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cportwine
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Posted: 15 October 2009 06:42 pm |
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Ok, I was reading on here and had an idea. I want everyone to pick a goal for the week and then do it.
I was going to put this in the general area, but thought this is more of a challenge kind of thing.
It can be anything you want from exercise to eating to losing numbers on the scale.
I realize this week is almost over. So, if your in on this then we will start on Monday....
My first goal on Monday is going to be: Making up 100 calorie snack packs for my cupboards and refrigerator. I would like to complete this task on Monday and then if I find the need for a snack that week it will have to be one of my packs. Then on Friday I will post on how I did with this challenge.....
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BJD74
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Posted: 16 October 2009 12:47 am |
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Hey Cport! :) I am in!
Put me down next week for no cookies!!!! :) If I can kick a week, then maybe I can kick two weeks, then three weeks....etcetc
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Hiker
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Posted: 16 October 2009 04:06 pm |
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okay, I'm in for next week. Okay....this is tough for me....no ice cream for the week.
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BJD74
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Posted: 16 October 2009 08:16 pm |
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gasp! no ice cream hiker?!!$*(@&%$) WOW woman, I am totally behind you on this one...just like me with the cookies!! Oh Lord let us be strong!!! :)
I havent had a cookie this whole week though, now that i think about it...lol.....just havent had anything i like i suppose...lol....there are oreos in the laundry back cabinets...but until opening them i dont have temptation. I did have cupcakes around from the gathering last saturday, and last nite i practically threw the last one at D and begged him to get it gone because i was gonna wolf it down! LOL
Ok, so we have 100 cal snacks, no cookies and no ice cream.... whos next? mchen? michellep? anyone anyone???? :)
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Hiker
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Posted: 16 October 2009 10:08 pm |
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BJD74 wrote: gasp! no ice cream hiker?!!$*(@&%$) WOW woman, I am totally behind you on this one...just like me with the cookies!! Oh Lord let us be strong!!! :)
Yup, my ice cream, your cookies....we are crazy! Now notice I agreed to no ice cream NEXT week so if I have some this weekend it's okay ..I had to cut myself some wiggle room  . I don't know, can someone die from a week without ice cream? I've never tried it.
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sqzee
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Posted: 19 October 2009 09:27 pm |
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Ok I have one... I will try, but I promise nothing. Challenges have not been my thing lately.
I will not eat after dinner. Which means I can have a diet coke and/or a hot chocolate (40kcals). IF I am at the verge of a breakdown I can have a VEGETABLE (no fruit!).
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cportwine
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Posted: 20 October 2009 04:02 pm |
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I am not doing so good at my goal. I got the stuff, just to lazy to make up the packs. But, I can say that I am counting the stuff out so I don't go over the amount I am suppose to have. So, my snacking is going good so far. Maybe later today I can make up a few bags or something. It just seems silly on some of the stuff. Like apples. I am not putting an apple in a bag, lol. Ok, well I hope everyone else is doing good on their goals.
Good luck Hiker...Ice cream is a hard one to kick. I bought low cal fudge bars to replace ice cream. They are kind of the same but without all the fat. Maybe you can find something to replace your ice cream for the week.
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BJD74
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Posted: 20 October 2009 04:59 pm |
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had a cookie yesterday, gotta get the 12 min mile in today to make up for it. UGH...not even a day in and we are struggling! we are a bunch of lushes! we can do this ladies!!! I am not giving up, even if it means i am doing 12 12 min miles a day!!! LOL
cport, at least you are counting them out, that is better than just dumping into a dish and eating it all!!!
i wont be bad anymore this week, my head isnt hurting (yet!!! but it may begin if MJ doesnt start to listen to her mommy!!!!).....so i am ok, just volitile today, ready to pop at any given moment you know? do you guys get that way? like you have no patience left in you to be calm?
maybe i should go out into the orchard and scream at the top of my lungs...maybe that will feel better.... ;o
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Hiker
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Posted: 20 October 2009 07:05 pm |
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I slipped up on the first day and had 1/2 cup of ice cream. But I did go to the gym and spent an extra 20 minutes on the treadmill so at least I paid for my error. . This challenge helps when I start looking at 1/2 cups of ice cream as 20 minutes on the treadmill it isn't so tempting....I think we might be onto something here.
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sqzee
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Posted: 21 October 2009 09:34 am |
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Sounds great Hiker  And exercise is good even if its not just for paying for the ice cream.
I don't think I can say that I did bad or good yesterday since I didn't really have dinner. I just ate a lot of carrots and an apple and a chocolate thing. So its like a 50/50
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BJD74
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Posted: 21 October 2009 06:00 pm |
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| WEDNESDAY, SO FAR SO GOOD... :) TUESDAY MADE IT THROUGH WITHOUT ANY STRUGGLE... :)
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cportwine
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Posted: 21 October 2009 06:31 pm |
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I think I am doing alright. I am counting them out (the snacks) and even have made up some stuff for the freezer that will be low cal. option for meals. So, I think even though I am not sticking to the original goal I think over all I have achieved what I wanted. Now, just got to follow through and eat the good stuff and not the bad stuff.
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Hiker
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Posted: 21 October 2009 11:53 pm |
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| well, I'm not eating ice cream but I'm eating other junk so I can't say I'm doing well.
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sqzee
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Posted: 23 October 2009 09:23 am |
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| Didn't eat anything after dinner yesterday but that was because I was at a charity dinner so I had more than enough... So can't really say I'm doing well either.
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BJD74
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Posted: 23 October 2009 11:33 pm |
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hello ladies... :)
its friday and i wanted to report that i have gone this whole week, since sunday without having any cookies!
thankfully none of the kinds i enjoy are around...that surely is helping me!!! I have discovered that i like the cinnamon buns...argh......i got reduced fat even, and they are good! I think I will have to add them to my list on here as a new challenge because i made some last nite, had one and wanted like 3 more! But i only had one, that was my one sweet for the day :)
weight is 159 again today. I have done 18 hard miles of exercise this week and havent lost anything, i am trying so hard and its been such a tough week! i wish it would get easier!!!!
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Hiker
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Posted: 23 October 2009 11:37 pm |
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| Well, I did okay staying off ice cream but I just substituted other bad things so it really didn't help much. Of course that is my fault, that is not the spirit of the challenge. I need to get back on track....hmmm I've said that before.
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Hiker
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Posted: 23 October 2009 11:37 pm |
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| Well, I did okay staying off ice cream but I just substituted other bad things so it really didn't help much. Of course that is my fault, that is not the spirit of the challenge. I need to get back on track....hmmm I've said that before.
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BJD74
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Posted: 27 October 2009 06:48 pm |
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its tuesday and i havent had a cookie since last sunday. i am happy about that. now, however i think i need to lock away the snickers bars. i need to watch the cheetos. i need to watch the sodas.
its funny that we are substituting other things for the ones we took away. how can we avoid this???
so now, my new rule for THIS WEEK.
NO SNICKERS. (i have two more frozen in the garage freezer)
NO CHEETOS! (just gave the last of bag to mj for snack, and we do have the spicy cheetos in the back cabinets, waiting to be opened for lunches etc)
1 soda every 2-3 days only, that allows me to have 2 sodas a week.
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BJD74
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Posted: 28 October 2009 10:50 pm |
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hey team,
so, ok, well....hmmmmm...........made chocolate chip cookies for D today and lord if they didnt look so delicious sitting there are crunchy with the melted chips......and i had 4 of them!!! (i mkae them like a 50cent piece size but still!!!!) SO TO MAKE IT OK I HAVE DONE 2 12 MIN MILES on top of the 3 12 min miles that I did for today.
I also had a kit kat...darn it. Its just terrible, these cravings that i have for the yummy sweets especially when i tell myself not to eat them!!! It seems that i defeat myself by working so hard, telling myself that i cant have these things and then i just cave like a huge avalanche of weakness!!!
Hiker, what are we gonna do? we are all facing the same weights as we began with practically for this halloween challenge....argh....why is it if we allow ourselves to "live" a little that we end up back where we began? D keeps telling me that I can maintain with the way I am now...but Gosh, i dont know if i can????? I feel like if i just stop writing for even one day i just stop counting and start eating all the more.....even with the workouts.
I mean, come on...5 miles a day is hard to do!, esp each day!!! But I am doing it to make up for the bad i cant seem to stop eating....lol....oh i guess i just have to concede if i can make it thru the holidays to the new year staying under 165 that i should be proud of myself! Maybe that is how i should start to look at this challenge I am facing???
What do you guys think? Is that realistic you think?
How do you guys feel? I made it thru walmart today without going crazy, i had a marked down german chocolate cake in my cart that by the end of shopping i had put back. I knew i wouldnt enjoy it as much as a homemade german chocolate cake and i didnt need it. I didnt get any sweets aside from fresh fruit.....oh and the kit kat that is already gone thanks to my 5 miles that i did today! lol.... :)
ok, i caved, but it wasnt a snickers! lol...nor was it cheetos!
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Hiker
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Posted: 28 October 2009 11:52 pm |
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Hey BJD, you put the german chocolate cake back....and it was marked down  . good for you!
We need to celebrate our success, we are quick enough to dwell on our failures. I say we need to give the same attention to what we do right that we do to what we do wrong.
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BJD74
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Posted: 3 November 2009 05:02 pm |
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ok this is wierd, but i want a nice juicy fresh cooked steak! i made it thru the weekend without any cookies, but i didnt stay away from the candy. i had a few snack size mounds bars. At least i am having dark chocolate! lol......and coconut!
i havent weighed myself since saturday, that is 3 days ago. I wonder how i am doing? I will weigh in on friday. :)
my challenge this week will be trying to resist the mounds bars. i love them. it was a spontaneous buy, i know.
soda, chips, cookies, all the other stuff right now, hasnt bothered me much. the pizza this weekend we had, so not the way i recalled it two years ago. As it stands, the Mimmos is still the best and worth waiting for! :)
howre you guys all doing???
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cportwine
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Posted: 3 November 2009 08:47 pm |
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Ok, my challenge for this week is no more cheese and to eat as many veggies as possible. Hope it helps me.
I have officially gain 20lbs since I quit smoking. Hoping to get that number down a little. Just because I gave up one bad habit doesn't mean I need to pick up another one (like eating myself silly).
So, I am counting calories again and this time I am going to follow through. So consider that another goal for this week to count all calories consumed.
Alright, I will come back on friday and let you know how I did.
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Hiker
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Posted: 4 November 2009 12:15 am |
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| My goal is to just stop eating junk. To get back to keeping my calories under control again. Can I do it....I really don't know but I am going to try.
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BJD74
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Posted: 4 November 2009 05:17 pm |
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ahh hiker, it is a relief to know its not just me. with the livestrong diary, it charts and graphs out the carbs fats etc...and somehow i am leveling out with carbs even though i am eating the candy still! I am taking waay too much in, i am still in those higher 2300 for the day, with a net intake of 1500-1900. The difference being the amount of exercise i am putting in etc. I feel like I wake and i am already thinking about food. Is that a sign I am not eating the right things? or that i am not eating enough? or that i am eating too much and my body now needs more? I doubt its the latter, because the 2300 or so is so high normally how could anyone be hungry on that intake?
im ready to toss the mounds bars. i managed to stay away from them after D came home last nite, but we had pancakes for dinner with sage sausage, hows that for healthy? lol.....i did have a small snack at 830, made some popcorn and ate it one piece at a time. Gave it to D at 9pm and he commented that i barely had any. I also had a mint cup of tea, but i dont know if tea is keeping me away from the food.
The only right thing i did yesterday was eating during the day and not after dinner.
Its so hard.
I was thinkin about when i first started this journey, estimating my calorie intake, watching everything so closely......not really looking up the calories etc....but guesstimating it....I wonder if I was actually consuming the amounts I am now, or if i am eating alot more now, but having more activity? I cant imagine going back to try to take in 1200 calories a day, wihtout exercise in my day. I would not lose at that rate accord to Nir....but somehow i did. I must have been starving myself, on top of working out!
I cant go back to that, but i have to find some way to overcome the choices i am making and start to get some control back, at least in my head.
We can do it Hiker, how are you doing ? What are you doing to get back to your healthy habits? how did we get to Not having healthy habits anyway? lol...
Hang in there!
So today, if and when i eat, i am going to go for healthy, fruit. I am going to try my hardest not to snack. One step at a time.
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cportwine
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Posted: 4 November 2009 07:10 pm |
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It's a cycle sometimes. I stopped eating a healthy breakfast cause I was snacking to much. So, then I was just eating all kinds of bad stuff instead of my good breakfast.  So, I am now trying to get back into the good breakfast thing and give up the snacking once again. You would thing that after we already done something the wrong way once before that we wouldn't do it again. But, we always go back to what just seems natural.
I am just trying to be aware of what I am doing to myself. Keep telling myself when I eat "is this food worth it". Cause to be honest, some of the stuff I have been eating lately was not even good. So, why am I doing this to myself. It's to bad that eating has to be related to everything else in our lives.
I read an article today that said instead of trying not to feed our emotions to feed them, but with the right foods. So, I guess if I am going to be fat it's going to be on healthy foods...
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BJD74
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Posted: 4 November 2009 07:23 pm |
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ok cport....so goin on that idea that we should feed our emotions with good foods.....WHAT WOULD THOSE GOOD FOODS BE? :)
Fruit, Nuts, Cheeses.........veggies? :)
I have fruit, i chomp on my walnuts and almonds, i have cheeses and veggies too....but oddly enough, NONE Of them taste AT ALL like a dark chocolate coconut bar?? :(
Is there a veggie out there that tastes like that? Where can i buy some?? :)
we can do it! so far today i havent munched, i have kept myself busy at the computer and catching up on my law and order svu's.....been in the bathroom alot, the fasting tea i had yesterday has caught up with me and is cleaning me out! lol......i will accept that! :)
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Hiker
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Posted: 5 November 2009 02:09 am |
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BJD. I feel your pain.....there isn't much like soft moist cocunut covered in dark chocolate (AKA mounds bar) unless it is a mounds bar that has been frozen  .
Anyway, regarding your earlier post, I beleive you are alilttle taller than me so if you were eating 1200 calories a day I am sure you would loose without exercise. I was doing 1300 four days a week and 1500 three days a week with little or no exercise and I was loosing. Have you checked out this site http://www.freedieting.com/tools/calorie_calculator.htm, it has a really good calculator on it and you can adjust it based on exercise. I personally always go with little or no exercise then whatever I do is a bonus. But that's just me.
I don't know what happened to our motivation what I do know is we need to get it back....we are strong and we can do this....Cport, you too. We need to get ourselves going somehow.
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BJD74
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Posted: 5 November 2009 04:38 pm |
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hiker, that aligns nicely to the livestrong.com calculator for me. thanks! :) When i said the 1200 wouldnt work now, its due to the high amount of workouts i do. Or have done, as i havent really done anything since Sunday! If i were to try to eat that low of a number with my workouts now, i would be hurting or starving myself......hence that i should be around the 1400-1500 daily. To maintain i should be around 1900 or so.
last nite i went to bed at 8pm, all snorkly and stuffed up, and my throat was sore. slept till clock at 6 got us up then went back to bed after i got D off to work. Awoken like 10 min later to the dogs goin crazy barking and i got up to find a beautfiul brown horse outside our gate! He wanted in badly! I guess maybe Calypso, our mare is in heat? but regardless, I let him in and now there are 3 horses wandering in the corral. He is lovely. Not much bigger than ours and so far they are all getting along OK. D said if noone can claim him wiht a marking or branding (which he has none of) within 2 weeks, we will keep him. :)
My oh My I am a horse manager now!!! lol
Kinda puts my challenges on the backburner doesnt it? seeing as now my challenge shall be how to manage 4 dogs, a kid and 3 horses!
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Nir
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Posted: 5 November 2009 06:32 pm |
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I have reviewed the calculator on 'freedieting' and contrasted it with our  calculator. The way it works: it first calculates your unadjusted RMR (this figure is not actually shown), it then calculates Maintenance by multiplying it by your activity factor. If you pick 'little/no exercise (desk job) it uses 1.2, if you pick '3 times a week' it uses 1.375, note that these are the same figures used by the CPH calculator which in turn were sourced from the McArdle book.
Then, the 'fat loss' and 'extreme fat loss' lines are simply 0.8 and 0.6 of the the Maintenance figure. So if you have selected 'little/no exercise' then the 'fat loss' line will be 0.8 x 1.2 x (unadjusted RMR) = 0.96 x (unadjusted RMR), as as you might recall eating at unadjusted RMR is a reasonable strategy for someone who is not obese and is doing a variable amount of exercise (sometimes exercising, sometimes not) as it means they're getting some deficit even on their rest days. Eating less than that is definitely not advisable.
(From personal experience, eating at that level of approximately unadjusted RMR is indeed 'extreme' for someone who is 'seriously active'.)
I like the power that comes from not just using a calculator but understanding how the numbers are crunched. That is why I found BFFM such a great read - Tom Venuto may be a body builder but he certainly loves to talk numbers. Here is Peter's attempt to explain it all... http://www.caloriesperhour.com/tutorial_BMR.php
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Hiker
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Posted: 5 November 2009 11:41 pm |
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| Nir, thanks for the explanation, it makes more sense to me now. I had tried reading it before but it seemed too technical, now I get it and it really isn't. I actaully like that calculator better than the one I found on freedieting. Thanks for the help.
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BJD74
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Posted: 9 November 2009 07:42 pm |
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my goal for this week will be to allow myself to have ONLY ONE CANDY SNACK BAR that i got from my folks from Halloween. I have put the bag in the freezer out in the garage and it is therefor out of sight for me. I have on my new rules to allow myself ONE SWEET PER DAY, ONE SERVING PER DAY.
if I go over that amount then I am sticking to the extra 12 minute mile to work it off, for each candy bar that i go over I have to do that extra mile. NO EXCUSES! I have to find a way to control what I want, and moderate it. There should be no reason that I cant just enjoy one frozen candy bar slowly and appreciate it GREATLY!
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BJD74
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Posted: 11 November 2009 03:36 pm |
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hey kids,
so yesterday i allowed myself to have a snack size snickers bar. it was frozen and i ate it while i did the folding of the laundry. it was the middle of the day, not at nite.
baby steps. :)
first day back to myself, just talked to dad, sounds like MJ will be back tomorrow, pending how D does today back at work. He was ready to go I think, but I will hear from him if he starts to crash. He hasnt spent the last few days doing anything but laying on the couch, so a full day back on his feet may wind him. I hope that his virus doesnt hit me :( or MJ!
How is everyone else doing??? Cport are you having breakfast again? you have to have that meal, its the most important meal of the day!!! Even an apple and hard boiled egg with a cup of coffee!! :) Dont skip it, you will regret it!!
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