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Share Your Keto Meal Plans
I am planning on starting Keto tomorrow (yikes). If you have a simple weekly meal plan you could share with me, I'd appreciate it. I have a basic plan but I'm afraid I'll get tired of it quickly and I'm struggling coming up with additional ideas.
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Types of cereal
I love cereal but #1 it doesn't stick with me and #2 sometimes it gives me the shakes. I like Kashi Go Lean crunch...seems to last longer but soooo full of sugar. What cereal are you eating? I've been eating eggs for months now and getting kind of burned out.
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Friends in their 40's
Hello, I am looking for more friends for encouragement and support that are in my same boat. People are not joking when they say it's harder to lose weight in your 40's. It's like someone flipped a switch on my metabolism.
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Starting over for the 999th time
Hello, My name is Amanda and I'm starting over for what seems like the 999th time. I am a serial dieter but I'm going to work hard to break my bad eating habits and get healthy. Today is day 2 of eating right and exercising. I love to exercise...it's the eating right that gets me. I'm 5ft 1 so any extra calories go right…
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How much is too much Greek yogurt?
I am eating tons of this stuff because it's yummy, works good in smoothies and substitute pretty good for mayo but I'm wondering if it's too much?
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HIIT Training and Sore Ankles
I've done several rounds of Turbo Fire that incorporates HIIT training and a lot of plyometrics. It never fails my ankles get so sore and stay sore until after I take a week or two break from it. I'll try again and then they get sore again. I've tried powering through it but they never get any better. I have bought new…
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Turbo Fire - Inferno Successes
Calling all Turbo Fire junkies - have you done Inferno yet and if so what was your results. I'm on week 4 of the schedule, thinking about throwing it in next week. I'll be going to the beach the following week and thought it would be a good way shed a few before I go.
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Are granola bars just a...
healthier candy bar? Trying to decide what to give up for Lent and my co-worker and I were talking about processed sugar items but that would most likely mean giving up my almost daily granola/breakfast bar.
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Opinions of Exercise Bikes
I'm looking to buy an exercise bike because I need something lower impact on my knees and ankles. I have little to no experience with bikes and not sure if I should go with the recumbant or an upright. My gut feeling is I would get a better workout on the upright but the recumbant looks so much more comfortable. What is…
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What I did wrong...
So here I go again...losing the same 30 lbs for about the 100th time. I've thought a lot on what I have done wrong. I have never learned to eat for fuel or for health. The last time I lost ,I did it with calorie restriction (eating the same foods I've always eaten just less of them) and lots and lots of exercise. Number 1,…
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Setting your activity level
I have always had my activity level set to sedentary since I have a desk job. However my office has been doing the 10,000 steps a day challenge and for the last three days, without much exercise I've easily gotten over the 10,000 steps. My office is on the opposite end of the building from my boss so I spend a lot of time…
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What kind of elliptical do you have?
Great news...I think my 12 year old "dreadmill" finally died!!!! That means I can justify getting an elliptical...yay!!!!!!! What kind do you have? I need to start researching it. My price range is $800 or less. I could go $1,000 but it would be a stretch. I saw what looked like a great one on HSN. Never ordered anything…
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Effective low or no impact workouts
Hi guys, I am having some trouble with my ankles. Looking for some effective, low-impact workouts other than swimming. There is no public pool in our area and I have to workout at 4:30 in the morning so the one at the local gym isn't open. I love, love, love Turbo Fire but I think that is where my problems started with all…
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30 Day Shred Level 3 ?
Moving to level 3 on Monday. Who's done level 3 and how does it compare to the others? In some aspects I thought level 1 was harder than 2 but I've noticed more change in my muscles with level 2.
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Calling all clean eaters
I am really trying to work on this but need ideas. Can any of the clean eaters let me see their diaries??
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Extreme Weightloss show
I had recorded Extreme Weightloss a few weeks ago and just got a chance to watch it this morning. I think it's wonderful that the girl lost that much weight but the average joe doesn't have the resources for a trip to Greece or the skin removal surgery in their journey. ALSO my biggest problem is yeah he taught her how to…
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Do you make your own dressings?
I have tried to make my own but they just don't turn out very good. What are some of your recipes?
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Almost a year on MFP (Pic attempt)
May 31 will be a year on MFP. I'll be on vacation next week so wanted to go ahead and attempt my before and after. This is a big deal because I don't normall show this much skin to EVERYONE. My journey to getting healthy started with two episodes of kidney infection back to back. I didn't know you could get that sick that…
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Finished Chalean Extreme
I finished the last workout of the Lean Phase of Chalean Extreme today!!!!!!! I am SOOOOOO much stronger than I was 3 months ago. I did not have great results weight wise because I am pretty much in maintenance right now. Had I eaten really clean like we all should be I would have seen a leaner me. I still reaped the…
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Learning to eat right
So I've been at this for almost a year now and I still haven't learned how to eat. I feel like I'm killing myself exercising to be able to eat cr*p pretty much and that is NOT the way this should be going. I do have much healthier habits than I did a year ago but I still don't eat clean....there is so much processed stuff…
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Anyone starting Turbo Fire in January?
I'll be doing my second round of Turbo Fire starting January 3rd. Anyone else doing it?
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A couple of NSV's
This weekend my husband and I worked a local bluegrass festival at the community college(not a huge bluegrass fan but it's big in my area). Anyway my husband is the student goverment president of his class (kinda of funny since he is 40 but I'm proud of him anyway) so we worked a drink booth. I got hit on not once but…
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Squash and Zuchinni Medley
I've been doing this to try to get more veggies in during the day. Not a fan of salad, especially a salad every day. 1/2 cup zuchinni chopped (big chunks) 1/2 cup yellow squash (big chunks) a few musrooms a little onion if you like 1/2 to 1 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil salt & pepper Mrs. Dash Italian Medley I eat…
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Extreme Couponing
Has anyone else seen this on TLC? I'm fasinated but not sure if it's worth it when you have hoards of products that you may never use in your house taking up space...plus the time it takes. I loved the one where the guy took his products and donated them.
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Easy Roast Beef Recipe
This high in sodium but it was sooooooo yummy. You take a packet of Hidden Valley Ranch dry dressing mix, a packet of brown gravy mix and a packet of dry Italian dressing mix and mix it together. Put about 1/2 to 2/3 cup of water in the crockpot and put the roast in the crockpot. Sprinkle the dry mixes over the roast. Cook…
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At this a while and still frustrated!
I kind of consider myself an old-timer here on MFP. I've consistenly logged in for 11 months and have had great success. I am the typical yo-yo dieter. I've lost the same 30 lbs about 6 times in the last 20 years. I can feel myself slipping...thoughts like "What is this little bite going to hurt" or "I deserve to eat that…
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1st 30 days of Chalean Extreme
I finished the Burn Phase of Chalean Extreme this week and will be moving to the Push Phase. I lost 4.25 inches all over. My weight stayed basically the same, fluctuating up and down a lb or more. I'm about 6 lbs from goal so I'm not worried about the weight and I'm very happy with the inches lost. My eating has been awful…
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Why am I so hungry in the a.m.
I ate a scrambled egg, bowl of instant plain oatmeal and a piece of whole wheat toast at 6 this morning. It's barely 3 hours later and I'm starving. WHY is that?
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Your definition of low carb
I'm considering going low carb when I start the next phase of Chalean Extreme. I've done Atkins before (or dabbled in it, never worked through the whole program) and you start out with 20 grams of carbs a day for induction and then slowly add back healthy carbs. It's extreme for those first few weeks. So those that do low…
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Will power-Do you have it?
What is will power? The trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior. We all struggle with it. I saw this weekend TRUE will power. My friend's mother has been battling cancer for 8 years. The end was near. She tried every treament, traditional, experimental and non-traditional to "cure' herself. Her grandson's 1st…
