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Eat less. If you are eating at maintenance or below, you won't "add muscle" in your legs from doing hills. Female body builders have to eat at a surplus and lift very heavy weights for months and years to put on miniscule amounts of muscle. I doubt your leg muscles at your weight are "big" and you might be suffering from…

I agree. Also think too often people think "long easy runs" have some super low HR. Even on my "easy" runs my HR is typically 80-85% of my max. I'd rather go on a 40 minute "easy" run than kill myself sprinting/walking/sprinting/walking for 10 minutes. But I agree, sprinting/walking for 10 minutes is probably about as…

This! My stress test max showed it perfectly to be at my age-prediction, but I wonder if that's why they stopped me. A couple years later and I still see about the same or a little higher here and there on my runs. So pretty convinced mine is a little higher than my age prediction. Some people might be lower. Also, look up…

I've lost about 20 lbs and still barely see the difference. I'm still obese though and about 40+ lbs above a healthy weight for my height. Like others have said, the closer you get to healthy the more dramatic. Someone at 400 lbs who loses 5 lbs probably won't be noticeable. Someone at 130 who gets to 125 might be the…

I don't have a FitBit, I have an UP. But this has been my experience as well. I think for my "active" calories it's doing some crazy multiplier. It's like "wow, you're obese and getting that much walking in? go you!" and gives me a sh- ton of calories for walking a few miles a day. Like way more than MFP even. Based on how…

I have a theory there are two kinds of overweight people...snackers and bingers. If you are a snacker, of course you're never going to understand what binging is like. One of those British shows on fat people talked about a study they did on overweight folks. Basically, a LOT of the overweight people don't ever feel…

Food scale... The sandwich, the chips, the cheese, the triscuits...are all things you could easily be underestimating on. Yes also possible the sandwich is more than you think. I eat out a LOT and typically use 1.1 or 1.2 of whatever the item is. As in, say I got a hamburger from in'n'out, I'll use 1.1 hamburgers as the…

Personal preference. Hopefully if you are going to just start running for 30 minutes a day you've had some experience running already and should know how you function best. I always have stomach problems if I eat within a couple hours of a run, so prefer to do mine on an empty stomach.

Says he works out twice a day, but doesn't say for how long. I also wonder if that is really an "every" day thing. There are some competitive female runners who claim to be eating 3k calories a day. While this is certainly possible (they run a lot of miles) there is speculation they overestimate how much they eat to the…

Cough to 5k. Go here: http://www.coolrunning.com/engine/2/2_3/181.shtml You can download the app, or you can use their instructions for how much you run/walk with a simple timer. You are probably going too fast. Think jog/shuffle, not "run". Speed will come later. You need to start slow. You should be able to speak a few…

Yes. All women. No guys ever worry about what other people are thinking.

This! My max HR is a smidgeon high. I also think while it does a good job at estimating my level of effort, I'm just not that convinced it ALWAYS equates directly to calorie burn. Sometimes I am running on low sleep and my heart rate is higher. Does that mean I burn more calories? My heart rate also tends to be higher on…

Progressive lifting program 3x a week. As much cardio as you feel like you want to do for your own mental health /cardiovascular health / calorie burn so you can eat more. Do something you enjoy.

This is me! Extremities first. I think of myself like a marshmallow with toothpicks for arms/legs. Obviously it's not that bad. Back/chest will probably be the 2nd to last place and my stomach will be the last place.

Interesting video, thank you for posting it! 1. I don't think the video is proof that BF% testing is inaccurate. I did find it interesting he said DEXA scans are inaccurate, but I couldn't find much to back that up. Really neither their accuracy nor inaccuracy. 2. Not sure it is meaningless, but true that a lot more…

Study shows some women losing both fat and muscle, (but only diet and aerobics I believe, no weight lifting): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3949547/ Study that was looking for potential drop in TDEE after calorie-restriction, but does show drop in fat AND muscle on average:…

This is the one I always link people to. Net walking: .3 x lbs x miles = calories Net running: .63 x lbs x miles = calories This is lower than what my HRM gives me and lower than what a lot of people on here post, but I would rather err on the conservative side.

And a lot of that was good salesmanship too. Promoting himself with a competitive personality, and the producers of the documentary egging on the competitiveness as much as they could. I have to say, it's very dated in that they catch a lot of downtime I think would be edited out in a modern documentary. There are a lot of…

Where are you getting your body fat percentage from? 5'7" and 154 pounds is within healthy weight range, so your body fat seems really high. 4 lbs in a week is a lot to lose given that you are already at a healthy weight range.

Good luck. Could you try taking Benadryl and see if it helps?

Not the person you are replying to... But yes marijuana is a drug. I can't make a true assessment based on her post whether she is truly dependent on it or not, but if she feels she "has" to have it in order to sleep every night, seems likely. I'm not sure why its becoming legal in several states made people suddenly…

I'll just leave this here so it's obvious if people aren't reading every post carefully... I'm thinking I need to make an MFP bingo card... "you're gaining muscle" "I work out why am I not losing weight" "go low carb" "go vegan"

Like others have mentioned, you are probably going too fast. And if you aren't doing it regularly enough you won't improve. Stick to a structured program (the one above is fine, or Couch to 5k). Do it 3x a week with a non-running day in between. When you run you need to actually think "jog". You need to be able to pass the…

Did you start or add any different exercise recently? How long ago did you cut to 2k calories a day? Do you eat back exercise calories?

There are other methods of fighting insomnia that don't include drugs, either of the prescription or the recreational kind. I'm not doubting you suffer from serious insomnia, but understand your use of marijuana has likely created a dependency and addiction for you. I know a lot of smokers don't consider themselves…

While I agree with your premise (that only running will make one a better runner), lifting can be hugely beneficial to avoiding injury. And hugely beneficial to a lot of other non-running aspects of your life. The OP is already running 4x a week. I think that's perfect. Agree with what other folks are saying, 3x a week of…

I wear Under Armour compression shorts. The ones I have are 5" inseam, that's sort of the minimum length I need to cover my thighs. I wear these under the more typical pace shorts for running, and also wear them under my work pants now because my pants are kind of loose in the thigh area and was causing rubbing while I…

Run slower. You should be able to pass the "Talk Test". You should be able to speak and communicate sentences without gasping for breath. Repeat weeks/days as needed. I did. It will only make you stronger / build a better running base.

I guess the high five / thumbs up feels like a "way to go, fata--!" that they wouldn't give to just ANY runner, so that's the part that bums me out. But it's not that bad. And yes walkers stress me out, because I am not a whole lot faster than them. Oftentimes I will be coming up behind a walker and they will speed up!…