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It's how you lose fat. I run heaps (marathons/ultramarathons) and carry my excess weight in my thighs with very little on my belly.

You will, but it may depend how low you want to go. I'm at a bmi of 20 and carry almost all my fat in my thighs and am really ambivalent about losing more just to try to drop my thigh size. On one hand, I'd like to, but on the other I don't seem to be motivated enough to maintain the deficit required (particularly while…

I dunno. You'd think elliptical would be fairly accurate but people freak out when you mention high numbers on them. I put my weight and age into the one at my gym and work out pretty damn hard for about 99 minutes and it tells me 1500 calories. Running at my usual pace for the same time would burn about 1200 apparently. I…

Look, there are two types of marathoners: runners who train for it and plan to continue hitting running goals, and people who see covering 42.2km in any way/time as a once in a lifetime achievement as long as they get a medal. Obviously you fall into the second category, OP, so I'm not gonna tell you to drop out and train…

Just gradually increase your long run distance with at least a couple of shorter runs each week in between. If it's a hilly course work some hills into your training. (Make sure you familiarise yourself with the course beforehand as well, I did a 50km trail race a couple of weeks ago where the front pack somehow got…

HILLS!!! Hills hills hills. Even though I trained on a very similar course, I never did as many hills in one run, and never at race speed. I also didn't wear a hat as it was quite windy and hats always seem to fly off my head in the wind, but the sun came out in force during the last hour and was very strong right on my…

So I did my first ultra today (just 50km) and I honestly have no further insight into how/why I keep going than I did before. I struggled, my legs cramped, there were so many hills that made me want to stop or at least start walking, I contemplated quitting multiple times and yet... I didn't... And now I have horribly sore…

I'm one week out from my first 50km race. I don't feel like I have any specific strategies to keep going, except perhaps swearing at the very steep hills I work into my runs (I'm lucky to live near this race so I can practice the course ahead of time). I try not to stop much when running but when I do stop for a drink or a…

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When the zombie apocalypse comes I'm definitely not wearing a weighted vest.

I want to see a 4000 calorie salad made out of all vegetables!

There's no set point, it's entirely in your power to decide what weight you'd like to be

Why wouldn't you need to weigh eggs, almonds, or milk?

I will never have a thigh gap. I'm training for an ultra after multiple marathons. I have given up on thigh gap. VASELINE Vaseline in my cleavage, Vaseline around my chest, Vaseline between my thighs.

Or rather do what exercise you enjoy and can sustain, and eat at a sensible deficit that includes calories burned while exercising. If you like the elliptical, use the elliptical.

Losing weight while training for a half: totally doable Losing weight while training for a full: tough, very very tough. Losing weight while training for an ultra: I swear I'm gonna do it! I swear. I don't care. I've lost like .5 kg and I want to eat everything but screw it. OP you can certainly try. Be sensible and…

I do absolutely 0% upper body strength (or strength training in general) I do A LOT of running. I have skinny arms and almost all my fat is carried in my thighs. If exercising a certain area of your body caused weight loss from that area, it would be the other way around.

Yeah I have a bmi of 20 and still get occasional thigh chafing when running. I'm trying to lose a bit more weight and am so hopeful that it will come off my thighs but it'll probably just make my shoulders and hips even bonier

Honestly once you get away from running or walking, which are fairly straight forward 'moving x weight over y distance in z time' equations it's all guess work. Body pump is actually in the database under cardio (as it really is more cardio than strength), but still: look around a class, different weights, different effort…

My experience is: First run: OMG I can't run anymore I've lost everything am I actually going backwards I'm about to die Second run: ok this is gonna be like starting all over again, based on last time. Expect to fail. Oh, this isn't so bad actually, my legs feel fine, just gotta take it a bit slow. Few more runs and then…

Yeah I've put on a couple kgs since I started running longer distances (currently training for my first ultra) and couple that with running slower I feel like a great huffing heffalump. I just checked and my bmi is 20.7 which of course is fine but I just feeeeeel like I'm carrying an extra load at the moment. Never mind I…

Do zombies have flabby muscles?

This is another one of those post hoc ergo procter hoc things isn't it. Just because someone loses weight while eating at a certain hours-per-day ratio, doesn't mean they lost weight *because* they 'fasted'. Now, certainly, having a certain 'window' of eating each day may help some regulate their calorie intake, but that…

I lost weight while breastfeeding my second just by reducing calories. I set my goal at maintenance and let the breastfeeding be my deficit and managed to both lose the weight and breastfeed my daughter till well past age two. I'd also recommend checking out Kelly mom if you want an idea of dieting and breastfeeding.

It's not sad. It's great that people are becoming informed about unhealthy dangerous scams and learning about healthy sustainable weight loss methods.

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I work out 6 days a week. 3 runs and 3 cross training sessions, though I'm hoping to replace one gym session with a run. At the moment I run about 90km a week (55 miles) with two mid-twenty km runs during the week and a high-thirties-low-forties run on Sundays. I am, however, currently training for my first ultra, and I'm…

As a distance runner, there are all sorts of distractions and tricks, podcasts and music and breaking runs into smaller components (2 km into a 32km run, telling myself I just have to do that 15 more times, at 4 km I'm already 1/8 of the way there etc) but honestly: I accept the pain. I accept the boredom. I continue…

The answer to no weight loss is not 'Eat more' You are not whatevering your metabolism or muscles or whatever. People who eat too little lose weight rapidly and become ill from that and lack of nutrients, they don't just stop losing weight. Whatever the amount you think you're eating, if you're sitting at the same weight…

A lot of people seem to think weight loss goes like this: Too many calories: no weight loss Appropriate sized calorie deficit: weight loss Too few calories: no weight loss But it actually goes Too many calories: no weight loss Appropriate sized calorie deficit: weight loss Too few calories: too rapid weight loss If you're…