susannahsutton1

An HRM is designed for steady state where steady state is broadly between 90 and 150. So actually, it's as good as you are going to get. I am losing 2lb per week at the moment by tracking what I eat in terms of calories and doing HIIT (on treadmill, spinning class or cycling up and down big hills) which I measure using a…

Bags of baby leaf spinach is how I got my hubby onto veggies. You don't even need to cook them, just stir them into something you are cooking at the end, be it pasta sauce, soup, fish at the end of poaching so they just wilt. Raw, they perk up salads and sandwiches. Red pepper is also nice cooked or raw, I chop it up and…

I have some very light long wicking tanks from Nike that I find more comfortable than being without a top because they keep the sweat away from your body

You say heart rate doesn't affect calories burned and then say that there is a relationship... During exercise your muscles must burn calories to fuel their contractions. The conversion of calories from their stored nutrient state to the form that can be burned by your muscle cells is achieved, during aerobic exercise,…

I am in the UK and got my bras in Debenhams, I just happen to know that they are brands available in the US too In the UK the current Shock Absorber range is better than the Freya one

Please don't double bra, it causes damage to breast tissue and affects circulation I am a 34FF in the UK which is a 34H in the US and I have some great fitting sports bras from shock absorber and Freya active. The latter are under wired. They are like very full cupped real bras. Once fitted properly I can run in them and…

just on the C25K thing... if you do it based on time, you will find that you get lots better at running for 25 minutes. But you still might not get anywhere near 5K! It takes longer at the start, but try using the pattern (week 1 is 60 secs run, 90 secs walk if I remember) for as close to 5k as you can manage. That way as…

have something you can wear over both shoulders. I used to have a lovely bag (still love it) which I wore on one shoulder and got myself back pain. Counterproductive much?!

Girl Scout cookies make me cross. I'm British and knew about them from various US sitcoms, you know, cute little kids in uniform going round selling cookies. But I thought they were like here, which is when the Girl Scouts (or Brownies/Guides our side of the pond) bake them themselves and then sell them. OK, so they might…

PS re: buying used, you don't know what shape the brake pads are in, shifters, how much servicing it has or hasn't had. So if you do buy used, you need to have it properly serviced, so budget for that too. I just wouldn't buy used - even my husband who is a bike aficionado and can service/fix almost anything won't buy used…

how do I add in negative calories onto the exercise bit of the site? I think I burn 80 cals an hour doing nothing (I wore my HRM while doing nothing as a test!) so I tried to enter it as a custom exercise but it said I can only put in positive numbers. My HRM uploads automatically to MFP so I could always break that link…

I have a Jamis - the Ventura Race 2012 - and I love it. I was always a Specialized rider before. Basically a bike that fits well will make a massive difference vs whatever componentry is on it. I always buy my bikes new and test ride everything several times over. Sounds daft but if you have massive hands, the gear…

how much water are you drinking? drink more

See if there is somewhere round you that has a set of scales that includes body fat

were you the lady that put up the challenge to do 300 crunches? I did them and now am in a whole world of pain!! But you know I will still try to do this cos I can't resist a challenge... arrrggghhh

do you have a gym near you? Mine has an arm bike which works your heart rate like nobody's business. I can run on a treadmill for 30 mins, but 15 mins on the arm bike has me gasping for mercy. It's not even a flashy gym, just the local authority sports centre.

For the last 3 weeks I have been pressing 90kg/200lb on the leg press at my gym which judging by what I see other people do is high for a girl and I have lost 1 inch from each thigh already.

I used to like it but it used to feel more like a show with an ensemble of three presenters (albeit with some special hairstyles) and specific cool car stuff. Now it feels like just Jeremy with him getting lots more airtime and the other two plus the cars are just fading into the background. I thought that P45 segment was…

soup grapes low fat greek yoghurt low fat cream cheese wedges slimline tonic.... cos I ain't ever giving up gin!

boys lose more. They just do. It is unfair and they don't deserve it, but is the way of the world!! The only rules for a "right" workout are: burn more cals than doing nothing something you enjoy is balanced - so cardio/strength is really important so that your body can cash the cheques you want to write! Mix it up to work…

get yourself a running buddy, much harder to skip training then!

oh I eat pretty much all of them back at the moment and it's working, but once I get nearer my goal weight I will have to be more precise *sigh

anything by POLAR, get a second hand one from eBay. All you need is heart rate and calories burned, which even the most basic models do. My first one cost me about £15 from eBay I think.

My net goal is 1200 but I rarely eat that little and exercise. One week I created a bigger deficit because I'd had norovirus and didn't want to eat caused me all kinds of problems the following week because when I started exercising again my body and muscles were all underfuelled. What I love about MFP is I put in my food,…

Check your salt. If you do lots of exercise and eat healthily, you will be sweating which is a combo of salt and water, then drinking lots of water and probably not eating salt because it's not healthy. So far so good. Except, your body needs a certain level of salt to absorb the water. If you don't have enough salt in…

Yes I did it last year when I decided to run a half marathon because "how hard can it be." Actually not that hard, just BORING!!! I complemented it with one or two days of resistance training per week (body pump plus some personal training sessions that I won in my gym's raffle!) to make sure my muscles were in good…

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You are similar to me in that when I retired from the sport I loved and got fat, just looking better/losing weight wasn't enough to drive me to work hard in the gym, mainly because it takes ages to see benefit. So I decided to find a new form of exercise that I did like. I tried running, even did a half marathon.…

However much I weigh, and my weight has been much lower and higher than I am now, I remain a 34FF. But I had massive boobs from the age of about 12. If you have always had big boobs, chances are it is breast tissue that doesn't go anywhere. If your boobs grew with weight gain, is more likely to be fat and they will shrink.…

You won't go into starvation mode at that level of calories. You have to drop below 1000 or thereabouts