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Dried mangos and some water. Pure carbs and very light in your stomach for such an early workout.

I stuck to the calorie count to lose the weight. I have slowly been transitioning to whole food plant based eating. Similar to vegan but more mindful of how much processing goes into the foods. I am 5 weeks out from my first marathon. I fell off the wagon for a few weeks and I felt the difference. Now that I'm back on…

Disagree. I've never seen a carrot linked to cancer. I have however seen red meat, processed meats, dairy products, etc linked to cancer and/or a variety of other diseases.

I appreciate any advice given in the replies to my post. As much as my emotional side is freaking out and telling me I'm an idiot, my logical side rules me and I know I've prepared well for this. It will be tough, I will be sore, but I'll make it. I've been running for a few years now and finally decided this was the year…

Side note.... Ugh. I'm running my first marathon on October 15. I've trained quite a bit for it (at least I think I have). Longest run I've done is 20 and I can already see where that statement came from. I was over it at 18 and am still wrapping my head around 6 MORE MILES!!

Ketogenic (low carb) diets are recommended often for PCOS patients. There's a lot of threads on here about it. Try looking under the nutrition section.

Yoga.

I agree with this. I'm about 5 weeks out from a marathon and knew I needed to get into new shoes but kept trying to hold out a little longer. Now I've been down for a week with knee pain (worse in the left). For the majority of people, 500 miles on a pair of shoes is max. I generally hear 300-400 actually and for what my…

That's why I wanted to try it. I have known about it for a long time but never had the guts and grit to convince myself it would be worthwhile :) From a biology/biochemistry perspective it really has solid arguments in favor of it but I will see, as suggested by another member, what the arguments are against it and if they…

Yes! Such mixed emotions! And my poor dog was outside the bathroom whining the whole time; probably because it sounded like I was in pain during the submersion process lol!

Love all of the replies, had a good laugh at a few of them! :) @RuNaRoUnDaFiEld I have not heard that before but I will hop on over to some good peer reviewed sites I know and check it out. Appreciate the insight. Overall I think I'm less sore today than I would be normally after a long run. But I also have been building…

I'm training for a 25K again hoping to beat last year's time, been a rough training season though. I'm going to train over the summer to run my first marathon!! Can't wait to kick butt in October! This is going to be so much fun! :)

Yup. Hard truth is that you (most of us mortals) can't out run/bike/whatever a bad diet. Weight loss is not an even balance between diet and exercise. It's mostly how much you eat compared to how much you burn. The hard truth part is that you burn a lot less exercising than you will probably like. Example: I though…

I second plyometrics. Check out some running websites (i.e. runnersworld.com). I've read several articles that talk about plyo training and how it improves running. I know I saw improvement when I incorporated it. Running bleachers is fun too, kind of plyo, kind of not. Motivating though :)

I like to keep it simple with running. If you can already do a 10K then stepping up to a half marathon probably shouldn't be too big of a challenge. A lot of the advice depends on how many miles you're running a week on average right now. Honestly, the most important part is to just get out there and get the miles in…

Do you stretch? I have noticed that when my knees or hips or anything start to ache from running it means I need to spend a little extra time stretching. I do my best to stretch for 30 minutes 3x a week. It's a lot, but I am completely pain free. That is a heck of an accomplishment for me considering I previously went to a…

I use the Bolthouse Farms dressings. I've tried Salsa Verde, roasted garlic, caesar and I liked them all. The cilantro avocado is okay but i'm not a huge fan of cilantro so that's why. I've also tried their Raspberry merlot dressing and liked it a lot as well.

I just make room for it. I've tried to go to black coffee. I've tried giving it up. I've tried sugar free creamer (yuck!!). I like my coffee strong with flavored creamer. So I make room for one big cup a day. It's a treat. If I need energy the rest of the day I supplement with caffeine pills. I use genius caffeine because…

I needed that today.

What I've noticed is that most people decide they want to run and get incredibly motivated to do so, and then reality starts to set in. For many people who have never been "runners" or are maybe 20 years removed from their track star days in high school, they try to do too much too soon and either end up frustrated or…

So, have you only been running for a few weeks?

The reason we argue against his blog is because it seems like he's trying to pin it as the magic bullet that everyone has been waiting for. It makes it seem like "I can eat way more than my calculated energy expenditur and lose weight" which is why we keep saying you're trying to make it seem like keto is somehow magical.…

Ugh dangit... the chem professor beat me to it... stupid work and school :) Pretty sure my chem prof beat the "bond breaking is endothermic, bond making is exothermic" chant into my brain so deeply that if i ever lose my mind I'll still remember that... and Molarity x Volume = moles.

@rainbowbow Bond breaking is always, always, always endothermic. Keep in mind it is not only ATP --> ADP, the reaction actually looks like this: ATP4- (aq) + 2 H2O (l) → ADP3- (aq) + HPO42- (aq) + H3O+ (aq) The fact that hydrolyzing the phosphate bond in ATP to form ADP releases energy, is the result of all bond changes,…

Bond breaking is endothermic. You must put energy into a system to break a bond. Bond making is exdothermic.

If he can't do basic math why would I trust the number of calories he said he consumed? If 3.4 is 4 is his mind then maybe when he ate 600g of carbs he screwed that up too and only ate 400g resulting in a calorie difference of 800. I didn't read his entire blog, but what I'm gathering is he's saying he increased his…

@shelleyrhoads ketogenic-diet-resource.com/ketoacidosis.html Some education for you.

Well he can't do math apparently. The calculations for the number of calories he got from each of the macros is consistently wrong. So he either lied intentionally an. Example: 600g carbs is 2400 calories (4 cals/g) , not 2040 (3.4 cals/g). The only one he is correct on is fat at 9cals/g. To be honest, yeah maybe he lied.…

That is Ketoacidosis, a condition seen most often in diabetic patients. That is the danger of googling. Drinking a lot of water is important (always, no matter what eating plan you follow) when on a keto eating plan.

I trained for 6 months for a 25K. I dropped 30lbs and was the leanest and most conditioned I had ever been in my life and still by mile 14 I was hurting because I still wasn't completely prepared. People are here are telling you to be realistic because they know what goes into that kind of distance running but you won't…