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Is this mostly excess skin, or a lot of fat?? (Pictures) PLEASE help!
Just a heads up, these pictures are a bit unsightly. I'm 5' 4", 121 lbs. I am 24 and have been overweight since I was around 7. My highest weight was when I was 15, at 192 lbs. When I began losing weight, I knew there was a risk of getting loose skin. But I thought, oh, since I'm young, and I don't have 100 or more lbs to…
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Weighing less than you look?
So you always hear about people who weigh more than they look -- they carry their weight well, or they are lean and have a good amount of muscle. But is there anyone out there who feels that they look heavier than they weigh? I feel I fit into that camp. I'm 5' 4", 125.8 lbs, but I feel like I look at least 10, maybe 15…
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How used to a specific exercise can your body get?
So I know that our bodies get more efficient at doing a certain exercise the longer we keep doing it, and end up burning less calories than you did when you started the exercise. That's why it's always recommended to change up your routine every so often. But I was wondering, if you DON'T change your routine, is there a…
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kidney infection and not being able to work out :(
Hey everyone. I decided to post here because I'm needing some support, but i felt this forum was more appropriate than the motivation and support forum since it's centered around exercise. So i had to be taken to the emergency room this past friday night/saturday morning because i woke up in the night in severe, crippling…
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Do you think this is a good way to estimate calories burned on a cardio machine?
So, I had a Polar FT4 heart rate monitor and it was working great. The battery has died and I have not been able to get a new one and probably won't for a few more weeks. I know that machines are extremely inaccurate in terms of showing you calorie burn. I only use machines that let you enter your weight and age so I can…
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Would you have said anything?
I was just at the grocery store and wanted to share a conversation I heard between the customer in front of me in line and the cashier. I was right behind this woman who was checking out. The cashier seemed to know her, and asked her if she'd lost weight. The woman said yes, she'd lost about 12 lbs. The cashier, who looked…
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Would you have said anything?
*double post - sorry! *
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How do you log an artichoke?
Hey all, so I'm wondering how I'd log an artichoke..... I don't eat the whole thing, obviously -- just the lower-half of the inside of the leaves, and then the heart as well. I'm not sure how I'd log it as far as grams go. When I do an online search it shows things like a large artichoke is 162g and 60 cals. Well, this…
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Living with loose skin :(
I'm nearing the end of my weight loss journey -- I've lost 70 lbs so far (I started losing before I started using MFP), and am almost near my final goal of losing another ~ 5 - 10 lbs. When I started losing weight, I never thought that I'd really have loose skin -- or I thought maybe I'd have a *little*. I thought the…
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5' 4", 121.4 lbs, 70 lbs lost....yet i still look like this! advice and/or opinions, anyone...?
So quick background -- I'm 24, and I've been overweight and obese since i was around 6 - 7 years old. I used food as comfort and coping mechanism as I watched my mom got sick and eventually die of breast cancer when I was 6. I was at my heaviest at 15 years old and 192 lbs when i decided to do something and went on Jenny…
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I was feeling depressed about my slow progress...but then I saw these.
My weight loss progress has slowed a lot since the holidays -- in fact I gained several lbs, and I knew I was going "off track" the entire time. I've been really feeling down about it lately. Hating my body, beating myself up emotionally, even feeling hopeless. Before that little bit of gain, I'd lost nearly 74 lbs since…
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Rainbow carrots vs. "regular" carrots
Okay this question probably seems like I'm being way too anal/neurotic... but does anyone know if rainbow carrots have the same calorie and nutrition content as regular orange carrots? Besides the phytonutrients depending on the color. I'd assume they do...but the entries to choose from on MFP are much higher calorie and…
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restaurant and fast-food salads with more calories than a big mac and large fries.
Just gonna leave this here. Figured it's worth sharing, even though I'm sure we all know restaurant salads are wolves in sheeps' clothing... some of the numbers on these are just staggering. http://www.buzzfeed.com/carolynkylstra/unhealthy-salads
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Perceived exertion, heart rate, and calories burned..
So maybe the answer to this question is pretty obvious, but I just thought it couldn't hurt to get others' input. I was wondering if your body burns more calories if you feel like you're working harder. I'll give myself as an example. l do a run on the treadmill at 3.0 incline and 6 mph. Some days this feels manageable,…
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"Progressive overload" for abdominal/core strength training
I've been doing strength training for about a year now, and have noticed some significant gains as far as my upper and lower body goes. But doing core workouts I find more tricky... I have been able to hold planks a bit longer, but I'm not sure how to gauge progressive overload for abs. Is it just doing the specific…
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The "death" of your heavier self...
Though this is more of a support issue, I'm posting this in the success stories board because I'm specifically looking for people who've already lost weight. I've lost 71 lbs from my highest weight, and I do look very different in this new body, as would be expected. Especially in my face, where the weight seems to go on…
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Trying to lose & living with someone who's trying to gain?
So, I live with my partner, and he's thin, bordering on underweight. He's 6' and 142 lbs. He doesn't always eat enough, and when he does it's mostly raw fruits and vegetables (we both are vegan and are always highly stocked on those items, and we don't purchase much else), so he doesn't always get enough calories. He does…
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Please help me avoid the donuts.
Someone brought in a big box of donuts today at work and where they are situated and where my desk is, I constantly have to walk back and forth past them. I need help in being here for the next five and a half hours and not touching them! :(
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Are you going to continue using MFP?
Sorry if this has been asked before... I'm sure it has. I'm just wondering -- I'm about 10 lbs away from my goal weight, and I've been thinking about what I will do after I get to that point. Using MFP has played a HUGE role in my weight loss, and I'm a little nervous to stop using it. I've been on here for 11 months, and…
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lost more inches around my bust than my waist or my hips.
cruel, cruel world :cry: i had hardly anything there to start with! ugh >_< sorry, just needed to get it out somewhere. lol.
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Angry and ashamed at your fat/pre-weight loss self?
Does anyone else feel like this? I've lost 67 lbs since my heaviest weight, and am at a perfectly good, healthy weight now, and I look on the slimmer side. I have much more self-confidence than I did when I was overweight. But looking at pictures of my "old" self angers and upsets me. I hate looking at myself like that. I…
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Should I deduct calories off of what my HRM says I burned?
I have a Polar FT4, it comes with a chest strap (which I've been told is more reliable than ones that just measure HR from your wrist), but isn't a more advanced model where I can put in my VO2max, things like that that make it more personalized. I just put in my age, gender, and weight. I've heard that HRMs are less…
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Did I really burn that many calories???
Today I went on a long hike, 8 miles in about 4.5 hours. It was not very strenuous of a path -- I would say half of it was relatively flat and half of it was either uphill or downhill. I wasn't carrying anything except my water bottle, and some of it got my heart rate up and breathing hard, but that was probably only 1/6…
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Will my stomach skin ever NOT be saggy?
i'm 23 years old. i've been overweight since around the age of 7, my highest weight was when i was 15 years old at 192 lbs (and i'm 5' 4"ish (prob between 5' 4" and 5' 5"). starting at 15 i then began to lose weight, over about 1.5 years i got down to 135. then went back up to 167 over the next 5 - 6 years. september 2013…
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Relationship between weight, fitness, HR & cals burned?
So, i was under the impression that the higher one's heart rate got doing a physical activity (if the heart rate increase is purely or mostly from the exertion and not any other factor, such as hydration level, ambient temperature, anxiety levels), the amount of calories the body uses to do such activity will increase.…
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Should you include calories burned during weight training?
I got a Polar heart-rate monitor a couple of weeks ago, and wore it during all of my gym workout, which consists of weight training and cardio. I did my weight training first, and saw that I had burned about 80 calories. I wondered then, if my goal was to burn 300 calories... if weight training is part of my gym workout…
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Calories burned on gym cardio equipment
I've heard/read that many machines overestimate the amount of calories it tells you you are burning, even when they have the option to input your weight and age. Has anyone else heard of this? Does anyone know if it is true? To offset this potential overestimation, I always enter my weight as 15 lbs lighter than I actually…
