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Upped my calories and now I'm starving
I just started maintainence this week. Following the advice I've seen here, I upped my calories by 100, planning to take it slowly. Only I'm ravenous. I'm sure some of it's psychological. I know I can eat a little more, so I want to eat a lot more. But sometimes, even though I've eaten what would have been a normal amount…
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Those darn last few pounds
I'm really close to my original goal and overall I'm happy with the way I look and feel. I flip-flop between feeling really motivated to lose those last pesky pounds--it would be so gratifying to see the scale stay below 140 for the first time in years and I still have a little more body fat than I'm thrilled with-- and…
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Thinner, stronger, and flabbier in some areas?
OK, I've been losing weight at a slow and steady pace, without drastic calorie restriction. I've been exercising. I know I'm getting stronger and I'm showing better muscle definition in most of my body. (I know I'm not bulking, but as body fat is going away, the muscles I already have show more.) However, I've noticed in…
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Body Surfing
I just looked up one of my favorite summer activities, body surfing, and was stunned to see it burned only 195 calories per hour for someone my size. Huh? How can plowing through waist-deep or more water with a strong current, against surf, for the better part of an hour not burn more than that? Here I was thinking I'd…
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Dealing with a recipe with gravy
Tomorrow I plan to make a pot roast in the crockpot. (Oh, yum! Pot roast!) It's not a recipe that's already in the food database, so I'd enter the recipe. But here's the issue. I know this recipe makes a lot of gravy, more than we ever eat. Just dividing the recipe by the number of servings is doing to give a falsely high…
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Kundalini yoga
Just did a 60-minute kundalini DVD that thoroughly kicked my butt...and a good 15 minutes of that 60 was meditation! I'm not sure how many calories it burned--I counted it as half an hour of power yoga and noted that I *did* the rest with 1 calorie burned. FWIW, I do a lot of yoga, but kundalini is...different. Some deep…
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Protein...
I always thought I ate a pretty reasonable, balanced diet--just too much of everything!--but I don't seem to be able to get enough protein according to MFP. Today I had eggs for lunch, steak for dinner, Greek yogurt and a larabar nut bar as snacks, yogurt for breakfast, and it's still not enough according to MFP (although…
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Getting through the Tough Days
I've only been on this journey for about a month and so far it's gone well. Sure, I've had my days when I ate too much, but I just picked myself up and started again. Figured I gained this weight gradually and I can lose it gradually too. So far so good... Until Sunday, when I nearly cried because I felt so deprived,…
