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Hi Ali. There is a website called mapmyrun.com which lets you plot routes. It can also roughly calculate your calorie expenditure. I have used it for running and it is fairly accurate compared to my gps watch. Hopemthatnhelps.

Try bodyrock.tv as well as the printable downloads on the women's health magazine website. Otherwise there is an exercise tv website with a bunch of free full length websites. Lastly check out crossfit workouts of the day (also called WOD), really hard circuits that canbe done at home or in the gym - the one I am currently…

Sounds like chafing, so definitely not a fat person thing - most runners are painfully familiar with this. As to how to avoid this, I would look on runners world.com , they have some great tips. And I would suggest staying away from baby or talcum powder, that can actually make it worse,many go with something like Vaseline…

I have recently started packing lunch to take to work and had to get a bit creative as well as I am not a fan of sandwiches. Here re my go to recipes (if you can call them that!): Brown rice with chopped avocado, cucumber chunks and teriyaki sauce - tastes great at room temperature and the avocado plus brown rice will keep…

First of all, congratulations! Any kind of weight loss is a huge achievement for most people (including myself). And secondly, I hear ya! As you can see I have only lost about 3-4lb since January 9 (that's when I started paying more attention to my food again to get rid of those stubborn pounds that slowly appeared since…

Although you cannot spot reduce you can spot tone! For me the key to reducing body fat is a combination of strength and cardio work, ideally interval training and ploy metric exercises, both will get your heart rate up like nothing else and will help burn fat. In tms of belly fat, some of it could just be being later. It's…

You can also check out women's health magazine fitness section online. They have tons of workouts you can download for free, often conveniently a list of 10 exercises as a little circuit. Lots of them are body weight exercises so you can do them at home. Quite a few suggest working to exhaustion for 50 seconds then resting…

Clothes fitting better Being able to catch the bus by running four stops ahead (I am not just trying to lose weight I put on since university but also increase my fitness) To not even want to eat chocolate

Oh and a quote that never fails to motivate me: You will never regret a workout! So so so true! And, for us women, apparently plyometric exercise help increase bone density, which starts decreasing right around age 30 - another reason to keep hitting the gym.

I enjoy bikram yoga - perfect combination of sauna plus yoga - afterwards I always feel like I have just done a major detox and stretched in ways I otherwise never would! I also really like bootcamp workouts - whether I do them on my own (the women' health fitness magazine has lots of workouts that can be downloaded for…

Not that this is specifically for women, but I use the Spirutein brand - at the moment vanilla and spirulina. It dissolves pretty well, the taste is not overpoweringly artificial and it is perfect for mixing into smoothies or even oatmeal. They also do a ton of other flavours, next on my list to try is cookie dough! Yes,…

I do find it harder to lose weight when I am eating simple carbs (as in white bread, white pasta etc) so I am trying to reduce it as much as I can and replace it with oats, brown rice, wholemeal bread etc (though still in moderation). And, interestingly, although my bagel this morning for breakfast tasted heavenly, it…

There are soooo many ways of enjoying oats. One of my favourites is still plain oatmeal (cooked with a pinch of salt and double the volume of water to oats) topped with some fresh blueberries, 1 teaspoon of peanut butter and some agave syrup/brown sugar/maple syrup. If I have nothing else in the house it's sugar and…