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The good news is I've been off the large bars of fruit & nut for over a week. The bad news is, I'm eating too much poridge and too many weetabix!

The settee collapsed today about 5 seconds after I sat on it... I was just going to take a nice sip of hot coffee when it happened.

I have adhesive capsulitis in both shoulders,"frozen shoulder" I couldn't lift myself up off the couch so had to stay sat down in terrific pain with hot coffee running down my face and clean t-shirt. I've never been this heavy before.

The sad thing is we bought the couch from Ikea because of a commercial like this

Oh well, time to check online for another sofa.

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How in the end did you manage to get up? Did you have to wait long for someone to come and help you? I'm so sorry to hear you had such a bad experience but so glad to hear that your of the fruit and nut bars. :hugs::hugs::hugs:

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Thanks for your concern Sasha. I waited for the pain to subside, then had to kind of roll on my side so my knees were on the floor. My son was just stood there laughing at me... Mind you, it must have been extremely funny to see, I'd have made it to number one in the You've Been Framed charts! :D

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Ah I'm glad your alright and I dont mean this in a bad way but maybe this was the start of getting you to really take on board to get really serious with the losing weight and your doing really well also now staying of the chocolate also. I have been weening myself of it slowely and now by next month I should be finally of it.

If only now I could wean myself of the fags :(:(:(

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I'm looking for realistic advice from Deek or any other joggers/runners out there. (what's the difference between a jogger and a runner?)

I suspect I might have set too easy a target for my first 10K race as I ran 10K today in 51:28 this morning. With 4 weeks to go how much should I lower that by?

I like targets to mentally aim for since it keeps me motivated but I don't want to make it so unrealistic that it has the opposite effect.

With family and work responsibilities I'm restricted to 3 runs a week, 2 about 5-6K and one longer one. Should I aim for 51 mins or would 50 be attainable?

I was pleasantly surprised at my time today. I was expecting about 54 minutes. It was perfect conditions this morning though so don't want to delude myself.

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l am not getting fit because basically l have a serious ongoing medical condition and if l did try to exercise it would worsen my condition and probably kill me.

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Sorry to hear that. Is there any gentle form of exercise you can do?

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Yes nag my partner.:D:D:D

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I like that kind of exercise as well :D:D:D

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Especially when they do not answer back.:D:D

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Ya sitting looking with the crazy eyes lol :D:D:D:D

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4 weeks to go. I'd think about reducing your training slightly for weeks 2 and 3 and doing very little for week 4 before the race.
If the run today was on roads with the associated stop-starts for junctions you could knock 4-5 minutes off. If it was on pathways etc. maybe take 2-3 minutes to take the race buzz into account.

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Hmmm, that's food for thought. Yesterday was mostly roads, but not particularly busy roads. I can only remember being held up at one junction and by one dog owner with the 20 foot leads. Still, even allowing a minute for that it might make a sub 50 minutes possible.

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Whats the condition? (if you want to say)

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Here's a real staple part of my diet at the moment. High protein, low fat.

Nearly 20 grams of protein in 80 calories. As clean as you like. Yum :)