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finally starting lifting
I got the book The New Rules of Lifting for Women for mothers day and I started the program this past week. I have done one day of stage 1A and one day of stage 1B. I did 1B last night and wow i'm sitting here at midnight and my legs are progressively getting more sore and I love it! It felt so weird to go to the gym and…
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yoga
A little history on me: In january i started having back pain, in one spot, on the right side in the middle of my back. it felt like a pulled muscle. for two months i tried stretching and heat and icy hot and nothing helped. the only thing that helped was to lay down, sitting made it worse. I march i finally went to my…
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that good ouch
yesterday I had my first session with a personal trainer. my friend and i are both on this journey but coming from completely different places in life. But we have vowed to do this together. We live a bit a ways apart and hence belong to different gyms. we found a personal trainer that has a small in home gym half way…
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my NSV?
I bought smaller scrubs! EVERYONE was checking me out and making comments. I swear I was blushing all day long.
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in need of new motivation
For three months I was on here a lot and pretty active. I had a goal of losing weight for my trip to florida the last week of march to see family. I lost 30 pounds before vacation. That trip has come and gone with being a bit disappointed while I was there. I was visiting my brothers who were the first to tell me I needed…
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OMG sugar
for the past few days i have been non-stop craving sugar! Yes, i have given in but it will not go away. it's to the point that even my coffee tastes off with my normal two sugars. AHHH this better pass by before i gorge myself on sweets!
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vacation
like everyone else i was nervous about going away and not being able to stick with my plan. I just got back yesterday from being in florida for a week (I live in new jersey). A week of no gym and not eating as frequently and healthy as i was used to which lead to bigger meals. However, I logged what I could, and ate as…
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Success in spite of family
I joined here a year ago but stopped after a few weeks. This January I finally committed. In three short months I have lost 30 pounds by eating less/right and moving more (shocking that's all it takes!). My mother lives with me and is frankly a *****. If I eat something that isn't perfect she throws a snide remark at me…
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bordom eating
this entire weekend i suffered from bordom eating and i am feeling it. now, what i did eat wasn't entirely bad for me (aside from the microwave popcorn on saturday). i snacked on carrots, snap peas, freeze dried fruits, cheese sticks, yogurt. I didn't go over anything except sugar (which i always do because I put sugar in…
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Obese no more
I am no longer obese, I am officially overweight!!!
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water bottle
I have been searching and searching the internet and searched the forums but cannot find what i'm looking for. Here is my dilema: I have tried just about every water bottle out there and have several I use on a regular basis. However for exercising at the gym the only one that works for me is the poland spring sport…
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completely backwards
I think the hardest part of realizing I needed to get in shape was seeing me for who I really am. whenever I looked in the mirror I wouldn't see the real me, I still saw the thin person I used to be. If I ever allowed myself to be photographed and when I was, i was disgusted with myself, so I hid from the camera more,…
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twitter
hey everyone, after sending a friend of mine a daily motivation picture i decided to also tweet it. i'm new to this twitter thing, but it anyone also uses twitter and wants to follow me for a daily motivation i'm @karencasey979
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I can't believe I'm saying this
I work three 12 hour shifts/week at my full time hospital (7a-7p). This past week I had almost a mini vacation where I worked my second job tuesday (also 12 hour shift) but off every other week day. I went to the gym every day, even on tuesday because that hospital is small and not stressful. Now it's saturday and i worked…
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NSV that I'm sure everyone has
Yesterday I noticed that my jeans were getting all loose and I said to myself that I needed to wash them to get them to shrink up a bit since they are already a little big right now. Then I realized what I had just thought. It used to be the complete opposite where I dreaded washing my jeans because it would make them…
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ouch
I have been pretty consistant going to the gym recently but this past sunday I took my son skiing for the first time (his first time, he is 11). I signed him up for the 3 hour lesson so i figured why not go myself so I rented skis and off I went. I haven't been on skis in 20 years, I was terrified. However, after a couple…
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distance to the gym
6 months ago I joined the YMCA to be able to swim for exercise (I have terrible knees, even a physical therapist calls them weird lol). It was 25 minutes away. As time went by and my son's school started back up in september I found it harder and harder to motivate myself to drive that far. I pre paid for 6 months hoping…
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new scale
i know this has been posted before but i need to air my frustration. My display on my scale broke this week (only half of the numbers show) so I had to buy a new one. I was so upset because i knew it would give me a different weight. I bought a fancy one that measures body fat % and such which i'm not even going to look at…
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fruit and veggies
I am fairly new at this veggie eating thing, basically i hate them all. I know fruits and veggies are important and i am now snacking on carrots and snap peas,etc and starting to add in broccoli. Occassionally i will have an apple or orange or banana. However, this is where I get confused. If i enter them into MFP i…
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my first NSV!
People at work have noticed I have lost weight but I had my first real non-scale victory today. When I got dressed today I threw a pair of jeans on that when freshly washed are a little bit snug. Well, when I buttoned them up they were loose! I thought, hmmm they must have actually been worn, than I had to tell myself that…
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new here, hoping for results
Hi, i'm Karen, i'm 32 and just started using the app last week. I was searching around the app store on my iphone and it sounded good, i had no idea there was a whole online community with it. I have never really dieted because I know myself, the second I can't have something it's all I crave, no matter what. Besides,…
