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If you can get your hands on a good heart rate monitor (make sure it has a chest strap so that it can constantly monitor your heart rate), that can be a good tool for pacing yourself while doing your running. Try to stay within 70%-80% of your max heart rate (approximately 220 minus your age). Theoretically, that should…

In that case, just keep doing what you're doing, while maybe adding a little extra resistance with more weights or more bands, and you should continue to tone up. At your fitness level, change should be more gradual than with many other people, so don't get discouraged. Also, if it helps, remember that your heart rate…

According to what you posted, you are technically in the "healthy" BMI range according to the WHO. Therefore, the idea that you should be actively trying to shed pounds is somewhat questionable. Right now, your goal should be toning up rather than slimming down, and it sounds like you're doing well with that. I've noticed…

If you're trying to give up soda, but aren't quite ready for water, Light Hawaiian Punch is apparently ten calories a serving. (soda is roughly 100 calories). Minute Maid Light Lemonade is apparently even lower in calories. I've found both of them to be far better tasting than water or diet soda.

My best guess would be that there's simply too many variables to arrive at a reasonably accurate estimate. Skeletal muscles appear to use energy in a far less uniform way (from person to person) than cardiac muscles. However, every strength training exercise has a cardio aspect to it, so one could use a heart rate monitor…

I just list it as cardio. The heart rate monitor only measures calories used by the heart. So, even if it was a strength training exercise, the results of the cardio aspect of it is all you see showing up on the heart rate monitor. Just think of any energy used by your muscles as a bonus, but resign yourself to the fact…

My understanding is that the human body learns to do repeated tasks more efficiently over time. So, a workout routine that used to require 800 calories a month ago might require only 400 calories now. Perhaps you could up the calorie requirements by adding weights to your workout or varying what muscles you are using.…

This website has a BMR calculator to estimate how much energy your body uses performing basic life-support functions. Here's the link: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/tools/bmr-calculator If your calorie intake is lower than that number + 500, then you're going to lose weight no matter how much activity you do. So go ahead and…

Australia has very stringent censorship laws for video games, so games always arrive there a month or so late while they review its content and decide how to make it more appropriate for you, the tender-headed and impressionable consumer.