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Have you run a marathon before?
Please give us newbies all your top hints and tips!
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Introduce yourself
Hi, I'm Rosie, 32, and I am err.... on Week 7 of Couch 2 5k. Yes, and I am fully hoping to run the London Marathon next year. I probably need help in more ways than one.
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The 91 year old body builder
Ok, so it's not my success story, but I know people come here for inspiration and motivation, and I think this is pretty much the ultimate! http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/apr/02/i-am-a-90-year-old-bodybuilder :)
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Basal Metabolic Rate
How important is this? I understand what it is: basically the amount of energy your body needs just to survive, if you were in a coma. However, MFP set my calorie goal intially quite a long way under my BMR. I'm tall and quite big and so my BMR is 1804. However whatever calculations I do (changing between sedentry and…
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Scales: the cause of misery and confusion. Help!
So I have been doing this for a month now. I was really feeling that I was making some progess, my body felt different, my clothes were fitting better. But today I got on the scales, and I had gained weight. Not much (100g) but it was in the wrong directction. So after crying for a while I have decided to come on here and…
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Yuk!
This is a strange success, but quite cheering. I am really quite hungover today (yeah yeah I know!), so I decided I could have a small chocolate bar to give me some energy before I went to the gym. I got a Kinder snack bar, as it is only 21g and 111 calories... and ... having not eaten anything other than 85% cocoa…
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Taking the plunge
Hello everyone, I thought I would be brave and say hello. My name is Rosie, I'm 31, and I live in London, England. I have been doing this for about three weeks now, and I love it! I have not weighed myself yet (don't want to risk being disillusioned!) but I can feel my clothes getting loser already, and I am relaly…
