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These "events" don't occur often enough for me to develop a strategy. I will indulge on special occasions, one night out won't erase all of my progress. I imagine I probably eat close to maintenance/break even anyway when these things pop up in my schedule because even though I'm eating more calorically dense foods, I'm…

Sydney Cummings and Heather Robinson are my new faves. FitnessBlender is my first youtube fitness love:)

Whenever I up my cardio I get hungrier. I average about 150 to 175 min per week. Anything over that and my stomach audibly growls.

this is approximately 60lbs difference.

I'm starting today. Feel free to add me if you're still doing this

It's the lower body for me, thighs, hips and butt.

Just follow one or the other, I'd recommend MFP's.

One of the reasons it's so important to be monogamous...with one scale;-)

5'3" and averaging 1450. Changed my rate of loss from 2lbs/week to 1.5lbs/week and my calories were increased from 1300 to 1450. Still averaging approximately 2lbs/week since I don't eat back many if any of my exercise calories. It's working for me now because I have over 60+lbs to lose but will definitely need to reassess…

So I was all set to do W5D3 yesterday but when I got to the gym every treadmill was occupied and instead of waiting I just got on the elliptical. Then, I vowed to do it this morning before work, but I hit snooze one too many times to make it happen. I have my clothes to hit the gym after work today to get it done. I'm…

I use Happy Scale. Since I can't seem to stay off of the scale every day, having a trending app is a must. I still get to celebrate my lows, but I don't panic when the scale appears to be going in the wrong direction. Also, tracking daily is letting me see what my patterns and fluctuations are as it pertains to my cycle.

I have a little over 60 to lose still, so 30 by the 4th of July sounds good to me. Add me if you'd like!

Not specifically related to diet and exercise, but I've been adding it to smoothies, sauces, soups etc. and I can definitely feel the difference in my joints since using it. I've never heard of it having any connection to increased metabolism or weight loss.

Thanks for sharing. I've just been using my blaze and not logging any activity, just using the numbers provided and it's been working out well for me. Nothing is going to be 100% accurate, but my fitbit is doing what I need it to do and I'm happy with it.

W5D2 complete. I got thru the 8 min runs. The 2nd one was tough but I think it was because I upped my speed a little the first 8. I got through it though and didn't stop even though I was tempted. Nervous for the next workout

I'm a cardio bunny who's never been a runner currently in week 5 of Couch to 5K and I am ravenous on my walk/run days. It's amazing how different physical activities affect the appetite/hunger signals.

W5D1 complete. With each workout I'm feeling more and more like a runner! Going from feeling like death after jogging for 30 seconds to a minimum to someone who can jog 5 min at a time is something I can't believe. This program has me surprising myself.

W4D3 complete. Coming back from an illness but this run felt great. Mind over matter. I'm about 10lbs heavier than I'd like to be for high impact exercise sake, but my body is handling these runs much better than expected.

Week 4 Day 2 complete

W4D1 complete. Getting thru the 5 min portions were difficult and I feel like I'm running extremely slow compared to everyone else. I guess I'll have to wait until next week to see how fast my mile run is.

I think so. Sometimes it's not that you dislike something, it's that you didn't enjoy that item as it was prepared. I know there were things I didn't like to eat as a child that I love now. Even as an adult, I've always disliked sweet potatoes and then I tried a sweet potato mash a few weeks ago that accompanied something…

I don't always make great decisions when I'm hungry and I've found that eating my pre-selected, pre-logged meals and snacks at set intervals throughout the day keeps me from getting hungry in the first place, so almost all of my meals are eaten when I'm not hungry.

I think I have the best of both worlds. I work out alone, but I belong to a great group of equally motivated ladies and we check in/share/compare/encourage each other almost daily. If I'm doing a gym/workout session with another person, it's usually more for socializing than it is to workout and I certainly don't count it…

Different for everyone and depends on how much you have to lose, but for me people tend to comment when I drop a size, but probably mostly because I'm wearing clothes they're not used to seeing me wear and fit better than the baggier clothes I was both hiding in and shrinking under.

W3D3 completed.

I believe it takes more effort outside versus on the treadmill. I know for me at least I find the treadmill easier than actual walking, so I'm sure I'm exerting more effort i.e. using more calories when I'm walking/running off the treadmill versus on it.

@3rdof7sisters you're already pretty close so I definitely think you could get there before June!

This challenge didn't come up when I searched so I started a group called Destination: Onederland. Those on the journey, please feel free to join. SW 249.6 CW 243.0 GW 165 Hoping to hit Onederland by Memorial Day this year!

that's definitely doable and within reach! I'm hoping I can do 40 in that same amount of time!

W3D1 complete! I was nervous because I've never ran for 3 minutes straight, but dare I say it was easy, peasy this morning! So hoping this program gets me to something resembling a runner!