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I've historically had problems with my shins, too. I'm just about to start week 6, and after each run, I have some tenderness right where you describe. however, it goes away in a day... so it's not still sore as I'm getting ready for my next run on the program. My understanding is that a number of things happen in the…

Deb, It looks like you haven't yet gotten a response to your question... You've got eight weeks until the 5K you mentioned. If you start in the next few days, you'll have enough time to finish eight of the nine weeks of the program. That should probably be close enough -- by the end of the 8th week, you're running 2.75…

BMR is what your body uses every day without any activity -- the minute you step outta bed, you've just guaranteed you'll use more than your BMR! So, you better have a total calorie intake that's bigger than your BMR -- by 25% or more, without counting exercise!

Just curious -- when you go to a restaurant and just pick-up some take-out, do you tip? It would seem to be a similar -- if not the same -- situation...

Wait -- really?!?!?!? Woo hoo!!!! :drinker:

No, but it's clearly more dense. Of course, when you use your exercise mat more than your sleeping bag, you don't get more exercise mats -- it just gets bigger. Your sleeping bag, on the other hand, never goes away -- it just shrinks. Once you have a sleeping bag, you never get rid of it (it's one of those myths that you…

You don't have to eat all of your exercise mat after exercising. If you're hungry, go ahead -- if not, don't worry about eating the whole mat. If you eat about half your mat every day, you're doing fine. If you're under 1200 calories a day, though, by all means, eat the whole mat every day. You'll go into starvation mode…

Umm... maybe it's because they just don't want to drink sugar, or have a condition that makes them avoid sugar? :wink:

I just had dinner there -- a small chopped salad, with the dressing on the side (i probably had about 1 or 1.5 tsp of the dressing); linguini with white clam sauce (only ate about 1/4 or 1/3 of the portion); a mini creme brulee (couldn't resist); cappuccino. The MFP database, and info that's on the web, tells me that I ate…

LOL -- I thought the same thing! "Okra steamer?!?!?!" I don't have one, but just some thoughts: are you adding a bit of water? how much? How long are you steaming these for? what about it is "scary" -- that is, what's going wrong? if you want to cook chicken and veggies together, perhaps you could cut your chicken into…

Congrats! Enjoy the warm day tomorrow! Yinz had warmer weather today than we did here in DC -- make sure to send it our way!!!

OK... based on your recommendations, I decided to jog outside -- and it rocked! Now *that's* the running that I remember from 20 years ago! I have to admit, I cheated a little -- I took my normal 2-mile circuit around campus that I normally walk, and wouldn't ya just know it? Just as my 5 minute warm-up walk was done, I…

I have it for the PS3 -- I did the three-week cardio start (on easy), and right now I'm in week 8 of the nine-week challenge (again, on easy). I didn't like the resistance band -- mine broke after just four weeks, so I ended up getting dumbbells, and I use them for the workouts. I can really tell a difference in terms of…

LOL! It's an awesome feeling, isn't it? I mean, up until it was possible to do without pain, there are all sorts of rationalizations about why-it-isn't-what-it-appears-to-be, and then, all of a sudden, because of the diet/exercise, it's gone! what an awesome NSV moment!

Strictly speaking, the C25K program is geared to getting you to the point where you can run a 5K *OR* 30 minutes. Although the goal of running 3 ten-minute miles is admirable, it isn't (technically speaking) the goal of the program. If you look at the program description on coolrunning.com, each of the intervals gives…

If your net is 1270 and your goal is 1770, then it means you should be eating an additional 500 calories that day (in order to reach your limit, which has a built-in calorie deficit so that you lose weight in a healthy way).

THIS! Definitely enter exercise for the elliptical trainer -- 30 minutes for a 130 lb person is 265 calories, which is probably more than enough to help you with an extra (healthy) snack or two during the day! If you play around with your activity level, on the other hand, you're telling MFP something that just isn't true…

THIS! (Speaking of which, I just finished my cinnamon today, so it looks like it's time to make a trip to Penzey's!)

Instead of making a quickie veggie broth, I tend to "cheat", and add some Goya sofrito or recaito to the water -- extra flavor, no calories, ~40mg sodium in a tsp of the stuff...

I'm holding a packen of "Maruchan Ramen, Chicken Flavor" (and the link you provided claims it's for "Maruchan Plain Ramen Noodles"), and it's showing 830mg of sodium in a serving. The link says that a 1/2 block contains 790mg sodium. It's just not realistic to presume that plain noodles are 790mg, but a 1/2 packet of…

This can't be right ... it would seem to me that there's *no* *way* that plain noodles can have that much sodium -- now, with the flavoring packet, that much sodium makes sense, but something tells me that these numbers are straight off the noodles' nutritional info (and that, of course, would include the whole flavoring…

just for the sake of argument ... are we talking about just the noodles themselves, or the noodles and the (insert editorial comment) EVIL "flavor packets"...?

skittles? why skittles?

That's awesome! (Would you mind if I borrow it for my signature?) :smile:

When I was up around BMI 34, and trying to lose 2-3 lbs per week, I liked weighing myself every day. Remember -- 2-3 per week means that you're generally gonna see 1/2 pound a day (or better yet, after a couple of days of nothing, you see a jump of 2 pounds!). So, for me, when I was looking to lose that much, it was pretty…

Watch out for the soups! I love them, too, but they can be full of sodium (which causes you to retain water, and therefore, weight!), and if they're cream soups, then of course they can have lots of fat & calories...!

You know, I've often wondered about those body fat percentage calcs that use weight as the determining factor -- I'm thinking that right now, at 206 (on the way down), I'm more in shape than I was a couple of years ago at 206 (but on the way up). Both would have given me the same body fat percentage numbers, right (?), but…

Congratulations, Julie!!!

Nope. Who's gonna see it, anyway?

way to go! make sure to rest that knee -- nothing's more frustrating than an over-use injury early in the game!