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C-Section -- 1 Year Out and Abs?
Hi, I am wondering if anyone else has had this experience. I had a c-section last October and I've had a lot of success doing ab work since then, but lately when I do some types of ab exercises I can feel it where my incision scar is. It doesn't exactly hurt but it is a little uncomfortable and the ab exercises are harder.…
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Cold Winter Running Gear -- suggestions?
Hi everyone! I live in Massachusetts and I've been doing C25K. I just finished that program yesterday (YAY! With a 9 minute mile :) and I am moving on to C210K and then the half marathon program over the winter. Because I live in New England and it gets cold, I'm looking for good winter running gear. I have shoes I really…
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Androgynous clothing
I hope this doesn't come off like forum advertising (I'm not affiliated with this brand or anything), but I thought I would share this here in case there are other female-skeletoned andro people who are as excited about it as me. http://www.androgynousfashion.com/about-androgynous-fashion/our-story.html "The cuts are not…
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Lowering calories -- eat less, exercise more, or both?
My understanding is that the usual recommendation for weight loss is to reduce your calories a bit through diet, and increase your burn a bit through exercise. Part of the rationale seems to be that just eating less is terrible and not fun, and just exercising is time-consuming and exhausting, so you meet halfway. Does…
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Walking Vs. Hiking -- what's your definition?
How do you decide when you're "walking" and when you're "hiking"? I'm curious to see how people here would log what I am doing as one of my various forms of exercise. Every day, I go on a walk in my neighborhood. I live on top of a hill and none of the areas I walk on are flat, there is always an incline. Parts are so…
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Did your tastebuds change during pregnancy?
Hey everyone! I am wondering if anyone else had the experience I had. At some point during my first pregnancy, junk food of any type became viscerally repellent to me (on a tastebuds level). My ideal food would have been a raw organic cucumber and my nightmare scenario would have been like, caramel cheesecake ice cream…
