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food addiction?
I am beyond discouraged. I am so DETERMINED to lose this weight. Im working hard at the gym (something Ive NEVER done in my life). I keep trying to clean up my diet and eat right but I suddenly find myself eating 3/4 of a pizza (yes, today) or a half pound of peanut m&m's or greasy burgers and fries or cookies or chips or…
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Over eating by eating back calories?
I am really thinking I need to stop eating back my calories. I haven't budged in weight at all. Not even slightly. Infact Ive found that Im going up more than down. Im working out more than I ever have in my life and while I know Im building muscle, Ive been working out for 7 months now. I should have started losing some…
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What HRM would you recommend?
I think MFP estimates my calories too high and I think the machines at the gym estimate too low on calories burned. Plus if I do anything off a machine I don't know what calories burned are. So I think I need a heart rate monitor. What ones are best? Id prefer one without a chest strap.
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Kettlebells
Who uses them? What are your favorite exercises? My trainer worked with me on swings, squats, deadlifts, presses and cleans. We've done a few other things but this is what I mainly do. I have been working alone for a few months and we got back together and he said i need to work on my reach back during my swings so I need…
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7.5 months of hard work
I have been working hard for 7.5 months to lose weight. I started running at the end of August last year. I joined the gym in the beginning of October. I saw a personal trainer until January. All the time and effort has lead to 12 lbs lost and 7 over all inches. The numbers SUCK. But I was smart enough to take pictures.…
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Working out LESS to see results?
I'm seeing a personal trainer and he wants me working out 5 days a week. He wants me doing weight training 3 days a week and 45-60 min cardio 2 days. He also wants 30 min of high interval training 3x's a week (on weight days). I was doing this for the first 4 weeks of our training and started feeling very drained,…
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NOT eating back calories?
I've tried the whole "eat back burned calories" thing. I've been working out 5days a week for 4 weeks with no results. Actually I've gained. So today I ate what I wanted. I ended up eating about 1250 calories. But after exercise I only netted about half that. Now that it's bedtime I'm wondering how much damage I've done…
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Logging weight training?
How do you log weight training? My trainer told me you burn more (and burn longer) calories when you add weigh training into yoir workout. But mfp doesn't count calories when you add in strength training. While I know calories are burned during cardio they are also burned by strength training. Why are these not counted?
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GAIN weight when working out. LOSE when not.
I have an issue here. I started running 3 times a week. I did this for 4 days (so a week and a day). In that week I GAINED 8 pounds. EIGHT! And since then (a week) I have LOST 4 of the 8. I havent worked out this whole week. This isnt the first time Ive gained when I work out and lost when I dont work out. WTH?
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I want to give up
Ive been trying to lose weight. I lost a bit after Talisyn was born and am down 15 from before I got pregnant. The last 2 weeks I have been working hard, eating better, drinking more water and exercising (something I NEVER do). Ive been doing 4 20+min workouts a week. I thought for sure Id see or feel results. I feel like…
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How to set goals?
I need mini goals because seeing 90+ lbs is just too much to wrap my head around. But I dont know how to set goals. I want to be to 200lbs (45lb loss) by September first. Is that realistic? I just dont know what is realistic. I know that when a person is bigger weight tends to come off faster to start but I dont want to…
