Questions and Answers on Run Eat Repeat visors, podcasts and recovery days

Hello! Here are the answers to all your questions from the @RunEatRepeat Instagram stories this week. I cut it into 2 parts because I got a call mid-video (um, mideo?). Part 1 covers the RER visors and how long to recover for a half or full marathon. Part 2 is about tips for new bloggers and fun personal questions like “What do you like to do on Sundays?”.

If you have a question for me… Ask!

Email: RunEatRepeat@gmail.com or

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Thank you for watching! You’re my favorite!!

Question and Answers Part 1 video

Any updates on the visors?

Yes – RER visors are in the works! I asked on a recent Instagram post for your color choices and am trying to get that going. It will probably be 30 days until they’re available (per the company I’m working with).

(I asked for color requests on Instagram a few weeks ago. If you want to chime in with your vote comment or DM me but I’m not checking that post for new color suggestions.)

How long do you recover after a half marathon?

The usual rule for post-race recovery time is one easy day for every mile of the race. So for a half marathon you’d take 13 days easy / recovery type days.

Every body is different and YOU should do what is best for your body.

 

Ran my first marathon last weekend. How long do you take off after 26.2 miles?

 

Question and Answers Part 2 video

What are your tips for a new blogger just starting out?

Congratulations on the new blog!!

 

Hardest thing about Diego? Best? Puppies are great but HARD?

Does Diego know any tricks yet?

 

When will the podcast be consistent again? It’s so inconsistent now.

I love listening and doing the podcast!! But I haven’t made it the #1 priority because I have other projects right now. I’m hoping to get it back to every Friday and eventually build it up to 3x a week by June.

If you want to listen to the Run Eat Repeat podcast… and are new to podcasts…

How to listen to the Run Eat Repeat podcast:

*If you have an iphone:

Open the Podcasts app on your phone.

Search Run Eat Repeat…

Listen to me talk about running and life and stuff.

Oh and – Subscribe to the show!

 

*If you have an android:

Download the FREE podcast app Stitcher.

Search Run Eat Repeat…

Listen to me talk about running and life and stuff.

Oh and – Subscribe to the show!

 

What’s your favorite thing to do on a Sunday?

I love Sundays!! Oh! It depends on the day…

 

Do you have one day a week where you go grocery shopping or multiple days?

Check out these Easy Meal Prep posts for tips on meal prep!

Meal Prep for Runners Tips

Meal Prep for Runners and everyone else

Do you listen to audio books as you run or do you prefer something else?

 

Diego!!!

 

What are your favorite running shoes and gear?

– I’ll talk about all my favorites soon!

Got a question?

 

Ask in the comments or email RunEatRepeat@gmail.com

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Anxiety when working out in public

I started my weight loss journey this week. I am very determined and feel like this time I will definitely succeed. Especially with the inspiration, motivation an support I will gain from Reddit. Today I felt absolutely amazing and full of energy, so I decided I wanted to go to the gym. And that's when I nearly had a panic attack. I wanted to try and do some running/walking to the gym, lift some weights and walk back.

I have never ran for anything in my life. Always used to skip gym class and just never really liked running, but read so many good things about it when it comes to mental health and of course weight loss. I walked a little untill I worked up the courage to run and started to slowly gain speed, while all of a sudden my mind started noticing how heavy I felt, I was afraid people would hear me stomping on the ground. Then I became extremely conscious about my breathing.. I didn't want people to see I was struggling so I'm holding my breath as I run. To top it off I all of a sudden got extremely shy because I felt like an idiot and as if everyone was watching me and judging me. I really almost had a panic attack and just returned home crying.

I am writing this so I hope people might recognize whatever was happening and maybe even have tips, because it really bothered me. I have experienced the same type of panic in the free weights section of my gym before, and it causes me to not doing anything at all.

Also, if anyone has great tips for people that are starting out with running I would appreciate it a lot. I am a total noob and have no stamina at all. Thanks a lot!

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“Everything in moderation” what if that’s not possible?

I’m M/39/5’11/270 and I’ve been fat all my life. The only time I’ve lost weight was about 3 years ago doing Keto. It was too hard to sustain and ultimately I fell off the wagon and now I’m heavier than ever.

I have attempted to purely concentrate on healthier choices and CICO and I can see how that works for a lot of people. However my problem comes when I attempt to allow myself a treat or whatever you want to call it. Even if it’s something that’s calculated into a calorie budget, when that first mouthful hits my tongue it’s game over. I know that psychologically we’re always told not to cut out specific foods etc because it will make them too tempting but what if it’s better that way?

Keto worked for me in terms of weight loss but it also had an amazing effect on my appetite and desire for junk. I know part of it is to do with blood sugars etc but part of it is to do with knowing that I literally couldn’t have even one bite otherwise I would have been knocked out of Ketosis and would have to spend a few days getting back into ketosis.

So I’m just wondering if anyone here literally doesn’t eat the stuff they have a problem with at all? Not in terms of Keto or anything else but just as a part of their weight loss?

Or how does everyone cope with having stuff they want to demolish an entire pack or bag of in moderate amounts?

I’m hating the fact that I’m gonna be fat at 40 (swore I wasn’t gonna be fat at 30 and that didn’t exactly go to plan) so I really want to find something that works for me.

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We’re still losing, but we’re making progress!

In January, my husband and I decided that we needed to lose the weight that we had packed on during my pregnancy (baby weight for me and sympathetic baby weight for my husband). I didn’t realize how far we had come until I was looking at pictures from a Resolution 5K we did together on 1/1/19. Progress pic

F/29/5’1”/SW 173/CW 157 (-16)/GW 120

M/28/5’6”/SW 178/CW 164 (-14)/GW 150

We have been doing CICO. Our weight loss got off to a rocky start and it took a good 3 weeks to actually start losing weight consistently. Our bodies couldn’t figure out what to do for the first week or so and we were dealing with vicious cravings. At the beginning of our journey, we didn’t really have any strategies to deal with the cravings so we would ultimately give in to them easily. Once we realized that we weren’t making progress, we looked at what our obstacles were and adjusted from there.

Our main obstacles were eating out frequently (we’ve been trying to get out of debt so this obstacle was getting in the way of two goals we had for ourselves), eating over our daily calorie goal set on MFP, and being too sedentary in the evenings.

My husband came up with the idea that to help us overcome these obstacles, we should design an incentive program that rewards our weight loss efforts with monetary gains. Since we are skimping on personal spending money while we get out of debt, it was extremely motivational to earn extra bucks! Here’s how it works: you earn $1 for every day you are on calorie. 30 minutes of exercise equals 50 cents, 1 hour earns $1. If you are on calorie for 22/28 days, you earn a bonus $10. 28/28 days earns you a bonus $20. Last month, my husband earned $35 and I earned $25. Hoping to get the $20 bonus this month!

What we’ve learned: If something isn’t working for your weight loss, look at your obstacles and come up with a plan!

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Fell off the wagon. Hard. For no reason at all.

F, 5’3. SW: 215; CW: 187.

I have been so committed to weight loss since I started in January, 3 months after the birth of my second child. I was just tired of feeling exhausted, tired of not being able to wear the clothes I wanted to wear, tired of feeling unattractive and sloppy. I had been obese for over a decade and had enough.

Anyway, I did C25k and completed it at the beginning of March, since then running 5K 2-3 times a week. I almost never eat under 1500 calories, log everything scrupulously into MFP and intermittent fast 16:8 every. Single. Day. And my hard work paid off: I’ve lost nearly 30 lbs and gone down a dress size.

So I totally didn’t see it coming when midway through the day on Friday I just decided fuck this, I just really want a glass of wine. Which turned into four glasses, a small bag of crisps, and a bowl of pasta. Okay, I tell myself - no problem, I’ll just start over tomorrow. Except I wake up on Saturday still on a mission to eat everything in sight. It was honestly like a strange, hypnotic self-destructive mode and I ended up consuming close to 2000 calories yesterday. Today is a write off because it’s uk Mother’s Day and we’ve had lunch reservations for ages, and I AM having a roastso basically this entire weekend is shot. I haven’t run since last Tuesday, either.

I know it’s fine, I can just start over. But I AM mad at myself. And I can’t work out why I did this. It was like being possessed! I really, really want to keep losing weight and getting fitter. But is this devil always going to be on my shoulder telling me to just give it up and go on eating/drinking benders? am I doomed to be a self-destructive glutton forever? How do you all cope with these urges that seemingly come out of nowhere?

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Tell me your weight loss/regain stories

I feel like in most weight loss forums, the people who are/have successfully lost weight have the spotlight, and those who have tried and encountered hardships are pushed aside.

The point of these forums is to learn from and support each other, so with that in mind I would like to ask the following of my fellow r/loseit subscribers who have lost a substantial amount of weight then regained some/all of it back. Did you know it was happening? Were you aware you were in the process of gaining back and didn’t have the power to stop it, or did it suddenly dawn on you that you had gained back, and it came as a shock. Are there any warning signs you would tell people who have lost weight to look out for in regards to regain, and is there anything you wish you had done differently.

I myself had (past tense) lost over 70kg, and during the past 3 stressful months at university have regained around 5. I am fully aware that my old stress eating habits have come back with a vengeance, and what’s worse, I keep telling myself I will be able to undo the damage I am doing now because “I am so close to being finished at uni, and then everything will be better.” I have returned to the old cycle of, “As of Monday I am back on the wagon”. Well, 20 Monday’s and counting...🤨

So how about it r/loseit, tell me your stories. How did you avoid/ not avoid the dreaded regain? I have no intention of sharing them, but maybe we can find wisdom in each others experiences.

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I hit the -25 pound mark today meaning i'm halfway to my goal!!

I hit the 25 pound weight loss mark recently, which means that I am halfway to my goal! 5 years ago, I gained 50 lbs in a little over a year. I grew up always being careful about my weight, but let myself go because I never learned to cope with emotions in healthy way and went through a difficult time that I coped with via emotional eating. This weight loss means so much to me because if I didn't learn how to be healthy emotionally, I would have never been able to control my unhealthy eating. 25 pounds ago I saw how long I had to go and felt despair because I felt like I would never have the self control to lose 50 pounds let alone 25 and that I had ruined my life for good due to one bad year. However, I PROVED myself WRONG. I used my goal of weight loss to give me a goal......something to look forward to in life and lift me out of depression. For the first time today, I was able to fit into a dress I haven't been able to fit into since college and for the first time in 5 years, my BMI is no longer obese. I have continued to eat give or take around 1200-1500 calories a day for the past week and it seems as though i've hit a plateu but I will not give up until I am no longer overweight and just healthy again! I decided to stop weighing myself daily while continuing to diet and just praying a whoosh happens in a couple weeks. I can't believe i'm halfway there!!! I never thought I would be able to do this holy crap.

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