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Book-clubby question: social/educational bubbles, overexplaining concepts in media
This is probably a little serious for MFP, but hey, it's Chit Chat, right? :) I'm currently reading The Life We Bury and the author, Allen Eskins, did something that kicked off a random train of thought. In close succession, he (to me) over-explained some things: Occam's razor and Jackson Pollock. The first time, I thought…
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I'm not complaining, but this is one of those things
CICO has always worked for me in the usual sporadic, non-linear, trend-over-time kind of way. Even with Hashimoto's, which makes my weight loss and maintenance numbers painfully low, those numbers still at least work pretty reliably. I've been at maintenance now for about 3 years. The weird thing is, I just got back from a…
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French-speaking friends - support, recipes, etc
arnaudskyler13 is looking for French-speaking friends to share support, recipes, etc. He posted in French, so his thread got locked. Add him if you're interested :) (Note: NOT me, just arnaudskyler13. I don't do the MFP friends thing.)
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What did you learn from your HRM?
I've had my Polar FT7 for about a month now, and I learned: - I was working way less hard in my Mon/Wed/Sat Zumba instructor's class (~500 cal/hr with a HR 150-170 for most of the class) than in my Thu/Sun class (~650 cal/hr with a HR of 160-175) and so stepped it up, which probably makes me look like a spaz compared to…
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@class instructors - Does this bother you?
I've been taking classes off and on for years - step, zumba, yoga, bodypump, whatever. Instructor intensity is all over the map, especially in pure cardio classes. Some go all out, and some sort of coast on autopilot (I imagine if you're teaching more than 2 or 3 classes a week, it's hard to keep the intensity up). My…
