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Weight fluctations - help please
Hi, I'm always rather nervous about starting a topic like this, but here goes... I have always been a weekly weigher, thinking any more frequent may result in me being obsessive. In the first 3 weeks I lost 2 lbs, then 1 lb, then 1 lb. Fine. Then I had a couple of "off" days last week, did my weekly weigh-in and was 5 lbs…
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Urgh, I'm so impatient!
I have been doing this 3 weeks now, and have lost 3 lbs which I know is absolutely fine. However, I can't shut up the little voice in my head saying "OMG this will take me another 6 months or so - of continuing to lose that consistently" (which I know I won't) How do you keep yourself focussed on one step at a time, and…
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Help moving from half to full marathon - 5 months to go
Hi, I did a half marathon on Sunday, my first. I started running in July, so it took me 4 months to get to half marathon. I have been looking and looking at training plans but most seem to go from a standing start and take 16 - 18 weeks. I'd like to (understandably) keep the fitness that I have and build on that to make it…
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Breakfast help please!
One of my commitments to myself right now is to enjoy the food that I eat. I'm trying to be more 'mindful' about my eating, rather than just shoving in any old thing. I am really struggling with breakfast. I always used to eat shreddies, oatmeal or weetabix. I have discovered that when I sti and eat properly, I don't…
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Detox - help please?
I have just got back from 2 weeks holiday and have eaten horrendously! My skin is awful, I feel lethargic and rubbish and basically want to get rid of all the toxins I have going on before I go away yet again in another 2 weeks. I have literally never done a detox before, I know I need to cut caffeine but TBH I don't have…
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Any novice runners out there?
I took up running at the beginning of this month. I am doing a combo of walking/ running using couch to 5k to try and get me somewhere. I ran 25 mins straight yesterday, followed by 5 walking, 10 running, 3 walking, 10 running, 5 walking which nearly killed me!!! Anyone want to join me so that we can motivate each…
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Almost back to the beginning...
I hit goal in June 2011. I maintained for just over a year and then had a series of health problems, including a fall where I damaged my c-spine and was flat out on my back for a while, and didn't exercise in months. This was followed by a massive plummet in mood and a series of major mental health problems, culminating in…
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Recommend your home CV equipment (UK) please!!
I am really struggling to fit everything in at the moment, I'm working full-time, have 3 kids and am so exhausted when I get home that I really don't want to spend the tiny amount of free time I have doing an exercise DVD! :sick: I thought as a compromise I could work out on something like a cross-trainer in front of…
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What the British say - and what they mean!
Thought this might help! :laugh: http://twitpic.com/4xha23
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So American peeps - which state are you from and what do you
I realised after my which state is ME short for thread that I don't really know much about the states at all apart form the states I visited which I have been lucky enough to see a few (New York, Vermont, Rhode Island & Massachusetts on the East and California and Nevada on the West). So I thought it might be interesting…
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really filling snacks - urgent please!
I forgot my morning snack, which is usually an apple. And its 9 am and I am already starving. Well, not actually starving obviously, but I feel it! Can anyone suggest something I can get from a shop that will really help to fill me up and requires no preparation at all? There is a health food shop downstairs, and I'm sure…
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Ditching refined sugar - anyone want to join?
So effective today I am attempting to (mostly) ditch refined sugar. I have a horrendous sweet tooth, and when I gain back weight it is always because I have succumbed to sugar, I just can't seem to control myself at all once I have some it all goes very badly wrong!! :sick: So, I am ditching: cake chocolate bisuits sweets/…
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Twisted knee/ ankle
I was doing pendulum lunges and whenI put my left leg back I slipped on a book my 1 year old DD had just pulled off the shelf :grumble: Initially it made me yelp but I just carried on. However, that was this morning and it is now distinctly sore when I use my knee in particular eg going up or downstairs. It ius not…
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you know you've changed when...
I went away with work for a couple of days, I haven't needed to for nearly 2 years owing to being pregnant/ off work with a baby/ BFing. It was really interesting in that it showed me that I have actually changed quite a lot, and in ways I only noticed because I was suddenly in a new environment. So things I noticed were:…
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Exercise when not feeling well?
Hi, I have had a cold since the beginning of the week. It was ok-ish and I exercised as normal Mon/ Tues but Weds I woke up with a really sore neck so took 2 days off. I exercised again today but really did not feel great after (or to be completely honest during and I noticed my heart rate was a fair bit higher). I'm…
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Low carb easy lunch ideas
My carbs always seem to be high. I have porridge (oatmeal) for breakfast, and that really works for me as it keeps me nicely full. My main evening meal contains a carb usually but its our only family meal. The obvious place to try and cut back is lunch. I currently have a cup a soup 3 ryvita a bag of crisps/ snack a jacks/…
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How important are rest days?
So is it really important to actually rest and if so, how many times per week? Or can you just change what sort of exercise you are doing so you are using different muscles? For the last few months I have done 6 days of exercise DVDs, with at least one being mainly strength (as opposed to cardio) and then on day 7 done a…
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Exercise DVDs - can I have some what next recommendations pl
Hi, I have lots of Jillian Michaels, I don't like 30 day shred (imo too short, not a decent warm-up and hurt my knees!) but like all the others I have - No more trouble zones, banish fat boost metabolism, 6 week 6 pack. I think that's enough though :blushing: I recently got billy blanks tae-bo box set which I like, but do…
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Why do I still feel fat? Can I have some help please?
Hi, I have been fat my entire life. As a kid I cannot remember a time I wasn't overweight, and was teased mercilessly by my 2 brothers for it. I have been within the 'ok' BMI range for my height a handful of times - once when depressed in 2003, once when living in Russia and having constant food poisoning (1998/9) and then…
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What's your age and the highest recorded heart rate?
Hey, I'm 34 (a few weeks back), female and got an HRM for my birthday. Since getting the HRM, the highest my heart rate has gone is early 180s so 181/ 182. Today I did Jillian Michael's Banish Fat Boost Metabolism and my max recorded heart rate is 197 :noway: I did feel I worked hard, I always do with that one but holy…
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Help me decide my next goal!
Yay me! I have successfully lost all my weight, AND now maintained for 6 weeks :bigsmile: Now its time to set my next goa, and of course you want to go that bit further, try that bit harder. I was thinking of trying to maintain for 8 weeks, so 2 months pretty much - which takes em to 2 Jan. The thing is that is *right*…
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over-target heart rate exercise - is it bad?
I'm confooooooooooozed :noway: I have a number of JM DVDs, several of which make various comments about not worrying about the heart rate eg that old max heart rate that is a dinosaur etc etc. I have always worked out as hard as I can without, you know, keeling over or something :laugh: I got an HRM for my birthday, which…
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US peeps - Which state is ME?
And if you're American do you honestly not just read that as 'me'?? Random question I know buts someone's profile said 'ME' in big letters and I initially thought ok, they love themselves...then realised it was a state :laugh:
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The Firm DVDs - does anyone know??
Hi, I have the maximum calorie burn one with Alison. I like the exercises though I do find them very fast to follow and, um, to my British ears her accent is very, um, distracting. Does anyone know if the trainers on the other DVDs are less obviously accented? I have several JM DVDs and while her accent is obvious its…
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Anyone fancy doing the 200 sit-up challenge?
I've decided to give this a go along side the 200 squat challenge I am doing. I've decided to do them from my knees as I can only do a couple (literally!) of 'proper' form push-ups. My vague plan is to complete it going from my knees, then when my strength is up have a go at completing it 'properly'. Does anyone fancy…
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Looking for a challenge with star jumps/ push-ups/ squats et
So sort of like the 100 push-up challenge but with a bit more variety. Anyone know of anything I can work towards?
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When is enough enough?
Hi, My original goal was to be an acceptable weight for my height, which I reached a few weeks back. I am now the lightest I have been in my adult life (some 15 years!), with one exception of when I had chronic depression about 8 years ago. Possibly not the *best* comparator!! Even that weight is now only a matter of 4 or…
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Just over 5 months, 34 lbs lost, no longer overweight! - pic
Like many of us, I gained weight for lots of reasons. I have always enjoyed food, but first got properly overweight when I started work in 2000 and went to 5* hotels on corporate cash and fully indulged! I lost some, but not all in 2001 for my wedding, but then got pregnant in 2005 and gained a lot more (about 40 lbs) I…
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Preparing to maintain - can I have some advice please??
Hi there, I wrote my success story last night and realised that at various times in my life I have successfully lost weight SIX times. Different amounts and I am definitely close to the slimmest I have ever been, but nonetheless, six losses of 20 lbs or more - only to put it back on again. I do want to shift a bit more…
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If you struggle with saddle bags can I STRONGLY recommend...
Jillian Michaels 30 day slimdown? I lost a total of 6.5 inches in 30 days and 7 lbs in weight, but 3 of the inches were from my saddle bags - that's an inch every ten days!! I have totally changed shape as a result, and am much more in proportion and more of an hourglass rather than a pear :bigsmile: This is the schedule I…
