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To each their own. I will continue to drink large quantities of diet soda. lol

Mine wasn't really about physical appearance. About 6 years ago, I was diagnosed pre-diabetic. I lost 85 pounds and have kept it off.

Sometimes a good splurge gives me the energy to create deficits in the days ahead. Just don't let it be the start of a habit or trend.

Let me simplify this. You are on a beta blocker which lowers your heart rate. However, if you are concerned you are sabotaging your weight loss by taking a beta blocker then you don't need to worry.

I would say that starting to aggressive is probably more to blame than the stretching part. It is pretty important to work yourself up slowly to avoid injury.

For what it is worth, this happened to me all the time. Once I lost weight, the numbness went away. I'm not sure if this applied to you or not.

Agree, go with the watch calories burned.

Agree with most people here, I find anything above 1% incline is actually harder than pounding the pavement.

Also, keep sustainability in mind. You want to build on a lifestyle that you can maintain forever.

I like your strategy courtney. If you let yourself get too hungry then you may try to overcompensate. If you eat up to maintenance on occasion then you won't be taking a step backwards.

Definitely my face.

Perfect.

If I run pretty hard on a treadmill (5'11'', 180 lbs), according to my garmin I will burn approximately 700-750 calories in an hour. Some people may burn 1000 calories +, but my guess is most of them are overestimating their burn.

I just ordered a SPIbelt running belt.

Ouch meandering, so sorry to hear that.

Yeah silver..I feel the same way when I am on the treadmill at the gym with other people around me and don't want to let the gas flow.

I have Garmin vivoactive HR and I love it. Agree with Meandering in that super high accuracy heart rate is generally not needed for 99 percent of the people who use a heart rate monitor. I use it to get a feel for my resting heart rate and to get a general idea of what my heart rate is doing during a workout. That's it.

About 5 years ago I lost about 85-90 pounds via running. I started off doing run-walks on a treadmill. When I started to feel too comfortable, I would bump up the speed and duration. Don't go too hard out of the gate so you don't injured yourself. Now, I can run a 5 K in 23-24 minutes depending on the course and can run…

I laid a big log.

Yeah.. 2600 isn't binging. That's surviving. 3500-4000 is binging. :D

It is a long journey, no doubt. I think other people are just jealous :)

I have vivoactive HR and I love it..if anything it seems to be conservative on calorie expenditure.

Pretty sure everything at the cheesecake factory is a calorie bomb no matter how innocent they appear.

Running is fantastic for weight loss. As always, still need to be careful not to eat back your calories burned though. Proper diet is critical to weight loss.

I drink diet soda like it is going out of style and it has never once affected my weight.

Same.

The statistic is scary, however the good news is that you have control over whether you fit in the 95% or 5% bucket.

So it doesn't really hurt (social moral support), rather than it is just not as effective as competition? There is a difference.

I see we have a mathematician on our hands. ;)

I drink diet soda like it is going out of style and I have never noticed it affecting weight gain or weight loss. Sometimes I do get the urge to eat something along with it (habitual).