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I'm a weightlifting noob.
I'm really thinking about adding a day of weight lifting to my regular exercise plan (which, at this point, only includes a 30-60 minute walk every day). The problem is that I have absolutely no idea how to start doing that. I don't really have the cash flow to join a gym. However, my apartment complex does have a small…
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Hello again MFP! I've missed you!
Last year at around this same time I joined MFP and stuck with it really consistently for 5 months. During that time I lost 30 pounds. In May I wound up moving in with new roommates, and actually found it harder to track my calories because I was eating more home made foods than I was eating out. Combined with other life…
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CSAs?
CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture. Traditionally what happens is that you pay a certain amount to a local farm up front, and then throughout the season (about May through October) you receive a box of fresh veggies and produce from that farm either weekly or biweekly. What you get depends on what they grow and…
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3 Sinister Reasons You're Addicted to Junk Food
Cracked ran this really short article today about the roles companies play in junk food addiction and I found it really interesting.. There aren't any solutions presented, but I think it's important to understand some of the things that are going on that you might not be aware of.…
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A couple of completely unrelated questions
I have two issues that I'm pretty sure are related to weight loss, but I just want to verify, because I really haven't seen anyone talking about them. I just hope I'm not weird. The first, kind of silly one but not really, is does losing weight make anyone else itch? Like, I've noticed that as I start to lose more and more…
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About 30 lbs lost progress pics
I still have a long way to go, but I wanted to share my progress so far. This is me at my heaviest when I went on vacation last September: And this is me a couple of days ago wearing the same shirt. I have lost about 30 lbs since I started keeping track in January. I have had people telling me that my face looks a lot…
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23 1/2 Hours
I just really wanted to share this video that my doctor told me to watch after my last yearly physical. I told him that I was using myfitnesspal to lose weight, but wasn't really doing any exercise because of several really bad experiences in the past. Mainly the fact that I used to think that exercise was *the* way to…
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Post Your Fat Picture!
So, one of the reasons that I started this is because I was looking through pics that I had posted on facebook over the last year and one of them from my vacation to Florida in September really struck me. I remember looking at it and thinking that I don't want to be this person any more. I think it's made worse by the…
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Keeping Fast Food Within Your Calorie Budget
Yes, we all know that fast food is horrible for you. This isn't news. For me, personally, though (and I assume many others), cutting it out is not realistic. I basically live in my car most of the time, and usually running late somewhere. If drive thrus weren't a thing, I would probably starve. That said, the land of fast…
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I'm actually going to do this this time.
So, last year's resolution was to start exercising. Which worked for all of about 3 weeks before I got frustrated with the fact that I wasn't losing any weight at all. The reason for that, I know now, was because I hadn't changed the way I was eating (I kept running into people telling me it was 90% diet and 10% exercise).…
