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How I stopped kidding myself
Hey everyone, just wanted to share my experience with the food scale - my best friend and worst enemy. I’ve lost 43 lbs so far and for the first 25-30, I used measuring cups and “eyeballing”, and it worked fine - until it didn’t. The scale refused to budge for almost a month and I had no idea that I had been sabotaging…
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Thanksgiving
I’m curious what those of you trying to lose weight are planning to do on Thanksgiving. I’m meticulous about logging my calories (I use a food scale for everything I eat, even prepackaged food). I’m considering being a little more lax on Thursday. I might even...*gasp* eyeball my servings. I’ve been losing weight for 8…
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Body Composition Analysis
I just had a really interesting experience. One of my boyfriends colleagues is a health/fitness couch that works in a fitness studio that has a super expensive machine that gives you a body composition analysis. The machine is an Inbody570, for anyone that knows about these things. I take the information with a grain of…
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Mean girls
I wore “business casual” clothes to work today instead of my hospital scrubs which are waaaaaay too big for me now. I got a lot of mixed reactions. Some people were normal about it like “oh hey, you look great!” but there were a few girls that treated me differently. I couldn’t figure out why it seemed like they were upset…
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Question...
I’ve lost 40 lbs so far and around 30 lbs lost, I noticed my tail bone/bottom in general becoming sore after sitting. Most things I sit on now are terribly uncomfortable for my bum which is slightly less padded now. The problem seems to be getting worse as I lose weight. I have another 10-20 lbs to lose (ultimate goal…
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Circuit Training
For those of you that do circuit training, do you alternate upper and lower body exercises or do you start with large muscle groups to small muscles? I was alternating upper and lower body when someone in the gym approached me and suggested I do my circuit in the order shown in the picture (he wrote it out for me). My goal…
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Weight loss plateau
Ive lost 31.8 lbs since March but I’ve been on a plateau for almost 3 weeks now. I have 18 lbs to go. I’ve been better about my calorie intake than ever before and I’ve even added 3 more days of cardio per week (totaling 6 days a week with alternating days of strength training). I feel good physically but I’m getting…
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No rest between sets
Greetings! I’m fairly new to strength training and wanted some input on the way I’m approaching things. I have sort of a cardio approach and try to keep my heart rate up for the duration of my workout. I bounce back and forth between a set of exercises at a time, alternating sets between exercise A and B with no breaks in…
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Scale isn’t budging
Hey everyone. I’ve been on this journey since March and have lost 31 lbs, I have another 20-30 to go. I eat around 1300 calories a day and workout 3-5 times a week. Until about two weeks ago, I was seeing a steady loss of about 1.5 lbs a week. Recently, I had to go off of the birth control pill and ever since, my body has…
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Strength training/weight gain
Hey all, this is probably a newbie sort of question, but here it goes. I’ve lost 25 lbs since the beginning of March. Until about 3 weeks ago, I had done it by watching my calorie intake (usually around 1300/day) and hiking about 20 miles a week. Since the summer has set in along with the ticks, I’ve been unable to keep up…
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Heart rate monitors/calorie burn
What (if any) kind of heart rate monitors do you guys use for calorie burn estimation? I just read an article on MFP that points out the flaws in heart rate monitors - they can’t be very accurate because they don’t take into account your max heart rate and your oxygen uptake (VO2). I know some devices are more…
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Motivated
Hello, all! I find myself constantly thinking about this weight loss journey that I’m on. I read a lot of articles and I’m constantly googling things to keep me inspired. I figured it’s time to branch out and engage with some like-minded individuals. I’m 5’6” and currently 190 lbs, down almost 10 lbs from when I started…
