The MakeMeThinner Support Forum

[DogMa]

Hey, nice to see you!! I never even thought about running until a couple of years ago. But yeah, with the girls reduced through surgery and the weight gone, my joints started to feel better and suddenly it seemed like a nice idea.

It's killing me not to run this morning, but I'm going to go walk instead. Sigh.

[Tawanda]

Robin, hope you are able to get back to your running soon!

[DogMa]

You got back to your goal weight!! T, that's awesome!

[oksoonergirl26]

How's the therapy going? I did another half marathon yesterday in that stupid rain.

[DogMa]

Still working on it, but I'm back to running. I'm just sticking with the treadmill right now, although I'm going to venture outside on Sunday. I'm supposed to do a one-hour walk with a meetup group (they walk half marathons plus do hikes of all lengths), and it's so close to my house that I thought I'd run there and, I hope, run back when we're done. I'm itching to get back to normal, and my running has really improved lately (I don't know if it's the hamstring/hip work or what). I'm currently signed up for:
Two hikes (the one-hour walk and a two-hour hike at Eagle Mountain Lake)
Three 5K races (Zoo Run, Heels and Hills and the Disneyland race)
A running clinic (in Dallas next weekend, run by a triathlon coach)

[lifelovinaries]

robin, you AMAZE me. do you think it's possible to send some of that athletic mojo over this way? i'm glad that your hamstring is healing well and you are able to return to what you were previously doing (well almost ~ but you're on the way). hope you have a great day!

[Tawanda]

I'm promising myself that I will get on the treadmill daily beginning tomorrow. I dread it, but am hoping that I will learn to enjoy it. You are an inspiration!

[oksoonergirl26]

I may do the Heels and Hills Half marathon, I will let you know if I do. It sounds like you are back on the exercise track. I wanted to ask you how many calories do you eat in a day? Even though I haven't hit "goal" I am wanting to try to just do regular food for the rest of my life. I don't know anymore. After that run on the 21st I am taking off from serious running for about a month. I am doing a 5K fun run on Sunday, but for my exercise I am just doing bootcamp 4 nights a week. I am trying to firm up this excess skin.

[DogMa]

Never got off the exercise track, even while I was injured.

Re: calories, it varies based on what my BodyBugg says I burned. I try to keep a 500- or 600-calorie deficit most days because a) I'd still like to drop a couple of pounds, especially right now, and b) that gives me some leeway for the weekends. I usually eat between 1,200 and 1,500 because my metabolism is still quite slow.

That would be great if you did the Heels and Hills. Or the Zoo Run in FW, in April.

I went crazy on Sunday. Just when my leg was better and I was down to just the toe problem (saw a doc and she thinks it's a cuticle infection, but she said it was OK to walk and run on it), I signed up for an hour walk with a meetup group. Then I learned that the park is less than 2 miles from my house, so I had the brilliant idea to run to the park, walk with the group, and then walk or run home. Great, right?Except I walked with the organizer, who race-walks half-marathons. And then decided to take the longer way home so I could stop at Subway and reward myself with a turkey sub (no cheese or mayo or anything like that) for lunch. So ... I ended up going about 10 miles total, all on concrete, and now my legs are super sore. The only good thing is I think it's just normal soreness and not an injury, so hopefully I'll be OK by my running clinic on Saturday. But geez, will I never learn? At least the shin and quad pain is distracting me from my toe pain.

[DogMa]

Oh, and the "athletic" comment made me laugh. I've heard that word used in connection to me several times in the past few days, and it amazes ME. I don't know when/how this happened to me. I've NEVER been active. Never. Even as a kid, I hated gym class and did anything to get out of it. Didn't like playing outside, didn't like anything that involved running (even stuff like "red light, green light"). It's bizarre.

And despite my weight being up a couple of pounds lately, I've had three people tell me I look like I've lost weight. One was the meetup organizer, who said she almost didn't recognize me from my picture (which was taken maybe a year ago at about the same weight). Yay!

[nickieluv]

Hi Robin!! It's your not-so-favorite nickie back again, hopefully here to stay this time. I see it's been a while since you posted, though not nearly so long as it's been for me - how are you doing? I hope your athletic self is loving life!

[DogMa]

Hey, Nicks. Sorry it took so long to respond; I don't check in here all that often (as you can tell). I'm doing fine, though. My leg is almost healed; my purple toe is still purple but a lot less painful most days. I'm not at all ready for the Zoo Run (on the 17th) or Race for the Cure (the 24th) or Heels and Hills (May 2), because all the injuries set me back quite a bit,but I'm still going to give them a shot.

I'm off to your journal to see how you're doing.

[oksoonergirl26]

Good luck on the Zoo Run!

[DogMa]

Thanks! I'm not expecting to be able to run the whole thing, given how poorly I did last weekend. But I'm still going to try.

Although active.com just sent a story yesterday about how you can improve your time by NOT trying to run the whole way. But right now I care less about my time than I do about meeting this stupid, apparently-impossible-for-me goal.

[oksoonergirl26]

Stop beating yourself up!! I usually stop at the water station during a 5K,drink my water, and then trot off. On Saturday I had to stop and drink the water and then I walked for about an extra 30 seconds. I went out way too hard for the first mile and it drained me. How did you do on Saturday?