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The main thing with Tai Chi is to make sure your teacher is legit. Tai Chi isn’t a groovy, flowery movement thing, it is a martial art. The reason it is good for you is that, not only does it improve your range of motion and balance, it strengthens your muscles, and it improves the flow of your life force—your Chi—which…

I favor an inexpensive fleece vest for warmth rather than a coat. It keeps my torso warm but also allows me to sweat. And if I get too warm, it’s easy to unzip halfwAy and peel it down to my waist.

MeanderingMammal: So totally not true! If I didn’t have the shoes that give me the proper support and the inserts that augment that support I would be as I was 6 years ago: unable to walk across the living room without unbearable pain, instead of as I am today: aging, breaking down, running nearly every day, and currently…

If you are running get a running shoe! Go to a small, local running store. Plan on spending an hour (you may not need it, but you don’t want to leave too soon either). They will assess your gait, and give you the chance to try on shoes based on how you walk and how you will use them. They should have a very liberal return…

Small, local running store. Don’t be intimidated! They should also have a really liberal return policy. None of that “you can only return them if you never wore them outside” nonsense. Don’t buy a shoe that doesn’t fit absolutely perfectly. Pay the oh-my-god price because this is your foundation. Spring for Superfeet…

Beans and corn torts. I eat that probably 75%of my breakfasts. Check out Vegan Brunch cookbook for a most excellent vegan omelette recipe (makes 4 and they store well), and the red flannel hash is terrific! Trader Joe’s Soy chorizo (or Soyrizo if you don’t have a TJ’s, though TJ’s is tastier) stirred up with sautéed…

I think the weight gain is possible because erythritol doesn’t trigger your body to signal satiation. And judging from the number of people here who talk about sitting down and eating an entire container, it may be true. I wonder if some folks are eating their entire pint of Halo Top for 260-ish calories, but moving on to…

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In the pocket of whatever Nuu Muu Ruu I am wearing. https://nuu-muu.com/

Speaking from the POV of a woman who started walking at 51 with a pretty broken down old body, and now in my 6th year of running. 1) Ditto shoes! Go to a small running store, not a big box. A good running store will take a ton of time. They’ll evaluate your gait. They’ll let you run around the block without freaking out…

I’m just happy that I discovered they have gluten in them (barley malt sweetened). Phew!

Order soda water/lime. Tip the bartender and drink for tip cost all night. Throw back once an hour at most.

Full disclosure: I have not had this surgery. However, my SIL had it and my sister got the sleeve. Both committed to a strategy just to get to the surgery, and both regained. I am close to both, so I’ve watched their struggles. I see two issues: one excercises, but doesn’t work very hard at all at it, the other does not…

Love it. Fave flavor is tangerine, but it’s not consistently available and rarely on sale. Mango is gross. The first can of coconut is spectacular, but pretty much horrid after that (not sure why). We drink a lot of grapefruit, lime, and lemon. Really can’t go for those flavors that remind me of all the vegetation…

Sciatic nerve flossing is a miracle. The idea is that you floss the nerve back-and-forth in the nerve sheath, reducing “stickiness” and improving lubrication. YOU DON’T STRETCH IT! You floss it. The exercise is very simple, and there’s really not a lot that can go wrong—unless you stretch rather than floss. Here’s a link…

I keep PT separate from other exercise and don’t log it. Its point is not calorie burn, it’s healing. For me it is important to keep those two categories completely separated, or I might start to work at it in a damaging way.

When I lived in Anchorage with my hound dog, I bought her a set of doggie snow sox at the sled dog store. They recommended getting a tube of Shoe Goo and making little polka dots on the sole of the sox to keep them from slipping. Maybe try that with people sox. Another option is to go to a home health supply store or a…

What I would do for itty bitties . Sigh.

Homemade refries and corn tortillas or brown rice are my go-to’s. Oatmeal—as much as I love it, and even sexy it up with nuts or dried fruit—never holds me more than about an hour.

I’ve been GF for about 6 years now, not as a “lifestyle choice,” but because I truly am gluten intolerant. I have never lost a pound. Just sayin’.

Read “The First Twenty Minutes.” Lots of the most recent science on diet and exercise. More regular test subjects rather than elite male athlete test subjects. I found it fascinating that a study on normal people of both genders showed that very few people lose weight running. I knew that!

Peace and tranquility.

I’m big-boned and broad-shouldered and 57 years old. My lowest adult weight was 125 when I spent a winter as a chairlift operator, all muscle and sinew. I will never be that weight again and I am utterly peaceful with that. Right now I am 167. I’d like to be 155, and 145 would be just dandy. Less than that is not…

I’m just going to throw out here: genetics. I come from a family of women who blew up like a inflatable rafts when they were pregnant. I was 42 (to their twenties) when I was pregnant, gained 10 pounds, and delivered an 8 pound baby. So, including fluid weight and the placenta, I probably actually lost weight during my…

Be sure to ask about nerve flossing. My PT taught me about it for sciatica, and I ended up applying it to the medial nerve in my arm after having a benign tumor removed from within the nerve which left me with permanent scarring and pain. My neurosurgeon (really a good guy) didn't even recommend it to me. The idea is to do…

Deep water running is your friend!

Ritzvin...lol! I have to wear men's shoes because I have scows for feet. The ones that fit me are all boring colors. I'm always so envious of people who get bright shoes.

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Start running when you feel like you are ready. Allow yourself to run only short distances--even if that means 100 feet--with walking in between . Take it slow. RELIGIOUSLY do the four basic leg stretches (4minutes, so no excuse!) after every walk or run. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P0Sg1MHhmjY Get running shoes from a…

Bottom line is that individual genetics has the most influence.