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My body fat %
OK first off, today is a rest day for me, and you guessed it, I sit on the computer and look up weight related stuff I've always wanted to know more about :laugh: I've found sites you just put your measurments into and they caculate it out for you, but me being the weirdo that I am, I needed to know how it works and what…
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Maybe a sign I need to push myself harder
Well yesterday I worked out at the gym for a total of 2 and a half hours! I can feel it today :happy: In the past I've been keeping my heart rate around145-155. Yesterday I did short 10 min cardio on 3 different machines but this time kept my heart rate between 160-168. Today I actually feel like I burned calories in my…
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New goal to jog
Well, I'm not a runner, never have been. But I was on the track team in high school :laugh: I only got to run the relay race because I was so slow :laugh: Anyway, I want to start jogging. I'm going to start slow, just around our neightborhood block. I know my husband would probably go with me :happy: (he can run, so I know…
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First workout with HRM
OK Today was my first day working out with my HRM. It's a very simple one. You do have to push this one button for a few seconds often to get accurate heart rate reading and it tells you calories burned based on your heart rate. Much to my suprise, I burned 399 calories doing 30 mins on the eliptical today!! :drinker:…
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Hard few days
Well I had a "food breakdown" last night and ate a pound of rib eye! Today after the gym with my new HRM I now know for the past 3 weeks I've been starving myself!!! The machines were way under what the HRM said I burned. Yesterday and today I'm way over on fat! Tomorrow I'll be back on track. I'm happy to know I can eat…
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Portobello mushroom lunch
:tongue: I do love cheese and this is my cheese fix for the day :tongue: One portobello mushroom cap - I let the cap soak in a mixture of sesame ginger dressing and light sodium soy sauce add water untill the cap is covered Light string cheese and 2 table spoons of fat free cream cheese -I mix them in a bowl and add spices…
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Adding up calories in a recipe
My husband is makeing a fish soup tonight and I don't know if I want it or not :indifferent: My question is, if he makes a pot of this, how do I determine how many calories are in a cup? Any tips would help :happy: I know I can add each ingreediant to get the calories in the entire pot then divide it out to get my total,…
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Blah kinda day
Well, I didn't work out today, but that's not a bad thing. I've worked out 17 days in a row. :bigsmile: I've noticed the past week no matter how much I work out no changes. I feel like I'm not eatting enough I'm tempted to up my calories to 1400! Yeah, I do drink, but not to the point of dehydration... lecture me if you…
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Heart rate monitors
OK I may buy a HRM today :heart: I'm really just guessing when it comes to putting in how many calories I burn when lifting weights, and I think I'm burning more than MFP says. I'm not too worried about cardio stuff the machines at the gym give me the number of calories burned. I don't have alot to spend I was thinking…
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My first Measurements
Well here it is :tongue: I want to end up adding to my arms and taking away from my hips :laugh: Neck 13.25 Waist 32.25 Hips 39.75 Shoulder 37.75 Bicep 10.0 Chest 33.0 Thigh 23.25 calf 13.25
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Heart rate info and exercise
OK so I've had a hard time knowing where my heart rate should be to get the most out of my workouts. I just found some info on this site that has helped me out soooo much. Just wanted to share it with other's who may not know all the lingo or in's and out's of exercise talk. It has really helped me understand where I need…
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Too much exercise
Is there such a thing? A person on here mentioned you can plateau easy if you workout too much. I'm starting to go to the gym everyday now. Working on building muscle and only doing 30 mins of cardio instead of the hour and a half of cardio I was doing. Am I setting my self up to not hit my weight goals? Also, I have…
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Where do you lose weight/inches first?
Well I've been doing this eatting right and exercise full speed ahead for 2 1/2 weeks :drinker: I've lost 3 pounds, but I've noticed I am starting to look different! I don't have a measuring tape, but just looking at myslef I lose weight in the face very first :laugh: Then leggs/butt, and lastly stomach! This is a positive…
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Sausage Breakfast
I love love love fatty breakfast food! :heart: :heart: :heart: so I've been trying to come up with ways to still have it, but cut some calories and fat out. This is what I've came up with: Butterball Turkey Italian Sausage (I cut the casing off and made two patties out of it. I also added some cayenne pepper, garlic salt,…
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Upping calories
I have my calories set at 1200. I thought mainly because I don't work and stay at home. Truth is, I'm always doing something. I rarely just sit for hours. I hang out on the computer for a few mins every hour or so, but that's about it. Today during my workout, my stomach was actually growling!!!! I'm just a little wary to…
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New workout clothes :-)
Well, I'm soooo happy :happy: I needed a sports bra, I didn't own one, and I went to Old Navey. I never go, but they were having a sale of 50% off of clearance!!! I was soooo happy! Now I have enough clothes to go to the gym 5 days a week and a new gym bag for under $50! Just had to share, I also love the fact that women…
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Last minute (warning this is a rant)
Soooo, my husband got off work late. I just got off the phone with him and he wants to go out for mexican!!!!! He could have told me this morning! :explode: If I go with my planned dinner and one glass of wine I'll be over by 26 calories, which I don't really mind. If we go out I'll be over by 200-300! I know it won't kill…
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adding weight lifting calories
First off, yey for me! I did weights today when yesterday I thought there would be no way in hatties I'd be able to move my triceps! :bigsmile: My question is about adding the calories to MFP. I see I can add it under the cardio section and it will count towards my calories. We worked out for about an hour, but with all…
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Attn Muscle People, I need help
Ok I'm just starting out and I told myself after I didn't feel like I was going to kill over using the cardio machines at the gym I'd cut back to 30 or 40 mins of cardio and add 30 or 40 mins of weights when I go to the gym (5 days a week) Well surprisingly, 9 days of working out and I feel like I'm at that point :drinker:…
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Today's montra
"One bad choice doesn't doom you to bad health, it's the repetitive choices that shape our future, be it good or bad!" This is just my reminder to myself that I didn't gain this weight because I ate one bad meal or had one lazy day on the couch. It was those repetitive BAD habits that made me gain weight. I'm working on…
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Sodium
I'm full of questions today!!! :laugh: OK I'm over alot on my sodium! The workouts I've been doing really make me sweat!!!! I add salt to anything (most likely the beef jerky does me in) My question is, if I really push a workout hard and sweat alot, can I have some extra sodium during the day? When I first started I…
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Protein (again)
I was wondering earlier this week if going over my protein will make me gain. I really don't seem to be losing anything at all. I feel great :tongue: but I would like to lose some weight in the process of my workouts too :laugh: Today I was 53 (or something like that) over! I don't go over on calories and most of the time…
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Weight gain
I've been on MFP for one week. I weighed myself today and I'm 139 (4 pounds more than when I started) I know weight can go up and down through out the day. But this was at the gym after my workout and all I had was oatmeal for breakfast! I'm feeling alittle down about it. My husband says since I've just started, my weight…
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Serving sizes, need help
I'm making a trukey breast tonight for dinner and I don't know how to tell how much 3-4 ounces is? I've heard a meat serving is almost the size of your hand. What do you do to tell how much a serving size is?
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Is high protein bad?
I go over on my protein every day!!! I'm just doing some cardio exercises, so I'm kinda worries it may make me gain weight instead of lose. I usually go over from 5-20 a day. Just want to know if this could end up being a bad thing, or is it something I shouldn't worry about?
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Bloat
OK I drink alot of water, alot! :drinker: It's actually all I drink, even when I wasn't watching what I was eatting. I don't take caffeine, I do have a few glasses of wine some days (4 ounces each and I measure them) I can't figure out why I'm soooo bloated? I have really increased my fiber intake and eat alot of veggies,…
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Salmon skin
I love love love the skin on salmon!!! :heart: :heart: :heart: Well since I've been logging my calories and fat, I've been tossing it out. Do you think a 3 ounce salmon fillet is 175 calories/10 grams of fat, with or without the skin? I'd really like to eat it tonight, yummie! I've heard that's were most of the fat is.
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Adding exercise
Do you add stuff like cleaning the house, laundry, shopping... ect to your exercise at the end of the day? I'm at 1200 calories, on day 5 and I think I need to up it. I'll admit, I haven't been eatting that much of my exercise calories if at all :blushing:
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lost my vitamin today
Well, it's my fault :frown: I decided to take my vitamin in the middle of me eatting lunch instead of after. Well, needless to say it made me sick and I upchucked most of my lunch :noway: Guess I learned my lesson! Now I don't know if I should re-eat those 220 calories or not, I'm thinking I do. :sad:
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Don't know how much I weigh
When I started out I thought I weighed 135 (I would like to be at 115). I don't know if that is the case. I've been on MFP for about 4 or 5 days. We just have one of those cheapy white scales ($10) and it's not really accurate, just kinda a guesstamate. I think on friday or saturday when I go back out to the gym I'm going…