Posts by dearymetalsinks

I actually just got back from the ER yesterday from an awful flare up myself. Although diet is important, most of my flare-ups tend to be stress related. Remember that when you feel upset about this...it is hard for it to go away when your entire body system is sad in general. Try to be optimistic and eat easy and healthy is really the best you can do.

ahhh I've been pondering this question for sooo long! glad to see I'm not alone.

I'm a naturally smaller person for the most part, and I eat a lot of calories when I'm not monitoring for anything special or trying to do anything to my diet (we're talking something like...2,500-4,000 cals daily.) The website says with my stats that on sedentary I only burn 1575 cals a day, which mathematically makes like NO sense. I haven't gained weight since I lost 9 pounds last spring, and I haven't been limiting my calories really at all.

Anyway, when I'm jogging super slow my heart rate is averagely about 198 and I'm 21, so recommended level (meaning to not get passy-outy) is to not go above 180 (it's 160-180 recommended for average healthy 20-24 yr old individuals at the cardio level btw. It's 130-160 bpm for a "fat burn" and anything below that isn't benefiting the heart much----for an average person our age anyway. Of course your situation might and most likely will be different!)

I figure maybe since my heart rate fluctuates so much, and gets so high all of the time, it can account for a high metabolism sort of effect where I burn through more calories? I mean, after drinking coffee for a few days I usually lose a little weight even! (Not water weight, I drink at least 9 glasses a day.)

So I want to know! Does elevated heart rate help to burn more calories than average???

p.s. I went to the link and it told me that cardio for 20 minutes at 160 bpm is burning 281 calories, which is grossly overestimated. When cycling at the gym on a machine for 20 minutes, the machine tells me I've bunt about 140, which is supposedly 50-100% more than what you actually burn according to my instructor at the gym. Something is definitely wrong with using that calculator for this situation, so I wouldn't listen to anything it spits out.

First of all, the dominant cat calling annoying men are quite often not being serious when they are being jerks like that to small women. The smaller women appear more vulnerable I think to dudes and it is funnier to pick on them because they know you get it all the time, and hey, if you're stupid enough to give them your number or go hang out with them after they treated you like that, they might get some so they have no reason to stop really (other then growing up, of course.) Those are like, clubbers, dudes who think if they by you a drink their gonna get you to go home with them, or dudes with extreme senses of humor (I have mostly guys friends...it IS funny when it's not you sometimes.) Those ones are totally pulling your leg.

My lover of three years hooked up with me when I was handicapped and at my highest weight, caring least about my appearance and having the least self confidence of all time, afraid of almost all men. Now I'm back in shape and he still loves it, supports me and congratulates me constantly, although it was almost the same all along. I think he just likes anything I do and it doesn't matter. I don't think it ever matters if you are in love with somebody.

What matters to me is why the **** would you care what some 10 year old grown man has to say about your curves? He's too busy watching MTV and letting the television tell him what he wants that he can't even begin to decide for himself, and that's why I don't allow strange men to have the satisfaction of me saying a thing back to them beyond "grow up you sick, stupid f*******."

sorry if that's kinda intense lol

I bet that since you are still using the muscles a few times a week and getting that cardio in at all, you will be able to go significantly faster when you come back. I just got back from spring break (a week and a half off...I only exercised once!) and my first day of running I went from an average stay of 5.5 mph for 15 minutes no break to 6mph 15 minutes no break...and that isn't including the fact that I actually pushed myself up to 7 mph for 3 whole minutes in the same half hour on the treadmill! I was so proud. Also long distance training and sprinting (for speed) are taught generally as two different types of running, if you are in it for the long distance, you should be absolutely fine. My endurance tends to only grow with a nice vacation, and if I go a week without pushing myself I tend to go for longer the next as well. If you keep running here and there, you're body should be tricked into keeping your progress for next time you are pushing yourself harder, instead of receding like you may have thought. Quitting for that many weeks altogether obviously you could suffer a little from, but you seem to still be on track just fine. I wouldn't worry and keep up with the occasional practice until you get back!

Also if you do get worried, like I said, the sprinting and seeing how long/fast you can go will give you really quick results and bounce you right back if you are concerned about speed. I always try to include a section of seeing how fast I can go with my endurance section of seeing how long I can go, just to push myself a little each time in preparation for the eventual change of going a little faster for the longer run. I have been upping about .1 mph a week for my endurance section this way: I do ten minutes of seeing how fast I can go for as long as I can, then I go real slow and get down to 4.0 for 2 minutes as a little rest, and then I do the half hour run/jog/whatever speed I am up to at that point. I'm sure you could push yourself better if need be, but I am quite content with my results so far!

okay, now, I didn't read page threeeee, buuuttt;

I am 5'7 (almost, a little less) 108 pounds, and my calves are 14.5 inches. My point is they may not go away, but girlfriends, I probably have the largest boot collection you will ever see (48+ pairs). How do I do it?

I wear stylish boots that are LOOSE and CLUNKY and riding boots and pixie boots and slouch boots and pirate boots and frye boots....(the list goes on.) Unless you've got like, smaller than a size 6 shoe, HELLOOO! How could you ever give up boots for your calves????? There is definitely a way to work around things, if anybody knows about the calves I certainly do, lol, 'cause mine probably ain't never going away!

Also if you wear tall loose boots, you can even wear (gasp) a mini skirt!!!

(the large boots actually make thighs appear smaller as a plus, AND mask large calves. I wouldn't give up my knee high motorcycle boots if my house was on fire!!)

Have some hope, my goodness everyone!

*and I might add that some round toe flats look so cute with shapely larger calves of any size. especially with the right skirt or leggings or capris! Granted they aren't good on the ole feet...they are oh so convenient for a hot weather alternative to sandals and heels. 

and another be-lated thanks for your input! that has helped clarify a few things. I only want to make sure I am giving my body the best I can : D

I've already used the oblique advice....I was working them too hard I think because I have turned slightly more sausage-like....haha. I'll try and stick to the middle! 

what I was saying, badandrew, is that when other people are talking about losing muscle mass, they are talking about working out usually, and you brought up an argument against other people saying that they say you lose "muscle before fat." So I was arguing back that they were not talking about the same thing. There are too many factors in this argument. Do you know what I mean?

also the desert quote is agreeing with you only on an immediate basis. You are right, on an immediate basis. If you had continued to quote me into the next paragraph you would see that starvation mode doesn't start adjusting so quickly and it takes time to start eating your muscle. Now I don't know if your friends who fasted for 14 days are in starvation mode or not, I'm not that much of an expert, but I do know you usually can't tell when you are losing muscle until it gets severe, so you don't know that unless they were tested for their lean body mass the day before fasting and the day they were done with a professional. And I don't have any actual sources here because I don't care so much if you believe me or not...that is your choice. But obviously you are being overruled here in this thread by people who are much more knowledgeable on the subject so who cares. You're right, I'm just pulling crap out of my butt to prove you wrong because...(?) Maybe some people do that, I don't know. Believe what you want, again, you are ignoring what I said completely just to give off the idea that you are completely right, which is not what I said so...whatever.

maacattack- my fitness instructor told me that you don't have to do cardio to burn mainly the 'fat calories' if you want to just powerwalk---for most people that is okay. But doing cardio burns many more of all calories more quickly, so many people opt for that as it tends to have more health benefits to the heart as well. Really I personally just stick to cardio because I am in a healthy position where I can, and I get more done more quickly---going back to what angie said, basically.

Angie and melkor probably said everything the best here. I am just putting things into much simpler terms. I'm spent!