Basically - it's Facebook for people who have fitness goals. It's a place to track and celebrate you success and track and figure out your trouble spots with people who are like minded to you. I highly recommend it to anyone looking to train for something, or lose weight.. or even just track their food for the hell of it. I've learned a lot from that website.
Essentially when you set up your profile, you enter in your goals and your time frame for you goal along with your personal h/w details. Then... it calculates how much you need to eat (not just in calories but in protein, fiber etc) and how much you need to exercise in order to reach said goal. It can be extremely eye opening. I mean.. i know sbux is bad for me but did you know that even the "slim sensations" muffin at Mcdicks has 380 Calories in it? Since when is that slimming OR sensational? NOT WORTH IT. Anyway... since starting that site I have seen a pretty exciting 3 pound weight loss. WOOOoOO
The food log is probably the most benificial part to me as I feel like I can't hide anything anymore. My fave quote being.. "What you eat in private shows on your body in public".
I do feel like I lost weight upon starting my running adventures ... but since I am highly against scales and how they make me feel... I will never ever know.
I DO know that my clothes fit great... and I feel smaller.
I also know that... my shins are KILLING ME. Shin splints are death!!! They are bad to the point of bruising on my shins. It looks like I got into a fight with something... or just walked into something. But I didn't. I just ran my tush off and BAM.. bruise action on my legs. I think this is because I've really started to kick it up a notch. I've been doing longer distance running every other day - outside. Yes. Outside. Which is tough! I don't know why but my sense of timing is really different outside as opposed to inside on a treadmill. I do know that I can run a pretty solid 8 km without stopping. I do know that i run at least 6 km every other day.
CN wants me to mention how awesome he is right now. So yes. He is awesome. But no this blog isn't about him. (sorry dearest).
Back to running... well.. no speaking of CN - still pretty scared to run with him! I don't know why but I find that when I run with people (especially him) I get all self conscious and my breathing goes out the window as I try to push myself into his gazelle like pace (stupid.. long legged ... lean muscled boyfriend...). Another one of my goals is definitely to be able to run on par with him. Without feeling like a complete idiot.
True story.
I don't know if you can see a difference... but... i feel better walking around in my skivvies. So that's a difference in itself.
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