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Re: Post-Epic Fat Tuesday Rascal Avoidance Club check-in
Thanks, IIOY.
groomy made me get out of bed and go run this morning even though I was all, "OMG, I'm so in looooooove with bed right now." He really needs to start exercising and lose weight, but he threw his back out the other day. As soon as it gets better, he said he'll start going to the gym again. We made a pact to force each other out of bed.
This goes back to the whole Fat Tuesday thing and having thoughts of being some sort of terrible person because I got fat again. I'm just trying to remember that I can do it again. I have already picked out a 5k where I'll be making my "comeback."
<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home DBridey - I have the same gripe with WW regarding points - I hate that a lot of people at the meetings were honestly just trying to figure out ways to eat sh!tty foods with the lowest point tally.
I wanted to learn about making decent meals with chicken, fish, veggies, etc. that would be in the lower point range. Everyone else just wanted to figure out which brand of packaged brownies had the lowest points.
It was frustrating. So then I just did it online with myself which was good - I had my personal trainer for my weigh-ins so I didn't miss the group setting. However - that was extremely expensive and I realize not an option for most.
<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home DMarie - Just wanted to jump into the RAC to chime in on what you said about being nervous after the 15k wiped you out. You'll probably feel the same way after the half, I certainly did after mine! It was pretty similar timing too, my half was in late June and my first full was NYC that November. I was so exhausted and remember thinking there was NO WAY I could ever do that twice, I'd die. Except that I did and it was fine.
It's totally normal to feel that way, mentally and physically. Just take a few days to recover from the 15, follow the training and you'll get there.
marie - you inspire me to run.
I want to be able to run first a 5k then a 10k at some point in my life.
This my first response on this check in. About 3 years ago I hit my all time high on weight - 196 lb. At 5'11" this is about 20 lb more than the high normal, but I have always felt my best around 160. I've always been naturally thin and could eat what I want and never workout. After about 10 months of PPD hell I somehow couldn't stop eating and had no motivation to do anything but watch TV.
I realized that I was eating to comfort myself. Then I felt guilty for eating. So I ate more. And then I gained weight. I felt ugly, so I ate more. Horrible cycle. It was the first time in my life that I understood 'relationship to food'.
I read How to Eat What you Love and Love what you eat about 2 years ago and it helped me see food differently. I started eating only when I was hungry and I became more aware of what I was feeling and found other outlets for those feelings. I still only lost about 10 lb over 1 year, but eventually gained it back.
About year ago I committed to getting back in shape. I started with 30DS twice a week and pilates class once a week. Then I did the C25K program and was able to run almost 3 miles without stopping. The scale didn't move it all despite my workouts. Then I finally saw my doctor for ab soreness and was diagnosed with a hernia (caused from pregnancy, but I didn't know because I thought it was just the extra weight).
I was put on exercise restriction, had the first surgery in October last year. Then recovered and started a light cardio program. Found I had a recurrent hernia and was again put on restriction for exercise. At this time I joined MyFitnessPal (MFP). While waiting for my next surgery, I finally learned how many calories I was eating--close to 3000 a day. Bad considering I wasn't moving at all.
First I learned how to change my diet by tracking everything that went in my mouth. I realized how deficient I probably was in vitamins and minerals, and how little protein and good fat I was eating. This helped me understand that the carbs and sugar I was eating just left me feeling unsatisfied.
After 3 months of learning to eat healthy and dropping my calorie intake to 1700, I dropped nearly 15 lbs. Once I was cleared for exercise, I started slow at 1 day a week. Because 1 day is better than no days.
I slowly increased the days to now only 8 weeks after bedrest from surgery I am successfully lifting weights, doing cardio, and pilates 6 days a week. I eat somewhere between 2000 and 3000 calories, depending on my workouts. I am down 20 lbs overall and have lost inches on my legs, arms, waist and hips.
I am committed to getting getting in shape and doing it to change my lifestyle, not to look a certain way. My proudest moment was when my 4 yr old daughter asked me why 'we' were working out (she does all the movements when I workout at home) and I told her 'to get strong and healthy'. My former self would have said, 'to look pretty'.
MFP has been the best motivator for me. If you join, I'd love to have you as a 'friend'. It helps me stay motivated when I see others struggle with the same things I do. I just wanted to check in here for the same reasons--social motivation helps me a ton!
So thanks for sharing!
1) I don't normally even open these threads and I don't know why I did today, so please feel free to ignore me.
2) The last time I religiously worked out (like made specific time to "work out", not walk the dogs/hike/bike/activity) was when I ran(/walked) a half marathon in 2007. It for real burnt me out. I cried the last two miles. I haven't raced since. Of course, when I was racing, I hadn't lost a damn pound. So I don't have the answer, but I don't think you're alone.
3) I missed yesterday's debacle, but it always catches me off guard to see you (marie) talk about struggling with your weight because when I met you, I thought you looked skinny and great. Bridey, you're someone I think of as always super conscious of your eating and activity levels. I mean sure, there's a lot of self-deprecating humor about your failures, but it's very apparent you're always trying. My point here is how pointless it is to judge anyone else's weight loss/maintenance efforts, especially at any one moment in time. It's hard, it often doesn't make sense, and it's highly individual.
That sucks about WW, my mom loves her WW meetings and she's been a Lifetime member (at goal) for almost 4 years now. She loves showing off her before photo to new members and she and a bunch of the ladies go to the track and walk 4-6 miles after their meeting every week.
I totally feel you about NROLFW & running, I had to quit for the same reason when I started upping my mileage. I ended up starting hot yoga instead and am much happier.
Right now I'm really struggling with exercise, all the weekday yoga classes at my studio start before I get home from work at 7pm or end after I have to leave for work at 7:30am. And I cannot motivate myself go run. I'm at the point in my weight loss where I'm not going to see any progress unless I start moving.
Sally, congrats on your progress so far, and welcome!
Thanks, Pesca. It does surprise a lot of people to know that I was once 60 pounds heavier than I am now, and then I yo-yo-ed a bit. I know I am skinny now, so I don't have a warped sense of how big or small I am even though it's very easy for formerly-overweight people to still see the same bigger person they used to be in the mirror (I was like that for a while). My biggest challenge is ignoring the comments from people like, "Why do you work out if you're so skinny?" or "Why can't you just eat a cheeseburger every now and then since you're so skinny?" or "Here, have another piece of cake, your previous slice was too small!". They usually mean no harm but it is very difficult for someone who struggles to maintain weight loss to hear. And the reason I yo-yo-ed a couple of times is because I figured that hey, they're right. I've earned that second slice of cake. And then of course, it turns into a million more slices of cake.
<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home DI've run a whooping total of 1x since St. Patrick's day. I ran a 3 mile run for a local school. I had a good run but I have totally fallen off the exercise wagon. It sucks.
I have been eating like crap too.
Tonight I am going t get back to it. Feel free to heckle me tomorrow.
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