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| Weight Loss | New Year Diet - Anyone Still Going? | Jun 08 2009 18:35 (UTC) |
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Started Jan 5th at 254. At 229 today. Goal is under 200! |
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| Weight Loss | After dinner cravings ruin my whole day for me! | Mar 19 2009 05:03 (UTC) |
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I have those 60-calorie packs of jello pudding in the fridge just for this! Come in vanilla, chocolate, caramel, and combinations of those! Good stuff, and usually satisfies my wanting something sweet.. |
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| Fitness | Should I be sore? | Mar 13 2009 04:11 (UTC) |
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Hey buddy! Isn't it awesome how quickly you make progress? I love that program! The soreness will definitely decrease the longer you lift. Though, I find that if I lift an amount thats produces muscle failure towards the end of your last set, I can feel it a little, but I kinda have to hunt for it my moving my arms/legs around or flexing. Were you feeling sore the first week? Chances are since you had been lifting before (even if it were isolation exercises and a body split), your body isn't as "shocked" at the new workouts. When I switched to this workout, I was surprised at how I wasn't as sore with squats as I was with deadlifts.. the only difference I can figure is that I had worked the muscles I use in squats more recently in a previous program.. I almost never got the hamstrings or back - result = sore from deadlifts, not from squats so much. Also, concerning your slight soreness from power cleans at your traps... maybe you're not used to the more explosive kind of strength training that power cleans provide? As for the lack of weight loss... my numbers have begun to stagnate as well. The thing you'll see a lot around here is people looking to measurements instead of their scale, especially when lifting. Soreness, increased water retention / glycogen stores, etc all add weight which is not fat. But, if all is going well, you should be burning fat underneath it all! At least, this is what I tell myself! The extra weight retention is supposed to go away after a few weeks I hear. |
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| Fitness | I am worried about my caloric intake | Mar 06 2009 01:24 (UTC) |
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Setting your activity level to moderate and also adding exercise is double counting your activities.. you want to set to sedentary if you log your exercises separately. The activity settings are for if you do a regular routine each day at about that level... so you don't have to re-enter your stuff all the time :P |
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| Weight Loss | Changed exercise routine, change calorie intake? | Mar 04 2009 18:59 (UTC) |
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It worked! I had two maintenance days, and lowered my intake a tad, and I seem to be losing again. Bumped in hopes it may help someone else too! Thanks gi-jane! |
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| Weight Loss | Burn Meter | Mar 04 2009 09:59 (UTC) |
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You always burn calories. Sleeping, sitting watching tv, etc. So the burn meter just takes the amount of calories it estimates you'll burn during the day and spreads it out evenly.. I *think* its just for effect, but I could be wrong. Probably not a good guage to figure out how many calories you've burned at say 3:45PM since when you burn your calories can vary so much... just use the estimates for the day to figure your deficits and exercise amounts. |
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| Fitness | 248lb will running cause damage | Mar 03 2009 20:17 (UTC) |
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EDIT: Oops. Melkor's on it. Don't listen to me |
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| Fitness | How far is your gym from your home each way? | Mar 02 2009 09:01 (UTC) |
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Just across the street. I have no excuses. |
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| Fitness | Want to know when I should change up programs | Feb 28 2009 04:22 (UTC) |
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I don't have an answer to your question, but you have the *exact* same stats as mine, except I'm 22yrs old. I'm down to 242 from 256, male, and 5'10". We should keep in touch... what are your goals / goal weight?
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| Weight Loss | that "hungry" feeling...what does it really mean? | Feb 24 2009 09:14 (UTC) |
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During the first week you're body is going to be adjusting. Its used to getting more, and it can be stubborn for a little while. I find that the hunger feeling goes away... once your body adjusts to your new caloric intake. Also, thirst can sometimes feel like hunger, so make sure you're drinking plenty of water. What happened to me when I first started trying to lose weight (but before I started calorie counting) is that, after cutting back on what I eat, and adding exercise, I ended up with too large of a calorie deficit. So the hunger I was feeling was actually legit. So, having some sense of how many calories you're eating vs how many you're burning may help you figure out if you should or shouldn't eat those extra calories. Use the calculators on the site to figure out how much you burn, and nutritional labels to keep track of calories.. |
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| Weight Loss | Changed exercise routine, change calorie intake? | Feb 19 2009 20:21 (UTC) |
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Great advice! I'm pretty confident about my calorie counting. A combination of my metabolism getting wise to my scheme and possibly eating a bit too much given my new weight makes a lot of sense. I'll have a piggy day this weekend, and see what happens ;) (healthy piggy day, of course)... Thanks! |
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| Weight Loss | Changed exercise routine, change calorie intake? | Feb 19 2009 19:08 (UTC) |
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So I've been at this for a couple weeks now. My weight loss first seemed to slow down, and over the past week has been pretty stagnant and has even creeped up to the 245 territory. I haven't been in this area for a couple weeks (even though its only 1lb more). I normally wouldn't fret over 1lb, but this increase came after a couple weeks of staying at 244. How long before I can expect extra fluid retention from the weight training to make its way off? Also, could this be muscle? I just want to make sure so I don't modify my diet prematurely. |
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| Fitness | Best Music For Running | Feb 16 2009 23:47 (UTC) |
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I like techno/trance/dance for running. There are a couple great free podcasts on iTunes that you can subscribe to, and you'll have several hours of new music every week to listen to... Above & Beyond: Trance Around the World (2hrs/week) A State of Trance Official Podcast (30min/week) DJ Tiesto's Club Life (1hr/week) Of course, you can subscribe to music from your favorite genres... podcasts FTW!
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| Weight Loss | When you go over by just a little... | Feb 12 2009 05:46 (UTC) |
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Well, you said it yourself... realize that its a *small* mistake. You seem to understand this, so just don't let it get to you. Treat tomorrow as an opportunity to do better.. great thing is that you have a lot of tomorrows :D I wouldn't even call it a mistake. I try to keep within +/- 100 calories of my target each day. I've been losing at a steady pace for the past 5 weeks.
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| Fitness | Incorporating HIIT | Jan 29 2009 01:51 (UTC) |
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Oh. I was under the impression that HIIT makes your body burn more % of calories from fat vs muscle or other things, bigger/longer metabolism boost, and also has benefits for endurance which could help my longer runs. Any of this true, even if raw # of calories is about the same for a longer steady-pace exercise vs shorter interval training? You're saying that if it came down to a choice between increasing my endurance to do even longer runs vs adding HIIT to my routine, the longer runs would be better? No added benefit from HIIT if I can handle it? Also, I thought changing things up would keep my body from getting to used to my longer runs. I've actually been running longer than 3 weeks. I started running last summer, went on for 3 months (couch to 5k essentially) before I fell off the wagon.. wasn't doing any calorie counting or anything, and a combination of a plateau (right around my CW actually, I'm nervous to see if I make it through!) and work stress derailed my efforts :/
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