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WANTED: Active, food loving friends
I have been on this site a while, and am mostly in maintenance now. I am looking for new friends who are physically active, with goals of fitness and strength, who are NETTING 1400+ calories. Being that my total calories varies from 1900-2800 a day, it has proven hard to find others who eat similar amounts. I am always…
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Regularity... or not... bowel habits buggered up
I recently had a few months off from working out and healthy eating, due to a month of illness and then Christmas. I have now been back to my usual intense exercise regime and mostly healthy diet for almost two months, but I notice that while I had superb bowel movements during my period of not working out and eating…
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Exercises to help firm up the under armpit area?
I seem to be a bit flabby in that area below the armpits, between there and just above the waist or it certainly looks more fleshy than I would like when I am stood relaxed. What exercises will target that particular area? The rest of me is pretty damn solid now, but obviously I have been missing something out.
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Most Exercise You Did In One Day?
My gym had a full day of back to back master classes on Thursday, and I challenged myself to do 6 of them in that one day. Basically 3 sets of 2 back to back classes. These were boxing fitness, abs, kickboxing fitness, hot iron(body pump basically), step class with weights and gladiator fitness...45 minutes each. I also…
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Anyone else into Boxing/boxing fitness here?
Don't recall ever seeing a post on boxing and boxing fitness. I recently started doing boxing fitness and boxing training with a qualified trainer and am enjoying it, though it is extremely hard work.
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Female Calves... don't like mine
I seem to have the sort of legs that build muscle fairly easily with exercise, and although I know that yes, there are far worse things to be worried about, and that many females want muscular calves, I don't like them. Muscle is great, to a degree, but for me personally, there are limits. I generally do interval training…
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Boxing Gloves... ? Anyone knowledgeable here?
Looking to get my first boxing gloves. Looking for insight. My trainer told me to get the 8oz ones. I am doing pad work right now, but eventually will also be adding in kickboxing and hopefully, sparring. These are the ones I have been eyeing up, though the local sports store does the following everlast ones.…
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Personal Trainer Qualifications
What sort of qualifications should one look for in a personal trainer? I notice that at my gym, some have REPS qualifications, some have BScs in sports and nutrition, some have various boxing qualifications. The one I currently have taken on is REPS level 3 advanced personal trainer, boxing level 3, kickboxing level 3,…
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Healthy without veggies + fruits??
I see quite a few people on Mfp with daily diaries totally lacking in fruits and vegetables, and am just curious as to whether people can maintain decent health and nutrients without those things? I, personally, eat a kg of veggies and fruits a day, and cannot imagine not having them on a daily basis. And do you think it…
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Seeking Friends In Maintenance
Looking for more people who are in maintenance as I am. I eat anywhere from 2000-3000 calories a day, depending on my activity level, and am seeking more friends in the same sort of position. I am not a clean eater, more of balanced eater who likes to overdo the cake sometimes, haha. So add me if you are here just to…
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UK Graze Code(free box) for anyone who wants it
Got my first Graze box and it came with a code, that seems to be able to be used 4 times so if any Uk people want to start getting their Graze boxes (delicious snacks in individual portions), just go to the site and put the code in. https://www.graze.com/uk/products Code - HXKTHYVD
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HRM and MAX HR During Exercise
Just had some moron message me to claim I am making things up, and to call BS because I posted in a thread that my heart rate remains around 90-92% of my max while running. This is true, it does, because 1) I am new to running outdoor and 2) I have emphysema and 68% lung function and push myself through it, no matter how…
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Meal Timing Study - Opinions?
I am curious as to what people make of this study. Having had success with Intermittent fasting, and eating all my calories after 8pm in the evening, I am sort of wondering what people make of the results of lower serum lipid levels with frequent meals, vs one meal. Has there been an update to this study, or are there…
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Gym decreases appetite, biking increases it...why?
I have noticed that after doing some running or elliptical and weights at the gym, I come out with my appetite effectively diminished to almost nothing. But when I go cycling outside for an hour or two, I am famished, often halfway through. Both seem intense workouts. The cycling involves a lot of hilly terrain, but when…
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Unusual Question
I have COPD, meaning my lungs are impaired permanently, so basically, when I workout, I am exercising with lungs that are only 68% capacity, rather than the norm for my age group, which would be 84%. (Result of smoking and bad luck, diagnosed at 28). I am curious as to how this would be impacting my nutritional needs, as…
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Craving a lot of meat since I started weights
I was a vegetarian for over a decade, then a pescetarian for well over another decade, but not long after I started weights, I found myself craving meat, especially chicken, and ended up eating it again. Since then, I find myself often having chicken on a daily basis, and my protein is sometimes hitting 160g , no matter…
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Females eating over 1800/day
Looking for friends who eat in the same sort of region as myself, whether on maintenance or still losing, especially those who also have a history of EDs. I am pretty active, and sometimes intake 2500-3000, depending on exercise, and as a former anorexic, it can be difficult not having others who eat a similar amount…
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How accurate is this fat% monitor likely to be ?
I saw a personal trainer today for a fitness assessment and he took my height, weight, measurements etc, then used an electrical impedance machine called bodystat 1500 on me to get my bodyfat%, lean mass, water percentage etc. It put me at 12% bodyfat, which is pretty much what the intermittent fasting site estimator put…
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Are high fat diets truly health ?
Notice quite a few who are doing Paleo and Primal here, have very high fat intakes, some as high as 180g a day, mostly animal fat and coconut oil and must admit, that would worry me, as I have not yet found any recent studies that say a high intake of saturated fat in particular, animal fat, is not bad for health. In fact,…
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Extreme Binges
Sometimes when I binge, they become, basically, planned and extreme. This usually happens just before my period, presumably from an imbalance of hormones and a lower mood. On these occasions, I will literally buy in boxes or large bags of all of the food types I often crave. As an example, my most recent binge shop…
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Mfp has cause more harm than good for me.
I have found that since finding mfp, I have spent every evening glued to the forums, obsessing on 'clean eating', have developed a fear of having any pre packaged meals, of allowing myself the treats I used to have regularly amidst my regular food, along with the fact I now feel impelled to workout everyday, regardless of…
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Knee problem messing up my running
I did a run of about three or four days doing 5-8k on the treadmill and my right knee started hurting underneath and gravitating to the inside area. I did fall on it many years ago while rollerskating, think decades ago, but until now, other than the occasional twinge, it had been fine. I did change my trainers recently…
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For All You Binge Eaters
Amazingly supportive group you might want to join. There is a binge challenge monthly, to try and defeat the binge monster and come out on top. And plenty of friendly people struggling with similar food related issues. Hope to see some of you joining in on the April binge challenge.…
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Question For Intermittent Fasters
Have you ever experienced a racing heart after having your first meal after the fast. I started doing 16/8 five days ago, though it often ends up being more like 17/7, and tonight I had a treat meal, not as in something ridiculously outlandish, just a feta and spinach pie, carrot, swede and potato mash, some peas and 100g…
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Intermittent Fasting + Reduced Hunger
Is it normal, when doing IF to find when the time comes to actually eat, you are not as turned on by food, nor as hungry as when you had snacks in the day? I find that after going 14-16 hours without food, when I do eat my first meal, I get a belly ache, presumably because it is empty. A bit like indigestion pain. I tend…
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Stuck in a deep hole
Why do I do this? I know I am living in a miserable environment where I do all I can to avoid 'seeing' it, I am generally depressed, and lacking in any real interests, and stuck in a rut where I seem to have an aversion to going to bed at a sensible time before I get hungry, yet what do I do ? Buy a load of reduced price…
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Feeding The Right Wolf
Took this from a post in the main forum, in case you guys missed it as I feel it is a wonderful insight.
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Fitbit Help Please?
Had a fitbit ultra last year, which worked beautifully until things were changed about, and I got rid of it. Just got a fitbit one, and am logging my workouts manually, but the fitbit seems to be adding too much in addition. I did a run, logged it manually on mfp, using the start time as fitbit underestimates my burns for…
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Any Binge Eaters Found A Way To Keep Their Triggers Around?
Just curious if the only approach to trigger foods is to remove them entirely from the environment? I ask because I keep bringing in foods I tend to not be able to limit myself with, in hopes that one day it will somehow click and I will be able to be 'normal' and just have a portion and stop and carry on. I feel as if…