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Thank you again to everyone for your thoughtful and helpful responses! Oh, it's ok, I'm really not beating myself up about it. My reaction to my 50min 5km wasn't "that's a rubbish time", more like "wow, I just ran 5km and I didn't even know if I could do that!". But at the same time, I would like to get a bit faster.…

Thanks everyone! My initial assumption was that it would improve naturally with practice, but I was starting to wonder whether it ever would. It doesn't help that I don't have very good/comparable data from when I started out... @cmriverside I'm pretty short - 5'3 (and just under 200lbs, so hauling quite a lot around the…

Ugh, had a real fail of a day yesterday. It was one of those days when I was inexplicably and disproportionately starving. I ended up snacking, then snacking some more, then giving up on tracking altogether, then having a mini binge. Trying again today. If I can track everything, that will be a success. If I can also avoid…

@mmccloy12, @aliciap0116 and @bluffgirl67 - thank you for the good wishes! He's so much better than he was - he can actually get out of bed for a few hours now. I think it's going to be a long recovery though, and he's lost over 20lbs in 2 weeks. @shorepine I know that feeling when tracking just seems too hard at some…

@changeforeverlj yeah, it was pretty scary. He was at his worst just as headlines were coming out in the uk about people in their 30s dying suddenly. I had to stop reading the news for a few days... Luckily, he was only in hospital for 4 hours while they did a load of tests (but not a Covid test, you only get that if…

It feels good to start a new month! The second half of March was spent caring for and fretting over my very sick boyfriend - he's a healthy 30 year old, but coronavirus has hit him hard. As a result all excercise and tracking went out the window but I lost more than 5lbs through sheer anxiety! My numbers and goals for…

SW for March: 15st 0.5 / 210.5 GW for March: 14st 12.5 / 208.5 CW (end of March):14st 8.8 / 204.8 Wow, so much has changed in the last month. I smashed my monthly weight loss goal simply because 2 and a half weeks ago my boyfriend caught coronavirus. He's a healthy 30 year old, but it's hit him really hard and he ended up…

@svm569 I can identify with that - plenty of times I've been in the kitchen secretly binging on jaffa cakes when my bf is in a grump. Easier said than done, I know, but try not to feel terrible. These things happen, and beating yourself up only extends the cycle. Just draw a line under it, step away from the chips, and…

@lbostic89 That sounds like a super stressful day! Having to run around like a mad thing is never a good start to the morning. Maybe a bit of exercise now will actually make you feel a bit better? It can be good for decompressing I find. I'm having a good week on my goals - two runs done and under calories every day so…

Checking in a bit late here (very busy this week!). February was hard for me, and I didn't reach my (admittedly ambitious) goal, but I did lose, so I'll take that. My numbers goals are: I'm 5'3 SW: 15st 4.5 / 214.5lbs CW: 15st 0.5 / 210.5lbs GW for this month: 14st 12.5 208.5 GW for this year: 13st 5 / 187lbs (or as close…

I had a mixed day yesterday. We cooked steak at home for valentines so that was lower calorie than our usual Friday takeaway, and it was lovely getting tipsy on prosecco and talking politics. But I probably had more prosecco than I tracked for, didn't track dessert and had a minor case of secret rating. Ah well, c'est la…

Ooh, @theleadmare - maybe you could pack a fun picnic for moving day! You could take a cool bag with sandwiches and healthy snacks with your laptops and overnight bags, then you've got the food with you for whenever you and your partners need it, and you'll know what the calorie counts are already. If you're short on time…

Agreeing with everyone who says treating it as a numbers game really helps. I read 'Conquering Fat Logic' this time last year and found it massively liberating to discover that it really is as simple as a calorific defecit, enough protein and maybe some strength training. The other week when I wasn't seeing the losses I'd…

Hello everyone, I've been feeling like I could do with some people to chat to about the ups and downs and since I'm hovering around the low 15 stones / low 200 lbs this seems like the group for me! I started MFP last January at 15 st 6lbs (216 lbs), got down to the low end of the 14s (about 200lbs) by the middle of the…