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This. Other than that, good post about our lack of exercise and change of lifestyle.... Admittedly, it's a bit shallow on the historic side... Even in history older than 100 years, there were periods when food was relatively easy to come by and obesity actually raised its head, at least in parts of society. To people who…

After a few months of it, I now do the 30Day shred as relaxation when I don't feel like anything more.

Rpt: it wasn't me ... And I'm still curious! Still want to know how many calories, what nutrients, it is and how you would log it. Or the converse thing, if a bicyclist had used doping and had half a litre of blood extra.... Not that anyone would admit to doing that, of course...l

Your profile picture is you with a bike, that's great. The one day I had to cycle 200km while having only trained running I knew 70k into it that I needed white bread or cake like nothing. Only carbs got me through it. Kids love sugar for a reason, they are growing....

This is maybe not what you want to hear, but... Yes, give it up forever. The sweets that is. Not necessarily the chocolate. There is lots of non-sweet chocolate out there that can satisfy the craving and is good for you: - dark chocolate (nonsweet: Michel Cluizel makes one that's 100% chocolate, no milk or sugar) -…

Search the forums, there already lots of very good answers, also people who have tried it out.

I hope that the MFP powers that be one day will use this Big Data database where they collect all our data to figure out and tell us what people are actually eating, and what effect that actually has on their weight, with what variation.

What does a calorimeter say when you run it on nutshells? Or coal?

Okay, sorry, I should actually post something to help the original poster. So, if you are not losing weight any more currently, it's probably not because of starvation mode and decreased metabolism. You would notice. You'd be cold and lack energy and would be fantasizing constantly about food to the point of collecting…

Oh the starvation mode myth again. Does it never die out? http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/761810-the-starvation-mode-myth-again And the 6 meals a day myth. http://www.leangains.com/2010/10/top-ten-fasting-myths-debunked.html

I have a large blue foam roller which is an actual roll... And then ... A rubber ball a bit smaller than a tennis ball. Foam rolling is essentially passive massage of the muscles.. If it's a roll, it can only roll in one direction, along long muscles like the quads or hamstrings. If it's a ball, it can roll all the way…

I eat oats in the almost-dry form (rolled oats, as in muesli) or in pre-soaked form, usually cooked (porridge) or soaked over night in water (Bircher Muesli) or yoghurt. In the second form, it's much less calorie dense and more immediately filling. The flakes/grains stick together and form a gel. It's that texture that…

Sucrose, glucose, fructose.... The body's insulin response reacts to glucose. Part of the sugar in fruit (depending on fruit) is fructose and does not influence insulin levels. It still gets burned as cheap energy by the body, though. But even if fruit is sweet, its sugar content is mostly lower than that of sweetened…

Here in Australia, 1cup=250ml or .25 litres, standardised. Also, please note, 'half a cup' of oats... Depending how you fill your measuring cup can be anywhere from 40-60g. And please tell me what a cup of broccoli is. Do you count the air between the broccoli pieces?

That's no good excuse. The Garmin Forerunner 310XT uses the FirstBeat calorie calculation algorithm which uses the variation of the interval between heartbeats and is in theory accurate to 15%. I don't see any good reason why that algorithm should work any differently during shorter and longer periods, higher or lower…

^This. You can tone your abs muscles all the way you want, if you have a 5 cm layer of fat above them, that won't budge. If you have loose skin above them, e.g. from a pregnancy, that won't get any firmer from exercise. You cannot 'spot reduce', i.e. you cannot lose fat in one particular area of the body. Impossible. You…

No useful answer here, only that I've recently tried wearing a Garmin Forerunner 310XT for 24 hours, with chest strap, in theory it should be way more accurate then a fitbit which can't know your heartrate that well. It counted almost 4000 calories... For an average-height 45yr woman with BMI 24 with a sedentary job 10…

Fry half a cup of onions in a bit of butter/oil (depending on preference);,add your vegetable,chopped, and half a cup of white wine. Cook for 20 minutes or until vegetables are soft. Puree. Add half a cup of cream. Season with salt and pepper. This is a way to make even kids love veggies, but of course, at the cost of…

I believe as soon as you are on an energy deficit, you start to be preoccupied with food. The more severe the deficit, the more. It's how nature has wired our most urgent survival instinct into us, and it's what makes weight loss so hard. You can try tricks: pre-planning takes the obvious actual necessity to think of food…

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10593217 "The basic science literature supports the epidemiologic evidence that stretching before exercise does not reduce the risk of injury." http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/diet-and-fitness/does-stretching-prevent-injury-20130419-2i553.html "The non-profit Cochrane Collaboration has…

Agree with everyone here. Rest it, better safe than sorry. Warmth increases the blood flow in the muscle and helps it heal. I have never had the advice to cool a muscle from my physio or sports doctor. But if in doubt, ask your own physio or doctor. Avoid all exercises that make you feel it. If that means only upper body,…

To my knowledge the current line of thinking is that injuries, including muscle soreness, can be little tears in the muscle, and the last thing you want to do is stretch the muscle to make the tears worse. Also, that there is no evidence at all that pre-exercise stretch will reduce the likelihood of injury. Warmth (sauna,…

Deep ache? If it doesn't feel like ordinary soreness, it usually isn't and may well be an injury. If is is the first day... If you can run without upsetting it, go running. If you can't, leave it. Lookfor an exercise that doesn't make it hurt. Sleep over it and see how it develops. Maybe you just need to give it a bit of…

I haven't done it but I know there is no scientific evidence whatsever that supports the claims. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colon_cleansing : "The symptoms that are attributed to auto-intoxication—headache, fatigue, loss of appetite and irritability—are actually caused by mechanical distention within the bowel, such as…

Welcome to the club! 45 F here. I joined MFP a year ago when the sports doctor forbade me to run. Hamstring tendonitis from overuse. It should have been healed by now, but it comes back whenever I run. I so love to run! I can't, now. Not for long. I have learned to switch exercises and do other things for cardio. Mind you,…

I didn't normally run that early in the mornings when I still could, for me, 5-ish to 6-ish was early, but I don't find it crazy. I wouldn't eat at all before running, just drop out of bed and onto the running track and wake up there. But I can run perfectly fine on an empty stomach and am normally not a morning eater. On…

What exactly do You mean by Background Calories?

I generally agree. I 'pushed through' pain for a year with running and ended up with degenerative hamstring tendonitis: tears in the hamstring tendons that made me unable to run for ... You won't believe it, a year. Well I can now again, but if I do it longer than10-20 minutes, there is one hamstring muscle that cramps up…

Sorry for not posting the same right away. Awesome progress. Keep going.

I must admit that I've done the 30 day shred (and more, real rope jumping and some other moves worked in) now for about 2 months and have no 'results' like that. No measurement changed: hip, waist circumference, thighs, arms etc have not really changed at all; weight has gone up and down again. My endurance is back up to…