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I run in Skins and wear them for 24 hours after a long run (including sleeping) - Luckily I have 3 pairs :) They make a huge difference! I started doing it at the suggestion of a friend of mine who works in sports medicine. She does the same thing as she runs lots of hills. Without the skins, I would be really sore the…

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They probably wouldnt be dehydrated as sprite is not caffeine but if they logged it as water they would be missing counting the other additives (eg. Sugar) that Sprite contains.

Coffee dehydrates you. Water hydrates you. Therefore Coffee is not water. It may contain water (as does lettuce, tomatoes... infact, pretty much any food) but it is NOT water. Water is just that... water!

I get people asking me how I did it all the time and I tell them it's exercise and diet and yes, their eyes glaze over BUT worse still is when I see someone who is fat, sitting somewhere and forcing food down their mouths I just feel like saying to them that they don't need to be like that and that they can change who they…

Eat a banana about 20-30mins before you go out for a run for the energy. Make sure you are well hydrated and SLOW down. It's not about distance, it's just about getting it done at that stage. Speed will come later. Right now you just want to get to a point where you can run for the alotted minutes. Distance and speed are…

Usually I have a banana but this morning was a bacon sandwich. Whilst I dont recommend it because of the grease, I had a pretty good run :)

My goal is to get my BMI to a healthy level. I started off morbidly obese with a BMI of over 39 and am now down to 27.5 The idea is to get to a BMI of 25 and then have a good, hard, honest look at myself and re-evaluate. When I get to 25, it will be the first time I have been a healthy BMI since about age 10 and I am now…

I never went to a dr when I was obese. I would self medicate. I've iived in the UK for 11 years and I had not registered with a dr until about 6 weeks ago. At my heaviest I was 242.5lbs. One of the reasons I decided to lose weight was because I thought I was getting diabetes. It runs in my family so I know the symptoms…

A friend of mine who works in sports medicine and regularly runs 5k in under 24 mins told me her secret and it seems to work for me. She said don't worry about the the feet and what steps you take or anything like that. Her solution is 2 short breaths in through both the nose and the mouth and one long breath out. All you…

Height: 5'6 Age: 45 SW: 242 CW: 170 GW: 154 Goal is to get to a healthy BMI which for me is 154lbs. Once there I will re-evaluate. Clothes sizes: Trousers: Started at UK22-24 or US20-22 and now UK12 or US10 Tops: Started at UK22-24 or US20-22 and now UK14 or US12 Am still carrying weight on my stomach and thighs... and…

To the OP: You've already been given this advice a few times but I'm going to give it to you again because it is the best running advice you will ever get. 1. Find a proper running shop 2. Go and get a gait analysis done 3. Buy the shoes that are appropriate for your feet dependant on your gait. Lots of people will tell…

Up until I had lost 65lbs, I posted nothing about what I had been doing from a health perspective on facebook. Many of my friends live overseas so they had no clue. At 65lbs I made a comment that said something like "And now there is 25% less" - a few people worked out what that meant and I had lots of people asking me to…

Support is one thing but regardless of how much support and advice you have, the motivation has to come from you. None of us can motivate you to do something or give you the drive to succeed. The sooner you realise that, the sooner you might look at yourself and decide that it's something YOU want to do. Motivation comes…

In my 20's and very early 30's I would drink 7 nights a week and be smashed most nights. How many units? I really couldnt tell you but I guess most nights would have been 10+. The reason behind it was youth, freedom (from a catholic boarding school), a high pressure job where drinking was a "normal" form of relief, peer…

I hadn't see this when i did my last post. My Dad had type 2, was obese, lost his toes from gangrene and then his leg so I can relate. Honestly... do what I said in the last post. Constantly talk to him about your training, let him see what you are doing, get him as involved as you can so that he supports you, get him…

When I started running, my closest friend told me how concerned he was. He thought I was going to have a heart attack and was worried that I was pushing myself too much. I started out at 242lbs. I tried to tell him that I was doing it properly (I did c25k) and that it was more likely that I would have a heart attack or end…

WOW! Just WOW!!

See the number in the box below vvvvvvvvvv ... That's because of my fitbit One. Is it worth it? I'd say yes :)

Yep... I've had this one for the last couple of weeks. Makes falling asleep rather uncomfortable.

1. I can feel bones... I'm sure I didn't have any before! 2. I had to donate a whole pile of "fat" clothes to a charity shop. 3. My "new" jeans are falling down. 4. I put a belt on yesterday and it wrapped so far around that I ended up tucking the end into the belt loop at the back of my spine 5. The service station misses…

Victories: 1. Lost 70lbs 2. Can participate in things with my friends that I couldnt do before 3. Can buy clothes from normal clothes shops 4. Can run 5km 5. Actually fit into chairs and seats that were too squishy before Yet to achieve: 1. Lose another 20lbs before I reconsider my goals (get to a healthy BMI) - goal is…

Losing weight is 70% food intake and 30% exercise... just reduce your calorie intake appropriately and you will be okay.

I never understood or even wanted to understand nutrition. I used to enjoy sports when I was young but I ate whatever I wanted when I wanted and then was too fat to participate in any sport. That spiralled downwards unfortunately. My attitude was that life was too short to be not be happy and that eating what I wanted, not…

For the pedantic people out there... The ONLY exercise I did for about the first 50lbs of my weight loss was walking. I didn't actually cut my calories intake significantly. I did lots of walking and burned calories that way.... so to answer the OP's question, YES, walking counts as exercise.

What can i say? Umm... I lost most of my weight from walking. I think that pretty much says it all.

I guess that when I was obese I would cringe when people spoke about my weight. Now that I have lost a lb or 2 I still expect to feel the same way. I hated photos of me before and was rarely in any pictures. I'm still the same... hate photos. i hadnt told any of my fb friends what I was up to for 6 months. My closest…

Yeah... I updated my fb pic for the first time a week ago. It spawned 60+ comments. Most of those were positive about how well I was doing but it does get a little embarrassing. I suppose people need to realise I've changed (and so do I). They'll get used to it soon enough but the "coming out" is definitely a little…

Well done! You've done a fantastic job. I have people look at me and not comment but that's because they don't think it is me. Just last week one of my friend's neighbours told my friend that she had seen my sister and despite having never met my sister she knew we were related because we looked alike but apparently my…

filet steak (205 calories per 100 grams) or chicken breast (195 calories per 100 grams) with salad (no dressing) and beetroot (38 calories per 100g) Jaffa Cake bars - 94 calories bananas Mandarins Weight watchers frozen meals when i am in a hurry - from 197 calories Fun size Twix bars - 98 calores Weight watchers tomato…