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Heart Rate Monitor Strap and Loose Skin
What do people think of this theory for a problem I have seen twice. I use a polar H10 chest strap to measure heart rate along with either the Vantage or an older M430 sometimes. The strap can also be picked up by an Precor open stride machine that I use a lot at the gym. Some months ago the strap started becoming…
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Freezing Cold Hands
I dropped my weight down from 257 to 164 over about 11 months. I developed a couple of issues (ignoring the issues my BP meds caused me as I needed lower doses). I have freezing cold hands. I make the wife jump if I touch her. I had dry skin on my back that itched. It's pretty clear from my reading that being on a deficit…
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Raw Peanuts Warning
Hi, I will soon enter the last phase of my diet to lose my last few pounds. I am thinking this is going to be harder than all that has come before. I consume a significant portion of my calories in a single evening meal consisting of nuts. Roasted salted peanuts are currently my favorite but I have done a fair few other…
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Judging when to stop after a 90lbs+ loss
So I have dropped my weight from 257lbs (been probably as high as 270) to my current 165lbs. I am 53 and 5'10.25" (the nurses at the doctors office added that quarter so who am I do complain?). I lost a considerably amount of strength over the course of about 3 weeks as I could not train. I had a very stressful 6 weeks…
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I Eat Essentially the Same Foods Every Single Day
Hi, I thought it would be interesting to get peoples thoughts on a quirk of mine. I am hoping others are the same. I understand that 'getting sick' of foods could well be an evolutionary product to get us to eat a varied diet. For some reason this mechanism either does work or is severely muted for me. I first noticed this…
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Lower fat peanuts
So, I love nuts and eat them at night. I use them to hit my fat macro pretty much every day. I just had a thought that maybe there was some kind of de-fatted peanut and I see there is a brand called 'natchalur low fat peanuts'. Seems they roast them in a way to reduce the fat. Looking at the myfitnesspal database it looks…
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Sodium and HCTZ
Hi, I am wondering if anyone has hit this issue. I have dropped my weight from 257-190 in a bit under six months. In doing this I have improved my nutrition by orders of magnitude. I am eating a huge amount of veg to get my 38g of fiber a day. I hit some problems though. I got constipated, had a lot of cramps and get light…
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Scary food I purchased by accident
So I discovered I really liked salad with some picked stuff. Pepperoncinis, asparagus etc. I picked up a bunch of different things at costco to try. Unfortunately I only looked at the nutrition info. So I ended up with two jars of Kirkland artichoke hearts in oil. I wouldn't have gotten them if I had realized they were not…
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Pick apart my strategy to warn me of future problems
Hi, I started with MFP on 5/6/17 at 257lb a 5'10". I bet I was way more than 35% fat and I am still pretty fat. I track min macros of protein 150g, fat 75g, fiber 43g. Early on I had the protein much lower and it killed me in the gym. I also eat less driven by hunger but upping the macros for protein and fat drove me to…
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Help me improve this snack I really like
I feel this is a bit of a perversion of mine. It costs an arm and a leg per gram as well. I buy that kikkoman Chinese egg flower soup powder (hot and sour version) in a red packet. I have never made the soup like you are supposed to. Costs a load of money for not much so I purchased in bulk. I put 10g in the bottom of a…
