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BodyMedia Fit (or BodyBugg) Arm Indentations?
I just recently stopped wearing my BodyMedia Fit armband after just under two years (one year and 11 months) of continual use. During that time I only ever took it off for showers. I never wore the armband excessively tight, pretty much just tight enough to feel like it was firm and wasn’t going to move. If I felt bloated…
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Why You Shouldn't Focus on Clothing Sizes
This isn't me (I wish!) but I thought it would serve as a really good reminder why you shouldn't focus on clothing sizes as a judge of how much weight you've lost. I see posts all the time from people wondering how they've lost 20, 30, etc pounds but they haven't gone down a pants size, so I thought this would resonate.
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How Make a Green Smoothie - with Pics!
I've posted my general green smoothie recipe in a few different threads and have had some follow-up requests on info for it. While I was making one the other night I decided to take pics of the whole process to post here for fun. So, here's the recipe outline(makes two big smoothies): 1 1/4 cup water 1 cup Unsweetened…
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PSA re: "Can't eat 1200 calories"
The TL:DR version of this – when someone says that they can’t eat 1200 calories a day, don’t immediately jump on them and assume they have an ED, are lying, are stupid, or are any of the other things that people seem to think, they may just truly be lost and not know what to do or where to turn. Instead, try to offer them…
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Mini Hot Dog Munchies - finger food
The hubby and I had plans to hang out with my sister and brother-in-law for Superbowl today and one of their all-time favorite party finger foods are the lil' smokies wrapped in cut up pillsbury crescent rolls. So I was trying to think of a way to make a healthier version of that snack. I came up with this this morning and…
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Question for guys who workout (and if any girls want to answ
I have a male friend who started working out recently and he has, well, not a concern, but he's curious if he's the only one. He told me that oftentimes, after a workout, he finds himself aroused. He stated that he works out later at night and the gym is usually empty, so it's not a visual arousal from hot women. I…
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Body Media Fit vs. a Polar FT4 HRM
After lots of reading I've realized that I really need to get something that gives me a way more accurate measure of what I'm burning when I work out rather than trusting the machines (even if I enter my age/weight). But now I'm stuck between the two items in the subject. I have a $20 gift card for Amazon, so I could get…
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Amazon Gold Box - BodyMedia Fit BW (bluetooth)
The Amazon Gold Box (daily sale) deal for today, Thursday, Oct 27th, is a BodyMedia Fit BW. That's the Bluetooth version that syncs with your smartphone via their app. It's $139 shipped and comes with a three month subscription included. It's only available until midnight pacific, or until sold out, whichever comes first.…
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Random Pondering - food cost vs caloric value
A friend and I were talking about food budgets and the wishful idea came up that food could be priced based on caloric and nutritional value. The idea being that things like veggies or whole grain, non-HFCS filled breads would be cheaper to buy than stuff like Twinkies or Wonder Bread. Obviously just wishful thinking, but…
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Volume to Weight Conversion Chart
I see a lot of posts around here where people ar confused about what a cup of something may be in weight so I thought I'd share this chart for reference. http://allrecipes.com/HowTo/Baking-Ingredient-Conversions/Detail.aspx Hope it helps. :)
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My new motivation - Disneyland 5K !
I've been feeling pretty down in the dumps lately. I hurt my ankle to weekend before last and I've been totally off my feet since then except when absolutely needed. So I haven't done any cardio or working out, meaning I've had to drop my calories back to non-exercise calorie numbers and it's being really getting to me. I…
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My 2011 Project 365 - A Year in Food
I just thought it would be fun to share my photo set on Flickr of my Project 365 for this year. I had done a Project 365 in 2009 and found it fairly difficult to keep up on so I skipped 2010. But I noticed that over the last year, I took a lot of pictures of my food to share on Twitter. So this year, I decided to do a…
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Injured ankle = no cardio = frustated vent
I’m feeling really frustrated right now. Just last week I finally broke through a plateau that plagued me for over a month with my first new loss again. I’d started doing a bit of calorie shifting as well as eating back much more, to most, of my exercise calories each day (I still leave a buffer since I don’t have an HRM…
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Am I *too* detailed? (sorta long post, sorry)
Let me start by saying that I use MFP almost exclusively on my phone, 99.5% of everything I’ve ever done or logged with MFP is via my phone. (until two days ago when I discovered the message boards. lol) With that said, after reading these boards for these few days I’m starting to feel a bit OCD/obsessive about my logging.…
