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100 Pounds lost! 355 to 253
In August/September of 2009 I hit my heaviest weight of 355 pounds. I was miserable, my knees hurt, my blood sugar was acting crazy, I wasn't sleeping well and I felt like I would be stuck like this forever. Fast forward a little under 3 years and I have lost 102 pounds 55 of which since joining MFP in Oct. of 2011)…
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"Ran" my first 5K NSV
I've completed many 5Ks, and some longer races including an 8K, a 10K and a half marathon, but today I RAN my first 5K. I ran the entire time, no walking breaks. First time running the entire distance without walking. I knew I could do it since I had done 4 miles in my training, but it doesn't count until race day. Also…
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30 pounds lost - Progress Pics
I wanted to take pictures here, not only for the milestone, but also because I had a "hey look at that moment" where I noticed a change in myself, aren't we always the last to notice? They way this started is last week I noticed I could see my belt buckle... it wasn't hiding under my belly anymore! And then when I turned…
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A pound of flesh
I see on the forums a lot of times people will say "Muscle weighs more than fat", which causes great confusion. A friend of mine posted on her status a pound is a pound right? Yes, this is true, like the old high school math problem of which weighs more, a ton of steel or a ton of feathers? They weigh the same. Here is…
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Layering of tech shirts
I am running a race that starts at Midnight tonight and I'm trying to figure out what I am going to wear. It's not going to be bitter cold, but it's going to be 40-42 degrees and dropping (the 5AM low will be 36). I have underarmour leggings and shorts for my lower half and this has worked well for my outdoor training…
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Halfway there! 355 to 286.
I joined MFP 2 months ago, but this journey starts long before that. I hit my heaviest weight in September of 2009. I started logging my weight in an excel file, and the first weight listed is 345, but 355 is stuck in my head for some reason, so I believe that is my heaviest weight of my life. This is me in September of…
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Treadmill NSV
I'm off work today while I'm cleaning and packing up getting ready to move to a new house, and apparently I have all my energy early in the morning. I was on the treadmill for my scheduled 2.0 mile run this morning and I walked for 3 minutes to start... then I jogged for 5 minutes straight (@ 4.7 MPH, 12:45 mile)... Then I…
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Registered for my first half marathon!
Even though I was planning on running it, and already training for it I wasn't planning on registering quite this early. But today I registered for the Rock and Roll Half Marathon in New Orleans LA. The race is March 4, 2012 and will be my first half marathon. If you are thinking about running this race, I would highly…
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NSV at work
The guy I work with here in the lab just asked me if I had lost weight, when I said I had he told me he could see it in my face and my chin/neck. I've only lost 5 lbs since I joined MFP but I guess it shows! Pretty great for him to notice since sometime you don't notice changes in people you see daily, usually its more…
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Just joined
Just joined MFP. I hate counting calories, but after only three days of logging I'm looking at what I'm eating and astonished at the numbers. Hopefully this will help me. I've been exercising but eating like junk, so I need to watch my food intake better. At my heaviest I was 355, I lost about 50 pounds on my own, but now…
