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Health issues aside, this sounds like the most miserable diet ever.

Oh please. If this is about informing people that brown rice is no better than white, then I have news for you- 1g fiber > 0g fiber, therefore brown rice is better than white. Now stop hijacking a perfectly good thread.

Calm down. Nobody in this thread is telling you to do anything. In fact, the consensus leans strongly towards "eat whatever but you don't NEED carbs. "

Yes, it can. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluconeogenesis

Carbs are not essential, nor are they "really important." From a pure weight loss perspective, the most important thing is calories consumed, not macronutrient ratio. Having said that, carbs are extremely fun to eat, and for that reason alone I would not recommend cutting them out of your diet. (Assuming there is no…

Make sure you visit the essentials- Arby's, Burger King, and Subway. Avoid McDonalds and KFC like the plague. Also, if you need sightseeing places, there is a Seven-11 on the corner of 6th and lex, and a newsstand in Grand Central station that you should definitely check out.

And before you talk about price, how's about this list for ya: Gray's Papaya Absolutely any pizza place on the lower east side/Brooklyn Eataly Momofuku noodle bar Absolutely any chinese restaurant in Chinatown Katz's GREAT. Now I'm hungry for ramen and a hot dog.

I, like many others, find it hilarious that you went to NYC (arguably the restaurant capitol of the universe) and chose to eat at crappy restaurants that are prolific all over the world (Fail #1) and then post about said high caloric, nutritionally void meals on a fitness/diet website (Fail #2).

The name of the toxicologist quoted in this internet article is Dr. Huxtable. I smell another govt. conspiracy here, backed by the powerful Jello pudding pop lobby.

Did you just TL;DR yourself?!

To be fair and from a totally unbiased perspective, the recumbent bike is probably the most useless piece of equipment in the gym.

Yes, so basically you're regurgitating the first thing you read/hear on the internet, even if it makes absolutely no sense at all. Think about how it's possible for something to me more than 100% of anything. I'll give you a hint- it's not.

n-6 to n-3 ratio gets blown out of the water if all you consume are plant lipids. That's not a good thing. As far as things you've said that are incorrect or woefully outdated... where do I start? How about an easy one first- olive oil is 149% fat. Think about it.

Look up whole coconut in the database. It's in there.

This looks awesome.

I don't think you need to be killing the swim days. Ideally, if you could do 5 days a week with a long run, intervals, tempo, and 2 recovery runs, then you could swim on the other two days.

Nope, as long as you can handle it, you can run 5, 6, or 7 times a week if you want. Just listen to your body for signs of over training, it knows best. For the long run, you are doing them right already. Nice and easy. You can pretty much think of any run that isn't a speed workout as an easy pace run.

I should add... the first thing you really should do is build up your base. You seem to be running around 15 miles a week. Obviously everybody is different, but IMO that's not enough to sustain 3 quality workouts. (Tempo, Interval, Long). I would replace the interval workout with another easy recovery run until you build…

Your tempo run should be something like a 10 minute warm up, 20 minutes @ tempo pace (start with 30s slower than race pace), 10 minute cool down. Also, using the 10% rule, get your long run up to 13-15 miles. Replace your HIIT day with a more structured interval track workout- a simple one to start with is 3x400 (run 400m…

Not necessary. Just eat normally the day before, eat whatever you would for a normal run the morning of, and don't go out too fast.

I <3 this poster.

This thread creeps me the F out.

Totally agree. Love your sig, BTW.

Yes!

Exactly. Do your own research, and your own experimentation, and let your dollars do the talking.

As of now, I'm running 30-35 miles a week, but keeping it steady there. Due to the weather of where I live, there are no marathons I can participate in until late fall, but I like to keep that amount of base throughout the year.

Because the vast majority of "experts" select shoes based on a checklist criteria that is invalid for preventing injury. In my own anecdotal experience, I've always been fitted for high stability or motion control shoes and then sold inserts. My knee and ankle pains didn't go away until I went to racing flats (which…

Go to a running store that has employees that are open minded, and more importantly, one that has a good return policy. Let the employee fit you as far as actual fit goes, but ask to see several different neutral and stability options, without letting them check your gait or your arches. Try them on and run in them around…