M-Sa to get my workout in and get myself ready for the day in time to get my daughter up and ready for school. Personally, I will not want to work out at the end of the day and I know I wouldn't make the time for it, so this is what works for me. I'm much more of a morning person than a night owl anyways.

http://www.building-muscle101.com/dumbbell-workout-routine.html Someone posted this website a few weeks back. I am doing this one at home with dumbbells (8 pounds right now). I bought a weight bench (just the bench, not the whole weight system) from Walmart - it was like $40-50 and I think it was Gold's Gym brand. A…

Being the matron of honor in my sister's wedding (which was last year). I knew I had to do something serious to get the weight off instead of the crap I was trying to do before that clearly wasn't working. I started MFP and it made the rest of my family start it too :) So we all benefited.

Interesting video...but not surprising that there are that many inaccuracies.

I can't say for sure that every single HRM out there has a calorie couting component in it, but most of them do. I use the Polar FT7.

Between weight loss and pregnancy with my daughter (she's almost 3), I have a HORRIBLE belly pooch. Not trying to scare you, just trying to be real. It is the one thing that is keeping me from being truly happy with my success. My stomach fat/skin is the one thing that I've noticed hasn't changed much, which makes me fear…

Sounds phenomenal!

It's really a personal choice. Whatever works for you. For me personally, I drink a protein shake right before working out. I end up eating my actualy breakfast about 1.5 hours after working out. That is just works for me and my schedule. I've been doing that for about 2 months. I used to not eat anything before working…

I do her Ripped in 30 DVD. I use 5lb or 8lb hand weights depending on the exercise being perfomed. Sometimes I'll use the 8lb one on the first round and then have to go down tot he 5lb one the second time around. Just depends. Would like to be able to use the 8lb for all of the, but I'm just not quite there yet. Start…

I get up very early (4 a.m.) to workout, shower and get myself ready before my daughter even wakes up at around 6:15 a.m.. While it does suck to have to get up that early, I am more of a morning person and would rather get up and just get my workout done...so that schedule works for me.

I weigh in on Thursdays. Whatever the scale says, whether it's a loss or gain, is what gets recorded.

I have the FT7 also and I go by what it says I burned rather than what MFP estimates. Personally, I trust the HRM more. But I also don't eat my exercise calories back.

If junk food was actually healthy food.... I would be the skinniest person in the world and would never have to worry about losing weight.

I have the Polar FT7...I think it is like $150 ish from their website. I really like it.

I have the Polar FT7 and I like it. Like a previous poster mentioned, I only wear during workouts. I've never had/tried Fitbit.

I use and love Endomondo. I recently got a HRM and found that Endomondo was overestimating my calories burned so maybe be a little cautious of that.

I started using the TDEE -20% about 4 weeks ago after a few months of no positive progress (in fact I was gaining while "maintaining"). Today was my first weigh in, since starting the TDEE method, that I finally saw some weight loss. I plan to keep at it. I heard alot about the TDEE method which is what made me want to try…

I also have the Polar FT7 and like it. 400 for 45 mins of Tae Bo doesn't sound that far off. I can get 320-420 calories burned in a 45-ish minute session of doing various Jillian Michaels workouts.

I rotate between Ripped in 30, her kickboxing one, Shred it with Weights, and 6 week 6 pack throughout the week. The kickboxing ones are only about 18-20 minutes. The other ones I mentioned are about 25-30 minutes each. My routine is to run 3x a week and do her videos 3x a week. So I do one of her longer ones (RI30, Shred…

I weigh it before cooking, in its raw form since that is what the nutritional labels are based off of.

I have mine set at 2500mg per day (MFP default). I am over that every day though even though I try to watch it :ohwell:

I believe all of my jeans are SO brand. It's a brand at Kohl's in the Junior's section. Before I lost my weight, I would basically just buy whatever fit and was on sale.

anyone else have any input?

I just recently got a HRM to find out the actual calories I am burning. I've only had it 2 weeks, but it is pretty close to what the MFP estimates have been for the exercises so I'm pretty confident that I hadn't been overestimating my exercise. I log and weight just about everything, so yes I do log even the bad days.…