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How many of you have personal trainers you love? Hate? Or utterly stupid? Brilliant?
I just bought a package for personal training, and I'm super nervous about it. She's got great reviews and has won these awards, but I've had personal trainers in the past whom I hate and really made things a lot worse. Examples: - One guy told me to start drinking muscle milk, and when I told him I hate muscle milk, he…
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Anyone have a really great fitness tracking Googlesheet they would share
Yes I know it's a bit old fashioned, and folks prefer to use their apple watches and garmins. But I'm swimming a lot and am ramping up my yardage, and logging my other fitness activities too. I'm putting together a simple nice looking Google Sheet, and I'm wondering if anyone else has put something together they would like…
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What are your favorite recipe/food blogs?
Does not necessarily have to be a labeled "healthy food" site - in fact it's not hard to make substitutions to make most recipes a bit more healthy. I'll share a couple of mine: Serious Eats is my go-to when I just want to make something basic - I can get a solid recipe from Serious Eats and tweak as I like.…
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Favorite high fiber recipes?
I don't follow a specific diet, but if I did, I guess it would be called a high fiber diet. It's the best thing, more than fat or protein or all organic or whatever, that has a very serious and palpable effect on my overall sense of wellness and satiety, as well as consistently making it easy to control my calories. I…
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Anyone else focusing on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques? Friend me!
Hey there. So I've been off and on for the past few years and have struggled to lose the weight and keep it off. This past month I had a health scare. My fasting blood sugar, which was 83 in May of this year, suddenly shot up to 107 this November. The day after that, it was 100, and the day after that, it was 111. Not such…
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Anyone else struggling? Let's share in a judgment free thread
Lost 12 pounds, and slowly gained back 8 pounds over about 9 months. I have about 70 to lose. I'm always injuring myself - back in March I was doing some weighted squats and felt a sharp pain in my foot. I've been dealing with it since then, seeing doctors and physical therapists and having custom orthotics put in. It…
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Doing this sort of late night restless "prowl" around my home, wanting more food, and wanting advice
I went over my calories today, but since I worked out hard yesterday and today and didn't log that exercise, I feel like I hit the right amount. I had a delicious dinner of baked cod and swiss chard planned for evening, but when I got home after my workout I was just craving sugar, and ate a bunch of bananas. Like, I had a…
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What's happening to my body right now?
I started anew with trying to get healthy 4 weeks ago. Usually when I start a new fitness program and am tracking calories, I see water weight drop immediately and then started seeing results after three weeks. This time, I appear to be losing and gaining back the same three pounds of water weight every few days. I haven't…
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Just started a new exercise routine, getting heartburn for the first time
I understand that eating large meals or laying down right after a meal can cause heartburn. But I'm getting this at the end or an hour after I workout, serval hours after I've eaten. In fact eating something actually helps! Any ideas about this? I've read a couple of articles that a big part of it is jostling and causing…
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Plus Sized Fitness Clothing
I started a similar thread a year ago, and I know there are others popping up all the time. But new brands are popping up all the time too, so I thought I'd bring it up again. What are ladies wearing to work out? I've had the most luck in terms of durability, comfort, and flattering fit with Zella. Brooks used to have a…
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lol y'all make this whole process looks so easy
And I admit there are days I'm like " what the hell? This is so easy! It's all just melting off! I feel amazing! Why did I have trouble losing weight all these years?? I've finally figured it out! Things are really turning around this time!" Then I lose motivation a few days later. Seriously though, kudos to those of you…
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Returning to MFP, taking it very slowly
I have 60 pounds to lose to get to a healthy BMI. Last year I tried to hunker down and do it, but I struggled to stay motivated. Towards the end of 2016 I just gave up and stopped trying. Luckily, I didn't gain any of my modest weight loss back. I'm back now, and to be honest I'm still not really motivated to work hard and…
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I'm looking for some great apps for weight lifting
I'm basically doing a version of all pro beginners, with a few tweaks to address my tight hip flexors and an old fracture in my foot that flares up every once in awhile. What kind of apps do people use to track weightlifting? A lot of the ones seems to make everything more complicated, or are too simple and just log…
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Ugh, I just want this journey to be over already
It's such a sunny day and there are so many things I want to do, but I just don't possess the physical fitness to do these things. When I started this journey in March I scheduled a weeklong solo camping/hiking trip in the summer as reward for my efforts. I bought a tent and outdoorsy equipment, and even pre rented a car.…
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Hmm, tomato season! Share your tomato recipes!
The time of year is approaching for amazing tomatoes. I love tomatoes more than anything, and am collecting lots of recipes to highlight their wonderful goodness. Personally, I've got a day old loaf of some very high quality ciabatta, and can't wait to make some tomato panzanella.…
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High protein breakfasts that are not eggs or Greek yogurt or protein smoothies
I like eggs I just can't have them so often. I eat a lot of yogurt, but I eat the regular kind - Greek is too thick for me. Regular yogurt really doesn't have as much protein as I want. Any ideas? I just need some variety.
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Low Impact Home Strength Building program for Beginners, available in a book or streaming
Hey there, I know this is very specific, but it's necessary because I don't have a tv and also travel a lot. Plus, both my work and home laptop are Macs, so they don't have a DVD drive. I guess I could buy one if absolutely necessary. I'm looking for a beginner's strength building program that's structured. I sort of built…
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Regional Chili recipes
Hey all, Looking for the most kickass version of chili you have. Beef, turkey, vegetarian, vegan, whatever. I know there are the standard chili recipes that come up when you google, but i know there are some folks out there who have their own special variations :)
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Vegan low cal version of Cannellini Bean and Spinach Soup
In the past I've made this soup with a little crumbled bacon and bacon fat as a base, or some nice sausage. But lately I've been trying to ease up a bit off the animal products. I still eat meat (mostly fish and seafood) but I'm aiming to have at least three vegetarian or vegan dinners per week. So here's my vegan version.…
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I really feel like the "calories burned" estimate for exercise is just a crapshoot
Is there any accuracy to this whatsoever? Do you guys assume it's accurate or do you edit it to show that your burned less or more?
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Thoughts on P90
P90 is the low intensity program for people who are just getting back into fitness. It seems to be marketed more toward seniors, people with obesity, and fit people who are dealing with injuries. I just started my journey three weeks ago and am focusing on diet. I have been lifting/strength training at home 3x a week. I'm…
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Third week. Why is this getting so much harder?
I was set at 2 pounds a week and went through it like a breeze for the first two weeks, losing six pounds at once (and yes I know some of it was water weight). This past week, I really struggled, consistently eating well over my allotted calories. Yesterday I caved and set it to one pound a week, and it was a lot easier.…
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List the best apps and websites you use for weight loss or gain, health, wellness, exercise, etc.
Other than MFP of course.
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Ideas for ground lamb
I have a pound of ground lamb coming with my CSA this week, and am also trying to plan my meals. Any ideas for healthy recipes? I'm figuring that I can just substitute it for ground beef recipes, but since beef allowed in my religious background I really don't have any ground beef recipes. Appreciate it!
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Plus Sized Women's Clothing Recommendations?
So there are a ton of reviews and blogs out there recommending women's plus sized clothing, but I am interested in *personal* recommendations from MFP folks - what brands of plus sized clothing have you tried that you really like? I'll share mine: I can't afford it, but by far the best plus sized clothing I've tried in…
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Nutrition Information of Homemade Chicken Stock
I'm sure this has been covered before. I genuinely have no idea. Googling it tells me that it can be anywhere from 18 calories per cup to 260 calories per cup. I made some home made chicken stock/broth today for some chicken pho tomorrow. I use 1 pound of chicken backs/necks. I added charred ginger, charred onion, cloves,…
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Anyone know a good site/blog for authentic Mexican food?
Since I started trying to lose weight I've made a strong effort to start using recipes more when I cook, since me "winging it," usually ends up with dishes that are too evoo heavy and too impulse driven. This week I was soooo looking forward to making this lovely Mexican pozole…
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Core exercise for a 228 pound woman with lower back issues
So I just started my journey two weeks ago. For now, I'm only focusing on cutting calories and strength building 3x a week. So far I'm set with exercises for my legs, butt, delts, biceps, back, and triceps. A lot of what I'm doing is taking traditional physical therapy exercises and adding weight to them. In the past I've…
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Anyone else experiencing an increase in sex drive as you cut calories?
I expected perhaps a boost to my self esteem and my confidence. But I legit have a better sex drive than I did when I started this effort two weeks ago. And I thought I had a good drive to begin with.
