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100% agree. I keep my diary private, but you'd see that last night I went over my calories because I had 4 beers. I could have very well not logged those and made it look as though I stayed under my calories but the whole point of me being on here is to hold myself accountable for the things I am putting into my body.

I don't think she needs to worry about not eating enough, I think she needs to worry about over eating because MFP told her she burned "such and such" calories. I basically take what MFP says about how many calories I burn with a grain of salt.

From the looks of your diary, you aren't eating the right foods and you aren't eating 1200 calories many days. Some days you aren't even meeting the 1200 calories, other days you are going super far past it. Try to reel in the eating and stay more consistent along with exercise and see what happens. It sucks but you gotta…

You just have to do it. I make the gym basically my number 1 priority in life. Not just the gym, yoga and running as well. If I didn't think it was that important, I'd find excuses for not doing it. I work 40 hours a week, go to college full time, and I still find time to train at least an hour every day, 6 days a week.

Before I lost weight, I thought I looked fine. If someone had told me I had 20 lbs to lose, I would have thought they were high (I was 5'4", 138). Now that I've lost the weight and have toned a lot, I can find about 100 things I find wrong about myself when I look in the mirror. Hate my hips, no matter how hard I work, the…

You ain't messed with a grilled cheese donut till you've had Tom + Chee (Cincinnati's own) grilled cheese donut.

Wait, tell me these are real diaries please? LOL

People were all up in arms about this and it made national news a few weeks ago. It's silly. A lot of women use pregnancy as an excuse to eat whatever they want and lay around. There is no reason why you can't get up and do the same things you were doing prior to getting pregnant. She had already been in shape and doing…

This entire question is redic. One routine that works for someone, is not going to necessarily work for another person. A grown man's lifting routine, weights, etc. is not going to necessarily work for a 30 year old woman and vice versa. And I still think 20 minutes is nothing in the gym. If you can kick your own *kitten*…

You're only going for 20 minutes? I feel like that's not enough time to accomplish anything, you're just warming up at that point. I go to hot yoga three times a week for an hour and 15 minutes, I work out with my trainer for an hour where we do warm ups, either running around the track, light lifts for warming up my arms,…

Started heavy lifting a few months ago. Unfortunately nursing a shoulder injury right now and haven't been able to but will start again as soon as I am ready to go! :)

26, full time student, full time employee, full time gym rat.

You're burning 2300-2500 calories A DAY?! Maybe you aren't eating enough.

I would say that everyone is different so the idea that what may be easy for some is not easy for you, would likely be true.

Pick up weights, put them down and repeat. The only reason and I mean only reason, I started losing belly weight and started toning was from strength training. I could run/walk outside/on a treadmill till my heart was content and I wasn't seeing a single bit of difference. As soon as I started lifting and throwing in a…

I would agree, my biggest struggle is starting and maintaining a decent pace. Granted, I have never run 13.1 miles, but during my 10k, the hardest part was really the first 2 miles, after that I felt like it was entirely in my head. I just kept telling myself, you aren't stopping to walk, you don't need to walk, and made…

I just printed this schedule out! Thanks! :)

Thanks for the info and advice! I think my ITB issues are relatively resolved, it's just something that I really have to pay attention to and watch. With them hurting during the 10k, I believe that was from the fact that I ran that race with no training and never having ran over 4 miles, so my ITB and legs just weren't…

Ha! Yep, the Pig. I am from Cincinnati so it was the easiest one to sign up for since it is local to me. Thanks for the information and advice. I have used the C25K, C210K apps before so I thought maybe I could find one that is like that for half marathons that perhaps I could use to start out now and then join with…

That sounds like IT band issues and not a knee issue. I went through 8 weeks of physical therapy at a sports medicine office for severe illiotibial band syndrome after I first started running a lot more than I ever used to. What helped me was foam rolling the IT bands, really stretching them specifically before and after…

I don't know what my first 5k time was ever but I just ran a 7k last Saturday in 47 minutes and a 10k the weekend before that in 1 hr and 11 minutes.

It really does work! And it doesn't have to be tons of weight, start slow/small and work your way up, anything is better than nothing!

I mean, yeah, I was never obese or anything but I was almost 140 on a 5'4" frame with no muscle and no fitness at all, I'm now 121, dramatically decreased body fat percentage and have gained in muscle drastically.

Weight training is amazing, it will do things to your body that I just haven't seen running or any cardio do for people. You need to mix it up, our bodies get used to doing the same things, if you aren't seeing the results you want, try something new! I rotate between running, weight training, working with my trainer and…

Thank you!!

Ha! Thanks!! :)

Thank you everyone!

I also started heavy lifting, deadlifts, squats, RDL's, shrugs with the bar. But I would suggest really knowing what you are doing form wise and having someone who can watch you that also knows what they are doing before you jump into it. Proper form when you are lifting heavy is so important.

Kettlebells are great for beginners who may be scared to go into the weight room with all the 'big boys.' At my gym, the kettlebells are kind of tucked away in a corner all on their own, so you can use them without feeling like everyone is staring at you and thinking you look like a fool. I'd just start with the basics,…

Abs, always.