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I hope your time with your ex turns out well! Maybe it will be better than expected! I guess it depends why he's an ex... Had my conversation with mine this morning, went fairly well, as things with him usually do. Will probably try to take a few months without seeing him so much... go on a flirting rampage, y'know. You…

after losing about 50 lbs, I lost my period... haven't found it yet, 6 mos later. every once and a while I get really crabby, or bloated, and I think "Wooop! I get my period back!!" then it doesn't happen... Not that I really miss it or anything, it's just strange not having it. I did go to the doctor to have my blood…

I definitely get the older thing. Not that people look at me and say 'you look old'. But its more the shock when they find out Im 22. Most people guess really late 20s, early 30s.

I live in San Diego, go to UCSD! Actually, I really want to do / have been planning on doing the rock & roll marathon!! Glad to hear your mom is chilling out about the engagement!!! Hopefully she'll swing around to full scale support? Too much to hope for? Yeah the last couple of days have been filled with the "ate so much…

I'm here to confess, I think I ate my body weight in cookies and cinnamon rolls yesterday. What started off as a nice brunch date with the boy thing ended as an all day / 2 bottles of champagne cooking fest. Yuck. Breaks are bad for me... no normalcy! I swing between a week of biking 40 - 50 miles a day, and then I undue…

Wow, that sounds really fun!!! Yeah, my roommate and I wracked up like 100 some odd miles on the bike within 3 days of being done with school. Good destressing. Unfortunately bike +snowboarding season means it's time for me to start studying for next quarter... If i can finish about half my classes over the break, then I…

That sounds really cool! I'll take a look at the goal setting thing. Exams went well, grades back, 4.0 still intact. Lol. Every quarter it's a deep sigh of relief, really. OOOh, please let me know if you make it to the one in San Diego!! I'll totally come out and cheer you on! Or maybe run it too?

I agree! Glad you're feeling a little less stressed! So my goal for the new year is well... to make goals! My roommate and I each bought daily planners, and we committed to each morning before we go to school, sitting together and writing down what we need to accomplish that day-- I'm going to use it to keep track of…

Oh shoot! That's what happens when I respond too quickly!! Shoot! So Sorry! (As an aside, I do that all the time in real life too... people get pretty annoyed with me.) I'm Amy! As far as tips and tricks, here's what I started doing the last few weeks, that worked really well for me. The jury is out on whether or not it's…

so, with the end of semester ethiopian all you can eat buffet pig out, I ended up at 144.6 this morning. Still hit the goal though so woo! Also 40~50 mile ride this morning felt awesome!! Now I need a new goal / reward... any ideas? yes! We need to keep up our support group over the break! Good luck and congrats with your…

Oh no! I'm sorry to hear your date didn't go well!! I hope everyones exams are going better :). In about 3 hrs I'll be done with my last exam, at which point I'm heading straight to the gym. I think I might sleep there tonight! Lol. I've been pretty good with food this week, but my gym time has been very limited. I managed…

Wow, good luck with everything!!! Make sense about trying to be in the low end of your range before you get home... it's annoying when are bodies don't respond the way we expect... I wouldn't surprised if you end up a little lower once you start eating more crazily at home. Lol, that stuff happens to me all the time. My…

oooh, I second the dried mango, it's one of my favorites!!

I ussually put plyo in as aerobics, high impact. I think 500-600 cals is reasonable if not modest for that workout... if you're doing the whole 50 minutes, and your heart rate is elevated the whole time... I mean, just think about how much you'd burn if you went for a 50 minute jog! Regarding classic vs. lean - I honestly…

typing this from an elliptical, which seems to be fine, if not really really boring! Thanks for the support guys! Also this is sending me back to weight lifting, which I think is good. Started a modified P90X yesterday... Woop. Is it too early to start saying I'm goign to be hot by swimsuit season? Good luck to everyone…

I'm totally in for a group!! I'll look out for it. Day two for me, unfortuantely I can't do plyo quite yet because of a hip injury, so substituting some quality time with the elliptical. Or idk, maybe I'll try to do plyo later as well, and see how it feels. Chest is sore from yesterday, but not so much as the first ruodn.…

are you in a group or anything for it?? I started today too!! This is my second round.

yeah, they took me to the emergency room, got xrays and stuff... unfortunately I pulled an ab muscle plus took a nick out of a bone in my illiac crest area, which makes any kind of workout hard to do. Man, I'm trying though! Must keep up! Amy

yuck!!! I kinda severely damaged my hip snowboarding!! :( Boo. I feel my weightloss and new lifestyle in a treacherous position right now... I need to really kick it back into good habits. Second round of P90X starts monday. I did hit my goal for the semester, but I think some of the loss was muscle tone :(.

man, my eating has been all over the place... I had a few too many cheat / binge days... played hooky / date day with my ex/boy thing... went out to chocolate and scotch and italian food, baked a few too many pies... started snacking on too many sweets. I was sick too, and missed like a week of running... Then I kinda…

I'm very curvy! Started out as >200, size 14ish, XL... I'm currently about 146, size 4/6 bottoms, size S/M tops... You'd be surprised how quickly you drop sizes below about 160... I found it's about a size / 10lbs.

I think joining the classes is a great idea! I do a gymnastics bootcamp twice a week, and all the people are really kinda and open!! Plus it kicks my butt! Finally saw a lower number on the scale today! Booyah to 146.2. You know, this is one of the hardest, busiest semesters I've ever taken -- so I'm incredibly thankful…

Decided to go off added sugar entirely... felt like I've been using all my calories on "fake" food recently... need to start eating more real food!!

wow, congrats!!!! That's awesome!!! I'm up a little today actually, this week kinda blew. I got into a bike accident tuesday night, plus a crappy sleep schedule, and it's kinda messed with my equilibrium. Still pretty good on track for my goals I think though. Plus getting all official for the snowboarding team today. So…

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/336147-the-official-university-college-challenge?page=2#posts-4927294 You should join our challenge!!! Also more than welcome to friend me. Amy

Check in time pretty good for me! Down to 147 - which is pretty much my october goal achieved. Also, I did a time trial this morning with the bike team, and official can be considered in "racing shape". So yay!!!

1st off, welcome new people!! Stoked to have you! Together we an accomplish! :) 2nd, littleMissAlx -- so your fastest time prior to doing the 5k was about 25:30 or so? Awesome! Short distances aren't really my strong suit... I can do the 5k in like 26 minutes (so hopefully some time will fall off for me when I actually…

That's fantastic!!! I can only imagine hitting a time that good!!! I'm doing my first 5k in the next few weeks. I'm stoked! How long did it take you to get up to that kind of time?

I have the same problem with finding time for gym, when I feel like I need every second of my day to perform in a highly competitve, overloaded schedule... I've started doing "study circuits" - so basically, circuit training, where one of my "stations" is an hour or so of work -- a problem set, or a chapter of reading,…

Check-in Day! This week definitely has been a trip ... I've been struggling without having a specific workout that I'm committed to. I did go for a run twice, walk to school most days (3 miles-ish), plus some yoga, pushups, ab rippers, pilates, and I went rock climbing tonight... Without a solid gym schedule though, I feel…