Hi guys!!! SOOO busy. I haven't been here for MONTHS. I'm ready to get back on track and things are about to get even more stressful in my life... so I'm going to need you!!! (even though I gained some weight and am not really a feather anymore *WAHHH*... am working hard on changing it!)

Glad I recognize some names still .

Thanks, all, for the encouragement and congrats!

No time for personals this morning, but I am down 2 pounds. So yeah, I know that high weight was mostly water weight. Especially because I felt like I was a peeing machine yesterday!

I successfully started my running again. Here's my method to ease myself into it. I pick a standard fitness time (30 minutes). I then will walk 4 minutes and run one minute of every five-minute period. The thing is, I could probably run most of it, but I am choosing not to. I want to look forward to the exercise at this point because I want the habit back. The next week I'll up it to walking 3 minutes and running 2 minutes, the next week walking 2 minutes and running 3 minutes, etc., until I am able to fully run 30 minutes. That is my base. Then I can add mileage or speed or HIIT to that once I have the base of being able to run 30 minutes. Sometimes I've done that with just 20 minutes as a base.

Today's challenge: 2 eating events, eep. I have a cookout for mentors (I'm a mentor to a fifth grader) where there are hamburgers and hotdogs. Luckily I already told the coordinator that I was not interested in having one of those (nothing wrong with hotdogs and hamburgers, but just not now), but now I have to figure out what to bring for myself that I can eat without heating up and will be satisfying. Then there's a dessert party after school at the house of a teacher who is retiring at my school. I want to drop by because I like this person and want to wish her well, but desserts! Well, I think my plan is to choose one and nibble on it. Or if there is fruit, mostly fill my plate with fruit.

Hello feathers!

Been lurking around and finally decided to say hi! Not only because that stupid guy outside woke me up by mowing the lawn right outside our window at 9 frickin 15 in the AM, aaah! But also because I need some support from fellow feathers!
I've been stuck between 139 lbs and 143 lbs for a while now. Once I get down to my lowest weight I get these cravings, or maybe it's just really bad timing with PMS and all that fun stuff? Anyhow, I'm trying to get my shiieet together. After a few days of food-fest I managed to stay in my calories, wahoo! I'm very determined to make today a healthy day. DH is off from work so we'll probably relax a little and then hit the gym after lunch.

ange82much - Congrats on the whoosh! Those intervals sound good, it's a great way to burn some fat.

olehcat - What about bringing a salad? Fast, easy and no heating-up required. It was definitely smart that you had already announced no hot-dogs and hamburgers for you! This will avoid the "oh come on have some this" and "you have to try some of those, they're sooo good"-moments. Well, let's hope so.

ValRock - Hello! Isn't stress such a beautiful thing? Not. Been dealing with aloooot myself and know how you feel. Let's stay strong! We probably need some serious

nineteen - 140. I hate that number! Can't wait to be in the mid 130s so I won't have to see that number ever again!

krampus - Picture pretty pleaseeee! I don't know if I will ever get to wear a crop top. By the time my body allows me to they probably won't be in trend anymore Also, <1300 is brutal. I've managed to only eat fruits and veggies for 2 days and boy, that was no fun. I told myself I would never do that again.

Leaves - Good luck on your exam! About your bras - maybe just get a couple cheaper ones to last you until you lose some more?

xiaobaicai - Yay on oatmeal! Can't start my day without it. I just always look at the packaging for calories and rarely check online, for the reasons you mentioned. Oh and - hello hipbones! Waiting for the day that mine will show as well.

TurboMammoth - Holy ****, 18k!! I'm impressed, seriously. That puts my first 10k to shame (on the treadmill, mmhhmm). Though I focused on speed and getting it done since I had no idea what to expect.

Laters!

olehcat : Yay for shedding the 2 pounds! And going back to running gradually is a great idea, you won't feel overwhelmed by just taking it easy That's the best way to stick to it!!

xiaobocai : nice trick on your brain, with that oatmeal situation! You are having really great results lately : nice job!!! And welcome back to your hipbones! hehe!

ange : JESUS good job on the zero calorie party. MEGA PROPS to you! You run is improving so much. Good job!

Leaves : For some weird reasons, my college program loved to put on on Saturday morning exam. I hated it SO bad. I might have already ask but I have a really bad short term memory, what field are you studying?

krampus : I want a picture of this crazy top! And I don't get how people do less than 1300 calories either. There is tons of those on Calories Count, like they log a freaking 1000 calories a day. Sometimes 1000 calories is my dinner ALONE.

nineteen : Hope you'll see the number you want by the end of the week!

ValRock : Welcome back! Omg, your profile picture : your arm and back are so TONED! I'm jealous!

Hoopty : Welcome! Oh and seriously, no shame on a 10k! That is an awesome distance! Honestly, I run slooooowly. I just work on improving myself from a race to another

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Hi! Weight holding at a nice spot, happy about it. I ate out last night, I met up with 2 friends, I was seeing one of them for the first time since she delivered TWINS. I indulged on one cup of white wine (goodbye, detox :P). It was a nice thin crust-pizza place, I had one with brie, goat cheese, merguez and sundried tomato. It was amazing and a decent not over the world size. The dessert I ordered was crap though and so small, so I did not even felt bad about eating it :P

Today is a rest day, I did a 10k run yesterday, my training is all over the place this week because of the 5k Spartan race next Sunday. I need to do a 14k tomorrow for my half training, which will get me a rest day Saturday before the race.

Fun fact, as I was running around the lake yesterday, I met a old guy who was walking many times around the loop. I don't know how you call that in english, but he seems to have the syndrome, you know, when you shout out really random thing, and you can't help them out? In french it is the la Tourette Syndrome, but I have no idea how to translate it.

WELL. The third time I met the guy, I got a ''Hi miss- YOU RUN BIG B*TCH''

I felt special. LOL

Have a nice day ladies!

krampus- yes pictures! I'm intrigued When I first tried dieting and MFP gave me a figure of 1350 I was like 'pfffft yeah right', but these days i get by on about 1210, I'm not sure how I'm doing it! I put off breakfast until pretty late so I feel fuller for longer in the day though, so that helps.

nineteen-Thanks! Good luck with your next weight in

val- Hi o/ Welcome back, and good luck for getting back on track!

oleh- yesss WHOOSH!! And that sounds like a real grounded, sensible way to build things up. hope it works out!

hoopty- Welcome! You know, I wish I could get a couple of cheap ones to make do, but at my size they just don't come cheap! That's party my motivation for trying to lose weight, I can't afford to keep spending a fortune on specialist bras. I figure I'm something like a 30/32GG in UK sizes, you don't come across bras very often in those sizes

turbo- that pizza sounds sooo good. *drool* and it's Tourette's Syndrome in English too, probably named after someone! My major is music, but I also studied Mandarin and French, it's the French reading/writing/grammar paper on Saturday. I toyed with the idea of training to be a French teacher, but chickened out at the last minute! I'm on a music teacher training course now instead next year

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Came across a bunch of cauliflower recipes that look really interesting, especially ones that substitute flour for cauliflower. Cauliflower pizza base! I have to try it soon. Wonder if it tastes any good..

dang, I just wrote out a long post and then I accidentally hit backspace and lost everything!!!

I just rambled about how today was not too bad, but not at all perfect, and I was derailed by one of my coworkers who maybe once a year makes the most delicious vegetable samosas and brings them to work and today was that once a year day. No way i wasn't having one or more of them. I had 3-4, probably the equivalent of one restaurant-sized one! And I had a tiny 1/4 sized brownie at the other party. So meh, not perfect, but not bad either.

@Turbo - LOL! I laughed like crazy about the Tourette's guy. It makes me think of something we were just talking about at this party today after school, about a former student at our school who was there a long time ago, long before I was there, who used to shout out all the time with random "f*** you"s thrown in.

@Leaves - I tried cauliflower based pizza a few years ago and while it wasn't bad, it wasn't for me. I realized that though I can't eat pizza often (it gives me stomach pains at night), I have to have the real thing when I do. Or eh. Maybe I'll try the cauliflower one again some time.

@Hoopty - hi, welcome! I actually bring a salad or raw vegetables dipped in salsa almost every day to lunch. I wanted something that wouldn't take a long time to eat and for some reason I tend to linger over my salads a long time, lol. Also, I'm out of salad ingredients at home, heh. I ended up having carrots and grapes and a few chips at the event along with the cereal I had brought for myself (cereal was a poor choice, but it was what I had on hand to pack easily and quickly this morning).

Omg, hilarious!

I would never guess French is your first language your English is perfect.

Not much for me to report, still getting settled into new job/schedule. I have been eating high sodium since yesterday (and it's only going to get worse for Memorial weekend I'm sure) but just got back from running 4 miles and now want to eat the entire house. Off to bed. I know I still owe a pic of VS jeans but I'm bloated right now.

Night ladies!

Heeeeeeeeeey Feathers,

122.6 this AM OH YEAH. Gonna feel great and confident for the festival but I can't wait to gorge on Chinese food next week, ahaha.

Tonight we leave, tomorrow, Sunday and Monday we party. Driving 10 hours each way. O______O

Hello!

Last night wasn't so much fun. I cried my eyes out for a little while while DH tried comforting me, ugh Our current situation sucks: Where we are, what we're doing, who we're around. I just wanna pack all our stuff and move back to my parents' though that is faaar, faaaar away in Germany. Unfortunately, we need to get things done here first. I just hope that, once all this stuff is over, DH wants to go back to Germany, too. I wouldn't leave him here, never ever would that even cross my mind, but would I be 100% happy here in NY? No. Well, we'll see.
All that lead to me eating a lot of peanut butter filled pretzel nuggets. I didn't count them or the calories but I'm pretty sure I stayed around my maintenance calories.
The good news is - my pajama pants are getting loose again I hope I can break out of the 139 lbs-143 lbs soon.

TurboMammoth - That reminds me of the South Park episode where Cartman fakes having Tourette Syndrome. Super funny. (Though it's seriously nothing to laugh about!) DH and I were asked if we wanted to go to the Spartan Race in NY though we decided not to, I'm too scared

Leaves - Well that makes it more difficult and I understand why you don't wanna buy any new ones I've been wanting to try mashed cauliflower. If you have some other good delicious recipes, I'm interested

olehcat - Sounds like you didn't do bad at all! I wish I could only have 1/4 of something sweet and then stop. That would never happen with me though. I HAVE to finish the whole dang thing

novangel - Wanna. See. Picture. Too! I saw that we almost have the same numbers. May I ask what your goals are? I feel uncomfotable, still, at my current weight and want to get back down to 120-123 lbs where I was 2 years ago unless I look super toned at a higher weight.

krampus - Congrats and be safe! And have fun of course, duuuuh.


Time to make poopies.

jumping in with both feet...I used to post in 3FC prob 4 years ago when I was just starting my weight loss journey. Since then I've been at goal, ran 17 marathons, done a half ironman, became a personal trainer, joined crossfit, etc, etc and yet here I am back at it.

My lowest was probably about 112 but that was on just running. I'm ok weighing more now that my lifting has increased alot. I'm best around 116-118 and then I let a few lbs creep on so I hovered around 118-123, then before I knew it a few more so lately it's been 124-127.

ACK! This has got to stop since I'm far too short to carry it well. 5lbs on me looks like 10+ on a taller person. So I hope I'm welcome and still considered a feather (not feeling super-feathery). For the last 2 days I've been back at MFP logging in everything and loosely calculating WW pts even though I don't think it's ideal for the last few pounds. Plus it's far too low fat for me. I tend to be a more paleo eater but currently not being super strict about it.

Looking forward to getting to know you all!!

And OMG turbomammoth-I just snarfed my coffee!!! I hope I run big b*tch too!!!

ok tried to do some back lurking but my boys are driving me crazy.

But olehcat sounds like we're kinda in the same boat. THIS IS ABOUT TO GET REAL!!! Let's do this!!

I'm actually right where I want to be, if I get below 135p I don't feel good (physically I get light headed) so 138-140p is perfect for me. I'm currently a size 6.

On a side note: The VS skinny jeans run so small I had to get a 10! The waist has a little room but the calves are super tight and I have bird legs as it is.

After this weekend (Memorial holiday) I'm sure I will have a gain...hopefully it will just be water retention. Yes, I plan to splurge a bit.

YUS!

Just measured at somewhere between 25.5" and 25.75" (took several measurements), and then weighed in at 55.1 kg!

You guys gotta try this oatmeal brain trick. I don't know what it is about my stupid psychology that makes this work, but it's workin' like gangbusters and so I ain't asking questions! I'll post some of the oatmeal recipes I've been using when I get back from class today.

Edit: I'm not gonna change my ticker, though, until the new progress stays for at least a couple days. But it's not like I did anything real drastic yesterday that would result in a drop in water weight or what have you. In fact, I had a big dinner (with my white wine and banana chips!) a couple nights ago to celebrate submitting that essay, and the day's sum total wound up at 3100 cals, so...

I was down another 1.4 pounds this morning! I don't know what tomorrow will bring. I had one little treat today -- a half of a cupcake. Other than that, I have eaten on plan, although I do have a bit of extra wine on Friday evenings. So yeah, for dinner had an Asian soup (I can live off those, sort of hot and sour soup-like variations with lots of veggies and very spicy) and a big salad. I feel very satisfied and not overly stuffed. My usual Friday night is very dangerous, usually involving going out to dinner, frozen pizza (which kills my stomach) or Thai takeout. I think I've done well so far. We'll see what the scale said. I'm hoping to be at my first mini goal of 144 pretty quickly since I do think a lot of anything above 145 is water weight.

@xiao - good job - whoo hoo

@novangel - Go for it with the splurging. You'd have to eat a huge amount to cause any really significant gains. Most if not all of it will definitely be water weight gain!

@batmomm - I know what you mean about being short and the pounds showing up so much. I think a lot of other people might think that being in the 140s is a great or at least acceptable weight, but on me, it looks chunky! I feel best around 118-125ish range as well, the upper range if I'm exercising a lot and look slimmer.

@Hoopty - I'm sorry you're so stressed. Are you both from Germany then? I have lived overseas at various times in my life, and while I always love it, there are just times when you want to be around familiarity and home and it gets stressful. I've never heard of peanut butter filled pretzel nuggets! Maybe I don't want to know...lol!

@krampus - what a GREAT weigh-in! Have a fun and safe trip!

Leaves : Music, mandarin and french! Quite intense!! Let me know how the cauliflower crust turned out, I tried a Alfredo-Cauliflower thingy one and it was disguuuusting LOL

olehcat : I think you did good with the samosad and the brownies, in my opinion! That could have easily turned out in a food overhauling, but it did not, which is a win in my book. And oh yeah for the drop!!!

novangel : Yup, I speak French and learned english at school and while traveling. Good job on the 4 miles run!

krampus : HAVE FUN AT THE FESTIVAAAAAL! Jesus, you skinny thing! you'll diserve this chinese food fest next week

Hoopty : Sorry you were feeling in a bad place yesterday Hope everything will get better soon. Oh and P.S. I'm pretty much deadly terrified of the Spartan Race :P LOL

Batmomm : Your picture is so badass!! JESUS CHRIST 17 marathons!!!! Welcome!

xiaobocai : YO GO WOMAN! I can't wait to check out your oatmeal recipe, I was looking to try it out lately, so have something really filly before heading out for longer runs.

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Hiiii. A bit up today but I had a disappointing meetup with the bathroom yesterday, so it makes sense I guess.

Food was ok today, I came up with a 2000 calories of logged food and I can add up a 7.25 km run on the treadmill this afternoon, but I nibble a lot around, so I don't know if I'll dare to eat a snack tonight. Im frustrating, I gave up to the pressure of the boyfriend to have a third cookie, I already had 2, he already had 3 and there was only one left and he got all ''oh come one, eat the last one, it is stupid to let the last one there etc etc'' and I GAVE UP. I should not have. Stupid peer pressure :P

Spartan Race is SUNNNNDAYYY and I am scared. We are heading to Montréal tomorrow to hand out with friends and have a closer drive to the race on Sunday morning... which means dinner with them, which means probably overeating. Oh well. I need calories to comfort me for all the mud to come the next day :P

Have a good weekend Feathers!!