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My point was that anything can make you feel hungry. Exercising may make you feel "hungry", but does it really have anything to do with the fact that your body is really in need of calorie intake?

I get hungry when I'm bored. I get hungry when I think I should be eating a meal. I get hungry when in the car for a long time. I get hungry thinking about food. Our body's need for food has nothing to do with being "hungry".

First, are your bad knees and back the result of physical damage to your joints/muscles? If they are, see a doctor. If not, then walk. And Lots of it. And get a good pair of shoes. Go to a good running shop and get yourself fitted (even if you're just walking, a good pair of shoes makes all the difference). Once you've…

I would highly recommend Nike Free, but read up on them first and understand how to break in both the shoes and your body because they are a different kind of running shoe . My first pair of good pair of Nike Frees were mid-tops and were classified as cross-trainers. I thought I needed mid-tops because of my own ankle…

I have the Weider brand, which is about half the price of the bowflex and came with a free stand. Goes up to 50 lbs and I like them a lot. Although I do like them, I would prefer individual dumbbells, but a whole set of them takes up too much space for me.

A couple thoughts: 1, the body is more complicated that a simple machine where you can deduct 500 calories per day and lose exactly a pound a week. There are so many other factors and variables that go into your body such as food quantity, food type, water, exercise, stress that if you get into number crunching to that…

Yes, you will burn more calories with higher intensities. But to really confusing things the "fat burn" zone is actually less than 85% - it's 60-65% of your max. The body pulls its fuel from different places based on the intensity of your workout. For lower intensity workouts, the body will pull from fuel stored up - i.e.…

You HAVE to give yourself off days. If you don't you will go crazy and end up...just like you are - burned out from dieting. Number one, you can't think of it as dieting, you just have to think of it as a life change. You aren't a teenager any more and your body no longer has a high metabolism. I took both Saturday and…

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It's also more complicated than simply eating a certain number of calories, you should be eating a certain type of calories, especially if you are doing high intensity exercises. The more intense the exercise, the more careful you should be about what you put into your body before and after your workouts. If you expend 500…

The more you exercise, the more you need to fuel your body. That does not mean that you should be eating candy or wasteful foods because you have extra calories available! I try and refill my exercise calories by the power bar or clif bar that I eat prior to eating, and by eating something healthy and full of protien after…

Because cycling is not weight bearing, the per-hour calorie count will be lower, but you can stay in the fat burning zone longer, which means that your body is burning stored fat as fuel. One of the downfalls of calorie counting is...calorie counting. Rather than focusing on the exercise, you stare at the calorie counter…

Exercise calories are used to fuel the engine. If you are doing low intensity work, then you need less fuel, so you probably can get by with not including exercise calories. But if you are doing high-intensity exercises - (for me, that would be 600+ calories per hour), you will end up starving yourself if you don't…

Yer not crazy! Barefoot running is definately not a bad thing, if it works for you. If you do want a shoe, though, check out Nike Free running shoes which run about $85, but are hard to find in stores. Best running shoes in the world (in my humble opinion). They are designed to simulate barefoot running. Read up on them.…

This is normal. When you start up a workout on a muscle group, they will be sore for a day or two after. After you've been working those muscles for a while, you stop feeling the day after (or two day after) soreness. I don't know what the medical or physiological meaning is, but I can only report what my own experience…

If you're going to putting lots of miles on a teadmill, don't go cheap (which is different than affordable or inexpensive). Make sure that you get one designed for running and not walking. I personally like the ones that support iFit - it allows you to have customized programs for your treadmill as well as purchasing…

What are you doing for exercise, and are you getting your heart rate up high enough to burn calories? I'm not referring to anaerobic, but aerobic heart rate. A heart rate monitor is a really good tool to ensure that you are working hard enough. Sometimes the body simply needs a kick start to get the metabolism going. Or,…