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I am doing couch25k now, I am in week 8. I would just echo going super slow. My pace early on was almost 15 minutes/mile. I was really just focused on keeping the gait and not dropping my arms. I am down to right around 13. I won’t be running 5k in 30 minutes at the end of the program, but I am going to move on to the…

I have asthma and I am currently in week 8 of couch25k- just got done running 28 minutes. I had several stops and starts with the program and wasn’t really able to do the program until I had spent several months working on walking, getting up to 7 miles without being winded. I also had to start taking my maintence meds…

I have been using it for several years. I like it a lot. My weight fluctuates by 5-8 lbs over the course of the month due to water weight, so it helps give me a better perspective on if I am losing, gaining or maintaining.

I want to be able to wear a tshirt again and look okay. Any size would be fine. I think this will happen at about a size 8 jeans and a large tshirt. Currently in a size 12 jeans. All my weight is in my stomach. And my face. Sigh.

I am 5'8" and my goal weight is 158. I doubt I will stay there- 165ish seems to be a weight I can maintain. I am currently 176 after several injuries and health issues. I do have a large frame, and I look skinny at 158 and wear a size 6 (or 4 in vanity sizing) at that weight, which I will like for a while. At 165 I am a…

I think we read the same posts yesterday, OP! I was getting that sense, too- too many people saying things like "I lost 100 pounds and I barely did anything different- I don't know what everyone's problem is!" I read a lot and never post, but just wanted to respond because I got that feeling yesterday, too!

I second psychgrrl's reply. I work at a university and I actually love to eat there because all the food is Aramark. I can even use the salad bar scale to weigh things if I like. Our university also puts some nutritional info on the dining services website. My guess is you can find this information. Good luck!

This is a great thread, and really helped me today. I weigh every day and track my weight with Happy Scale, but my weight varies ALOT. Today my 10-day moving average went up and it says I gained 1.4 lbs. last week. I am still down 11 lbs since the end of August, and I know the weight gain isn't real, but it is still THERE.…

I say take the baby with you in a stroller or carrier. I used to walk for hours when they were smaller with them in the double stroller- I couldn't get work done without child care, so I figured I might as well be out and about. My kids are a bit older now, and it took me awhile to adjust to them being too big to put in a…

Honestly, it is really good for me to be asked and give real answers. I feel like not very many people share my (our?!) body type. Which doesn't mean there is anything good or bad about it- I just think it makes it even harder to have an "accurate" body image.

Oh, this is interesting. I have MapMyWalk but maybe I would be better off with the hike app. Most of my walks start out as walks headed to hiking areas. I could probably use the recommendations.

My original start weight was 192. My recent return to MFP weight was 177 :)

OP, your post really resonated with me. We are the same height, I share your body description except I have narrow shoulders (oddly, with thick wrists and ankles and a broad rib cage). I definitely have a thick waist (even when I was younger and in the 130s), but also don't look like an apple. The first time I lost weight…

Getting enough sleep has changed my life. I don't think it is directly helping me lose weight. However, my weight problems in the past few years have been caused by getting serious injuries or illnesses and then gaining weight. I think those injuries and illnesses were caused/exacerbated by lack of sleep. I also seem to be…

This happened to me multiple times in the past. I think the problem included not eating back exercise calories, so I wasn't eating enough. My doctor concluded that I wasn't sleeping enough. Changing those two things seem to have (knock on wood) solved the problems. It sounds like you may not be eating enough!

Threads and conversations like this kind of hit a nerve with me. The numbers quoted above are about right on for me- I have two kids (ages 4 and 6) and I weigh about 20lbs more than I did before I had them. I am trying to lose 10 of that, but I am going to maintain at 10 over, which is where I was for a while until I ate…

I did 18:6 about 6 weeks. I had some weird hormone fluctuations and ended up gaining 10lbs. I didn't log anything (which was what drew me to the plan) but the real issue was that I had trouble stopping eating during the window. I would break the fast with a filling, healthy, high fat and moderate protein meal, and then not…

This is my first participation on here- I have to say, high horses drive me crazy. Where I live in Colorado, almost everyone is thin and looks fit, but a lot of people have diets I think are bordering on eating disorders, and they are very evangelical about them. I think it may soon be a crime to eat gluten here, and there…