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Get Moving!
I work in an office where the majority of our time is spent at the computer, with a small percentage of time spent driving. To get myself, and my coworkers, off our tushies, I made a deck of exercise cards. There are two ways to do a deck of cards: The typical way where there are only 4 or 6 exercises, determined by the…
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Breakfast
Since we haven't had a recipe post for a while and I'm now on night shift so I won't be able to eat my favorite meal of the day (breakfast) - I think everyone should share their favorite, at least somewhat healthy, breakfast. (And if anyone has a homemade cinnamon roll recipe that's not going to eat up all my calories with…
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Getting your "Grit" on
My First Sgt likes to send inspiring messages out to us about once a week. I thought I'd go ahead and share today's message with all of you. Enjoy! "I thought I'd share the following message I rec'd from a great CMSgt mentor: An executive summary from "How to Get True Grit": Grit, say psychologists, is the quality that…
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Overcoming Stumbling Blocks
A lot of the big, fit, muscle-y guys I work with spend a lot of time (and money) at bodybuilding.com, so I was browsing their site today and came across this article that just makes sense. It things we've all talked about on this forum, but reading about it on a body building site just kind of reaffirmed these are…
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5K support
I know there are some people tracking their C25K progress on another discussion and I get so much inspiration from their progress and determination. I also know some of them have signed up for 5Ks. Does anyone else have a 5K coming up? I thought it might be fun to keep a schedule of when we are doing our races and we can…
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The Deen Family weight loss story
I just read a short article about Paula Deen's family losing weight over the last year. I love how it wasn't an article about super fit celebs getting rock hard abs in 2 weeks, or using some crazy crash diet that everyone in the world would then run out and try. In the last year, Paula lost 40 lbs, her husband lost 60 lbs,…
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Wild Weekend
Anyone have any fun weekend plans? I'm sure we all do more than exercise and count calories, so let's share...
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Work out tunes
I had a friend recently turn me on to jog.fm - it's amazing! My current play list is for a 9:30-9:45 mile and it's so eclectic. I ran with a co-worker last week and her ipod was dead so we shared mine and she laughed at my "taste" in music being so random. That got me thinking - what do my MPF friends listen to when they…
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Iowa State Fair
Hey everyone! I'm new to MFP and wanted to start off by saying "GO HAWKEYES!" I was born and raised in Des Moines, but my current address is in Afghanistan and when I leave here I'll be heading back to South Carolina where I am stationed. It has been too long since I have been to the Iowa State Fair and nothing in the…
