Posts by bierorama

Ginger can help indegestion and heartburn. Here is a whole list of natural remedies for heartburn.

Some medications that aren't chewable are Zantac, Prilosec and Pepcid AC.

Do you eat quickly? Lie down after eating? Drink a lot of water with your meals? Overeat? All of these things can make heartburn worse.

You might want to make an appointment with your doctor if this has suddently started so you can rule out GERD.

Original Post by caitmckz:

However I was wondering if you guys had suggestions on what to eat before I run because this last time I pushed myself and felt really nauseous afterwards. I ate a good breakfast of shredded wheat in milk with honey...

 

You don't have to eat anything before running. Try it and see how you feel.

I don't usually eat anything if I'm going to run less than 10 miles or if I'm racing. My go-to breakfast pre-race/long run is a banana with PB and coffee with milk. Lots and lots of coffee.

Original Post by monalisamonkey:

Does doing yoga when it's hot burn more calories than in a cool room?  I don't believe so, I think you just sweat more, but I could be wrong.

I would log it as whatever style of yoga you did for that length of time.  Was it hatha, vinyasa, power, or "restorative"  (but in a hot room)?

You are correct. It's not really any different from doing yoga in a cooler room. Well, you obviously sweat more but that just causes dehydration more quickly, right?

OP, I highly doubt you burned 600-700 calories doing an hour of yoga. Don't get me wrong, I think yoga is awesome and a great part of a comprehensive fitness routine but it's not huge on the calorie burn scale.

I burn 600-700 calories running 7 miles. I don't really think that's comparable to an hour of yoga.

Original Post by kevinatthebrook:

Original Post by metabolicmom:

Uh, Lookin' Good MM!

 

I agree! Love the new profile pic!

I didn't take today off. DH was supposed to get up for an early workout and didn't so I went out and rode 8 miles and caused another biker to crash!

I was biking on a trail, on the right side like I'm supposed to. I was coming around a blind curve when I came upon two bikers riding side-by-side and taking up the entire path. I had nowhere to go, as I was as far to the right as I could be, so I slammed on my brakes. The woman in my lane overcorrected, lost control and ran into a fence post. I felt bad, but at the same time I couldn't believe they'd block the whole path coming around a blind curve. Luckily she was okay.

Other intersting things: I saw a young deer down in a canal and the albino squirrel that lives in our neighborhood!

I don't usually eat before working out, unless I'm going on a run of 10+ miles.

If you don't suffer any negative side effects, I don't see why not eating before working out is an issue.

I met my closest female friend in what is essentially a chat room. I was sick of not having friends, especially having no friends with kids the same age as my own (I was a new mother for the second time). I searched for groups of young moms (I was in my mid-20s and most moms with kids the same age as my own were significantly older than me) on the internet. I found the perfect group: 20something Moms KC.

It was literally a group of moms in their 20s that got together at least once a week as an entire group, and sometimes more often as smaller break-out groups. The group did eventually fizzle out and stop getting together, but I made a great friend from it that I still see at least once a week, sometimes more than that, and occasionally the husbands join us for a night out without the kids.

I also met my training partner through the same group. We've been running together since August and have yet to run out of things to talk about.

There is one other gal that I'm not as close to as the one mentioned above, but I still see her on a regular basis and we get along really well. It's not as deep and meaningful of a relationship as the friend above, but it's nice to have friendships of varying degrees of intimacy.

Some girls that I grew up with and was very close to in high school attempted to start a dinner club once a month. I stopped going because I really have nothing in common with them anymore and most of them still act like they're in high school: fighting, backstabbing and being mad at each other. It's ridiculous.

9 miles on the bike this morning. I HAVE to take tomorrow off. My hips, glutes and other areas are super sore.

Anybody want fries with their zombie thread?

Aren't you hungry eating only 1,800 calories while breastfeeding and exercising? I mean, I lose on that amount of calories without breastfeeding and simply lifting weights (no cardio).

When I was breastfeeding, I was sedentary and ate around 2,000 calories a day in order to lose weight. I tried dropping to 1,500 and my milk supply suffered.

So, a couple of questions:

1. How much weight have you lost already?
2. How can you be certain you only ate 1,800 calories?
3. Why are you cutting carbs?

I think that if the answer to #1 is a good amount of weight, maybe your body just needs a break from losing for a few weeks (aka, a plateau).

#2...have you counted calories before and know how to eyeball portions accurately? If not, I'd like to suggest that maybe you're eating more than you think you are.

#3...carbs don't really play a role in weight loss, unless they're causing you to go over your maintenance level of calories. With all the running you do, you need carbs to have energy to fuel your workouts and your day in general.

I'm in a suburb of Kansas City. I'd say tornadoes, but I've only been in a storm shelter (basement) due to inclement weather on four occasions over a 25 year period. Once when I was in elementary school, once in junior high, once in college and once as an adult (last year).

^I started with three times and every time I rewrite it, I think of one more occasion I've been in a shelter. Tornadoes, straight line winds/microbursts and droughts are probably our top natural disasters.