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Drinking water is making me unreasonably COLD. Anyone else?
I'm trying to Up my water intake, but I've noticed that after I drink a glass, I get totally, uncomfortably, teeth-chattery COLD. Some days I feel like I spend half the day six inches from the fireplace, even though my husband insists that the house is hot. A shower or a good deal of exercise will warm me up, but only…
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NSV ... though I may regret it tomorrow.
In high school, I was always one of the last 3 people to finish the weekly "mile run" in P.E. that I dreaded like torture. I couldn't run a full mile to save my life, and usually walked most of it. For some reason completely out of character, as I entered my 30's I decided to take up running as a challenge. The normal…
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Did raising your calories help you break a plateau?
I'm doing a little amateur research on this topic because it seems to work for some people and not for others. I'm skeptical about it because I can't find any actual scientific research that supports it, or the idea that people stop losing weight because they're not getting enough calories. Nothing beyond personal…
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Help! I need new tunes!
I've spent the last year in Small Town, Alaska, which is completely devoid of a radio station that plays anything new. As a result, I'm pretty out of touch with the modern music scene and everything on my Jogging play list is at least a year old. The ice is finally starting to melt off the jogging trail, so I'd like to…
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Why am I gaining?
I've been doing Jillian michael's 30 day shred twice a day for a little over a week now. I have also been counting calories and staying around 1200 net calories per day (what I'm eating minus what I've supposedly burned exercising). Over the past week, I have gained 2.5 pounds. Does that even make sense? I'm 5'1", 30 years…
