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Firstly, everyone can be a running. What a stupid thing for someone to say. Just another reason to avoid "trainers" at the gym. Did you go straight from couch to 10k? If so you might want to wind it back a bit and do couch to 5k. Sounds like you have just done too much to soon. As mentioned in the article above. Start…

I found the best way to avoid it was to avoid eating before going for a long run and making sure I am up early enough to get at least 2 cups of coffee and at least a couple of visits to the loo.

Beware of setting yourself a target like that, I know that 10lbs doesn't sound that much when you put it along side your current 250 but that's over a 1lb a week. Now, not saying that isn't doable because it is but that will be quite a cut in calories from what you are use to. A lot of people end up giving up on losing…

Congrats man.

But then you have people who aren't hitting their macros and therefore are removed from the group of people who are doing as I said and are hitting calories and their macros.

I would generally assume that if someone was consuming say 1500 calories and that they intake consisted of say 50% carbs, 30% Fat, 20% protein and that they were hitting those percentages and also staying within the 1500 calorie range that there is a very good chance that they aren't eating too many carrots or too much…

I had a really funny image of someone taping a dvd to a set of plates and lifting it :)

Why would their thoughts matter? If you are hitting your macro requirements, it doesn't mater how your intake is made up.

Totally agree, which is why I said only on a nutrient basis it gives little to nothing :) A decent glass of quality red with a steak is a wonderful thing :) I can also say, with 100% certainty that after a 100km run, there is no food in the word which would have compared the the ice cold beer I had at the finish line.

You can't really use the fuel analogy though. It would be more like 1 fuel gave your car petrol, oil and water for the engine and one fuel just gave it petrol. That's how the "empty calorie" term is being used. Alcohol on nutrient basis gives little to nothing other than calories. If you ate the same number of calories in…

Totally agree, it doesn't make the food an empty calorie. Other people will identify totally different items in their diets which they are happy to cut out / down first. For some people, that drink when they get in from work is their chance to de-stress and probably has lots of mental and emotional benefits for them. I'm…

I can understand the comment about empty calories. When I started losing weight, I tracked everything I was eating and drinking pre calorie restriction. When I looked at my numbers, I wasn't actually eating a huge amount, but I was creating quite a large calorie surplus through alcohol. I was getting lots of calories from…

maybe you should have a beer, might help you lighten up and find some words :)

You are not too fat to run outside. Whose opinion do you actually care about outside. Random people who you don't know and don't know you? No other runner is going to think you are "too fat". Ever runner I have ever met has always had a smile and a hello for me. So get your gear on and go for a run. Do it for you and enjoy…

There was a post on here working out the formula for energy used while lifting. Weight(kgs) x gravity(9.8) = Force Force x Distance(m) = Energy (Joules) Joules x 0.000239006 = Calories burnt Take a 40kg bench press, moving it from chest to full arm extension, say half a meter: 40 * 9.8 = 392 392 * 0.5 = 196 196 *…

If you are new to running, then more running is the best thing to improve your running. Just get more time out on your feet. Getting the distance in will be more beneficial than working about tempo runs, hills runs etc.

those machines are rubbish at the best of times. You are better off looking on-line for BF% pictures and going off of those. I know there is a good one for men, not sure about a woman's version though

Seriously, it's your mum. Just ask her. Explain you have zero willpower when it comes to the jam when you are feeling down. Any normal parent will help out their children.

Correct, that's what skinny fat refers to. Low body weight, high body fat %. Generally when strength work has been ignored during weight loss. So LBM has been lost a long with BF. Just out of interest asimmons, would you also suggest east smaller meals 5 or 6 times a day or not eating after 8pm. Both normal bro science…

Or people can be shown that they don't need to hand over large sums of money for a product which does nothing that a normal calorie deficit would do.

It's a milkeshake of woo, with a side of woo fries with woo dip.

I think the more important question is why are you doing a detox? There is no reason to remove diet drinks from your diet. By all means reduce down the amount you drink and add some water but there isn't any actual reason to not drink diet drinks. Detox's have no actual effect apart from making your go to the bathroom a…

@melissaweststeyn That's is my point exactly. No body seems to have a problem with commentating on your weight when it is low. No one bats an eye lid, it's totally acceptable to say pretty much whatever you like about people who have lost weight because they "chose" to lose weight, therefore everything should be taken as a…

It's the "now you have lost weight" bits that is the problem. There is a huge difference in saying "That's a nice hair cut" or "that's a fabulous dress" and "you look good NOW you have had your hair cut" or "You lot a lot better now you have put that dress on"

Then as you get tired you can drink them to lessen the weight. Win/win.

I'll agree with the cereal as well. started measuring out a portion at home to take to work, when I put it in the bowl I realised I had been eating 3 or 4 times as much.

ah, we don't have any of that sort of thing in our schools. Well not as a norm. If you do well you get a sticker or a commendation for doing well. Though there maybe some thing like that when you are in senior school (11-16) but that would only be for special days in the school and they would be prizes for doing certain…

But as I'm trying to point out, people are not congratulating you on losing weight, unless you believe being told you look ill because you lost weight a form of praise. But like both yours and the previous post I replied to, these comments don't seem to register as being rude. It's like saying, "well done on your…

Not sure where you live but in the UK a 5 year is still very much under the control of their parents for their intake. You either select a pre-set school meal or send your child to school with a pack lunch. It's not like they can go off site at lunch time and buy sweets in a local shop. They may, manage to "swap" something…

But it's exactly the same thing about losing weight, I know I've lost weight, I don't need someone pointing it out. I don't need someone telling me to stop losing weight because I'll look ill, or I'll disappear, or I'll look like a stick figure, or to enquire if I have an ED. It's the old back handed comment, "oh you look…