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I just joined
Who uses BFL?
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Body For Life Dead?
Restarted again recently and have 6 waist inches to lose now. I had great success with Body For Life in the past, but few people seem to be using it these days. Has BFL been forgotten or replaced with something better?
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Trainer said EAT MORE
For the past 2 weeks I've been working out intensely 6 days a week lifting weights alternating days with HIIT and eating about 1600 calories. I'm 6ft, 277, down from 284. I met with a trainer yesterday and he said I may have metabolic damage from dieting. He said if I keep doing what I'm doing then I'd stall. He said the…
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Last month of my 48th year
And it is time for me to get seriously fit. I'm highly motived especially when my bride of 22 years said get in shape or else I really detest the "or else" :-) So I dusted off my copy of Body For Life, hit the gym, and re downloaded FP. Looking for new friends on this journey.
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BFL
I'm surprised this oldie but goodie BFL group is not more popular. I talks to a trainer today and he had never heard of it
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I hate birthdays
I hate birthdays. It not about getting older with the aches and pains or my slower metabolism at 48 years. It is about the festive bad foods and drinks that accompanies birthdays. At Christmas and other holidays, there might be a few special weakness presented. But at Birthdays your supposed loving family makes all your…
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8 pounds in six days
If any of you have stuggled with weight loss despite your best efforts, youll be happy there is an answer. My wife has a history of a thyroid condition that has caused countless frustration with an unbudging scale. Im so thrilled at her new approach this past week which netted an 8 pound loss in one week. This is huge for…
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Im feeling confident about starting again.
I generally feel that I'm going to lose big time this go around... Im actually more excited and more hopeful than in any prior attempt.... Im not gonna starve myself or kill my self in the gym but am gonna keep it real... My weight at the doctor's office lit a fire and I know now the steps I need to take to drop 60# and…
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Clean & Lean foodmeats on a budget
Due to some tight budeting in my family of 7, I was told I was on my own purchasing and preparing healthy dieting foods. Do you have any strategies buying healthy clean foods, especially lean meats, during tough economic times?
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Successful dieters log minor calories?
For those of you consistently losing weight I'm curious if you find it necessary to log every calorie? I'm thinking about the spray olive oil when cooking veggies or a few celery sticks before dinner. As a short hand do you provide a cushion of a certain amontat they end of the day? Perhaps you are more meticulous if your…
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Best routine for fat loss
I'm fairly active and do regular cardio and resistance but am still working to lose fat consistent with losing about 40 pounds. I know I need to build muscle by lifting, do cardio to burn calories and watch what I eat. I have been trying to do circuits with weights interspersed interval running at the price of not lifting…
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Favorite 500 calorie food you must eat?
Given that we are supposed to eat back most of our exercise calories, what do you eat when you are short at the end of the day? Lets say you burn 500-600 calories in a boot camp today but you are not hungry at night (BC you made good filling food choices during the day to match your goal) when you realize you are supposed…
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Skinny Margarita
Any recommended recipes for a low calorie natural margarita using agave nector? Tips? Calories? Yes I know that this can slow weight loss but I still have a life to live. :-)
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Bad idea for a HRM for android?
Don't get me wrong. I love the concept of using a chest device to track my calories on my phone.. It s just from the online reviews they don't seem as reliable as the dedicated HRMs. What do you think? Do you have any experience with them?
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Returning Member looking for new friends
Life interrupted but I'm back using MFP. I know it works! In my absence, not only have I gained weight and fat but most of my old friends have left so I'm hoping to make some new friends. I'm a guy in my mid 40s and am looking to lose about 40# by June 1. That will be below 200# and just above my "goal" weight but I'm…
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Running App for Android
Can anyone recommend a reliable app for tracking running distances and calories that I can use on my Android phone? I've tried several but even though the wireless is on the apps miss big chunks of my run. I'm not interested in a dedicated gps tracker right now. Anyone have any favorites? Thanks.
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Logging Exercise Calories
I've come to think that all of the cardio machine calories estimates are wildly off in the amount of calories actually burned (at least for my metabolism). Each machine seems consistently wrong and I don't want to ignore my earned calories from intense cardio when I'm limiting myself to only 1500 calories because I…
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should i worry my wt isnt dropping?
Hi folks, I'm 6 ft male and have been stuck at 229 for the past two weeks. My waist and hips have consistently been going down and I lost nearly an inch with each in the last two weeks even though the scale hasn't budged. My goal wt is 199 -211#, but my hope is actually a loss of body fat to show off my future washboard…
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a good start
I still have a ways to go, but I'm happy I lost 6 pounds this first week. I've been losing and gaining the same 5 pounds all summer and finally feel I've passed the threshold by watching my intake and increasing my workout intensity. What a great feeling.
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Must I eat extra cal on cardio days?
MFP gives me about 250 extra calories on each of the 3 days I run each week. I'm ok not to get extra calories on my 3 wt lifting days bc itd be hard to guess the amount burned. But on cardio days I have felt content eating the right foods amounting to 1500 calories. Do I really need to eat 1750 calories? Do I need to be…
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Im new & think I found what Ive wanted
Hi Folks, I've been exercising and eating clean for several years, other during the 9 months prior my wife delivering a new little baby boy last January. With her, I always seem to gain weight during her pregnancies. This is # 5 and she is doing awesome and is now about her prepreg wt (but she is worried that her weight…
