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Welcome back Amy!!!  Good job on your run!!!!

OOOO!!!  Yeah!!!!  I'll check it out!!!!  Of course we care!  It is nice to put a face to a name.  I've got a couple on mine, too! I'll put more on it after the wedding!  Oh my, it is coming up faaaaast!

Great pics and congrats on the 3rd place finish! I see that you were up here in my neck of the woods for the Marine Corps Marathon. Next time you are up in the DC area please let me know and maybe we can get together to meet. 

Nice pictures

I like to go back to the bmi stuff I am a bit confussed. I went and got my sheets out from my doctor and looked at mine it is 27 % I am A lot bigger then any one else here so I went and did it on some site and it says 41 %. So I want know how this works I assume my doctors are right but why would they have such a lower #

I have not worked out in 2 days cause I pushed it to hard with the run but going to try to get back at it today.

Are you talking about BMI or body fat percentage? BMI usually isn't expressed as a percentage. Are you willing to tell us your height and weight?

BTW, I'm willing to bet that you are actually smaller than most of us. I'm around 5'5" and about 158 pounds. My calculated BMI is around 26.

Since BMI only focuses on height and weight it tends to overestimate for athletes. This is because muscle weighs more than the same volume of fat! 

ok I am  had to work it out in I am 5 feet  9 and 3/4 inches tall
and almost 297 lbs so almost 2 times your size. and so how can mine # be the same as your # basically. I know I don't look 300lbs I where a size 16 and most site say I should be in like a 22 or something. I am big yes but not huge.   is this cause I am strong?

36 inches....man your making me use my math skills today....

I do get days I don't feel full and as I said before i wake up nightly so hungry...I do find if i eat every 2.5 hours i do a bit better. I get to sleep til like 4 am instead of 2 am.  

Yes! I do have days like that! The hardest thing for me to learn has been to get right back to my plan after overeating. I have a tendency to say to myself " Oh well, I've blown it, I might as well eat everything now and get back to it next week, month, etc". It was that kind of thinking that got me up to 175 lbs at only 5'2". So, I've learned that on occasion I am going to overeat, I just don't let it continue on and on. I'm actually struggling with this a bit now being on the road and eating out alot. But, I'm going to do better today . Thanks for the inspiration Sarah!

Yes, it does sound like you are pretty muscular Amy. As Nicole mentioned before BMI charts don't account for muscle/fat ratio, so are not as accurate if you have alot of muscle.

Hee hee hee!!!   You have such a great attitude!!!

You're gonna love this website, Amy!

I DO 

I will save that link here and at work.... thanks never realy think about use the net for that type stuff

So, where is everyone today?

I did my second session riding the rollers. I'm definitely improving; I was doing 10-20 minute blocks and I only fell over twice (when I got hopelessly caught up on the side of the roller). Although I can ride one handed well enough to shake out the other hand or wipe my brow I didn't try drinking while riding; that's part of why I was stopping every 10-20 minutes.

Riding the rollers is a far harder workout than riding the trainer stand, even if I'm not riding as fast or as far! Hopefully this will pay off on the road!

Wishing you love and happiness!

Nicole