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Damn, Carson, well said! Enjoy the journey. 75k races will still be there in a couple of years.

This is what you're supposed to do. They think it "builds community". I think it allows them to select for people who are just like them. Because if you're not, the old guy in the little shorts will ditch you somehow.

You're overthinking this, but I'm wondering if this is some kind of myth bikers are passing around? A few months ago, I ran a bit with a cyclist and she got mad at me for eating a granola bar while running at the same time, like I was going to choke or something. Then she was all, "Don't blame me when you're puking - I…

No, you run and eat at the same time. But they used to do marathons with no calories and no water even, back in the olden days! Or they'd take in calories in the form of flat coca cola (still good).

So, having tried a number of recipes, here's what I have to say..... They are damned good. Every recipe I make and I am impressed. These people know what they are doing. Do they ever know what they are doing. 1. Deeeeeeelicious! Yum yum yum yum yum! The whole family has loved everything I've made out of this cookbook. 2.…

OMG - LOVE LOVE LOVE Feed Zone Portables! I have made a handful of recipes out of this and they are pretty awesome and delicious and they "stay together" in my pack. YUM! I have some of the black bean mole pies in my freezer. The kids like to take them for field hockey as well. I can't stand gels. Cannot. You absolutely…

LOL! Well, what I have to say is that all the women I know say that modest use of electrolytes (like, one tab of Nuun during a marathon distance run) has made an enormous difference for them. And the women I run with get all swelly in the heat.... our fingers swell like sausages while the guys just don't. But the OP seems…

The exception being that a good chunk of the research Noakes relies on has been done on men only, or on women and men but not appreciative of the fact that women have differences in fluid retention throughout the menstrual cycle (and some are on hormonal birth control). We don't know WHAT'S going on with women. You appear…

Just hit Starbucks on the way to the One Direction concert and you'll be fine. And while you're there, get a coffee for the kid that has feis - that sounds more exhausting than the half marathon. Live while you're young, baby.

Sounds about right to me - this is how you know your training is working. Power through it, PopTart.

There's a special pride in being DFL! But.... Not sure how much experience you have, but are you aware of the existence of sweepers? One of the standard things that happens at a trail race is a volunteer starts running the course after everyone has started, and makes sure nobody's limping along with a broken ankle. If…

I'm excited for you! That's awesome! I really hate these canned holidays. Hate 'em, and my husband doesn't like them either. Last year I got exactly what I wanted..... which was nothing! But then my kids were out front playing and saw all the neighbors having Mothers Day celebrations. Some neighbors asked them what they…

Yeah, you're probably right about that being an issue. Lately, I've been trying to multi-task ways to only have to go down the three flights of stairs once.

I live in New England. It snowed a couple of days ago. The produce is really bad. Horrible. None of it is fresh and it's all limp and gross. It'll improve a bit in a month, though.

And this is why a simple calories-in, calories-out model doesn't work. I don't THINK background activity is suffering? I don't have a lot of options when it comes to my background activity. With a job that takes ~60 hours per week and two kids..... there is not too much background!

I guess it could be? I had PCOS in my early 20s (I'm 38 now), but it went away completely when I started running and cut back drastically on the sugar. It's gone and nobody knows it. My PCP is amazing and great with athletes - when I got bloodwork done last year he took me through it and knew exactly what was going on. My…

I need to go on the Mexico diet too! I'm not on a super low cal diet at this point, nothing like 900 or 1200. About 1700 most days? I have myself set to 1390 net. I'll be falling off the wagon later this month. I'm having a wisdom tooth removed next week, and will then be going on the ice cream, vicodin, and no exercise…

So are you hungry all the time? That's what I'm wondering. When I finish lunch or dinner, I'm just as hungry as when I started eating. When I go to bed..... I'm sad..... I'm so hungry. The week before a race, I'll eat until I'm not hungry - which isn't all that much more than what I'm eating pulling a defiicit..... maybe…

I don't think that's it, Dave. I'm pulling a HUGE deficit on long run days. Huge.

saskie - it sounds like it. I'm 5'2" and 123. I'm set to 1390 calories - maintenance should also be around 1600 for me. I've gone over on my post-long run rest day. But I rarely go over 1390 on non-rest days. I'm going to give this another month and then I think I might up it to 1600 for a few months just to see what…

Well, I started on here at MFP to see if I was making some big mistakes with my diet. Like, is there SOMETHING I'm eating way too much of? That I don't appreciate how many calories are in it? Because eating till I basically wasn't hungry anymore was causing me to gain weight. Slowly, but I was gaining weight. Maybe I'll…

Yeah, this is kind of how I feel as well. I'm wondering if I was putting on pounds during my ultra training, in the first place, because I wasn't eating properly / enough / at the right times. I didn't put on a lot of weight and it came on very slowly - 12 or 15 lbs over three and a half years, and to be fair, maybe some…

Oh my, yes, this!

Congratulations on your recovery, Ashley! As others have said, ask your doctor. I've been underweight before, but not from eating disorders. I really don't feel as good when I'm underweight. So, hit 115 and see how you feel. I have a lot more energy and stamina when I'm not underweight, and my mood tends to be a LOT more…

Heck yes, you were fitted incorrectly! "Professional Fitting" is a bunch of BS. There's only one person that can fit you for shoes, and that is YOU. Trust yourself next time. The nerves in your feet talk to your brain, not to the brain of the "professional". These shoes are probably just a half size too small.…

This has been my experience, too. In my 20s, I had a "working group" of maybe six people that I would see for three days at a time, and we'd work on a project together. We stayed together 24/7, ate together, slept in the same house. Then see each other again four months later for the same thing. About half of them were…

skazen21! Try this cookbook! She "hides" vegetables in different familiar dishes. http://www.amazon.com/Deceptively-Delicious-Simple-Secrets-Eating/dp/006176793X

This, precisely. If you're going on a 10 day crash diet of just fruits and veggies, you're going to burn through your glycogen (6-8lbs) and maybe lose a pound of fat? You're body is just going to think you got sick for 10 days. Then when you start eating normally, you're going to replace the glycogen. All the weight will…

Ooh - this would work great for milk boxes! I'd be worried about the starbucks containers exploding though.

Check out the Adventist Health Studies! http://www.llu.edu/public-health/health/index.page This is a large cohort study on Seventh Day Adventists in the US and Canada. So, people that have similar access to food as you do, more or less. Some Adventists go vegetarian as a spiritual practice. The vegetarians tend to have…