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Previously obese: Have your perceptions changed?
I'm really curious about something. Before I started caring about my health and realizing that I wanted more out of myself than what I was allowing, I had casually kept up with a few somewhat-prominent-at-the-time health advocates, most of whom had come from morbid obesity or close to it. I noticed that in a lot of the…
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From Size 50+ Jeans to 38 (Huge Album of Photos Part 2)
Photos are at the bottom. Back at the end of April, I posted here about my progress thus far, having been 72 pounds down from 361.6 and shared a slew of the weekly progress photos I'd been taking. Well, four months later, I'm 74 pounds down. 2 pounds in four months? What the hell? Well, shortly after I made that thread, I…
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Remedies for dry / sore throat during cardio?
I've been working on the elliptical for a while now, keeping my cardio in-doors. Flat-ground running has been a concern of mine because of my back and my joints having a bit too much stress on them at 290 pounds, with my loose fat constantly trudging up and then back down again with every stride. On top of that, however, I…
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At 72lb down, I'm finally getting my flexibility back.
Pics at the bottom. I've been dieting on keto at <20g carb and <1500kcal since the end of November, last year, while trying to maintain a consistent routine of heavy weight training four to five times per week. Between then and now, I've managed to lose 71.8 pounds, coming down from 361.6lb to 289.8 as of just yesterday.…
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What muscle group do you most loathe exercising?
It seems that in each of my workouts I have a moment where the burn on my muscles gets incredibly intense and really uncomfortable. I started thinking about that and realized that there was really only one muscle group where it got so intense that I needed to stop a set early. My forearms. Quadriceps come in a close…
