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But Jillian says....
Jillian Michaels.... "Fitness Tip:Don’t exercise on an empty stomach! When you do this you will have considerably less energy for your workout and you run the risk of cannibalizing your own muscle tissue. Your body needs a certain amount of sugar for fuel when training. When you don’t have available blood sugar or stored…
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Mini Pumpkin Pies
I haven't tried these yet but my mother sent me the recipe and she always sends good stuff!! Impossibly Easy Mini Pumpkin Pies Ready in 50 minutes, these delicious mini pumpkin pies topped with whipped topping are a wonderful dessert – that’s made using Original Bisquick® mix. Prep Time 10 Minutes Total Time 50 Minutes…
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? for all you lifters out there
Yesterday I did my squats and deadlifts. Now, I cut the weights in 1/2 (down to 2 25 lb plates, which I consider low since the Stronglifts suggests that I start my deads at 90 lbs and my squats at 50 lbs) on the Smith machine because when I was using the higher weight I always got a pain in my lower left back later the…
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Help!!
I did the Ab Ripper dvd from P90X on Sunday. It really hit my hip flexor muscles a lot as apparently they are fairly weak. They were pretty sore yesterday but felt better today. Still sore but totally tolerable. So I decided to do Ripped in 30 L4 for the second time. Apparently this dvd hit's the front hip flexor muscles…
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HUGE NSV for me!!
Last Tues. night/Wed. morning (Feb. 8th) at 12:48 I smoked my last cigarette!! I slapped a patch on the next morning and every morning since and haven't smoked!! :happy: I had smoked for 22 1/2 years and never thought that I could quit. I always said that that was the one thing I couldn't do and didn't want to do because I…
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Believe it or not!!
I started on MFP on Jan 3rd. My son is a wrestler and had taken a nutrition class in school and had been telling me for a while, "Mom, you don't eat enough!!". I pretty much did coffee in the morning and dinner at night. So, I started logging on MFP to lose 1 lb per week. I only had 8 pounds to lose and I thought "yeah, I…
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Fitness help for a Teenage Wrestler
My son used to weigh 188 pounds and was about 5'7" tall. He was sedentary and velcro'd to computers and video games. Then the summer before his freshman year of high school he began to workout (run and lift weights) and stopped being such a picky eater and began eating much better!! He dropped down to about 164 pounds and…
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Found the app for my phone
Hi all! I've been using the app on my phone and finally figured out the was a website too...yeah! Anyway, I've read many of the stories on here and by the look of my goals they are very small. I only want to lose a total of about 8 pounds that I gained from a med that I take. Just by using the site for about 5 days I've…
