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NSV - 5 K
I did my third 5K this weekend with five of my friends. Not only did I finish around my goal time, my friends asked me a number of times to slow down and they are all at much healthier weights than me. I was worried about slowing them down, but I ended up setting our pace :) Good weekend indeed.
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Blacklight Run - Massive Dissapointment
So I've done the Color Run twice and I was thinking that the Blacklight Run would be similarly awesome. I was wrong. I cannot say enough how unorganized this event was. Getting to the parking area took us about 45 minutes and we got there more than 2 hours in advance. We had to pay for parking, which was annoying, but…
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"So You're Feeling Too Fat to be Photographed"
Full credit to the author Teresa Porter: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/teresa-s-porter/so-youre-feeling-too-fat-to-be-photographed_b_4351360.html Also, please don't read the comments on the website, it's the usual hate filled crud you would expect after an article about loving yourself no matter what. Listen. I hear you.…
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Gondolas in Venice
So I'm going to Venice next month and as much as I hate to admit it, the gondolas are kind of making me nervous. They just look so tiny and sinkable. I know I would regret not taking a ride though. Any words of encouragement from anyone with first hand experience? Thanks!!
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Traveling Overseas Overweight
I am booking a month long trip to Europe for November and I am significantly overweight. I have to admit that I am kind of terrified. Any other MFP's from the US that have traveled abroad have any support or advice to offer?
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Too many weddings...
My last single girl friend is engaged. I'm really happy for her and I love the guy and she deserves everything in life that makes her happy. I now have five weddings to attend next year, and I am standing in two of those. Five weddings... zero dates. Trying to take a Barney approach to it, everyone I know is getting…
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Fuel Band suggestions on other options
So I was reading reviews for the Nike Fuel Band and it seems people either love them or hate them, so I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for alternatives. What I basically want is a watch or something similar that I can simply look down at and see the total number of calories that I have burned throughout the…
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How to cook fresh veggies? Help please :)
I had a dumb... for the last few weeks I have been cooking up veggies thinking hey, this is awesome, the weight will just fall off. And then I've gotten all confused, why is the scale not moving or bouncing up during the week? This makes no sense! Duh, canned spinach and peas are really really high in sodium and I was…
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NSV I Went for a Run!!!
I’m a full time grad student and I work full time, I’m losing weight and I’m eating really well and the little time I have left in my day I usually allocate to sleeping, homework and having just enough fun that I don’t feel the bottomless pit of depression that occasionally threatens to swallow me whole. I deserve a break,…
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Broken Brain
I have a problem... someone said something kind of horrible to me a few weeks ago and I think it broke my brain. You can see when it happened reflected in my food log because for the few days around that event I didn't eat more than 800 calories because every time I did I felt disgusting. Now I am at a point where every…
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Giving Something Up Because of Weight
My mom wanted to buy tickets for us to go see Journey in September. With my school schedule and work I don't get to do a lot of things like this and we connect through music so I was really excited about the idea until I found out where the concert was being held. it is at a pretty small arena that has turnstiles at the…
