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I am 5'5.5" and over the past 5 years, my weight has ranged between about 115 and 130 lbs. I feel most comfortable at maybe just over 120 lbs, but I have small bones (small wrists). I start to look haggard if my weight drops below about 118. I am about a size 4, but a 2 in some vanity sizing and a 6 in JCrew coats because…

I had it a few years ago, and it randomly cropped up again a few weeks ago. I just bought a boot on Amazon to wear since I lost my old one (if you search plantar fasciitis boot on Amazon, you will see what I mean). The idea is that you want the plantar fascia to heal fully extended, not scrunched up so that it is more…

I had bacon and eggs today, and do this when I have time. No grains for me, and I avoid low fat foods. Tomorrow I plan on a pumpkin smoothie (1/2 cup of canned pumpkin, little less than 1/2 cup organic no sugar coconut milk, 1/2 banana, some vanilla, gelatin, cinnamon, cloves, and stevia). I do eat Greek yogurt when I am…

I have visited Perth, Darwin, Uluru, and Carnes. I would move there in a heartbeat if I could!

You might get the same effect from coffee, which at least has some positive reviews with respect to health. And caffeine does indeed help with both the perception of effort and the body's ability to burn fat for fuel (which avoids glycogen depletion bonks). Not sure how far you are running though.

I was a pescatarian (ate fish but no chicken or red meat) for 22 years. I read The Perfect Health Diet, which convinced me to eat meat. I also decided that big agro-business likely was supported by what I ate. So if I ate corn and soy products that are used to cheaply feed cows that suffer because this is not part of their…

I eat the Fage 2 per cent and mix it with some Stevia and frozen raspberries. I would eat full fat but can never find it anymore (I try very hard for real, whole food and to make sure I get enough fat to absorb essential micronutrients/avoid excess sugars). The creaminess of the yogurt with some fat really improves it. I…

I did apply myself, and go to college and then law school. I stayed thin. One can do these things, but still have regrets. I would go back to high school and tell myself to love myself more, and to stand up for myself and not let people who who are negative diminish me. I would tell my high school self to worry more about…

Most runners that train for races will do some runs that are longer than race distance (unless it is a marathon) a few times a week, as well as speed work. Speed work means a workout where you do interval training of running harder than you normally would for a set distance (maybe 400 or 800 meters) and then walking or…

This is wonderful! Congratulations.

People are rated on here? I pretty much just log my food and exercise. Body hair on a woman is a bit unconventional. I like to think the right guy would be deeper than that, but I know I have things that seem shallow but are preferences. Like major gym rats with lots of muscles kind of scare me, and conversely, I am not…

I exercise regularly and cannot imagine subsisting on only 1200 or even 1400 calories a day. I agree that people often overestimate exercise though. Also, I see a difference between fueling my body for exercise, and nourishing my body outside of the exercise that I do. So the base foods in my diet are generally whole foods…

Coconut oil, coconut milk, MCT oil. I used to eat very low fat, but not any more. One needs fat to absorb some micronutrients. I would speculate that lack of dietary fat contributes to depression because my mood has improved so much since I added fat to my diet.

You might alternate train this week (elliptical, stationary bike, etc.) and see if it calms down. Ice and elevation through the week. If you can see a sports med doc, that is the best way to know what is going on. You can try compression socks for the race. I use them in half marathons because I run faster than my long…

Your weight also heavily influences calories burned. A 300 lb guy will burn lots more calories than me doing exactly the same exercise.

I burned that many calories on my stationary bike watching football today. I am a little crazy though (I stationary biked 46.6 miles because I injured myself, but need the endurance work for a half marathon I signed up to run). You can up your exercise quantity too rapidly and injure yourself or break down your immune…

It can happen. Usually, I have to run more than 9 miles or so to see blisters or bruising (usually blood blisters under my toenails from running downhill that makes it look purple under my toenail). After a marathon and sometimes a half marathon, my feet will look pretty beat up. But I run on my forefoot, and my foot…

I bought a door pull up bar. So I could try frequently, and initially had to jump up quite a bit, and would focus on the reverse, as well as holding the "arm hang" (in grade school, girls did the arm hang instead of pull ups as part of a fitness test).. It is ridiculous, but I also just hang and swing since it is easy to…

Oops! I meant to recommend 6 to 8 miles!

If 10 was your longest, and you have not done more than that recently, Within two weeks of a race, you should be in your taper. So you should NOT run a long run that feels like a challenging distance. You want your body to recover and rebuild from your training. Mentally, it might help to know that you can get closer to…