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"Making a Murderer" on Netflix
(I went back seven pages and didn't see any similarly themed threads...hope this isn't a duplicate) Anybody else watching this? Being a multipart documentary, I don't know how "anti-spoilerish" we need to be, as you can get a synopsis of what actually happened in 30 seconds with a web browser pointed at The Google, so...…
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interesting article about medical study surrounding calorie burn
Article is here, on CNN.com reinforces a lot of what folks like @ninerbuff have said in remarks on other threads - the gist of the article is that, essentially, if you're working out strictly as a means of burning calories, that your body may be enforcing "plateaus" past a certain point, and that exercise alone won't carry…
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How To Lose Weight in Four Easy Steps
maybe someone has posted this somewhere hereabouts already, but it's a great read: How To Lose Weight In Four Easy Steps now, I'm not saying that I can relate or anything like that...
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old habits? maybe not so hard to break after all...
prior to making the commitment to this program, pasta was my single biggest vice. if pasta were a controlled substance, i'd be the dude trading sexual favors for fettucine behind the convenience store. but i hadn't touched a pasta product since prior to memorial day...until today. i figured i should commemorate my "halfway…
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Finding a balance between caloric deficit and fueling workouts
I've been reading the forums pretty voraciously since starting this journey, and it seems like - as with almost any worthwhile pursuit - the more I learn, the more there is that I don't know. I'm just moving into strength training from doing almost exclusively cardio - my focus up to this point has been weight loss, and…
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Alternative methods of calculating TDEE?
So, I got curious about whether there were other calculators available for TDEE, and how consistent they were, and I happened upon this site: http://calorieline.com/tools/tdee and while the TDEE number I got was only 50 calories removed from the IIFYM calculator, i found some of the reading further down the page to be…
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"starvation mode" - myth or basis in fact?
I just clicked on another thread that I thought might be a discussion of this phenomena, but it turned down another road entirely, so I figured I'd better ask a pointed question: how many of you have participated in discussions regarding "starvation mode", where there's allegedly instructions written into your DNA that…
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today's the first day at the gym...advice?
i totally understand that I could research this and get some generic advice from static pages that already exist, but i feel like most of you have walked this path already, and would be in a better place to give me some specific pointers, here. I'm 50...5'9". I started at 279 at the end of May, and seem to have plateau'ed…
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adjust carb intake for cardio exercise?
soooo...i've been at this since the end of May, and have had some pretty decent results in that time - 36 pounds down, as a result of deeply cutting carbs and sugar, making sure i get in 10K steps a day and - as of a few weeks ago - adding regular bike rides of anywhere from 5-10 miles a ride. that put me at around 245…
