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An HR mystery. Any ideas?
Somewhere in my neighbourhood there are a couple of places where for some reason my HR goes down and my running suddenly becomes super easy. I've spotted these special locations in other places before (I move often). It's not terrain related as I've never lived in a place with more than a speedbump. Usually happens after…
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Calorie counting 501 - post photos of things that you just can't count
Right, this went slightly wrong. Got a lot more food delivered than I'd ordered and will be eating from this for I don't know how long. No bloody idea how to count calories, or how much to eat. Considering some of the rice is likely cooked in coconut milk I can't just count cooked rice either. This will be a very tough…
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[tech/medical] What is it with walking calories and MFP/trackers?
Seriously, MFP grossly overstates calories for walking, and fitness trackers do the same. My Garmin estimated my calorie burn for a tiny 4km walk at 265 calories yesterday. My old Fitbit gave similarly crazy numbers. This can't be explained by gross vs net calories, neither with HR as my HR is substantially lower when…
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calories in marinated chicken drumsticks - with or without bone?
I have no idea why I can't get usda entries out of the database. As if there's an odd filter... Anyway, I have a pack of marinated chicken drumsticks. The pack says 100gr = 217kcal. As usual it doesn't say whether this is with bone or meat only. The pack contains 69% chicken drumsticks and 28% barbecue sauce. 10% fat per…
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Data nerdery! I bought my first smart/sportwatch
Yay me! I finally caved in and bought a Garmin Vivoactive 4s. I still have a Fenix 6s on the way to me but I think it will be too big and thick for my wrists and jumpers, thus it's likely going back. :D So far I'm rather happy to be honest. Been wearing it for a few hours and actually got a resting HR that looks realistic,…
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Can our bodies forget how to use certain energy sources or possibly never have learned it?
Normally the body uses various sources for energy. In everyday life mostly a mix of fatty acids and glycogen, and to a lesser extend amino acids, and more obscure things like lactic acid if available, right? For the past 30 years or more, since being a teenager I've been having crashes and since earliest childhood problems…
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Stupid food experiment: breakfast against natural preference.
I want to test something tomorrow: only have a breakfast from protein and fats because I always say that my body absolutely needs lots of carbs and I always have the feeling that a diet of too much protein and fat leaves me low in energy and hungry. So... what can I do with supermarkets closed and as a volume eater? I have…
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A question on Vo2max and disease
Vaguely health and fitness-related. Can someone explain for dummies what this sentence means? [Typical is] a reduction in maximal whole-body oxygen consumption (Vo2max) demonstrated by a characteristic deficit in peripheral oxygen extraction (arteriovenous O2 difference) and an enhanced oxygen delivery (hyperkinetic…
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Fitbit users on iOS: can do you something for me?
Fitbit users that use the iOS app: can you check something for me? Please set a custom max heartrate zone. In the app go to: Account Scroll down to Settings, Activity Wellness Then chose Heart Health Slide the Max Heartrate slider to the right and type in a half realistic number. Why not use 180 for the sake of it. go Back…
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I hate unclear packaging nutrition!
So I got a free meal package at my supermarket. It consists of 175gr dry pasta, 40gr herbs and 66gr tomato sauce. Nutritional info available as: Calories per 100gr unprepared (33gr of each, or 100gr of 286gr total ingredients?) Calories per 100gr prepared product based on recipe Calories per portion based on recipe, 2-3…
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Any Fitbit users tried Garmin Vivosmart 4?
Looks like my Fitbit Charge 2 is finally getting old. I've been super annoyed with fitbit as of lately. Instead of improving things they've made their product totally useless on parts that are important to me: the maxHR setting cannot be set in the app anymore due an error, and reverts to the rubbish 220-age every few days…
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Oops, maxHR fail?
My maxHR estimate might be a bit too low. Quite a few years ago I did a few maxHR attempts during spinning bike classes. I managed to get to 200 after several build-ups. I'm sure I didn't get my actual max as I wasn't fit enough. I figured my maxHR for running is higher as it's a lot more difficult for me, so I had it at…
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Sport app for bluetooth hr sensor / not distance but time
Basically I want to determine my night min HR again and am looking for an app that I can run all night paired with my bluetooth hr sensor. All running apps record hr against distance, which of course doesn't work when you lay in bed. Any free app suggestions that record HR against time and run all night?
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Looking for USDA entry Chicken Drumstick
I'm looking for a database entry for chicken drumstick, boneless, no skin, uncooked from USDA but can't find anything. MFP is only giving my rubbish results. Can anyone help? I still have a pack in the freezer that I want to use for a curry, without skin and bone for several days while the calories are for the meat with…
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Lowermost legs as thick as calves?
So some personal experience which might also be useful for other people. Regardless of my weight my lowermost lower legs were nearly as thick as my calves for ages. I went to my gp asking if this might be an oedema of sorts. Nope, she could feel my muscles perfectly well, no pitting, nothing that indicated oedema. Just bad…
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Fitbit custom maxHR messed up
Just a headsup to Fitbit users who have set a custom maxHR and are suddenly getting crazy burns. I danced a bit this evening. Nothing extreme, for about 90 minutes. And looked at the fitbit data, and saw 650 calories, and being in the max zone for about half of the session :o Turns out Fitbit lost my custom maxHR data and…
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Where are my bodyweight/calisthenics beginners?
I started training bodyweight on Monday and it was not very successful in the sense that I've not done anything like this in ages and most things looked rather sad, and I'm still experimenting with suitable equipment/work arounds. I'm following the Reddit Recommended Routine mostly. Did another round yesterday, which went…
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Proteins make me feel weak
So that's an odd one. I can't eat lots of protein as pretty much all protein-rich food is a massive reflux trigger for me. I'm still trying to get in a bit more. However, on days where I have a dinner hat contains from about 10gr more protein than usual I get really, really weak, confused, ravenous, shivery and basically…
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Lipoma went walkabout
Oh great! I complained a while ago that I would have some deep-seated lipomas removed from my ankles if there wasn't such a big risk of even more ankle instability and nerve damage. Well, some time this week I noticed part of my heel was numb. Then found out part of my calf as well, and so is the area below that ugly…
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The Mighty Whoosh and HR (or other things)
I wonder if people who whoosh also notice things happening in their body, other than running to the loo at least twice per night and a drop of scale weight. I can see this on the HR data of my fitness tracker: When I'm in a whoosh my minHR goes down, and at night might hit a low of around 44ish, while when my waterweight…
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Picked veggies: how to log?
Basically I would love to picked more regularly and am uncertain about how to count the calories for this. I generally count everything, including 30gr of leafy greens. Of course the veggies in the pickle don't have many calories. vinegar doesn't either. But there's a pile of sugar in it, lots and lots of spices, possibly…
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test
test hmm.. so I can't add my own meals to my diary anymore, and posting in the general thread I get the message that my post needs to be approved. What the heck is going on?
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Calories galia melon
I'm really struggling to find a proper source of calories for galia melons. They are super popular here. Supermarkets usually post nutritional info, but for some reason not for those. I see that watermelons have 30 cal/100gr. Honeydew has 36 according to USDA. Cantaloup 34. Galia is quite a few times in the database, but…
