Friday, April 5, 2019

Training for the Boston Marathon Video Series Host Hello!

Hello! I’m hosting a video series called ‘10,000 Miles to Boston’ with Hyland’s Powered! We’re following a team of healers = doctors, nurses, therapists, etc as they train to run the Boston Marathon. All together the team will run 10,000 Miles as they train! Whoa!

Marathon training is hard for a lot of reasons. It’s time consuming, physically challenging, mentally taxing and more. So in addition to following along as they rack up the miles we’re checking in with how they’re balancing work and home life too. Plus – all the team members are doing very important work helping to heal others in different ways.

Follow @HylandsPowered on Instagram for all the videos. They’re short, fun videos so you can check out a few at a time.

Here are some fun facts about me and my running background that brought me here…

1. I started RunEatRepeat.com 10 years ago to share my 1st marathon training & weight loss journey. (Both were very hard for me.) I NEVER thought I’d fall in love with running or that anyone would read and follow RER! Thank you for reading! xoxo.

2. I ran the Boston marathon in 2017 as part of the @hylandspowered All Female team – in honor of the 50th anniversary of the 1st woman to run the race! Kathrine Switzer ran the race in 1967 and was almost pushed off the course by a race official!!

3. This year the Hyland’s team runners are healers = doctors, nurses, therapists, etc… And I’m the host of ‘10,000 Miles to Boston’ – a video series on their training. The video below is a fun lil segment on ‘meeting the host’. We are covering all aspects of the team’s training – how they found out they made the team, training updates, mantras, what they’re eating, how they’re balancing running with work and home life, mindset and more!

Since I’m hosting the series – some of the videos share a lil bit of my story. The video below is Meet the Host… with some insight on my Boston Marathon experience PLUS a few thoughts on running and eating…

Follow Run Eat Repeat on Instagram as I cover all the behind the scenes of this project. And I’ll be in Boston for the race interviewing the team and covering race weekend events like the expo and adventures around the city! Let me know if you have any questions on the race or things you’d like to see during race weekend!!

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[Challenge] Wizarding World of Weight Loss - SIGN UPS OPEN

Hello and Welcome to the LoseIt Spring 2019 Challenge!

Your hosts this round will be u/Jameson1780, u/cosmam, u/420spirit9, and u/ThatCanadianGuy88

This challenge is a team-based competition that will last for 8 weeks for which you set a weight-loss goal and then weigh in weekly, working to be at or beyond that goal by the end of the challenge. There will be a new post every friday with Links/Instructions for each week's activities. Your teams subreddits/discords will also have all the information you need.

Beginning next week, there will be team competitions in weigh in participation, steps logged, activity minutes logged and more. This week is focussed on getting you signed up and on to your teams.

Step 1 - Sign up

NOTE: You will be randomly assigned to a team following the submission of your sign up form. Do not ask to be assigned to a particular team. ALSO NOTE if you accidentally sign up more than once please follow your first entry. The duplicates will be removed.

Step 2 - Visit the Challenge Tracker to find your team!

Challenge Tracker Here!

NOTE: The team assigner runs every 5 minutes. If your team is blank, just wait a moment. It will refresh in real time on desktop, but you may have to refresh the spreadsheet on mobile to see the changes.

Step 3 - Join your team's subreddit

NOTE: Joining your team subreddit isn’t mandatory but it should be. Being active with your team keeps participation up and might be that extra little push you need to keep you going. It could be the difference between an 8 week grind or 8 weeks of fun and support to lose the weight you want.

Team Potions - Captains: u/ravenclawedo1 & u/Cadamar & u/fatchancefatpants & u/bugs_bunny01

Team Muggle Studies - Captains: u/sweetpsd & u/coffeekeepsmerolling & u/waffleapartment

Team Defense Against the Dark Arts - Captains: u/VicariousGluten & u/lxgo, & u/jayemt

Team Occlumency - Captains: u/Batmanbyday & u/Fit4themtn & u/Halestorm101312

Team Arithmancy - Captains: u/capitulum & u/nukaprincess

Team Transfiguration - Captains: u/ZeAltHealthAcct & u/Unconcernedlion & u/Suzi_Pants

Team Care of Magical Creatures - Captains: u/Artemis2634 & u/Thymek

Team Herbology - Captains: u/revdrviking & u/420spirit9 & u/martin3eh

Timeline

NOTE: Each week begins on a Friday, so you will have until the following Friday at 8am EST (when the next week is posted) to complete your weigh-in. You can weigh in multiple times during the week but only your most recent entry will be recorded on the tracker.

April 5th - Signups Open
April 12th - Week 0, Establish challenge goals, signups open through end of week
April 19th - Week 1, Head to Head battles begin, Signups are closed
April 26th - Week 2
May 3rd - Week 3
May 10th - Week 4
May 17th - Week 5
May 24 - Week 6
May 31st - Week 7, Last Head to Head Battle
June 7th - Results and next challenge announcementk

If you have any questions, problems, concerns, ideas, or just want to drop us all a line, please use the message the challenge admin feature, which you can find in the r/loseit sidebar or by clicking here. Responding to this thread is great, but ultimately if you want to make sure all of us read it, the message the challenge admin feature is the way to go.

Please also note that we are not the r/loseit moderators. We’re volunteers and everyday users who run a specific aspect of one of the many interactive community elements of r/loseit. If you have questions about r/loseit that aren’t specific to the challenge, please take a look at the sidebar.

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family sabotaging my weight loss

how to deal with family sabotaging my weight loss?

I was pretty successful losing weight but I still had bellyfat.

But then, my overweight mother started calling me "malnourished" and would always yell and would deliberately stop me from going to the "gym". would stop me from exercising at home.

And whenever I was around my overweight brother he would say "stop dieting". Then if I try to defend myself he'd ask why I was not eating donuts, pizzas etc. He would say things like "stop dieting your body type is ugly." and even include the word "skeleton".

I felt disrespected and when I confronted them I didn't get even a little sign of apology. They just got angry at me. They would talk to me like they did nothing wrong. My mother still stops me from going to the gym and etc. I think that they are very toxic.

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Really need the help of you guys to lose weight urgently

Hi, so I'm new here. Being a competitive judoka aged 16, weight control is very important for my competition. I have a competition on the 17th of April, less than two weeks to go, and in fighting in the under 60kg category. However, I'm currently ~62kg before training, and my weight fluctuates between 59.5-60.8 after a three hour judo training session depending on the intensity of the training. I'm currently eating 1500 calories a day, which I calculated would help me lose weight effectively with my height of 1.75m but it hasn't been working since I started going on diet 2 weeks ago.

My schedule is as follows: Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 3 hour judo training session Tuesday: 1hr weight lifting, 30 minutes cardio Thursday: 30 minutes cardio Saturday: 1.6km run

I am looking for some advice on the weight loss process. I hope to maintain most of my strength while losing the weight to prevent me from being disadvantaged during competition, hence the gym session on Tuesday.

Some questions that I hope can get answered too

Would you recommend me lose water weight one day before my competition, or restrict my diet now?
Would you recommend a specific diet that I should start following now?
Do I need to up my exercise? Sunday is usually my rest day but for the competition I'm willing to put in effort to make the weight.
What should I be eating after my weigh-in to regain my strength? It starts at 8am, and my first bout starts at 10am. I read that I should be taking a combination of low and high gi foods, any recommendations?

Thank you guys so much in advance!

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Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Friday, 05 April 2019? 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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Normal never felt like such an achievement!

Hi fellow losers!

Progress has really slowed down for me lately, but I was thrilled to discover at this morning's daily weigh in that I have now hit normal BMI!!

I started my weight loss journey at the beginning of October last year. I was in obese category 1, and had been for several years. I decided to finally bite the bullet and join Slimming World, since all my previous attempts to lose the weight alone had failed. I've found the accountability and the thinking in terms of weekly goals invaluable in terms of tackling a big weight loss.

It's seemed much simpler this time around as well, and that's thanks in great part to loseit, which helped me realise that weight loss isn't mysterious and magical, achievable only by appeasing the gym gods multiple times a week. In fact, I have not yet incorporated exercise, but as I head towards my GW, I probably will. 4kg to go!!

From 88ish to 68ish in 6 months, and now being normal never felt so good :)

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Thursday, April 4, 2019

[Daily Directory] Find your quests for the day here! - Friday, 05 April 2019

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.
[Maintenance Monday] Lost it? Work on keeping it.
[Wecipe Wednesday] Swap and discuss recipies!

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

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