Brawny's time machine

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Haha yoga pants. I bought a yoga strectching DVD so that I can safely do it in the privacy of my own home
 
cowboy48 said:
Hi Brawny,

All your goals look very achievable. I am sure you will exceed them all. I don't like stretching either but I know I have to do it. Not only that but I think I am going to take a yoga class or two. My flexibility SUCKS. I think the yoga will help it. Apparently yoga is quite common with runners. I didn't know that but with the strength that running builds up in the hamstrings it can make your legs too tight. Yoga helps to lengthen the muscle so flexibility should improve. I just don't know how I will look in yoga pants-LOL!!
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I can't say that I rocked the yoga pants, but I was doing yoga (well, on the Wii Fit U anyway) for a while and I can honestly say that it DID make a difference in how I felt. It's a lot harder than it looks. But, for the short amount of time I did it I could feel the reward.
 
I live in my yoga pants. Unfortunately you sometimes don't notice that you're gaining weight because they are too stretchy.
 
Well I never thought my thread would be the host of yoga pant talk but hey...express yourselves! lol

Good Good News:
Went to the Dr. today for my diabetes check up. I was 25lb lighter than when I was there last! My blood pressure had dropped from 155/105 to 136/85! And my diabetes H1C Number was the best it has been since 2011! Wow! all that health improvement in a measly 72 days of exercise and healthy eating!
Why have I failed to maintain this in the past? The benefits are so fast. I simply crawled back on my stationary bike 72 days ago and rode for 15 minutes. Then I got on an eating plan. Then I just did it most days. The exercise improved very quickly. The eating has been harder but most days I have been able to do it or come close.
Now I have made it into what I call a positive snowball. What I mean by that is something like this....Being on task for a few days produces a few positive results which helps to motivate me to stay on task for a few more days which leads to more profound results...and so on.

Gotta ride the positive train. Gotta get ready for the things ahead that will try to knock me off stride. Holidays, busy work schedules, possible injuries or infirmities, some bad life event that makes me want to lay off for a while...whats it going to be? Because I guarantee it will be something. I gotta be ready. I gotta be strong. I gotta be stronger than the crap life throws at me.
 
Hi Brawny,

Maybe you should become the Yogi of yoga pants-lmao. Great job on the weight loss, the blood pressure numbers and the H1C number. Funny how what seems like such small changes in diet and exercise makes such huge changes in our health. I am very happy for you! Don't worry about the train derailing- we will help to keep you on the tracks!
 
Well done brawny. Great news :) You're on that positive train & it is just going to keep on rolling on.
 
So as I was walking on the track last night I had kind of a light bulb moment (literally and figuratively). So as it gest dark these 4 big lights come on that arespread around the track up on poles that are on about the 20 yard lines. As I was walking down the straight part of the track I notice with amusement that I am casting two different shadows. One from each of the lights on the other side of the track. Well due to the angle of where I am compared to each light, one of the shadows makes me look slim and the other one makes me look fatter. I found some irony in that. Kinda what was and what could be.
Anyway I walked 3.5 miles
 
brawny77 said:
So as I was walking on the track last night I had kind of a light bulb moment (literally and figuratively). So as it gest dark these 4 big lights come on that arespread around the track up on poles that are on about the 20 yard lines. As I was walking down the straight part of the track I notice with amusement that I am casting two different shadows. One from each of the lights on the other side of the track. Well due to the angle of where I am compared to each light, one of the shadows makes me look slim and the other one makes me look fatter. I found some irony in that. Kinda what was and what could be.
Anyway I walked 3.5 miles
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Whoa. That's deep, man.

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That is indeed a light bulb moment Brawny :D
:boxing: I'm cheering for the slim Brawny (now there's an oxymoron) :hurray:
 
Brawny is the real Slim Shady.

"I wanna feel the changes coming down. I wanna know what I've been hiding in my shadow. Change is coming through my shadow."

 
Awesome that you were so much lighter at the Doctors - I remember going after losing like 40lbs (literally just so I could rub it in his smug face that I'd lost weight) and feeling great about it. Check your healthy self outtttt x
 
Thank you friends. The Dr. visit was a good day.
Mo - I have now added that song to my ipod I should be able to get a lap and a half outta that!

Well weigh in has me wanting to bust my scale with a hammer.
Lost .4lb....not even half a pound in a week when I was good with eating and exercise DANG!
I know I know now yall will tell me the same thing I tell yall when you are in this boat...A loss is a loss...
And it is but DANG
My only happy thought in this is that usually when this happens if I push on through, I get a nice loss the next week.
I just gonna go with that thought and push hard and push forward.
Meanwhile I weigh 289.4
 
Sunflower_ said:
I remember going after losing like 40lbs (literally just so I could rub it in his smug face that I'd lost weight) and feeling great about it.
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Hah. That makes me wanna go back to the doctor for a physical. Once I had lost 30lbs (without meaning to or trying) over the course of a 3 year period and the doctor basically accused me of doing something really unhealthy in order to have such a change in weight. He made me really feel like crap for something I didn't even realize had happened.

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I'm in the same boat with you Brawny-boy. I've been bustin' my ass for the last couple of weeks and I think I've lost 1lb. I've been so frustrated watching my weight slowly creep up as I work so hard, but I'm back to within 1/4lb of my lowest weight thus far so I'm going to keep on keeping on and push to the next 10lbs down.
 
Ate too much Saturday. It wasn't a full on binge like I have done in the past but it was the first day since August where I just lost focus and grazed all day. I did much better on Sunday and even walked 4.25 miles in 85 minutes. I also walked 50 minutes on Saturday in between snacking....Attempting to refocus. It is time for ne to move the scales a bit. I have been stuck too long.
 
Grazing is way better than bingeing! Way to recover on Sunday though! The scale will move, just be patient!
 
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