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Did my farthest run today! 10.36 miles :) I'm quite happy I have been able to go from 3 miles to 10 in just about 2 months, but now I really need to find some way to increase my SPEED...my pace was about 10:30 the entire time so at least i was consistent. It was beautiful today though, about 54 degrees perfect temp for a…

Honestly that C25K program worked wonders. There was one time right in the middle of it that I had the most fierce mental battle of my life I think. It was the first time I had to run 2 miles straight, the the way the program had been going before that you never really ran more than 3/4 of a mile at once without having a…

Hi everyone just thought I would say hello:) April of 2010 I was 256 pounds and couldn't fit into any clothes and just had a baby and couldn't even get up and down stairs correctly. I kept giving myself excuses for how I gained so much weight in the first place. I was in total food denial. I also have an autoimmune disease…

this makes me so happy to see this! great job! This time last year I couldn't even jog that pace for 30 seconds....and now i'm going on a 10 mile run tomorrow...its all possible and great work!

I got my FT7 off of amazon a year ago..LOVE IT

Hi:) I'm a newbie to distance running, but I love it. I actually just got myself up to about 7.5 miles today. Race wise, I have only done 2 5ks and have a 4.4 mile race on thanksgiving. BUT I really want to somehow magically be able to race in the new york half....and if I can't get any luck in the lottery for that race do…

Honestly...depends on how much you weigh, and if you plan to keep it off. If you weigh 250 or 300 pounds i think its possible. If not, its too much too quick. Now COULD you do it by being totally unhealthy and starving yourself? maybe. Will you keep it off if you go that route? probably not. Slow and steady gets you on the…

aw thank you! honestly my way of doing it now was working out. Working out seems to make me not as hungry. BUT with my new job i can't get to the gym every day anymore

urg i really need some slaps in the face:/ haha

I know you are looking for glass, but if thats for taste reasons, i just got a britta water bottle and the taste is pretty great

really go to a class! go to a ton of classes with different instructors! I know I was completely self aware during my first couple, i was about 245 pounds and the largest in the room, but you soon realize everyone looks like an idiot in there not just yourself lol

I will be honest and say I don't know much about lapband surgery, except that I have heard that a lot of the reasons for gaining weight back after any type of weight loss surgery, is the lack of changing your eating habits, and thinking that the surgery will just do all of the work for you. Which is why I think that coming…

OMG I hear you! I keep hearing this all the time and I know people are trying to be sweet but really! I'm 151 and 5'4 (although when i was 260 i was 5'3 make sense of that...hhmm...lol). I have a 16 month old son. I still have fat in places I don't want to see it, and fat missing from places I wish it still was (goodbye…

I wish I had thought to think of posting something like this question somewhere when I first entered college. Or that future me could even go back and just say to myself 'i don't care if you lose weight or not right now...just DONT GAIN ANYTHING. That in itself with the amount of school work and wanting to go out and…

Motivation is definitely not something I am lacking in the kick my butt sense....its only the food I seem to battle for a few days every couple of months

how has it been impacting your running? I just started doing races and am loving it

Oh thanks for that link! Turbo Fire I have looked at, but that program is really a lot of what I can get at the gym with turbo kick and other cardio things. See, I'm really not lacking on the straight cardio front. I do well getting my heart rate way up there, and have become pretty fit in that respect seeing how I was the…

doesn't it feel great?! awesome job!

thank you guys! i did the whole couch to 5k thing to get up to this point...but do you all have any tips maybe now about how to increase speed?

lol totally late response but i'm glad you know what i'm talking about haha

Well, when I started this weight loss journey I was 5'3 and 256 pounds...somehow now I'm 5'4 (must be a posture thing? I don't know) but my goal weight was 130, and still is even with the height difference haha. With the extra skin issues from being obese and pregnant, I'm thinking my future dream of a tummy tuck might…

welcome to paleo:) eggs are delicious, and definitely have the fat you are looking for, same with red meat!

If i'm like anyone else who had become obese, I ate fast food. Seeing as how that is probably one of the first things you should cut out, calorie wise (for the most part), add up how much you spent on fast food a month. I bet its less than the gym membership and gas money to get there and back.

We are definitely the tortoises! If you can't do it long term its not going to happen. I think exercise wise, the smartest thing I did was join a gym that had classes. I already know that doing the same thing over and over again bores me to death and I wouldn't keep up with it. So, even days where I am not feeling very…

I am no doctor, but from personal experience I can say my mood is definitely worse, cramping is worse, and its every 6 to 7 weeks for me too. I have chalked it up to knowing that weight loss and exercise can screw with your time of the month (some serious athletes don't even get a time of the month). I assume, that the…

yep its so easy to blame the medical issues, but its so worth it to push through them!

wohooo way to go your your loss so far! I kept losing but it slowed down a bit, and I think part of that as well was pain medicine makes me retain more water than normal. Each surgery was a different elbow, so I was only out of the gym for about 2 weeks, and when I went back in I wasn't doing any lifting and not using my…

Love the FT7! To be honest, I was going to get the FT4 and somehow the FT7 was cheaper on amazon...and I'm happy I have gone with it. To start out with I was only interested in calories burned...but since my fitness journey has evolved that are a few more settings that are on the FT7 than the FT4 which are helpful, plus,…

So far, I have lost 100 pounds, with 26 more to go to my end goal weight. So, I'll share what I did because well hey, it worked for me. I started out by just starting to be aware of what I was eating. "do i really need to eat all of this" Just being aware helped me start my weight loss. After losing a bit and stalling out,…

I would scratch the milk part all together. Grab some frozen fruits (like the good stuff...real whole pieces of frozen fruit) throw in some yogurt of your choice, and use a little bit of juice. be it orange juice or add some veggie juice.