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I live and run in NOLA. I wouldn't really recommend a run from FQ to City Park as you would go through some seedy areas on the way there. The Crescent City Classic basically takes that route, but there will be oversight and many, many people. I would recommend a run down St. Charles (my usual). The scenery is great and the…

a few Roma tomatoes; small mozzarella balls ("pearls"); half or whole avocado, however hungry you are. cut up the tomatoes and avocado, throw it all on a plate and drizzle olive oil and balsamic glaze on it... Maybe some sea salt.

I would certainly hope he did keep track of his calories - I assume he did as he mentioned he followed a paleo-type diet. No record of intake would render that whole experiment useless, right? Because a decline in health after 10 cokes a day is a little obvious, right?

I'll have to check out 'You Are Your Own Gym.' It seems to be popular. And cheap?

I do both body weight and free weights, but use the former more, because it's easily available. I'll randomly do 25 push-ups several times throughout the day. I agree variety is the spice of the gym.

thanks guys, appreciate the color. I may move to weights soon.

I've heard that! Also I've been told bench press can lead to uneven strength in the arms; Hence dumbbell presses are very useful.

Got it! Save for push-ups, I would say my bodyweight training is getting easy. It may be time to graduate.

You've only been doing this five weeks? I am in early stages of MFP as well (10 weeks or so), and I noticed that for the first few weeks I had the same effect: I feel great, but nothing on the scale. The more often I weighed myself the more I noticed huge fluctuations (like 4 lbs), making it look like I had no change. By…

thank you!