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Losing weight by ucblockhead (2.00 / 0) #1 Sat Jan 26, 2008 at 03:25:03 PM EST

Exercise alone won't cause you to lose weight. It *will* make you less likely to die.

To lose weight, you must both exercise and restrict calories.
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right by lm (2.00 / 0) #2 Sat Jan 26, 2008 at 03:30:01 PM EST

I'm not exercising in order to lose weight. I'm exercising because I'm aging and I have a job where I sit on my butt all day. This is why I set two separate goals for the HFC that, at least in my mind, aren't necessarily related.

There is no more degenerate kind of state than that in which the richest are supposed to be the best.
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Stop worrying about the scale, then by ucblockhead (2.00 / 0) #3 Sat Jan 26, 2008 at 03:48:41 PM EST

(Though you likely aren't.)

The best indicator of cardiovascular health is how far/fast you can run. Running five miles definitely puts you at the good end.
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I'm not really /worried/ by lm (2.00 / 0) #6 Sat Jan 26, 2008 at 11:27:08 PM EST

I'm just vain. I'd very much like to officially qualify as ``not fat''. Although that is secondary to being able to run five miles without feeling like crap afterwards. I feel far better this evening after running 6 miles than I did three weeks ago when I ran 5.7 miles. But I want to be able to go that distance without, 8 hours later, feeling a fair amount of pain in the sole of my left foot and in my right knee.

There is no more degenerate kind of state than that in which the richest are supposed to be the best.
Cicero, The Republic
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watch the knee by ucblockhead (2.00 / 0) #7 Sat Jan 26, 2008 at 11:55:15 PM EST

Once my knee got bad, it took me three years of no running to fix it. (He says having only been running consistently for a few weeks.)
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: Roger Wilco by lm (2.00 / 0) #9 Sun Jan 27, 2008 at 05:36:46 PM EST

The point of running, for me, is to live better. I put up with feeling sore one or two days so that the rest of the week, my back/neck/etc. isn't chronically sore, I have more energy, blah, blah, blah. Which means that if I don't pay attention to little things and I end up seriously injuring myself, I'm defeating myself.
Now that it is the next day, the knee barely hurts at all. The foot, however, is odd. I'm wondering if I came down oddly on a rock or something without noticing. It feels like someone whacked the bottom of my foot with a lead pipe.
There is no more degenerate kind of state than that in which the richest are supposed to be the best.
Cicero, The Republic
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