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That's what I do. I am a late day/night eater. I get really hungry after 3 pm and it doesn't matter if I ate a big lunch/breakfast or not. I still get hungry. So, I save the bulk of my calories for then. I don't buy into that whole time of day eating thing. I think total amount of calories consumed in a day is all that…

Wow, I can't believe how cruel people can be. Even when I weighed 235 lbs, I never had a single bad comment made to me. I remember getting encouraging comments. Like when I first started walking (was too big then to run), I would have older couples give me encouraging comments. I feel so bad for those who have had to deal…

I run three times a week and walk three times a week. I take my kid with me and have for years. He is 9 now and loves to run because he's been going with mom and dad. I also do a bunch of floor exercises. You can go to Walmart and for around $15 buy the 10 lb ankle weights. I use those to do leg lifts and things like that.…

Genetics, baby! I love my muscular calves and so does my husband. I have the inverted V and he drools. I think it's mostly because he can't get legs like mine, no matter how many marathons he runs. Again...genetics! (My youngest brother had rock hard calves at the age of 3) And most men LOVE a girl with sexy legs (and yes,…

To really go there....when I first started eating better, I had the worse gas possible. So bad that my 8-year old start cracking jokes about not needing to put gas in the car...we could just use mom's. *sighs* But thankfully it passed and my body has mostly adjusted. The memory of those couple of weeks though, dreadful…

My husband runs 5 to 7 miles almost everyday and he's a huge fan of "sweating it out". He claims that nothing clears you up better than a good, solid run. Short of that, he hits the pool for 20+ laps. It's a bit disgusting having to see all that crap coming out but it sure seems to get him better faster. I've heard that if…

What works for me may not work for you and vice versa, our bodies are not one size fits all and neither are our nutritional needs. I feel at my best when I keep to 1300-1400 calories a day, regardless of how active or inactive I was. I tried eating back calories and just felt bloated and overstuffed. So I've gone back to…

*shrugs* I'll go there too. It's part of dieting, I think. You aren't eating as much so there isn't as much to get rid of (plus if you got rid of the processed, fatty foods then your body needs time to adjust). Drink more water, eat more fiber (I make sure to have at least one Fiber One bar a day). If I realize it's been a…

UGH...running shorts...the bane of my existence. I am forever in search of the perfect pair. I like to run with everything fitting right and comfortable, otherwise I'm thinking about that instead of the run itself. Why are shorts so tiny? Like I want half my butt hanging out when I run....yeah...not my thing. I saw at…

I just break it up. How many minutes total did I run and at what speed? Then the other entry is for the walking, same thing. My pedometer tells me the total calorie burned and total distance so I use that as a range to make sure I'm calculating right. I'm probably off a bit (under guessing the calories burned) but it…

I couldn't get my stopwatch to work today, I'm having issues with the Nike Running and now that I've gotten it worked out, I can't get the stopwatch to show up on my iPod. So instead? I ran from song to song. Some of the songs were 4 minutes long! I thought I was going to die, lol, but I didn't and I'm pretty proud of…

Couldn't get the stopwatch to work so instead of doing 60/90 splits, I ran from song to song. Ended up running a total of 15:28 and walking 24:01. It was killer but awesome.

Don't use the app in the iPod Nano. It's wrong. I cover the same distance everyday. My husband has a Garmin GPS (Forerunner 610) watch so we know it's just shy of 3 miles. The Nike+Active that is in the nano had my distance as 1.4 miles one day and .5 miles the other. Completely wrong. My husband really likes his GPS…

Hi, I started earlier this week. I was in the Navy and had to run all the time. I hated it then, I still hate it. LOL but I'm hoping that this time I will figure out a way to love it. Anybody else think that it's actually harder doing all this stop and going? It just about killed me. I can force myself to run a mile…

85 pounds and all the associated health problems that go along with such a large amount. Eclampsia, bed rest, high risk pregnancy. Fortunately our son was born perfectly healthy if a little underweight due to the blood pressure medications I was on. The reason for the weight gain? Complete lack of self-control and/or will…

Walmart has three different pre-made salads that are under 200 calories. Good luck with this, I couldn't do it.

My husband takes his off and puts it on his ID tags when he's on the ship. He'd rather not lose a finger because of a ring. He takes his off whenever he's at the gym on the ship. I'm considering taking mine off because I'm scared of losing them when I'm exercising. I've lost so much weight that they are really lose but I'm…

I just started today. I can run a mile already but it's really slow and painful, so figured I'd start back at the beginning and do it the "right" way. How do we even calculate this in the exercise?

Google! I googled my way through my BS in Computer Science. HEeeeee. Seriously. When I took C++ the instructor told us that we are not there to reinvent the wheel. That all codes have already been written and that it was up to us to learn how to read those codes, rewrite them, and get them to do what we wanted. He was…

I feel that way. Which is why I choose to do my exercising outside. I started walking, then kept increasing till I was covering 5 miles at a time. Then I started walking/hiking. Now after a year of getting out there, I've begun throwing in running intervals. Like many overweight people, I have this fear of being laughed at…

LOL @ the reporting for duty. ME! I'm a Louisiana girl, Navy vet, married to my very own sailor for the past 10 years. Feel free to add me, we can discuss awesome /sarcasm deployments and this nonstop talk about freezing our pay *grumbles*. Plus how do you eat right when they are deployed when you barely have time to…

Our 8 year old was getting dangerously close to becoming obese. During his last physical, his doctor did a blood work up because she was concerned and when it came back borderline diabetic? Well it scared me enough that I made it my mission to get my boy fit. Now he is 14 lbs lighter (which is more than 10% of his body…

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Combination of my first, middle, and last names with my birth year thrown into the soup. Melissa Renee V. By the way, I wish I was as creative as some of you guys! My user name looks so boring in comparison lol.

So this report is based off the men who go to that website? Yeah, that's an accurate depiction of the American male. All you have to do is look around, there are a ton of great men who stick with their woman and try to help her. Surveys, studies, etc are so easy to manipulate. I read this and shrugged while thinking "So I…

I did the Atkins too, a couple of decades ago, I don't think I've ever been so miserable in my entire life! I'm not a big meat eater, meat is sort of like an after thought for me, and that diet is all about the protein. I lost 30 lbs in about 2 months which was my goal. Soon as I reached it, I stopped doing the diet and…

JCPenneys has great bras for those "odd" sizes. The ones where the chest circumference increases but the cup doesn't. I've seen 40B and 44B there. That is a very hard size to find/fit. Plus, they aren't all that expensive. My problem has been finding sports bras (ones with wires for support built into the cups instead of…

Love this guy! He's my go-to guy for many things. I first discovered him when he put an article out that completely de-bunked low-fat peanut butter. He's got some incredible information. Read through more of his articles, he's really good.

Different strokes, different folks. What works for me, may not work for others. Etc, etc. Personally? I eat in moderation. I do not deny myself any of the things I enjoy or like, I just cut back on how much and how often I eat them. I also try something new every week because who knows? I may discover a new favorite that…

I made a comment on an AP site on this article and got flamed....*sighs*. All I said was that I was happy to see that some fast food chains are giving healthier options. You wouldn't believe the hate I received back for that comment "If you were at all concerned about healthy options then you wouldn't be eating at…