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Hypothyroid People -- Help!
Okay, so I've suspected for a long time now that I suffer from hypothyroidism. My mother has it, and I display a lot of the traits of it (hair falls out, only poop twice a week at most, fight fatigue many days, horizontal ridges in my nails, etc.). But, first and foremost, I can't seem to lose any more weight no matter…
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Runners -- How do you deal with dogs?
The other day I was running in my neighborhood and had an incident with a dog. There are a lot of dog owners in the neighborhood, and most of them are careless at best. Usually I'll have dogs run out of their yards barking at me (but they'll appear mostly friendly so I'm not threatened by them); or they'll be free in the…
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Rant About Track Etiquette
I'll start off by saying that when I googled track etiquette, I found all these rules that were actually pretty standard between tracks but completely unrelated to the kinds of tracks I run at. They seemed to be for high-traffic tracks where competitive people go. I use a small town school track, so the rules don't really…
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Running Makes Me Fat -- Help >_<
Edited to add: I DO TRACK MY FOOD. I do it so carefully that I don't like trusting MFP, where often enough the totals for things I've scanned in from exact packages will be wrong. I use an IIFYM-style program to ensure I'm not eating too many carbs, too much fat, etc. It is Not a problem with food tracking. I use a food…
