JULIEdance Member

Ravenclaw :-)

The bruises from last time take ages to heal... :-/ Last week off ice due to a dance performace in another town... This week a decent 60 min freestyle and fairly easy but highly beneficial 90 min of group practice - lots of basic things, got some corrections and tips and kept moving all the time. I was supposed to work on…

Beautiful, spent most of the evening on your tumlr! :-) Amazing pics, thanks for sharing!

Awesome! Congratulations and good luck on your journey! :-)

I always try to calm down and start a new day as if the binge hasn´t happened. Start the morning with your usual breakfast, don´t skip it even if you´re not hungry and still feel not so great after the binge. The same with other meals and exercise. Do thinngs the same way you would without the binge the day before. Don´t…

I´m the same and unfortunately it´s really hard to do something about where your body tends to store and from where it loses. I lose from top first, I have thin arms, clearly visible ribs and spine...and still tend to have bigger upper thighs. Good news: It has improved quite a lot. It is possible. You can try to change…

Maintain, flat stomach, to be toned and more flexible.

Yuck, this thing shouldn´t exist!. I would never touch them in normal situation, but for some super-weird reason they are my most typical binge food, that makes me hate them even twice as much. Vile.

Me. I don´t have weight to lose, I´m at around my healthy minimum at the moment. I want to get more balanced, eat more varied diet, overcome my aversion to hot meals and learn to cook some easy, light and yummy things, feel more comfortable about food.

I would give myself a day or two off. If you feel like running, fine. If you don´t, try to go for a walk instead (this works the best for me). If you want to sleep, do it. Whatever helps you at the moment. Just try to awoid emotional eating. Maybe it could make you feel better for a while, but for me it simply doesn´t…

Dancing, figure skating, swimming, stretching (with some yoga and pilates inspited moves mixed in) and long walks/hiking.

Just the time together, attention, make me feel loved. Absolutely NO chocolates, dinner, card, anything pink or plushy (.... unless it´s a warm fluffy blanket, that would actually be appreciated, lol)

Good luck! I was in a similar situation before/after yeaterday evening´s dance rehearsal, but fortunately it wasn´t so much tempting to me, since I was already after dinner and quite safely set in the "finished eating today" mode. I managed to walk around without anyone offering it to me twice :-)

Hi, I´m Julie, I´ve been using MFP for some time, but only found this group today. I´m trying to maintain (more or less), eat mostly vegetarian diet with a rare exception of fish once in a while. 1200-ish on low/moderate activity days, I eat some more on my most active days. I´m definitely not a gym type, my workout…

Many great goals and plans... Good luck everyone!

Ouch, last two! I had a mild cold at the beginning of the week and even though I already feel fine, there must be some trace left or something, since spins were making me dizzy and disorientated AS NEVER BEFORE IN MY LIFE. Sure I have been "normal" dizzy many times before, especially when returning to skating after a break…

Don´t try to wrestle with someone bigger than you, don´t argue with someone more cheeky than you. And most importanty (this one comes from my little sister) - the main entrance door key in on the teacher´s desk.

Results of the recent presidential elections in my country. Regardless of education, politic views etc, this man is extremely rude and vulgar and isn´t competent to represent the state decently. Everyone knows it, but... who cares about manners anyway, right?

Everyone´s free choice, no need to feel sorry for anyone. If 1200 or 1400 doesn´t work for you, don´t do that. Simple. For some 1200 is not enough, for some over 2000 is way too much. Do what´s best for you, but please mind your own plate and leave everyone else to do what they feel is best for them.

Saturday: 90min... supposed to be a group practise, but ended up more like a free style thing. I did about the same things as the day before, but this time they were slightly less neat and I had a few spectacular falls too. Did a decent amount of work though. Also as the main coach started something about he music to be…

GREAT 60min freestyle today! Just 6 of us on the ice. Steps/turns felt nice, I was able to increase difficulty by adding some extra turns, more brackets etc. Spins - camels and sit spin not so fine, but that coudn´t discourage me, change foot quite promissing today, yay. catch-foot (half-biellmann) not bad but not really…

I secretly practice demi-pliés (yes, that ballet thing) at the batroom at work. I collect small Hello Kitty toys which you get in a packing with vanilla/strawberry yogurt. I am ridiculously cold sensitive, can´t survive without additional heaters and hot water bottles. I figure skate and the skate rink is the only cold…

Me too! I have an almost non-existent perception of thirst and I struggle to drink enough. I mainly dring tea and (I know it´s bad, but...) diet coke and coffee. For water, try to add a bit of lemon juice. Or a slice of orange. I also sometimes add a few leaves of mint in the bottled water I carry with me to work or dance…

a mysterious ghost girl

Ballet, figure skating, swimming. I don´t do any DVD/gym etc. things at all. As for home exercise I do stretching (mainly to increase my flexibility for dance) couple of times a week.

Lol, just to make things clear, I don´t go to the full biellmann position yet, I mean the half-biellmann or "catch-foot" position. I have only done the classic full biellmann position in spirals so far. Work in process, still not much to be jealous of :laugh: Good thing for me is that my back is quite flexible and my…

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Awesome progress, congratulations! You look wonderful, keep it up! So jealous about your dance schedule btw, I wish I could dance that much!

Last Saturday: TERRIBLY cold, coaches tryied to convice me to wear their spare jacket, lol. Not even half of the usual number of people on ice, yay. Steps and spirals ok-ish, the rest just pure crap :sad: I can´t say I had problems landing jumps, I had problems to get them up at all. Gr. Continue working on my change foot…

I keep mine closed because I know many of my eating habits and choices are not what they should be, starting with frequent undereating and repetitiveness. I use MFP mainly as a tracking tool to help me make changes toward a more healthy eating, but I can´t change overnight. I definitely don´t need the stress of other…