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Still sore mid-way through running season.
I'm training for my second half-marathon and I'm still getting sore the day after my long runs. I don't remember being this sore this late in my training last year. Is that normal? I'm running 4-6 days a week, adding .5 miles to my long run each week (I'm up to 10 miles now), one fast day at 5 miles, then the other days…
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My coworkers are making fun of my healthy eating habits
...but I'm not too bent out of shape about it. I've taken to eating whole raw tomatoes and green peppers for snacks. Because they're healthy, delicious, and I'm too lazy to cut them up in the morning. So, what's so weird about that? My co-worker eats dried orange peels, so she has no room to talk.
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2 fruits = 2 much sugar
According to this website, my daily goal for sugar should be 31. Today, I ate 1 banana (17 sugars) and home made pasta with meat sauce (17 sugars, 2 sugar from pasta, the rest from tomato, peppers, and other veggies), veggie sausage pattie (1 sugar), and raw tomato (3 sugars). I haven't had dinner yet and I'm already 4…
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Is my scale right?
I just bought a new scale and have been weighing myself every day. My weight has been all over the place this week, from 133 to 139 and everywhere in between. I know its normal to gain some weight throughout the day, but five pounds in 24 hours? Two pounds from before to after breakfast? I was 133 this morning and am 137…
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Too many calories left
So it's 11 p.m. and I have more calories left over than I did at the beginning of the day. I started out with 1,200 calories as the baseline for what I should eat without exorcise. I got up late, had my normal breakfast (about 250 calories), but at noon. Then I went for a 3 hour hike. Then I had a BIG dinner (nearly 1,000…
