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What are your SuperBowl tips and tricks?
What are you doing to keep your calories to a minimum at the snack food filled SuperBowl parties? I am going to run my butt off in the morning and drink immense amounts of water before, during, and after!!!
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Babies to be born in 2012
I know that there are some groups already that deal with new moms, moms to be, and trying to conceive moms but I am not sure if there are any going on right now. If so who are they and how can I join? If not let's make one up!!!!!!
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Weekend trouble
I am awesome all week. I workout SEVERAL times a week and I am normally under my calories AND I should mention am losing weight but I am making it so much harder on myself because my food is BAD on the weekends. Does anyone have any tricks for not going crazy on the weekend?
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Weight Watchers Question
I currently weigh 156 which does put me me at the very top of my weight range. I am contemplating joining weight watchers to help get to my ULTIMATE goal 145. If I join WW I would want to set my goal at the higher end of my weight range. Is there a requirment that you can not be within like 5lbs of your goal weight?
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Healthy Restaurant Choices
I am celebrating the last night of summer with my husband tonight and we are going out to dinner. I only have 600 calories left for the day any restaurant suggestions?
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Metabolism Motivator Question
Hello all I am wondering if anyone out there takes any suppliments to increase their metabolic rate? I am not looking for a magic bullet or a diet pill I just want sometime to reawaken my metabolism. I am on day six of a cleanse and I know when I finish it in a couple days my metabolism will be sluggish because the cleasne…
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Stretch Mark Tips and Tricks Share
So what are your stretch mark tips and tricks? What has worked and what has not? So far the best thing I have found has been the tanning bed. Since main are fairly fresh the tanning bed helpped take some of the red out and darkened the surronding skin! Please share what you have tried!!!!
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Stretch Mark Tips and Tricks
With my daughter I earned some serious medals of honor in the form of HUGE DARK RED stretch marks. I am very interested in making them disappear as much as possible. So I thought if I share the tricks I have used (and have worked) others might do the same and we could help each other. The trick that has made the biggest…
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Larger frame girls from 145-155 HELP!!!!
I am a very goal oriented person and I have a problem. My original goal was to weigh 160 which is what I weighed in high school (I looked DAMN good LOL). I have hit that goal and it is so far from what it was. It is clear that I have more fat and less muscle then I did then so I need a new goal. I am 5'7'' with a larger…
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Awesome running shoes
I need suggestions on running shoes. I run both on the treadmil and outside distance varies from 2 miles up to 6 miles. I am a mom who does not have 200 bucks to blow on shoes but I want something supportive and that will last. Thank you for your help and consideration. :)
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Water weight
I am haveing serious issues with water weight. My hands are swelling something aweful my rings will go from so loose they are falling off to so swollen they are digging in. I am thinking about diaretics any thoughts?
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Jogging Strollers????????????
Last summer I ran at the track several days a week. I borrowed a friends jogging stroller that had a fixed wheel. It was awful and I ended up using my tank of a graco stroller instead because it was easier to handle. I have been checking on the new jogging strollers and I think I have found one. Baby Trend - Expedition…
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Insanity the workout dvds
So during another sleepless night I saw the commercial for insanity the work out dvds. I am already working out and run a couple miles a day but I am looking for something to blast my whole body not just my legs and maybe make the scale go down a bit faster than it has been lately. Has anyone ever done it? Did you see a…
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Stretch Mark Momma
I have lost 58lbs and while I still have a ways to go I am starting to like my body again EXCEPT my stretch marks. I was at work about a week ago and one of my team mates asked me to pull up my sweater to see how much weight I had lost. I pulled it up to show her and accidently got my tanktop too which means I showed her…
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IPOD shuffle question PLEASE HELP
I just got an Ipod Shuffle to use when I run. With my nano it has the battery with the green to show when it is charged. This shuffle just has a little light that turns green when it is charged 75%. Does anyone know how long I should charge it so it is fully powered? I workout for an hour and a half a day and by the second…
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QUESTION
Question...Do I log this morning weight or do I wait until tomorrow. I know that my sodium will be through the roof tonight and my weight will prob be up because of that. PLEASE GIVE ME YOUR THOUGHTS!!!!!!!
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Is my body gone forever????
Is it gone forever??? My pre-pregnancy body that is. I weigh within 10 lbs of what I did when I met my husband. Sadly enough I do not think that my body resembles what it did at the same weight before the baby. I see some women who look exactly the same pre and post baby. I still have about 30 lbs to go till I reach my…
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BLAHHHHHHHHHH
I have hit my first plateau EVER. I have been cycling between 184 and 181 for the past month and a half. Deep breath… I think I need to relax I am too obsessive. I am contemplating switching over to maintenance and letting my body adjust to this weight for a couple weeks and then hitting it back into high gear. Maybe the…
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Flat iron (wet to dry)
I know that this has nothing to do with weight loss but for a mini goal reward I want a new wet to dry flat iron. Anyone out there use or have any experience with this? Thanks!!!!!:flowerforyou:
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Looking for blunt :)
I am 5'7'' and weigh 181. I have lost 50.6 pounds using MFP so far and I am still looking to lose 30 pounds. Everyone on here is so supportive but sometimes I feel like I am being coddled. I want some friends who are not afraid to dish out some tough love and give it to me straight when I am doing something wrong! Anyone…
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Diet Pills
Hello All! I am contemplating adding a diet pill in with what I am already doing. I have lost 50 pounds the natural way and I will continue to do what I have been doing (i.e. watching my calorie intake and working out). I am just wondering if anyone out there is using anything that has helped boost their loss. My personal…
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Polar Personal Calorie Counter
So I have heard great things about the polar watch/ heart rate monitor. My friend has the FT7 and lives by it! I am going to puchase one. What is the best? Please all thoughts on the subject! THANKS:tongue:
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Question about Zumba
How do you calulate calories for Zumba? I am thinking dance (general) but would love to hear what other people do!!!!
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Mini goals my A**
Ok so I think that there is no such thing as a mini goal because each mini goal that I can think of is not just mini it is a HUGE deal!!!! So I have decided that I need to preset my huge goals. HG 1- Under 200 lbs by 8/26/10 HG 2- BMI considered over weight and not obese (190) by 10/1/10 HG 3- Prepregnacy weight (180) by…
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Wedding Dress Worries
I made myself a deal that if I can get to 175 by dress shopping time (December) then I can get myself a beautiful real wedding dress. However, if I do not make it to 175 then I have to settle for a cheap linen dress. I am going to get married on the beach so a linen dress will look fine but what girl does not want "the…
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neoprene stomach wrap
I am looking for something that is going to help with that post baby tummy flap. I am already doing an hour of cardio, plus 200 + crunches and lifting weights 6 days a week. Also starting this week I am adding a 2.2 mile run to that workout on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. I have the exercise thing down but I was…
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neoprene stomach wrap
I am looking for something that is going to help with that post baby tummy flap. I am already doing an hour of cardio, plus 200 + crunches and lifting weights 6 days a week. Also starting this week I am adding a 2.2 mile run to that workout on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. I have the exercise thing down but I was…
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Help with mini goals!
Ok I want to think of some mini goal celebrations. What are some ideas? Right now I weigh 215 I know I am going to celebrate when I get back in the 100's. The next big celebration will be when I reach 180 because that is what I was when I got pregnant. Then a BIG celebration when I get into the 150's. I want something…
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Starving!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My recommended daily allowance of calories is 1,220. I eat about 1,300 calories in a day but will still have an excess of 500 + calories I can eat due to my exercise. If I do not eat those calories will my body go into starvation mode? Oh yeah and my body burns anywhere from 300- 500 extra calories a day because I am…
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BREASTFEEDING??????
I recently signed up for myfitnesspal because I was not losing any of my baby weight. She is 14 weeks and I have not lost any weight since I had her. I am breastfeeding and I am wondering if I should up my calories a little from what myfitnesspal says because of the breastfeeding. I have not been a member for a week yet…
