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New Quest bar flavor
Quest came out with a new flavor last Thursday: Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough. Just got mine yesterday and am having one for my mid-morning snack (hey, I get up early) today. I have died and gone to heaven. Best flavor yet. Better than Chocolate Brownie.
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Help, I'm running out of things to read! Suggestions?
I'm pretty much a non-fiction reader; not so much self-help, mostly things like essays, history, lots of areas of science, social science, popular statistics, business books if they're more along the lines of stories of what happened (like what happened in the financial collapse or what happened to Enron or the story of…
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What a loss of 177 pounds looks like
Imagine in your hands a gallon jug of water. Ok, now imagine 21 of those gallons of water. Strap a few to each leg, a couple to each arm, a couple on each hip, more on your stomach and the rest down your back. Now walk around like that. All day. Every day. For decades. Welcome to my adult life. I did a little calculating.…
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Your favorite healthy calorie-dense foods
I just had some testing done yesterday, including RMR and a BodPod. The good news is that my body fat percentage measured 18.6% which is actually even a little lower than I was targeting (I had expected to be in the "fitness" range of 21-24%). I'm not scrawny, though. I have 118 lbs of lean mass on a 5'8" 145 lb. frame.…
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What this place needs is another peanut butter thread
I discovered about 6 months ago that my healthy low-cal choices were leaving me way low on fats so I added some nuts and measured servings of nut butters. It started innocently, organic peanut butter with nothing but the nuts, but that was just a gateway drug. Next it was almond butter. Then sunflower seed butter and…
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Why yes, I do want to bulk up a little actually
After 165 lbs lost, I've stopped my weight loss. My lower body still has some fat that could easily be dispensed with, but my upper body is starting to develop a kind of post-apocalyptic skeletor thing going on. I'm not attaching the obligatory pic-in-a-sports-bra-with-arms-flexed because with all my loose skin the…
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Give or take 148 pounds - with pics
I'm 5'9", a few weeks shy of 50 and I weigh 171 pounds. For some of you this would be a starting point. For me, it's a dream come true. I've been obese my entire life. I was a pudgy toddler, a chubby kid, and an obese adult. I went straight from "husky" kids clothes to what they used to call "womens" sizes. I remember in…
