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Honestly you look like an hourglass shape to begin with - strength training and a modest amount of fat loss should get you the results you want. Not in two weeks, though! Take measurements so you can track your progress, and focus on making your routine fun so you will want to keep it up.

I made my modified goal which is to not give up and keep running. Life is kicking my *kitten* though. My mom is needing 24/7 care. The new thing is we got a lady to stay with my mom overnight so we could get some sleep, and the lady had a heart attack on the third night! She’s going to be fine but we are back to no help,…

I’m lucky enough to have zero side effects with metformin, but I understand it can be rough. If it’s causing actual pain you should definitely not be taking it! Diet and exercise, as well as losing weight, can make a huge difference. Time your cardio to after meals so it lowers your glucose, and do some strength training…

I’m already married, so can’t answer the original question. I did date a bodybuilder once and we both decided it didn’t work. To be that fit requires a significant investment in time and energy, and in his case it didn’t leave much for other pursuits. He was the classic stereotype of a bro who is too into his own looks to…

Re: push-ups - a lot depends where you are right now in your training. As a completely unfit 50 year old woman, I went from no hint of muscle in my chest or arms to nicely defined chest and arm muscles in about a year of mainly pushups. I’m not huge, but as an older woman I get occasional “wow your arms and back are…

Still stuck in, still not being allowed time to sleep. “Long run” down to 5 miles, barely running, since we got about 4 hrs sleep every night for the last week. But still doing it. Also, saw a bunny.

My May goal is just to keep on chooglin’ - so far so good - living with my mom temporarily and hoping she improves enough to be safely able to keep living independently. I am not getting any time for sleep, but managed to get in at least some sort of run every planned run day except for one, when I was just too tired and…

Still hanging in there. Day 3 with my mom back from the hospital and if I could live without sleeping I’d be doing okay. She is honestly better than expected mentally - yesterday she was sharper than she’s been in months - but unfortunately worse than expected physically. Her hematocrit is super low and her blood pressure…

Re: Oreos - when I was a child my best friend and I were having a sleep over. We snuck down to the kitchen after lights out and absconded with a whole box of Oreos and a whole tub of cool whip, and ate the cool whip by dipping Oreos in it. We ate it all and hid the evidence. All went well until a couple of days later when…

They are releasing my mom today. She is not mentally with it. I am going to have to stay with her for a while. I really am not willing to do 24/7 care - we did that for my father for a while and split between 3 people it just about killed all three of us. It was a mistake. And we don’t have three people now, just me. If…

No need to panic! There’s a learning curve but you got this. I was morbidly obese with an a1c of 11 when I was diagnosed, and I’m now headed into my fourth year at a normal BMI with a1c consistently under 5. It’s good that you are looking stuff up on your own, since doctors vary in how they treat diabetes and every…

My mom’s surgery to remove her kidney stone went well, as far as I can tell from reading the surgical notes. The nurse offered to let me talk to her and I could hear her say, “I don’t want to talk to anyone!” which I don’t doubt right after having anesthesia. I told the nurse to tell her I loved her and would call in the…

Still dealing with mom in the hospital - there’s a new source of drama each day - today’s drama was that they did an ultrasound on her kidneys and found a massive stone (this is in addition to everything else going on), were still consulting about what to do about it when I called, so I asked the nurse to call me when they…

Thanks for the support, guys, it means a lot. We got a hold of someone for an explanation about the room and his version of the story was that that USED to be the Covid ward but now there is not a dedicated Covid ward anymore and Covid patients are scattered throughout the hospital, so there’s really no greater risk there.…

Details of my situation are in the nutritional accountability thread on the Challenge group forum. TLDR version my mom is in the hospital with pneumonia and it’s not going great. My run day was Monday but I didn’t manage a run, did get out for a brief hike in the woods across from the hospital. Got up early the next day in…

@swenson19d No kitten yet, which is good, because I’m all out of spoons right now. @quilteryoyo I keep meaning to ask, do you get the 17 year cicadas where you are? We don’t get them in West Tennessee but I know they do in some parts of East Tennessee. @shanaber Stupidly she has no fever! But you would think that the EMTs…

Today was a day. Started last night actually when my mom didn’t answer the phone in response to my daily call. Got the cops over there (she is way out in the country and it’s not fast for us to get there) and they called the EMTs because she had fallen and couldn’t get up. She somehow managed to convince the EMTs she was…

150-200 g carbs daily isn’t a lot. I’m a diabetic who controls my blood glucose through exercise and diet, and I try never to eat below 150 g net carbs daily, because I feel better and have more regular blood sugar at this level. My a1c has been consistently below 5 while never going below 150. As long as the carbs you eat…

I think you’re very brave getting out there after your fall! I’m glad it ended up being a confidence builder.

Memphis is actually raffling off a car trying to encourage people to get vaccinated. Makes me a little sick, thinking of all the people in India who would do anything for a vaccine, we have them and don’t care. Read an article this morning, I can’t remember the exact percent of fully vaccinated here but it’s about 25%,…

It may be easier not to have certain foods in the house for a while, until you learn to moderate them and eat only some, not the whole box. When I first started I couldn’t be around cookies, chips, and so on, and my husband was kind enough to swap to varieties that he likes and I don’t. Meal planning can definitely help,…

I’m here! I’ve been reading and liking every day but haven’t felt much like posting since my runs haven’t been great. It seems like a bunch of us have been under the weather. @WhatMeRunning I hope you are okay! This last week I completed my usual number of miles, which is a step forward, even if they were slower and harder…

Chances are good you will be protected after the first dose - 80% of people are. The difference in immunity between the first and second doses has been repeatedly misrepresented by the press and others, including Dr. Fauci, who should know better. There’s no evidence for “partial immunity” after the first dose - that isn’t…

I’m vaccinated but I’m not up for breathing indoor air with unvaccinated people. The CDC is using resuming normal life as a carrot to get the vaccine hesitant to take the vaccine, and I appreciate that, but statistically it’s not time yet. Depending on whose study you look at, the vaccine prevents about 19 out of 20…

This is good advice! I often tell new people who are feeling overwhelmed to just start by eating and acting normally and log everything without trying to change anything for a couple of weeks, just to see where they are now. In addition to identifying foods which may be easy to swap for others, take a look at patterns of…

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So, yeah, haven’t posted my last couple of runs because I suck and it’s sad. I am just not running well at the moment - wondering if my stomach bug was actually something more serious. Ran 10k easy pace last Wednesday and it was one of those runs where you pray and bargain the whole way, saying you only have to make it to…

Monthly question: So far I haven’t fallen off the running wagon. I have kinda been thrown from the horse by being injured, but considering I spent the whole time wishing I could run and trying to run, I don’t think that counts. What keeps me running is wanting to eat. I am diabetic and can’t eat very many carbs unless I…

I had a big diastasis recti when I started losing weight, due mostly to obesity but also to a large ovarian tumor. I had like a five inch gap and when I did crunches you could see a huge bulge protruding between my abs. After a lot of work it is completely closed up now. So don’t give up yet, you might not need surgery.…

Okay, if you’ve been trying and failing for three years you need to try something different. Doing the same thing is never going to work. Here’s my suggestion. Stop dieting, stop trying to “eat healthy” whatever that is, and figure out one small change to your permanent life which will net you 250 more calories per day.…