<p>You still have to eat well…you can’t just eat crap…</p>
<p>I did this diet…worked really well…</p>
<p>Amesie:</p>
<p>The close-out price on the blue 405CX is an awesome deal. That was their top of the line model (~$270) and has every feature in the book. Here’s the comparison:</p>
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<p>The two FR models you mentioned do not have GPS. They only have the footpod so they can’t map where you’ve been. They measure distance by counting steps. Everything below is a comparison of the two GPS models:</p>
<p>The 405CX has automatic wireless uploading to the computer when you walk into the room (USB stick) instead of having to plug it into a USB cable. The only physical connection is a clip on USB charger (an iPod charger, basically) that can be plugged into the computer or a wall outlet.</p>
<p>The 405 has programmable interval workouts. The 110 does not. Even better, the 405 has “advanced” workouts, which means that, in addition to setting up your intervals on the watch like on the cheaper models, you can do it on the computer software, save your workouts, and then download them to the watch. This is a great feature. It is much easier to do this on a computer screen than a watch! I set up intervals sets (one work and one rest period) and then tell the computer to run it “x” number of times. Intervals can be determined by time, by distance, by max heart rate, by min heart rate – anything you can imagine. And, on the computer, you can copy and paste from an existing workout to build a new one.</p>
<p>It has GPS built-in for tracking distance and displaying your route on Google or Bing maps. You can buy an optional foot pod if you need to track distance on a treadmill or if you walk/run in an area where GPS is spotty – downtown NYC, for example. There are also sensors that can be attached to bicycle (or an Airdyne exercise bike) for logging speed, pedal RPM, and distance for those workouts. The wireless ANT footpods and bike sensors are not available for the 110.</p>
<p>A minor feature difference is AUTO PAUSE. You can tell the CX405 to pause the workout when you stop walking/running and resume automatically when you get going again. I use this because it’s great when someone stops to ask directions or a neighbor stops you to chat. The 110 doesn’t have his feature.</p>
<p>The complaint among hard core runners with the 405 is that most of its functions are accessed by running your finger around the metal bezel, kind of like operating an iPod. This is little clumsy for doing complicated stuff, while running (but then again so are button menus!). But, I love the interface. For my purposes, it works well and is quite simple once you get the hang of how fast it likes to be tapped or scrolled. For the most part, the only thing I do while I’m running/walking is tap the bezel to change among one of four data screens showing whatever you like – I have set up different screens for Airdyne or walking. One tap goes to the next screen. I press one of the buttons to start a new “lap” – between core and stregth sets or between intervals when I’m picking when to start (on my walk/jogs) rather than letting the workout tell me.</p>
<p>Anyway, for the money, the 405CX is a steal. I’m a very satisfied user.</p>
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<p>It doesn’t work for me either. I imagine that there are no more than a few here that can do that kind of mileage at this age.</p>
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<p>I imagine that these things will have voice commands someday - my Garmin in-car system has that and it’s great. I think that the mind-control stuff is a few years out.</p>
<p>There are good deals out there on the 305, too, in case you are worried about the touch bezel. I have the 310xt and love it, but it’s pricier.</p>
<p>I’m not sure running 38 miles a week is working very well for me, either! I DO love to eat, so there’s that…</p>
Thanks for the feedback on the Garmin watches. After reading the reviews on Amazon, I think I am going to get the 405 from Costco:
Garmin Forerunner® 405 Sports Watch
Includes Premium Heart Rate Monitor
Available in Black or Green
$169.99
Quite a few of the negative reviews had to do with malfunctioning units, and Costco’s return policy is tons better than Amazon’s.
I can’t figure out the difference between the 405CX (Amazon) and the plain old 405 (Costco) but both are GPS-enabled so I think the 405 will do what I am looking for it to do.
<p>Just make sure the 405 includes the heart rate monitor strap. It was optional with that unit. Otherwise, the only difference is that the CX uses heart rate info to caculate calories burned. I’ve never looked at calories burned, so that doesn’t matter to me!</p>
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<p>Most of the people with “malfunctioning” units didn’t read the manual and couldn’t figure out how to work the thing. These are complicated little buggers and it takes a little while to get comfortable making them dance how you like. For example, I went around and around installing and reinstalling speed sensors on the Airdyne because I couldn’t get it to display distance. Doh… it can’t display distance until I actually START a workout! Just going to workout mode and not starting a workout isn’t enough. Just an example of a “broken” Garmin…</p>
<p>After a couple of weeks, you begin to think like a Garmin and then all is good.</p>
<p>Amesie, if you can, you might want to find a place where you can try the watches on. I went to REI, and I was planning on the 405, but after trying the different models on, the 210 was a lot more comfortable. The 210 has a more flexible band, which fit my small wrist better.</p>
<p>I have a small wrist and have worn the laptop-sized Garmins for years. They seem huge when you first put them on, but during exercise they don’t bother you. I have had some that tended to bruise the bone on my wrist a little, but that was during VERY long runs. The 310 doesn’t do that.</p>
<p>Got the bezel touch Garmin for free, because Garmin sponsored my tri team and I hate it.
I have been using my trusty “laptop” size one that MOWC referenced and love it. It looks like I could use it to contact the mothership, but its size has never bothered me, and I dread the day it ceases to work.</p>
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<p>Daughter is 5-5 107 pounds, wife is 5-3 115 pounds. </p>
<p>A small North Face is big on our daughter. I need to get my wife to try on my daughter’s North Face for a baseline. Based on this, would it be best to go with a Small in Arctyrex for our daughter?</p>
<p>There are a lot of different styles in the Arctyrex. I think a small would be worth a try. I am 5’4", 113ish and I thought the small in the one I have was too small.</p>
<p>BC, you need to feed that girl!!</p>
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<p>Go figure. The scale is always crazy. Yesterday morning, I weighed the most I’ve weighed since Christmas. This morning, I weighed the least I’ve weighed since Christmas - a one-day swing of over 3 pounds. There’s no rhyme nor reason to it.</p>
<p>Planet Fitness workout for me this afternoon. Peak rush hour starting at 5:45. They do the craziest thing I’ve ever seen. Boxes and boxes and boxes of free pizza on Monday nights. That’s like the last thing on earth anyone interested in fitness should be eating. Anyway, the place was packed to the rafters, but I got in a good solid workout. Including Pallof presses and [half-kneeling</a> chops](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4TjIXqIKyY]half-kneeling”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4TjIXqIKyY) on the cable machines (with my trusty Airex pad!)</p>
<p>Lots of people doing wrist curls again, but a lot of people doing good solid workouts, including a guy doing a superset of burpees and 10 unassisted chin-ups. Another guy doing rollouts with the barbell.</p>
<p>Water weight can be a significant factor in short term weight swings.</p>
<p>Water weight can be significantly affected by glycogen loading. In “bonk” state or close to it (e.g. after very low carb dieting, or lots of exercise which uses up all of your glycogen), you may have a pound less glycogen than the average state, and perhaps up to two pounds less than in a fully carb-loaded state (what one gets into after eating a high carb meal soon after the last hard workout to “fill up the glycogen tank” before a long event like a marathon). But each pound of glycogen causes four pounds of water retention or something like that.</p>
<p>I try not to let the short term weight swings bother me…but interesteddad…it’s annoying to see, isn’t it?</p>
<p>I figure I will feel better after I lose 5 pounds…which translates to approximately 5 pounds less. I’m kidding. 1 inch off the waste.</p>
<p>My wife is grilling salmon tonight. Salmon doesn’t weigh much. 
I might have to weigh myself tomorrow. </p>
<p>This might have been mentioned before on this thread, but I think there is a study somewhere, that came to the conclusion that if you weigh yourself multiple times during a day, you will lose more weight…or keep
your weight off. </p>
<p>I tried this too…and it worked for me…but I am trying not to do that this time. Plus…I work in a small office in a small office building and I
like to weigh myself in front of a glass front door with very little clothes on. What can I say? I like the flooring there. :)</p>
<p>UCBalumnus…are you a chemist or a chemical engineer? Or are you just smart?</p>
<p>I weigh myself every morning, my goal is for the lowest number I see during the week to drop every week. I don’t worry too much about the daily fluctuations.</p>
<p>Sounds good…</p>
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<p>Probably both.</p>
<p>I read somewhere that your water weight can fluctuate by 3 pounds in either direction. I guess if you had a salty meal and are retaining water, it can really throw the readings off. It is amazing to think you have “lost” (or gained) 3 pounds overnight.</p>