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Thanksgiving things I've learned
Thanksgiving is a holiday based around family, food, and home. Over the last 4 years, I've had some tense moments worrying about food and how thanksgiving could be a destructive force in my changed life. I've since gotten over most of those hangups, and in the process have learned a few things about my nutrition, food, and…
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Honest truths, maybe a bit harsh (this is a tad long)
Firstly pardon my grammar, I'm terrible at spelling and such. I'm not your mother, I'm not here to coddle you. So I'm going to give you your medicine straight. Take it or don't, that's up to you, but know that this is the honest truth as I see it. If you don't like it, tough, this is how it is in my humble opinion. 1) MFP…
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Even High Tech business people can be morons
So occasionally I'll browse Dice.com or Monster.com to see what companies are looking for and if my dream job just somehow magically appears. Well, every now and again, you come across a job posting that you just have to shake your head about. These are supposed to be things that people (either hiring managers or 3rd party…
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hehe, funny quote
so I'm going through another editing session with the book I'm writing, I came across a really funny quote. I didn't know I had it in me. Here it is. This is from the tips section at the end. Besides children, prisoners, and invalids, none of you guys were ever forced to eat a specific food. You might as well get over that…
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Identify my lunch
See how many things in my lunch you can name.
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The MFP goals wizard and you (YES you!)
So one thing that I think people miss about MFP is the fact that the goals calculator is a "dumb" calculator. In other words, it doesn't care about what your numbers are in relation to what a healthy deficit is. The only governor it has is a 1200 calorie floor. In other words, If you tell MFP you want to lose 2 lbs a week…
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For any Eastern MA, North shore area folks free training!
For anyone out there in Eastern MA, north of Boston, I'm doing a 1 month boot camp to test my new routines, it's free (except for feedback and sweat equity) probably 2 days a week (a weeknight and probably saturday morning). Please PM me if interested, I wanna get this banged out. All levels are welcome and encouraged to…
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Some posts on MFP are starting to concern me
Am I the only one from ages past that's still on here that's concerned with the amount of people starting threads about losing large amounts of weight in short periods of time? I can only speak for myself but as to that, I am worried that we will start drawing the wrong kind of person to this forum. IMHO MFP should be…
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I built a tool to *kitten* your health.
OK so it's still a work VERY MUCH in progress. It's ugly as sin, and I have only tested it against Internet Explorer and Google chrome. but it works decently so far. Basically it takes a bunch of numbers for a person, mashes em all together based on a heck of a lot of research I've done, weights them based on their…
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You know you're a fitness nut when...
OK so after almost 2 years in my new lifestyle, I've finally come to the realization that I am a fitness nut. And not only me, but the wife as well. this is how I knew I was a fitness nut: My wife's birthday is sunday. After thinking about things to give her. I kept coming back to a heavy bag in the basement (it's our…
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A discourse on health and lifestyle
What does it mean to live a healthy lifestyle? This question has different answers for different people. for some it means extending their life. For others it means attoning for past errors in their health brought on by bad eating habits and bad exercise choices. For some people it means changing their whole routine and…
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Insulin Resistance
So I have someone who I believe is insulin resistant, it's genetic, she's actually quite healthy otherwise, but this gets the best of her quite often. I need some people who have experienced this pre-diabetic condition, or have loved ones that have it. I need advice from people who have succeeded with it. doctors are…
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Got really mad at the supermarket today
OK so I know it's none of my business what's in someone else's cart but I'm in the checkout line with nothing to do but wait and I'm just looking through the lady's cart next to me kind of thinking well that's not overly healthy, but not thinking much over it. so I glance at the woman herself and she has a little girl in a…
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Anyone else do Tabata protocol?
Or am I the only one dumb enough to inflict that much misery and torture on my body? If you do, what exercise do you use, how many repetitions do you do, and what interval set do you use? Also, How often do you do it, and do you do anything after it? I always feel a little bit guilty later on that day because I only worked…
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check this out!
my ACE certification!
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Goals and Wishes
When you have been with MFP as long as I have (just over 2 years now), you tend to see a lot of, shall we say, interesting concepts. One of the themes on here are the goals people lay out for themselves. I wanted to touch on that idea, maybe impart a bit of wisdom to some of the more controversial goals out there. First…
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Chat with other MFP members
Did you know, about 18 months ago I built a chat room exclusively for MFP members. Since it's not actally linked up on the site it has fallen out of use, but it used to be used all the time. Feel free to sign up and use it. I built it, I own the site, and I promise you, all of your information will be kept private, I will…
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Ode to carrots. Why don't you fill me up?
Anyone else feel like you could eat carrots all day and still not be full? I swear, carrots are my favorite snackie food. I eat them about every day, and always in rather large portions (considering). And it never fails, 10 minutes after I eat them, I'm hungry again. This doesn't happen to me with anything else. I wonder…
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Exercise calorie question answered
someone recently asked me in a private email whether they should eat their exercise calories, I get about 5 or so emails a day asking this, but I'm busy today and really don't have a ton of time, but I liked my response to this person, so I'm gonna post this (without any names). Now, I'm not a doctor, nor have I any formal…
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Finally!
I finally received my CPR and life saving certificate from the State of MA. Took em long enough. Now I can finally sit for my personal training exam! ACE won't let you sit for the test without having a CPR certificate and a AED certificate (Automated Electronic Defibrillator). Geez, I've been waiting over a month for this…
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Great WebMD article on Diet red flags
http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/quack-diet-red-flags-feature this is a great read for anyone considering any kind of restrictive diet.
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Nutrition hits home for me
Its funny, especially with older people, that nutrition is a subject that some refuse to believe is an issue until the unthinkable happens, serious medical problems. My mother, last Thursday, was diagnosed with Congestive Heart Failure. This was brought on by many things including asthma and of course advancing age. The…
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I've decided
New England sucks. I've come to the conclusion that there is nothing here that I can't replicate somewhere else. Someplace where I won't freeze Steve Jr. off doing it! And that's just the weather, only one aspect of a multifaceted fiasco that they call a state! I'm convinced that the best thing we can do is rope this state…
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I've decided to kick my *kitten* this week!
:devil: Sometimes my body hates me. Well this week it will want me dead after what I'll be putting it through. Not specifically because it's X-Mass time or anything, I don't plan on going overboard this week, but since it's a slow work week and I can probably get in an hour a day at the gym in my office complex without…
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THATS IT! I'm going full bore
OK so up until now I've been doing a pretty good job with my HIIT training and weight training, I can't complain. My chest looks more defined and bigger, my arms are the same, and I can tell that I have a lot more power, stamina, and agility. This is all great. But what I'm really lacking is that 6 pack of abs. Oh sure, I…
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Advanced training - Plyometrics 3 part series
awesome 3 article set on plyometrics. I LOVE explosion training, it's the core of my routine, and boy does it improve functional (real world) strength! here are the 3 articles Part 1 - http://www.performbetter.com/catalog/matriarch/OnePiecePage.asp_Q_PageID_E_58_A_PageName_E_ArticlePlyometrics1 Part 2 -…
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How do you...
tell a guy at the gym, who is a pretty nice guy, and obviously working quite hard to better himself, that he absolutely REEKS of BO. it's brutal, I mean to the point of offensive. I seriously have to leave a little earlier than I'd like when he's in there, I can only take about 10 minutes. To put it into context, I use a…
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Bob Harper was WRONG last night about Soy
About Soy. I can't believe he went on and did a ringing endorsement of soy products. Without once mentioning the possible negative side effects of soy. Facts about soy. 1) The soy US people eat contains protein that is largely indigestible for humans. Which means something that says it has say 20 g of protein but is…
