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Your Favorite Protein Shake Recipes
Share your favorite protein shake recipes! I'm looking for new ideas. Here are a couple of my favorites: Coffee Coolatta Shake: 1 scoop chocolate whey protein powder (pretty good with vanilla too) 6 oz. unsweetened almond milk, or milk of choice 3-4 ice cubes 1 tbsp. nutella 1-2 tsp. instant coffee (to taste) SO good!…
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Ugh.. Working out while sick.. Help!
I started P90x2 last week, and woke up this morning with a cold. I was supposed to do Plyocide this morning, but all that jumping around would have been murder on my sinuses. I decided to put off the intense workouts for a couple days till I'm feeling better, but still want to get a decent workout in. Having just started…
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Threw my scale in the trash this morning (NSV.. sort of?)
So, I'm down to the last 10 lbs I want to lose, and I threw my scale in the trash on my way to work this morning. Keeping it around just wasn't an option for me, because I know as long as I have a scale I'll be on it every day. It's all about measurements for me from here on out.. I'm so excited! Just wanted to share my…
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Getting up for early morning workouts?
I've been having such a hard time lately getting up for my 5:30 workouts! I get plenty of sleep (7-9 hours a night), I lay my workout clothes out the night before, but when that alarm goes off at 5:30 I just can't find that motivation to get out of bed. I go to the gym most nights after work for cardio, but do my strength…
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Every now and then, I need that reminder...
.. of how gross it feels to overeat! There's a guy that stops in our office every Friday selling baked goods for charity. I'm usually pretty good at avoiding the temptation, but today I bought 2 cookies and cream cupcakes I planned to bring home. Of course, I didn't bring them home.. I ate them both after lunch. They were…
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"Starvation Mode" Party Line
I'm so tired of seeing, "you must eat at least 1200 calories or you'll go into starvation mode!" It's. Not. True. Starvation mode exists, but it's VERY RARE, and you have to eat less than 50% of your BMR for a prolonged period of time for that to happen, which for most people is much lower than 1200 calories. It is also…
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Will we ever accept responsibility?
Before I say anything.. this isn't directed at anyone individually. It's a general statement about the sad state of affairs that is our health as a nation. The HFCS=poison thread made me think about all the excuses we use for being overweight and obese. "It's the chemicals in our food, it's the food industry's advertising,…
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Need some dinner inspiration..
I've been looking through recipes for an hour, and nothing is appealing to me. So, what's for dinner tonight?
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Who's working on those last 5-10 lbs?
I'm down to about 8 lbs left to lose and I've hit a plateau. It's super common with those last few lbs, so I'm just wondering if anyone else is going through the same thing, and what your breakthrough strategy is.
