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cardio vs. strength training
OK.. so I've been reading that building muscle is more effective at burning fat then doing cardio but here's my question. What can be considered 'strength training'? Can I still do the elliptical and crank up the resistance and go slower and is that considered strength training? I would imagine because of such a high…
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Feeling like I should just give up...
So I have been staying in range of my 1200- 1600 calories that MFP has advised for 4 weeks now. I started at 216lbs and I am 212.0 now. So I have lost 5 lbs... but that seems to just be water weight. I lost those 5 lbs in the 1st week and one the 1 day I ate some salty food it all came beck on the next day and I took about…
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7lb gain in 2 days!
Ok so far I have lost 7 lbs in 2 weeks and feeling great until Sunday. Sunday I got a bit lax with my calorie intake. I eat 1600 cals a day and usually struggle to get them all in but sunday I was feeling a little hungrier then norm and prob ate closer to 2000. Then Monday came and me and the family went out to eat and I…
