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When you cut back on calories, you inevitably cut back on salt. The result is that you lose 5-7 lbs of water weight (your body needs to keep the ratio of salt to water constant). This is one reason that following a really bad diet day (i.e. eating a big bag of chips with Mexican food) you can "gain" 3 or 4 pounds. That's…
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Some years ago I read a book about a psychologist who led group therapy that included long distance running as part of the therapy. He theorized that long term exercise had a numbing effect on inhibitions and is mentally healing. He compared it to meditation that involves long term chanting.
