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Thank you! Sending friend requests now! :)

Yep! :) It's as much a mental battle for me as it is a physical one. Hardly seems fair haha

This is my life in a nutshell. It has been for over a year now. I have 3 children, ages 2, 8, and 11. My husband owns his own business which sounds way more wonderful than it actually is. I'm being sarcastic here but seriously, that translates to 'we are never off the clock'. In the midst of this I'm crazy enough that I've…

Hi there fellow Kentuckian! You came to the right place! You can do it! :)

^^^^That is so true! I was so clueless. The first week of measuring, weighing, and tracking what I ate blew my mind! I used to be the type that wasn't 'full' until I felt miserable from the amount of food I had eaten - most of which was done so mindlessly. You can absolutely do it! Best of luck to you!! :)

Some of the strongest people I know are single parents! No doubt about it ... you can do it! You've got this! :)

Thank you for sharing this! I may be singing a different tune after a few days, but I was loving it today. Yeah Kentucky is hot and humid and miserable right now. Yeah I was running on dusty gravel haha ... but it felt liberating! Nothing to think about except running. Now that whole Forrest Gump running across country…

I'm new to mine, but I really like it. It gets me up and moving to see myself closer to a goal. As for accuracy that's tough to be certain. My calorie burns are significantly lower than MFP 's which seems more accurate. I love ya mfp but I've always been suspicious of those calorie burns :) So in a nutshell, if you think…

I had to return to this thread to say thank you to all of you. I began C25K today. I plan on looking into the zombie app too because it just sounds awesome. The temp here reached 98 today, but I did it. I loved it! So yeah thanks to all of you for the advice and motivation! Much appreciated!! You guys are great! :)

I invested in mine yesterday. So far I'm loving it. :)

I am so pumped up about this now. First things first - SHOES! I received some excellent advice in a message on running shoes. The hunt is on! :)

Every response is great! Thank you! You guys rock!

I definitely see a difference! Great work! :)

I'm sorry you are sick! During the winter months it felt like an ongoing cycle of sickness in my house. My kids would catch a bug at school, and it would go through my 5 member family like dominoes. We had a month solid of strep throat followed by another month of flu. At one point I was on the verge of depression over it.…

Great advice thank you! ! :)

That sounds awesome lol

My love for cardio is the main reason I thought gee I can totally survive this! Clueless like Shaggy and Scooby Doo before commercial break! I remember coming home after it. My husband took one look at me and nearly died laughing. I probably looked like an abandon dog that had been spray painted or something. If I knew how…

You guys have been fantastic! Thank you for all of the advice. :)

Once again, many thanks for such a supportive and informative conversation. I had my reservations about posting it. I'm so glad that I did! I hear you. My daughter wasn't the least bit affected by having run that far. Hey they have less milage on their bodies than we do. When she was laughing about how tired I was I told…

Oh and I have a tendency to do that. I can throw caution to the wind and just dive in sometimes. It can be a great thing, but more than once it has come back to bite me in the rear end lol.

Thanks you guys!! The aftermath was just so ugly and vicious lol. No I had never done any actual running before - not for exercise or any reason really. I am a bit of a cardio addict. When my daughter asked if we could do it I was sort of clueless and said sure sweetie let's do this. Afterwards, though, I just assumed that…

"Pucks of suffering" LOL loved it thanks for sharing

You guys are awesome. Thanks for motivating and inspiring!

Nailed it! Pretty foolish move. Hind sight is 20 / 20 lol :blush:

Thanks all! I'm going to check this out and go about it the correct way this time.

You may have something there. We had it in places I didn't even know would be possible, and even following the recommended guide to cleaning it off afterwards, the purple pigment still left a stubborn stain on our skin. Thanks for the advice!

Thank you for the replies! I very much want to encourage her with her running. If it's important to my kids it's important to me. I am going to look into the suggested app!

After 30 days of using mfp I'm down 8 lbs and 2 inches off of my waist. It doesnt show this on my profile (apparently i need to reset my starting weight but im okay with it as is for the moment).That's even counting for a hand full of days where I went over a few hundred calories. Commit to it. It works! :)

I'm sorry you're depressed and in a stressful situation. I'm not sure that I have any one certain reason that motivates me. I just made a decision a while ago that I wanted to change. I was sick of spending hours shopping and only finding one decent pair of jeans that fit. I didn't like being out of breath when I played…

This is fantastic. As a forum lurker, I've noticed your posts/comments are always well thought out and informative. I spent years inundated in what I jokingly refer to as "fat fiction". It was a cycle of gimmicks and attempts at losing weight, which more often than not, ended with me gaining weight. I've learned more in a…