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Exceeded my goal and then..
I've been at this game for a while. Took me a forever to figure out how to stop deceiving myself and accurately count every bit of food I was eating. Had to learn all about abstaining from alcohol and other distractions that I used to replace my food cravings. But I did it. My original goal weight was 150, down from 215. I…
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New testing shows fitbits a lot like BEI-bodyfat scales
I didn't know there were groups named "help, my fitbit is making me fat" but I believe it. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2925963/The-fitness-gadgets-make-fatter-claim-count-calories-burn-test-shows-theyre-wildly-inaccurate.html Interesting read. For the TL;DR, the chart showing the test results is at the bottom…
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New research about different diets
I know this will probably be removed, but I just don't care. I keep hearing on MFP more and more information that flies in the face of what experience has taught me, and what sounds logical to me, and what I am reading from studies.…
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Ortho-rexia
I just read an article on T-Nation written by TC, one of their regular contributors, and her article made me stop and think. She talked about the historical context of how we diet as a nation, and how most of the beliefs for the craze at that time are unfounded and completely debunked 20 years later. I wonder what will be…
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Man loses 56 pounds eating McD's
http://www.today.com/health/man-loses-56-pounds-after-eating-only-mcdonalds-six-months-2D79329158 :noway: I suppose he's like that twinkie diet guy, trying to prove that calories are *indeed* calories?
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I lost weight... but I still...
I lost weight, but I still have the same psychological issues inside my head, rattling around. I grew up with a father who didn't like himself. He was never good enough (for his dad), and he has spent his life trying to gain *his* father's respect and affection. In the same way my dad passed that on to me, treating me like…
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50 pounds gone
I'm 3/4 of the way done to getting to my first goal weight, 150. I'm 5'6" tall and I started at ~215 ish, and decided to lose some weight. I was the heaviest I had ever been. In February of 2012, I went to GNC, dropped a ton of cash on shakes and supplements and vitamins and workout mixes.. and tried to eat a little less.…
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Hoss is the boss
Wow, I'm shocked at the thread deletion. A few bad apples.. You sir are a champion, and for what it's worth, I salute you and your 150 lb loss, and can't wait to see what's next! You rock!
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Gained 10 lbs.. on purpose
I tore off 40 pounds quickly, since starting to lose fat in September. By December I was in the 170's, and by January I almost had a 1-6-something in front. I had been seeing diminishing returns on my weight loss. My efforts to eat less and exercise more were not showing off the results, and it was getting to me. How can…
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How weight loss works
Almost all of the arguments are full of emotion and psychological projection. Some people passionately believe that eating less than your BMR will leech lean body mass and is not enough calories to support the basic functions of day to day life, and is a general risk to being healthy. They are sweet to care about our…
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1200, VLCD, and EM2WL
I just wanted to take the opportunity to rebut once again all the posts from another thread where I was told, in the face of scientific studies how wrong I was. The people on here who speak to others with such disrespect, who advocate for eating close to or over 2000 calories per day, without any thought to context or…
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RANT: VLCD and Lean mass!!!
There was a post on here who kept telling everyone who might have their own way of reducing calories that they were all "DOING IT WRONG" I find so much fault with how he presented his hypothesis. Instead of rant and tell everyone who doesn't do it my way that they are a big ball of fail, I am going to offer evidenced based…
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Wrong Calorie Counts Too Often
I sit here having torn off 30 pounds worth of weight. When I work out with a 30 pound vest on, or 30 pounds worth of dead weight that I have to lift, I can hardly believe that all of it has come off. Once I saw a loss of 30 pounds on the scale, hitting that mark let me relax a little. I was doing it. I was creating a…
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Fomula for Calories burned doing HIIT
So I checked for a HIIT calories burned, and there's nothing in the MFP database. After googling, and looking online, I see so many charts that condradict each other. Livestrong.com says to calculate HIIT calories: The following equation from the Journal of Sports Sciences calculates the calorie expenditure for women:…
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Favorite Lifts.. With Pics
I saw A post of a lift I had never seen before, and my eyes popped out of my head. It was this > A Hip Thrust So epic.. What are some of your favorite lifts. Post pictures!! I'll add a second one that I found, Maybe we can put together a group of fun lifts That everyone can use! Barbell Pullover And of course, the squat.…
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Hellish Singles Mixer
So last night was the second "fun happy hour singles mixer" I've went to in the last week. The first one was AWFUL because no one showed up, and I was stupid enough to come to the one last night. It was on the other side of town, like a 45 minute drive for me, and it was a complete 40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN FEST!!! Ugh I need 14…
