Category: Health
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Workout for January 18, 2012
earned 620 points for: Machine Chest Fly (Pec Deck): 44 lb x 10 reps (+5 pts) 44 lb x 10 reps (+5 pts) 44 lb x 10 reps (+5 pts) 44 lb x 10 reps (+5 pts) 44 lb x 10 reps (+5 pts) Barbell Bench Press: 85 lb x 10 reps (+45 pts) 85…
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Workout for January 15, 2012
earned 484 points for: EZ-Bar Curl: 60 lb x 5 reps (+10 pts) 60 lb x 5 reps (+10 pts) 60 lb x 5 reps (+10 pts) 60 lb x 5 reps (+10 pts) 60 lb x 5 reps (+10 pts) Machine Chest Fly (Pec Deck): 66 lb x 6 reps (+7 pts) 66 lb…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-15
burned 306 calories doing 26 minutes of “Manual treadmill (with HRM and calorie readout)” #myfitnesspal completed his food and exercise diary for 01/08/2012 and was under his calorie goal #myfitnesspal Tips to Burn More Fat on the Treadmill – http://t.co/KP0nuFIw Just in time for doomed New Year Resolutions, Costco’s got a lots of diet supplements…
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Workout for January 11, 2012
earned 380 points for: EZ-Bar Curl: 60 lb x 10 reps (+12 pts) 60 lb x 10 reps (+12 pts) 60 lb x 10 reps (+12 pts) 60 lb x 10 reps (+12 pts) 60 lb x 10 reps (+12 pts) Machine Bench Press: 121 lb x 10 reps (+40 pts) 121 lb x 10…
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The Fruitfly Conspiracy
This past Saturday marked the end of my 9th week of diet and exercise. The scale read 194.2, a new low, for nearly 28 pounds lost so far. Just the boost I needed to reinforce my commitment to fruit, which has gone from an occasional diversion to a multiple-times-daily staple of my diet. If only…
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The Hacker’s Diet – December 2011
I lost 9 pounds lost this month (and 24.4 pounds in total)! My lowest weight was 197 and I’m not exactly certain why it spiked up nearly two pounds only one day after. Two theories: (1) my body is continuing to fight the weight loss, because the change is sudden and my equilibrium is still…
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The Gift of Yourself
It’s six weeks since I started my diet and exercise regimen… I am now just over 200 pounds, or nearly 22 pounds down from where I started. To her credit, my wife took our wedding vows literally, loving me for better and for worse. At the beginning of November 2011, I’d certainly never looked worse. …
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Learning to not Hate Green Tea (Love is Out of the Question)
It’s five weeks since I started my diet and exercise regimen… now with assistance from green tea in lieu of my preferred beverages: coffee and diet soda. I used to hate green tea. Hate it. H-A-T-E This is one of the reasons I suspected it was probably very good for me. I tend to dislike…
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Can you look at yourself naked?
Today is four weeks since I started this physical rebirth. Sixteen pounds doesn’t seem like much to have lost, and maybe it’s gone unnoticed by other people, but there’s already a perceptible effect to me. The other day I passed by the large mirror in the washroom at my workplace… and I actually caught my…