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I'm not vegan, but I try to eat 80% plant and 20% animal (mostly dairy with occasional fish and seafood). TVP and Seitan are your friends! They are both really cheap sources of vegan protein, that you can do amazing things with. I recommend googling The Post Punk Kitchen for lots of recipe ideas. This week alone I made a…

You look fantastic! Thanks for sharing!

Here is a useful resource: https://isitveganjapan.com/ If you aren't attached to veganism for ethical reasons, per se, you might consider eating fish. It's an excellent source of lean protein, and basically in everything in Japan.

Perhaps once we start seeing the amount of added (versus naturally occurring) sugar in these foods, we'll start demanding that less sugar be added. American packaged food is pretty sweet; when I compare it to the things I buy in German grocery stores, it's pretty amazing.

Lettuce, cucumber, radishes, tomatoes, bell peppers, whatever you put in a salad, have calories. I weigh everything. Figure you make a salad once, weigh everything, and then use that as a benchmark for every time you have a salad. Plus if you're trying to track your grams of carb and fiber, you'd want to log specific…

The Limited is a good jumping off point--cheaper than Banana Republic, and they usually stock all of their styles up to size 14.

I really love this one!

I'm in Germany.

Here's a pretty good one of my chest piece, and some awesome cake.

My rib cage has almost the same circumference as my hips. My rib cage is huge! Makes buying dresses and tailored garments really challenging.

Unfortunately, deli meat is pretty much the same, whether it's pre-packaged or sliced off at the counter. Boar's Head makes a low sodium turkey breast; if you're grocery store carries a different brand, ask the folks at the counter if there's a low sodium or no sodium option. It's a bit more expensive, but Whole Foods also…

It's a CR1632. I know that because I replaced mine today! At least the one in the watch unit itself. If you're replacing the battery in the transmitter (attached to your chest strap) then it's the 2025. Both should be readily available at Best Buy or on Amazon.

I'd just add that Beachbody has a free 30 day trial for their on demand video library (P90X, P90X2, P90X3, Insanity, Brazilian Butt Lift, PiYo, and many others). I'm one week into my free trial and so far really enjoying it. Not sure if I'll subscribe when I'm done, but even if I did for another two months it would still…

Guess everybody's just too busy exercising to comment :p

I am a lifter more so than I'm a runner, at least in terms of knowledge and experience. But I can't imagine that DL is anything but useful to a runner. It conditions the posterior chain, strengthens hammys and back, and is one of the magical lifts that hits practically every major muscle group all at once. I find DL very…

I turned 40 this year, and I've probably never been more active. When I was in my 30s I trained more intensely--Oly lifting, Crossfit, etc. But I was constantly injured and not really achieving my body composition goals. So now I'm not as intense, but I do more and more often (cardio, lift twice a week, am doing the 100…

I use a Garmin 910T, but I try not to look at it too obsessively while I'm running! Ha ha ha. I have it set up to auto-lap at 1 mile, so I can see my pace for that mile easily, and then I have a distance alert set up for every 5K. But even when I do look at my pace regularly, and see that I'm going too fast, my efforts at…

I have only run 10Ks as training runs, but I always run a negative split--with my second 5K as much as a minute faster than my first 5K. Maybe that's unusual?

Hills would be great if there were any here! I live in flat, flat Florida. But I will definitely give the slower paced music suggestion a try. I definitely know that I get particularly amped up when a high energy song I love comes on. So perhaps I'll feel mellower and take it easier if a more down tempo song is playing.…

I'm also in Florida and I hate the onset of humidity! Starting my weekend runs is almost too late in the day, weather- and sun-wise. Hopefully we'll acclimate. But I agree, open water swimming might make a decent replacement for running.

I hope you ran for the hills, ran for your life...

By and large I've had very good experiences with Garmin (first the 210 and now the 910T). I can't really explain how it happened--perhaps because I didn't do a full reset between the bike and the run, but only changed activities? Oh well, I hope it doesn't happen again!

Even if you did more plyometric and isometric exercises, that use gravity and your bodyweight instead of weight machines, you would probably see results. Bodyweight squats, lunges, step ups, box jumps, pistons, those kinds of things. I believe there are plenty of online resources for how to get results without access to…

I'm 40 years old, 5'4.5" Stats are as follows: SW: 200 CW: 169 BF %: 29.5 Chest: 39" Waist: 34" Hips: 38" I had originally set my goal at 160, but I've lowered it to 155 and will reassess when I get there. It's hard for me to imagine getting down to 145, or some of the even lower weights many of you have mentioned. Maybe…

I think the McMillan calculator is a really cool tool. Of course I'm not entirely convinced that I'll ever be as fast as I'd like to be, but that part obviously has more to do with me than the calculator!

What is McMillan?

I have been running 2 5Ks per week (as training runs) with the goal of getting my 5K time under 30 minutes. Yesterday I finally achieved my goal and completed a 5K training run in 29:20. I'd like to be able to consistently complete 5K under 30, and I'd also like to bring my 10K time down to 60 minutes (currently my 10K PR…

I've been working out with a trainer 2-3 x week for the past 14 months. Some of the best money I spend. I just show up and he tells me what to do, and I get a great workout without injuring myself or getting bored. It's gotten to the point where I literally can't imagine going to the gym to work out just on my own! I'm…

I just turned 40 and am child-free as well. Funny, with everybody having kids later and later in life, I never really felt any pressure from others in my 30s. It's only now that I've really been feeling it (co-workers/dates/neighbors asking why I never had them, etc). Never wanted them, and now I'm physically not able to…

It's not a universal rule, but it does seem like men lose weight easier/faster.