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please guys, need your help!!
Hey! I'm 35 days into my MFP journey, and I've started doing strength workouts. In the last fifteen days I've lost 9 inches and now I'm "lifting heavy". Although maybe it's not heavy to some of you, but I'm only starting and I'm increasing weight all the time! Today my workout was (all are 3 sets of 12) 16kg kettlebell…
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Scared - need support with this
Hi. I'm 209lbs currently and I've been using MFP for the past 3 weeks and have so far lost 5lbs and then put it on again. I net 1200 calories and workout 5 or 6 days a week - strength and low impact cardio (I have 2 stress fractures in my shin so I can't run or jump about or even hop until it heals). I eat back my calories…
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HIIT sex
Is this a thing? My fiancé wants to know. :laugh:
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Heart rate monitor question
Hey, Sometimes I workout with a heart rate monitor so I can get a good idea of how many calories I'm burning, but I worry that it's not accurate. Are there any other ways of determining with any accuracy how many calories I can burn during a workout? Like a formula or something? [The reason I doubt a heart rate monitor…
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pseudo science and weight loss BS
What's some of the most ridiculous pseudo science stuff you've heard/read/believed about weight loss, nutrition and exercise? The egg yolks being bad for your cholesterol is one that springs to mind. That you can turn your fat into muscle. Eating fat makes you fat. That you can "tone up" without losing fat. Eating sugar…
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Cardio without running?
Hi everyone, I'm fairly new to MFP so bear with me if someone else has asked similar recently. I have acquired a couple of stress fractures in my lower legs so I can't run at all or even walk particularly far. Swimming is difficult because I live a long way from a pool and also I can't really afford a gym membership either…
