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Almost 6 months progress. Under 300!
It took a lot of hard hard work and exercise, but I finally broke 300 (not by much, who cares!)! Though the pounds aren't flying off like in the beginning and there was a stall for a bit, I finally found out that there was muscle under all that fat. Started out at around 360lbs, completely sedentary. Currently at 298 and…
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Around 80 days in, 45 Lbs down w/Pics
I've been a big guy all of my life and it's never really bothered me. Things just got worse and worse as I got older because of my eating habbits and lack of activity. I woke up in the morning, drove to work, sat on my *kitten* for 9 hours, sat on my *kitten* some more in the car, went home and sat on the couch, showered…
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Working out causing too much of a deficit to eat back.
I started MFP at 5'10" & 358. I lived an extremely sedentary lifestyle (office job), do nothing at home. I have a calorie goal from MFP of 2100. I used to come on a bit under, but since I have started working out and using an HRM and monitoring software (currently using digifit) my deficit has been so large that I can't…
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Fat Burn vs Fitness
I recently started using a heart rate monitor to get a more accurate calorie burn while doing cardio and strength training. I've got the strength training down, but I am hoping someone can help me out with the cardio readings. I've got the polar h7 and I have been using the polar app during cardio sessions (mostly the…
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Snarky and fun intro post title!
Ok, so maybe not snarky or funny, but oh well :) Where to start. I am a 32 year old married father of 2 beautiful children ( not sure how that happened, must be from their mother!). I have been obese basically my entire life. I guess I convinced myself that it wasn't bad at all because I was never prohibited from doing…
