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Introductions!
Since there's no current conversation here, I'll bite the bullet and start. Hope you all join in! My name is Amanda! I started pole dance lessons when I moved to FL and was a stay at home navy wife with spare time and spare pounds. Through an hour and half pole lesson and three gym sessions on base a week I went from…
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Weighing food
My bf and I are having a disagreement and I thought I might get the community's opinion. He thinks I should weigh food before I cook it, I think I should weigh it after. I guess his logic is that 'everyone does it that way'. Mine is that when the ham I eat weighs 3oz before I cook it, and then 2.5oz after I cook it... I…
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Where to place your scale?
I got a nicer digital scale and had it in my closet of a bathroom. I was content weighing myself to the left of my sink, behind the door until I moved it over by the tub while cleaning. I was nearly a pound and a half lighter a mere three feet away! I became obsessed, fixated on moving the scale around the bathroom trying…
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Juicing and diet documentation
I've recently acquired a Breville Compact Juicer and I'm in love! I'm doing keto and excited about this addition to my diet but I'm wondering how to document my intake. I drank 1/2 the juice of a carrot-apple-ginger concoction this morning and ate the baked pulp for dessert tonight... any suggestions how to pull nutrition…
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Calorie burn accuracy
So I found a seemingly reliable formula online for calories burned of: "For females, the formula is (0.074 x age + 0.4472 x heart rate - 0.05741 x weight - 20.4022) x time / 4.184." "for males with the equation (0.2017 x age + 0.6309 x heart rate - 0.09036 x weight -- 55.0969) x time / 4.184." According to this formula I…
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Calorie burn acuracy?
So I found a seemingly reliable formula online for calories burned of: "For females, the formula is (0.074 x age + 0.4472 x heart rate - 0.05741 x weight - 20.4022) x time / 4.184." "for males with the equation (0.2017 x age + 0.6309 x heart rate - 0.09036 x weight -- 55.0969) x time / 4.184." According to this formula I…
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When do you weigh yourself?
Hello, my name is amanda and I am addicted to weighing myself. Now that this is out of the way... when do you weigh yourself? This morning first thing out of bed I was 145lbs. After 2.5 hrs of walking at 4 mph and 1% incline I was 142.6lbs. Man oh man do I wish I could conscionably count the weight coming off the…
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Hydroxycut?
I tried it once before just short of a month and lost about 10lbs right off rip. The only issue was that I could *feel* the caffeine bursts about 15 minutes after taking each dose. Life took over and I stopped taking them, now I'm back on and I'm not getting any rush. Have I become immune? What kind of loss have you seen…
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What are your little NSV's that take you by suprise?
height: 5'9" starting weight: 175lbs current weight: 147.5lbs Like mine? Well there's each time I cross my legs and I can actually get them crossed! Or when I'm sleeping at night and I need a pillow between my knees to keep them from knocking together. Then there's the fact that I can stoop, crouch and stand up again…
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When family are bitter about your weight loss...
I'm not sure if others out there have had this trouble... but it seems that there are certain people that would rather I keep my weight and nutrition accomplishments in the closet. At thanksgiving I received a boatload of compliments, my mother would simply purse her lips and walk away from the conversation. We had a talk…
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My horrible, awful, very bad day...lol
I did really well over Thanksgiving! Sensible portions, healthy choices and tons of compliments on my noticable weight loss from family and friends. Then yesterday I hit a wall. 1/2 a monte crisco at Bennigans (600 some calories) with a side salad (100 some calories), a slice of cheesecake later at home (390 calories) and…
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dun, dun, dun...... Brazilian wax!
Got my first one yesterday. And I couldn't stop laughing! She said she'd had people curse, cry, yell... but never laugh. I'll admit there were tears in my eyes maybe twice... but I couldn't stop laughing! To the point my bf in the waiting room could hear my, "OMG! hahahahahahaha..." He said he wondered when the tickle…
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Strange things...?!?
Has anyone else noticed strange things happening to their body as they've lost weight? I'm suddenly hearing, quite loud, all these noises coming from my abdomen, whiny, burpy, popping noises! I know it's simply food moving through my system and my body's natural processes... but I'd never heard this before! I laugh every…
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Strange things happening...!?!
Has anyone else noticed strange things happening to their body as they've lost weight? I'm suddenly hearing, quite loud, all these noises coming from my abdomen, whiny, burpy, popping noises! I know it's simply food moving through my system and my body's natural processes... but I'd never heard this before! I laugh every…
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How do you bounce back?
I did really well over Thanksgiving! Sensible portions, healthy choices and tons of compliments on my noticable weight loss from family and friends. Then yesterday I hit a wall. 1/2 a monte crisco at Bennigans (600 some calories) with a side salad (100 some calories), a slice of cheesecake later at home (390 calories) and…
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Suggestions about tracking calories burned at work please?
I work a manual labor job in a factory where I'm constantly lifting, walking and carrying. It's mostly what I have to thank for my weight loss in combination with watching portion size. I'm just not sure how to calculate the calories burned. Should I just splurge and use my birthday money on a hear rate watch? What brand…
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First milestone completed and moving on!
My biggest was 185lb, my smallest was 120. My bf and I have settled on 130 as my lowest allowable weight. At 5'9" this will be a task to do healthfully rather than revert to an ED. But I wanted to share! My first goal was 155lbs (cause I'm a bit OCD like this and the 5's make me happy) and that goal was reached within the…
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Hi, I'm Amanda!
I just joined MFP last night during a bought of sleeplessness. LOL. I'm currently at 156.8lbs and looking to get down to 130. I work a very physically demanding job in a factory, I walk tons on my treadmill, teach pole dance and have various eating disorders (dependent on my mood and happiness with life in general). At my…
