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How important is a rest day?
I just started Insanity last week and it's my first rest day, but I feel wrong not working out AT ALL. How important is a rest day? Do I need to COMPLETELY rest, like no exercise at all? I did the cardio recovery day during the week, but it was all stretching and no cardio, so I did an hour of Zumba after that. Can I do…
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Tips for crushing that dessert craving HELP
Anyone have any good tips for that "dessert craving"? For some reason I get a sweet craving after every time I eat. It's like I've trained my brain to think I need dessert after every meal. I need to UN train it. What do I do? Anyone else have this problem? Sorry for typos. I'm on my phone.
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Gimme your best plateau BUSTSERS! HELP!
I need help. Give me your best plateau busters. I've lost nearly 60 lbs, but I've been at this plateau for nearly a month and supposedly I've "gained" 5 lbs, but I know it has to be water weight and I don't know how to get ride of it. Anyway, I'll take any help/tips I can. I'm desperate. Things I'm trying: -a 14 day…
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Making Lettuce Cups HELP
Anyone make lettuce cups at home? What kind of lettuce do I use? I had the lettuce cups at Tokyo Joe's last week and they were delicious. I want to make them at home, but it didn't look like iceburg lettuce. What do I use?
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How do cleanses work?
I keep hearing about people doing a cleanse or juicing etc.? How does stuff like that work? What exactly does it do? Does it actually help you lose fat or do you just lose water weight? I'm not trying to be rude or offend anyone, but I'm literally curious. Are cleanses and juicing similar? Do they do basically the same…
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What are drops?
What's another word for drops? I'm trying to find a video to demonstrate them for my blog readers, but I Googled drops and can't find anything. Like where you stand, drop all the way to your belly, chest to the floor, bring your legs in and "pop" back up, then do a little hop into the air once you're standing, and repeat.…
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Tips for watching carbs HELP
I don't want to do extremely low or no carb, but I'd just like to be more mindful of carbs than I currently am. I'm drinking SlimFast which I just realized has 18g of sugar in it O_o Also, I eat whole grains, like brown rice and whole grain pasta, but it still eat quite a bit of those items. We have spaghetti once a week…
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Protein Powder...Confusion...
I need some help. I've been tring to compare SlimFast shake mix with protein powder mixes, but I think I may be comparing apples to oranges here. About the same calories normally, but protein powder seems to have less fat and much less sugar than SlimFast. I like the idea of less sugar, but what does all the protein do…
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Mini Success Story!
Finished the 30 Day Shred! Lost 5 inches off my waist and 12 lbs in 30 days :)
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What are good foods to eat....
...to boost my caloric intake? I was at 1200, but was being told that with exercise I wasn't getting enough calories and that it may be why I'm not losing as quickly as I should be, so I want to up my calories, but I don't know what to eat. I'm thinking I should add it to my "snacks" for the day. Any help?
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Shouldn't I be losing MORE weight??
Hi everyone. I need some input on this. I'm 5'3" and weigh about 205 lbs right now (that's what I weighed two weeks ago). I have MFP set to 2 lbs a week (although I know that's no guarantee) but I'm working out AT LEAST once a day doing The 30 Day Shred, then doing 45 minutes of yoga at night or taking a 35 minute walk up…
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HELP setting my calorie goal!
I posted a topic early about having a hard time losing weight, and I was told that I may need to increase my calories. I was set at 1200 by MFP and I tried to stay under that, so between 1100-1200 daily, and working out 7 days a week. I want to manually increase my daily calorie goal. What should I set it at? 1400?? TIA
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Need HELP before I pull a muscle!
Bare with me because I know nothing about muscles or exercise etc. but I'm on Day 5 of the 30 Day Shred and for about 3 days this one muscle has been hurting me. It's like the front of my calf on the inside right on the inside of my shin. It's not my shin, like a shin splint or anything. I can tell it's a muscle and it…
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How much sodium....
...does it take to retain water? I'm doing my official two week weigh in tomorrow, so I've been super careful about my sodium intake all day, but I'm still at 1808/2500. If I stay under 2500, I should be good right? I really don't want water weight to affect my weigh in... :frown:
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Calorie Counting....I'm confused.
So I've been working out and logging it in MFP and it adds those calories back into my daily goal. I'm set at 1200 a day but with exercise it's bringing me to 1400-1500. So how much am I supposed to eat? Today I've only netted 300-ish calories and it's 3 o'clock in the afternoon. That seems really low... Any help would he…
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Help entering exercise into log!
I'm doing some of the Biggest Loser exercise videos at home, but I can't figure out how to enter it into my exercise log... I did Cardio Max today and it's 35 min long, so do I just enter 35 minutes of cardio?? Also, I'm about to start 30DS next week, how do I enter THAT into my log? And lastly, I just exercised first…
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30 Day Shred QUESTION
I searched and there are a lot of 30DS topics, but nothing answering my specific questions, so... First off, I'm 5'3", 210 lbs and out of shape, as in not exercising at all. Is this going to be some ridiculously hard crap like P90X that I can't even do half of it, or does it have different levels like a lot of the Biggest…
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Too much protein?
I've been using MFP for about a week now and every single day I've gone OVER my protein goal... Is this just a guideline or something I really need to try to stay under? Am I "hurting myself' by consuming too much protein?
