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MAINTENANCE
The scale has been steady at 170 for 2 weeks. That's with some serious stress eating last week as well. Probably helps that I added more muscle building exercise in about 2 weeks ago. While I will continue to track, I declare goals met.
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Running vest
I found some fleece jackets by chance about 6 months ago and the best thing about them is the zipper pocket at the chest. Perfect spot for my phone. I'm looking for something similar as a vest for the incoming warmer weather, but I can't find anything that isn't crazy expensive. Needs to be very light because summer here…
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My wife said even trying was crazy at my age
But 29 years after I graduated high school, I now weigh what I weighed at graduation, or at least close enough.
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Scale creep
Scale crept up on me some this week. I know it’s because I’ve added some additional training to what I was doing so muscle and water retention. So I did this to help keep me motivated and thought I’d recommend it to everyone. Take a pic in you fat clothes and compare it to an older pic of those clothes.
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Da Rulk Functional Training
I signed up for the free trial on Centr, but I'm not all in because a breakfast that has 800 calories with 3 poached eggs and half a pound of oatmeal seems a bit much, though the recipe sounds good. Has anyone tried any of Da Rulk's Raw Functional Training? I'm trying to calculate calorie burn and the workout builder on…
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I’m almost normal
BMI is 25. That’s 10.6 points below starting BMI.
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Half pound a week
The home stretch. The last 5 pounds. Almost 30% of my body gone. Things I’ve gained with the normal BMI: Normal blood pressure Normal cholesterol Lower heart rate Normal A1C Better self image Ability to pull exactly 30g of Snyder mini pretzels out of the bag in a single handful
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Even though you know you shouldn't
You use the same password or some derivation thereof for a bunch of different websites. What are the chances you think. Then you get a pop up that your AppleID was used to sign in to icloud on a Macbook pro. You don't own a Macbook Pro. Then you find a string of outgoing messages in Chinese going out from your phone. So…
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How did you transition to maintenance
I'm 15 pounds from goal. My plan was always to stay at 1.5 pounds a week until I hit goal and then switch to maintenance. But looking at maintenance calories compared to current calories and that seems like a lot of calories. I was thinking switch the goal to 1 pound a week and get used to that. Of course, I almost never…
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Walking in the weather
Thursday was torrential downpour. People actively moved to splash me as they drove down the road. Today it started to snow when I was 2 miles from home. Luckily no accoumulation before I got home because the doofuses who splashed me on Thursday probably should have skidded off the road and hit me today.
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Plateau due to new exercise?
I don't really consider this a real plateau as it has only been a week or so, but I'm curious. I started adding some jog/run intervals to my morning walk after I did a 5k last week. Pretty much as soon as that happened, my weight stabilized. No daily fluctuations, scale is the exact same weight every day. I haven't seen…
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Half marathon to go
I’m 13.1 pounds from goal.
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Logging cardio intervals
I turned my morning cardio into something akin to early C25K intervals. For example today was 5 minutes of walking, 14 1 minute jog, 2 minute walk intervals, 3-5 minute cool down. I’m not sure if I should log it as 5.5 mph jogging or 14 minutes at 7.5 - 8mph and 34 minutes at about 4.5 mph. From the calorie side, jogging…
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Things in recipes that amuse you
From names to ingredients to cooking process, things that make you laugh. Examples: "Man-pleasing XXXX" "Better than sex XXXX" "Crack XXXX" "Fall off the bone" "Cook boneless skinless chicken breast in crockpot for 12 hours" "Cook on high pressure for 3 whistles"
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My biggest successes
They aren’t pounds or inches. The first is eating those things I used to gorge on and being able to stop when I’ve had my alottment. The second is knowing that if I do go out and gorge because I just wanted to, it’s a one time thing not a return to bad habits or a failure.
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17 pounds
That's it. That's all I have left to hit my original goal. I honestly didn't expect to get this close when I started. Back of my head I was thinking if I was lucky I'd lose 10 pounds before I gave up. Of course my original goal is slightly heavier than my healthy BMI weight, so I'm tacking 5 pounds onto the goal.
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Calories added poaching
One of my go to proteins for salads or just mid morning snack is Instant Pot poached chicken. It's 5 cups of water and a tbsp of salt. However, as an experiment I dropped out the salt and replaced half a cup of water with buffalo wing sauce. That is 120 calories. Which got me curious about how calories would be added to…
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Which mileage app do you use
This morning I had three apps going at once, Nike, MapMyRun, and RunKeeper. I got 3 different run times, 3 calorie counts, and 3 different distances. I know Nike pauses automagically if I stop, haven’t checked the other 2. Which apps have you tried and which seems to be the most accurate?
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Take that Thanksgiving
Down a pound on the week and that was with TG and two other splurge days. Glad I made myself walk TG and Black Friday.
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I’m overweight
Down from obese so that’s a success.
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Kid friendly fiber recipes
Looking for variety. My daughter needs more. She will eat whole grain pasta. She eats bananas. I might be able to trick her into eating some mixed into yoghurt. We made oatmeal banana pancakes, but that's only 1g per pancake. I was going to sneak some chia in it, but she caught me. Was thinking I could probably sneak in…
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The real success
At 248, I couldn’t stand the sight of myself without a shirt. Wouldn’t leave my room without a shirt, even in the middle of the night. Wouldn’t put in my glasses until I was dressed. At the same time, I felt like I couldn’t do anything about it because life was so hectic and I couldn’t even see the first step. Here I am 40…
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Heart Rate Monitor
I read through a variety of posts about HRMs. There are a lot of them. So in true internet form, I'm starting a new one because I'm too lazy to go through all of them. I discovered that work will reimburse me up to $250 a year for fitness equipment. This includes shoes and fitness trackers. I'm about to shell out $150 for…
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Question about ground turkey
Does it always smell a little weird? Wasn't past it's use by date and not a rotten smell, just weird.
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That feeling when
You've logged everything you plan to eat for the day and still have 800 calories left...
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Buying new clothes
I have two pairs of shorts that don't fall off without a belt and all of my shirts are now baggy. Since my goal weight should drop me 2-4 more inches, in theory, I don't want to spend money on stuff that's going to be too big in a few months. I'm about to box up everything and store it, but I want to replace it on the…
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Dedication to the mission
It’s 60 and rainy as I head out to walk 2.5-3 miles. Kids were impressed, wife just gave me a look. Almost halfway to goal.
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Another "decade" down
Broke the 210 barrier today. Down 36 pounds with 34-39 to go.
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Sharing recipes
Is there a way to share the recipes we create on the app/site in the forums? Nothing jumped out at me in the app, and I haven’t dug into the site much.
