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VO2max / aerobic fitness and seasonal allergies
So this is a stab in the dark, but perhaps someone here has a relevant experience. The long story: Based simply on the number of hours of exercise I do, I think I can call myself a runner :smile: I've been running since November 2019. Very, very slowly at first (at the start of my weight loss). For a long time I kept…
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Make adding friends less complicated
Currently, it is a very convoluted process to add friends when you see someone in the forums you'd like to add. You need to either go to their forum profile by tapping/clicking on their user name and then delete 'community.' from the web address to get to their actual profile, either use the 'find members' function to get…
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Oligofructose, yay or nay?
So I've been traveling abroad these past weeks and not eating my usual foods. I've been having crunchy muesli for breakfast and I noticed the fibre count was ridiculously high, more than 20gr/100gr. Looking at the ingredients, I noticed the fibre was from oligofructose. Some quick googling gave me very different info, from…
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385 days - my progress
Today is day 385 of my streak on MFP. I’m a 37-year-old woman from Belgium, 166cm/5’5”, and I had been gaining weight steadily ever since my early twenties. Last year, something finally ‘clicked’ in my head: I started a free trial on Noom and then quickly switched to MFP. So here’s my journey so far, in numbers: - 385 days…
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Diet and work-out marketing - so much nonsense out there
Anyone else get pissed off at diet/work-out marketing? My BF works out based on Athlean-X videos, so I thought I'd check out their work-outs myself and I ended up going through their 'program selector'. At a certain point, it asks "man or woman" and then proceeds to ask me if I'm interested in a program designed…
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Activity tracker: Vivosmart 4 / Vivosport ?
So I’m thinking about replacing my current activity tracker (Polar Loop 2). My criteria are: - a small ‘neutral looking’ activity tracker: I have very small wrists and hands and I don’t want a large/clunky/sporty watch - step count - total calories burned - tracks workouts (including heart rate monitoring) (mostly…
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Hello (former) slow joggers
Well, I've been jogging since November, on treadmill only. I started jogging for 15-30 minutes at 6.5kph (4mph) and my current 'best' is running at 7kph on average for an hour, and up to 8kph (5mph) for shorter intervals. (You'll notice I'm not a 'real' runner yet by the fact that I don't use "minutes per km/mile" to judge…
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Cacao nibs - ideas for recipes?
I love putting a few tablespoons of cacao nibs in my breakfast (fruit and yoghurt, sometimes with puffed spelt or muesli). Anyone else here who loves cacao nibs and has some other ideas on how to use caco nibs? I just bought a 1kg bag of cacao nibs, so enough to do some experiments :grin: Edit: oops, I just noticed that…
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Curiosity - resting heart rate
So generally speaking, a normal resting heart rate is between 60 and 100 beats per minute. And generally a lower resting heart rate is associated with a better fitness level. So I'm curious, what are the actual resting heart rates of people here? What's your resting heart rate? What's your BMI and fitness level? Have you…
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Link between obesity and (seasonal) allergies?
I've been in lockdown 6 weeks and working from home is boring :mrgreen: So I thought I'd post a question here so see if anyone has any relevant information or personal experiences with regards to (seasonal) allergies. Up until 2 years ago, I didn't have any allergies at all. But the past two years I suddenly had quite bad…
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Water weight from increased step count?
So some context: I've been losing weight slowly but steadily since August last year. I've lost 30lbs. But the past few weeks my slow downward weight trend seems to have turned into an slow upward trend - a few lbs up over two weeks. So I'm left exploring the reasons why my weight could be up. At first I thought it was…
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Well on the way
So I started my weight loss journey at the end of July, a bit coincidentally. No grand decision to turn my health around or anything. I saw an add for Noom, thought it looked interesting, tried that for a few weeks but didn't like it. And then ended up here at MFP while looking for an alternative. Over 200 days later and…
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Like-minded people
I've been using MFP for over three months now and my weight loss is going well, but I feel hesitant to talk about it with my friends and family. So I'd like to add some like-minded people to my friend list for some mutual support and accountability. I'm 37, female, no children (unless you count the two cats in our house)…
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Insertional achilles tendonitis
I noticed a tender spot on the back of my heel a few weeks ago and a few days later also a nagging little ache at the end of my treadmill jog sessions. Most likely insertional achilles tendonitis apparently, and probably triggered by increasing my jogging distances too quickly. Any tips on how to heal as fast as possible?…
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When did people notice?
Out of curiosity, at what point did people start noticing you lost weight? Do people tend to notice when you're wearing new (smaller) clothes, or when wearing older clothes that have become too big?
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When weight loss isn’t a shiny new thing anymore
Motivation is really fun. “OMG, I’m losing weight, my metabolism isn’t in fact doomed!” “Wow, my treadmill work-outs aren’t as difficult anymore as when I started.” “OMG, my jeans are baggy, I need to buy a smaller size!” But logging food is tiresome. Even knowing that slow and steady wins the race, the road seems too long…