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Hey runners...
I'm doing a 10k race against an old steam engine this sunday.... Everyone does regular old marathons and fundraisers and such...what's the weirdest race you've done?
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Question for you Bakers!
Hey all. I'm on a biscotti baking kick and I wanted to make a Baileys Biscotti but the only recipe I could find involves chocolate which I don't want for this. So...I'm wondering if I could take my Eggnog Biscotti recipe and just sub out the Eggnog for the Baileys. I'm mostly just wondering if the Alcohol content would…
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question for anyone who has had a c-section...
Or a similar cut for other surgical purposes such as myself for my kidney donation... So, I'm about 6 months out from surgery and still have no feeling in the skin from the scar all the way up to my belly button (surgeon said he's heard of people only starting to get feeling back after a year or so....i've heard plenty of…
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Any runners using the "pose" method?
I'll be doing a running clinic starting next week up until October and they teach the Pose method. Has anyone trained using that method specifically and if so, have you found it improved your running at all (as in less injuries, faster speed etc)?
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We need more members!
If anybody happens across anyone else on here who is somehow connected to all this fun kidney stuff, feel free to tell them to come on over!
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success?
Well, after exactly 365 days logging in to MFP I'm going to break my streak....specifically because on Monday morning I'll finally be giving my Dad a kidney which was the whole reason I decided to go from 310 pounds to the 136 I am today. I don't know that I'm a total success story being that I was happier with myself when…
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HRM recommendations
My mom wants to get me a Fitbit or something for Christmas. Any recommendations.? I don't have a phone to have to sync it to.
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"my discussions"
It used to be that I'd see threads I'd commented on in "My discussions" so that I'd know what conversations I'd been in and could get back to them without having to recall the exact thread title to search it by....now the only threads in this list are the ones I've actually started myself and I can't find threads I'd been…
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Somehow lost 4 pounds...
despite eating like there's no tomorrow to try and maintain....There is now cookies and cream cake with my name on it sitting on the counter at work. I am quite willing to share with my co-worker if she would like to partake, but I'm also quite willing to put it out of its sweet, sweet misery all by myself. I'll be…
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Can I brag about my...
Nevermind. I have no one :P
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Does anybody actually know...
...how long it takes for extra calories to turn to legit weight? I just want to put a few pounds back on....like 5 - 8 so I'm set to add .5 a week. What I have in my diary isn't quite everything I have in the day. I'll often grab extra fruit/cereal/spoonful of peanut butter/handful of trail mix without bothering to log it…
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question for the ladies...TMI for the guys
though I suppose anybody's free to look if you want. lol... Have any ladies who have rapidly lost a significant amount of weight experienced amenorrhea? I was fine up until about 10 pounds ago (which has been far slower in coming off than the rest of it...like 3 months or so now) but all of a sudden the well has dried up…
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Beef Liverrrrr!!!
I'm thinking about grabbing some of this and trying it out because my iron tends to be low....anybody ever cooked this and has a good recipe or can give me tips on how one cooks this to taste the best?
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Question for runners who lift...
How much time do you spend on your legs at the gym? I know the rock hardness of the muscles in my legs is ridiculously disproportionate to the rest of my body because of running....do you bother with leg days? do you do less than you otherwise might have and concentrate on other things?
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Bone marrow biopsy experiences?
So, in the process of trying to give my dad a kidney I had to get checked for the same clotting disorder my sister has since it might be genetic and we don't want me bleeding out all over the table come surgery time. My bloodwork has show my platelet counts to be low, so I had an ultrasound done of my abdomen to see if…
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figuring out Body Fat % - Opinions please :D
So I was at the drug store today and they have this handy dandy blood pressure machine you sit down at and stick your arm in the cuff....maybe you're familiar with this thing.....Anyway, they recently upgraded to one that can also weigh you and give you your BMI, calculate body fat percentage and test your vision. Of…
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Protein....bane of my existance
Does anybody else get UUUUUUUBER hungry after eating protein? Everyone always says if you feel hungry you should up the protein and that should ''fill you up''. I find the opposite to be true. If I have a schwack-load of protein I end up at the point where I could gnaw my own arm off, I'm so hungry. Carbs, on the other…
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Does anybody else ever hear this...?
"You're TOO skinny"....."You look sick"....."Your face is gaunt now. It just looks.....blah" I mean.....suuuurrrrriously.....I'm 5'6.5 and 148 pounds. "Too skinny"?......"looking sickly"? There is a lady who is for some reason quite fond of coming into my store and telling me I look like death warmed over and have lost WAY…
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appointments with the transplant team...
When I told the surgeon (who is "grey's anatomy" hot, by the way...and ringless...just sayin) and the nephrologist how much I have lost and how much of it was since last August, they were literally speechless for a boy 10 seconds. Then I got "but..how??". The nephrologist said he's never had anyone lose as much weight as I…
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potluck dinners
so impossible to even guess how much you've consumed, but I'm sure that somewhere around the 3rd cupcake tonight I hit at least 3000. And I loved every deliciously cheese filled, icing covered, chicken fingered, jelly bellied, jalepeno poppered bite of it. sooooooooooooo gooooooooooooooood.
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My bum is sharp:(
I have lost my butt from running and now can't sit on an air mattress or water bed for fear of puncturing it :p Any suggestions other than squats to build up some bum muscle? Everyone says do squats and i have been (no weights....my only option is stuff i can do at home without equipment) but i have an issue with my right…
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ran 18km in an hour and 35 minutes...
and managed to do that on the first day of....what do you people 'round these parts call it? ''TOM"? bahaha...TMI...but I had to tell Someone ;)
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Question for the runners...
I wouldn't really consider myself a "runner" even though I do it nearly every day....I don't have any special gear or fun looking shoes or know anything about those gross looking "gel" packages some people consume when they run....all that to say I was considering eventually doing a half marathon. I currently do at least…
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problem adding a recipe to my day's log
Every time I click ''log it'' nothing happens, so I'm not able to add the serving to my dinner today and because I haven't had it before so it's not in my food list to add from. Anybody else having this problem or know what's going on?
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Not QUITE there, but...
In .4 pounds i will be half my starting weight and will have lost a whole one of me.
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Uh oh. I got stuck.
So...I realized that despite being at about 20 pounds to goal weight, I was still set up for losing 2 pounds per week and thought I should probably change that. I didn't want to go all the way up in calories to only losing 1 per week right away. Thought I'd do a week or two at 1.5, then move to 1, then move to .5 just so…
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When to change goals for loss...
Hey all....When I started out here I was firmly in the camp of obese and having a weight loss goal of 2lb per week was reasonable. I'm now about 162 as per my last weigh in and by 155 I will be at the top end of a "normal" BMI. I've already changed the amount to 1.5lb per week, but should I be making it even less at this…
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Not sure how to get an accurate waist measurement
As I understand it you're supposed to measure around the level of the belly button. When I do this standing up it's about 36.5 inches but I think part of that is because of the fatty skin drooping down from the weight loss above my navel. When I lie down and take it so gravity isn't pulling the skin down (making sure not…
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Creams for tightening loose skin
Not sure where to stick this, so I guess here is as good as anywhere.... Has anybody come across any skin creams that legitimately help tighten loose skin at all? Even just a little bit? Or is this just a pipe dream and I'm screwed for the rest of time...
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figuring out body composition?
So I'm sure the most accurate way to figure out your body fat percentage is using a method with calipers, but if i'm using the tape measure method (happens to be what's available to me at the moment) what should I be measuring? I looked at one site that just asked for heigh/weight and measurements for neck, waist and hips…
