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Or you could trust the actual science on this instead of reacting to the latest scare based on fear and scaremongering. https://thoughtscapism.com/2016/09/07/17-questions-about-glyphosate/ Specifically: https://thoughtscapism.com/2016/09/07/does-glyphosate-cause-cancer/ And the EWG overstates risks on chemicals and their…

I found the bolded to be true for me personally. My first 9 months of maintenance after losing 50 lbs were just maintenance for weight management. It got to be challenging mentally because there was no real goal beyond holding steady. Lifting and running goals over the years have given me something to aim for, and weight…

For reference, I've been at a slight calorie deficit the past several days, and I'm also up 3 full lbs. Water weight swings from training, weather, and sodium intake overwhelm any changes in weight in the short term. When I have have purposely cut or gained weight, it will takes weeks, and sometimes months, to really see…

I've been in "maintenance" for going on seven years at this point. Maintenance is never one number, it's always a range. It's helpful to target long term weight trends or a max/min to target to stay on track. Chasing after a moving number of small normal weight fluctuations is stressful and unhelpful. This is one year of…

Do this if you want to improve your 5k time. I made large improvements in my 5k time by training for a half marathon and another big improvement when I trained for a marathon. I ran more miles, ran them slower, and cut speed work during that time. Do this if you want to injure yourself.

When I visited Spain, I found the database to be somewhat wanting for products there for packaged products compared to the United States. I had to create half a dozen entries because those already in the database were either missing or wrong. The matches through the barcode scanner weren't any more accurate/correct than…

Are you trying to tell me that everything on the History channel isn't based on actual history?

I saw the preview photo with "soup conspiracy" and that stupid emoji and didn't even bother to watch what looked like some click bait video that would over complicate everything. For the soup I buy that has the servings in mL instead of grams which is annoying, I just weighed the can with water after I was done to figure…

At many of the trail races I do, they announce about being courteous and keeping one head phone out. In one race I did that had a lot of single track, some genius had both earphone in and must have had the earbuds that seal to the ear so you cannot hear. Despite two announcements he didn't acknowledge or move, so I…

I am still trying to wrap my head around this sentence :lol: The treadmill is torture is for me just watching the minutes/miles go by. The Fenix 5 is a very nice watch, but in terms of functionality you can get what you need from something like the Garmin Vivoactive 3 for half the price unless you need any of the extra…

Same here! I usually am looking up scenic or interesting trails to take and looking for Strava segments when I'm traveling. Looking back at my last few vacations, they were actually "runcations" where I was going to run a marathon or ultra and combined it with a vacation trip...

Exactly. With all that said, I actually do own a home currently. At the time in my area (~2009), the rents for an equivalent place were equal to the principal and interest on a mortgage given the low interest rates, and the bubble had burst to the point I felt comfortable buying without a significant risk of loss beyond…

So I recently was doing some budget tracking, and despite eating at home a vast majority of the time except for lunch at work, I spend $500-$600 a month on groceries for a family of me myself and I... I spend an additional $200/month on eating out for lunch at work. I eat around 3000 calories/day to maintain my 5'11", 150…

In CA, your property tax is not reassessed if you refinance. The buy vs. rent decision is really driven by how long you intend to stay and the rent vs. mortgage cost. Money tied up in a house is not as liquid, and there are significant costs associated with selling a home and insurance and maintenance that are not paid if…

I usually pre-log the fuel I bring and keep a mental tally for road races, or take a quick note/voice note/photo on my phone for ultras since the aid stations there tend to be more well stocked and I eat more during a long race like that. But I'm a bit OCD in my logging :lol:

Yesterday I totaled 400 calories of low calorie density vegetables, 975 including fruit, which is a pretty typical day for me. It all gets weighed and logged when I'm at home. When I'm out, I estimate. Weighing at home consistently keeps my eyes calibrated and prevents portion size inflation over time.

Even for regular trails runners it's pretty typical to power hike the uphills depending on how technical and steep the trail is and how big the hills are. Even during a race plenty of people are power hiking the steeper sections. More experience trail running will help based my experience, but for some trails that's just…

I put my cookie down so I can top it with ice cream.

And though using a food scale and logging can be a pain sometimes, it's remarkably effective if used properly and consistently.

Probably at this point. After a while it becomes a pretty ingrained habit.

When I had that nasty flu this past holiday, it took a solid month before my running HR was back to normal. That thing was no joke.

I've been logging everything since the start of 2011. It doesn't stop me from enjoying food, even to excess on occasion... It does let me "budget" what I'd like to spend my calories on and let me moderate my intake over the long term so I can have occasional splurge days without worrying.

For me, a savory snack like chips is quite enjoyable with a soda and I pretty often have a small one with my diet soda. That's not an unusual thing in our culture. I imagine there is quite a bit of association and "hedonic hunger" that drives the hunger hormones. If I choose not to eat something with it, I feel quite…

2500+ days of data logged but apparently I have nothing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

What are your thoughts on those who are making money off of selling you "documentaries" that distort and cherry pick facts to create a compelling story that tells you what you want to believe?

It's the kind of thing that would drive you to drink... if ethanol also wasn't a class 1 carcinogen

The recommendation is really going to depend on where she in terms of base building/mileage. A 5k is still predominantly an aerobic effort. At relatively low milage, the biggest gains in speed are going to come from more easy miles. The vast majority of beginner runners are at this point and so that becomes the sort of…

Yes, I did this once I reached my initial "maintenance", including further planned bulks and losses. It makes it easier to see how far under/over maintenance I am and what I should expect for weight loss/gains. Leaving it at maintenance and letting it go into the red for my bulk and seeing everything was okay and going as…

What stands out to me is how much more active people must have been back when these recommendations were written. I'm 5'10", 150 lbs, male in my mid 30's with a TDEE of ~3000 calories, but I also run 50 miles per week and bike for an hour a week to reach that. When I'm sedentary, I maintain at 2300 calories/day which is…