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Need some gung-hoing.
I don't have to make myself go running; it's something I look forward to, but lifting? Not so much. I know I need to lift more often to preserve the good old LBM, but I just hate it so much. I guess because it reminds me how weak I am, and even when I lifted 3 times a week, I progressed so SLOWLY. And I really hate the…
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TDEE minus 20% results
I changed my weight loss strategy about a month ago. I had been eating 1200 and about three quarters of my exercise calories back. The problem was, I frequently didn't have time to exercise until evening, and would end up starving myself all day, only to end up with a load of calories I was too tired to eat in the evening.…
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Call out, or not to call out?
I have someone on my friends list who, while a great person, is just always full of excuses as to why her last week was bad, and promises that she'll be better, only to have another excuse the next week. It's never anything like 'I had pneumonia so I couldn't exercise,' or 'I was snowed in with nothing but peanut butter…
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Deciding to try the TDEE minus 20% thing.
I don't always (in fact, hardly ever) work out first thing in the morning. It's usually mid afternoon, and sometimes after dinner. Using the MFP generated calorie goal, and then trying to eat back some of my exercise calories, left me with a lot of calories to stuff in at the end of the day. Sometimes I didn't bother, and…
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No W!
Today my smallest pair of pants was not only baggy, but could be pulled down without being undone, and the rest were worse, so I went to the store to buy a couple to tide me over. I went to the 'plus size' section, and tried on the smallest ones. No go. So I had to cross the aisle to the misses! Today, I'm wearing the…
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Lifting progress has stalled.
Hi everyone, especially those who've been at the fitness thing longer than me -- which is most everyone probably. I'm looking for some advice. I'm about to turn 53, on week six of stage one New Rules for Women, and my progress has stalled. I wasn't able to go up any weight and still get the reps in. I lift three days a…
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An small NSV.
Sometime when I wasn't looking, the same walk that used to take me 40 minutes with three rest stops and was it for the day, became the thirty minute quick cool down walk that feels good after lifting.
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14 pound underwear
My brain is a scumbag. Every time I get on the scale it tells me the drop in weight isn't 'real'. Even with getting into clothes I couldn't before, and the scale showing a 14 pound loss, my brain still refuses to believe I'm losing weight. It says I was just retaining water the first time I weighed, or even, my underwear…
