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FR Diet, Exercise, and Fitness Thread

Posted on 03/13/2006 7:13:52 AM PST by retrokitten

NO VERBAL ATTACKS! NO NAME CALLING! NO BASHING! THE OVERWEIGHT! NO NASTY PICTURES POSTED! This will be a thread about getting healthy and no attacks will be tolerated.

Any fitness or activity level. 100+ pounds to lose or no weight to lose. Those who have lost weight and kept it off, please share with us what has worked for you. Maybe you love a certain activity, biking, skiing, rock climbing, walking, running, whatever, tell us about how it helps you stay in shape. Share your weight loss success. Just a place to share ideas about all things exercise and diet related. Exchange recipes, ask questions, tell us about your workout.

Please share your successes! Let's encourage and inspire each other to get healthy! We'll have more energy for fighting liberals!

I've put together some health and fitness related links to get us started.

FitDay
Track your calories, carbs, protein, fat, and activity all in one place. It's free to sign up.

Review of several commercial diet plans

10 Tips for Lasting Weight Loss
From the diet channel, long but a good read

The Diet Channel's Free 8 Week Diet
The Diet Channel also has information on tons of different plans, including many for specific conditions. Diabetes, gluten-free, pregnancy, arthritis, etc.

BMI Calculator
Just in case you were feeling too good about yourself. :-D

Target Heart Rate Calculator

Aquatic Exercise

The Many Benefits of Weight Training

Tips for working exercise into your day

Dottie's Weight Loss Zone
Points info for fellow Weight Watchers


TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine; Hobbies; Miscellaneous; Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: diet; exercise; fitness; weightloss
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To: Born Conservative
185 lbs lost since January 2002.

WOW!! Sorry to hear about the kidney failure. I hope you are doing okay now.

She is down 90 lbs, and has kept it off (for the most part).

WOW! Good for her!! That is no easy task. You both must look like completely different people.

161 posted on 03/13/2006 1:17:32 PM PST by retrokitten (www.retrosrants.blogspot.com)
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To: A knight without armor

So far so good. I'm hoping it stays this way.


162 posted on 03/13/2006 1:18:13 PM PST by retrokitten (www.retrosrants.blogspot.com)
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To: A knight without armor

hey , just a FRiendly FReeper "heads-up" ,...

... I'm sorta distracted a the moment , but I'll get back to you

... it is quite easy , and from being somewhat knowledgable about juicers and juicing ,...

... I bought the Samson GB-9001 [there are others similar in design] because of...
#1 makes high quality juice that will keep longer than centrifugally made juice

#2 easy to use and CLEAN

#3 price
FReepmail me and I'll let you know how its a fine tuning of the process , LOL!!


163 posted on 03/13/2006 1:22:42 PM PST by Dad yer funny
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To: retrokitten

ROTFL!! If only that were true! I'd be a skinny minnie tomorrow with the time I spend on this thing!


164 posted on 03/13/2006 1:30:30 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: mariabush
Just how low carb is this pasta. I have not had a bite of pasta, bread, rice or potatoes for 2 1/2 years. No sugar either, except at Christmas I thought that I would cheat and eat a piece of fudge. I found that after being off of sugar for long, I could not stand the sweetness, and spit it out.

It's supposed to have 5 grams of digestible carbs per serving. Google it and look around. Some people are not convinced. Perhaps because it tastes so good. I was on a very low carb diet for awhile and lost 25 lbs., but my digestive system was really out of whack. I needed to put some carbs back in my diet and exercise more.

165 posted on 03/13/2006 1:31:21 PM PST by RightWingMama
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To: SuziQ

:-D


166 posted on 03/13/2006 1:32:02 PM PST by retrokitten (www.retrosrants.blogspot.com)
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To: retrokitten

Please add me to your ping list. I'm trying to get back in the swing of things with Weight Watchers :( Thanks!


167 posted on 03/13/2006 1:44:49 PM PST by bamabaseballmom
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To: bamabaseballmom

You're added!


168 posted on 03/13/2006 1:47:03 PM PST by retrokitten (www.retrosrants.blogspot.com)
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To: zoso82t

President Bush, is that you????


169 posted on 03/13/2006 2:01:41 PM PST by mpackard
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To: A knight without armor

"It is a shame you have to tell adults this. Or even children for that matter. Since people seem to be respecting this, then are gross names or gratuitous pictures of persons with problems ever necessary? Shock. You are proving there can be a dignified discussion about weight."

Yes. Everyone knows it's wrong, and it's just bad behavior whether they are children or adults. The really odd part is that those who are notorious bashers and the like, don't even like being made fun of, themselves. So they think if they subscribe to the theory of, bash first before you're bashed, they're the better person. But that's just the philosophy of the devil...


170 posted on 03/13/2006 2:11:50 PM PST by Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin
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To: mainepatsfan
My weakness is cakes. Entemann's used to make many years ago a really delicious, low cal low fat black forest cake. Not for a long time. They even stopped making the low fat crumb cheese cake.
171 posted on 03/13/2006 4:42:46 PM PST by Dante3
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To: retrokitten

I found a great yogurt today at Whole Foods. Just passing on the info!
http://www.woodstockwaterbuffalo.com/


172 posted on 03/13/2006 4:45:27 PM PST by cyborg (I just love that man.)
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To: cyborg

yup , that is good yogi ,...

... we get it at Gourmet Garbage , here on the yUpper West Side


173 posted on 03/13/2006 5:18:28 PM PST by Dad yer funny
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To: Dad yer funny

The fermented dairy products don't have the same ill effects on me that regular milk does. This yogurt was great. There's another yogurt, a greek style called Fagi that is also good. Get a bag of frozen fruit and put it in there. Better than Dannon (what junk!).


174 posted on 03/13/2006 5:23:14 PM PST by cyborg (I just love that man.)
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To: cyborg

yup , and I'm so glad we have this thread/pingList

... it appears that working at health is a "hippie thing" around here [sometimes]

... I got Flamed for advocating a healthy practice , by a FReeper I'd never seen before[and I'm on here daily]


175 posted on 03/13/2006 5:31:15 PM PST by Dad yer funny
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To: cyborg

I loooooove Whole Foods. We have one right next to our regular grocery store. They had huge blood oranges there last time I went. Yummy!! I always get a hunk of their corn bread with jalapenos and cheese baked in. Not exactly "diet food", but it's fantastic. We always leave spending about 4x what we planned.


176 posted on 03/14/2006 11:02:04 AM PST by retrokitten (www.retrosrants.blogspot.com)
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To: retrokitten

Thanks for this!


177 posted on 03/14/2006 1:12:19 PM PST by I'm ALL Right!
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To: I'm ALL Right!

You are more then welcome! I'm hoping we can all inspire each other to get healthy and fit.


178 posted on 03/14/2006 1:14:42 PM PST by retrokitten (www.retrosrants.blogspot.com)
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To: I'm ALL Right!; All

Weighed in at Weight Watchers earlier this evening and lost 4.4 pounds for the last 2 weeks!!

{doing the happiest happy dance in a looong time!!}


179 posted on 03/14/2006 4:53:06 PM PST by retrokitten (www.retrosrants.blogspot.com)
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To: retrokitten
Retro-good for you ;o) I know I'm jumping in quite late, but please add me to your list.

I had dropped about 25 on Protein Power several years back, but gained that and more back once the carbs came back into my life.

I am presently on my third day of Ann Louise Gittleman's "Fat Flush" program (a fairly brutal low-carb/detox diet - no sugar, no fat except for flax oil, 64 oz of water spiked with unsweetened cranberry juice and a cup of hot lemon water every a.m.) I plan to do her "One Day Detox Diet (a one day juice fast) on Saturday. Once I am thru the "boot camp" phase, I plan to switch to a more WW-type situation where I watch how much I eat in the hopes that I will maintain.

180 posted on 03/20/2006 5:07:22 PM PST by Mygirlsmom (You can either despair that the rose bush has thorns-or rejoice that the thorn bush has roses.)
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