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I get this when I run long distances and drop my hands. When I fell my fingers start to swell, I hold my hands up and spread my fingers and the blood drains back out. I'd also suggest double checking your form. When you run your arms should be bent slightly more than 90 degrees but not so far that you pinch off the blood…
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I disagree that a calorie surplus is needed to gain muscle. I also disagree that you can't both lose weight and gain muscle at the same time. My own personal experience proves it. For the last 10 months I have been getting fit. With the help of MFP I've been running a 500 calorie/day deficit (1 pound/week loss). During…
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According to the DC Rainmaker (http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2010/11/how-calorie-measurement-works-on-garmin.html) [SFW], the FR60 is supposed to be using a heartrate-based algorithm to determine calories, and will fallback to the footpod if the HR strap isn't in use. Were you getting accurate HR data on your watch during…
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Caveat emptor.
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I would say lots of fresh fruit and veggies. Many fruits are highly portable, they are in their own packaging! I assume the posh pub has salad makings and some sort of chicken? Try a big salad with shredded chicken, walnuts, cranberries or other fruit, and minimal dressing. The water content in the salad will fill you up…
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Swim or Aqua-aerobics?
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As far as the mile long to-do list, here's what I do: pick 3 things that you will *commit* to getting done today. Then, ignore the rest of the list -- A trick is write the list out on a piece of paper, then tear the paper so that you only have the top 3 items and stash the rest of the paper somewhere out of sight. Now you…
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What's your weekly weight loss goal set at? It should be 1 - 1.5 pounds per week if you want to increase the chance of keeping it off. 5 pounds in 2 weeks -- 2.5 pounds/week -- is probably too much too fast. You'd have to run a calorie deficit of 1250 cal/day to lose at that rate. I would also encourage you to be even more…
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Do you have links? Or maybe can you tell us the reasoning behind it? Personally I don't believe it. Coffee is basically caffeine flavored water. Unless the caffeine somehow hinders weight loss, I don't see it.
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Good luck to you. I too had an eating disorder in high school that resulted in significant weight loss and significant weight gain in college so I know where you're coming from. I have two questions for you -- well, one question and one piece of advice. First, what is "a healthy amount of weight loss" for you? Your goal…
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No, your muscles won't shrink if your main forms of exercise are ones that use primarily your calf muscles. I can tell you from experience [my calf muscles are probably the size of a normal adult's thighs]. I would say you have a couple of options: First, make sure you are using full range of motion and work on improving…
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I use BSN Syntha-6, strawberry milkshake flavor, mainly because I like the taste. If you're a carb watcher, it's got 14g of carbs to 22g of protein per scoop. It has definitely seemed to make a difference for me in the last couple of months. It's primarily whey protein. Some people swear by soy protein, but I really don't…
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My personal opinion is that such an article is baloney. Like many of the breathless stories the media pushes on us, they ignore the difference between "correlation" and "causation". They give us only a headline-grabbing summary with no real facts, then are on to the next one. I've lived all over the country and outside the…
