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This is a pretty good estimation but doesn't take into account things like hills and speed (speed has very little impact, hills versus flat makes a bigger difference). I used to use MapMyRun and it seemed to overestimate by a decent amount based on my long-term weight results. I now use my Garmin watch and it seems pretty…

I used to wear Brooks Beasts when I started running again at about 200lbs and overweight. They are very stabilizing, because of that they also feel pretty heavy, clunky, and stiff. If you need that much support they are great. After a year or two and a lot of lost weight they were just too much so I went to Brooks…

When I read the initial post in this thread my guess was that "efficient" was going to be about the environment (obviously I was waaay off). I'm not a vegan, but there is no argument about what sources of protein are more efficient environmentally.

I don't think anyone has specifically said this yet - You shouldn't be expecting 1.5 lbs a week of weight loss. MFP won't recommend anything below 1,200 calories a day for a woman. You could enter wanting to lose 2 lbs a week and it will say 1,200. Try playing around with it by entering maintain (0 lbs a week) and you'll…

Eating everything on your plate can help them out by causing you to be obese... leading to an earlier death... leading to more food available for kids in China (or wherever).

My experience is the opposite when running. Just sitting/standing it will sometimes read low if it is too loose, but not when running. If my garmin is at all loose (meaning if it can move at all) it will at some point start reading my cadence as my heart rate. My garmin is a little over a year old and seems to loosen up…

There is a reason they normally require/request you to fast before checking cholesterol. On the other hand, my 24 year old son recently had his cholesterol checked for the first time. It wasn't planned, he needed blood drawn for another test and the doctor through in the cholesterol test since it had never been checked. I…

Not very accurately at all. Of course I'm more than 4 years into maintenance at this point. I keep logging (roughly) because it helps me not eat way too much. I'm more careful with checking my weight to be sure I'm not gaining weight.

If you’re light on something, like anemic and need more iron, they help. Like others have said, studies show taking them for no real reason don’t help. You just get brighter urine.

I would think the calorie numbers on their website would be pretty accurate. They really control their products, it isn’t like that day’s cook is going to give you a larger portion or double cheese or anything.

Some raw vegetables upset my stomach, I assume because they are hard to digest. Just a thought if you’re eating things raw or barely cooked.

Garmin hr is likely accurate but the VO2 probably isn’t. My Garmin says my VO2 is 50 which I’d love to believe but I think it’s too generous.

I have never used a trainer but in my decades of going to various gyms I have watched a ton of them in action. I have only seen one that appeared to be good at all.

You might be healthy now at that weight but eventually it will catch up to you. Your choice is to lose weight at some point in your life or eventually suffer the consequences. Ask anyone who has lost significant weight and they will tell you they wish they had lost the weight earlier.

This, cooked with berries.

My Garmin GPS watch is sometimes off by quite a bit on trail runs. Usually I can see it on the mapping... it will show all the curves of the trail for a while, then an absolutely straight line for a while, then back to curving. Looks like the GPS couldn't connect for a while so the watch assumes I went in a straight line…

While money might be involved my first thought was the old adage "to a man with a hammer everything looks like a nail". One of the main things a doctor can offer in terms of weight loss is surgery, so you offer it to everyone who needs to lose weight.

Agree. I don't see how anyone can see those ads as fat shaming. There is nothing saying anything bad about obese people's looks, their self-control, their intelligence, their personality, etc. it is just giving a factual warning with no judgment. If it was something like a picture of a fat person eating a burger with the…

Mine is not at all accurate or helpful with trends. Depending on the time of day it reads 5.0% (its lowest reading) or something about 20%. BodPod, the mirror, and various formulas say 12-14%. Yes, there is a time it’s accurate but it is way too affected by hydration levels to be useful to me... so I just pay attention to…

A couple of years ago my cholesterol of 139 was flagged on my results as too low... that lab said total cholesterol was supposed to be between 140 and 200. Seems like 140-150 is a very narrow result to be shooting for.

I really don't see how this is new. If you eat anything pre-packaged (anything in a can or box in the supermarket) how do you think it was prepared? You think a human cooked up each of your protein bars or cans of soup or whatever by hand? Robots have been cooking for us for decades, just like they make most of our…

Seconded. I have been married nearly 30 years. My wife avoided exercise like the plague for decades. She finally realized she had been anemic (or almost anemic) for many years. Once she got that under control she found some easy exercise classes she liked... last year she decided to try running and doing harder exercise.…

40 pounds in 10 months, so over the whole time a pound a week. It bounced a lot but came off a little faster at the end and a little slower at the end.

Another zombie thread back from the dead. I understand bumping an old thread if you have the same question, but why bump it to answer someone who probably left the site years ago?

As others have said, the whole point of that method is for beginners to be able to run longer. I really don’t see how you could prevent injury with that method unless it means you’re running fewer miles. Meaning if you were running say 6 miles over one hour before and you change to running 5 miles and walking 1 mile over…

I think you missed their joke. You said "a sub 10 minute 10K", not "a 10K at a sub 10 minute per mile pace". Running 10K in under 10 minutes total (not per mile) would be quite an achievement, like running 37.2 mph for 10 minutes if my math is correct.

Steel cut oats (pre-packaged 150 calories) frozen berries (often cherry berry mix) lots of ceylon cinnamon I make it the night before and put in the fridge overnight. Mix in some plain greek yogurt right before eating (I eat it cold).

I take a couple of rest days a month. That doesn't mean I go all out every single day, I mix in harder and easier runs. I monitor my resting heart rate and use that as a warning for when I need a rest day. RHR > 50 for me means it's time for a day off. RHR in the high 40's means I should probably have a somewhat easier…

When I run in the cold I cough a lot. I did ask my doctor and get checked out. No asthma, no other issues. I forget what he called it but his take was basically that my lungs are sensitive to cold... breathing deeply when the air is dry and cold irritate them. This winter I tried wearing a balaclava if it is cold and that…

There is no debate in my mind, Concept 2. If you want something more official than this online thread, Consumer Report reviewed rowers and ranked the Concept 2 the best. The Concept 2 got an 85. The next best ones were H2O Fitness and WaterRower both at 72. They didn't review the Sunny Health & Fitness but the Stamina got…