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Help me understand...
What's up with all these "above you" discussions? Above you? Like, hanging from my ceiling?
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Self-sabotage - a fun way to ruin your diet!
Anyone else find themselves doing this? I'll be chugging along on my diet, a little up and little down, but generally moving in the right direction. Then one day I weigh myself and discover that I am at a substantially lower weight than I had been before, and instead of giving myself a pat on the back and continuing on,…
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Strangest things seen while out on a run...
* A ferret, running wild along the city waterfront * A fox that paced me while I ran * A toilet, carefully placed on the sidewalk just when I really needed one! (no, I didn't!) How about you?
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Pretty gosh darn excited!
I am getting a Total Gym GTS delivered soon, to add to my already extensive home gym. I really love them and enjoy the workout every time when I use one. There's just certain pieces of equipment that I really "gravitate" to (see what I did there?) no matter how many fun fitness toys I have. What your favorite fitness…
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Ketosis question
I've been on a keto diet for a couple of months now, and my total carbs each day don't go over 25g. I do a keto blood test every few days. For a time, I was in optimal ketosis (1.5-3) but now I'm generally at about 1.1 and I don't know why, when my total carbs are so low. Edited to add for clarity: I'm also very careful on…
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My new Fitbit Alta review
Until now, I've had a Fitbit Charge, but after only 5 months of use, the Charge started peeling and falling apart. Not cool. So on to the Alta I went. I could get it paired and started, but not synced thereafter. To do that, I had to upload the firmware necessary to sync it from either my phone or my laptop and couldn't,…
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Looking for the perfect interval app for Android...
I gotta be able to customize my intervals; some examples: * 30 seconds run, 15 seconds rest * 35 seconds run, 15 seconds rest * continue stepping up by 5 seconds with 15 seconds rest or * 5 sets of 30 seconds running with 10 seconds rest, followed by * 5 sets of 1 minute running with 30 seconds rest, followed by * 5 sets…
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The worst advice I've ever received from a nutritionist/dietitian/doctor about diet is...
I've had a few doozies over the years! * When I told a dietitian that I get very hungry on a diet and she told me to just stay with it, because "my stomach will shrink". This completely ignored my personal dietary needs, information about the satiety ability of different foods and that any diet where a person is hungry all…
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Interesting (single) study linking breast cancer recurrence with length of overnight fasting
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/health/study-connects-longer-night-fasting-to-reduced-breast-cancer-recurrence/article29474300/
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So bloody sick of...
Cheese, eggs, butter and coconut oil. My calorie intake is down just because I can't face another meal of these items. I had a 1200 calorie deficit yesterday because I just couldn't make myself eat what I needed to eat. I'm a lacto-ovo vegetarian on keto, and my macros are good (usually below 10g total carbs and only…
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Ten years ago this month...
I kicked my eating disorder in the nuts, saying goodbye to it forever. I had been bulimic for 20 years, and have been free of that albatross for the past ten. If anyone reading this is going through that struggle, I promise you, it is absolutely possible to kick it to the curb. I won't promise you it will be easy, but when…
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Finally had a craving I could NOT resist...
and had a salad yesterday - it was the crisp romaine and tomatoes that I couldn't resist. Very little of that crisp, light crunchy mouthfeel in the lacto-ovo-vegetarian-keto diet foods available. It brought my day totals to 41g total carbs and 25g net carbs, which is higher than I'd been in a while. It felt very odd,…
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My vegetarian keto experience- one month in
Hi everyone! Yep, I'm a lacto-ovo vegetarian (NOT vegan) trying keto for the first time, and it's been an interesting experience, to say the least. My first week was a "practice week", as I was on vacation and couldn't really do what I needed to do. After that, all keto, all the time. A lotta eggs, a lotta mayo, a lotta…
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Did NOT drinking vodka kick me out of ketosis?
Very confused this morning. My blood ketones test (I use a meter) show that I'm out of ketosis, after spending the last two weeks in optimal or almost optimal ketosis. I did the test twice with the same results. I always test in the morning, after exercise and before eating. My macros yesterday were perfect and have been…
