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This cold has taken me out of the game for a while now. Don't think I'll be back to EA active until next week. Last time I tried to play it I was just coughing up all sorts of phlegm. Not worth it.

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finished phase 1 of the week 9 program yesterday and today i had my first 400 calorie day. Also i forgot to weigh myself yesterday so i did today when i was done and so far i lost 6 lbs. hot shit haha.

im trying to post what you did but i guess b/c im not in a group it wont let me so ill just write it out so i can feel like im in the group haha

Workouts Completed - 19
Hours of Exercise - 6:57
Calories Burned - 4,572
Distance Ran - 9.3
Avg Heart Rate - 130
Max Heart Rate - 189

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Nice man. I know I was thinking about you when I grabbed all that. You can sign into your account on easportsactive.com and pull up the info I got. Just do a screen grab and post it.

Sweet you lost 6 pounders. Crazy you had a 400 calorie day.

So I really hate being set back to easier routines. Last night I did my work out and seriously could have kept going, and I probably should have. It just feels like I've gone backwards. I was thinking of making it harder by buying 15 pound weights. I know for a fact I won't be able to handle 15 pounders for some of the later and harder exercises, but for stuff like hammer curls, squats and shit it'll be no problem.

another 400 calorie day today. I weighed myself when i was done and im down 10lbs since i started. Prolly gonna gain all that back this weekend in dover haha.

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Don't man, you need to be good. I'm not saying don't have a good time with food and drink, but don't throw all caution to the wind. You have no idea how many free cookies, pretzels and donuts I've turned down this week. That said, I do plan on indulging slightly tomorrow.

one or 2 days won't hurt too bad. Though i did a brewery tour back in late june and gained 8 lbs in 4 days hahah

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- Oh, great. You killed the invisible swordsman!
-- He's dead, all right.
--- How was I supposed to know where he was?
- You were supposed to fire up. _We_ both fired _up_.

It was so cold this morning that I couldn't bring myself to get out of bed and do my program. Now I feel guilty and am probably going to feel like ass tomorrow morning for doing a double tonight. Doing the morning routine is really going to suck when winter actually gets here.

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- Oh, great. You killed the invisible swordsman!
-- He's dead, all right.
--- How was I supposed to know where he was?
- You were supposed to fire up. _We_ both fired _up_.

Ah yeah I couldnt have imagined doing it in a morning like today. The house was freezing.

I may not be able to do this tonight. I somehow managed to pull my shoulder last night. I don't even think I was doing anything, just doing some work on the PC and I felt it just go. It wasn't too bad but when I woke up this morning it felt awful. I'll try and do what I can but I don't think it's looking good.

Probably has something to do with upping the weights and decided to do the running exercises with 5 pound weights in my hands. That was Saturday afternoon though and I felt fine afterwards. Who knows.

Finished off phase 1 of the 9 week program this morning. It seemed to go by really fast.
I'm not sure what to think of this game. It gets the heart rate up and I sweat a lot, but afterwards I just don't feel like I got a good workout. At least so far. Maybe it's because I'm doing it on easy? Some of the exercises kick my ass so I don't feel like jumping up to medium yet. Maybe I'm cheating and doing some of the exercises wrong? I don't know. I guess it just kinda feels like I work my ass off for 60-90 seconds, then do 3-5 minutes of easy exercises.

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- Oh, great. You killed the invisible swordsman!
-- He's dead, all right.
--- How was I supposed to know where he was?
- You were supposed to fire up. _We_ both fired _up_.

Maybe also because you're used to going to the gym? Your routine might be harder there, so maybe this doesn't feel as bad. You can always switch the difficulty to Medium whenever you want BTW. If you find it to be too much you can just go back down to Easy.

I usually feel pretty good afterward. When I first started playing I always felt like shit afterward and sometimes felt like I was going to pass out from playing it. That's how out of shape I was. Now I usually feel a bit tired but never dead, which is fine.

Checked our group totals this morning, Sword is the only one hanging in there still. Dooooods.

I feel like its kind of getting harder for me to maintain my weight. Despite still working out an average of 4 times a week, I guess my eating habits have gotten a bit sloppy lately so I've gone up, down, and up and then up. I'm still much below where I started out, but the fluctuation of weight gain and loss sort of sucks. According to Wii Fit my BMI hasn't really changed at all over the last few weeks, so I guess I'm doing fairly well maintaining everything.

It's just been hard, every week lately has has some sort of event. It doesnt help that last week I drank a lot of beer over the course of the week and ate some goodies here at work. Then Friday night Dem and I went out for our Anniversary and I ate like a god damn pig. So I need to just chill out with the snacks and beer. Though this weekend isn't going to be much better. Annual Halloween party at my parents which means lots of junk and beer. Just need to be good for the week.

Also, about halfway through the 9 week program on Hard. I missed last night so I have to do it tonight.

im still going strong haha. Down to 279 so thats 11lbs since i started. Im almost done phase 2 on the 9 week program. There was a few days i missed but when i had a free moment i jumped on and switched the workout day so i dont have to do a missed workout. Its a nice trick to know haha.

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Oh nice. I'll have to do that. I currently have 2 missed workouts. Good to know you're still going strong.

when you go to do a missed workout and its on a day you have a workout scheduled just change the workout day to a rest day and then do the missed workout. I did that last monday.

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Oh okay cool. I'll give it a shot.

all it does is extend the end day of when your program was supposed to end

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I haven't even turned that PS3 on in a few weeks, I need a few more hours in my day.

I know the feeling man.

An extra hour in the morning where I'm not a zombie would be incredible, just 1 hour would be amazing.

Looks like i'm going to miss today and probably a few other days this week..... fucking kidney stones

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- Oh, great. You killed the invisible swordsman!
-- He's dead, all right.
--- How was I supposed to know where he was?
- You were supposed to fire up. _We_ both fired _up_.

Did a double today to make up for my missed sessions.
Some of the exercises on phase 2 are pretty brutal for me even on easy. I'm glad I didn't jump to medium. Alternating drop lunges can fuck off along with jump lunges. My legs are killing me now.

I didn't go to the gym at all this week so this game has been my only exercise. I was doing pretty good on my 20 lbs by Thanksgiving goal, down 13 with 5 weeks to go. I'm curious to see where I'm at this week since I didn't pull double duty, but hardly ate anything.

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- Oh, great. You killed the invisible swordsman!
-- He's dead, all right.
--- How was I supposed to know where he was?
- You were supposed to fire up. _We_ both fired _up_.

Yeah man it gets really hard. Jump lunges are indeed awful.

Also I only got a chance to do EA Active once this week. First time since I started where I've gone so many days. Just been a really busy week. Plan on picking it up again tomorrow.

If you skip exercises, will you still get credit for doing the workout?
I have 8 workouts left I think, but my knees are fucking killing me. Every other exercise is a lunge/squat/jump and I feel it's starting to fuck up my knees so I want to skip a few of them. Last night I ripped the skin open on my feet from doing mountain climbers on my carpet. I'm going to try wearing shoes tonight, but I think it's going to feel odd.

I just want to say fuck this game, but I'm so close to completing the 9 week challenge I don't want to stop now.

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- Oh, great. You killed the invisible swordsman!
-- He's dead, all right.
--- How was I supposed to know where he was?
- You were supposed to fire up. _We_ both fired _up_.

Damn shibby, you're fallin' apart.