April 2019 Monthly Running Challenge

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  • amirahdaboss
    amirahdaboss Posts: 921 Member
    Happy birthday @elise4270! Eat all the carbs!
  • shanaber
    shanaber Posts: 6,423 Member
    @7lenny7 - I missed that you were having Achilles pain! I had to go back to the March thread to see what happened. Hope it is nothing serious!
  • quilteryoyo
    quilteryoyo Posts: 6,532 Member
    edited April 2019
    4/1 R=2.25 miles W=1.7 miles
    4/2 R=0.0 miles W=1.65 miles

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    I was supposed to play tennis this morning, but the organizer had unexpected company, so it was cancelled. I'm sort of glad because my left calf was feeling a little weird last night. It was "hurting" at the place where I tore the muscle a few years back while playing tennis. It really needed a rest from pounding today. So, I took a nice walk instead.

    Edited: Is anyone else having trouble with the ticker? What it is posting is NOT what the ticker says when I copy the URL. Then, it later seems to magically change to be correct. As of this typing, it is still wrong and not showing the added 1.65 miles.
  • Mari33a
    Mari33a Posts: 1,281 Member
    01/04 1.73 miles
    02/04 3.42 miles


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  • Butterchop
    Butterchop Posts: 203 Member
    Happy birthday @Elise4270
  • shanaber
    shanaber Posts: 6,423 Member
    @zeesparrow - just run your race at your pace, whatever you are comfortable with and most importantly - have fun!
    @amymoreorless - I typically taper 1 week for a HM. Not sure if you are looking for tapering for that or about your Marathon in May. If the HM this weekend is just a training run, maybe don't taper at all? I mean you did just run 18 so 13.1 is easy peasy right?
  • Sparx_81
    Sparx_81 Posts: 403 Member
    Avidkeo wrote: »
    Sparx_81 wrote: »
    This!
    PastorVincent wrote: »
    AS FOR THE DIET QUESTION

    In general, I tell people that ask me, "Try to eat natural foods, avoid sugar and additives, and eat a variety. Drink water, herbal tea, and other zero calorie drinks when you can." I fall in the camp that for most people, it is their lack of activity that is the biggest factor in their health, and less so their diet.

    I think people do try to over complicate weight loss, but at the end of the day it is "technically" simple. The difficulty comes from our emotions, mental state, hormones, our economy (I can buy a big bag of chips and a box of fish fingers or I can buy a bunch of bananas) etc etc etc. How your parents dealth with food can be a huge influence too, I was always taught to finish my plate, regardless of how full I was, I'm still trying to stop when I'm full....

    Medication also can play a part but only to a certain degree. I just had my implanon removed and I dropped about 2kg within the week! I had also noticed my taste had changed and my appetite had gone up with it! But that could just be a placebo effect?

    It's a case of finding what works for you and sticking with that. At the age of 37 and still 25kg over weight I still haven't found my solution, but I will!

    Another big thing is an inability to cook from scratch anymore! Every meal has to come in a box with instructions, we are sold this concept of being "time poor" despite also "binge watching" Netflix and having a load of gadgets in the house designed to save time. Our lives are simplified so much that they are now more complicated than ever!

    In essence the equation of weightloss,
    calories in < calories out = weight loss,
    is simple. Putting that equation into practice is the difficulty!

    so much this. especially the highlighted points.
    When I first started losing weight this time around the only change I made was to finish eating when ever I felt satisfied. I lost 10kg (22lb) doing that. then I had to change things up a bit as I adapted.

    and as for the implant. I was getting a raging appetite everytime I got my period, and I was getting my period every 2 weeks for 11 months!!! I finally took it out and those symptoms stopped immediately. Dropped about 6kg since then - that was september.

    I honestly just kept trying to tell myself that it was just a placebo... I had stopped feeding my son (at 18 months) at the same time as getting the implant so ikept trying to tell myself that it couldn't be the implant... But no matter how hard I tried I just couldn't lose weight... Normally my high weight levels out at 90kg but I went all the way to 105kg... So decided it was worth a try to take it out! I'm now back under 95kg and continuing to lose. And I haven't made any huge changes...
  • Avidkeo
    Avidkeo Posts: 3,211 Member
    Sparx_81 wrote: »
    Avidkeo wrote: »
    Sparx_81 wrote: »
    This!
    PastorVincent wrote: »
    AS FOR THE DIET QUESTION

    In general, I tell people that ask me, "Try to eat natural foods, avoid sugar and additives, and eat a variety. Drink water, herbal tea, and other zero calorie drinks when you can." I fall in the camp that for most people, it is their lack of activity that is the biggest factor in their health, and less so their diet.

    I think people do try to over complicate weight loss, but at the end of the day it is "technically" simple. The difficulty comes from our emotions, mental state, hormones, our economy (I can buy a big bag of chips and a box of fish fingers or I can buy a bunch of bananas) etc etc etc. How your parents dealth with food can be a huge influence too, I was always taught to finish my plate, regardless of how full I was, I'm still trying to stop when I'm full....

    Medication also can play a part but only to a certain degree. I just had my implanon removed and I dropped about 2kg within the week! I had also noticed my taste had changed and my appetite had gone up with it! But that could just be a placebo effect?

    It's a case of finding what works for you and sticking with that. At the age of 37 and still 25kg over weight I still haven't found my solution, but I will!

    Another big thing is an inability to cook from scratch anymore! Every meal has to come in a box with instructions, we are sold this concept of being "time poor" despite also "binge watching" Netflix and having a load of gadgets in the house designed to save time. Our lives are simplified so much that they are now more complicated than ever!

    In essence the equation of weightloss,
    calories in < calories out = weight loss,
    is simple. Putting that equation into practice is the difficulty!

    so much this. especially the highlighted points.
    When I first started losing weight this time around the only change I made was to finish eating when ever I felt satisfied. I lost 10kg (22lb) doing that. then I had to change things up a bit as I adapted.

    and as for the implant. I was getting a raging appetite everytime I got my period, and I was getting my period every 2 weeks for 11 months!!! I finally took it out and those symptoms stopped immediately. Dropped about 6kg since then - that was september.

    I honestly just kept trying to tell myself that it was just a placebo... I had stopped feeding my son (at 18 months) at the same time as getting the implant so ikept trying to tell myself that it couldn't be the implant... But no matter how hard I tried I just couldn't lose weight... Normally my high weight levels out at 90kg but I went all the way to 105kg... So decided it was worth a try to take it out! I'm now back under 95kg and continuing to lose. And I haven't made any huge changes...

    Definitely not, granted I'm anecdotal evidence but I struggled too. The reason I gained weight was because I had a raging appetite and wasnt controlling what I was eating no matter how hard I tried. And a Google showed others with the same results. Granted not scientific but as soon as I took it out, all my symptoms evaporated. My other symptoms was complete loss of sex drive. Back to normal as soon as it was taken out.
  • quilteryoyo
    quilteryoyo Posts: 6,532 Member
    katharmonic wrote: »
    Date :::: Miles :::: Cumulative
    04/01/19 :::: 3.8 :::: 3.8
    04/02/19 :::: 2.7 :::: 6.5

    Squeezed in a treadmill run early before circuit training again, despite very poor sleeping last night. Circuit training was a lot of upper body work - and I made it 26 bars on the monkey bars (last week 17)! Just 4 short of the whole way across (I think - it was close). I totally lost grip at the end. I was very excited though.

    Just to add to the stress for today, a campus-wide computer outage happened at about 3:15 pm. I have no idea when I had last saved the document I was working on for my big project, but I think it was pretty shortly before that so I'm hopeful I didn't lose much. I would have needed to leave soon after anyway but it was not good for my mental health to sit and worry, so I took off immediately and got my car washed, the dog let out and fed, and then headed to the airport to pick up our interviewee. I heard the outage was still happening at 5:00 so I'm glad I left. The good part of the whole day was a really good dinner at this nice Thai restaurant downtown and some great wine to go with it - because they were out of the particular wine we ordered they gave us a more expensive wine for the same price and it was fab.
    Great job on almost getting across the monkey bars. Soon we'll be celebrating you making all the way across. Hope you didn't lose much of your work. I know that is stressful. Glad your day ended on a high note.
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