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calorie intake for a 13 year old boy trying to gain?
My nephew is trying to build muscle, he's naturally pretty slim and lanky and my husband and I are taking him to the gym with us to work out but I want to make sure he's eating enough. All of my experience is with gaining muscle while losing fat, he has no fat to lose! Anyone have a good ballpark calorie intake for a 13…
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Liquid diet :/
Sooooo I'm going to get some wisdom teeth yanked out (2, one impacted) and will be off solid food for at least a few days. Any ideas for what I can eat? Other than smoothies? (I lived on smoothies when I got my first wisdom tooth pulled, gets old after awhile!!)
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P90X iPhone ap?
Does anyone have this? My husband just found it, I tried the p90x program but I find I do better when I can go to the gym and workout, too many distractions/excuses at home!
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20 pounds down, almost halfway there! (pics)
So my weight loss journey started about ten years ago and through a series of fad diets, miracle pills and bouts with borderline anorexia & fasts followed by binging I went from an out of shape 135 to a VERY out of shape 189. Possibly even higher. I have attempted atkins, south beach, windsor pilates, the ab roller, that…
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Sweet potato pie smoothie :)
So I'm on a liquid diet from getting wisdom teeth removed and desperately needed some variety! My breakfast for the last two days has been carrot sweet potato pie smoothies: 1/2 cup cooked mashed sweet potato (I made it with a combo of carrots and sweet potato... Mostly cause I needed to use up some carrots that I forgot…
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Cleveland Color Run 6/16/2012
anyone on here running it? i just signed up and I can't wait!!!
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running pants to contain the jiggle
I have started training for a 5k but I'm running into an issue, I have too much jiggle in my wiggle!! I need something to contain the jiggly bits while I run, and its not exactly comfortable. I'm 5'3" and about 180lbs, and am most definitely a pear so most of my weight is in my bottom half. any advice? I'm on a budget so…
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Cross training for runners?
I'm doing c25k and am not sure of what cross training I should be doing, any suggestions from you runners?
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alternative to mayo?
I have a friend who wants to start eating better, she has around 100lbs to lose. Her last diet was Atkins (see weight yet to lose for how well that worked out!) during which her favorite snack was tomato slices spread with mayo (shudder) she LOVES mayo and while I know in moderation its not bad, she needs to learn the…
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favorite ALL NATURAL under 200 cal snacks?
I could use some new snacks in my life :) I try to avoid HFCS, preservatives, artificial sweeteners, partially hydrogenated oils and all those other baddies that seem to be in every food diet or otherwise. Any tips? my usual snacks include: plain greek yogurt topped with stevia &/or frozen fruit or peanut butter & cinnamon…
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Bodybugg
I know a few of you recently said you were buying/had recently bought a bodybugg and I'm wondering how you're liking it? has it helped you lose any weight and do you think its a good investment? I'm interested in getting one but its pretty expensive so I'm leary of spending so much!
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chocolate covered grapes?
a coworker brought in some chocolate covered grapes (if you're in the northeastern Ohio area they're Malleys, :love: ) I have about 400 calories budgeted for snacks today, and I want to have some (well I already had one :blushing: ) I cant find any nutrition info on them... anyone have any guesses?
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new favorite lowcal snacks
Kozy shack's single serve flan. 150 calories, all natural, no artificial sweeteners and OMG its good!!! and Quaker Blackberry Pomegranite mulitgrain fiber crisps with swiss laughing cow cheese. 13 crisps topped with 1 wedge of laughing cow is 145 calories and the process of spreading the cheese on each crisp makes me eat…
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Oatmeal: old fashioned vs. quick cook
Ok I understand that on the scale of types instant oats are the worst because they have flavors (and therefore added calories, fat & sodium) and steelcut oats are the best, most unprocessed and all that jazz but they take too long to cook for me. I'm awful about making a bunch in advance and reheating it so I prefer to…
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Former TDP-er :)
Hey I just joined up last week at the insistance of my lovely friend Bratgrr1. I lost 18 lbs on TDP and and didnt stick with it after the livestrong takover... and promptly gained that 18 lbs back. So I'm back at it again and hopefully this time it sticks!!!
