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UPDATE: Thanks to everyone's encouragement I decided to enter another race, a half marathon this time. At first I felt ashamed about being the chunky slow girl at the back of the pack, but then the sentence "you aren't running the race to look pretty" came into my head and I decided to just go for it. Well, I did it, even…
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Thanks guys! It's nice to have so many folks here who understand!
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I would say controlling sugar is a huge deal. I used to have a can of Coke every morning for breakfast ( I know I know) and had a heck of a time sticking to my calorie budget. Even switching to diet soda, I have noticed a huge difference. I just really don't want to eat as much, without even thinking about it much. I…
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If you did housework for 2.5 hours, that's 150 mins (if my math is correct). If you had run 10-minute miles for 150 minutes, you would have burned roughly 1500 calories. Was the exercise you did more vigorous than running at a decent clip? If not, the 2000-plus calorie estimate is way off. If the work you did was more the…
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Dried beans! A bag costs about a dollar, and cooked you can get several meals out of it. You can throw them in a crockpot with some seasoning and veggies and then come back in a few hours and voila! I buy red and/or black beans and throw them in with garlic, onion and a can or tomatoes to make chili. I buy black eyed peas…
