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Lost too fast
The last few days I got a bit scared. Just came out of 'that time per month' a few days ago and knew I'd lose some waterweight. But the loss is quite a bit more than I expected. Basically, I lost 2.5kg in 24 days, which for my weight and size is far too much I guess. This is after plateauing for a whole month. background:…
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SL only once a week? How?
The stronglifts programme looks really nice and simple. There's only one little issue I have: I can only go to the gym once a week. Is there some experience about only doing SL once a week with all the exercises? Will I still gain strength? Note: I'm only starting now, though I guess it will take a while until I reach…
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Swimming - technique and stats
Yiha, a swimming group. And also one with postings in it :) I'm currently trying to improve on my swimming technique as it's really bad. I'm trying to track the time spent swimming on my gymboss iphone app, which really looks like: get into the water, prepare to swim, press Start, count to 10 and go. And at the end count…
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Building muscles under fat - funny tissue?
Noticed this last night... I started lifting heavy and my thighs really like this. My muscles feel much tighter even when sitting. When I stroke over some parts of my thighs with less fat and more muscle I notice what feels like pearls or small pebbles of various sizes underneath my skin. I suppose those are fat cells…
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fake six pack
Here's a funny one: I'm having a two-pack, and when I flex my abs I'm just about seeing two more of those below. Only: they aren't muscles but pure padding. Anyone experience something similar?
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Barbell rows with long legs :)
A question about barbell rows: the stronglifts website mentions to keep the upper torso parallel to the ground. What do I do with the legs then? Do I start in a squatting position and then extend the legs or do I stay there? Let me explain what I mean: the biggest disks at my gym are rather small 10kg ones (I'm not that…
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666 is the number of...
... anyway... for the last few days the scale has been going down bit by bit. This morning it finally showed me a nice 67.0 kg. Yesterday evening I thought I might end up just below this number, but I did some heavy lifting yesterday and I went for a pill break two days ago. Thus I'm probably holding a bit more water now.…
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Plateau. Asking for help.
Great, looks like I'm stuck on a plateau. My weight is the same since 30.07 with small ups and downs. I must say that I got sick on 17.07 and lost some 3.5kg in the following 7 days, which I've not gained back, and it was mostly fat (got some scary medication which might do that). So that's positive. Since then nothing. I…
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Lifting app for beginners
Is there an app that kind of works like Stronglifts 5x5, but where I can do more than 3 exercises on a day? I can only go to the gym once per week, and as long as I haven't really hit the spot where I think it gets too heavy I would like to do more exercises. Note: I'm usually completely alone at this gym and prefer not to…
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METs and calories
So I'm looking at this list: https://sites.google.com/site/compendiumofphysicalactivities/Activity-Categories/water-activities and this website: http://iifym.com/tdee-calculator/ I just swam 1000m in a pool, breaststroke in 26 minutes (not particularly fast). Please correct me if I'm wrong. The calories I burnt during that…
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calories swimming
Hello to those using a heartrate meter and anyone else in the know: how many calories are you burning while swimming over which distance and which time, and what is your weight? I'm trying to enter good estimates here, but every website is telling me something different.
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walk in the forest - how much calories?
Here's a tough one: yesterday a few friends and me walked roughly 5km through a forest, rather flat terrain, partly bushwhacking our way through, average speed around 4.5-5km/h, though we did make regular breaks, needed about 90 minutes (we were geocaching if someone wonders). I'm 169cm, 69kg, basal rate about 1380ish...…
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Trouser blues
Argh! So I lost about a trouser size on my waist. On one hand that's great, on the other hand I can now pull down most of my trousers without actually opening them. So I was in a very good shopping town on business for the last two weeks and really, really tried to find new trousers - and left empty-handed. Sure, one…
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What an eye opener!
I usually eat flatbread with a thick layer of laban and turkeybreast, or with very young goatcheese for breakfast. This comes down to about 250 kcal and I usually eat some more fruit next to it. It easily keeps me full until lunch time. (I can't eat much for breakfast). Currently I'm on a business trip in Europe. Three…
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Steak grilled logged as...?
I just had 180 grams of grilled medium rare lean steak. How do I log this? I assume as it was a rather lean meat it lost mostly water when barbecuing it. Thus I should probably know what the weight was before bbq. Which I can't as I'm traveling. Hmpf... Any suggestions?
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your favourite kettlebell workout (no HIIT!)
Hi all, I would finally like to do some sport again after having been sick. I thought I open this topic so you can share your favourite kettlebell workouts. I'm not looking for really fast workout as my lungs can't quite do that yet but rather for workouts with a good selection of different exercises that I can do at my…
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vegetable curry: do these calories make sense?
I can't quite figure it out. Today at lunch there was an dry Indian potato and green bean curry at the canteen. The kitchen manager said they use olive oil instead of ghee, not that it makes a lot of difference... It was about 47% potatoes, 47% green beans, 6% chili, herbs, spices and oil (you could take a serving from the…
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Can a stomach shrink? If you can't eat more...
At the moment I'm having difficulties eating above my base metabolic rate as my stomach is overfull after a small portion only. I'm eating nuts and other high calorie food to get enough calories, but it's not really easy to eat so much for me at the moment. I've been sick and on prednisolone, a protonpump inhibitor,…
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Eating out for 2 weeks (Europe)
Great, I have a two-week business trip coming up. I tried to book an apartment hotel so I can cook my own food, but no chance on such short notice in a very popular city. So it's eating out each evening. The average restaurant is of the white tablecloth type, serving high quality food, perfectly prepared, but not low in…
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water weight: where does it accumulate and why?
Maybe a funny question, but where does water weight accumulate? Does it follow gravity and mainly accumulate in the legs? Muscles you use in everyday life? Areas you don't move that much (thinking of hmm.. pelvis maybe? chest?), everywhere or is it something individual? Question is based on two things: when my scale goes…
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Fit to sedentary: preserving muscles
I'm currently sick and extremely quickly out of breath. As I went from 5x per week exercise to couch potato I recalculated my TDEE and came out at around 1662kcal for my size and weight (69kg, 169cm) when choosing sedentary lifestyle. The medication I'm taking is doing something weird to my appetite and stomach but I'm…
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Potassium, Calcium, Magnesium supplements?
Hiya all, I'm currently on some medication that seems to 'flush' potassium, magnesium and calcium from my system. At the moment my blood values are slightly too low or borderline low on these. Not sure if this is due to the meds or from doing sports and sweating a lot. But I think I should fill them up again. Eating a…
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Small size, high calorie fresh food needed
I've been sick the last week, and thanks to the meds I'm taking I have no hunger at all. More annoyingly, my stomach is full after eating half of what I'm normally eating. I'm going on vacation on Friday and need to find food thingies that don't fill up the stomach too much but have a lot of calories. Any suggestions for…
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Sick and losing weight. Experience?
This is weird! I've had an asthma attack Thursday night, and since then I've lost a lot of weight. Yes, I haven't done any sport (obviously), haven't eaten much, but have been drinking a lot and got lots of salty liquids at the hospital where I stayed over night (looks pretty cool on my salt counter here O.o). But there's…
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Lung problems related to HIIT?
Great! I spent the last 1.5 days in various hospitals as I woke up not being able to breathe. The first clinic I went to said it's psychological as blood tests and an ecg showed nothing suspicious. Could be, though I'm not sure I stand behind that diagnosis. So when I was fine again after several difficult breathing…
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Just a small yiha!
Just a little Yiha to me *blush* Today I've logged on 30 days in a row on MFP. In these 30 days I've worked out 5 times per week and I'm finally getting closer to doing real push-ups, which really is such a difficult exercise for me. Another little Yiha: I started out with 30 Day Shred before signing up here but gave up on…
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Lifting heavy: good idea under these circumstances?
Just wanting to hear your opinion if starting to lift heavy makes sense. I'd love to start, but on the other hand I think the situation is less from ideal. I live in a company compound in a town that has no real gyms for women. Some expat spa and health clubs that cost 3000 USD to be a member exist, but no gyms with a…
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How much calories used during workout?
So I'm trying to not overeat, but at the same time not to get too low with calorie intake as I don't aim for a high weight loss. My little problem is that I have no idea how much calories my workouts need, and from what I read a heart-rate monitor won't help me either. I'm sure the estimates here, logging circuit training…
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Feeling so 'zen' after workout
Does anyone else notice this? After I finished a workout I always feel completely relaxed, and in a way weird. My hunger is diminished for the rest of the day and I don't feel like eating sweets or crisps at all. Though I'm not exhausted! I do have enough energy to do whatever I feel like doing, or my husband suggests.…
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Argh! Fast-food dinner with friends
Argh! I'm having a happy come together with friends at our local Fuddruckers next week. One of our friends is leaving the country and this is his fave eatery O.o Anyway.. they don't have the leaner meat choices here and everything's covered in grease anyway. Yes, I don't mind eating a bit more for being with my friends,…
