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Started keto on Sunday
Hey all! I just started keto and am looking for keto friends. I've been paleo/primal for about a year or so and am hoping this will be the extra push to lose more fat. :)
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TDEE question concerning activity levels
So, I work out often enough. As an example, my HRM says this was my weeks totals: 5:45:35 (hr/min/sec), 5 sessions, 2669 calories. This was a mixture of weights, elliptical, pushups, lunges, squats, etc each day. This is not including today's workout which I'll be doing in a bit (a short 30min, though). For the next few…
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Needs some paleo/primal friends :)
Hey everyone. I'm not foreign to MFP, but took a hiatus this past Fall because I'm a senior at Texas A&M and my semester was slammed. I'm surprised I had time to breathe, haha. I've jumped head first back into my old/good routine, but due to my absence from MFP for ~3 months, a lot of my friends on here deleted me :/ Just…
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My Body Gallery
I don't know if this has ever been posted before, but I find it motivating and helpful. It's a site dedicated to pictures of real women. Women volunteer photos, and they're categorized by height, weight, shirt/pant size, body-type, etc. So, I could search for pictures of women that are 5'5", 145-160 (my goal is somewhere…
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Side Collage (long way to go!)
So, I took pictures in October '11, Feb. '12 and today. There's about a 24 pound difference between October and today... but I feel like I can't SEE a difference? I know clothes fit better/smaller sizes but looking at these I've been really discouraged. I know I'm being way self critical :/ Can anyone tell?
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Not full success yet, but ~35lbs down... (pics)
So, I think I'm only posting this for two reasons. 1. I'M SO FREAKING HAPPY TO SEE "1" AS THE FIRST NUMBER OF MY WEIGHT! I hit 198 this past week. (high of 238 previously). 2. I'm procrastinating from continuing to study for my anatomy/physiology lab practical in the morning. But really...I didn't notice there was a…
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Did you do all the reps every time? (30DS)
So, I'm doing the 30DS, and was curious if people who got noticeable results also did all the reps/never stopped of all the strength exercises. Just in level one right now. I can do about 20 or so pushups in a row (modified...I have screws in my foot so I can't do normal pushups because of the pressure/angle on my foot),…
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Glad I upped my calories!
It's been roughly 4 weeks since I started taking this seriously again. The first two weeks my caloric intake, via MFP, was set at 1240 or 1280 or something like that. I lost about 2 pounds, but I just felt like I wasn't eating enough. So, I posted in the fitness/nutrition forum for some advice and everyone agreed I should…
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I learned to live three years ago.
Three years ago today, I was in a life-altering car accident. I severely broke my right foot and lower leg, I couldn't walk for at least half a year and I couldn't do any form of hard/impact physical activity until last year really. I wasn't wearing a seat-belt (yes, yes, I know...), and I rear-ended a truck that was…
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I may be over-doing it here soon...
Well, on top of doing what I've been doing (HIIT 3x/wk, strength training in between, 30DS), my friend has roped me into a one month boot camp because hey, it's a $179 program going for $39 today only. I'm going to die. Should I think about upping my calories when boot camp starts next week, or leave it at 1570?
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Thoughts on food combining? Because I just got chewed out.
So, I worked out tonight and made a spinach/protein powder/banana/unsweetened almond milk smoothie/shake to get some protein in. I took a picture of it (pre-blending) in the blender and posted it to facebook because I thought it looked neat. My friend's mom starts commenting ... over and over. Not sure why she couldn't put…
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Professors with humor = <3
Just thought I'd share, because it made me laugh in the middle of the exam. I just took an exam on health education about 20 minutes ago. One of the questions was: "What does it mean to be culturally competent?" An answer choice: "to be able to make yogurt." Bahaha. I love when professors have a sense of humor, even if…
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NSV of the day led to near embarrassment of the day...
So, I work in a lab on the Texas A&M campus. Everyone knows parking on any college campus can be more confusing than the class you're trying to get to. No exception here. Because of this, the lot I have to park in is about an 8 minute brisk walk (yay) to the building I work in. No biggie. On MWF, though, I get out of work…
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Am I eating enough?
I'm 5'5 1/2" (large frame/bone structure), and 205. I currently have MFP set to normal lifestyle, working out 5 days/wk for at least 30min, and -2lb a week loss. MFP suggests my caloric intake to be 1,320. I lost about 13 pounds when I kept up with this Aug-october of '11, then some personal things happened and I took a…
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A week later
A week post-hardcore-breakup and I'm down over 6 pounds. I've eaten maybe 5 times in the last week. Ate nothing until Friday night. Twice Saturday. Once sunday and once yesterday. I'm hardpressed to believe any day was even over 500 calories. I want to eat but I can't. The thought makes me sick. I wish I could find a way…
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Needing major support
Tuesday night my boyfriend broke up with me. I know it happens and everyone says "I know how you feel," but it's so much more. He wasn't just that. He was my best friend. My soul-mate when I originally didn't believe in such thing. We were supposed to get married. We talked about it all. We had that relationship where all…
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First mini-goal... achieved!
I was around 238 at the beginning of 2009. When I started MFP at the end of August, I was 220. I set a personal minigoal of 205 because I'm pretty sure I weighed that or actually a little HIGHER, when I started college in 2007. I honestly can't remember the last time I saw that number... ...until today! :D It's so nice to…
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Reasonable deadline?
I have a personal deadline to get to my goal weight by my next birthday. My goal weight is 160, and I have a feeling I'll be wanting to re-evaluate that as I get closer to it. Most-likely lowering it to 145, if possible. It's 160 right now because that's when I feel I looked my best in high-school (a nice size 8). My…
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HRM...what are some good ones?
I really want to get a heart rate monitor, but don't know where to go or what is good in terms of them. In my spinning class at the campus gym, we're provided Polar chest-strapped monitors, and those are the only kind I've used... what other ones are good?
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Not sure what to set activity level at?
I currently have mine set at Lightly Active. I'm a full-time student and work part-time just 12-15 hours a week. When I work, I'm sitting down for about 85% of it (I work in a pathology lab). When I'm on campus, I walk...a lot. My campus (Texas A&M) is one of the largest in the country, and can take sometimes 20 minutes to…
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Mini-YAY moment
So, I started/finished the C25K in the spring, and ran 2 5K's in late Spring/early summer. Then summer hit and I was busy being maid-of-honor in a wedding...CRAZY, haha. So...no real dieting or working out for about 2.5 months. The other month I have no excuse for... >.> I started back on this journey the week before…
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New to the site! [ not the app :) ]
Hi! My name is Devon, and I'm a 22yo senior Allied Health major at Texas A&M. ^I end up always introducing myself that way...It's how students first interact on campus, haha. I've been using the app (off-and-on) since Spring of this year, and didn't even pay attention to the fact that it had a website. Oops! I'm down about…
