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Getting Paid to Lose Weight
I wanted to put together a list of all the ways I'm getting paid to lose weight and approximate earnings: DietBet http://www.dietbet.com - Profit: $0+/game, depends on success rate of those in bet, you will not lose money if you make your goal Join a 4 week game to lose 4% of your body weight or a 6 month game to lose 10%.…
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WARNING! Fitness Apps Give Inaccurate Calorie Burns!
I walk a lot. I've tracked my walks with 3 different Android apps and the data they track can vary substantially. Here's an example from today: Verizon Samsung Galaxy S3 Android 4.3 Runkeeper 4.3.4 6.02 mi 1445 calories MapMyFitness 2.9.3 6.23 mi 2096 calories Endomondo 9.4.0 6.54 mi 2225 calories WOW! This level of…
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Getting Fitted for Shoes = Awesome Improvement!
As I'm losing weight and improving my fitness, I'm continually trying to increase my walking speed and distance. After doing lots of reading on these forums, I finally broke down and took the advice. I went to Yelp and found a local running shoe store (non-chain store) and went in to talk about my training progress, goals,…
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Any walkers around San Diego?
Looking for walking buddies in San Diego. I'm hoping to start doing 5k/10k/half marathon walking events in the coming months. I'm currently at about a 21min mile so I need to pick up that pace before I can finish most events in time.
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What to do for a size smaller than size 0 girl?
One of my gal pals is smaller than a 0 in many cases and she struggles to find things that fit right. In fact, I can't get her to tell me what outfit she feels the sexiest in because she doesn't fell good in them! As one of her friends I cannot let this stand! As a fat dude I have no idea what to tell her or where she…
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Choose Music by Beats Per Minute (BPM)
I think I saw somewhere on the interwebz at some point that there is a way to find songs by their beats per minute - anyone know anything like this? When working out on the elliptical or even walking, running or biking, using songs with different bpm can get you into a good groove. In the past I've just picked songs till I…
