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Today I ran my first 5K...and was in the top 10 finishers for my age and gender.
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Sunday night check-in: What a day. Had a nice nap (kinda needed one after waking up at 4:00 in the morning) then took the boyfriend out to go shopping. Had to pick up a car battery for my father, so I got a little bit of an extra workout lugging that thing around - also got some clothes to modify into costumes for an event…
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Week 2: Weight: 208.4 lb Change: -2.2 lb Journal logged and completed: 7 days Daily exercise completed: 4 days, I think? Weekly challenge completed: Not sure. Lost count on distances toward the end of the week. According to my phone, between BOTH intentional workouts and daily activity, I walked/ran 21.91miles, but again,…
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Update: finished, didn't quite make my stretch goal time but considering I've been too basically dead to really do my training the way I planned to I think I came close enough. What really surprised me, though, was my place in the standings. When I first checked my time I was kinda disappointed. I was last in my gender/age…
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Sunday update: Ran my actual first 5K. Made it to the one I found yesterday (before they ran out of T-shirts for on-site sign ups, even) and I ran it. I just finished a little over half an hour ago. Barely missed my stretch goal time of 30 minutes. Came close enough that I imagine I could have made it if I hadn't crashed…
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Sunday: Made it to the run I found yesterday! Still far from feeling 100% (I still can't face the photo booth, for one thing), but things ARE looking up. I thought for sure something was going to happen again but nope - traffic was almost nonexistent, my car behaved, I made it out the door on time, I had money for…
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Cheat days: necessary for some people, helpful but unnecessary to others, detrimental to others still. It's a very individual thing. For me, personally, I need them - I have a disorder that results in binging if I burn myself out too badly; I take them when I feel a binge coming on but I still do have some degree of…
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Thanks to both of you. I...actually found another event I can try for tomorrow. They have on-site registration, and it's in a place I know and like and it's for a cancer charity so the only reason I should even consider not doing it is if I have another alarm clock incident or if I don't find my wallet by morning. If it…
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Not offended at all. I appreciate everyone's support, even if...not much is really helping. I found another race I can try instead tomorrow. I'm kind of in a hurry to do something this weekend because after missing this morning I just feel like "that's it, nothing changes, nothing ever will, I can plan and plan and plan…
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Well guys, you're never gonna guess what happened: my alarm didn't go off and I missed my race. I checked that alarm a dozen times to make sure it was set and going to get me up. It still didn't go off. I...am not doing great today. Everything from the last two days is still getting to me...and now this. I want to be mad…
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I can't change any of it. I've tried. I've tried to give up and change my goals but I can't. There's nothing I like or want out of life that I can achieve while being this gross. I just missed my race. My alarm didn't go off. I checked obsessively to make sure it was set to the correct time and unmuted, and it still didn't…
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@Fyreside - Unfortunately, for me, it's never worked like that and never will. I've had a therapist tell me I was too ugly to know my own identity - that has stuck with me pretty badly and I want to prove her wrong by being the same person she said I was too ugly to say I was, while actually looking good. In all of my…
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Well, for the past two days...physically, I've been okay. Mentally, I'm pretty much gone. A friend of mine accidentally brought up everything I hate and fear about my body and admitted he's been critical of me as more of an intrusive thought than anything he really means...despite the fact that he meant no harm by it, long…
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Well, my first race starts in 12 and a half hours and I am...well, physically I'm ready. Mentally the past two days have really been...bad. Long story short, a (possibly ex) friend let it slip when talking about his own anxiety that he sometimes wonders why some people - including me - even bother going out in costume,…
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My ex-roommate did. He called it concern...truthfully it was mostly jealousy. When I was just going for portion sizes that prompted him to confront that maybe, just maybe, three large potatoes drowned in butter did NOT constitute a healthy meal, suddenly I "wasn't eating enough" and was "taking this weight loss effort way…
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Well, I sucked at the math test - went completely blank on a lot of it - but I'm finally mostly reset. Came back from the test to discover that I'd left my lunch at home...whoops. Got lunch at a local restaurant - usually when I do that, I ask them to box up half of it first, but I forgot to do that; still only ate half of…
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Agreed on that - at the end of the day, we can be as encouraging as we want, but some people aren't going to respond as well as they'd anticipated they would. It's a sad fact of life - especially on platforms like this, where a lot of people are looking for encouragement because their conscious minds are ready for change,…
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Good morning. Yesterday sure was...A Day. Had delayed onset stress sickness even though emotionally I felt better...otherwise, mentally, I was gone. I ate way more than I planned to...because I kept losing track of what day it was. I kept thinking "I haven't eaten much today. I should go grab something." - even after I'd…
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Well, my off day continues into a second off day...luckily not entirely of the derailing variety. On the down side, I ate more than I wanted to - not because I lost control, but because I was so disoriented I lost track of what day it was - but my whole losing track of time issue of the day continued at the gym. Decided to…
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Well, the good news is that mentally I'm doing a lot better than yesterday. Physically, however, some of my stress sickness was delayed onset...AND I seem to be having a mild IBS flare. Either of those tend to suck. Both at the same time...days like this are the reason the word "ugh" was invented. End R17: 211.2 9/30:…
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Okay then. I'm not going to tell you to stop comparing yourself to others. That would make me a massive hypocrite. I know that's a million times easier said than done. What you need to do is work around that tendency to compare yourself to others - make it into a positive. Okay, maybe lots of people are making faster…
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Not an ex as in someone I once dated, but my ex-roommate still lives in the same building as me and we have kind of the reverse situation going on - I've been gaining back and losing the same 10 pounds since he moved out at the beginning of the year, but he's been gaining...fast. It's kind of cathartic in a schadenfreude-y…
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Nice! Who are some characters you want to cosplay?
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I didn't get over it and I never will - I changed in how I acted on it, but the drive didn't go away. See, there's a blog I follow that analyzes common unspoken social rules, and they pointed out something that changed the way I think about this kind of thing forever: as much as we demonize "attention-seeking", literally…
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Our ancestors got by on a steady diet of whatever they could fit in their face holes that didn't poison them to death. Humans are a highly adaptable species - and a highly varied one. That may be disappointing if you're looking for guidance about what your body is "optimized" to eat, but, well, unless you're asking a…
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Well, I feel a lot better after a good lunch and going on a nice evening run in the park. It's the first time in years I've built up the courage to go on an outdoor run that wasn't part of a class or event. Even found ways to work the playground equipment into the whole thing, which was a lot of fun. According to my phone,…
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I'm just going to say that a significant part of the reason I'm on MFP in the first place is that I want to look better in my cosplay photos.
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Judging by the fact that you're asking this question, one huge factor may be mental - I say this because it's a problem that I have, and it's pretty common. You seem to be having a hard time seeing a difference between slow progress and no progress - and that can be incredibly discouraging, and when you get discouraged,…
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@burly_man308 - The first one I've got coming up is the Hot & Dirty Zombie Invasion - and I've been thinking about adding a Spartan race to my list of upcoming events, but I'm a little nervous about it; it seems pretty intense for where I'm currently at. Speaking from experience, what's it like?
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I feel you. The stomach flu is the worst...and I, too, will often jokingly appreciate how much faster it makes me lose weight when I get it because anything to make it more bearable is welcome. Hope you feel better soon!
