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Really good day today!

Got up at noon and had a breakfast of apple pancakes & syrup. Didn't eat again til dinner, which was spelt pasta with broccoli and sausage in the sauce. And a small salad. Then 2 thin mints for dessert. All of this puts me at about 1350 calories for the day. I also ran 6 miles, so that's actually below target. Yay, self!

My plan for the rest of the day is yoga and coffee and homework. Tomorrow I'll try to eat just about as well, then do another 6 miler and a candlelit yoga class with my girlfriends. I have about 3 weeks until the half marathon. Definitely been blowing off training, but I've been getting my mileage up FAST. Did 2 + 3 + 2 + 2, 9 miles total, on Friday. I have to take tuesdays and thursdays off because my classes are late those days.

Still scared to weigh. I've been having way more good days than before, but still too many bad days. I'm trying not to obsess about it, since I know feeling good (and feeling like I look good) is more important than being 110 lbs.

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Rallied and ran 8 miles today!

I'm not puking up everything today so I went to class and came home and ran 8 miles (well really 3+1+2+1+1 but still).

I'm happy today, and I feel smaller and just better in general and everything is gonna be okay. Plus I only ate 1500 calories (not terribly healthy food but some of it was broccoli so it's OKAY).

I'm going to do my best to run 8 more tomorrow (probably not all at once, but broken up into fewer segments. Like if I could do 3 + 2 + 3 or even 3 + 2 + 2 + 1 that would be freaking sweet).

Also, yoga tonight. More things to make my whole body happy.

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So, so, so sick today ugh I can't.

Spent the whole morning throwing up. Couldn't keep water down until like 1 or two.

Just out of curiosity, I weighed while I was completely empty. 139.5. So that's like 4 pounds down from last time. So I probably legitimately lost 2 pounds. That's not bad.

So far today I kept down 7 tortilla chips and a small burrito (small tortilla with about 1/5 of a chipotle burrito bowl spooned in). Still feel like shit but I'm less dehydrated now and haven't puked in like 3 hours.

I think the plan for today is to chill out on the couch and watch netflix until I want to die less. Tomorrow will be my big class day (11 to 5), and then I'll run afterward.

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EDIT (12/17/13, 3:45pm): Within hours of this post going viral, I received a call from Helen Moore, the CSD for Golden Gate Bus. It was a good call. They’re paying attention. They want to fix this. I don’t know what will happen with the driver who laughed and shook my harasser’s hand, but...

Fun idea: Try being home alone studying quantum mechanics while all 3 of your roommates are out with their boyfriends.

Then accidentally come across the text from one roommate saying "OMG it's so cute that me and (roomie2) both have bf's whose names start with J!!!"

You'll beg for death.

Quickly becoming the only single one left in my group of friends

Joy.

So most of my friends are attached now. The most recent is my roommate/best friend, who is now kind of official with a guy who's like my brother. I'm super happy for them. I'm worried they'll think of me as a 3rd wheel, but I think they're good together.

But lately it seems like literally everyone I know is propositioning the aforementioned roommate. In the last week alone, she's been asked out by 4 guys. She's awesome, and it's not that I don't get why everyone's in to her. My main issue is that 3 of the 4 guys have been my friends, and it's kind of given me a (maybe irrational) fear that my guy friends only hang out with me because the two of us are always together. I know it's not true in the case of the now-boyfriend (I introduced them), but I've spent most of my life being the ugly friend, to be tolerated in order to hang out with the cool, pretty girls.

And maybe it's also because of my own boy issues- the main issue being that pretty much none of them ever show interest, and I'm still a little hurt (months later so I need to get over it already) over the last (really only) guy- my good friend who fooled around with me for 2 months and then gave me some bullshit about being too busy for a relationship when he already had another girlfriend. Plus the fact that this guy's current girlfriend is so pretty that looking at her makes me hate myself a little. Actually the fact that all my boys' girlfriends are drop dead gorgeous and I (at least feel like) I'm fat and ugly with terminally frizzy hair.

That's just me, though. I'm really good at spinning "boys don't pay much attention to me, but they really love my roommate" into "I'm ugly and worthless and always will be so I'm gonna die alone".

Plus I got ravenously hungry at about 10:30 and just ate kind of a lot. So I'm a little mad at myself, tbh.

First day of school! FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL!

And I actually wore real clothes and looked like a human and ate breakfast and didn't sleep in class so if I can just keep this up for like 5 more months I'll be good.

Intake:

Breakfast: 3/4 cup black beans, an egg, and salsa.

Lunch: Sonoma turkey flatbread from quiznos.

Planning a sweet potato with spinach and white beans and a small yogurt for dinner. And then I have 135 calories left for a snack. Plus more if I go for a run, like I'm planning to.

Today is a good day.

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Don't have much to say today

Except ran 4 miles on friday and 2 today. And kept food in check. Not great, but not bad.

I'm back at school now, with tons of veggies and fruits and lean meat to keep myself on track.

And the plan for tomorrow is to go to the gym after class and run as long as I can without stopping. I have over a month to get up to 13.1, which is doable. Goal for tomorrow is 8. I'll do my best.

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Ran 6 miles today!!!

Well, 1.5, 1.5, and 3. But if I keep it up, I'll definitely be ready for the half marathon in 5 weeks!

I'll run 6 more tomorrow (hopefully 3 and 3), and then start adding a bunch.

But I know people who finished the half last year who had never run longer than 7 at a time before.

Wish I hadn't taken such a long break from running. This time last year I was running the full 13.1 pretty easily.

Also ate 1150 calories so far today. So a 300 calorie dinner will put me at around 1500 total, and a net of 900.

(GOOD DAY GOOD DAY GOOD DAY)

((sorry, these have been so rare lately I need to celebrate))

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My best friend goes on cleanses every so often

Because for some reason she's under the impression that she doesn't have a completely gorgeous bod and amazing curves that the rest of us would kill for. But I digress.

Whenever she's on one, or even just a really healthy kick, she seems miserable. Which, no wonder because humans are not meant to subsist on spinach juice and naked, unseasoned grilled chicken.

And btw "you're allowed to have as much soup as you want!" is not a selling point when that soup is actually just vegetable broth. just no pls.

I don't think I've ever wanted to be skinny so badly that I would subject myself to a day of nothing but sautéed kale.

And I can't look at any kind of green juice without being reminded of what puking on an empty stomach looks like.

The word "cleanse" kind of bums me out. And it seems unnecessary. Our body generally does a good job of "cleansing" itself, and in my experience forcing yourself to live off of nothing but leafy greens for days results in crankiness and eventual binge-eating.

Planning healthy, balanced meals is more work, but at least the thought of it doesn't make me die inside.

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Homemade bread with avocado, a plum, banana and almonds!

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I'm so hungry right now it's stupid

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It's so much easier to stay on track with a fitness goal

when you really consider what you want to get out of it, day by day. I've experienced this before, when I lost almost 30 lbs the first time. I had a calorie goal every day, and I met it almost every day. And as soon as I stopped setting regular goals and keeping track of progress, I stopped losing and even gained a little bit.

I want to weigh 120 lbs on my birthday, which is in 5 months. It's extremely doable, as I'd have to lose about a pound per week (more or less, I haven't done the math and don't exactly know what I weigh now).

I want to be able to run a marathon in February 2015. I have plenty of time to get in shape for this, obviously, but I know I'll never train consistently if I don't set smaller goals throughout this year.

I don't even know what I want from my yoga practice. I don't have a specific pose I'm working on. I'd like to become stronger and more flexible, but I don't have a way to measure that concretely.

I'm keeping myself on track the best way I can- a new checkpoint at the end of each month, for each goal. Small, attainable, and not overwhelming.

January: Run 10 miles (no stops), weigh 140 lbs (at most), 2 hours of challenging yoga per week (this will be the same for each month).

February: Run 13.1 miles, weigh 135 lbs

March: Run 15 miles, weigh 130 lbs

April: Run 16 miles, weigh 125 lbs

May: Run 17 miles, weigh 120 lbs

June: Run 17 miles, weigh 120 lbs

July: Run 18 miles, weigh 115 lbs

August: Run 19 miles, maintain weight

September: Run 20 miles

October: Run 21 miles

November: Run 22 miles

December: Run 23 miles

My ultimate goal weight is 115 lbs. I'm not going to try for any lower.

And I'll only do the long, "goal" run once a month and keep my everyday runs more reasonable. For time management/I don't want to ruin my knees reasons.

I know this won't be easy, and I'll need to keep a really close eye on what I eat. I'll have to cut back on alcohol, and fit some kind of run in almost every day. But I know I'll be happier this way.

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Wunder Under Pant

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Made a board to hang my race medals.

The blue is brighter in person. I am not a photographer.

But I needed some inspiration to keep training for my next 1/2 marathon.

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It's 8:00. I've eaten 1600 calories today. And I ran 3.1 miles.

This is the first of what I hope is many good days.

I netted less than 1300, which is great, for me. I've never been able to eat less than 1500 (it's just not enough food, and I feel hungry and cranky and it's just not worth it).

But I'll admit that my run was broken up- a lot. It's 35 degrees today, and I don't have the right clothes for running in that kind of weather, so I did it on a treadmill.

And I hate treadmills- I don't have the attention span for more than one mile at a time. I stopped between each mile (roughly 5.5-6 mph) to do about a half mile walking on an incline at 3.5 mph. I'll never get in a good, long run on a treadmill, but it's okay for the days when I can't get outside.

I ate a little better today, too- still too many carbs, but I did at least get a decent amount of protein today. I'll eat more fruit and vegetables. It'll be good. And maybe I'll be able to run outside without freezing my tits off.

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