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When is exercise not exercise?
Bear with me, I'm not entirely sure I can explain what I mean properly! I work in a shop but am mainly office based - it's rare that I have to go and serve but when I do, I could be carrying up to 25kg bags of animal feed. Because of that, I've set my activity levels to sedentary - or basically the one where it says I sit…
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Indian food & dieting!
Tomorrow night I am going out for a friends birthday (so no choice in destination!) and she's decided she wants to go out for a curry at the local Indian. I 'have' 1530 calories a day allowed plus whatever exercise I do - I should be able to get another 2-300 walking the dog on a particularly hilly walk near us (Endomondo…
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Calculating exercise calories without a HRM
In the gym, I have a little routine if I'm working out without a trainer. I've been logging the calories the machine gives me but only really believe the cross trainer as it's the only one that I (can/know how to) input my weight in to. I am very unfit now & one of the heavier members here so I'd appreciate it if you could…
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Getting rid of (or lessening) a stomach flap
I'm pretty confident I'll never get rid of it totally, but some exercise tips would be great please. :) If they're ones that can be done at home with no equipment, then even better :grin: I lost a lot of weight a few years back (with exercise) and have gradually put it all back on again :( hence my confidence in not…
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How do I work out calories burnt
(Or an estimate at the very least.) Please bare in mind, this was a good work out for me and I am proud of what I did in the gym today. It's not a great workout in terms of times etc (for, like, a fit person!) but for me - heavy, very unfit again - it's good. So. I did: treadmill 1 min walk, 2% incline 3.3mph, 1 min jog 0%…
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New :)
Hey everyone :) Joined a couple of weeks ago and now I've recovered from the shock at just how MUCH I was overeating, I'm coming to introduce myself. I'm from W Yorks (UK), am 32 and my boyfriend proposed last month. I refuse to be fat on my wedding day so the diet starts. I'm having to be really careful atm because…
