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My natural set-point is currently around 204, meaning that I can do quite a bit or I can do very little and still hover right around there.
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I weigh 204 again, right at my set-point and well short of my goal.
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The war in Vietnam was not marked by set-point battles, or land scale amphibious assaults against enemy held beaches.
Beth Crumley: 1st Battalion, 4th Marines Does "Whatever it Takes" Beth Crumley 2012
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The war in Vietnam was not marked by set-point battles, or land scale amphibious assaults against enemy held beaches.
Beth Crumley: 1st Battalion, 4th Marines Does "Whatever it Takes" Beth Crumley 2012
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My natural set-point is currently around 204, meaning that I can do quite a bit or I can do very little and still hover right around there.
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I weigh 204 again, right at my set-point and well short of my goal.
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This, by the way, is a secret to how weight-challenged people can "work out" for hours a week and get little result: they do long slow aerobic work that burns few calories and doesn't change their set-point.
RIP Air America Steven Barnes 2010
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This, by the way, is a secret to how weight-challenged people can "work out" for hours a week and get little result: they do long slow aerobic work that burns few calories and doesn't change their set-point.
Archive 2010-01-01 Steven Barnes 2010
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Davidson discovered that each one of us has a neural index for our mood set-point.
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Some good news: you don't need three years -- the biggest positive shifts in set-point seem to come early in practice.
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