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Book review: Harley Pasternak's "Five Pounds"
Anyone read this? I like to keep up on the latest diet/fitness books. In this one, HP outlines a plan for the long haul that involves five basic rules: 1- Aim to walk 10,000 steps a day 2- Do 5 minutes of resistance training a day. He says do one exercise per day, and lists 14, and a simple training regimen (3 sets, 20…
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Did anyone watch "Fat and Back" on TLC?
There was a lot of hubbub in the popular press about this so I watched part I. She's a little bit hard to take but she tempered her attitudes by the end of the first hour. She's a British tv personality who naturally maintains at underweight who claims fat people are lazy and disgusting. She spent 3 months gaining as much…
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Jonathan Adler Vivofit 2 bands
http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/5/7490893/garmin-vivofit-2-fitness-band-jonathan-adler-ces-2015 Nice to see more designer/attractive wearable options! I like the metals. The Tory Burch for Fitbit stuff was pretty but so expensive and only for Flex.
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Using (.3 x weight) for net calories walking...
That .3 has never sounded right to me, for myself anyway. I know this is the article it comes from: http://www.runnersworld.com/weight-loss/how-many-calories-are-you-really-burning?page=single And this is the source it lists: http://web.stanford.edu/~clint/Run_Walk2004a.rtf The source doesn't discuss it in such terms so…
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'The Walk' app, new from the 'Zombies, Run!' people
Anyone else doing it? It's pretty glitchy for me but it got me outside for 90 minutes yesterday, futzing with it! I'm curious if it locks up a lot for others or if it's my cell service or something.
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Quick survey! Help please!
Will you help my daughter with her science fair project? Imagine you found this wallet in the mall. Would you return it to mall security intact, without the money, or not at all? Be honest! A wallet with $3 and a jr high school ID? A wallet with $15 and an adult ID? A wallet with $3 and no ID at all? A wallet with $15 and…
