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Small muscle to Bigger Muscle
Another effective gym thing: Working out your smaller muscles before your bigger muscles! On an upper body day that looks like shoulders, arms, lats/chest. This will make your larger muscles work harder because the small ones will not be able to help has much. This might mean decreasing your chest press weight numbers. But…
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Falling off the wagon
It happens. Did not log calories for a little bit there. Progress requires dedication. Started doing summer activities like riding the bike and going for a hike. But here is one gym concept: Front muscle and back muscle! Its a good idea to workout your biceps and your triceps in the same workout. Quads and hamstrings Chest…
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Walking
Last weekend was a big stress weekend because I had to get my car serviced. 1000$. Still needs front brakes and a few other things to be up to date on its maintenance. Ended up walking around the outside of my local mall while waiting for the car to get serviced. Not a bad way of walking off a little steam....
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Workouts
Tried the build a workout routine section of the app. Lower body 1) Elliptical: 12 to 16 minutes increasing resistance by 4 every 4 minutes. 2) Reducing goblet squats Start with ten squats with no weight to see how you feel. Based on that select your first dumbell weight. For example 40lbs Squat 40lbs 10 times Then 30lbs…
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May long weekend the start of summer
Steam a carrot and you can eat three. Eat a carrot raw.....maybe three bites. Time to start transitioning from oven cooking to salads and fruits. It seems a protein shake can have enough calories to be a meal once you add everything. Whey protein powder Banana Milk Plain or vanilla yogurt Blueberries
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Even tic tacs
I actually looked at the nutrition label on tic tacs. They have calories. So does oil. Not counting either yet. Mothers day weekend.... By the slice pizza: calories? Its a guess. Restaurant meals: ? Guess Create your recipe section could prove useful.
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One week of tracking cals
My first week looks like a single persons diet and its true. No kids or butlers to cook for. Tired on thursday meant cereal for dinner. Pretty cheap dinner thou. Next week maybe pizza for three days..... Sometimes nutrition label amounts and recipe amounts are not the same. Pancake mix: nutrition label portion is 1/3 cup.…
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A few days in....
Starting out some meals are going to be rough guess's unless your eating a lot of stuff that has barcodes and is in the system. Homemade meals require more knowledge to get accurate. I think a big part of using a calorie slash nutrition app is a level of self-honesty. Pretty easy to max out your calories in the app and…
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Whats in your wallet?
What's in your calorie? Observations from day one: 1) Getting all my calories from cotton candy technically works for meeting a calorie goal! But healthy eating means my calories have stuff like protein or vitamins and minerals. 2) Frosted flakes and Maple flavoured oatmeal crisp have the same amount of sugar. 3) Grocery…
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New to app
Found a good article on how myfitnesspal comes up with the daily calorie goal. Help section stuff. I thought my cals would need to be less for weight loss but I can eat the daily calorie amount and lose a little weight. And it looks like exercise allows you to eat more calories. Worth reading. Trying things out.
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Sunday
The weekend breakfast calories can add up fast: eggs, toast, hashbrowns,...... Work week breakfast is not much right now. The snacks and drinks at the movie theater end up in the cheat day category I suppose..... But I do drink ice tea on a regular basis. Regular size at the theater 300 cals..... Need to watch out for the…
