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32 Miles -- NSV
NSV -- One of the reasons I have been striving to become more fit is do have greater endurance and do more things. Yesterday I took a 32 mile bike ride solo and I wasn't even tired or sore. Just a few years ago I was 100 pounds heavier and would have been in agony walking a mile. Younger at almost 60 than I was at almost…
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Muscle/strength lexicon to describe NSV
I know that the strength-training community has definitions and terms associated with increased muscle strength and appearance. I don't want to use the wrong terms to describe my NSV. What word I can use instead of toned to describe a muscle-related NSV? Yesterday at a surprise 60th birthday party for a contemporary, I…
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60x60 Success - 500 miles
My 60x60 handle stands for 60 things I want to accomplish by my 60th birthday. Only one of which had to do with weight loss (maintain my 100 lb loss that I had attained over a four year period since my bout with cancer, so far so good); about 1/4 pertain to physical health and fitness. Other goals/challenges vary from the…
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NSV: "Your Labs are Excellent"
Over 5 years ago exiting cancer treatment, I made a pact with body to do my part in taking care of it in the future. I had become quite lax over the years. I have since lost a tremendous amount of weight, 10 lbs to "normal" BMI. I have been exercising and eating and drinking thoughtfully. Despite occasional obstacles…
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Special Fitness Section in Feb 2013 Consumer Reports
MyFitnessPal is included in a section entitled "Lose weight Your way". It also contains a section on the psychology of overeating. It is a good read on a cold day.
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Work Wardrobe Advice in the Video Age
I have conquered so many health demons associated with my age/weight/risk factors that I now have the very pleasant problem of dealing with vanity issues (have lost oodles of weight and fat slowly over the past five years). I am down from a size 24 (tops and bottoms) to a size 16 on top and 8 to 10 bottoms. I'm in the…
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Improved Back, Bottom and Work Life
As a workplace adjustment due to a burst lumbar disk, my work has provided me with a sit-stand work station. (note: there are good work places, my back problem was not work's fault). Push a button and and my work surface moves to a perfect position for ergonomic position for me to stand, push another button and the same…
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Tricks Foods Play -- Science News 10/6/12
www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/345277/.../Tricks_Foods_Play This article gave me food for thought so I thought others might want to read it and assess.
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Teetering on the Edge
Need some support. Positive progress toward better fitness has been a major objective for me since my cancer treatment ended in 2008. I have had huge positive success in health factors and appearance. With so many years of experience, I am self-aware enough to know when I am losing my way. It is happening now! The last…
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Relationship Challenge -- only one snack a night
Last night as I was trying to resist my evening snacking urge, I heard my husband raiding the kitchen for what seemed like the millionth time. He needs to control his evening eating to control his diabetes. I need to control mine for long-term health goals. Each kitchen rustle was driving me beserk. So out of my mouth came…
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Finally-Not the Fat Sister-Age 58
Next week I will be seeing my mother, brother, and sisters at the same time for the first time in over 15 years (I'm not estranged and have seen all of them fairly regularly, but we are scattered across the country). Regardless of how they and the passage of time have treated them, beautiful to me always, I have changed…
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Round 2 -- The New Me
I deactivated myself from myfitnesspal yesterday and have come back as the NEW me. I have been on an infinitely long journey to good health, and during the last year and a half of the 15 year journey, I have used this site as a tool. I have come back to lose 20 vanity lbs. to move from overweight to normal and to stay…
