5 pounds
That's wonderful!!! You should be sooooo proud of yourself! And I totally understand your reasoning for taking it slow and steady. But I didn't realize that losing weight quickly can cause gall stones
My 16yo sis lost a bunch of weight and is having horrible
abd pain. They just did an u/s of her gall bladder yesterday, and she said the lady was counting what "looked like holes" I'm wondering if she has stones too
Yep! Sounds like gallstones. They would show up on an ultrasound as black spots...so that is probably what they were seeing.
I had a quick surgery and had them removed! It wasn't so bad...but certainly would have avoided it, if I could!
Thanks for the congrats!!!
As for my TR...
I haven't started on it because most of my pics disappeared. I have a bunch of small memory cards, and I'm guilty of not ever erasing the pics off of them. So, I thought I was being brilliant when I finally put all of my Disney pics onto the computer and erased the cards as i was doing it
The day I came back from FL my computer died...just totally kicked the bucket! The hard drive is ok, but the rest of the 'puter is dead as a door nail. So, one of these days I need to bring my thumb drive to my patient's house to get some of the pics that I downloaded to their computer. And I'm also waiting on my copy of the photopass CD.
Oh NO! You lost your pictures!?!? I have mine backed up on the web and on two different computers...just in case. I would just freak out!
I do hope you can get yours from your parents. We would LOVE to hear about your trip! I bet it was crazy!!!!!
I'm not sure yet what my walking speed is because I've been relying on my kickboxing and karate workouts, but I'm sure I'll be able to go a bit faster than the minimum speed. How fast will we have to go to be sure and not miss the award's ceremony?
Do you know if the Tower of Terror race is full? I'm sure Travis would like to do that one too!
First, the Tower of Terror race registration does not open until March...and it probably won't fill up too fast.
So, you guys could still do it!!!!!!
The official pace for the half marathon, I think, is 16 minute miles. You are supposed to be able to complete the whole race in 3 hours and 30 minutes. That is a little under 4 mph. BUT...they don't start really "counting" until the last person has gone over the start line. So if you start in the front of the slow people pack, that helps A LOT because it takes some time for all of those people to cross the start line and you get all of those minutes as a bonus.
Someone that walked last year finished in around 4 hours and still got a medal, but did not have an "official" finish time. But who cares about official...I want to finish, to know I finished, and to get some BLING!
Now, I don't know about making the awards ceremony? I figure I will still be walking when that starts!!
I won't be winning any awards!
For the Tower of Terror race last year, they were supposed to have a 16 minute pace, but at the last minute, they changed it to 18 minute pace...so that would be easily doable...
The thing you have to remember is that you will have to stop along the way to go to the bathroom and you might want to take a character picture or something, plus, you never know if you can keep your exact pace with all of those poeple around.
My goal is to train so that I can average around 15 minute miles...which will include some jogging...but that is my goal.