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You are all wonderful! Here's my new plan: 1) I printed a sticker chart for myself. On bright orange paper. For fun. :) 2) I have a bag of individually wrapped Dove chocolates and I will have one every evening. 3) In the event that I'm going somewhere that I know I'll encounter treats, I'll skip my daily chocolate and have…

I have wondered about counseling/medication, but admitting my problem is that bad scares me. Props to you for stepping up and taking control of your situation! Maybe I need to do the same.

I like the sticker chart idea for sure. :) The car idea is one we've totally used before! Unfortunately, keeping anything in a car in the summertime where I live would turn it to melted or baked goo (we've literally had 105 degree days all week). I do make a point of keeping his office well stocked with candy, though.…

I plan out my entire day of eating a day in advance and try to plan out snacks and a weekly splurge (a reasonable meal or treat), but even so I find myself unable to enjoy responsibly. I just don't know why I seem to go into this weird autopilot-eat-everything-and-completely-forget-about-being-healthy mode. It is so…

AHHH! 19 pounds??? I am hoping to lose 21 in three months, so it sounds like this is going to do that for me. :) Good for you! My biggest success so far (aside from the 4ish pounds down in a week and a half!) is how good I feel. My sugar cravings are all but gone—I think it's the no carbs after dinner. I feel fantastic.…

I have wondered this too! My guess is that your net calories should be at 1200/women, 1500/men, as Bob says in the book. But I really don't know. I've been keeping my net in the 1200-1500 range because I'm running a whole lot at the moment, but if I were exercising less, I'd stick to the 1200 net.

Simple answer: I ignore it. Haha. The way I see it, fruit is super healthy, and that always puts me over. I just try to limit myself to one real goodie per week and avoid high fructose corn syrup in everything else. As long as I'm doing that, I don't seem to see sugar affecting my weight loss.

I don't know if it's just water fluctuation, but I did hop on the scale this morning and found I was one pound down after just two days. :) The rules are so straightforward. I haven't been doing his recipes as much as using the stuff I have around and making sure it follows his rules (I love wheat pasta, eggs, and ground…

I know that most of my run will be dead silent (hurrah for rural Utah), so I'm thinking I'll bring my iPod but feel free to turn it off if needed. Thanks for all the input from you experienced runners! It's so nice to have you all as a resource as I figure all of this out. My first half is 3 weeks from today.

Sorry to be of no help, but I have wondered this very same thing and have a similar race coming up in 3ish weeks. So I'm anxious to see what others have to say!

Yeah, I think I will go practice that nasty hill a time or two. I live about a 10-minute drive from some awesome rolling hills, so I'm going to make sure to do the rest of my long runs and a few of the others over there instead of running the flat stuff right by my apartment. I did 4 miles over there today and it felt…

WOW. I am hoping to be right around 2 hours for my first (a 9:10 pace is my goal), but BREAKING 2 hours is insane! You must have worked so hard!!! Way to go!

Awesome! I am 8 weeks into training and run my first July 14. I'm hoping all goes well there because I'd like to take another 16 weeks to do an even tougher training plan and do another half in October. We'll see.