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You can work out as hard as you want but if you are eating more calories than you are burning you will gain weight. If you are eating the same amount of calories you are burning you will stay the same weight.

Thank you so much for asking this! This exact question has been bugging me for a long time and you phrased it much more eloquently than I could. It's also nice to know that some runners' long runs ARE actually more than 20-30% MPW.

Not just thinking. I'm DOING! Officially registered yesterday and bought my tickets. I'm working Hal Higdon's Marathon Novice 1 program and have 12 weeks left. My longest run so far has been 12 miles which I've done twice. I'm running only 20-25 miles per week which is not awesome. I know. Really, I'm fully prepared to…

I would suggest you eat more protein as that is what has worked for me. Load up on protein at lunch and then when you feel the need to start eating calorie dense, nutritionally void food, eat more protein! Seriously. It's a miracle.

Hi there! I hope you are doing good so far! My quit date was yesterday! I went one whole day with no cigs and am on my 2nd day! I am using the patch though, so not quite sure how that is going to go! This is my millionth time quitting but this time feels different! We can do this!

It's not OK to eat junk air.

So, do you lose the 2 pounds while your sneakers are still on or after you take them off?

Processed air is NOT OKAY. Neither is the air that comes in donuts.

...um...thank you? There are a lot of exclamation points in this...

Thanks so much everyone! I never would have guessed that mixing up distances would have any benefit but it makes sense!

Can I get a bowl and fill it up full of air and then eat it? I would feel weird with a spoon and no bowl.... [/quote] Of course. I assumed the bowl was implied.

You get a scoop of air and put it in your mouth.

Well, that's just at first.

Well...first you get a spoon...

Are you entirely serious?

Thank you! Some validation! Geez! :laugh: My friend and I were talking about all the snake oil weight loss products there are out there and this just popped into my mind and I had to share it with you guys. Now, everyone tell me I'm witty :bigsmile:

...I guess it wasn't as funny as I thought it was... :embarassed:

I weighed more than my husband (6'4" 220) for a long time. Now, he's got about 30 pounds on me which I have to say, does make me feel awesome. Stupid societal expectations. Oh well.

Bob Harper's Skinny Rules are the stuff yo-yo dieting is made of.

I guess I get kind of fired up about it because I can't tell you how many times I tried to lose weight by following complicated and contradictory "rules" and thinking I had to follow those rules to the letter otherwise I wouldn't lose weight. Well, I couldn't follow the rules so I just gave up. It was a real ah-ha moment…

Yup. One rule. Eat less than you burn. If you find these other "rules" help you do that, more power to you! One thing I have never understood. WHY do people think that quitting diet coke will have any impact on their weight loss. It has zero calories in it. (I HATE artificial sweeteners of all kinds so I'm not like a diet…

Hi! Welcome! You are definitely going to find that MFP helps! My starting weight was very close to yours! All you have to do to "start" is eat less calories than you burn. You don't have to make time for anything or feel like you need to completely overhaul your diet. You can eat the exact same things as you are currently…

Great point! just this morning I had someone pass me on the road and didn't smile or say anything and I like that WAY less than I like a "good job!" I suppose I would prefer someone to make a non-performance related comment like "good morning" or "great day for a run", etc.

I'm registered for my first half the end of July! I'm up to a 12 mile long run too! So yes, remembering that I CAN actually run fairly extraordinary distances (to non-runners) is important! I'm just so new to running and pretty insecure about it. Mostly just because my body does not look like a "runners body" so I ASSUME…

Ok, actually, I DO take a little offense to the faster runners saying stuff to me as the pass me like "doing good" or "keep going". I ALSO take full responsibility for my feelings and know that they in NO WAY mean "it's a miracle you can even run a mile you fat *kitten*! You CAN finish this 5K without kicking the bucket if…

Thank you all so much for the words of encouragement! I am right about at 20 MPW and have noticed minor speed gains, but I have only been at 20 MPW for a few weeks! Actually, I ran a 10K PR a couple weeks ago (not in a race, just a training run) and shaved about 3 minutes off. I looked at the 10K race results and it looks…

I need to do some more research on how to effectively use it. It feels like it's more of a workout than a massage! My husband said the other day when I was doing my hips "are you almost done humping that thing?" It cracked me up but it's kind of true. It looks like you are doing something naughty on the floor. I have…

I'm sure there have been a ton, either real or imaginary but two situations stick out in my mind. One Christmas at my in-laws my mother-in-law was talking about how eating off small plates leads to eating less leads to weight loss, etc. Later that afternoon while setting the table for Christmas dinner I was sitting in the…

Hi there fellow runners! I'm Jessie and am fairly new to running. I started down my weight loss path a little over a year ago. In doing so, I thought I'd give running a try. Before I "started running" I had run a few 5Ks but generally really struggled with it and hated it. Somehow something clicked in me that "whoa. This…

I couldn't have written my own experience any better than you did. I'm literally going through the exact same thing right now. I just posted about it the other day. I don't have an answer. A lot of people will tell you "well, you just don't want it bad enough" and yes, I think in my situation that is true. I don't want the…