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I'm eating a little dish of coconut meat right now. I have a small bowl of chunks, like a small soup bowl, or a large mug. It couldn't be more than a small coconut. It weighs .61 lbs., which means it's approximately 1,000 calories. It is just a giant nut, even though I often think of it like a fruit, and if I ate a mug…

Some women do get bulky with heavy weights, but it doesn't happen overnight and you can always adjust your weights before it becomes a problem. Lifting 100 lbs. isn't going to make that happen, maybe lifting twice your body weight for months, but it takes a lot of time and effort to build muscle mass. Serious bodybuilders…

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I started running again a month ago. I thought since I did it so much when I was younger I'd pick it up again easily. NO! I was wheezing and out of breath in under 5 minutes at a jogging pace. Ouch! My ego! Well, I decided to keep at it & not miss a day, no matter what (heck if I can't find 5 minutes in a day, right? lol)…

What does P90X of yoga mean? Does that just mean the schedule, or is it some kind of "yoga confusion" revelation? I know this sounds snotty, but it's actually a real question. I didn't get hot yoga at first either, but I love it now that I understand it. Is this something new like hot yoga?

I tried to work myself up to heavy squats as soon as possible. It makes such a difference in your body shape from your core to your feet, and I don't know about everyone else, but I do 5 sets of squats & deadlifts alternating and I am sweating like I did cardio by the end. I also started pushups as soon as possible, but my…

Fat absolutely cannot be converted to muscle. They are completely different, in the same way that butter cannot be converted into beef. You can burn fat, and you can build muscle, but you can also lose fat without building muscle, or build muscle without losing fat. One cannot be turned into the other. You can only lose…

No, I think it just adds your exercise calories burned back so you know what you would need to maintain your weight. I don't pay attention to that part, I just look at the line that tracks my calories consumed. Honestly a random computer program can only give you so much accurate information about your metabolism anyway. I…

I've always wondered about this too. Did you know they sell shoes specifically for weight lifting? They look like 1970's style sneakers, but they are expensive. I've had Chuck Taylors recommended to me, so I bought some PF Flyers from 6pm.com for $20. They seem to do the job, but I honestly just end up wearing my running…

First off, ALL vegetables are good for you, you just have to prepare them in a healthy way. Maybe you could get one of those cookbooks that are written for parents trying to sneak healthy vegetables into their kids foods. Jerry Seinfeld's wife wrote one that was supposed to have really good recipes, but I don't remember…

That might actually work in China. They believe some crazy things about the powers of odd animal parts in that area of the world.

I used to take it and never had side effects. I just added the serving size listed on the bottle to my morning protein shake, and never increased it. I never really felt anything from it, but decided to switch to using the Alive! brand whole food shakes instead, or the Vitacost / Vitamin Shoppe knockoff version, because…

Lucerne, Hood & Friendship are brands that I know of with a no salt added version, and found in mainstream grocery stores. It isn't as delicious, but I can't feel good about eating 1/3 of my daily sodium content in one tiny, snack-sized portion of cottage cheese. I typically use cottage cheese as a veggie dip. I mix a salt…

I just read an article about this recently. I also noticed that every time I needed to lose weight, for the first 2 or 3 months of running I seemed to stay exactly the same and then suddenly the fat just started melting off. The article I read stated that at first your body will burn the fat that is suffocating your…