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How many calories with 30 Day Shred?
I just started Jillian Michaels' 30 Day Shred, I will be doing Day 3 today. I am not following her diet plan because I like flexibility in terms of food. I have seen some amazing progress pictures for this programme and I am really inspired to finish the 30 days too - however, I am confused about how many calories I should…
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Selecting an end goal.
When I started losing weight, my goal weight was an arbitrary number. However, now that I have a healthy BMI and I'm progressing towards my last few kgs, I was wondering how to choose my goal weight. I know it's different for different people, but how did you decide upon your goal weight? My current goal weight leaves me…
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Weight loss during the festive season
It's that happy time of the year again when there is joy everywhere - including eggnog, Christmas dinner, mulled wine, mince pies...and, of course, family. How do you plan on keeping your calories in check during the festive season? As for me, I am seeing family after 6 months, I am planning on just trying to maintain and…
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Daily loggers wanted as friends :)
Hi everyone, I've been on myfitnessspal for about 1.5 years but have gotten involved with the social side recently. I am 5'3" & 63kg now, aiming to go down to 56kg, so about 15 lbs to lose. I love being able to share my experiences with food, exercise and life as well as be there to motivate my friends with comments and…
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5 kg in 6 weeks?
Amidst all the the Christmas craze, it's my birthday in 6 weeks. For this, I wanted to set myself a goal of losing 5 kgs. I have about 8 kgs to lose and it seems a lot of people recommend not trying to lose more than .5kg/1lb at this stage - my question is why. My plan was to set my calorie goal at 1100 and eat back my…
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Yoga
Hi everyone, I am currently strength training about 2 times a week and doing light to moderate cardio exercise 3 times a week (just starting out and I'm building up). I've heard wonderful things about the health benefits of yoga and I was thinking of starting it? What is everyone else's experience with yoga, has it helped…
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Motivation to start running.
I'm currently swimming for my cardio and have wanted to start running for a while. Every time I try it, I find it too hard and just quit after the first day. I was looking for some motivation and possibly some virtual running partners on Endomondo (or other free running apps). I've heard of Couch to 5K training program,…
