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| Fitness | Crunches/ab exercise cause dry/scaly spot on lower back? | Feb 24 2008 00:11 (UTC) |
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| Ah, good to hear I'm not alone - and yeah, I always use a mat, so that's why I was kind of concerned, but I suppose it's just a callous? | |||
| Weight Loss | Okay, I need some motivation | Jan 26 2008 03:00 (UTC) |
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| I know the feeling exactly; I'm have a very obsessive personality about everything, but particularly about diet and exercise. If I go over my maintenance level, I go and do extra aerobic to "justify" it to myself, even though I know it doesn't matter if one day here and there is more. Just some part of me wants to validate every calorie, so I just go along with it, lol. I have a hard time forcing myself to take off 2 days a week and I definitely feel that if I skip a day like it's going to instantly affect me. So if you can, relax and don't be OCD about it like me, lol. Everyone needs days off, and if you take an extra one here or there it's not a big deal as long as over time your stay with a solid routine. | |||
| Maintaining | How has maintenance been going for you guys? | Jan 26 2008 02:56 (UTC) |
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| I find maintaining is easy if you use something like fitday.com to log all your activities and caloric intake. Alternatively, you could just use http://www.bmi-calculator.net/ and find out your maintenance level and just make sure you eat around that much give or take 100 each day. The only difficulties you might encounter would be how tempted you are to treat yourself or take days off from eating your maintenance level or exercising. And if you are a bit OCD like me, on days you eat more, just throw in a bit more aerobic and you're all set. I find it's useful to remind yourself that it takes 3500 calories over your maintenance level to gain 1 pound, so a few more here and there is a-ok. And you can always weigh yourself every morning to keep a check on if you might be eating to much and then you can catch any significant gain when it starts, and adjust accordingly. Really, once you're in the habit of eating well and exercising, you're all set because it becomes natural. | |||
| Maintaining | Question. | Jan 26 2008 02:51 (UTC) |
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According to this site - http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/ - your BMR or Basal Metabolic Rate (if you spent the entire day sleeping) is 1351.45. You then use this (http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/ harris-benedict-equation/) equation to determine how much you eat. If you don't exercise at all and live a sedentary life, you should eat about 1622 calories a day; about 1860 if you participate in light activity, etc.
About the oatmeal - it's probably one of the best things you can have for a snack, so keep eating it! Unless the oatmeal puts you drastically over your maintenance level, there is no worry about gaining from it. Remember, it takes 3500 calories over your maintenance level to gain a pound. So definitely keep up eating oatmeal, a cup has, what, 140 calories or so at the most? Definitely a great snack and it's very good for you. |
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| Maintaining | can i indulge now and then? | Jan 26 2008 02:45 (UTC) |
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| Definitely; remember, it takes 3500 calories to gain 1 pound, so say you eat your maintenance calories 6 days a week, then on the day you took off, you'd have toe at 3500 calories over your maintenance level to get that 1 pound. So yeah, enjoy yourself once in a while! I can speak from experience - over winter break, I took 2 days off where I probably did have about 4000 calories each day, and I was the same by the end of winter break. | |||
| Motivation | how much do clothes weigh? | Jan 21 2008 00:44 (UTC) |
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Original Post by dcgirl: Based on the clothing you listed I'd say 3-5 pounds is reasonable. If it's a real winter coat and not just a light jacket or something then it's probably 5. |
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| Maintaining | Disagreement Between Sources | Jan 20 2008 14:10 (UTC) |
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Ah...Well what about the BMR calculation? Anyone else have any idea? |
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