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90lbs to drop before my 30th! Support needed.
Hi All, I could really do with some extra help, support and motivation on this journey! I have been on this wagon a few times in the past and my recent fall off, after the breakdown of my mariaige and becoming a fulltime working single mum, who stuggles with stress - it sees me having hit my heighest weight of 215lbs - at…
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Saboteurs
A few things that have happened have got me thinking - who are your saboteurs and what are their movites? Who are those people, or THINGS that try to undermine your efforts and lead you astray? wether you're losing weight, gaining bulk or maintaining that amazing bod. I have a few, two of my colleagues are constantly…
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Final Destination Complex...
Does anyone else have, what I call "Final Destination Complex" - where you imagine the craziest way that a certain situation could go wrong and end up killing you? For example, while swimming, I dropped my goggles and they landed on the vent, I imagined them getting stuck, me swimmiing down to get them and getting caught…
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Office Birthdays...
It's my birthday next week, and in our office, on our birthday, we buy cakes and chocolates to share with everyone else. I'm planning on using up all my cake allowance at home with the family... so, that being said, what alternatives would you bring in to share? Normally we spend less than £5 on goodies to share, and I was…
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Stitch in Shoulder?
Hi All, This past week, I have found that when power walking I get what feels like a stitch just below my collar bone, and also below my ribs on the right hand side. I do wear a good sports bra, but I am wondering if it could be caused by pressure from my bra? Other exercises Don't give me this issue, and I do HIIT classes…
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Winter Wonderland NSV
As England is currently in the grips of a huge* snow storm (*read a couple inches of the white stuff) I decided to try on my old winter parka coat, it hasn't zipped up for a couple of years, and before that it was pretty tight. To be honest I'm not even sure why I kept it! Anyway - it fits! perfectly. Having checked the…
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Spin Class booked - terrified!
I have started going to the classes at my gym. Bootcamp, Circuit and Legs, Bums and Tums type classes, and I LOVE them. I can only go to the gym after 8pm, and tonights late class is spin... I've never done it before and it terrifies me! I'm no where near as fit as I want to be, and spin looks incredibly daunting! So,…
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dropped a dress size
woohoo - So I was a UK size 16 for trousers, and yesterday, after hubby told me I looked like a tramp in my baggy clothes, I tried on an old pair of UK size 14 trousers for work... and they FIT! today I tried another pair... and they fit too! YAY!
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Getting Skinny to get fat...
Hi Everyone - I joined this site for the ticker in jan, and since getting my iPhone last week and the app for the site, Its SO much more and so helpful. As you can see from my tracker I've lost 16lbs since the start of january, but I have weeks where I can lose 3 or 4, then nothing! I've joined the gym again, but some days…
