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Runners high - not just for humans anymore!
Interesting article explaining that our cursorial pets (i.e. dogs and likely (though unconfirmed) cats) can get the same runners high that humans get from sustained aerobic exercise. http://news.discovery.com/animals/pets/do-dogs-experience-runners-high-130514.htm it explains so many things, like why my dog gets so excited…
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On Exercising and Excuses
Those who know me on this site know that I am a huge proponent of exercise at every stage of your fitness journey. To me, diet without exercise may get you to a weight you want, but it certainly won't make you the fit person that you (hopefully) dream of being. I came across the following quote in a book I'm reading by…
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Aaaaand Discuss!
Ok first off a caveat- My husband sent me these from a different forum and I think they're hilarious. Just generating some discussion/laughs am not looking to denigrate anyone's approach to weight loss. however I have to say each of these statements would make me want to go Darth Vader on the speaker: “No, I don’t eat…
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Crotches Can Kill- Stay Classy Alberta!
New billboard ad running in my home province: Anything that is equally applicable to cell phones and STIs is good marketing IMO!
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confession: I am a serial baker
There are a lot of posts out there right now about the "terrible colleagues who are constantly bringing in baked goods and other bad for you foods" that tempt them beyond compare. And the general sentiment is that these goodie purveyors are rather like drug dealers, or worse yet, old world grandmothers, the kind that…
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Weight loss with no exercise- An Analogy
I become very philosophical while running, particularly in the early morning and the following analogy occurred to me this morning so I thought I'd share. Losing weight based on diet alone, with no exercise, is like attending every class for an entire year but never cracking your textbook, doing assignments, or studying…
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"ruined my diet"
I've seen this phrase a lot recently and wanted to add my thoughts on this turn of phrase as I find that it is really defeatist, especially since it is often accompanied by the lament that "I feel like I should just give up". Now here's the thing. MFP is a calorie counter, not a diet. There are no built in restrictions, no…
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What 1500 km looks like
I started logging my kilometers on December 2, 2011, and had some foggy idea of running at least 100 km a month. As we came into November of this year I realized that I was over 1300km so decided I needed to try for the 1500 km mark, though it mean that I needed to cover 185km in one month. It was down to the wire, but…
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NY Times Article- Ridiculous?
Came across this article in the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/19/health/teenage-boys-worried-about-body-image-take-risks.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0 entitled "Muscular Body Image Lures Boys Into Gym, and Obsession" and I'm sorry...but WHAT? I get the point that they're trying to make that teenagers should not take…
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NSV- I didn't fall!
I fall, a LOT. I have fallen up stairs in shops in Paris and subways in Rome, down full flights of stairs at my house, head first down marble steps in a mall in Ottawa, and even down a flight of stairs on a ferry headed from Dover to Calais. I have tripped on curbs and flown through crowds, tripped on rocks and face…
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Something to Prove
Reading through people's posts on this site I sometimes find comments about how they can't wait till they lose the weight so that they can "show all those people who were awful to them" or "show their families" or "show the ex-boyfriend/ex-girlfriend/ex-spouse/ex-friends". It all boils down to people feeling the need to…
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MFP Confession Time
I've been on MFP for more than a year now, with great success, and I am thrilled with it, but I never realized that it would also provide a lesson in self-discovery, particularly after interacting on the forums. So now I feel the need to make my confession as an MFP user and encourage you all to do the same! (this should…
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One Year Later- Halloween before and after weight loss
So I started on MFP on November 1, 2011 and am seeing quite a big difference between last years' halloween pics and this years'! Thought I'd share :) Halloween 2011: Weight 231lbs. The theme at work was "80s" so my team went as 80s wrestlers, this is my best Hulk Hogan. Halloween 2012 (today): Weight 189.2. This year's…
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Should you be running right now?
Came across this graphic and LOVE it so thought I'd share (apologize if it's already made the rounds, I did a quick search of the forums but didn't see it)
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My Best NSV Yet!! What a difference a Year Makes!
I ran my first marathon October 9, 2011 and, though I finished it, I came in dead last out of a field of 80 people who completed the race with a time of 6:54:20. While I was proud of the accomplishment of having finished, I knew that objectively this is not a great time, I walked just under half of it, and while the fact…
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Who do you want to be?
I've noticed on this forum that we talk a lot about short term goals and we all set weights that we want to lose which is, of course, the best way to motivate yourself - by setting achievable goals, reaching them, and then setting new achievable goals. But now I want to see what some of your longest term goals are. And I'm…
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NSV- 1000k!
Had to report an exciting non-scale victory for today! Have been tracking all of the kilometers that I've run since starting a race to Greece challenge with a friend December 1, 2011. We are running the equivalent distance of Ottawa, Canada to Marathon, Greece and paying ourselves for each km so that in the end we will…
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90s-00s Marathon Song List- Need Recommendations!
I am training for my next marathon and want to create a new playlist, so I thought I'd ask for help in creating a specific list. I want to call it my nostalgia running list and have it include only songs from my teens and early-mid 20s, which would put us at songs from 1997-2009. I'm looking for songs that make you want to…
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Success! wearing my target outfit!
Woohoo! NSV for the day! I was shopping in the States around my birthday in March and I found this little black dress at the Calvin Klein outlet that I LOVED, but it only came in a size smaller than what I was wearing at the time. I sausaged myself into it and managed to get the zipper up but could barely breathe,…
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Ottawa People- My dog is home!
I've received a number of messages of support in finding my dog Glacias, thank you to everyone who was keeping an eye out for her. We found her last night and though she is thin, dehydrated and suffering from some foot lesions (kind of sounds like a marathoner after a race actually) she should be right as rain after a few…
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Purely Selfish Post- Ottawa People Please Help!
I am hoping that youguys can please help me. My dog, Glacias, a 4 year old German Shepherd/Husky/Saluki mix who looks like a young german shepherd with floppy ears ran away from doggy daycare today (July 18th) at 2:30 in the afternoon. The daycare is located at 21 Capital Drive near Merivale and Hunt Club. We are trying to…
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Seventeen Magazine to Stop Airbrushing Models
Came across this article today: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/the-hot-button/seventeen-magazine-makes-it-official-no-more-air-brushing/article4391028/ and wanted to share it. I hope this is a trend that continues, have long thought that we should have labels on photos, maybe a little symbol that notifies people that…
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And now...a Mario analogy
Ok so I'm going to make a weight loss Mario analogy that will undoubtedly be bad, and I'm going to gleefully take bits and pieces from all the Mario games, so true gamers will probably judge me, but I don't care! I stepped on the scale today and saw a number that seemed monumental. 194.4 lbs. I have been hovering just over…
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Favourite Fun (themed) Runs?
I'm sure something on this topic has been posted before but I thought I'd revive it. What are everyone's favourite races? Specifically those that have a fun theme attached to them? I just finished the third annual Perth Kilt Run in Perth Ontario in which everyone wears a running kilt and races 8km (5 miles). This was my…
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Have come so far, but still so far to go!
I started my weightloss journey November 1, 2011 and am now more than half way to my first target weight. I've lost enough weight that it is quite noticeable, am down more than a size and have gotten comments from a lot of the people in my life about how much weight I've lost, but my worry is that I'm going to get…
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I love running coincidences!
A bit of background... a good friend and I decided to set a long term running goal that is beyond ridiculous...and therefore kind of awesome. We are running the distance from our home town of Ottawa, Canada to Marathon, Greece, a total distance of 7779.84km (4862.4 miles). We started in December of last year and things…
