u/QTPie_314

For ladies using Strava, did you cancel your premium membership during pregnancy? There's no pregnancy setting and all the premium features feel kind of moot at the moment.... I'm not getting segment QOMs right now, not PRing segments, and the 'fitness' score has always been BS but currently looks like I'm in the worst shape of my life just because I've been finding I need a little more recovery time between big efforts.

I've set it to expire rather than renew next month after 5 years as a subscriber and honestly it feels kind of freeing to be listening to my body instead of chasing stats!

The only stat I'd like to keep up with is the 'active weeks streak," and that isn't a premium feature (373 weeks and counting!)!

I'm about to become a first-time mom and want to put a ski/bike/run chariot on my registry. Do you have a favorite chariot/buggy that can hook up to a bike and endure some bumpy gravel roads (when the kid is ready), be swapped out for XC Skiing, and has a decent front wheel attachment and push bar for pushing while running? I'm hoping to find an all-in-one solution to bring the kid along for adventures!

Thoughts specifically on the Thule Chariot Cheetah?

I'm incredibly happy and excited to be pregnant and a lot of my metabolic PCOS symptoms have eased. But holy hell the facial hair growth is out of control! I've always had the most luck with daily tweezing because waxing takes too long to grow back and I don't like my skin texture with shaving but I'm up to about 10 minutes of tweezing in the morning and 20 minutes at night and I'm constantly touching my face and finding hairs to pull mid-day.

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For anyone who had the same experience, did your facial hair slow back down after pregnancy when you were off the prenatal vitamins?

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If all this hair is around to stay I'm going to have to find a more sustainable option to deal with it because half an hour a day of tweezing isn't the vibe especially when I'm camping, hiking, traveling, etc.

I'm very early into my first pregnancy and hoping to still run a marathon I'm registered for in a few weeks, I still feel good running and haven't really had any discernable symptoms. The race is nonrefundable at this point so I'm just going to take it day by day and listen to my body. I'm five weeks now and the race will be at nine weeks.

My feet are the one issue I'm running into. My feet have historically had really high strong arches and I've never needed shoes with arch support. My feet have been hurting even on short runs and yesterday doing single sided deadlifts I noticed my feet were pronating pretty bad. Is this a relaxin effect? Did anyone who ran longer distances in pregnancy need to get shoes with more arch support? I've never had arch support before but I think I'm going to need it the way my feet are hurting and pronating. Advice welcome.

How hard would it be for them to let us have custom stats? Like it's basically an excel scatter plot!? Set the log interval, range, etc.

I just want to be able to track my basal body temp but there's no option for it in menstrual tracking tool, or anywhere else I can find in the app. Couldn't they either add a field to track it or create a custom stat option that graphs like RHR, weight, etc? Since there's already self-entry stats like weight?

I'm in my 30s and am just now coming to terms with a lot of things I suppressed in my younger years.

I managed to control my PCOS for years with obsessive amounts of exercise and using birth control. I suppressed my PMDD with birth control and occasionally succumbed to depressive symptoms but hid my pain from the world. I scheduled every damn minute of my entire life so my ADHD just looked like being highly 'productive.'

Now in my early 30s and trying to conceive and I can't hide all of this anymore... My PCOS and PMDD are on full display without birth control. My ADHD is harder to manage with a new remote job. My PMDD meltdowns have an audience now that I'm living with someone. My self worth was built on my ability to "overcome" these challenges and hide them from the world and appear perfect.

I feel like I'm having to rewire my entire brain to love this flawed version of myself and let other people see and know my struggles. I started therapy and that's helped, but it's scary to acknowledge and love a whole new messier, chubbier, distractible, emotional version of myself this deep into adulthood.

This is my first month doing 10mg Fluoxetine during my Luteal and overall it's been amazing! I've been functional and happy, if somewhere numb.

Today is day 27 and when PMDD symptoms would usually be peaking for me (cycle is usually 35ish days) and I'm sooooo tired. This is better than the alternative of alternating between crying, picking fights with my partner, and trying not to hurt myself.

I've been completely useless at work and just want to take a 3 hour nap. Has anyone else experienced fatigue on Fluoxetine during late Luteal? I'll likely continue to medicate because like I said, better than my usual PMDD breakdown. I don't want to caffeinate and risk messing up my sleep.