Wow Angie!!! I haven't been on Traineo in a LONG time, but I remembered your name - then I looked at the pics and I was like "nnaaaa, that's not the same Angie" - I remembered seeing a pic of you in a purple bridesmaid dress. So I looked in your profile and there it was! You literally look like a different person, what fantastic results!!!

It is crazy to see how much progress you have made - while I have GAINED weight since I was here last I really let the whole diet/fitness regime go to hell in the last year! Talk about a kick in the behind though, maybe I could be posting hot pics on here this time next year Thanks for the inspiration

Woohoo eggs rock! I stopped eating them when I found out I had high cholesterol cause at the time they were bad for it - supposedly! But now they are saying that an egg a day can actually help to lower cholesterol... bloody researchers, make up your minds!!! I'm happy to be eating eggs again though

Haha I heard someone say that muscle was EIGHT times heavier than fat... bit of wishful thinking on their part I think!

So you've gained 6 lbs... and yet your goal is to lose 18? Seems like a bit of a miscalculation to me... That would put you at 98lbs which would probably be way underweight - unless you are really petite?



If you are extra-hungry all of a sudden maybe your body is just telling you that you need to eat more... and maybe give yourself a bit of a break from exercise every now and then - 100 mins is a lot of running, especially if you are doing it every day!

Why, why, WHY do they put mirrors in a gym?!?!?! Nobody looks good in the gym for god's sake! Don't beat yourself up so much...



It is easy to focus on what you look like in a negative way but two things...



1. If it wasn't the weight that bothered you it would be 'oh I'm so sweaty and red' or something similar - in other words EVERYBODY will find some fault with themselves while jiggling about on a treadmill!



2. I guarantee that there was somebody else there worse off than you! Or probably more to the point there are people worse off who are not in the gym but are sitting at home on the couch eating - at least you are DOING something about losing weight.



I don't know if you have that TV show over there 'How to Look Good Naked'? That is so what you need right now... it's all about loving your body even if it's not perfect - they just do a makeover no lipo!!!



Anyway chin up, you will get there eventually

Weird... I was just looking at that spreadsheet not five minutes ago and then lo and behold here it pops up on traineo too!

Thanks for the advice jake and itadaki!







I know this makes sense, but I still think I would be upset if I gained weight! I know it's stupid and it's only a number and all that... I still want to see that number get smaller though, I don't know why!!!



Yes 100 pushups is great although I am still at about 5 pushups - and they are 'girly' ones too hahaha!!!

Hi Rachel, your plan sounds great... You said something on here before that really helps me stay on track so I'm going to quote it back to you now!



"You're either in control of your diet and training... or you're not"



Love it, it's so simple... best of luck

Tirade away Cliff!!! I won't say anything I promise You give great advice and as you said before there are constantly new people on this forum so that advice is needed. Anyway how much of a hypocrite am I, posting a topic less than a week later about wanting to gain muscle lol I could have done with some advice on that one

Glovia I know you are disappointed but I think that is amazing!!! The marathon I was supposed to be training for is in 2 weeks time but I won't be doing it because I gave up training for it! So I think it is fantastic just to run a marathon at all, you should be proud



Still I know you probably want to improve your times each time you run a marathon so I can see why you would be upset... I don't know anything about that spray but maybe that was it! It would be interesting to see what other people say if they have tried it... All the other things you did in preparation sound really good - although maybe a little intense! Do you ever take any days completely off from training?



Congratulations on finishing another marathon - I think you should be happy that you completed it even though it didn't go perfectly - and just take a nice long rest, you deserve it

Maybe you are running too fast? I used to do that at the start, just set off running at what felt like a normal speed but then nearly collapse after a few minutes! It was only when I started running slower that I could go further - obviously over time you can start to go faster again but only when you're used to it. It is hard to get over that barrier unless you slow down at first.



Try starting off by going WAY slower than you think you should... make sure it is slow enough that your breathing only gets a little bit harder. I think the main problem that people have when starting to run is that they can't control their breathing but once you go slow enough that you don't get too out of breath you should be fine!



Something that I found out this year: the first 10 minutes is harder than the first 10 miles! I know it sounds odd but it took me sooooo long to build up to just running for 10 minutes and I thought I'd NEVER get there... that took from January till maybe April/May... and then by July/August I was running 10 miles - by then it just seemed so easy in comparison! You will get there eventually just keep at it

You should change it back to what traineo says to use after you've entered the low amount for that one day.

Ok I will have to measure there tonight and see what BF% i get! I was kinda hoping you would say they mean your waist because when I put in my waist measurement the BF% went way down! Sigh... no such luck



Thanks anyway though

Thanks for the link Angie... although it told me my body fat was 32% whereas I thought it was 26%... eek!!! When they ask for the abdomen measurement do they mean your waist or your midsection (i.e. a couple of inches below your belly button)? Anyway it gave my daily protein requirement as 77g which I probably don't get anywhere near on a normal day! So I will give it a go...



CM I am actually in a gym - but um... I haven't gone in months cos I just prefer exercising outdoors! But if I want to do weights I suppose I will have to hit the gym again... the weights section in my gym is huge and filled with muscley men so quite scary... and the staff aren't very helpful! Any time I've ever asked them anything all I've gotten is 'Uhhhh..... ummmm... I'm not sure...' But I might get my fiancee to come with me and he can show me what to do!

I just made a depressing discovery... I did the calculations for lean body mass and body fat % that Shawn was talking about on another thread and found out that of the 7lbs I lost recently only 3lbs were fat So that means 4lbs of LBM lost... I know that is not TOO drastic but I'm planning on losing more weight, so how can I be sure that won't be mostly muscle too?!?!



I think I know the answer already... weight training??? Currently all I really do is running and it is pretty low intensity too. The problem is I just don't know what to do with weights - and also that I can barely even pick up a 10lb weight...



Can anyone suggest some kind of program that will:



1. First of all, tell me what kind of exercises/weights I am supposed to do!

2. Be a fairly intense workout - but doable with lighter weights to start with!!!

3. And finally be somewhat enjoyable for someone who thinks weight training is painfully boring.



Hmm tall order I guess... any advice at all would be appreciated!



Another thing, could the LBM loss be from not getting enough protein? Cos that's another thing I'm pretty bad at, so I might need to work on that too...

Hi Matt, yes it can if you click on 'Use Custom Figure' and enter in around 1500 cals the whole scale will change so that the lower end is around what you want to record. I think if you go too far from the centre of the scale (1500 in this case) in either direction - so if you don't eat enough - you will get less points! Which solves the problem on your other thread too...

I did a workout with 5 lb weights and was sore for about three days afterwards... wow I'm soooo puny!!! Seriously can barely even pick up a 15lb weight - I really need to start working on that!







Agreed also! I wish i'd never seen 2 and 3... by the way have people heard about the Donnie Darko sequel that is being made??? I heard about it the other day and was like "Nooooooo!!!" There is just no way to follow up that movie...

No the topic is not stupid at all!!! And I know absolutely zero about weight training so pay no attention to me...



It's just that the same debates keep raging again and again on this forum... for example...







If it's not this it's debates about whether HIIT is the best thing ever or not... So I wasn't saying anything about the topic itself, but when I saw the title I thought "Oh yay, ANOTHER debate about weight training!!!"



And yes, yes I know if I don't have anything to add why did I even bother to comment - but I guess that's just the mood I'm in today

*Sigh* I saw the topic title and knew exactly who would post responses and what they would say... No offence guys, I'm not saying there is anything WRONG with anything you said... just maybe I have been reading this forum too long! The same topics - and the same responses to those topics - keep coming up again and again...

Cliff, she is absolutely right, women store more fat on their bodies than men!!!



Stephanie, I recommend a sex change





Haha sorry I couldn't resist... anyway my point is, yes, you may be right and it may be harder for women but there ain't a hell of a lot you can do about being a woman, is there? So just get on with it... and hey, at least we are usually less hairy!?!?!

That sounds so familiar, I know what you mean - although my distance was only half what yours was!!! That is amazing CM that you finished a marathon even though you were in bits the whole way through...







Me too!!! At least I have done it now... and I haven't been so traumatised that I won't try to do it again in the near future!





Thanks for posting that story (twice!) - like you said things always go wrong, and that is probably true for everybody except maybe the person who comes first!!!

Wow that sounds amazing... well done!!! You rock

Hi there Allison! I agree with the others, she will probably get motivated once she sees that you're sticking at it and it's working!



Best of luck

*blush* Thanks so much guys... those are some very nice words of encouragement!!!



I am feeling a lot more positive now, going to take the rest of the week off and then start back training nice and easy next Monday!

Ummm... I'm not sure that they are all the "right" things to be honest!!! Some of it is great, obviously, like the more exercise, more fruit & veg part for example. But eating "sugar free/fat free/reduced fat everything"... that means they're all processed right? And the appetite suppressants too... it just all sounds quite unnatural to me. I don't know anything about veganism but maybe even just choosing more natural foods and cutting out anything processed would be a good start!

Thanks guys you are probably right!!! I am starting to feel better about it now... now that I have gotten over the initial embarrassment of being last



I know it is all about competing against myself, rather than competing against anyone else - and one thing is for sure I will soon be able to KICK MY OWN ASS!!! Hahaha



Thanks again for the advice

So I just finished my first half-marathon! But I came last I obviously was not ready for it - training had been going good until about 4 weeks ago when I got injured and then I couldn't do very much for a while. I went to a physio who said it was a muscle tear and he did a massage and ultrasound which helped it to start healing but it was too little too late I think!



On the day I was in pain from the end of the first mile onwards - wasn't too bad to begin with and I was actually making good time, but around mile 8/9 everything else started to get tired too, the pain kept getting worse and eventually I had to start walking/running. By mile 12/13 I couldn't even run anymore and just walked the rest of the way In the last mile a cop even pulled over to see if I was ok but I just couldn't give up at that point.



Anyway I know I probably shouldn't be upset... but I really am!!! Everyone keeps saying "but you DID it, at least you finished it etc etc" but that doesn't make me feel any better At the moment I just feel like I need to go and do another race A.S.A.P. just to place anywhere but last... but part of me says that may not be the wisest decision!



Anyway, advice/other-race-disaster-stories welcome!

Hi Traineo Support - if you are out there...



Can I plleeeeaaasssseeeeeeeee change my name just one last time? I never would have picked this stupid name if I'd known I'd be stuck with it forever! I was just messing around with different names and all of a sudden I couldn't change it anymore... So can I change it, or can you change it for me? My username is still 'rosanne' so that would be fine with me Thanks!

Yes it is a bat well done! It is the bumblebee bat from thailand... Look how tiny!!!

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