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Re, if you're too skinny to join or not? Well if you think you're too big, then you're in! It's all relative isn't it? Personally, when i get to size 14-16 then i will be ecstatic, (did you notice i said when, not if) but for some people that's way way too big.
And as for the men who love us, well keep posting as we do love to be flattered!
miles. I'd never keep up with you.
I think I've been looking at too many of the other forums as everybody else seems to be flying along, or so they say.
Good to hear from NORMAL people.
Now I am a much happier 11st 11.5lbs (or at least I was a few days ago before I rediscovered chocolate and cakes...oooppss!). Still want to get to 11st. Am now a size 12 up top and 14 below (always was botom heavy.....sure its all those running muscles!!!!!!
I started running last year and have done one 10k race at just over 60 mins last year.....got another coming up in a couple of weeks. Doing GNR this year - any time under 2.5 hrs will be fine for me!!!
But when I came back I gained weight again. Went from where I am now back up to about 13.5st - so then lost some of my weight - probably down to about 13st - then lost the rest with the help of running. I used to run very early in the morning cause I didn't want anyone to see me!!
Even though I'm probably not really fat anymore I will always believe that I am fat ugly and boring!!!!!! Particularly when I'm miserable and drunk!!!!
you have to have a BMI of over 25 or apply for asylum at the sole discretion of our esteemed leader Fat Buddha...
We encourage people who want to lose weight...we encourage people who don't want to lose weight
Here endeth the advert
Crashie (BMI 26.something)
firstly apologies for my weird separate thread - bit of a cockup ignore it..
secondly - re my walk running - started with 90secs walk 30secs run back in sept 03 but then abandoned running for a while due to colds and xmas
restarted in jan with just cylcing and swimming on advice of coach no running to avoid worsening knee probs
he then advised purely brisk walking for 45mins which didn't seem like much till i checked my heart rate with a HRM and found it was doing me plenty good
however got frustrated with walking due to entering myself into 10k for 3 may
now run when i feel i can and stop when i feel i can't - i reckon i run mainly about 1min at a time and then walk till i feel better . i try and make a deliberate effort to run up hills though!
i had stoppped counting really and just following my body but i think it's too slow so i am going to try and do 1min:1min run walk today and see how i manage
i will probably go for a shorter distance but a faster pace for a few days and alternate with slow long days and see if that increases my fitness
my main prob is knees and ankles start to hurt way before my breath gives out
and i am trying not to blow them completely
if i had new knees , i'd probably be running for 10mins or so by now!
actually lately my knees and ankles are ok , especially on softer surfaces, but i find i get a kind of ahce in my calves and not sure if i should run through that or not
Um - I feel I have to say that it was a formerly overweight MAN, on these forums, who inspired and encouraged me (quite passively, but that works for me) to lose two and a half stone and keep r*nning.
And there are lots of men here now who are fighting a successful battle with lard. And many more who need just as much encouragement as the girlies.
[climbs down from li'l soapbox and tucks it behind sofa]
Well done to ALL of you who have lost weight, or are still trying.
(I could still do with another 7-14 pounds going, but I'm not in a hurry).
Really we want to get to know one another and compare problems like sports bras, finding kit that fits well and chocolate. But not necesarily in that order!
No-one should feel excluded from any of the RW forums so please join in.
gt - the run/walk schedule DOES WORK, so keep at it.
i also gained weight when i started running, have lost a few pounds BUT have gained a whole lot of self confidence so i';m not that bothered by my weight, clothes fit better etc etc and i have much more energy due to running. Still same old size though. but the Hips/thighs have got hippier/bigger coz of running.
Thats my excuse anyhow ¦oD
Ok.. I'm 32, SAHM and now approved as foster carer but no foster placement as yet (2 weeks and counting).
Mum of 1 5 yr old, and 1 yr old norfolk terrier.
Started running about 6 weeks ago and went from 30 seconds to 43 min 5k.
Weight lost since 17th Dec 2003 24lbs, still to lose about another 50 - 60lb. Weight lost since running: Nil !
Dunno why but am figuring the fitter I get the better and when the weight wants to come off it will.
Am also doing 2 hrs aerobics a week so am feeling MUCH fitter than at the beginning of the year.
Measuring tapes, not weighing scales, will soon make you realise that running IS good for you.
Just wanted to say hellooooo ladeez and give you an old Russian saying:
"There should be plenty of a good person".
<and wanders away again>
You and I are so alike!
I am still fluctuating between 14.5 and 14.11 lbs but am really not freaked by the fact that I haven't lost since starting to run. To the extent that I have come off atkins and am simply watching what I eat now. I figure if I watch my cal's approx and exercise one day my body will figure it's safe to drop the weight.
It's nice to be able to buy some of my clothes in 'normal' shops rather than Evans.
I've a race pack for my first 5k in July (hemel hempstead) and am going to apply for the Flora Light Hyde Park 5k in Sept.
I was around this weight for a couple of years after DD was born and figure ur body 'remembers' weights it was at for a while. So maybe it's just my body thinking it wants to stay here!
I'm def getting more toned and am even losing a bit of my 'rub together' thighs
One of the several life-changing bits of advice I got was "concentrate on your fitness and the weight loss will follow".
that proved to be so, so true.
(I'm disabling emails and going away now)
Marion
Have you checked your body composition? You've probably burnt alot of the wobbly stuff, and gained a bit of the more dense stuff. If so, it's all good!
I love that new Dove advert!
if you are actively trying to lose weight then come and register on "the counts diet support thread"
M (9lbs lost so far - 12lbs to go)
<M goes away and checks body composition>
seems to be mostly chinese food and white wine at the moment.....