Revel Marathon–Big Bear Race Results and Recap

Hello! I ran the Revel Big Bear Marathon this weekend! I did a bunch of Instagram Stories on it – make sure you’re following @RunEatRepeat on IG for the updates!!

I hadn’t run a full marathon in a long time so I was stressed and unsure of how it would go. I wanted to have fun. I wanted to run well and get in a strong long run / marathon / mental exercise situation. And I think I did okay with all of those. I still have a very far way to go if I want to run faster, but I feel a lot more confident now! I’m confident I’m capable of running better and accomplishing hard goals. Now I just need to get specific with what those goals are and a plan to go after them. But today… I’m relaxing, eating and recapping my race…

Revel Marathon Big Bear Race Results – Top 10 Highlights

1. My 1 friend and only running buddy Skinny Runner aka @BarlesHambone came all the way from the north west tip of the USA to come run with me!!*

2. Steve biked all the way from Pasadena to Big Bear to watch me finish!!**

3. I saw Elise on the bus, Pam before the race and a lot of followers on the course and at the Finish!!Thank you for saying Hi!!!***

4. Team RunEatRepeat rocked the race!! The half marathon and marathon runners ran fast and strong! (If you want a discount for Revel Hawaii – check out my Race Discounts page)****

5. I wanted to give up at mile 20… and I didn’t.

6. I made 2 bathroom stops during the race. And I wasn’t quick about it.
7. It wasn’t as cold as I thought it was going to be at the start. But we were prepared with throw away gear, ponchos, beanies and hot hands.

8. I wanted to give up at mile 22… and I did – – kinda… but kept moving forward.*****

I felt exhausted and wanted it to be over. I told SR I was done and didn’t care if I did a sub-4 hour marathon after all. I just wanted it to be over. She kept pushing me and encouraging me to suck it up and keep going. At the time I was made at her. We argued like an old married couple. But I kept my voice down (well, it was quiet for me at least). She kept on me trying different ways to motivate me…

SR: ‘don’t you think everyone wants it to be over? that’s not just you…’
Me: (silent anger)
//
SR: ‘do it for the insta’
Me: NO. I don’t care, you know I don’t care about that.
//
SR: ‘we’re almost done…’
Me: I was done miles ago! I don’t want to do this.
//
SR: ‘make it a time you can be proud of’
Me: I’m proud of just doing this! I don’t care about my time.
//
SR: ‘c’mon! we can do this!!…’
(another runner hears her try to motivate me and chimes in… )
Me: (gives SR a look because I’m not happy that now strangers are bugging me when I clearly am not interested in being motivated and would like to call an uber or an ambulance)
SR: ‘we have 20 more minutes. I think you can be uncomfortable for 20 more minutes…’
Me: (thinking bad words) puts in my headphones and starts to run

9. I FINISHED!!
Finish time: 3:50:46! I just wanted a sub-4 hour. And I’m happy with this extra because I really never got in the zone. I felt kinda tired and crappy the whole time. I’m not sure if that’s because of the elevation, my fitness level, me still fighting off being sick or a combination of all of those. But the point is – I did it. I’m back. I can still run 26.2 miles. I’m not as out of marathon shape as I thought.

10. It was gorgeous!! It’s a great course! The views were amazing!

We were so high that it looked like we were above the clouds at some points. And the sunrise views on the mountains – it was so so gorgeous!

We ran on a 2 lane road from Big Bear to Redlands – it’s not somewhere runners can run safely. So it was very special and I’m very grateful that we got to run here and see the mountains in a way most don’t get to enjoy! I really loved it!

It was a great race and I really miss running with SR so it was extra awesome. And now that I think about it… I don’t know if I would have done it if she didn’t come out to run the full! So again, she is nice and I hope she decides living off the grid in Gnome, AK is not that fun and moves back to run with me all the time.

Next post – I’ll talk about food! We ate a bunch of good stuff!! It probably wasn’t the best fuel but it was good!

 

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I never talk about Pinterest and forget to mention it until someone contacts me from a Pin they saw and I think I should remind you to follow me there… so, um… that’s what I’m doing!

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Notes from my list:

*SR doesn’t live in Alaska, she lives in Washington but I think it’s basically the same thing. I don’t know map-ology.

**Steve was there because he’s a running coach and several of this Soul Runners team members ran the race.

***I forgot why I put an asterisk on this number.

****Yes, I’m working on getting a team discount code for the other Revel Races. I do have one for Hawaii – check on the Race Discounts page.

*****Now that the race is over… I’m super grateful SR pushed me. At the time I was Done. I wasn’t going to quit but I just wanted to walk the last few miles. I felt like crap. But obviously I was able to push through it because I did. If she wasn’t there encouraging me to keep running – I would have walked a lot more! So, yeah she was right that I had more to give.

 

Coming up: What I ate before the race… What I ate during the race… What I ate after the race! <- Let me know if you have any specific questions on this!

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A cautionary tale of sorts

Especially if you're just starting with losing weight, do yourself a favour and talk to an expert.
After about a month of dieting, I finally met up with a dietitian today and it was the best thing I could have done.
I'm not trying to say that you're doing anything wrong, or that you're not trying hard enough, but unfortunately the internet is a sewer in which occasionally something nice (like r/loseit) floats by.
The internet, and all of your friends who mysteriously became weight loss experts the moment they found out you were trying to lose weight, is full of often but not always well intended, but confusing messages.

Do I have a body frame? What does that mean? Which one of these body fat calculators should I use? What is Keto? Am I doing it right? Should I eat more on days that I exercise? Should I go vegan? Should I cut carbs? Should I not cut carbs? Why am I not losing weight? Why am I losing weight now? Am I losing muscle mass? Am I eating the wrong things?

These were all questions that I had, and nearly every website/blogger/friend I asked (or didn't ask) had a different opinion on it. I am unfortunately gifted with anxiety and constant self doubt as well as an aspiration to perfection that borders on self abuse, so this all bothered me quite a lot. It was worrying me a lot, and my mind was starting to go into the wrong direction. I was considering doing a three day water fast, and I know that fasting isn't a bad thing, but DON'T DO IT ON YOUR OWN, UNSUPERVISED!! Please. So today, I went to see a dietitian and I wish that I'd done it so much sooner.

My dietitian was able to answer most of my questions in the span of an hour and to her neverending credit listened to all my ramblings of insecurity and all-or-nothing perfectionist tendencies, and she helped me.
(Additionally, not all that important, but apparently the scale I have at home is broken because the scale her office uses concluded I was a full 4.5 lbs lighter than the one I have at home. Good to know.)
My mind is a lot more at ease now, and I hope that anyone who is feeling confused and miserable like I was can learn something from my experience and prevent themselves any future suffering.
If you can and feel like you need to, please see an expert. It's nothing to be ashamed of, this is why they work in this field. They want to help you.
Lots of love to you all, and good luck! I wish you all a safe, healthy journey!

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If CICO were a book and you were a reviewer, what would your dust-jacket blurb be?

I'm a 45 year old male, 5'10", high weight of 214 (obese) whoTODAY hit my 60% milestone to a healthy BMI using strictly CICO. I do plan to exercise and add muscle once I reach my goal weight of 174 sometime next year, but for now, CICO at 1500-1800 day is yielding amazing results and I've never felt better.

Anyway, today's milestone got me to thinking that one of the best things about CICO is that no one can monetize it. It's pure knowledge, pure empowerment. But I celebrate my achievement with a thought experiment: How I would summarize CICO if I were asked to write a blurb for the book?

“Fad diets come and go, but CICO is forever. Not only is it free, you’ll actually save money as it guides you into lower-calorie and healthier options over time. The reason it works is because you’re in charge of your own success or failure, and you’re face to face with that responsibility every day, with every food decision you make. Proponents of this lifestyle change emerge smarter, stronger, and more confident at the end of the weight loss process because they’ve gained the most important mastery a person can: The mastery of themselves.”

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I'm heartbroken

Please let me know if this is an inappropriate post for this subreddit. It might be more appropriate on r/relationships so, I'll post there as well.

I guess I'm just reaching out for some words of wisdom before I end up hurting myself.

I (21f) currently weigh the most I ever have (172 at 5'5). My husband and I just had our third anniversary, and when we got married I weighed 150. My husband has let me know in the past that it would help our marriage if I were to lose weight. Before and after him saying this I attempted weight loss countless times, without much results. I haven't been professionally diagnosed but I've considered myself depressed for a few years.

Before we were married my husband was completely infatuated and in love with me, and staring at me, and I loved every bit of it. It seemed to just stop after we got married; it was a stressful year for both of us which caused me to gain weight and him to stop showing me the kind of affection he previously did. And my current body type is just not what he's attracted to, at all.

Well, two nights ago when we were getting ready for bed he asked me "what is your deepest darkest secret?" and I told him I wasn't sure, I'd need to think of one. "Why do you ask? Do you have one?" He kind of giggled and said yeah but he can't tell me (in a way that hinted he wanted to tell me). So I told him that he can tell me absolutely anything, and it won't change the way I feel about him. I'll always love him, all this kind of stuff.

So about 15 minutes of him trying to tell me, he finally blurts out "I think (my sisters name) is cute" and then he hides under the blanket. I responded "well, she is! everyone thinks she's cute" (Which is true. She's 18 months younger than me, and she's adorable. She's also the exact size I wish I was.) He says "That's not the response I thought I would get. I have a crush on her." I was speechless. In that moment I was still in the frame of mind that he could tell me anything and nothing is going to change. He explained that he has had these feelings for her for years and his fantasy is him holding both of our hands at the same time. I didn't say anything for a long time. I said "I love you" and he....said... "I love you. I just love you both."

???????? Idk how that's supposed to be okay, it's like he's making us equal in his mind.

It was very late and eventually he fell asleep, and my mind started racing. I know that my husband and my sister have no 1 on 1 communication, and I know my sister SO well and I'm sure she doesn't have feelings for him. She seems him as exactly what he is: her brother-in-law. But my heart aches from seeing my husband act like an excited school girl while talking about my sister instead of me. He also mentioned that he doesn't want to change anything externally, he just needed to get his thoughts out of his head because he was feeling guilty about keeping it to himself.

I slept for a maximum of one hour that night.

The next day we were texting while he was at work and he said "I'm glad I told you, it's been driving me crazy". I replied "I wish you were crazy about me" and he said "same". I cried instantly. I mean, I could tell for a couple years that he doesn't look at me the same way he used to. But this hurt like a truck. A while later I responded "how long has it been since you've been crazy about me?" "Don't be mad, but I'm not even sure." "I won't be mad, I just need to know." "If we're talking about crazy crazy, it's been since 2014 or 2015 (we got married end of 2015)."

So now I know how he's felt about me our whole marriage. I know he's only talking about me physically, and he loves who I am. But ouch. ouch ouch ouch. I've absolutely adored my husband since the day we met. I'm literally an excited school girl when I see him. I have butterflies when we make eye contact.

So, yesterday I ate one taco (probably 300 calories), and today I plan on eating nothing. My sister is 5'7 and weighs about 115. I NEED to lose my weight for my marriage. I know his actions aren't my fault but I crave his affection. I'd do anything for him to be crazy about me again.

Last night it was late, but I couldn't fall asleep again. He told me he wants to talk more about this, but it was too late (2 am with work in the morning). I just needed to know that I was the most important person to him, or that he wouldn't leave me, or just something to hold on to. I asked something like "I just need to know that I'm still enough for you" and he couldn't respond to that, which absolutely shattered my heart again. "Don't make me try to say specific things right now. We need to talk about stuff and I'm too tired right now. But I'm not going anywhere."

So, at least I had the "I'm not going anywhere" to hold on to. But I started sobbing. and he fell asleep anyway.

Listen, if you read to this point, thank you. There's a lot more I could say. Every other aspect of our marriage has been perfect up to this point. We love talking and spending time together. I am so conflicted and hurt. I literally don't want to eat until he looks at me the way he used to, or talks about me the way he talked about my sister.

TLDR; have had a nearly perfect marriage until i gained weight. my husband still loves me but confessed he has a crush on my sister who has the perfect, small body that he prefers. i'm prescribing myself indefinite fasting. help. <3

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Surrounded by skinny people

Who’s going to support me through my weight loss then?

So I’ve been trying to lose weight through CICO and Low carb for the past 3/4 months, and I’ve successfully lost around 10kg, with a little under 10kg more to reach my goal weight for a healthy BMI around 55kg.

Most of my friends know that I’m trying to lose weight, and besides the occasional “what’s the point, you’re going to gain it back anyways” comment, most have just led it slide, or shared a personal weight loss story of their own, or their family members, or their friends of friends etc etc. I don’t need most of my friends to be my emotional cheerleader, I just want to be able to have a say whether or not I want to go to that new bbq buffet place because I’ve hit my calorie limit for the day.

Now back to my best friend- she’s one of my closest friends, and we’ve known each other since we were 14/15. She finds it very difficult to gain weight and loses weight easily because she’s a picky eater and eats small portions, and she often makes remarks about how “I lost 5kg in the past week again.”

Don’t get me wrong, I love this girl to pieces and there is a reason why we are friends, but statements like that often rub me the wrong way. I consider her a very good friend of mine, but she’s also very blunt and brutally honest, and as I’m waddling through my weight loss journey it’s getting harder and harder to deflect her comments. When I decided to start losing weight through keto (for health issues, after my Grandmother passed away from a stroke and my Father faced some complications with diabetes), she was the first one I told. She absolutely did not believe that I was going through with it, and basically gave me the same “you’re going to give up and gain it all back anyways” spiel. I’ve never been one to yoyo diet, and the lack of faith sort of came as a shock.

Naturally, she isn’t one to diet and her mom refers to me as “that fat friend “, which obviously irks me but is nothing I can really change, since she’s not the one I’m interacting with constantly. Still, some my Friend will occasionally remark on how I’m “still on a diet” and “what’s the point”, and to some extent I can see her reasoning behind it and tolerate it.

What really broke me today was when we were taking a break from studying and browsing through YouTube videos, I brought up a video titled “fat woman wants to gain more weight”, where this girl, Tammy young, wanted to gain more weight, and was also a star on some BBW platform. Midway through the video , around the 1:35 mark, there’s a video of Tammy going “... and today I’m going to play with my doughy, big, plump belly”, with tammy grabbing and jiggling her belly. So we started talking about how women like her were making a lot of money off BBW websites when she remarked “so when are you starting (to make videos)?”

Now I have nothing against bigger women or men and personally don’t really care what other people are doing as long as they don’t preach bullshit to others, but it just pissed me off. Was this how she saw me? Was I that “fat, funny friend” of hers? I wasn’t even that fat! I know she made that comment meaning no harm but it just set me speechless down the self hate train again.

My family isn’t that supportive either - my family has a history of diabetes and heart disease, but most of my family members don’t really need to diet, although my father is a diabetic.

My younger sister is much smaller than I am - taller, too, and I sometime get that ting of an inferiority complex, despite working towards eating healthy and working out the way she does.

My mom is so amazingly supportive, but she has always seen “having extra curves” as a blessing. Still she buys extra-large clothes as souvenirs for me, and takes my food (I buy what I eat) saying that she needs some “fatty food”. She was drinking the dark chocolate almond milk that I brought trying to substitute the sugary chocolate drinks I used to love.

My grandfather isn’t very encouraging either, and often compares me to my younger Sister. He often makes snide remarks when relatives gain weight, and every time we share a table for dinner, he compares my plate with my sister’s. When he sees that I’m eating less rice (bc Low carb), he laughs saying it’s about time I went on a diet, while piling food into my sister’s plate, saying how she’s too skinny.

I know my family members and friends are all well meaning - but am I being too sensitive here? I know weight loss is a lifestyle change, but it’s sort of hard to do that when your friends and family aren’t exactly supportive. Of course there’s this amazing sub amongst others, but real life doesn’t exist on reddit, and it’s getting harder to find motivation to stop hating myself.

Sorry for the long post, just had to get this off my chest

*edit: I’m not the girl in the video, i tried to link a video for reference and she just happened to come up

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Almost 80lbs down since I started this whole thing, 60lbs in the last year! [SW:230, CW:156, GW:135; 30F 5’3]

Hello! I’ve posted in the past, having gained a good deal of weight due to medical complications during and after my pregnancy with my first child. Although I’ve hit some plateaus along the way I realized that I’ve lost 60lbs since last year, and almost 80lbs overall.

I’ve never been particularly thin. When I got pregnant in 2016 I was 158lbs and I’m 5’3. Medical issues and crazy emergency birth stuff followed by the medications and bedrest I was put on had me weighing in at 230lbs when I came home from the hospital with my daughter in February 2017. I honestly felt like I would be stuck there forever but after finding some scrap of motivation I started slowly working out and meal planning. As of this morning I am weighing in at 156lbs! I’m so freaking happy to be back/a little below my pre-pregnancy weight and it took me little over 20 months. I totally plan to keep this going!!

I did and do a lot of different things that have made a great impact on me. Firstly I know work out every single day, even if it’s just for 25 minutes, I make sure I do something to get myself moving. I do a lot of HIIT workouts, some dancing & Zumba video games, and some light jogging with my 30lb kid in a stroller. I use the app 8fit which is awesome and keeps me on an exercise plan and provides different types of workouts everyday that are usually between 8-12 minutes in duration. It takes all the guess work out for me and I love that it’s versatile cause sometimes I get bored doing the same routine.

Secondly I meal plan religiously now and make lots of big batches of low calorie meals that I don’t mind eating over and over again. I prepare snacks, lunches, and dinners every Sunday for the week because I work from home and if I don’t plan in ahead I will always reach for the worst foods. This takes the guess work out and helps me to not be tempted. I also practice intermittent fasting, usually fasting for 16-20 hours 2 times a week. I then eat normally the other 5 days a week (~1300calories). It’s important to say on the days that I am fasting I stick to walking and less intense exercises. I also drink half my body weight in oz of water every single day.

I track everything in MyFitnessPal and also keep a handwritten exercise/food journal which has helped me tremendously to cut down on boredom and stress eating. Lastly, and this one won’t apply to everyone of course but was instrumental in my weight loss, was I sought some counseling for some mental issues I was having post baby that helped me to realize I was emotionally eating and ultimately helped me to get better self control.

I do usually have a cheat day once every week or two, but usually what I do so it has less of an impact is practice one meal a day on the days I know I’m going to cheat and have something substantial. Like for example this coming Friday my husband and I have a dinner with friends and I know I will want to be able to have some drinks and a few fried food items so I will fast from Thursday evening at 7pm until dinner on Friday at 6pm. Then will break my fast with one big meal at the restaurant and be done eating until the following day.

As you can see I do a lot of the things that many have done on this board and other weight loss/fitness subreddits to get myself to this point. I like throwing many darts at the bullseye at once to see what sticks lol Moving forward I’m going to take some kickboxing classes and also start working with weights more because I’d like to tone up in addition to losing more. I’m also moving to towards extending my fasting time and building up towards being able to do a 2-3 day fast in a healthy way, maybe once every other month to help with maintenance.

This sub is one of the reasons I even joined Reddit and I do hope that this will be helpful to anyone on a weight loss journey, and especially new moms. I’m hoping to reach my new goal weight of 135lbs by my daughter’s second birthday early next year!!

I have a side by side comparison photo of me from September 2017 & me from this September but I’m not sure how to post it while using mobile cause I am technologically inept. Hopefully I can figure it out!

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Getting started...again.

I've been lurking for a while but in the last few days I have decided to get serious about my weight loss. I am 24m 6' and 248 pounds, %23.3 body fat. Before summer I was down to 224 but I have gotten off track in recent months and gained all of the weight back.

Growing up I was always kind of "husky" until I hit puberty and became fairly lean. I was extremely active and athletic playing multiple sports so I was never concerned with what I was putting in my body.

When I began college I fell into some bad habits. Terrible sleep schedule, lots of fast food and binge drinking on weekends. I didnt play college sports so my activity levels dropped off somewhat even though I still went to the gym and played intramural sports. Then I found out my girlfriend, who I had been dating since junior year of high school, was pregnant.

By my sophomore year of college I had a son and a wife, we were lucky enough to be able to live together on campus in a family housing unit. Which was great honestly, but this is when my health started to turn. I spent all of my time in class, studying, or with my family.

I slowly started gaining weight until I caught myself and started running again and going to the gym. My wife is always extremely supportive and never shames me in anyway, unless I ask her to. Having been an athlete and working primarily in male dominated fields, to that point, tough love is something I am accustomed to.

Entering my senior year of college I found out my wife was pregnant again, even though she had an IUD. By the time I graduated I was 22 with 2 kids. Oh and our university notified us that they decided to shut down family housing units because they could make more money by housing international students there.

So we were essentially homeless and forced to move in with my mother-in-law (not as bad as it sounds) but the four of us living in one bedroom was not ideal, my son literally slept in a closet. At this time my wife was also accepted to a doctorate of nursing program (youngest ever accepted to this particular program at 21yrs old) so I spent all of my time at home with our newborn daughter and 3 yr old son.

This was when I really started downhill. My hobbies shifted from sports and exercise to netflix, video games, gardening and of course spending time with my kids. Basically things I could do from home. I started to kind of go crazy as a stay at home dad so I ended up applying for a masters program in environmental health and safety which I absolutely loved, graduated this past May. I also got an internship with a prestigious non-profit in my home town and quickly turned it into a part-time job so we were able to move into our own place in a great location. Things were (are) going great in literally every aspect of my life except my fitness.

I think I just got so caught up in school, work and raising a family that everything else just fell to they wayside. Now that my son has started kindergarten and my daughter is in daycare and I have some time to myself I have had an epiphany as to just how badly I have let myself go and it's starting to drag me down in other areas as well.

For about 2 months now I have ridden my bike to work (13 miles round-trip) at least three days a week. But I wasn't counting calories at that time I pretty much just used it as an excuse to over-eat, I hope I've learned my lesson. I already cook almost everything from home and meal-prep to accommodate my family's busy schedule and any juice I drink is watered down to be 1 part juice to 3 parts water. I've also cut out all alcohol for the time being. I've downloaded my fitness pal and plan to log my calories every day, I noticed that since the last time I used it I can no longer search for items and recipes on the web but have to input everything manually, whats up with that?

The majority of this post was just trying to get it out there and create some form of accountability for myself. I'm mostly looking for some good health, nutrition and fitness podcasts or youtube channels to listen to while I'm at work or exercising at home. Any suggestions would be great. You all are so supportive and inspiring I am just glad to be part of this community. If you've invested enough time in this post to get all the way to the bottom I would love to hear your thoughts, suggestions, and critique.

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