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NSV for today
I keep boring my friends with fitness humblebrag; let me bore you instead. Today my car's petrol light came on so I didn't get the easy transport to a pleasant valley walk. Instead I walked the itchy grass&gorse hill track closest to home & found handfuls of ripe wild blackberries at the top! Filled up my sunhat* and came…
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Help with body fat % advice please?
Hi all, Can you please help by giving me some direction? Had some great news from the gym's today: I'm sitting at 160 pounds (73kg) and 19% body fat. But I'm confused: I'm still way over the recommended weight for my height, and I'm not especially well-muscled (I ride a bike and occasionally run or do an aerobics class,…
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NSV; wait a minute, what?
It's been a busy two months at school and I thought I'd stopped achieving anything with the fitness-and-weight-loss program (mostly because I stopped paying attention to it). But this morning the gym assessment says I'm down to 25% bodyfat, and the trainer tells me that I'm barely 1% point away from what is considered…
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NSV: Started Running
TLDR: Turns out I CAN run. About 11, 12 weeks ago I joined the gym & started getting healthier. But I couldn't run worth a damn, not even on the indoor machines. So I did the uphill/downhill walking programs instead, until it became easier to run on the elliptical (at 5kph). Over 12 weeks, I ran 3k on the elliptical in 30…
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Dear World (defiant NSV)
You saw a fat person sitting on the beach today, eating a snack packet of dried fruit, and you felt moved to say, "How about trying an apple?" WHAT YOU DIDN'T SEE is that I had just cycled SEVENTEEN KILOMETRES from my house to the beach, for the first time ever! I was too polite to get angry with the passerby but I would…
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First NSV yay!!!
Short "Hurrah" over here! I started seriously exercising and keeping track of food in mid-September, and the results have followed an extremely slow downward trend (6 pounds over two months). BUT - while complaining to friend about this, he suggested busting out the measuring tape and... I've lost 5 inches from my tummy!…
