ebtaylor137 Member

Weirdly, running is a skill, no matter how natural it seems. Last year I did the Zombies Run 5k training plan. I started able to jog for about a minute, and ended with a 5k in March. I loved it, but after that I basically stopped running or doing any real endurance exercise before deciding to try for a 10k this year. First…

Hello! I'm 23 and have nearly seventy pounds to my goal. Always struggled with weight but I really want to make a commitment. I'm breaking it up, I have 13 pounds to my first goal and am excited. I would love to have some friends along the way to motivate each other!

Congrats! I'm looking forward to that as well, hopefully soon! I weighed the same when I started around the same time. For me, getting below 200 will also get me out of the obese weight range, so I'm excited. Again, congrats on your success!!!!!!!

Thanks for all the feedback! I just wanted to clarify the not injury prone thing wasn't really based on c25k, more on just my life, I have high energy, heavy and repetitive activities, for my jobs (landscaping, grounds maintenance). Just never been injured, even as co-workers were having issues, and haven't ever been…

This is my who knows how many times. This time really feels different though, and I've been on here consistently for over a month, and I have no urge to stop. Honestly three things have kept me on: 1) Having an iPhone and using the app for it. It makes searching so much easier when you can just scan a barcode and don't…

I got decaf coffee specifically for this. It's not as good a cure as caffeinated coffee, but sleeping also stops those food cravings, so I want to do that sometime too. Also I'm a little bit of a coffee snob and am having trouble finding decaf coffee that tastes decent.

Me too! My booty right now is A+ for real, I hope it comes out okay with my weight loss!

I've made this "resolution" many times, but I hope this time it's for real. I'm still new this time though. My aha this time was just the final realization that my eating's out of control and it's the reason I'm overweight. I just realized that yeah, I'm obese, and it's not going to get better and probably will only get…

My dad took me hiking, camping, and we made a garden together. He was really into birds so he taught me bird ID, but I got really into plant ID, which he fostered. I went to school for systematic botany. I think camping and gardening are both good, especially for girls as it encourages self-sufficiency and creative problem…

I'm vegan! Have been for years, feel free to add me. Are you going from omni to vegan or vegetarian to vegan? I didn't find the transition from vegetarian to vegan to be too difficult, I can answer questions or anything about it.

I know I can't eat a real meal anywhere near when I exercise, or my stomach starts to revolt. I'll try part of a smoothie or part of a banana or something easy as recommended if the exercising before breakfast doesn't work.

It's good hearing from all the exercise before breakfast people! I used to not eat breakfast at all in middle and high school, it made me feel nauseous and I wouldn't eat until lunch. But then I started for some reason, and now I'm stuck with the idea that you must have breakfast as soon as you wake up and not move much…

I'm face blind too! I'm always like is this person supposed to be attractive? The faces I find most attractive are the distinctive faces, the ones with crooked noses or big ears, distinctive hair or something, because those are the ones who don't look just like everyone else!

I'm about to start week 4, but it really just got cold and windy around here and I don't think I have the appropriate layers for it. But I love the app! It's got me actually looking forward to running! My last run was the best I've ever run anything since I was a kid.

Speaking of grandmas, when I went to horse camp as a teenager, it was a week long and I'd been before, someone asked me about the physical exertion of it all, and I told them it was hard on Monday through Wednesday, Wednesday was the worst, but by Thursday and Friday you'd gotten used to it. Someone else asked my grandma…

Oh wow, thanks so much, this is great!

I wish I could do that with my dog. He hates hills as much as I do, sometimes I have to pull him.

I used to get spring rolls, veggie lo mein, and tofu with garlic sauce which comes with rice and eat it all in one sitting for lunch once a week or every other week. That stopped when my mom got to know the family that runs the restaurant and I was paranoid they'd mention it to her. Chinese and Thai takeout are the best,…

Me too! I don't go through quite as much gum because I forget I'm in this habit... I'll agonize about food and then all of a sudden I'll be like, oh, gum! I don't even like gum, but the chewing plus the minty flavor tends to cut my cravings. When the cravings get too bad though, I go for the coffee. I'm a complete coffee…

In college, I regularly on a weekend day when I had to hole up and study would take a trip to the campus convenience store, get a full sized bag of Doritos Sweet Nacho chips, one of those Alternative Baking Company giant vegan cookies that are two servings a cookie, and a bottle of ginger ale, and eat it all in one…

Oh man I got shin splints as well starting out. But I didn't want to break, and since I knew I had the right shoes, I iced my muscles, rested and stretched as much as possible when not running, did extra heel lifts and all that and even though I kept running, they got less and less. Those muscles are still a little tight…

Right now I'm craving to just go to town on a carton of peanuts at my mom's house. Salty, oily, delicious peanuts.