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I absolutely agree with eating food for pleasure, and that low-fat products could equally well be called high-sugar, low-pleasure products (wouldn't sell so well, though, I bet). The only thing I do on low-calorie products is that I don't like drinking calories because I don't trust those calories to make me feel full, so…
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Distance running is 5k+ if we're talking about racing. 100m-400m is sprinting, 800-3000 is middle distance, 5000+ is distance. For me, 800m is the worst race, worse even than 5k, it's pure agony. If you mean training, a long slow distance run is just the longest run for this stage in your training cycle. Right now for me…
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IF you could keep going without taking a break, go ahead and pause your HRM. ;)
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To me, "lifestyle" in this context is a big pile of the healthy or unhealthy habits that add up to what you see in the mirror every morning. Lifestyle change, therefore, is an approach to weight loss that avoids temporary measures and adds healthy habits or removes unhealthy ones. That's why it's a shame when diets rebrand…
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Running your numbers, if you are of average build, 5'3" and 130lb is a perfectly healthy weight. 105lb is borderline underweight. Is there any reason you think that you should be 115lb? Do you have a slender build (narrow wrists and ankles for instance)? Since you're already a healthy weight I'd hate to think of you…
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I'm interested to know when and how you are fasting. I wouldn't do Insanity while fasting - your effort will be reduced and you won't get the same benefits. I've done Insanity on an empty stomach and 2-3 hours after a meal, and I can tell you I worked much harder with proper fuel on board. As for your, calorie goals, I can…
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I have found Insanity to be a great companion to running, but I've not tried to combine them. I do Parkrun 5k runs when I'm doing Insanity, and that's my only run of the week. My times aren't great when I do that, but they improve dramatically afterwards. Based on that, I'd suggest Insanity takes too much out of you to be…
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Wait, 18.5g of fat? How many olives did you eat?! That's a whole jar! I like olives, but my stomach would complain if I ate that many!
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Don't do it! You'll regret it. Just work out really early in the morning when it's cooler - either on the beach or your balcony for the breeze. And drink lots of water. You'll be fine. I've done Insanity in loads of weird and wonderful places, I've done it at 11pm or got up at 5am, anything not to miss a day. I like those…
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I would say take it really slow at this stage. It might not be politically correct to say so on MFP, but 220lbs is still a lot of weight for your knees to deal with in a relentless high-impact sport like running, so you need to be careful or you'll get injured. It's possible to do permanent damage. A lot of walking will…
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I view the week as a whole, rather than fretting about individual days. Some days with a big workout in, I might get nowhere near my calorie goal, but the next day I'll bust big-style. You have to view these days in context. If you're hungry, you should probably eat.
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Totally agree that goals need to be non scales-related. Having measurable fitness goals is really helpful. I have taken up running, and I have a series of goals, each a little tougher than the last. I don't know if my ultimate goals are even physically possible for me, but each time I hit a goal, I stay pumped for weeks.…
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Intermittent fasting worked for me for a while - I did 5:2 and dropped my first few pounds that way. But I'm a man - our metabolism seems to work differently on this point. Personally, I don't see the point of "fasting" every day, and then gorging in a 6-hour window, but YMMV. Are you thinking about food because you are…
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For me it wasn't about what I ate, it was about bad eating habits - the main ones were eating a large lunch and grazing after my evening meal. The weight went on really slowly and I was still reasonably fit, so it was easy to deny there was a problem, but with my family history of type 2 diabetes, I eventually accepted I…
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#1 Don't argue with people who think that muscle weighs the same as fat. You might as well try to convince a flat-earther of the near-spherical nature of our planet, or a moon landing denier that it was easier to land on the moon in 1969 than to produce a convincing fake. Having made the rule, and I believe it is rule…
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No matter why you are overweight, losing weight involves a change of lifestyle. I've been in the overweight category (BMI25-29) since my late teens (nearly 20 years bouncing around in a 20-pound range), but very sporty until my mid-twenties. I recently started a lot of physical activity and MFP, and like magic the weight…
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I weigh about the same as you, and my calories are set at 1500 to lose 1lb per week, and that's with a sedentary lifestyle. I do a lot of exercise, and don't always eat back all of my exercise calories, but other than that I try to stick to the plan. On rest days, I aim to be on plan or just a little over. I'm never very…
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I'm doing Insanity mainly for fitness, but yes, that does mean losing around 25 pounds. I'm about halfway there on the weight, and feeling great. MFP is the perfect companion for the workouts for me, that diet plan looked like way too much like hard work: you've already got me working out for an hour every day, I'm not…
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Week 3 is exactly when I started to lose weight - apparently your muscles retain water when they are recovering from exercise, and you've probably never exercised this hard in your life. I know I hadn't! Since week 3 I've lost at least 1lb per week, and at the end I could not believe the difference in my before and after…
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Definitely go and see a doctor. PF can absolutely wreck your chances of running regularly, or it could turn out to be a minor inconvenience that a simple change makes go away. But heel pain, especially in the morning, is the most common symptom of PF. Arch pain such as you are describing could be PF, or could be a number…
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What do I think? I think your tone is nasty and judgemental, your arguments are incoherent and your understanding of basic scientific principles is fundamentally lacking. A calorie is a calorie. It's a unit of measure of one specific thing - energy content. You may not agree with other people's food choices (why the blazes…
