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Weekly Workout Wrap-up – Triathlon Training Begins!

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Welcome to the WWW (weekly workout wrap-up) where I post a summary of the past week’s goals and milestones. Every week features the same format including net calories, weekly weigh-in, and how I fared meeting current fitness goals such as using a food diary.

 

 

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Weekly Workout Wrap-up

Welcome to the WWW where I post a summary of the past week’s goals and milestones. Every week features the same format including net calories, weekly weigh-in, and how I fared meeting current fitness goals such as using a food diary.

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If Jessica Simpson can lose baby weight in 6 months, shouldn’t YOU be able to?

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Smoothies helped Jessica Simpson lose weight after pregnancy…why you MIGHT NOT want to follow the same strategy

If you’ve been following the celeb news in the grocery store checkout lane, then you might have noticed Jessica Simpson managed to lose a large amount of pregnancy weight gained since she delivered her daughter in May. So how does a new mom lose ~60 lbs of pregnancy weight in just 6 months? Let’s look into it…

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Myth or Not: Sensa will help you lose weight

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Myth or Not: Sensa will help you lose weight

I’ve seen those little Sensa banner ads, littered all over the Internet, even some on TV. But, I still had NO IDEA what it was and how it could possibly help someone lose weight. The claims seemed a little too good to be true, so I thought I’d put the Myth or Not formula to the test and see how the evidence supports the weight loss claims here. Can Sensa help you lose weight? Let’s find out…

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Apps and web sites that help you lose weight

Saw this post over on Yahoo! Shine about apps/web sites that can be used to help you reach fitness/weight loss goals and it is actually pretty interesting.  While some of the tools don’t really seem to be anything that I would use, there were a couple that caught my eye.  In particular, the EatingWell Diet Challenge.  Offers a community-based resource to adhere to the EatingWell diet.  Not too familiar with that, but may look more into it.  The suggestions on portion size and goals are pretty consistent with what I’ve been trying to do in my own weight loss efforts.  Aiming for a calorie burn of ~1000 calories/week is a great target and something I’ve not really considered before.  I’ll have to look back at my LoseIt reports to see where I’m at.  I think I sense another fitness goal coming on!