Sentences with phrase «pounds on»

That fall, Hoffman dropped 50 pounds on Weight Watchers and wanted to find some kind of fitness activity to help her reach her goal weight.

A while ago, about 10 years ago, she almost hit the 300 pounds on the scale.

For example, if you're stuck at 150 lbs for 10 reps on the bench press, instead of doing the same thing forever, try loading 165 pounds on the bar and perform as many reps as possible with good form.

Her diet history «Ten years ago, I lost 10 pounds on Weight Watchers, which I regained (and more!)

Her diet history «I'd lost 30 pounds on a plan a year ago, but after six months I got busy, stopped and regained 15 pounds.»

I put 30 pounds on my frame, and as a fitness professional, did not take to it well at all.

Continue to gradually lower the weight by 5 pounds on each set until you reach 0.

This means that a steady, 1 - pound force could lift and accelerate a rock away from the Sun if the rock weighed 1,600 pounds on Earth and the rock were more than 93,000,000 miles above the Sun and far from Earth.

Elephants have the largest brain — nearly 11 pounds on average — of any mammal that ever walked the earth.

What is the point of spending millions of pounds on a supercomputer?

Despite some earlier studies claiming that genetic variants predict whether someone has a better chance of shedding pounds on a low - carbohydrate or a low - fat diet, and despite a growing industry premised on that notion, the most rigorous study so far found no difference in weight loss between overweight people on diets that «matched» their genotype and those on diets that didn't.

These enhancements allow expectant mothers to lean back by as much as 28 degrees more than normal to offset the added heft of a baby bump — up to 30 pounds on average, or the weight of two bowling balls — without destroying their backs, the investigators report in Nature.

Report after report has confirmed that Arctic ice is swiftly sweating off the pounds on our warming globe, but the latest findings still gave glacier - watchers the chills.

She carries 245 pounds on a big frame.

The rest were fed a diet of 60 percent fat — the sort of unhealthy diet that would pile excess pounds on a human frame.

It's probably going to be 2016 before we see more pounds on the shelf in the beef complex.»

Stefansson dropped 10 pounds on his meat - and - fat regimen and remarked on its «slenderizing» aspect, so perhaps it's no surprise he's been co-opted as a posthumous poster boy for Atkins - type diets.

They are also grappling with how to make a suit that will not easily cut or abrade yet will weigh no more than 200 pounds on Earth — 33 pounds on the moon.

«We can't do that in medical treatment unless the patients lose 100 pounds on their own.»

This hitch can support up to 1,000 pounds on the tongue, making it a great and strong hitch for many different kinds of loads.

This hitch can hold anything from 600 - 1400 pounds on its tongue weight.

It holds up to 325 pounds on its strong frame.

To help with placement decisions, we are including the weight of the bird feeder in pounds on our chart.

The bar itself is enough to complete a workout since it weighs 44 pounds on its own.

Oh, and he has also blown 34 million of your and my hard - earned tax pounds on a dodgy computer system.

Nowhere was this truer than him lavishing tens of thousands of pounds on slanted private polling rather than in helping friends and colleagues get elected.»

For the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg said people were «a little baffled by all the various solutions» being proposed to clean up MPs» expenses because «they all fail to deal with the biggest loophole: MPs making hundreds of thousands of pounds on second homes funded by the taxpayer».

Sturgeon said: «The SNP opposes Trident, not just in principle, but at a time when our public services and the vulnerable in our society are under so much pressure, spending tens of billions of pounds on weapons of mass destruction is the wrong choice.

Labour wants to spend a billion pounds on a small part of the M4 - while we want to put roofs over people's heads

The government has spent hundreds of millions of pounds on two IT systems for Universal Credit, neither of which is capable of being tested on users

The former international development secretary spent thousands of pounds on air tickets during her abortive round trip to Nairobi

Will he accept, however, that we must insist on value for money not only in the wider Whitehall apparatus but here, and that we have to consider whether it represents value for money to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds on equipping facilities for the staff just in order to strip them out?

In recent weeks the coalition announced plans to spend billions of pounds on widening and building new roads across the country.

Department of Health (DoH) spending on opinion polling rose by # 229,000, the Lib Dems reveal, while it has spent more than a third of a million pounds on focus groups in the past three years.

Chancellor Alistair Darling changed his second home designation four times in as many years while foreign secretary David Miliband spent hundreds of pounds on gardening.

And at the same time as David Cameron is penalising working families, he is choosing to spend hundreds of millions of pounds on an inheritance tax cut for the richest estates.

PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said: «As the royals prepare to spend millions of pounds on Prince William's wedding, they're refusing to insist that the people who keep their palaces clean are paid a living wage.

For instance, not spending a billion pounds on an over-sized tent by the side of the Thames.

However Politics.co.uk can reveal they have themselves splashed out hundreds of thousands of pounds on parking fines incurred by their own employees.

The survey of 1200 people, conducted by independent researchers Mass1 for Unite, exposes deep unease over plans to spend millions of pounds on privatising core police services, including 999 call handling, prisoner transportation, crime investigation and forensics with:

Staff are working hard to ensure the commission succeeds, but spending hundreds of thousands of pounds on consultants, problems with matching people to roles, as well as cutting the Manchester helpline has done nothing for their morale.

The latest research shows shoot providers spend a quarter of a billion pounds on conservation each year, generating work which is equivalent to 16,000 full - time conservation jobs.»

He said: «The idea of a like - for - like entirely unchanged replacement of Trident is basically saying we will spend billions and billions and billions of pounds on a nuclear missile system designed with the sole strategic purpose of flattening Moscow at the press of a button.»

Advertising campaign follows reports that Winfrey lost 40 pounds on the weight loss plan, which lent a temporary bump to the floundering stock's price

Instead of blowing one billion pounds on a single piece of road, we would make social housing a priority so that there is quality, affordable social housing for those who need it.»

A COMMONS watchdog set up to curb MPs» expenses spending has blown more than a quarter of a million pounds on a new website.

It might, but only because we shoppers will reach for our flexible friends, piling the pounds on our credit cards, racking up more debt that will have to be paid back over time.

David Cameron carries a few extra pounds on luxury holiday with Sam despite saving # 21k on personal trainer

As well as the obvious point that councils spend billions of pounds on important public services, an unexpectedly good or bad local election result can have an important psychological effect on a party.

In a unique exercise, the Tory MP is spending tens of thousands of pounds on a postal ballot to give his Richmond Park constituents the last word on whether he runs or not.