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Illness = inflammation. Preventing illness = preventing inflammation (which translates to preventing heart disease). Same reason why people who see a dentist regularly also have lower incidences of heart disease, because gum disease is also inflammation.

Rule 18 makes rule 19 impossible.

I set it to 0.5%. I was told that when you have it set to 0%, you don't simulate the natural friction and push-off you would get on running on a flat surface outside. When you are running on ground, the ground stays still and you propel your body forward. When you run on a treadmill, the belt moves and you stay in the same…

Heather - it gets better.

Navy tape measure puts me at 24.7%, Omron handheld at 19.9%.

I typically only ask for a bench spotter on my last set. The first two I've always managed just fine solo (and yeah, I could do the roll-of-shame if I had an unexpected failure).

Huh. TIL. Though I'm pretty sure I'd rather use a rack for squats than ask some random guy in the weight room to spoon me...

I've only ever needed a spotter for bench press. How do you even spot someone on squats??

You can turn off the auto-posts about completed diaries if you still want to see the "If every day were like today you'd weigh X in five weeks" but don't want it on your feed every day.

Well, thanks! I hope there's like a crown or something.

Working sets: 75lb bench, 125lb squat, 135lb deadlift (PR'd the deadlift last week) Fastest: 8:21 mile, 27:24 5K Longest distance: half marathon (13.1 miles) 6 chin-ups, 3 pull-ups, 37 push-ups

Shrimp. 3oz shrimp = 84 calories and 18g protein, or 4.7cal/g.

There are at least 30 entries for "breastfeeding" in the database that give you more calories based on age/exclusivity or volume.

Well, I'm DONE. Did all 12 workouts (oof). Here's the final numbers: Squat: 110 (-) Incline Bench: 55-60 Cable Row: 70-75 Deadlift: 115-135 (PR!!) Lunge: 15 (-) Pushup: started on bench, finished on floor Romanian DL: 70-85lb DB Row: 15 (-) DB Squat: 20-25 Shoulder Press: 15 (-) Step-Ups: 15-25 Pulldown: 60-75 Looking…

Maybe you should ask the 50 million old timers who died in the 1918 spanish flu pandemic how they feel about flu shots. Oh wait...

Definitely less than an hour. Probably about 40-45 minutes.

Asparagus, peas, cabbage, cucumber, celery and okra are all "green" but pretty low in Vitamin K (which is the concern with clotting). http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/food/vitamin-k-foods.htm

Get the shot, or don't - I don't care. But I hate 'bad science' (in the public's perception, that is) and there is SO MUCH bad science perception surrounding flu vaccines. Yes, there is a very small minority of people who have allergic or other reactions to vaccines and cannot (and should not) get them - all the more…

The year that I had influenza, I had a fever of 103 and was on the couch in flannel pajamas, socks, slippers, a sweatshirt, a bathrobe, and two blankets and was STILL shivering like I was in a snowstorm. Every single inch of my body ached and I needed a nap after walking to the bathroom and back to the couch.

Conspiracy theories, I love it. What would be the possible benefit of a manufacturer making people sick with a flu shot? None.

I had influenza exactly once (and I didn't get a flu shot back then) and was pretty much death warmed over for 10 days. I've gotten the flu shot ever since, and I've never gotten influenza. I'd postulate that if one is confusing post-vaccination immune response with influenza, one has not actually ever experienced…

It gets a little easier after the first one or two, I think. Initially I had to lie down on the bench during my 30 second rests to catch my breath, and I had mad DOMS after 7.1 (but I also hadn't lifted at all in about 3 weeks). By the time I got to 7.3 I was doing much better.

Guess you didn't read the whole thread then. "Almond milk has almost no protein. And in this recipe it doesn't really matter anyways - it's like a 2 calorie difference per muffin. 1c unsweetened almond milk = 30 cals, 1g protein (1/4c = 7.5 cals, 0.25g protein divided among 10 muffins) 1c skim milk = 90 cals, 8g protein…

Exactly why I got mine the last week of August. Too many people think the shots gave them the flu (impossible, it's a dead virus) when a) they were probably already incubating the flu virus at the time of the shot or b) came down with a cold or some other virus and confused it with the flu.

Got it 6 weeks ago - more time for it to kick my immune system into gear before the actual flu season starts. So far two people on my floor have been out sick and I've been good.

I read her concern as 'increased testosterone due to weight lifting could exacerbate my condition since I already take medication to lower testosterone' rather than 'I'll get bulky due to weight lifting because I already have higher levels of testosterone'. I don't know enough about PCOS to know if that's the case though.

Just set to 1900 this week and not logging exercise cals (just logging it for time). Maintenance is somewhere around 1750 net so it should be a slight deficit. I tried the calorie numbers from NROLW for a little while (1930 on a rest day, 2170 on a lifting day) but that was a little too much for me.

If you don't want to use the base+exercise method, then set your calories to maintenance and let your exercise create your deficit. But this only works if you are consistent with your exercise.

The '220-age' for maximum HR is just a general average for the population; an individual can have a maxHR that is up to 30 beats higher or lower than their predicted value. So doing a maxHR test on a treadmill, while it sucks, provides valuable information. Also, a good HRM should account for vO2max, or your aerobic…

Yeah, nearly all the nutrition is in the yolk so they have to add it back in.