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365 days--63 pounds: A Story in Pictures
So it's been a year of tracking on My Fitness Pal. Learning what a portion size is, discovering new foods like quinoa and oatmeal and falling in love with old favorites like fruit. Finding out that yes, I am a runner. Becoming stronger and healthier and better, through small steps and some tangents, but always sticking…
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NSV: A size small t-shirt!
The first weekend of April was full of non-scale victories: I ran my first half-marathon, I finished the half-marathon, and I went through a lot of challenging days while still making several healthy choices. Another one is buying a t-shirt in a small, because the medium was too baggy! Right now, I'm usually a medium, so…
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NSV: Making it through a 12-mile run!
So I'm training for a half-marathon, and my training plan has me complete long runs all the way up to 13 miles. Today, it was time to tackle twelve miles. I didn't feel very worried about it; my ten and eleven mile runs had both gone really well. But today . . . today was not a good run. I struggled for every single step.…
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50 pounds gone in nine months!
Hi, everyone. I last posted in November to show off my 90 Day Photo Challenge results: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1141993-90-day-photo-challenge-results . It's been another three months and I wanted to talk about/show off my progress! I started on May 21, 2013, to improve my health and my life. Now, after just…
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90 Day Photo Challenge results
I was never one for taking photos to show my weight loss progress. When I started on MFP again in early May, I was too embarrassed by my body and not ready to see how far I let myself go. But in August I signed up for a 90 day photo challenge, and earlier today I posted my final results photos. And I am now totally sold on…
