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Heart Rate Versus Calorie Burn
I'm not sure if anyone has run across this, or if it's just me. I have a very high resting heart rate, in part because I lead a sedentary lifestyle (which I'd like to fix) and in part because I was just made that way. I was a runner in high school and always had a resting heart rate that was 15 to 20 beats per minute…
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Same as it ever was...
Not sure what to do here. I have lost 33 pounds. I have gone from a size 12 (and they were none too big) to a size 6 and occasionally a few 4's. I have seven pounds left to get to my goal weight. Here's the problem. Even though I know intellectually I've lost most of what I want to lose, I still look in the mirror and…
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NSV for my health...
I have lost 32 pounds since September, finally putting me out of the "overweight" category on the BMI for the first time in... a long time. But that's not my NSV. My NSV is I've been feeling a bit lightheaded here and there and went to my doc this morning. He said it's from my blood pressure being too low. As a result, I…
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I've got the tool... Now what?
Okay, I finally broke down and bought a pedometer. It's not super fancy, but it allegedly calculates my steps and distance (I had to plug in my "stride length") and calories burned (I had to plug in my weight). Yesterday, it said I walked about 6200 steps throughout the day. This was not including any exercise. This was…
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When to get rid of "big" clothes...
I have dropped two and almost three pants sizes since I began my lifestyle change. I have been boxing them up as I "ungrow" (that's the opposite of outgrow, in my mind) them and putting them in the garage. Keeping them as I am almost seems like a lack of faith in my ability to maintain this weight loss. However, this is…
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How do I tighten up the jiggly stuff???
Hi there. I have lost 23 pounds off of my 5'4" frame in two and a half months. I've got about 15-20 more I'd like to make go away. I've lost this weight before (over and over and over...) but never this fast. What it's left behind this time is a pair of saggy, half empty (they weren't large to begin with) "girls" and what…
