The MTM-Land FAQ:
Motivational Resources
What is some motivational music? What are you listening to?
- Your power song
- Gym playlists
- Nezzie’s music list
- What music keeps you moving!
- Podcasts
- Free workout music
- Motivational Music
What are some motivational movies?
- Health / Fitness Motivational Movies
What are some motivational books and magazines?
- Books for the soul
- Have you bought the book?
- What are you reading?
- What fitness magazine do you subscribe to?
- Book reviews
- How about a category for Great Books
What are your favourite motivational and useful websites?
- Websites for recipes
- Great healthy food source
- Whaat does 200 calories look like?
- Workout sites
- Online exercise planners / trackers?
- Fun tool for figuring out how far you walked / jogged / ran / biked
- Get back on track challenge
- Getting Things Done - podcast featuring Jason Womack
- Talk about inspiration!!
- I can’t help but share...
- Good websites?
What are some of your favourite motivational sayings?
- Words of wisdom
- More quotes
- Motivational quotes
- Favorite motivational sayings
Where can I see pictures of MTM members?
- Holiday pictures!
- Happy Thanksgiving and Scott’s birthday
- View from the bridge
- Congratulations Scott!
- Sweaty t-shirt contest
- Are you having fun WHILE you lose weight and shape up?
- I’m back, I’m married and I’m really tan!
- Show us your tattoos!
- Then and Now Full Body Challenge
- Silly Picture Thread
- Domaine Carneros - Who’s going to be there?
- Welcome back, Julie! (The grand reveal, part 2)
- The grand reveal!
- New pics of me!
Your Situation
How can I stay in shape while...
… living in a dorm or in university?
- There are a lot of people “moving” this time of the year...
- Eating like a maniac
- Dorm room reactions
… pregnant?
- To conceive or not to conceive? (yet)
… my wife is pregnant?
- Pregnant Wife
… a parent?
- Are there any moms here?
- When deception is good
- Mommies investing in themselves
… travelling?
- Business travel
- How to incorporate exercise on long car rides?
- Travelers Corner
… at work?
- All stressed up with no place to go
- Office potluck
- Free junk food at work
- My workout at work
- Food at work
… handicapped?
- Exercises for handicapped...
… an older person?
- Fitness over 50
… grieving?
- Need motivation
- Grief and weight gain
How does this relate to my children?
- A TV spot for all of you with young daughters
- Documentary “Two Angry Moms” - mothers trying to improve school lunches
- Will daily exercise help kids lift their grades?
- Shaq and childhood obesity
- Physical fitness for kids
Managing Your State
How can I deal with depression, hormonal mood swings, and PMS?
- Meditation
- How do you perk up?
- Women’s problems
- Dealing with monthly mood swings
How can I beat procrastination?
- Putting Off Procrastination
How can I stop self-sabotage?
- Emotionally low for the gym
- Self sabotage
How can I keep my loved ones supportive of my weight loss?
- Balance in our lives
- Sabotaged by Loved Ones
What are some small resolutions I can adopt?
- Mini-resolutions you can do in the new year
Exercise and Moving
The scale stopped moving—what should I do? How can I beat a plateau?
- Weight loss plateau
- Opinions please
- The scale won’t budge… Any suggestions?
Why am I sleepy? How can I wake up early?
- Daily Boost Vol 2 Ep 36
- Getting out of bed early
- The sun caught me in bed...
- Sleepy after workouts—why?
- Why do I get so sleepy?
Should I weigh myself? How often?
- How often should you weigh yourself?
- To scale or not to scale during the holidays?
- A watched pot never boils
- Pound by pound weight loss
- To scale or not to scale? - That is the question
How can I test my fitness level?
- Testing fitness?
Should I exercise on an empty stomach? When and what should I eat when I’m working out?
- Not hungry
- What do you eat after working out?
- Light breakfast before going to the gym
- Snacks after working out?
- Exercising on an Empty Stomach
How can I get the body type I want?
- Uneven arms?
- Is plastic surgery really the only option?
- “Beer belly”
- Healthy body fat percentages
- Love handles...
- How do you get those long, lean muscles???
What exercises can I do without equipment?
- Fit deck
- Leg exercises without equipment?
- Body Weight Callisthenics and exercises
Can you recommend some exercises?
- Girlie pushups
- Please critique my strength workout
- Free downloadable workout from Oxygen tv
- YouTube exercises
- Circuit training vs. weight lifting
… for abs?
- Confused about crunches
- My new abs routine
- 7 minute abs
… for legs?
- Loving lunges?
… for stretching?
- Favorite hamstring stretch
- Stretching question
Should I use machines or free weights?
- Thoughts from the gym, #5
How much exercise should I do? How hard should I work out?
- Weight training—frequency and intensity
- Double up workouts
- SMSM program is not advanced enough for me now
- Questoin re 4 day per week weightlifting
- Afterburner #97—Extreme exercise
- All for weight loss! Weight lifting vs. walking, running or mild cardio?
- Cardio and strength training question
- 45 min?
- 30 min a day 4-5 days a week enough cardio
What is the “Long Slow Burn”?
- Am I bored or tired?
- Questions on the Long Slow Burn
- How do you get through an hour?
- MTM Show #112
What is “interval training”?
- High intensity workout!
What is a good brand of...
… treadmill or elliptical trainer?
- Elliptical trainers?
- Upgrading to a new Treadmill… Help please
… sports watch?
- Sport watches
… heart rate monitor?
- Advice needed for a heart rate monitor
- Another heart rate monitor question
- Polar HRM
- Heart rate monitor recommendations?
- Heart rate monitor
- How many calories am I REALLY burning
- Thoughts from the gym, #4
- Heart rate monitor questions
- Pulse watches
- Heart rate monitors
… exercise ball?
- Exercise balls...
… home workout equipment?
- Does anyone use a bowflex?
- Bowflex home gym
- Can’t afford the gym? Try this budget home gym
- First thoughts from the gym
- Finish this sentence...
… scale?
- Body fate percentage measurements
Should I hire a personal trainer? How do I choose one?
- Going it “alone”
- Looking at getting a personal trainer (or thinking about it)?
Should I have a gym buddy?
- Workout partner or no workout partner?
What should I be aware of at the gym?
- Any ideas about building self esteem while at the gym?
- The gym is crowded! My favorite machine is taken! What do I do?
- Packing a workout bag!
- Allergic to working out?
- “The gym is a dirty dirty place” quoting my pharmacist
What’s my exercise style?
- What’s your exercise style?
- This is the point that I normally quit… help
What other types of movement are there beyond the gym?
- Swimming suggestions?
- “The Firm” workout
- Hopelessly addicted to zumba!
- What’s your favourite movement?
- Pilates anyone?
- Yoga
- Nontraditional exercise
- Getting fit with your Playstation?
- Any triathletes out there want to help a first-timer?
- Any kayakers?
… walking and running
- Any marathon runners?
- Walking & pedometer recommendation
- Treadmill
- First 5K, a little nervous...
- I placed for my second 5k!
- World wide half / 5K
- An article on choosing running shoes
- Why walk?
- A nifty resource for walkers (and runners)
- Walking vs. running
- Running and running shoes
- Something cool!
- A walk around North America
… biking
- May I recommend… mountain biking!
- Calling all cyclists
- Trek Lime bike
- Bicycling
… martial arts
- MTM martial artists?
- How to choose a dojo
- Martial arts
- Have you considered a martial art for fitness?
… geocaching
- Getting a tech-geek to enjoy the outdoors!
- Geocaching?
What does it mean to “be an athlete”?
- What is an Athlete - Could you be one?
Should I exercise while I’m sick? What can I do to get better?
- Exercising when sick
- Should you work out when sick?
- Cold Remedies
- I dink I dot a dold - Sickness question
How can I avoid or recover from injuries?
- Abdominal surgery anyone?
- What can I do while injured?
- Just joined MTM and a gym! - Right way to lift weights?
- Sore calf muscles while working out?
- What about recovery time?
- Elliptical feet issues
- Backaches and exercise
- Sick after spinning?
- Long runs and side effects
- Break or sprain?
- Achilles tendon recovery suggestions?
- Avoiding rotator cuff injuries
What should I wear?
- What’s your uniform?
- Workout attire
- Need advice on clothing
Food and Diets
What should I drink? What shouldn’t I drink?
- Green tea
- Where’s that water?
- How do you curb alcohol from your diet?
- A tea party on MTM!
- Water vs. Coke
… what about energy drinks like Gatorade?
- Gatorade?
- An interesting replacement for Gatorade
- Energy drinks
- Energy drinks
… how about smoothies?
- Smoothie
- Protein shake - To diet for!
- Smoothies - don’t tell me it’s true!
- Smoothies and almonds
… what about coffee?
- Coffee
- Caffeine detox
- Coffee Good, bad or otherwise
How much should I eat? How do I find my “BMR”?
- MTM #110: Body calorie average
- Hard to hit the BMR calorie?
- How do I find my best caloric intake?
- In need of a bit of advice about calorie intake… thanks!
- Am I eating enough?
- Calculating BMR
Should I keep a food journal? What are some good online calorie tracking websites?
- Counting calories
- Food journaling
- Excellent website for tracking calories
- What online food tracker do you use?
- Recipe analyzer
What should I eat?
- Ramblings about food stuff, and some very good information
- Minute idea: soup!
- 100 smartest diet tips ever
- Controlling cholesterol
… when eating out?
- Beware the buffet
- Chinese food
- Yes or no card at dinner
- Arby’s awesome nutrition website!
- HungryGirl’s salad bar survival guide
- Anything “good” at Hooters?
- 20 worst foods in America
- Food courts in the shopping malls
… at a party?
- Super Bowl food
How can I eat right during the holidays?
- Share your success: what worked for Thanksgiving dinner?
- Plans for coping with Thanksgiving feast
- What are you doing about trick or treating?
- I need your best tips!
How can I incorporate fruits and veggies into my diet?
- Ways to eat yummy and crunchy veggies
- Choose veggies first
- How to add more fruit
- Proof - you really can change your eating habits!
- I hate vegetables
What are some healthy snack ideas?
- Crunchy stuff, salty or sweet
- Look what I found
- Emergency snack kit
- 100 calorie packs
- Emergency food supplies?
- How low can you go and have it still taste good?
- Snack ideas
What are some healthy alternatives to high-calorie or high-fat foods?
- Beat the cafe price and calorie gouging!
- A substitute for fish?
- Good salt substitute?
- Sinfully delicious… hungrygirl.com
- Healthy lunch meat?
- Candy vs. fruit
- Mayonnaise alternative
… for the holidays?
- Plans for cooking the Thanksgiving feat
- Side veggies
- Easter dinner
- Lighten your Thanksgiving dishes
What’s the low-down on refined sugar?
- Sugar IS a drug
- Refined sugar Q&A
Is this food good or bad?
- Got milk? IS diary bad or what?
- To whey or not to whey? That is the question
- Potatoes… good, bad or ugly
How should I handle the grocery store?
- Adventures in the grocery store?
- Portion sizes--eep!
How can I avoid tempting foods and stop cravings? How can I incorporate treats into my life in a healthy way?
- Food temptation
- Why do we have cravings?
- Food cravings
- Oops
- The box of goodies under my bed...
- Tasting your food
- A resolution I can indulge in
- Sometimes “sneaky” works
- Magic chewing gum
- What is the best way to stop cravings?
- Tips on how to eat less chocolate...
- Visualizations for feeling good about healthy choices
- Angel to the Left - Devil to the Right
- It’s true! Resisting temptation *does* get easier!
How can I stop overeating or snacking too much?
- How to not overeat
- I’m hungry!
- Pre-meal starvation stopper
- How to stop overeating
How can I celebrate or reward myself without food?
- So food isn’t a crutch anymore… now what?
- Celebrations / rewards
What is “food combining”?
- Food combining
- Food combining?
- Alkaline diet?
What is the “12 Hour Diet”?
- 12 hour diet
What is “detoxing”?
- Master cleanse
- System refresh - vegan cleanse
- Detox for the body
Behind the Hype
What are your opinions on diet pills and supplements?
- Supplements
- Alli? Is this cheating, your thoughts and opinions
- Thoughts on Hydroxycut, Xenadrine, etc.?
What are your opinions on various diets?
- Intuitive eating
- Raw food diet
What are your opinions on Weight Watchers?
- Weight watchers
What are your opinions on The Biggest Loser and other weight-loss shows?
- Anyone watching The Biggest Loser this week / Keeping the pounds off!
- So THIS is how The Biggest Loser works...
- Weighty issues...
- VH1’s Celebrity Fit Club
- “Work Out” on Bravo TV - 3% bodyfat, 97% drama
- The Biggest loser
What are your opinions on The Secret?
- The Secret
- A gratitude journal
- Ask, seek, knock
- Portable Visualization Tool - anytime, anyplace
Is this a scam?
- Body cleansing systems
- Fiber One bars - tasty, but why gassy?
- Herbalife Shapeworks - a good thing?
- The Best Life—who likes it?
- 12 week body transformation?
- Ionic Body Cleanse
- Anybody heard of the “BodyBug” system?
- Weight Loss Scams
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