Pile on the Miles Run Bet Challenge Final Notes

Hello! You did it!! I’m very proud of you!! I can’t believe Pile on the Miles / The Run Bet Challenge is over. It went by so fast!! I hope you ran fast too  

Seriously amazing job. And I’m sad it’s over. But before we wrap it up there are some important updates and announcements…

Run Challenge Final Announcements:

1. Who Ran The MOST Miles?

If you want to be in the RUNNING for MOST MILES RUN during the challenge… send me an email with =

a. Your mileage total screenshot from Garmin connect, Strava or Run Keeper.

b. Number of Total Miles completed in the body of the email.

Note – only Miles done from Nov 5 – Dec 2 count. If your app doesn’t specify that time frame make sure to share the total AND screenshot that shows that.

Email: Runeatrepeat@gmail.com

Subject line: Run Bet Miles

Send by Monday Dec 3 at 2pm PST.

2. Who has a Run Win?

Tell me how you rocked the challenge!! Send over your accomplishments and tell me what you’re proud of!

Tag @RunEatRepeat on Instagram OR Email your picture and your win to RunEatRepeat@gmail.com

I’ll share some of them in an upcoming post!

3. Let’s stay in touch!

If you want to be on the mailing list and chime in on what you want to see next – fill out this form:

Run Eat Repeat List and Requests

https://goo.gl/forms/FSK3f5EXwXw1Lvrw2

[It’s on www.RunEatRepeat.com right now and linked in the @runeatrepeat Instagram bio of that link doesn’t work on mobile]

4. Want another Run Bet Challenge?

A lot of people have asked for another challenge!! Yeah! I love that it’s been so motivating, helpful and fun.

I am looking into another challenge for Jan.

Do you have any ideas/requests on it?

5. Keep it up!

You are capable of so much more than you know.

6. Check in on the daily Run Report to stay accountable and motivated.

Follow @RunEatRepeat on Instagram and comment each day with your workout, run, rest day, race or other.

It helps make it habit and keep you on track!

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Those of you who have lost a significant amount of weight, do you feel that you are treat overall better by people?

I think this is an interesting topic to discuss.

I've read many weight loss testimonials on this site which echo the sentiment about how much better they were treat after they achieved their goal weight. But what mainstream Reddit interprets this as is actually a mental change (such as confidence) rather than a physical change which is influencing the people they interact with to be more pleasant.

How many of you agree with that statement?

I believe their are many of us who identify as very confident people already. I may be unhappy with how I look, but I've lived in this body long enough to embrace what I currently have so that I can work towards my physical goals. As a university student I have seen first hand how attractiveness can be a boon, especially in social situations like parties and hearing people echo the 'confidence is key' manta becomes irritating after a while. That is not to say that confidence is not extremely important, but to deny that physical attractiveness has no play within this area is blasphemous.

I think that many people are reluctant to really accept that physical appearance is very large factor in how people perceive you and treat you. Especially if you're just meeting them for the first time. This is probably because of the negative connotations surrounding the idea of a society that runs on vanity and appearance. But that's not something we can necessarily escape. We all have an innate 'health-bias' because of the 100,000 years where we had to surround ourselves with capable hunter-gatherers and worthwhile mates in an effort to survive. It's less of a society-produced effect and more of an innate function of our psychology.

What are your thoughts?

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My mental health makes it feel like I'm cheating. (Exhaustion, EDNOS, medication)

Hi there, I'm Emily, and I'm an occupational therapist. Here's a little background on my mental health. I hope this is OK to post. I'm also diagnosed with EDNOS because in the past I've had ala carte symptoms of anorexia (restriction without meeting the DSM BMI cutoff) and bulimia (bingeing without purging). I see a psychiatrist for my depression on top of that and I'm medicated and receiving psychotherapy for all of those issues.

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The good news is, for the most part, I've got a good regimen and mood wise I've been pretty stable. The bad: I've chosen to live with excessive daytime sleepiness/chronic fatigue. It was what came along with my current chemical cocktail with side effects. I'd manage work and when I got home I immediately fell into bed, exhausted, and slept 4 hours of the afternoon away. Once awake, I'd eat dinner and be up again for a few hours before sleeping another 8+ through the night for another work day. It sucked to be this tired, but it was better than being debilitatingly depressed.

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My stats, if it matters: 5'0" and 164#. Thanksgiving and Halloween were hard this year. I gained 9# in 3 weeks and felt like I was spiraling out of control into another binge cycle. Since August of 2017 I lost ~40# with CICO with the help of my doctor and this sub, and this was a setback. I still want to lose another #40 so that my UGW would be something like 120#. (This was agreed upon by myself and my doctor)

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Under the recommendation of my doctor, I began taking Ritalin about a week ago for focus at work (since I have been falling asleep at work during my lunch break). I have nothing but good news to report thus far. I haven't taken a "nap" in the afternoon since I started on it and I literally feel like I've gotten hours of my life back. I come home from work and have energy to read, to go for a walk, to do laundry, to grocery shop, to have a tea with friends. And I haven't felt the desire to binge or obsess about food either. As a result I've lost 6# that I gained and I'm really encouraged but I'm also worried. I don't want to be dependent on this for my weight loss success and I've heard it is hard to come off of it (triggering desire to binge again).

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Has anybody else gone through something like this? Just looking to get it off my chest, I suppose, and hear back from this community. Thanks for letting me vent. Hope this kind of post is OK. Thanks everyone.

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Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Monday, 03 December 2018? Start here!

Today is your Day 1?

Welcome to r/Loseit!

So you aren’t sure of how to start? Don’t worry! “How do I get started?” is our most asked question. r/Loseit has helped our users lose over 1,000,000 recorded pounds and these are the steps that we’ve found most useful for getting started.

Why you’re overweight

Our bodies are amazing (yes, yours too!). In order to survive before supermarkets, we had to be able to store energy to get us through lean times, we store this energy as adipose fat tissue. If you put more energy into your body than it needs, it stores it, for (potential) later use. When you put in less than it needs, it uses the stored energy. The more energy you have stored, the more overweight you are. The trick is to get your body to use the stored energy, which can only be done if you give it less energy than it needs, consistently.

Before You Start

The very first step is calculating your calorie needs. You can do that HERE. This will give you an approximation of your calorie needs for the day. The next step is to figure how quickly you want to lose the fat. One pound of fat is equal to 3500 calories. So to lose 1 pound of fat per week you will need to consume 500 calories less than your TDEE (daily calorie needs from the link above). 750 calories less will result in 1.5 pounds and 1000 calories is an aggressive 2 pounds per week.

Tracking

Here is where it begins to resemble work. The most efficient way to lose the weight you desire is to track your calorie intake. This has gotten much simpler over the years and today it can be done right from your smartphone or computer. r/loseit recommends an app like MyFitnessPal, Loseit! (unaffiliated), or Cronometer. Create an account and be honest with it about your current stats, activities, and goals. This is your tracker and no one else needs to see it so don’t cheat the numbers. You’ll find large user created databases that make logging and tracking your food and drinks easy with just the tap of the screen or the push of a button. We also highly recommend the use of a digital kitchen scale for accuracy. Knowing how much of what you're eating is more important than what you're eating. Why? This may explain it.

Creating Your Deficit

How do you create a deficit? This is up to you. r/loseit has a few recommendations but ultimately that decision is yours. There is no perfect diet for everyone. There is a perfect diet for you and you can create it. You can eat less of exactly what you eat now. If you like pizza you can have pizza. Have 2 slices instead of 4. You can try lower calorie replacements for calorie dense foods. Some of the communities favorites are cauliflower rice, zucchini noodles, spaghetti squash in place of their more calorie rich cousins. If it appeals to you an entire dietary change like Keto, Paleo, Vegetarian.

The most important thing to remember is that this selection of foods works for you. Sustainability is the key to long term weight management success. If you hate what you’re eating you won’t stick to it.

Exercise

Is NOT mandatory. You can lose fat and create a deficit through diet alone. There is no requirement of exercise to lose weight.

It has it’s own benefits though. You will burn extra calories. Exercise is shown to be beneficial to mental health and creates an endorphin rush as well. It makes people feel awesome and has been linked to higher rates of long term success when physical activity is included in lifestyle changes.

Crawl, Walk, Run

It can seem like one needs to make a 180 degree course correction to find success. That isn’t necessarily true. Many of our users find that creating small initial changes that build a foundation allows them to progress forward in even, sustained, increments.

Acceptance

You will struggle. We have all struggled. This is natural. There is no tip or trick to get through this though. We encourage you to recognize why you are struggling and forgive yourself for whatever reason that may be. If you overindulged at your last meal that is ok. You can resolve to make the next meal better.

Do not let the pursuit of perfect get in the way of progress. We don’t need perfect. We just want better.

Additional resources

Now you’re ready to do this. Here are more details, that may help you refine your plan.

• Quick Start Guide - Build your foundation!
• Loseit Compendium - Frame it out!
• FAQ - Answers to our most Frequently Asked Questions!

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Have you ever realized that you forgot your "skinny" habits?

After moving to a new country, my eating habits changed drastically. I gained 20 lbs. I was home recently and remembered that I used to choose more healthy options at restaurants - e.g. baked potato instead of fries, no cheese, salad dressing on the side, etc. At the time I had never really counted calories, I just had this idea of what "healthy" food should be, and I went for it out of habit. I didn't really feel deprived. Now when I do these things, it comes with a sense of deprivation - "I CAN'T have the fries because I gained weight".

Now I've read a ton of supposedly helpful weight loss articles, or just seen those ads that say "cut this one item and you'll lose a ton of weight", or "bananas are making you fat!", and I feel like I kind of lost sight of healthy and replaced it with a fear of "unhealthy" foods - like bananas (WTF), carbs, fats. You must have seen articles about how fattening salads can be too... not helpful! Has it affected your perception of good/bad foods? (I know these are words we should stay away from, but I think it helps make my point)

Have you noticed anything like this? What were the healthy habits you are trying to relearn? I'm trying to think back to the days before I moved here and move back to the diet that I grew up with.

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How to start weight loss from scratch? Currently depressed, agoraphobic, never exercise, super slow metabolism ect. REALLY want to change!

Hello everyone! I hope you are all well? I am 5'3 and have always been a "small" person until my depression got bad and I stopped leaving the house as much. Before then I used to weigh around 115lbs yet I never watched what I ate and never gained much weight at all until the past few years. Because of my small frame I want to lose the weight but have no idea how to, I now weigh between 130-140lbs (I am too ashamed of even checking but I know it's between these figures) and I look a lot different than I did before! The last time I checked my BMI I was in the healthy range but was borderline overweight, this was a shock and killed my confidence. The thing is my health is very bad and it's not going to be easy. My anxiety is so bad that I basically stay indoors most of the time and never go out, my depression has left me tired all of the time and sleeping in the day. I eat anything that's accessible and find myself too tired to cook for myself, I have lived on microwave foods and instant food mostly over the last few years. I don't feel like I eat much to even put on this amount of weight, I can't eat in the day and mostly eat in the evening and at night. My morning and afternoon calories are always missed out. It feels like with everything I eat, I store it. People may say that I am not that big, but I've noticed the change in my body, muscle fine and shape ect and I do not look healthy - at all!

I don't know what to do because my appetite is too messed up to eat regularly and I am so tried all of the time to even achieve any kind of exercise. What makes it worse is that my periods leave me extremely drained and I can't exercise before and during my period due to my hormone levels, I also suffer from Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder so any heavy exercise can leave me extremely drained and makes my hormone levels go crazy. I've gone through the process of joining gyms, setting at home workouts and failing to stick to it due to my tiredness. My muscles even tense up over a few squats and sit ups which makes it hard for me to stick to this daily (this is how unfit I am). So I am stuck in this Miss and have no idea how to get out.

I was thinking of joining a gym but don't want to end up wasting my money. I also suffer from body dysmorphia and REALLY want to change myself for the better and feel good about my body and take my life back. I am also stuck because the last time I went to the gym I was picked on by a female personal trainer who was pushing me to book personal training sessions. She made me get by body fat percentage read by holding a device and it was freakishly high (It was like 35%) - that alone killed my confidence and put me off self improvement and gyms. When I googled that body fat percentage I was freaked out, I saw extremely obese women and thought, "is this how I look to others"? And just gave up since. If I do join a gym I'll maybe mention the fact that I have body dysmorphia so this doesn't happen again. But it honestly ruined my confidence, at the time this was post-breakup and I already felt unsexy and then had a personal trainer tell me that my body fat is off the charts! The hard part is that I have a Fitbit and have short boosts of motivation, but I'd do one or two sessions of cardio or strength exercises only to NEVER stick to it.

Rant over anyway. I REALLY want to change. I'd love to hear from people who was in a similar position and would like to know how you got started to get out of this mess. My mental and physical health has been at its worst and I've had enough and have to change. Any advice would be appreciated so much as I've been stuck in this mess over the past 2-3 years!

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[Daily Directory] Find your quests for the day here! - Monday, 03 December 2018

Welcome adventurer! Whether you're new on this quest or are towards the end of your journey there should be something below for you.

Daily journal.

• [Q&A] "I have a question."
• [Day 1] "I am starting my weight loss journey."
• [SV/NSV] "I have an accomplishment to share."
• [24hr Pledge] "Today I am going to..."

Interested in some side quests?

• [Motivation Monday] Share some motivation, get some motivation.
• [Tantrum Tuesday] Need to vent? People getting on your nerves?
• [Weigh-In Wednesday]
• [Track with Me Thursday] Did we just become best friends?!
• [Free Talk Friday] What's on your mind?

Community bulletin board!

• [Running with Loseit] Run with losers. Avoid arrows.
• [Wecipe Wednesday] Swap and discuss recipies!

If you are new to the sub, click here for our posting guidelines

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