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Help Me With The Terms....
"Ripped" and "Shredded." What the heck do they mean, exactly? Back in my day, we called muscular "buff"...is this the same thing? I'm a girl...do I want to be ripped? Or shredded? Or neither?
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#2 - That Works For Me!
Can I brag a little bit? My Y is joined with FitLinxx so we accumulate points for all the exercise we log at the gym. I was playing around with the "standings" and when I narrow it down to females in my age group (40-49 years old) I'm #2 in my entire YMCA. :tongue: Two pounds to go and now I'm really on the upswing!
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Talk to Me About Interval Training...
I'm using a Precor AMT trainer in the mornings and since I only have 45-50 minutes for cardio before work I started using the Interval setting to get a better work-out. I am alternating 2 minutes at level 11 with 2 minutes at level 6. But when I compare this to 30 minutes of straight level 8, there is only about 20…
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Why I'm Not Eating All of My Exercise Calories
I keep reading on the boards that MFP automatically puts you in a 500 calories-per-day deficit but this isn't always true. If you're female, small of stature and have "sedentary" marked, the deficit is less than 500 calories to keep you at the 1200 calories/day mark. For instance my Goals page reads like this: Your Diet…
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Am I Cheating?
I have been a quarter of a pound away from my next goal notch for a week now! Argh! I feel like I'd be cheating to call that another "pound lost" so I've left my check-in the same. Think it'd be okay to move it before I get that quarter pound? Or should I just buck it up and wait it out?
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Bender Ball or No Crunch Abs?
Has anyone tried the Bender Ball and DVD, or the No Crunch Abs DVD? I saw these advertised and wondered how effective they would be. It sort of looked like things I could do at home by myself without having to purchase the DVD so I wonder if they're more complicated than the TV commercials show. TIA
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Talk to Me About Water...
I just started trying to do better with my water intake and noticed I "ker-chunked" 3 pounds since then. What's the mechanism? I figured fat was "burned" by the body, but does the water have something to do with it, too? I was under the impression that it really serves to flush the toxins from the burned fat out of your…
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My HUSBAND joined MFP!!
I'm so excited! This morning my husband said I was looking good and asked me to set him up an MFP account so he can lose 25 pounds! :drinker: I'm so excited! If you guys see KISSRocks (unmistakeable KISS Sims icon!) that's my Brent. We've been married for 21 years and have 4 children. :heart: I like him at any weight, but…
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Need a Reality Check
Hey, I just need a reality check. I'm trying to lose the 21 pounds I gained in a year's time after going back to work full-time. I started January 9th at 138 pounds. I've worked out every day except two, I'm following my MFP daily calorie goals - not going over but sometimes falling about 100-200 calories short of my…
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Talk to Me About Net Calories.
I don't really understand about Net Calories. I mean - I understand it's the total of Calories Consumed less Exercise Calories Burned...but what should it tell me? For the past 7 days my Net Calorie Report looks like this: Sun: 1100 (Super Bowl Sunday) Mon: 300 Tue: 500 Wed: 650 Thu: 590 Fri: 900 Sat: 1100 (Big date with…
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How to Log Weight Machines...?
I use the weight machines at the Y 6 days a week. (I'm talking about the Cybex brand leg extension, leg curl, leg press, hip ab- and adduction, chest press, overhead press...those sorts of machines.) Anyway, I've been logging these on MFP as 30 minutes of "circuit training" (because that's what my Y calls them) but the 245…
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2-Day Spread?
Super Bowl Sunday I was about 400 calories over my limit for the day (even the exercise ones :devil: ) But yesterday I had a little sicky girl at my house and we spent a good portion of the day waiting around the doctor's office and having labs drawn, so my calories were way low (only 1,084 for the whole day!) So my…
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Hi, I'm Leigh...
I'm a 45 year old mother of four. I lost over 100 pounds through diet and exercise almost 6 years ago. Then last January I started working full-time again, got lazy about exercise, went crazy eating during the holidays and put on over 20 pounds. Ugh. So now I'm back on the Fitness Trail. I joined the YMCA 3 weeks ago and…
