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Mini Goal Challenge - Week of May 21 to May 27
In the weekly Warrior Mini-Goal Challenge focus on your "short term goals" Focusing on one week at a time, when the big picture seems too overwhelming. Small changes can bring on big results!! Choose one or more things you want to work on for just this week. Don't set it too high or unreachable!! Please, make sure your…
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Mini Goal Challenge - Week of April 2 to April 8
In the weekly Warrior Mini-Goal Challenge focus on your "short term goals" Focusing on one week at a time, when the big picture seems too overwhelming. Small changes can bring on big results!! Choose one or more things you want to work on for just this week. Don't set it too high or unreachable!! Please, make sure your…
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Eat Yer Veggies Challenge, Anyone?
Recently, someone posted a checklist for healthy habits, and the one thing almost everyone said is that they can't/don't get five servings of fruits & veggies every day. I recently read something that said the recommendation should be raised to NINE servings a day! How will we manage that? Just for a few days, I'd love to…
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My Cat Has Taught Me a New HIIT Circuit
The other day, I was looking at my thin cat (have a fat one, too), and I thought to myself, "What is he doing that Fat Henry and I aren't doing?" The answer was High Intensity Interval Training, of course. So, for the last several days I have followed his routine closely. I nap from 45 minutes to three hours, then run up…
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Halfway! (pic)
I'm wearing size 16 jeans in the photo on the left, size 10 jeans in the photo on the right. I've been losing and moving down in sizes, but I've had a hard time really seeing the improvement in how I look. This photo helps! I started exercising pretty regularly in Sept., joined MFP in November. I'm now a little over…
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Cooking with Some of the Best Ingredients
Here's a link to a series by the New York Times with many recipes for some of the most nutrient-rich foods. If you click on an ingredient, there are a few paragraphs about which nutrients that particular food contains. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/series/recipes_for_health/index.html?ref=health Note that these…
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Gentle Eating
Has anyone tried this, or have any thoughts about it? I have really been thinking about something I heard about a while ago: people who chronically overeat do not enjoy food as much as people who eat less. They can see that the pleasure center of the brain doesn't "light up" as much for an overeater when they consumer food…
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"Healthy" BF% ???
OMG - I re-took the Military Body Fat Calculator and I got 34.9%. On that same website, their chart says that at my age (43), 35% is the high end of "HEALTHY"! Not overweight! http://www.fat2fitradio.com/tools/ibw/ Now, my BMI is still "overweight," and I know 34.9% is a pretty high body fat percentage (I'm aiming for 25%…
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Jumping in at Week 5
I started running back in Sept. I got to the point that I could run one mile in 15 minutes. I know that's slow, but I was jogging, not walking. I took some time off (moved, got a bad cold, etc. etc.) and I took it up again at the end of November. Before, I was running outside and now I'm on a treadmill. Again, I got to the…
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I Think I'm Doing it Right
But the boyfriend keeps telling me I'm overeating. Several times a day, especially when I'm pulling things out of the fridge in the evening to find the right calories to get up to my daily goal, I hear, "You're eating AGAIN? Are you sure you're doing this right?" I'm eating around 1700-1800 calories per day. Basically, I'm…
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Diet Tips that Never Worked For Me
For most of us here, this isn't our first ride on the merry-go-round of trying to lose weight and/or get fit. I wouldn't say anyone logged into MyFitnessPal and said, "Oh! You mean you eat less and exercise?? Wow, never heard that before." I've been overweight most of my life and there are some diet tips I have been told…
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Worst Recipe Ever?
I came across this quinoa breakfast recipe while reading self.com's article about 20 Superfoods to lose weight. I know it is a buzzword, but I am a "superfood" junkie. (Except kale, can't quite figure out what the heck to do with that. And lentils, meh.) However, quinoa in an orange juice mush for breakfast sounds awful.…
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Lvl 1 Day 6
How is everyone? We are getting closer to weigh and measure day, I don't know if I have much to show for all my work. I did the 30DS Lvl 1 for the 6th day today, I know some of you started a day earlier than I did. I also joined a challenge that ends today to burn a certain number of calories for the week - and I set a…
