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Circumstance and individual cases are paramount. I'm type 2 diabetic, but if you saw my meals it looks like I'm on a high carb diet - even though my glucose levels are well under control. This is because I will hypo if I eat a lower amount of carbs given the amount of exercise I do. This 'balance' was achieved through…

Our bodies are fantastic machines that can extract water from whatever it is mixed with to be used for hydration. It is such a special machine that even a biproduct of cell function can be reused to help with the efficiency of those cells i.e. a biproduct of burning glucose is....wait for it....water!!! Glucose + Oxygen =…

Or you could add the food items you eat to the database with whatever nutritional information they have.

Running through palantir faciitus is not a good thing. It has to be healed fully. Some people have been out of running for a very long time waiting for that injury to heal. Talk to a sports physio who would know a lot more than we do on this site, but it has to heal properly or you'll always have problems with it.

A couple of rest days a week is essential for your muscles to repair and to restock wth glycogen. Rest is as important as activity. You'll know, however, when you're starting to overtrain, as you'll be feeling more tired, more lethargic, maybe some aches and pains, and maybe a little less enthusiastic to go out running.…

This is perfectly correct - carbs are the important figures. But if we got all our carbs from just sugar, we'd be very hungry all day which would encourage us to go over on our carbs. So in an indirect sense, sugar isn't good. But diabetes is such a complex illness that what may have a bad effect on one person may be ok…

Most of the sugar/glucose is excreted through the urine. This is why diabetics need to pee a lot. However, some of the glucose gets trapped inside very fine capiliaries - especially those in the retinas and nerve endings - which can result in some very nasty problems. Also, high levels of glucose in the blood can have an…

There's thing called the glycaemic index which places carbs/sugars on a scale of how quickly absorbed they are into the blood stream. Sugar is high on the index, whereas multigrain breads are lower down. The higher the glaecemic index rating, the quicker it will produce a glucose spike. So not all carbs are effectively the…

Our bodies are fantastic machines that can extract water from whatever it is mixed with to be used for hydration. It is such a special machine that even a biproduct of cell function can be reused to help with the efficiency of those cells i.e. a biproduct of burning glucose is....wait for it....water!!! Glucose + Oxygen =…

This is quite good for an introduction to heart rate zones and training: http://www.brianmac.co.uk/hrm1.htm

I usually eat quite a lot of my exercise calories, and doing that I find that I am never hungry. I'm achieving roughly 1lb a week weightloss which would be from diet and increased metabolism through exercise, and patience is certainly the key for me. If I've done a session where i've burned quite a large amount of…

I thought pollen came from flowers and just ends up on the bees.

The cold works in your favour after about 1/2 mile or so, unlike some activities such as cycling where your upper body and feet really feel it. The toughest thing about the cold and rain is mostly psychological when you're making the decision to go out in it. Once you're running it's really great. I much prefer to run in…

Monday 3.8 miles (Road) Tuesday 10 miles (Road) Wednesday 5.2 miles - Intervals (Track) Thursday - Rest Friday - Rest Saturday - 5K Race Sunday - 7 to10 miles - Haven't decided yet (Road)

Only started running at the beginning of August and clocked 385 miles.

10 mile gentle run.

Walking WILL help you get fitter. It WILL burn calories, and it WILL provide you with a good foundation to build upon with other types of exercise later. Whoever told you differently is an idiot.

I want to start proper running training to try and achieve decent times. I used to do 10ks in around 41 mins many years ago, so getting within 5-10mins of that would be great.

There are many people who complete full marathons dressed in heavy bear costumes carrying buckets full of coins. These aren't necessarily ultra fit athletes either. Follow a beginner's plan, if the plan gets too tough, then maybe that will be an indicator as to whether the 1/2marathon will be too tough for you.

Just bananas if I'm late, maybe a slice of granary bread and honey as well, but I will have porridge and a banana if I'm running around an hour later. I can't run on an empty stomach because I'll hypo (diabetes problem) which isn't very pleasant. I dont see the point in eating too much protein before exercise. It takes a…

Between 15 and 30 miles plus one circuit training session.

Everytime I turn the tap on to pour some water to drink, the sound of running water makes me want to pee. Is water a diuretic and will I become dehydrated if I pour too much of it?

Or water thickened with milk..

If you drank only coffee and tea, you'd die of old age before you'd die of dehydration.

I think the value in calorie counting is that you are having some form of conscious regulation over what you eat. I dont think it needs to be scientifically perfect - I dont think it can be even if you wanted it to be.

lol, I've begun to cry for the world :) A new example: If someone takes some cooked chicken and some cooked potatoes and blitzed them together in a food mixer, it's still ok to log them seperately as potatoes and cooked chicken. This is pretty much what happens when you add tea or coffee to water. The coffee molecules…

When you look at a cup of hot coffee or tea, what is that thin, white misty stuff that rises from the top of it. I'l tell you. It's STEAM, and STEAM is water. If you let it drift onto something cool,it will condense into WATER. This is basic, basic science.

Are your shoes tight around the toes, or big toe-nail a little long?

Don't tell her what you're about to go do. :smile:

Just realised, there are some posts on here that say that OXIDATION takes place between chemicals in tea and the oxygen in the water. If this is true, then hydrogen would be left over. Wow!!! we've solved a major world energy problem. Car engines have been designed to run on hydrogen, which can be very environmentally…