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Thanks for the link! That poor guy that always ends up being the image in ALL the articles about bulking the wrong way... I hadn't seen that article specifically. I had read that men should be at 10-12% before bulking, and so I had used this table…

You can't see your arteries anywhere on your body. They're located much deeper than your veins because they're bigger and carry more blood, so they need to be more protected.

I put your numbers into the calculator at shapesense (http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/calculators/heart-rate-based-calorie-burn-calculator.aspx) and it spat back 303. I think your HRM is broken.

545 sounds way too high for 30 minutes. That would be equivalent to running 6 minute miles, which if you're able to do that and still keep a HR under 170 you are in fan-freaking-tastic shape. Does your HRM have a chest strap, and is your information entered correctly?

650 actually sounds closer (general estimates are 40 calories per mile biking and 100 calories per mile running). Are you sure your heart rate monitor has all your correct information? Whenever I use my HRM and the machines are also picking up the signal (I also have a Polar) they come out pretty close to each other.

Thanks so much all! :-)

Woah, woah, woah. If you are 22% body fat at 146, you do NOT have another 20 pounds left on you to lose (at least not without sacrificing a lot of lean body mass in the process). 113.88 lbs lean body mass and 32.12lbs fat, about 19 of those essential (13% for women). Your goal of 18% is only a loss of 9-10 lbs.

No, not really. Your body is quite efficient at extracting water from anything you consume. And thanks, johnross1968, for reviving a year old thread *again* that I had hoped had finally been put to rest. Strong work.

You're right, it's completely a mental issue :-) The hard part for me, I think, is that because I teach yoga I can't exactly go hide under sweaters and pants until spring. I had thought about doing a slow bulk/recomp but I just want to see results instead of spinning my wheels. I go to Hawaii in September though, so I'm…

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Thanks, I just joined :-)

Wow, thanks for all the support and the, ah, entertainment. Curious to know if switching to Madcow is supposed to be time based or progression based? I like the idea of Wendler 5/3/1 for intermediate lifting but want to get my linear gains in first.

Well, bacteria don't "poo". They produce the protein precursor to aspartame. And you know what else is a waste product of single-celled organisms? Ethanol. So by your logic, every time you drink alcohol, you're drinking microbial "pee". Also, bacteria are used to "poo" lots of other useful things - antibiotics and insulin,…

Do the half and enjoy it and likely stay injury free, rather than attempting the full and being miserable and maybe re-injuring yourself. The full is as much a mental game as a physical game, and it doesn't sound like you're there yet. There will be other opportunities to have a better first marathon experience.

Once a pear, always a pear. I still have a 10-11" difference between my waist and my hips. It's just that after several years of yoga, running, weight lifting, and a calorie deficit, the numbers are 25-35 instead of 31-42. Lifting weights to define your upper body/shoulders can make a pear shape look more flattering.

Not a riddle. One, weight loss is rarely perfectly linear. Two, alcohol dehydrates you as your body moves fluids out to get rid of the byproducts of alcohol breakdown (why you constantly have to pee while drinking, and also one of the contributing factors to the hangover) so after you replace those fluids your weight goes…

Just an FYI, you can add friends and still keep your diary setting so that only you can see it.

You have a lower BMI than 93% of females aged 30-44 in your country. You have a lower BMI than 77% of females aged 30-44 in the world. Did you know? If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would remove 47,403,877 tonnes from the total weight of the world's population. You're most like someone from Ethiopia.

Vitamins are not amino acids.

Better get those quick - I would guess as soon as Disney gets wind of those, they're going to get a cease and desist for copyright infringement.

So if I drink a glass of water, and then eat a crystal light packet or a scoop of protein powder or a bullion cube or a caffeine pill or a tea bag... Did I or did I not drink a glass of water?

140 for someone who's 5'6" is pretty reasonable or close to it. Sounds like you need to focus more on your body composition and less on dropping the number on the scale. Lifting weights would help.

Omega 3s were linked to an INCREASE in prostate cancer risk... http://www.cancer.org/cancer/news/news/omega-3-fatty-acids-linked-to-increase-in-prostate-cancer-risk My good friend was the lead author on that study.

Viparita karani - Legs Up the Wall pose: http://www.yogajournal.com/basics/1140 5-10 minutes right before you get into bed.

Well, the post you responded to was referring to the US. But farmer suicide in India predates GMO crops. "Agriculture in India is often attributed as gambling with monsoons because of its almost exclusive dependency on precipitation from monsoons. The failure of these monsoons can lead to a series of droughts, lack of…

Patents have been issued on GM organisms since 1980. If you create something novel that doesn't exist in nature, then it is new patentable material.

There is no "Monsanto Protection Act" - that was a scare term created by opponents to GMOs. It doesn't grant anyone immunity either. In the event of a legal challenge regarding the safety of a previously approved GMO, it allows the USDA to grant a temporary status allowing farmers to continue to grow those crops while the…

Assuming a nice cheddar at 69 calories and 4.23 grams of protein per cubic inch... One cubic kilometer of cheese is 6.102 x 10^13 cubic inches, or 4.21 x 10^15 calories and 2.58 x 10^14 grams of protein. The moon is 2.19 x 10^10 cubic kilometers. Thus a cheddar cheese moon would be 9.22 x 10^25 calories and 5.65 x 10^24…

Foam rolling and icy hot also help.

diuretic (adjective) di . u. ret . ic - increasing the volume of the urine excreted Guess what happens if I drink 20oz of water...