<human>: So today I ran my first half marathon! I finished at 2:39:10 and could not be more happy. I even signed up for my next one and hope to get my time down to 2:35:) (I have exactly 3 months til race day!)

On to the loseit relevancy though. I started losing weight last May 1st and I started at 168lbs. I'm a 5'4"/21 female for reference. By mid-June I was 150, but then I plateued all summer. Honestly I just maintained after going through a lot of other changes it was hard to focus on weightloss.

After school started I tried to get back into it and that's when I signed up for the race I did today. I realized quickly though that I couldn't do it on my own so I signed up for a personal trainer at 24 hour fitness and had my first session on Halloween.

My trainer is absolutely amazing. He has completely changed my life (basically saved it) and now I work out daily and log my calories religiously. However, I have no idea what happened but I didn't lose ANYTHING this month. I went back and forth between 138-137 a couple times but that's definitely not where I wanted to be.

Due to financial reasons I can no longer afford my trainer. This Tuesday is my last session and since last week he has been preparing me for being on my own. 

He told me that I should start a myfitnesspal account (I did, it's msbagginses) but I'm nervous. I have a hard time planning out my food with just focusing on calories as it is. I feel like trying to manage carbs/protein/fat on top of that is setting me up for failure. My free time is quickly diminishing as the quarter gets on and I'm preparing for graduation in June.

Does anyone have tips/tricks to help me understand MyFitnessPal? Also, I can't cook. Like at all. I'm trying to learn but recipes just freak me out and I end up screwing something/everything up.

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<bot>: Lost 30lbs, plateaued all month, new-ish runner, need MyFitnessPal help. I feel like a lost cause and I'm way too scared to not have my trainer anymore:(