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I found that my pain in that area was actually caused by knots in the muscle rubbing up against the bone and was resolved with massage. It was a chronic problem that severely limited by distance for years until I discovered that.

I do it all the time and if anyone has ever cared, they've had the sense to keep it to themselves. EXCEPT it's not allowed at Planet Fitness. I took my shirt off on a treadmill there once and someone came over to tell me to put it back on. Guess running in a sports bra makes you a lunk.

If I exercise, I need to eat more to replace the calories I burned. If I plan to eat more, I can exercise to earn the calories I'm going to eat. What difference does it make which comes first, thought-wise? Action-wise, I need to do the exercise first because I can't run with a bunch of calories sloshing around inside me.…

I went. I put on a few pounds. I came back. They went away. It was probably mostly water weight from flying and more salt than I usually eat. If you're marching around Disney all day, standing in lines, you probably won't end up exercising, no matter how good your intentions. My feet hurt too much after the first day to…

I use sedentary and add exercise calories because other than exercise and basic walking around, I am sedentary (wish I weren't but that's the job). I'm one of those lucky people whose metabolism seems to be higher than what MFP estimates. When I was losing, I stuck to their recommendation and lost faster than expected.…

To get 1700 calories as a 5' 3" woman, you must have set the activity level high. So is your activity level high not counting the exercise for which you're planning to eat back calories?

I wash and dry mine in the machines. I pull the insoles out out and wash them separately and then don't put the insoles in the dryer, but I put the rest of the shoe in the dryer. Haven't had an issue yet.

My last trail race was actually pretty well marked with flags at every junction but twice the person directly in front of me went the wrong way. Don't depend on another person unless you know for sure they're familiar with the course. If there are blazes (hopefully there are blazes, at least), keep a running count in your…

I've got a spreadsheet I enter my calories eaten and exercise calories into every day and I track my changing goal in the spreadsheet so I have the historical data.

In addition to trying to run too far, you may be trying to run too fast. You especially don't ever want to try to run faster and longer on the same day - one or the other. Also, if you have an option to run on a softer surface, use it. Dirt is better than asphalt, asphalt is better than concrete. Treadmills are like…

It's interesting that people often advise increasing calories by 100 a day. 100 calories a day is 10 pounds a year. If my weight drops below my low point for 2 days in a row, I increase my goal 20 calories a day. That feels much safer to me.

For years I used a board on top of carpet and it gave me a consistent if not accurate reading. I just pulled up the carpet so now the same scale is on hard wood and I seem to be a pound heavier. But the thing is that it was consistent so it worked.

Last time I tried to give blood it was in the 50s and that required the charge nurse to come over and OK me to donate but she said as long as the low rate was exercise related, it wasn't a concern.

Best thing for lung pain is to breathe through something like a scarf or balaclava. I don't usually do it for very long because it feels claustrophobic but you can adjust as you run depending on how you feel.

Learn to listen to your body, not a machine.

I do a 75 minute power yoga class and log it as 400 calories. I got that number online somewhere for 60 minutes of power yoga (I figure at least 15 minutes of the class is just lying around). I'm a regular runner so I compare everything to running. To me, I exert at least as much energy in that class as I would going for a…

Why do you think so few people are women over 40? I assure you, there are a lot of us - like maybe 25% of the population?

I weigh daily. My weight makes more sense viewed daily because I see the spikes and dips in context. Like, I've been going down for a few days and then there's a bump - the bump isn't relevant. Or if I've been steady for a few days and there's a sudden big drop, most of that drop is probably coming back tomorrow. My weekly…

That's a good question. I'm not sure. I've never had much trouble staying slim but I'm a woman getting older, my job is sedentary, and my BF's lifestyle isn't healthy. So I put on some weight and it took a while to get serious enough to take it off. Now that it's off and I'm used to logging, it seems like a really simple…

Yeah, once I start making "it's only one day" exceptions, it turns out there are a lot of "one days", especially this time of year. I had Thanksgiving dinner 3 times this year. My offices has 2 Christmas parties, my BF's has 2, and then 2 family get-togethers. That's 9 days in about 6 weeks. They can't all be binges. I…

Ture :smile: Take the leanest guy with an eight pack in the world and have him bend at the waist and there will be a fold there.

17% body fat wouldn't be healthy though. You're in the healthy range right now.

5' 1" and 120 pounds is definitely not emaciated and I can't imagine you're carrying 20 extra pounds of muscle without looking like a body builder. There's probably something else going on and it's probably not tragic, but worth asking your doctor. Have you ever had regular periods? When I was younger, I always skipped a…

I think it's more about body weight percentage than # of pounds. I dropped 13 pounds and absolutely none of my pants fit, but 13 pounds was 10% of my body wieght. I have a feeling that larger sizes have more tolerance built in. If you're on a long journey, be glad you don't have to buy new pants every 10 pounds or it'd be…

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I ate back all my exercise calories except on really heavy exercise days where it wasn't feasible, but I also feel like I had a good sense of how many calories I was burning. Running is really easy to estimate and then I just compare anything else I do to running. Like if it says that a half hour on a stationary bike is…

I'm "naturally skinny" and I'm going to weigh in and say that the list seems reasonably accurate, though I'd never thought of some of those particular things before. Like that one about the "food groove". That is very true of my eating habits, especially when my life and my weight are stable. I tend to put on weight when…

Yes, but in my case, the pressure would literally make me scream with pain. If you weren't noticing tenderness there, then knots probably aren't what's causing the pain.

My shin splints turned out to be knots in the calf muscles from where they were rubbing up against the shin bones. Like you I was thinking compartment syndrome. Initially the knots were found and fixed by a massage therapist but now I can treat them myself using trigger point type massage techniques.

Mine are in the kids dress-up box, but now I think I'll dig out the marathon and half marathon ones and send them to Medals4Mettle.