Originally posted by Jaime Tomahawk
Swimming was a lot harder than I expected. Ugh. I feel dead
Just remember, Mark, you did have a month "off". Don't push yourself too hard.
Mini-goal for today - walk to the mall instead of taking the bus (in the rain).
Picked UP weight, 79 kg
But around the lake 10 times in about an hour, which means I'm working at a good speed, as the total distance is close to 11 km. The first five laps definatly easier to do.
I think I've worked out why the increase, so I'm not bothered. What it tells me is there's not much body fat except around the stomach and I dont HAVE enough fat to go to 73 kg purely on diet. 75kg is a more realistic goal
Being sick helps to lose weight
I've been on a binge of hot cider, head-cold medication, and chicken soup. I figure a week of this and I'll drop 10 pounds.
Like Leten, I've also just gotten a membership at a gym.
My goals:
1) Keep my weight up around 170 lb where my doctor wants it again.
2) Go to the gym three times a week.
3) Drink less pop at work and more water.
4) Start eating 3 meals a day instead of 1-2 meals. (If I work swing, I only eat 1 meal a day which is not good. Late night's been getting better because I'm starting to eat 3 meals a day then. If I'm not working, I snack and have 1 meal)
Now, does anybody have any suggestions on how to make water taste good so I don't get the urge to spit it out as soon as I taste it.
I have no idea because I love water. Maybe your local tap is just awful and you need bottled selections?
Thats one great thing about Alabama, we have some amazing tap water. Every other place's water is gross and foreign to me.
In fact I just drank 2 liters from the tap just now. Uh oh gotta pee.
170lb for a female? Your either taller than I thought or somethings not right, I'm 5'10 and that's just a bit below me - and no one would say I'm exactly thin. Not fat, but fairly solid.Originally posted by Natia Telcontar
Like Leten, I've also just gotten a membership at a gym.
My goals:
1) Keep my weight up around 170 lb where my doctor wants it again.
I'm with Charley on the Alabama water, it's good stuff. Almost on par with Sydney which is more than acceptible.
Drink bottled water, or get a filter for your tap...I have one of those PUR filters on my kitchen tap, and it makes a big difference.Originally posted by Natia Telcontar
Now, does anybody have any suggestions on how to make water taste good so I don't get the urge to spit it out as soon as I taste it.
Or, if you like the flavor of lemon, put a slice or two of lemon in your water.
Or, there are plenty of flavored waters on the market as well.
Flavored waters can have sugar/sweetener, so read the label if you're trying to cut down on that. Canada Dry makes a decent flavored water without any added sweet stuff, though.
Propel is also fairly good stuff. There are added calories, but they're not of the empty type so its not a crime or anything.
Wow, I never thought I was taller the Marcus. I was at 170 lb 10 years ago and I wasn't fat. I went from being a skinny twig weighing 90 lb and being 5' 8", to being 5' 9" and weighing 170 lb in grade 8 (ten years ago) just because I started to ride my bike everyday except on weekends and even then I usually did. I was thinner then than I am now and I was less then 170 lb.
As for bottled water, to me that's even more gross then tap water. Flavoured water, now that I will have to try.
Let's see. I'll jump in on this game. I don't have a number for weight loss. I just know that there are 2 or 3 pairs of pants that I want to fit into again.
That and I'm doing martial arts again, so I want to get stronger.
10 pushups/day
30-40 situps/day
Martial Arts classes 2 times a week
Ballroom dancing (very low impact, but you'd be surprised at what your legs feel like after repeating the same quick steps over and over for an hour).
Oh, and for the diet.
No Sugar.
If you're going to do pushups and situps, go higher. That stuff is toning-intensive, so you want to do high repetition, high set.
Yeah, if you're going to be doing pushups and situps, you need to get in to the 10 reps / many sets each exercise.
Also, sit ups won't burn fat around your midsection. It will tone your muscle, but it won't eliminate the fat that surrounds it (if there's any there).
I used to have a fairly evil ab routine that heavily involved some kind of self-induced torture called the Iron Cross, which were a series of sustained leg elevations that worked all of the abs. Even when I was in good shape they hurt like hell.
Hmm, how about if I lower my fat intake, try to cut out as much soda as I can ( had a bad day today with that, watching the Super Bowl), have NutraGrain bars for desert, and do 100 sit-ups a night and as many push ups as I can before I just can't? (currently that number is.... 5?)
I have no will power at all.
Got to start somewhere.
And hell, if you didn't ruin your diet today, you aren't human.
2 bowls of chili and 2 slices of sugar free lemon icebox pie
I'm not human :-p
5 times around the lake, noticably easier and feeling less stuffed afterwards. And also a decent chicken lunch and salad dinner.
Nurtagrain bars are like, pure sugar.
I think I might start keeping a food journal again. Not eating because you don't want to write it down and feel like a pig = fun!
I've become a major label reader since I changed my eating habits. I'm one of those people who avoids sugar and flour as much as I can. And do read labels, because you'd be surprised what things have sugar in them that you would never suspect. And be extra careful about things that label themselves as "reduced sugar" or "low sugar," because a lot of times they're not that reduced or that low. "Sugar free" is a much better bet, although not always foolproof.
I am admittedly having a wee bit of sugar right now, because Valentine's Day just isn't Valentine's Day without conversation hearts
Nutri grain bars are natural sugars and whole grain carbs, so they're a good thing to start your day on. Just don't eat like 2 or 3 for dinner dessert or anything
And avoid artificial sweeteners, sorry Jinn. You're tricking your body into taking something that isn't sugar in the place of sugars that diet or not, your body does need. You will do more harm than good if this is your only source of the sweet stuff.
Avoiding high fructose corn syrups and the nasty junk food sugars like that is always a good idea, but if you need sweets, get something with natural sugars in it.
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