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Odd question - vegetarian diet and anger?
I occasionally do a 30 day trial of different things (an idea I got from a blog post on stevepavlina.com), and my most recent trial was a switch to a vegetarian diet. I'm about two weeks into the trial, and have been noticing that lately my mood has been very bad - I'm having mood swings and am very quick to anger. Tonight…
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Long plateau - 2.5 months and counting ...
My plan was to get down to 190 (which at 5'7" is still somewhat heavy), then not really worry too much about weight and focus more on body composition and "feel" of clothes more than the pounds. However, I hit a plateau about two and a half months ago at around 213 where I haven't lost any weight but I'm definitely firming…
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What was your wake up call?
I was thinking recently about my wake-up call, when I finally decided that I needed to get healthy and lose weight, and am interested in what motivated other people. For me, it was a physical I had right around Christmas. The blood results were mostly good - sugar levels OK, cholesterol OK, borderline high blood pressure,…
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Finished my first 5k!
Just finished up my first 5k race, the same event where last year I wasn't even able to finish the 2 mile walk. My goal was to not walk at all and to finish under 40 mins. Didn't quite make the first goal, had to walk 3 times for a total of about 6 mins, but I did make the second goal, my time was 37:40! I'm so proud of…
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Run stretching
I haven't been doing any stretching before my runs. Back when I used to be in Karate, running is what we did to warm up before our stretches, so I was a bit pre-conditioned against stretching to run when I started C25k - so of course, I ended up pulling one of my muscles about week 6 or 7 and when I started running once…
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Dropped a size! Woohoo!
This morning, all my other jeans were dirty, so I put on some old jeans that were a size smaller, crossing my fingers since I didn't have anything else to wear - and they fit perfectly! I didn't think they'd fit, because the last time they fit I weighed about 15 lbs less than I do now - apparently the workouts I'm doing is…
