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I generally weigh before cooking, unless it's grilled chicken breast I pre-cooked. Then I just make sure to log it as "chicken breast grilled." Enjoy your new scale!

Garnet Street in San Diego, pronounced locally as "garNET." It's definitely named after the gem -- the parallel streets are Emerald, Diamond, Chalcedony, Tourmaline, etc... But also Felspar St, which I think is a misspelling of the mineral feldspar. It took me a week after moving here to understand when people said…

I'm also an 11mm marathon pace, and 16 miles was my personal demon up until 2 weeks ago. For 3 weeks I couldn't get to 16 because of illness and injury. Once I got up and over 16 and conquered 18 miles, I no longer feel like I need to do 20 on a long run. Still some people have a mental hurdle of 20-24 miles that they need…

This. Stores can return shoes to the vendor for cost credit. If your running store isn't letting you return the shoes, I'd be worried they're reselling them at regular price. Which would make me strongly reconsider buying from them at all. A little road dirt is one thing, but I wouldn't want to risk getting a shoe that…

OK here's my rant on RNR: As other people have said on this thread, RNR epitomizes the mega-race and everything that is wrong with new racing. I've done RNR Vegas twice and will be doing RNR San Diego this year. I'm not a huge fan of RNR. When you have 30,000+ runners you're bound to run into logistical issues, like…

Another vote here for Racing Weight! As a runner you have to fuel properly. 100 calorie cookie packs and Diet Coke aren't going to cut it. I also lost a lot of weight when I started running and maintained/lost a bit more while half marathon training, and it was very helpful for me to "cycle" my calories day to day. I was…

Haha!

My 2 year old, 22 lb terrier mix Mollie LOVES run-time. We run 3-4 miles together once a week and she loves it. She's a steady 9 min mile dog. More than 4 miles she gets tired and starts to trot and seek shade. Less than 2 miles just gets her excited. :) I try not to run her if it's over 70 out, since she's all black and…

This could be it. If you go hyperthermic you'll dehydrate more, and if you're also dealing with salt depletion more water won't help much. Maybe try a lighter outer layer, and cold towels on your head and neck, and see if that helps.

I don't mind the rain as long as it's not too windy, but I won't ever scrap a planned run for rain (maybe adjust the start time). This being San Diego, there's a good chance it will clear up in an hour, and an even better chance that the boardwalk and running paths will be super empty. San Diegans don't know how to do…

Completed: January 19 Carlsbad HM March 9 San Diego HM March 23 Hot Chocolate 15k (I had less than amazing times for all three of these races) Coming up the rest of the year: April 27 La Jolla HM June 22 Kona Marathon August 17 AFC HM (San Diego)* October 19 Nike Women's Half San Francisco *I'm not registered for AFC and…

These aren't really new for March 2014, I'm just getting around to writing out my overall 2014 goals. :) 1. Complete a marathon: Kona on June 22 is on calendar! Goal is 5 hours. 2. Stick to my training plan and stay injury-free through the increasing miles. 3. New HM PR (currently 2:13, would love to get below 2:10) 4. Run…

The calculators I've seen are based on g per kg of weight: 1.5 g of protein per kg of body weight. So if you're 275 lbs (~125 kg), you'd shoot for 187 g of protein daily.

I go meatless in the last 3-4 weeks before a big race as I do notice an energy boost in my longer runs (due to increased carbohydrates maybe?), and it tends to prevent weight gain during taper week and recovery week. However at the beginning of a training cycle, I take in a lot of lean meat as I do more strength training.…

This is basically what I did when I stopped losing after an initial 5 lb weight loss. I increased my cal intake from 1200 to 1500 average calories per day, cycled so some days were as high as 1800 and some as low as 1200, always totaling (around) 10,500 calories per week. I got to the 1500 average figure by taking into…

33 yrs old (when did THAT happen??); I've always been a gym-goer but didn't really get serious with lifting, intense workouts, and eating well until Aug 2011 and have dropped about 20 lbs total. I also took up running which has led to a complete lifestyle change. I was down to goal size (solid 6) but gained a little when…

For me, the key to losing the last 5-8 pounds (always a challenge, and I put it back on when I stop paying attention to food intake) is to cut out processed foods and foods I know I react to. For me, this is grain carbohydrates like rice and wheat; alcohol; sugar; and dairy. I've had good luck with a jump-start-last-5-lbs…

Can't I just buy a shirt with the muscles built in?

HA! I spent a girls' weekend with a (super fit) girl where I bought all the food -- all veggies, fruit, lean meats, juices, and a ton of booze and diet mixers. 2 days in she bought a Coke because she said she felt her body "needed some real, natural sugar." Excuse me what? You mean other than the fruit and juice? A Coke,…

Calories are calories as far as I'm concerned, I stop eating when I'm done and I keep eating if I'm hungry or craving. Especially if there's bacon or chocolate involved. Or wine. Oh let's be real anything delicious. I will cop to logging food eaten after midnight as "tomorrow" though.

The converter someone posted earlier is really great: http://www.hillrunner.com/training/tmillchart.php I just started running in August of 2011, and I was a steady 5.3 mph or 11:40 min mile for about a year and that was fine for me. My goals changed, I wanted to get faster, and I incorporated some speed work (intervals)…

Honestly I get the time and money arguments. The timing isn't always right to make a huge lifestyle change (whether it be fitness, moving, job related, etc). It really only bothers me when I KNOW the person does have both time and money, e.g. they're complaining about their weight 2 hours into happy hour. But really it…

I love this! "Wah. Healthy food is grrroooooosssss and bacon cheeseburgers are so delicious!" You know what is else is delicious? Cocaine (probably), but we don't do that because it's poison. My other favorite: "I need to lose weight before I can start going to the gym." Because there are no overweight people at the gym.…

I'm back today after a long hiatus and some weight gain too. You can do this. I think we fall off the wagon when we're trying to use willpower to fight habits (or if they're deep enough, our nature) -- we make progress when it's not about willpower anymore, but when the desire to be healthier is more important than…

3/24 Hot Chocolate 15k San Diego 4/7 Carlsbad 5000 4/28 La Jolla half marathon 5/19 maybe a local charity 5k 7/19-7/20 Ragnar (I'm hoping -- my slacker team hasn't registered yet!!) 8/18 America's Finest City half marathon 10/13 - Nike Women's Half Marathon San Francisco 11/17 - Rock n Roll half marathon Las Vegas Whoo…

I'd love to join. Hawaiian vacation in 4 weeks and I've put on 10 lbs of the 25 I lost by this time last year, all because of my eating. I'd love the extra motivation to get fitter!

Four things that have happened to me: 1) Lower ankle sprain while jogging across the crosswalk for the START of the first team run. In front of 30 people I barely know. Benched 2 weeks. 2) Heading out in capris I haven't worn in month (at the very beginning of my weight loss journey) to find that they are too big now and…

Oh yeah, that's definitely what she was getting at, but at 25% body fat I am far, far from risk of amenorrhea. Before her first pregnancy she was smaller than I am now and got pregnant soon after they started trying. I tried to chalk it up to making conversation using something she's familiar with. She's not running right…

That's right because wearing revealing clothing turns normal, well-adjusted, non-rapey men into sex-crazed attackers. <gag>

I regularly run in the same place Chelsea King was taken in broad daylight, and more frequently run at night along the Coast Highway. I have a compact Sabre pepper spray, but admittedly am not confident I could get to it in time. http://www.amazon.com/SABRE-Compact-Pepper-Spray-Pink/dp/B001CZ9MRY At night on the road I…