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Nadra,Dump the competition, if you can get out gracefully.Ditto on what Meri, IHOP, an doña whim have said.So sad for those women, as they will likely become ill, injured, and possibly set themselves up for longterm unhealthy habits.
Today's numbers look better, from what I'm seeing. Not so scary low, most everyone is eating at least 1200-1300 calories now. I wonder if the really low numbers the first two days were more a result of people being gung-ho and really watching what they ate, and some people mentioned that they had had a last weekend of indulgence before the challenge started. I know that I ate way too much on Sunday night, and wasn't very hungry for much except fruits and veggies on Monday. There are still some fairly big deficits, but not enough to really screw up metabolisms. I think it helped that the group leader posted hers, and said her appetite has been low and she needed a second dinner and she had one. She also told someone else who had really low numbers that they needed a second dinner too! I chatted with her a little bit off the group board, and expressed my concerns. She was pretty receptive to it, and said she'd love it if I posted my professional opinions on the board. One thing that is kind of tricky is that she had gastric bypass surgery about 5 years ago, and she's pretty dialed into what works for her nutritionally. That is fine, obviously she's going to need to eat smaller meals than most people. I just hope that people don't look to her food journals as examples of what they should be eating. I think I'll continue to see how it goes for a while, and just ignore the screen shots of the food journals if it keeps bugging me. The thinspo has also been much better, more posts about training to be badass instead of training to be thin. The workouts have been pretty good so far, so I'd like to keep going with it if I can.
Damn. Need to start over.
That's ok. Starting over is better than not starting over.
lord help me, I started the Whole Life Challenge today.
Thanks! Day two was not bad, though the 70 ounces of water made my run challenging. I'm traveling today/tomorrow for work so my little suitcase has more LARA bars and peanut butter packets in it than clothing.