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If you're anything like me, the last place you'll see weight loss is in your stomach. Although, I've never had much of a gut, I did have a little bit of a beer gut for awhile and it was the last thing to go.

Tito's Vodka and club soda with some lime and lemon.

I drink probably 3-4 times a week and it's usually pretty heavily (football season is starting), I will say that maybe I cut back a LITTLE bit when I was really losing but for the most part, I still gave myself some nights to cut loose and drink, I didn't log it, I'm well aware I went over my calories (I'm a beer drinker).…

Go to a local running store and get properly fitted. I cannot beg this enough. I spent 8 weeks in physical therapy for running in shoes that I just bought because they were "running" shoes instead of getting properly fitted. I am a flat foot as well, no arch whatsoever. I was put into Brooks GTS 14's and New Balance's (the…

I'm training for my second half marathon in 2 weeks. I'm a dummy though!!

My HRM typically showed me as burning a little less than what MFP sets for exercises. That being said, on some of my longer runs, my HRM has me burning more than what MFP says as well. That's why I finally bucked up and decided to buy a Polar watch and HRM because I wanted to know as realistically as possible what I was…

I trained with a local running store who sets up training groups for my first half. It started in January and the half marathon was the first weekend in May so, basically 4 months.

FitBit is garbage. I used it for 6 months and it's sitting on my nightstand collecting dust. You want real, accurate calorie burned information? Go buy a Polar HRM and wear it, you'll be surprised how little those steps you take burn all day.

And this my friend is why a FitBit is so unreliable and a total waste of money.

Yikes! If that is the mental stability you are working with, perhaps running a marathon isn't a great idea because it's going to take a lot more than getting upset because some people say you can't do it and you quitting. I fundraise for a lot of my races, currently am now for one of the half marathons I am running but I…

I was wondering the same, I was recently told my trainer that I definitely need to be eating more but I wasn't sure how much more. I'm training for a half marathon and do long runs every Saturday with my training group, I come home and pass the hell out afterwards for anywhere from 2-4 hour naps which is unusual for me, I…

I ran my first 5k with absolutely no training, coming from the background of someone who didn't run unless I was being forced to by gun point or running from someone with a gun. Now I am running races every single weekend of March and training for a half marathon in May. You'll be surprised what just being at a race can do…

I go through phases of incorporating yoga into my workout routine, right now I've been slacking off because of lack of time due to everything else going on in my life. I do hot yoga, which is just yoga in a room heated to 95-104 degrees, it doesn't generate any harder of a work out (per my HRM I wore the other night) you…

Agreed.

I also work a 9-5 desk job in an office where every day in the kitchen there is: cookies, cupcakes, candy, ice cream, etc. I have just learned to either enjoy a snack that is brought in occasionally or not at all, stick to what I packed, which is normally fruit, nuts, Greek yogurt, tuna, granola bars instead of a cupcake.…

I don't want to say "I eat whatever," because I don't. I try to make healthy choices, I pack my lunch so I'm not tempted to eat out, I snack on cashews and fruit instead of potato chips and candy bars but I also don't get so serious about it as others do. I don't knock anyone about it, if you wanna eat clean, be my guest,…

I eat whenever I want, it hasn't changed the way my body looks or my weight loss. Granted, I don't go and taken down a steak dinner with mashed potatoes at like 11pm, by eat whenever I want I mean, I'll have a granola bar or something before bed to curb my sweet craving but that's it.

I use almond milk in my smoothies that I make in the morning. 1 banana 5 strawberries 1 scoop of whey vanilla protein 1 1/2 cups of unsweetened vanilla almond milk YUM!

I KNOW I'm addicted to the gym. I start getting legitimately aggravated when I know I am going to miss a work out, take tonight for example, I'm going out for a friends birthday, just happy hour drinks but I won't be able to hit the gym. Now I am not upset about going out for her birthday, I'm excited, but the fact that…

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I don't touch any soft drinks or caffeinated drinks, in a year I may consume 10 soft drinks, if that. Do I think it's that terrible for you? No, there are far more other things in your day to day life that are more dangerous or terrible for you than Diet Coke. To me, it's just a matter of, I don't like it. I don't like…

Uhhh, I've been training for my half marathon in legit negative degree temps and snow. Saturday, I ran in 5 inches of snow. I came home and had to drain melted snow out of my running shoes. Like someone above me said, you either want to do it or you don't.

There is a difference between feeling on a girls booty who does squats and feeling on a girls booty who doesn't and I wouldn't pick size to be the difference, it's firm and tight versus saggy, soft.

I've never been all that heavy, 138 at my heaviest and I'm down to 120 now. I also have never been a runner, until probably 3 years ago. I decided doing races looked and sounded like fun and dove into it head first without any sort of training program. I wasn't wearing the proper shoes, as you stated originally, which…

Hour glass I believe. I definitely don't do anything special in terms of what type of body I have. Lift heavy, running and try to do hot yoga at least 3-4 times a week.

5'4", starting weight of 138, current weight is 123. I started working with a trainer over a year ago and it changed everything drastically, I reduced the amount of alcohol I was drinking, I logged and tried to track everything I ate, I cut back on calories and quit living by my teenage life of "eat whatever you want and…

I dated a dude who was skinny, too skinny for my taste. I don't like to feel like I am having sex with another woman. So I broke up with him. Problem solved.

Agreed. That's like when people wear their heart rate monitors to Bikram yoga classes. Your heart rate is going to go up and tell you that you've burned more calories because of the intense heat but that isn't necessarily the calories that you've burned. Heat makes your heart rate go up but just because your heart rate is…

This thread wins. All anyone needed to do was look at her diary and see that she clearly over eats, doesn't log correctly and doesn't exercise enough. We didn't need 7 pages for that.

Agree with someone above, if you can run 2 miles in 30 minutes, you can run a 5k. You aren't going to be the first of the pack to finish but that's not what you are shooting for I would assume. Also, if you've never ran a race before, let me tell you that you'll uncontrollably run faster than you normally do, at least I…