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Two Hours A Day of Cardio?
Why yes, it IS time for my weekly self loathing I mean weigh in. Why do you ask? Anyone else out there not losing weight or inches on an hour of cardio a day with calorie deficits? When I say I'm working my *kitten* off here, people, I mean it. If only it were TRUE and my *kitten* were COMING OFF. I heard someone mention…
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Plateaus STINK! Help, advice!?
Despite what the ticker says, I have lost 40 lbs by basically eating around 20-30g of carbs a day. When I was losing rapidly (I started at 301) I was working out twice a week--on the weekend--by running an hour or so. I did not work out during the week, but ate an average of 1400 calories during those times. That is about…
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Bad Zoot! Naughty Zoot!
Turn on the grail-shaped BACON! http://www.geekologie.com/2009/11/holy-grail-you-decide-a-bacon.php /spankings?
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I need a t-shirt that says...
...Get off my *kitten*, I'm trying to shrink it! I could wear this shirt when I went running, a big tall fat lady shuffling and sweating down the street, getting contemptuous looks from the sorority girls in my neighborhood. Yesterday someone drove by me and hollered "FAT COW!" out their window. It was surprisingly…
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"...You would weigh Xlbs in five weeks!"...yeah, right.
So when I started losing weight last year around this same time, it took me SIX WEEKS of working out for an hour six days a week, watching my calories, and drinking tons of water to even see a one pound drop in my weight. My measurements, too, remained the same. I lost weight, but as I always do, I gained it all back…
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How many times did you start over?
I'm back up to where I was, again. Every year I lose about 20-30 lbs, then put it back on again. This time, my excuse was a severe sprain that has still not fully healed, months later. Seems like I've been doing this forever. Progression regression. Progression regression. I'm to the point now where I don't even believe I…
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Tough Mudder!
A year from now, two friends and I want to do this. One of them is ex military, and she's run a half marathon before. The other is a frequent marathoner. Both are petite women, and tough as nails, with some measure of upper body strength. Me, I'm a 6'1" tubby girl who can easily run a 5k. I am training for my first 10k…
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iPod advice? Sad runner...illustrated with smileys.
So I ran with my iPod in the rain. I just got caught out, it was just cloudy when I started! But there was a downpour about a mile and a half from home, so despite being tucked under my t-shirt, the iPod got water damage and won't work.:angry: This was the only device of its kind in my tightly-budgeted household. It was…
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Runners--help my knees!
I love running so much now. I only started three months ago, and I am SUPER SLOW, but I have begun to run about 3.2 miles four times a week. It takes me about 45-50 minutes, but I don't walk! I feel like I could go faster, since I (literally) got passed by a guy in a wheelchair yesterday. And if I can go faster, I can…
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Anyone else annoyed by...
The Nordstrom adds they're posting here advertising boots? The girl wearing them is SO SCRAWNY that her knee joints protrude out past her thighs. You can totally tell the boots are WAY too big for her nonexistent calves. They're rattling around in there like the last matchstick in the box. Poor choice of boot model.…
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Any other see-saw losers out there?
I've noticed what might be an emerging pattern, and wanted to know if anyone else does this. I lose weight at the beginning of the month, right after my period. So end of first week, I go down about two pounds. Then weeks 2,3, and 4 I gain the weight almost all back. Week 1 again, and I start to lose, so far sinking a few…
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Hideous Arms.
Will they ever go away? It seems like even when I do lose weight they just stay the same size. I am buying shirts two sizes too big just to get my arms in the sleeves, and the rest of the shirt hangs on me like a sack. Hideous! Please tell me there's hope!
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Good HR monitor?
So I'm finally to a place where exercising is a part of my lifestyle. I do track it on MFP, but I just don't feel like their estimates are accurate. For instance, MFP shows breast stroke as burning more calories than back stroke, and I find I work WAY harder on the latter. So in order to more accurately gauge the ways I'm…
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Does MFP take weight into account?
I have been jogging a lot, and tracking a friend's jogging as well. (Hi, Alise! :flowerforyou: ) She runs longer and faster than I can currently dream of, and yet she burns on average 200-300 calories less than I do. Does MFP calculate for the fact that I'm much heavier and taller than she is? It's the only thing I can…
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Anyone else unable to lose unless carbs are totally eliminat
The only time I have lost weight in the past ten years was when I went on a disgusting, practically meat-poultry-fish only diet. I also ate lettuce, and one tomato a week. I felt ill all the time, I had terrible full-body cramps every night that woke me up screaming and panting, I was spending tons of money--and I was…
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I wish I were cheating...
Because then at least I would understand why I am not losing weight. For the past six weeks, I have turned my life upside down. Counted every calorie and done an hour of really hard cardio 6 days a week. The scale has not budged from 286. Is it possible to just stay this fat forever no matter what I do?! I mean, six weeks…
