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Caloric Needs
Hi, all! So, I have had some upheaval in my personal life recently and have not been doing so great and getting regular meals in. I managed 1200 most days, but sometimes just barely. That has led me to gain a few pounds in the past month. Even before that, I had been on a huge plateau. (I started this journey in September…
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Pull-Up Bar question
We just got the P90X program and my boyfriend is anxious to start. We need to get a pull-up bar, though, and this has raised some concern. We live in an old apartment and the trim/molding on the doorframes is between 4.25- almost 5 inches wide. It seems that many of the bars I am finding online are for trim up to 3.5…
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All burned calories are not created equal...?
Every day, I wear my heart rate monitor while exercising so i can track everything. I do my best to eat those calories (or most of them). This morning, though, I did 45 minutes of yoga with the Wii Fitness Coach program. I saw that, at the end, I had burned 372 calories (which is actually 3 more than I burned doing cardio…
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Planning ahead - Chinese food
So, I promised my boyfriend I'd pick up Chinese food on the way home from work Thursday night since we haven't had it since well before Christmas. (Thursday morning is my usual weigh-in, so I figure I'll have a week to deal with extra sodium before officially weighing in again!) I do want to plan ahead, though. I was…
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FRUSTRATED!
So, I have been tracking food super carefully since I joined the site a week ago.I have been wearing my heart rate monitor during every workout so I can accurately log those calories. I have added at least one, usually two, treks down 11 flights of stairs and back up again at work. (Sadly, that only burns 50 calories, but…
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Here goes...
Hello, everyone! I realized today that I have to start tracking food again. My previous attempts to do this (both on other sites and in a notebook) always start off strong, then peter off. I have hit a plateau, though, and have slowly started letting myself eat a little extra crap during some stress. I have vacilated in a…
