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W5D3. Are you freaking kidding me!
Just finished W5D2. No one is more astonished that I am that I could run 8 mins... TWICE. Then I looked ahead to D3. Really. 20 mins. Do people often go straight to that from W5D2? Are they often successful? I'm willing to slow it down a bit, but even so thst seems kinda out there. Am I wrong? I was wrong about W5D2. I did…
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Repeat week or decrease speed?
I did Week 4 Day 1 today. On Week 1 Day 1 I was walking 3.5mph and running 5mph. Week 3 Day 1 I had to drop to 4.8 mph on the running. Today I dropped the walking to 3 mph and the running to 4.5 mph.... except the last 2 1/2 minutes when I dropped it even further to 4.2 mph.... which is basically a fast walk. I think I…
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I've been here 2.5 years and have lost 124 pounds
I've wanted to post this for months and months but couldn't figure out how to get it sized correctly. But I've finally done it! I started out in December 2011 at 304 pounds. Joined a gym with my husband and got a personal trainer even though we couldn't afford it. In February 2012 I joined MFP and decided to take a look at…
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Someone help me determine my BF% based on my calories
I've been trying to predict my BF% from my maintenance calories... is that possible? Based on my weight loss over the past 90 days, I believe my maintenance calorie need is about 1925 a day. I've lost about 2 pounds in the last 90 days and my average daily calories during that time has been 1838.5. I'm 66" tall and…
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testing picture posting
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Wanna hear from folks who lost 100+ including final 25 lbs
I've lost around 120 pounds. I'm at 185ish... depending on if you believe the scale this morning or yesterday or the day before that. :) The last 25 to 30 pounds are a PITA!!! Clearly, the game has changed. The things that worked for the first 100 or so won't work for me now. The margin for error and cheating is next to…
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Pork bone broth??
Hello! I've got some pork bones and scraps in my crock pot right now, simmering. I typically make chicken bone broth, and I know many people who make beef bone broth, but I don't know much about pork bone broth. Ideas for good uses for it? I was thinking it might taste good to use it in place of water for making rice, or…
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Lost 100+ pounds and now I'm losing some steam
I was wondering if this has happened to anyone else. I lost 90 pounds in the first year I started going to the gym and logging my food. I've been stuck around 108 pounds lost, gaining and losing the same 10 pounds (I think mostly due to water retention, not an actual gain, unless it was maybe 2 pounds) for the past 10…
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Women at/near goal weight: age & reasonable expectations...
I've been over 200 pounds for the last 25 years, and in the neighborhood of 300 for most of that time. I was overweight as a child, too. The only time I wasn't obese was when I went on a crash diet (read: eating disorder) when I was around 17. At the end of that I was down in the lower 160s. I remember that my waist…
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Calisthenics or heavy lifting now?
I started working with a trainer last January. I weighed 304 pounds. My trainer started me out doing some basic exercises that I guess you would call Calisthenics. Sometimes we used small weights or TRX bands or those rubber bungee cord band things. I worked with him until late July when he was promoted and I started…
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question about projecting body fat percentage
I don't know if anyone can predict the answer to this, or if there are too many variables, but I've been trying to figure out how realistic my goal weight is... or how desirable it is. No reason I need to know this... just something to keep me up at night pondering things when I ought to be sleeping. When I started this…
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75 lbs down, 50 to 75 more to go (with pics!)
I finally had some pictures taken today and was SHOCKED to see how far I've come. Now I get why people look so surprised when they see me! In January 2011, my young (26) cousin died of complications from Bulimia. I didn't know her well, was just beginning to get to know her and find out what an awesome person she was, and…
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Is there a website for trading clothes?
I just went through my closet and I have lots of clothes that are too big. I'm still afraid to get rid of all of them, but some of them I'm ready to donate. I spent the day shopping at Goodwill and Kmart looking for cheap clothes to get me through the next 30 pounds of weight loss. Then in occurred to me that I bet there…
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Going to the gym, followed by a sedentary day... how bad is
I was reading some interesting things today at http://www.hussmanfitness.org/index.html, and the author mentioned in passing something about not being too sedentary after a workout. I couldn't find anything that elaborated on this. I'm working hard when I go to the gym, but the rest of the day is really pretty sweat-free…
