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Can someone explain net calories to me? I'm confused.
So I was reading another post about someone netting 600 calories a day and not losing any weight, and I realized that I don't quite understand the idea of net calories. You can look at my food diary to see what my average net calories is, but A sampling from a few days in my diary looks like this: Goal: 1500 Food: 1568…
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Anyone losing weight wihout working out?
Now before you jump on me and tell me how important exercise is, let me tell you that I KNOW. So far in this journey I have been working out at least 3 times a week, sometimes 5 or 6. I started our doing Couch to 5k, and switched to steep incline walking after my doctor banned me from running. I have a knee injury from…
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HRM (Polar FT4) for yoga?
I've read on here that HRM's don't work for exercise like strength training and stretching, and am wondering why. Is it be ause your heart rate isn't elevated enough? I just got a Polar FT4 and have been using it for two days. I do 45 min of cardio(incline walking with lots of upper body movement) and follow that up with…
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Is Calistenics the way to strength train without the gym?
So I have a combination of lack of funds to afford a gym/weight equipment, and total and utter(ridiculous) fear of the the gym. Even though thought of going to the gym to sign up makes me super anxious. We won't get in to how totally and utterly irrational I am, I have severe social anxiety, and even going to work and…
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First ever NSV. :)
So I started my weight loss journey a month and two days ago, and have been counting my calories and running the Couch to 5k Program. I am on week five of running, but repeated week 4, because I felt like I wasn't ready for runs longer than the 5 minute ones I was at last week. I do C25K MWF, with some run/walk thing TTH,…
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Anyone use a circuit app for iphone?
I do a workout regime of M-W-F Couch to 5K, T-TH Incline walking and am starting daily(hopefully) yoga this week (iPhone has a really neat yoga app that you can design your own yoga workout and it has something like 250 poses to pick from and you just ad them on. Neat!). I got some birthday money, and picked up a couple…
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Questions on calorie amounts :)
I've just started with MFP, and it's been a bit under a month now that I have been using it every day. I started out at 216, and am currently at 205, though a few of those pounds were lost before starting MFP regularly(I was around 212 at that time), and I did gain a couple pounds back a few weeks ago when I had a crazy…
