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Ever feel sorta tired and weak at the gym?
I am not ill and I slept normally last night, but I felt sort of sluggish and weak at the gym. My usual cardio has been to do ten minutes on the stair machine (the one that is a down escalator) at a pretty high intensity, then after cooling down a bit, doing my weights (which I split into Push, Pull, and Legs) and then…
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Those last two pounds!
My goal was to get down from 151 to 140 and I have been hovering around 142 for a couple of weeks. I was at 141.5 two Fridays ago and then went away for the weekend where there was much drinking so put on water weight and it's taken me until now to get back to 142.2. I want to just get those last two pounds off! I am doing…
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Does weight training ever seem almost too easy?
I went to the gym today and did legs, plus a little bit of - I don't know what you call it... rotational things with the cables. Anyway, I did a bunch of squats (five sets). I did some lunges up onto a step (one set) while holding as much weight as safely possible. I did a bunch of walking lunges, again with somewhat heavy…
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A question about HIIT
I have been using the stair-climbing machine for cardio, because it's the only machine I can stand that also makes me work very hard (hard to explain - just a combination of getting very sweaty and short of breath, while feeling like my body is good at it.) Anyway, I have been trying to do 20 minutes of…
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Hey, Fat Girl
"Yes, you. The one feigning to not see me when we cross paths on the running track. The one not even wearing sports gear, breathing heavy. You’re slow, you breathe hard and your efforts at moving forward make you cringe. You cling shyly to the furthest corridor, sometimes making larger loops on the gravel ring by the track…
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I ran my first real 5k a couple of weeks ago
I ran in a 5k charity fundraiser for Cancer Research UK a couple of Saturdays ago. It was a lot of fun and I surprised myself by finishing in 29:06! I'm now running longer distances in order to run in a 10k in August. :)
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Well, I'm in week 5, and sticking with it!
I'm really pleased, and maybe a little suprised, that I'm still doing C25K five weeks later. I haven't missed a day, although once I had to move a run to Saturday because of something conflicting on a Friday. And, I have been able to do all the runs, so far. Tomorrow is the 20-minute interval, though, and now I'm actually…
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I RAN >5K THIS MORNING!!
Today was supposed to be week 6, day 3 for me. But, when I did the 20-minute run last week (W5D3), I noticed it was so easy that I ran extra. Skipped ahead to W6D3 (22 mins) on Monday and Wednesday of this week, and ran extra at the end. Today, I chose week 7, Day 3 on my app... 25 minutes of running. I also used another…
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I love hiking!
Hello from Scotland, where there's no such thing as trespassing. Just so long as you don't bother the livestock or trample crops, you can go anywhere you like. And I like to go on long day hikes. I'd love to do a longer, backpacking trek, but that's not really feasible in my current lifestyle. I'm in the Western Highlands,…
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Good Friday: Fasting when you're already dieting...
I'm trying to plan what I'll eat on Good Friday in such a way that I follow the rules in both letter and spirit. I'm curious to hear what others are doing - or what you may have done on Ash Wednesday. The rules for Latin Rite Catholics are: No meat. Fasting, which means one full meal and two snacks that do not quite equal…
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2541 calories banked!
I go into tomorrow with 2542 extra calories (earned from exercising). Add on the 1250 I'm "allowed" every day, and that means 3791 calories for the day, provided I do nothing but sit on my bum and do nothing. (And, that's what I'll be doing. It's rest day.) I've been eating a good amount of food. I have good, full meals…
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Don't Sit Down!
I'm a SAHM, and I can happily spend most of my days sitting on the computer, surfing the net. That's why I've set my activity level to "sedentary." Then, I read that women who sit for more than 6 hours a day are more likely to die. And, I thought about how maybe I should be less sedentary. So, I have this new game I play…
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My big breakfast backfired
So, you know how "they" say to eat a sizeable, high-fibre breakfast with protein? I'm not sure, but I don't think it works for me. This morning, I had a really big breakfast (just over 500 calories) before exercising fairly intensely. I had oatmeal with some walnuts and blueberries and skim milk. Exactly the sort of thing…
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I should introduce myself...
Some people actually read intro threads! I'm much to self-centred for that, I will admit it. So, now you know I have a rubbish personality... what else? Um, I'm just here looking for a bit of motivation to eat right and exercise. I am still not entirely sure what my goals are. At the moment, I'm going for weight loss - I…
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Do you "bank" calories for another day?
On sunny weekend days, I can easily burn 700 or more calories hiking and walking - so I eat more. Yay!. Yesterday, I had 170 calories left at the end of the day. But the days when I really want to put things in my piehole are long, dull weekdays when I'm stuck in the house (I'm a SAHM with no car on most weekdays). If the…
