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Reply #15 –
Thanks @Marsia ! I think you can do it I believe in you! Thank you for the comment you made me feel better about it.

Im still focusing on OMAD. I pigged out on curly fries yesterday. I need to stop eating fries and go back to eating cucumbers instead. Im a little concerned that the weight I have been loosing is mostly muscle and not fat. It just feels that way because It doesn't seem like ive gotten any skinnier. They say you can measure your body fat based how much skin you can pinch. if that's the case than im in trouble because I can grab a handful not a pinch.

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Reply #16 –
I tend to gravitate to simple carbs like fries when I am either stressed or low on energy because I am not getting enough nutrition.  Do you think you need more protein or anything like that?  I think it's great you are fixing your treadmill so you can get fit and get your leg muscles toned.  Do you do any calisthenics or things like that where you lift your own body weight?  I need to get back into that.  I have the bad stomach and muffin-top fat and need to concentrate on that also.

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Reply #17 –
@Marsia I think it's low energy like you mentioned with the fries.  I have some prepackaged  protein shakes I can drink. Maybe I should go back to drinking those for breakfast. My legs were pretty sore when I did use it even though I didn't use it that long. Doing calisthenics sounds like it would be helpful. Does targeting certain areas of your body help?  If you start calisthenic training id love to hear your workout for something to go by and get me started. I hear you on the belly fat and muffin top. My pants have elastic type material to help hide the scary belly parts and I try and wear loose shirts to cover up the flabby parts.

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Reply #18 –
Hi Andrew, I do a lot of weight bearing postures in yoga and just augment with calisthenics, but I just watched this beginner video which is good because he tells you what muscle each exercise targets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gQbgyTlS-8 .  My weakness is arms, and sometimes even girl pushups are hard for me, so I do wall pushups.  I do leg lifts and sit ups for my stomach.  Protein shakes sound good, and I hope we both can lose the bad belly fat this year!! 

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Reply #19 –
@Marsia you must have good core strength if you can do the weight bearing ones in yoga. Even though im a guy I may start with wall push ups like what you are doing. I dont think ive tried a normal pushup in over 20 years. I used to be able to do chin ups when I was a teenager but I was a lot lighter back then too. Thanks for the video I will check it out. I like the body recomp videos too on YouTube. people have replaced a lot of fat with muscle. actually some have it measured with a machine and sometimes they loose 10 pounds of fat but gain 3 pounds of muscle.

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Reply #20 –
I wish my core strength were better.  With my frozen shoulder, I am lifting myself up with mostly one arm, so it will be great if I can heal up that shoulder.  I have never been good at the core strengthening stuff, and just add a bit in to my routine, but I think I will do more now that we are talking about it!  I think it's great to utilize videos that you like, and the link I sent looks like a lot of hard exercises that might need modification.  I just liked it because it did tell you which body part it works out, so if you modified it, you'd have a good full body workout I think.  But if you have others you like, I'd use those.  Here's to losing the fat and growing the muscle!

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Reply #21 –
@Marsia my mom had a frozen shoulder from a car accident. She always says you got to keep moving it otherwise as the name suggests the frozen shoulder will freeze and be worse. Going by what she was telling me a frozen shoulder is no joke. It's painful and takes a long time to heal. So I feel for you and hope you find some relief. Is there any chance you can get some physical therapy? Im just trying to think of something that could help. I dont like knowing you are in pain.

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Reply #22 –
Thanks so much for this Andrew!  I know I need to stretch this a lot, and I do, but probably not enough.  I am pretty tolerant of physical pain, but it is pretty painful, so I tend to not remember to do my exercises, so I think I'll set reminders for it for a while.  Thanks for sympathizing!!

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Reply #23 –
@Marsia np. if you have one of those exercise bands they help with just a little resistance. Each band color represents a certain amount of resistance.  I used them when I broke my tibia and fibular bones in my leg. I broke them both in half and they put a metal rod in my leg. Besides taking almost a year to heal it took months of therapy afterwards. The bones were sticking out of my leg and my foot was twisted around backwards. It must have looked gruesome at the hospital.

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Reply #24 –
Oh, wow, that sounds horrible and excruciatingly painful.  A whole year of that - yikes!  I think I'll research this and order some bands.  Thanks so much!!

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Reply #25 –
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Oh, wow, that sounds horrible and excruciatingly painful.  A whole year of that - yikes!  I think I'll research this and order some bands.  Thanks so much!!

yeah it was mostly painful when they turned my foot around to face the right way then they pushed upwards on the heal of my foot to set it.  I think the whole hospital heard me scream because I was on no pain killers. I wasn't awake when they put the rod and screws in thank goodness.  The outer top part of my knee still has no feeling when touched. it's weird it's like having permanent nova cain on the top of my knee. none of my doctors are to worried about that.

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Reply #26 –
That all sounds horrendous, Andrew!

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Reply #27 –
Wow, that's rather miraculous you could recover from that and just have a numb outer part of the knee.  Does the numbness affect you very much?  I hope not!!

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Reply #28 –
@Cate yeah it was not pleasant.
@Marsia not to much. I have pain from the surgery but I feel like my leg healed ok. if I complain about something the doctors just tell me it was a big surgery and will take a long time to heal. what happened was I tripped down the stairs and skipped a step taking a long stride. Then when I tried to stop myself from falling my ankle rolled and I came down hard breaking my leg and tearing muscle tissue. My weight was heavy which is why it broke in half. My body couldn't handle my own weight in that manner.

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Reply #29 –
my weight is still bouncing between 174 and 173. It will be a great relief if I see 172 within a week or two.  it looks like on the old forum there is 2 people that keep posting advertisements almost every day. even though nobody goes there anymore if it spreads to the other categories it may be difficult to navigate around everything.