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What the frick is this "good cholesterol" about?
My employer is offering free health assessments this week. They are optional, but if you and your spouse do the assessment, you get a 10% discount on insurance premiums. If you both pass 3 out of 5 categories, you get another 10%. The 5 categories are: blood pressure, fasting blood sugar, total cholesterol, LDL…
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Lifting Goals
I have searched the forums and the interwebz, and I have found very little information about what kind of goals I should be aiming for with my lifting. I just don't know enough about it yet to know if what I have found is legit, achievable, or too far-fetched, so I figured I would post here to get some advice so that I may…
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No loss in 3 months, lots of details - Help!
I'm struggling. No weight loss since October. I've received so much consistent advice from knowledgeable people, read forums and articles, educated myself, and gotten people on my FL who share the same philosphies about weight loss and fitness. I have figured out my TDEE as many ways as possible to find a good estimate. My…
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14 Year Old Step-Daughter
I have a 14-year-old step-daughter who is overweight. While she plays fast-pitch softball and school volleyball, she is very out of shape and has steadily put on weight over the last few years due to extremely poor eating habits. She wears a size 16 jeans, and my guess is that she is around 185 pounds at about 5'5" or so.…
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It never gets old...awesome NSV today. :)
This is the first time I've posted about an NSV, but it's worth mentioning to me...I was walking my laps at work this morning on my break, and as I was about to pass a work friend of mine that I haven't seen in a few weeks, he stopped me and had this funny smile on his face like he wanted to say something but didn't know…
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Eating back exercise calories...??????
This is my first post, but I have read many threads and comments. One of the things I have read the most about is folks' opinions on whether or not we should eat back our exercise calories. I thought I understood what that meant, but now I'm not so sure I do. I attend the gym at my work every day. It's free, thank…
