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Losing weight pinched nerve. More weight loss = cure.
After several weeks of sever pain, a doctor finally figured out what was going on in my thigh. It was a pinched lateral femoral cutaneous nerve, also known as meralgia paresthetica, as far as I know. He even said my weight loss -- which he praised -- had caused the body to removed protective layers from fat around the…
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Heart Rate Monitors vs. Activity Monitors
As a reward for getting down to the weight I was when I came to Indiana, I bought a Polar FT4 from Best Buy. I had to do this best on limited information, but the heart rate monitor seemed like a better choice. True, it does not count steps, nor does it tell me how accurate it is, but it does give me a calorie count that…
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Woo-hoo! Back to the Weight I Was When I Came to Indiana
Two years ago I moved from Pennsylvania. I had managed to lose a lot of weight then through a combination of two factors. First, was the get pneumonia weight loss plan. It's one I don't recommend to anyone. The second one was that I had started walking around the town. Because the town was more or less in the mountains, it…
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How Concerned Should I Be About Sodium?
I've logged my food since starting. I'm sure it's not terribly accurate because I have not been able to find a food scale. For the moment, I'm losing weight and continuing my search. I also realize that my problem is largely due to eating processed foods. (This is mostly due to convenience. I am also a picky eater, which…
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I'm pretty sure the bathroom scale isn't accurate
I've used my bathroom scale to record weights on My Fitness Pal, but it's been wildly inaccurate. It's weight can very by as much as 25 pounds depending on where you are standing on the scale. I've suspected the scale needed to be replaced the first time it told me I'd lost 15 pounds in a day. Now, my roommate seems to…
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Greetings!
I'm just checking in here. I picked up a Y membership three weeks ago, because the weather here in Indiana wasn't getting warm enough for me to take my bicycle out. This has changed in recent weeks. I joined this site to help keep track of calories and weight loss. As you can see, I've got a long way to go.
