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Strength exercises or not?
I am a 58 year old woman who is trying (and succeeding) to lose weight by reducing calories and increasing my exercise. I cycle (4 or 5 x a week for between 45 minutes and 2.5 hours), do gardening about an hour 5 times a week and swim occasionally. I don't do any strength exercises at all. Would there be any adavantage in…
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50:50 - fifty years plus with 50 lbs plus to lose!
If there's anyone else in this situation, I'd love to be friends with you. I'm really trying hard to lose weight for the sake of my health, but also to get back into clothes and to look better. I'm just into the clinically obese category but suppose I've been in denial about my weight as it's crept upwards over about the…
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Intense exercise. No weight loss. What next?
I hope someone can help. I've just got back from a cycling holiday which I'd trained hard for. We covered 520 miles over 8.5 days on mountain bikes using tracks and roads. Some of it was flat and some of it very hilly and temperatures were around 30 celsius most of the time. I obviously used a lot of calories and ate more…
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Let's get (re)motivated
Hello everyone. I don't know about all of you but I'm feeling the need to get motivated once more. It all started off brilliantly but with me, I can feel one or two bad habits starting to creep back in. I have lost 6.8 kg so far, which I'm happy about but I still have a long way to go. This week, I pulled a muscle in my…
