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Fueling and electrolyte replacement for endurance sports is a delicate balance of dosing, digest-ability and portability. Finding a particular thing that gives you the carbs (fuel) you need, in a way that doesn’t make you sick, and provides the electrolytes you need and is easy to carry around Isn’t always as easy as you’d…

Trying to “make up” 4000 means being really under for the rest of the week-which likely leads to an out of control binge-which leads to being really under (to “make up” for it) and repeat forever. Just write it off. It’s a pound you’ll lose more slowly. If it makes sense, look at factors that led to this. If it’s…

My gym floor is recycled (car) tire floor mat/tiles that I got at Home Depot. It’s more dense (but the same size/function) than the typical foam “tiles” and much more than a yoga mat. Very little seems to impact this flooring (including heavy equipment and 200+ lb deadlifting and an occasional dropped weight). I don’t know…

That isn’t being a downer. If that’s a more realistic number, then I’ll revise. Max fat burn per day assuming everything is perfect-1000 cal (rather than my previous 700-ish). OP is currently at about 1800/day. Minimum protein intake - 167g (rather than my previous 200g). OP is currently at 100g.

For liquid I also use Tailwind. It is less sweet than Gatorade but I don’t know about sugar specifically. It’s also much more expensive - but worth the cost. If you’re going to mix your own, be aware that salt isn’t the only electrolyte (although it’s a big one). If you have conditions where maintaining electrolyte balance…

Hopefully to really hammer home the unanimous advice to get fitted for a shoe that works for you, my experience is the exact opposite of this person. Brooks make my feet go numb, my knees hurt and my hips get all out of whack. With inserts I can manage maybe a 5k for fun. I run in Saucony because they work just right for…

So your body is burning the excess somewhere. It could be something benign like eating away at your appendix - something you won’t notice ever. It could be burning off part of your brain-which you might not immediately notice if the affected part is not responsible for a function you’re monitoring (or able to monitor). Say…

Some previously linked research indicates that the max amount of fat you can actually lose in a day is somewhere between 11 and 26 calories per pound of body fat per day. Note-the higher number was observed in a starvation study. While you don’t know your body fat, let’s just guess you’re around 25%. So assuming you’re…

6 days at 1300-1400 and one day at 2500 puts your total calorie intake at 10,300-10,900 for the week. If your maintenance calories are 1700, then you’re burning a total of 11,900 calories a week. So you’re still in a deficit of 1000-1600 calories for the week. So you’ll lose about 1/3-1/2 pound a week. You don’t mention…

It was my first marathon. Course is lovely although it was dreary and rainy the day I ran it. Net downhill, but it just felt pretty flat to me. Great course support (frequent, well stocked stops). It’s a nice event. I stayed at the Ramada Inn. I didn’t want to have to worry about traffic/parking and all that, so I just…

Mine are pinned to my medal hanger (there’s a place for them). I write my finish times on the back. I’ve seen people make assorted wall art/quilt/blanket things out of them as well. I may go that route when I have enough.

For me it’s letting all the bajillion random thoughts in my head just work their way out. Sometimes it’s specific things, but mostly I don’t have an agenda and it’s just all the stuff that swirls in my head all day. After a couple of hours things settle down and I think I run out of stuff to overthink about.

And how frequently? Like how many days a week? How many days in a row?

Everything. That’s why I run. Today I contemplated sunsets, the nuances of dog barks, why someone puts pink siding on their house (I made up a whole story), also reminded myself 7 times to do something when I got back from my run, re-hashed 6 arguments in my head, talked to the skin suit tailor, wondered why there were 27…

It’s not “form” but rather how your foot moves through a step. How much do you roll from the outside to the inside of your foot with each step? All the metrics your app is measuring aren’t really related to that. I’m not saying the UA shoes aren’t good. There are hundreds of phenomenal shoes out there. But every great shoe…

How did you choose the shoes? It’s entirely possible that the shoes you’re wearing aren’t really good for how your feet hit the ground. If you overpronate, and wear a neutral shoe, that can cause pain (the inverse is also likely-as is wearing a shoe that just doesn’t work with your foot). Numbness and pain are sometimes…

And mfp isn’t designed to link with multiple systems. Mfp doesn’t have anything to determine what is a duplicate entry/activity. So if you want to link something, just pick ONE thing. I suggest the all day tracker because your TDEE is way more affected by what you do the 23 hours you aren’t working out. But choose ONE that…

I have had a Fitbit synced to mfp for years (also a Garmin at other times). Your Fitbit is estimating your TDEE including any exercise you do. Mfp is estimating how many calories you burn NOT including exercise. If your Fitbit and mfp are linked, the difference between those two numbers becomes your exercise adjustment…

I don’t do bikram but can second that the hatha/stretching entry is really quite reasonable and also matches up to my Garmin, Polar & Apple Watch. It’s an exercise DB entry I actually trust as is.

Also curious if when you say you go “all out as fast as you can with your HR at max” is that a sustained thing? Typically “all out as fast as you can go with HR at max” is not sustainable for more than a short period of time so that kind of effort is usually part of intervals (with alternating short periods of max effort…

You adjustments will change some throughout the day. Until the end of the day, they are based on an estimate for the full day (calculated from what you have burned so far and maybe some learning about your typical patterns). So your adjustment amount will change a little every time you sync your Garmin. 91 to 54 is not a…

Can you do a screenshot of your mfp diary with the Garmin calculation for yesterday-but with the full day actual? The screenshot you have still shows an estimate as it’s based on what you burned through 8:30 PM. You can skip the Garmin connect screen shots as mentioned before-that’s adding your “active calories” to your…

You should be eating 1200 plus exercise calories. You need to eat at least 1200 calories just to get the bare minimum vitamins/minerals you need to fuel your organs and life processes. As such; mfp will never give you a goal below 1200. As someone who is also 5’4” and weighs a bit more than you, I can tell you that 1200…

When you do your screenshots, do the screenshots like I have of mfp. So show what’s in your mfp diary and the mfp screen that shows the adjustment calculation. We’ll need both to know what we’re looking at.

You can’t share the recipe directly, but you can share your diary entry for that food. So if you enter a recipe for lasagna, then you log a serving of that lasagna for your dinner, your husband can copy the lasagna entry from your dinner diary. He can make alterations to serving size and reuse the entry and so forth once…

I had virtually no seasonal allergy issues when I was morbidly obese. I started running/working out and lost a lot of weight and now have horrible seasonal allergies. I am assuming this is because of lifestyle changes and perhaps some other environmental factors and nothing to do with weight at all.

Second vote for flip belt.

Oh no! I didn’t mean it like that at all. So sorry. I meant it only that the bag is just one part of my overall plan so I don’t have experience in using it exclusively (or even as a primary activity). So I can’t really answer on my experience with it as a workout program (only because I do the other stuff more). I was…

Here are screen shots of my mfp and Garmin connect calories in/out for Saturday. My workouts are logged in Garmin (and transferred to mfp) and my overall adjustment is 23 extra calories. Aside from workouts, I barely moved. Also-on the Garmin connect side, you can see that the active calories were added to my mfp goal.…

You need to be looking at the mfp side and mfp adjustment (As this picture shows). The Garmin connect is using a different system and adding the active calories to your mfp goal (which is figured from a different system). Ignore the calories in/out in Garmin Connect. Also-Garmin/mfp doesn’t double count. If a workout has…