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Just based on a rough online calculator, your BMR alone is a hair under 1600 calories, so no, I don't think eating 1800/day is at all ridiculous! Why not give it a shot?
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I've run everything from 5k to two marathons without puking, though I would very often feel like I was going to at the end of my longer training runs (18 miles when the heat index is creeping up towards 100 is not fun o.O ). I came very close during my first marathon (bent over and heaving, but managed to keep it together…
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Your mileage may vary, but as long as you stick to your calorie goal when you don't run, and eat back most of what you burn on running days (especially long runs - you can burn well over a thousand calories on some of your longer runs!), you should be fine, and definitely lose some weight. I went from around 200 pounds…
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"That's like telling an alcoholic to go to an open bar and not drink anything" - sweetchildomi hit the nail on the head. We're all here because, in one way or another, we didn't, and often, still don't have good self-control. The judgemental replies are a little surprising. If I'm the only one in the house who eats Oreos,…
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I'm in the middle of marathon training, and although I only burn about half as many calories as you (except once a week for my long run), I'm in the habit of cooking a giant batch of a sort of dirty rice/rice and beans monstrosity and eating it for dinner throughout the week. I go with 3-4 chicken breasts, 2 cups dry rice,…
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It's extremely hard to calculate because it depends on how many sets of what exercises you do at what weight, how strong you already are and how good/bad your form is, and then the burn after your workout is variable by all the same factors and by person depending on how efficiently your body repairs muscle. That being…
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I wouldn't imagine you can inhale any nutritional value from the shisha (sp?), as you can't absorb nutrients unless it enters your digestive system. Research on hookah smoking is more limited than on cigarette smoking, but what research there is indicates it's still pretty awful for you:…
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owlbabi - Much of that 12 pounds is water. The first time I ever dieted, I lost 11 pounds in one week, eating ~2000 net calories per day. When you're overweight, pounds will melt off the first week or two you eat significantly less, whether it's a healthy amount, still too much, or too little. At 800 calories/day you are…
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I think this is more about people in general than MFP. The Diet Coke comment above reminded me of a time IRL when a very well-intentioned friend went on a good 5 minute rant about how Diet Coke would "sabotage" my diet, ruin my teeth (which it does, but hey), etc. No matter how often I said that it was something I wanted…
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Hey, I'm a college student, but I dunno if I can offer exactly what you're asking because we don't really have a traditional meal plan. It sucks that you don't have a lot of options, I know my dad lost a lot of weight eating chef salad for dinner almost every night, but that would drive most of us crazy o.O If there's…
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I'm 5'8", currently 197, goal is a toned 169, and I'll see if I want to squeak down a few more from there or not
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I lost 40 pounds on the dot when I was in high school, ate whatever I wanted during soccer season, then put it all back on and a bit more. Since then I've gained and lost more 10's and 20's than I care to think about o.O Still, we're all here 'cause we're back on the bandwagon, which is what's important!
