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What's the best thing you ate today? (Motivational/Reflective)
As a way of trying to get to terms with my eating habits, I started asking myself what the best thing was that I had eaten that day. Doing that has really helped me confront the fact that it wasn't the chocolate bar (but the avocado and tomato with some seasalt) or the chips (but the homemade potato wedges), which is one…
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Favourite crunchy snacks?
These days, I often find myself craving crunch in the evening (especially). Any ideas? I am vegetarian/vegan and prefer cold crunchy snacks, but lay them all on me in case other people want to use this thread to find ideas too!
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How do you remind yourself of water intake?
I find that some days I struggle with my water intake, and would like some tips and tricks on how other people remind themselves! Please note that this is not a post about how much water one should drink in a day (which is individual based on weight, activity level and weather) but more about how to remind myself to drink…
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Still fat, but feel GREAT!
I decided to post this in the Success section even though I haven't lost much weight because it is a personal win. My primary goal is weight-loss, but I want to do it by improving my fitness and eating habits and want to feel strong and not in pain. Anyway. I find that when I work out for a period of time, I end up loving…
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What can friends see?
Basically, I don't have any friends on my fitbit app (which is how I have preferred it) but have lately been thinking that maybe I should get some. But I'm concerned about what those friends would be able to see - how much can you limit their insight into your activity? For example, while I am fine with people seeing my…
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Different macros on different days?
My goal is to lift three times a week (I don't split). The other days are either rest days or active rest (with long walks = burns more calories). I know that I don't burn as much every day (even days when I am active) but my non-active days can be very sedentary depending on how I'm feeling. So I'm wondering if I should…
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Do you pre-log your food?
Now that I am back on the bandwagon of logging my food (yay me! let's see how long it lasts this time...) I figured it was high time I pose the question I've been wondering about for a while - I know that people often pre-plan their meals (I tend to do the same, even when I'm not logging; at least lunch as I need to know…
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Gym every day?
It seems like a lot of people here go to the gym everyday. If you do, do you go weights every day too (but maybe do "leg day" "back day" etc) or do you alternate it with "just cardio"? I want to go to the gym more often, but as I am doing a lot of full-body moves for my back rehabilitation, I would either basically do…
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Lack of routine
What do you do to get your motivation going when you have all day to do your exercises? I'm currently on summer vacation (from university and educational-related work) and as such has basically all day to work out "whenever I want". Well, this of course leads to not doing it at all because all of a sudden it is too dark to…
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When other people comment on your "loss"
I find that I really really hate it when people in RL comment on my weight loss. Or, what they think is a loss (hence the quotation marks). Now and again I get comments from co-workers (or my eldest sister, who I don't see a lot) "oh, you've lost weight?" or "you look smaller". Often when I've not been very good at working…
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How do you eat your protein powder?
As a vegetarian who is away at work all day (and I work in a school, and eat with the kids, so my food options are limited) I don't always get enough protein (especially not now when I'm lifting as part of my rehabilitation). So I got some vegan protein powder; but when I mix it in my delicious smoothies, it turns the…
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Are your maintain CI goals accurate?
I'm not at maintenance levels yet (far from it!) but the other day when I weighed myself on my bathroom scale, I got to wondering about it. Because my bathroom scale is one of those "fancy" ones that calculates your BF% and stuff like that - on the scale, my "maintenance level" is about 1650. So I changed my goal to…
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Anyone have visible reminders of progress?
I created a "calendar" on a regular piece of paper; partly because I wanted to start *right away* and because I'm cheap (don't need a proper wall calendar) but also because it enables me to keep more than one month on the same piece of paper at the same time = less paper and more visibility. Anyway. On this paper, I have…
