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Hello everyone - and happy birthday, Annie! Monday night update: I forgot to take my meds before school. That was...bad. I was sitting there trying to do math and physics but instead my brain was going a mile a minute (usually coming back to the late-October race I'm going to be signing up for - gonna be living a childhood…

Sunday night update: thanks again to everyone for the support. Went back to the gym tonight for more training. Feeling better, so I did a bigger workout. As for running practice, I'm doing 45 minutes on the treadmill, however far that takes me; will probably bump it up to an hour as it gets closer to event time. Tried…

I added a second event onto my October run goals. A mud run this time. I'll be fulfilling a childhood dream going through with this (I was a big fan of the old Nickelodeon game shows; always thought running one of their setups would be fun beyond belief), scaled up to my adult size and my new adult skill level.

Hey there! Part of my motivation for being here is getting in better shape for cosplay, so I'm happy to see a few other geeks around here. Hitchhiker's Guide fan? I like you already! My favorite genre is modern fantasy or sci-fi/fantasy, but I like a little bit of everything. My brain is currently doing that Thing where…

Had a C-PTSD episode about running and my fitness goals in general. Lunch ALMOST turned into an emotional binge. I caught myself, and instead of giving in or beating myself up, I went to the gym and finished up my workout with a practice run on the treadmills for the (now two) events I have coming up. That's a victory in…

Thank you both so much for the support. It means a lot. Update on that situation: I went back to the gym and officially started training for my events. At the end of everything, I got on the treadmill and decided to go the full 5K distance and just see how well I could do without really pushing myself, just going the best…

Morning all. Rough start to the day. Couldn't get to sleep last night because I was having a C-PTSD episode brought on by finding another race I want to sign up for - suddenly ended up remembering my mother telling me not to do these things because I'd just be the slowest person there and people would make fun of me. What…

Lana: Seconded what Sara said about the paperwork - err on the side of "exaggerating" your disability. Don't say what your good days are like because the people in charge of processing will read it as "I can work full time in any position 98% of the time; I just have occasional bad days - I don't really need assistance; I…

Hey, you're trying again now - that's a good sign. I'm in a similar boat - C-PTSD, GAD, and an eating disorder. Fun times![/sarcasm] I've also started over again and again and again because life and my brain get out of my control. I have no guarantees that I'll be able to make this time a permanent fix, either...…

So, I played a little bit with different ways of logging, using old data I had laying around in various apps, and I realized I was using only recording positive progress as a crutch. Which, as much as I hate that expression most of the time (why, when we use it as a metaphor, do we make it out like you don't NEED crutches…

Okay. "Lurking" nothing. Just had one of my biggest NSV's in forever and I've gotta share it. My first class of the day is stress management through physical activity. We had assessments today. Mostly issues of endurance - things like how long we could hold the boat pose, or a wall sit, or a plank; stuff like that. Well, I…

I'm taking a class in stress management through physical activity. Today we had our initial assessment. I have two NSV's from this. One: The teacher made a point to reinforce that it wasn't a competition. For the most part, I was able to take this to heart. I have not started beating myself up over the items where I was…

Lana: Good luck with the repairman. I don't blame you for not wanting to replace it; appliance manufacturing is ridiculous - unless you're looking at some kind of smart fridge, it feels like these things just get worse even though the technology to make them is improving. :/ Sara: Good luck with the doctors. Ricotta cheese…

Sedentary because although I qualify as anywhere from lightly to highly active, I use the step tracker on my phone (and plan to get a real fitness tracker one of these days) - I don't want to count my activity twice. It seems to work well for me so far, but I also recommend the "track yourself and adjust as needed" method.…

Thanks for the well wishes everyone. I'm really proud that I got to the high end of my daily intake range yesterday without going over (and I've gotta say, watching my intake while sick feels a bit like playing The Price is Right). Hoping to keep up that momentum today. Good news #1: It's definitely just a minor sinus…

Stuck to my appropriate calorie range yesterday despite being sick - usually the moment I get sick, all progress goes out the window and I binge on everything in the house trying to build myself up to make the sickness go away. Instead, this time, I just shot for the high end of my healthy range...and I did it. And I'm on…

I'm going to run my first 5k in a couple weeks! Completing that is my mini-goal for September (into early October). Qualifies as a mini-goal for me because, well, I was never really into distance running until recently - I could already go pretty far before I decided, on a whim, to sign up for this race coming up near me.

Well, I can't pretend I have a complete solution, but I do have a couple tips that help me do damage control when a binge cycle hits. One thing that occasionally helps me break out of the cycle is making it harder to get to my binge food. Put it in a lock box, or on a high shelf, or even just behind a lot of less appealing…

This is an awkward subject for me, because I tend to flirt with people without really meaning to or even knowing I'm doing it - it's just part of normal friendly interaction for me. I'm a very affectionate person; I've been known to find out several months into a relationship that someone thinks I'm interested in them as…

I just used this joke to teach my boyfriend a basic lesson in trigonometry. I had to - I had to explain why I was laughing so hard I couldn't breathe.

Thought I posted in here months ago. Guess I had some connection trouble or...something. At any rate, I'm a boy named Rose - or at least, that's an online alias. I don't really want to give out much real information because I don't need certain people who track me online finding out I have this disorder...because I have…

How much discussion is too much depends on the couple, but for the general case, I say it depends on why they bring it up. If their main concern is aesthetic...well, it depends on what you want with regards to that, but if you want it to be a long-term relationship, it's a bad sign. What are they gonna do when you get old…

Age: 28 Height: 5'9" Highest weight: 325 lb Current weight: 215.6 lb (-109.4!) Goal weight: ~160-ish? (~55 to go?) Location: Los Angeles, California Trying to lose the last of it by June 2018 for my wedding.

Tuesday: Guess who's staying home from school because he got sick! Answer: it's me. I'm not sure if it's a cold, a sinus infection, or god forbid the flu, but whatever it is I'm sore all over and I feel like someone lit a road flare, shoved it up my nose, and ran it all the way down into my stomach. This is what happens…

Thanks everyone for the support and advice - I went ahead and logged it for as of this morning; it is a little discouraging, but remembering that I was higher before offsets it a lot (I'm going to go back and add the measurements from the past few days too - I've lost a lot of "shock" weight already, so I might as well let…

You can absolutely do this!! I'm a student too, and I actually have more success during school than on the weekends and during breaks, because school doesn't give me many opportunities to boredom-eat. My trick for eating healthy when I don't have much time to cook is using some time in my evenings and weekends to make…

@Tilliesmommy1 : The wedding is June 2018! We're still in early preparation, so I've got time to pull this off - I've just gotta...not get discouraged by how slow this whole thing goes or forget that "listening" to my body doesn't mean "doing everything I feel driven to want to do, ever". Anyway, Monday morning update:…

My ex-roommate was absolutely clueless about nutrition but acted like he knew everything. He'd insist that cheese was a great source of protein, completely unaware of the amount of fat it contains. He also believed that, because potatoes and milk together do contain all the nutrients the human body needs in some amount,…

I am seeing professionals, but...well, my clinic is extremely impacted and they can't see most of their patients as often as is really ideal. Unfortunately it's the only one in my general area that I can afford to go to. As a result, a lot of the time figuring out what works best for me is just a matter of talking to…

I don't remember. I measure the amount I'm making, and I log it as I prepare it. I have a food scale, measuring cups, etc., and I use them. If I eat out, I split the meal into portions before I start eating (if the meal is more than a single serving - which it usually is) and record based on that. Where I can, I make it…