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Lots of good answers; just wanted to chime in and say people always have this idea that they have to constantly progress. In reality, your weight, your fitness level, the things you choose to focus on - these will all be periodic. They’ll change over the course of your whole life, maybe some things you’ll love and stick…

Thanks! And you can do it! I started training for this kind of late...just 3.5 weeks out, and I hadn’t run much in summer. The hardest part for me is just slowing down and building good aerobic mileage. I stuck to 2 base runs, 1-2 speed/hill workouts, and 1 long run each week and I’m amazed how much faster I progressed…

You can eventually learn moderation, but you have a process and some work and trial and error ahead of you. Don’t go into it thinking “well that’s it! Tomorrow I break my sugar habit forever!” There’s a slim chance that could be successful, but it probably won’t be and when you fail at it, it’s hard to just start working…

AFAIK it was accepted until recently that you can’t get rid of fat cells, just shrink them. There’s newer work now that shows that the number of fat cells you have can shrink, but it generally requires at least a few years of maintaining your weight loss. Can’t remember the specifics of the study right now though and I’m…

Yup, I second it: slow down! Go slowwwww, don’t take offense if a butterfly passes you or strangers give you weird looks. Do this easy comfortable pace for a couple months to get your joints used to the repeated impact and develop (or redevelop, which is easier) your cardio system. Could you go faster? Sure, but don’t.…

You can woo me all you like but I can go on. https://www.nature.com/articles/0803781 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0026049594902593 http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/h08-097#.W6khMqOZNBw…

HIIT preferentially burns fat from your midsection. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2991639/ (There are more but I'm sure you can find them). I've been seeing this in myself the past few months. My protocol has been to eat at maintenance, keep up my lifting to maintain leg muscle (an area I don't have much…

You're not mad for entering at all. I bet you could get on the treadmill right now, add ~30 sec/mile to your usual 5k training pace (just make it feel easy), and totally smash the 10k. That being said, you should transition to running outside at least some of your runs. They just feel different, your foot hits the ground…

Assuming you're keeping an energy deficit: In the short-term, cardio. I can easily burn a thousand or more calories on a long bike ride, a substantial fraction of which will came from fat oxidation. It's technically possible, thought unlikely you'll hit that same burn with weight training. In the long-term, likely weight…

I second the protein shakes, I find liquid calories don't fill me up for long at all. One of my favorites involves hemp protein (whey just doesn't taste the same in this recipe), half an avocado, some cocoa powder, coconut milk, and a little sweetener to suit your taste. Gives you great protein, fiber, fats, antioxidants,…

You don't need to exercise, of course, but if I sit around all day I find it really hard to stick to my calorie goal. Food generally makes you happy. Less food = less happy (at least in the short term). Exercise also makes you happy. So it compensates a little. =) But by no means does "exercise" mean you have to go lifting…

That's certainly true. I live with a bunch of doctors. I know they can't specialize in everything - but they have no, none, zero training in nutrition, metabolism, etc outside of whatever specific disorders like diabetes they might have covered. And from conversations with them, while some medical schools are starting to…

Open-faced toasted rye topped with goat cheese, dill, cucumbers, tomatoes, and nova lox. Today was meal prep day. I also ate a chickpea coconut cream curry with ground turkey and a fresh veggie quinoa salad....today was a good day =)

Well I don’t know about you but I need 4 jars to even taste it :lol: Also you Australians being all sensible and standardizing your measurements to some reasonable weight. I suppose you get all the excitement and danger in your life from those terrifying spiders...

I’ve had only good success with boxing/kickboxing gyms that run any kind of circuit training/conditioning class. I’m going to one currently, and since starting 3 months ago, I’ve dropped 10 lbs, increased all of my main lifts (which was a big deal to me because I’m well out of the beginner-phase linear gains), and cut my…

I go twice a day. Morning are for lifting, evenings are for swimming, stretching, jogging, etc. But I have a sedentary desk job ... if I were standing all day I’d probably skip the evenings also =) What I tell myself when I don’t feel like going is that I’ll just go, do a light active warmup, do some foam rolling, and then…

Military Press is one of the more difficult exercises to advance in. Try adding just 2.5 lb plates to each side as you increase. Accessory shoulder exercises (you can use dumbbells, or bodyweight exercises, I’m sure a quick google search will reveal hundreds) can help, especially if it’s some support muscle that’s weaker…

Guys ... okay I only read pages 1 and 13, but people know there is a difference between an allergy and an intolerance right? Lactose intolerance is not an allergy to lactose, as in your immune system doesn't start attacking you or producing some crazy histamine response because you ate some yogurt. Intolerances generally…

@JeromeBarry1 I'm pretty sure she means she goes over by 2000 cals once per week. edit: oh I took too long to type haha @lovelife409 2000/6 is around 330 cals extra the other days. Maybe you could cut out 200 cals the other 6 days of the week and throw in an extra walk to make up the rest. How does your weight respond on…

Did you throw down the tub in a fit of rage?

It’s mostly a matter of what makes you feel satisfied and gives you good energy - I lift weights every day and run sometimes, if I do very low carb I feel run down. But, my carbs (excluding fiber) come out to about 100 g/day, some would consider that pretty low. Fruit, oats, and sweet potatoes help keep me full, but if I…

As others have said, it’s all about the calories for weight loss. That being the case, I would find it very hard to eat at a deficit if I were not getting enough protein and fat. Protein is especially important when you’re losing weight, because you lose some muscle along with the fat. Making sure you get adequate protein…

You know what helps relieve stress? Taking proper care of yourself. That doesn't make you selfish or less devoted to your other obligations (read: being a mom), it makes you better able to meet them and to be your best self for all the people in your life for a much longer period of time. When you feel better mentally for…