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  • Cash to spend on fake follows

  • Some shoes they’ll never wear again

  • A parkrun PB

  • A place on a running team for all the freebies

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Do super shoes work for regular marathoners?

“To answer the question, Joubert and his colleagues recruited 16 runners – eight men and eight women with prior-year 5K PBs averaging 19:06 and 20:18, respectively”

19:06-20:18 are not average times you dickheads.
 
Just Helen Gaunt posting about eating disorders for NEDA awareness week in one breath then posting the millionth skinny selfie in the next.

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Every single shot she takes she tenses her arms to make them look as bony and sinewy as possible.
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Just Helen Gaunt posting about eating disorders for NEDA awareness week in one breath then posting the millionth skinny selfie in the next.
Every single shot she takes she tenses her arms to make them look as bony and sinewy as possible.
She’s SO thin. And she glorifies it all the time. There is NO way she eats enough to fuel her training. She looks like she would snap if I just bumped in to her
 
I don’t understand her at all! Posts how terrible her run was and how she was meant to do 18 but done 20 and fast too! How is any of that a bad run? What she even training for? but 100% she will be injured in the next few weeks!
Pretty sure it was also faster than her marathon pb pace which is crazzzzyyyy to do in “training” . She must be doing Manchester marathon but still 6 weeks off she may be peaking too soon.
 
Anna setting Issac up for a restrictive life, run commute daily to nursery and now he isn't allowed any chocolate. Let's hope the Nannas allow him some treats after all he is in there care frequently enough

As someone who grew up in a house with no chocolate/sweets/treats etc, and who ended up having to undo 20 years of disordered eating and secret eating, that poor child 😭😭😭😭 20 years of my mum telling me I was too fat, and now the last 5 years of her saying I’ve lost too much weight and I’m not eating enough

Sorry. Tangent 😂
 
She wont let him have any chocolate in case he dares to invade her binging stash. You just know she is a nightmare parent, i bet the nursery hate her and the grandparents and Kyle just give in to all her diva demands.
 
She wont let him have any chocolate in case he dares to invade her binging stash. You just know she is a nightmare parent, i bet the nursery hate her and the grandparents and Kyle just give in to all her diva demands.

That's some interesting reasoning I hadn't thought of but I bet you're right.

I don't have kids and never will so this left me scratching my head wondering why she's so paranoid about controlling his intake regarding sweets. I know some people think certain foods are so horribly unhealthy their kids should never have them (bad idea imho just sets them up for a binge/ restrict cycle later on) but this seems pretty ironic given how much binging she does on what would be considered junk foods. I mean I had sugar rationed a bit because my Mum was worried about my teeth, but nothing severe. She's just a control freak and is obsessed with extending that to every aspect of her son's life, unless there's some good reasoning that I'm missing? Any parents care to weigh in and educate me, because I'm open to changing my mind on this.
 
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Current reasoning is that restriction leads to over consumption later in life. Placing sweet stuff on a pedestal means you want it more. Most adults I know were bought up on ‘you must eat all your dinner or no dessert’ and only allowed sweets/chocolate as a treat, and most adults I know have a problem controlling themselves - can’t stop once they start, have to eat the whole chocolate bar not just a bit etc.

My kids (to the absolute horror of bother my mother and my mother-in-law) have always had dessert with their dinner and are given the choice of when/how much of each they eat, and quite often chocolate or sweets are included in that. They stop eating when they are full and don’t obsess over the sweet stuff. Quite often they will chose fruit instead of chocolate, as that is what they fancy. Christmas and Easter chocolate lasts MONTHS in my house and quite often I have to ‘help’ them finish it 😬
 
I dont think its a PFB or health conscious decision as after all she said she wasn't bothered if BF didn't work initially. Whenever she has a concern over Issac, e.g. him not sleeping or him not going away with them, its purely how it will impact Anna and her running, her routines, everything is selfishly driven. For not one moment do i think restricting him treats is health related or putting his needs first, it will be because she is worried it will impact his sleep, behavior or attitude and in turn require more effort or input from her. Is there any boarding schools that accept infants, you can bet Anna is registering her interest already.
 
New thread! Character limit so got creative with the title from the original suggestion.

 
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