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Your opinion on "starvation mode"
Hi everyone I was hoping for your opinion on this.. If you're on a low calorie diet but eat every 3 hours, does your body still think its in starvation mode and hold onto fat? As long as we feed our bodies often enough, it shouldn't think its starving.. and especially if you feel full.. am I right?
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Flat Stomach is Gone
Prior to my new healthier eating lifestyle and exercising, I never had a problem with my stomach. It was usually flat. (My problems reside in the lower body) I've since built some abs doing pilates and now after every meal my stomach gets bigger than it ever was before. I notice a huge difference and it's starting to worry…
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Some Feedback Needed Please
Hi everyone, I was hoping to get some feedback here. I have the Polar F6, use it 5 days a week during my exercises and it says I burn around 700 calories a day. This is from my 1 hour aerobics workout (with some jump roping in) and my 50-60 minute full body toning/resistance training/3 lb hand weights workout. My heart…
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Activity Level?
Hi I'm a bit confused by something...Does your activity level depend on your daily exercises or what your activity level is through the rest of the day? If someone were sitting all day 5 days a week while occasionally moving around and standing up and then exercising for over an hour, while the weekends had more walking…
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Which Do You Go By?
When it comes to tracking calories by activity, I'm pretty sure everyone gets different results when consulting with various websites and heart rate monitors. I've been testing my heart rate monitor and its always so much higher than the websites say but sometimes its close. I am so frustrated because I don't know what to…
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Subtracting your BMR
Ok hopefully this post doesn't annoy anyone but I just wanted to know how many of you subtract your BMR calories from your exercise calories? Say your heart rate monitor says you burned 200 calories in an hour. Do you subtract the calories you would've burned during that hour not doing the exercise so the actual calories…
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Confused - Polar F4
Hello everyone I bought the Polar F4 today at Target but haven't opened it yet. After reading more about it online, some people say there is so stopwatch feature. I don't understand this, polar says it does have one but then I read it doesn't. Can anyone that has this watch tell me? I'm also wondering if I should get…
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I need some cardio help!
Hi everyone! I'm running out of cardio options. Actually I only have one as its too hot out now for bike riding, and the gym is too expensive. My only cardio video choice at the moment is the Walk At Home series with Leslie Samsone which keeps my heart rate up for the usual 40-55 mins which I do it. Are there any other…
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Calories Burned is not matching
Hello I was wondering if someone could shed some light on this as I'm entirely confused. I used a stationary bike for 40 mins and the machine said I burned 75 calories. I input my weight at the beginning which is 117. Online when I input 40 mins of vigorous stationary biking with my weight, it says I burned about 400…
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Exercise Routine - Need Help!
Hi everyone hope everyone is well! I was hoping to get some feedback as I am confusing myself about my exercise routine.. my body hasn't changed much recently and I need a plan. should I change it somehow? My goal is to lose a few more pounds and tone my lower body to make it leaner. Monday through Friday I do 40 mins of…
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Squats and lunges: or not?
I've searched online what exercises to add in my exercise program to tone my butt. While squats and lunges come up for this, they also come up when I did a test search on what exercises to do when wanting a BIGGER butt. I already have a big butt and DON'T want it any bigger. Should I do squats or not? What are your…
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What kind of weight training should I do?
Hello! Everyone says I should do weight training but I'm not sure what kind. What I want to do is make my butt smaller and lose inches from my thighs. I ride my bike for an hour 5 days a week and do pilates exercises for toning the whole body for 50 mins 5 days a week. I'd like to start swimming. What else should I do? Any…
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I'm really about calories...
Subject correction: I'm really confused about calories. Hi everyone! no matter how much I read about calories I'm still not sure how many I should be eating. I would appreciate any and all suggestions! Here's my info: 5"7, 22 years old, 118 pounds I do about an hour of bicycling 5 days a week and about an hour of moderate…
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I really need some advice please!
Hi everyone I'm thin but I really need to tone and loose alot of excess fat on my thighs and backside. (cellulite too!!) so far i've been doing pilates for 50 mins 4-5 times a week and then walking or biking for an hour after that. i watch what i eat and eat around 1300 calories while drinking only water. my question is,…
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Am I Doing the Right Thing?
Hi everyone. I would really appreciate some advice as I'm getting discouraged and am wondering if I'm doing the right thing.. I need to get rid of my big butt and thighs. (10-12 pounds?) if it wasn't for the complete disproportion to the flat top half of my body then this wouldn't be such a problem. I know this is from…
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Pilates
Hi everyone I just joined. I don't understand why pilates isn't found when searching for the exercise type I did. Is it under another name? I've been doing about an hour of pilates 5 days a week... Thanks for any input!
