cherry garcia's diary

woohoo out of the 320's! finally!

WEEK 12 OF EXERCISE DAILY WEIGH IN

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HIGHEST WEIGHT: 159.1kgs (350.7pounds)
CURRENT WEIGHT: 144.5 (318.6pounds)
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Saturday: 16/05/09 - 146.5kgs (322.9pounds) : (second rest day and had a treat meal)
Sunday: 17/05/09 - 147.9kgs (326.1pounds) : (3pounds increase from yesterdays treat: 60min treadmill, 45min combat, weights)
Monday: 18/05/09 - 147.3kgs (324.7pounds) : (10mins elliptical, 50mins treadmill, 45min combat)
Tuesday: 19/05/09 - 146.8kgs (323.6pounds) : (30mins elliptical, 30mins treadmill, 45min aerobics)
Wednesday: 20/05/09 - 146.1kgs (322.1pounds) : (40mins elliptical, 20mins treadmill, 45min combat)
Thursday: 21/05/09 - 145.8kgs(321.4pounds) : (rest day)
Friday: 22/05/09 - 145.5kgs (320.8pounds) : (second rest day)
Saturday: 23/05/09 - 145.5kgs (320.8pounds) : (10min treadmill, 60min elliptical, 45min weights)
Sunday: 24/05/09 - 144.5kgs (318.6pounds) :
 
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Great overall progress!

Would you describe your treat meals as totally pigging out, cheating just a little, or somewhere in between?

I totally agree with rest days; people will not keep diets that they are not motivated to keep.
 
hey paulito,
thanks for stopping by, to answer your question i'd probably say that the first few weeks i started my lifestyle change (in feb) my treat meals were totally pigging out it was just down right embarasssing...lol! then i'd pick myself up the next day and continue health eating and try again and again.

the last 7 weeks i've only had two treat meals....and now i regard my treat meals as rewards and no longer as cheating because i now eat healthy the entire time. i'll be having a treat meal every two weeks or so then after a while make it every once a week. the rest days are a rest from exercise (not from health eating).

hope i answered your question? and thanks for stopping by my diary, i'll pop into yours if you have one? all the best xoxo

Paulito said:
Great overall progress!

Would you describe your treat meals as totally pigging out, cheating just a little, or somewhere in between?

I totally agree with rest days; people will not keep diets that they are not motivated to keep.
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Am I reading this right? Are you now below 320??? and you're doing the eliptical for 60 minutes? DAMN! You've made tons of progress this week! You must feel so good :D
 
hey ymcachick! thanks for stopping by! woohoo yes i'm finally out of the 320's (and sooo happy about it)....yeah and just discovered that the elliptical machine is my new best friend!...lol! i feel like a million bucks right now and hoping it stays that way for many many months to come. xoxo
ymcachick said:
Am I reading this right? Are you now below 320??? and you're doing the eliptical for 60 minutes? DAMN! You've made tons of progress this week! You must feel so good :D
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Cord the Seeker said:
All right!

Out of the 320's! Fantastic! And look at you kicking ass on the elliptical!

I got me some catching up to do.
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thanks cord! i'm glad i'm in the 310's so hopefully my next stop soon will be the 300's! i just discovered the elliptical this week and i think my body really likes the change and responding well...i'm glad because at some point i was really getting tired and frustrated by just the treadmill. hope your doing good too will check in on you in a minute. xoxo

dreamingblue said:
YAY. Party at your place today!! I'll bring the vodka this time! :D lol

Congrats!! :)
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thanks dreamingblue! woohooo! there's definitely a party at my place to celebrate getting out of the 320's....vodka sounds great...lol!
 
okay, just got back from the gym, i've kinda been pressed for time these last couple of days so this week will probably do half workouts then ramp up from next week. anyway today managed to do an hour on the elliptical just like yesterday and gradually increased resistance from 1 to 10. so today did:-

-10min treadmill (warmup)
-60min elliptical
 
i've noticed something and i guess i've repeated it the past few days. the last 7 weeks or so i'd been working damn hard doing about 2hours cardio and some weights almost daily but my weight loss had slowed down considerably it was becoming VERY frustrating and getting me down alot. so when i was completely at a loss decided to try a new machine in my workout which is the elliptical, as soon as i began adding it last sunday, my numbers started to budge a little more, the last two days i did 60mins on it and i've had two big drops in weight which are close to the figures i used to get when i first bought my weighing scale!

i kept reading about how you need to keep the body guessing or else it'll get used to the same routine....i guess i just never thought it would happen to me, so i'm glad i'm breaking out of that shell again. it means however in the next couple of weeks i'll have to try yet a new machine to try switch things up to keep the numbers moving. on days like these i can feel i can keep going on forever on this lifestyle change, and i hope it stays that way....i wish the best for all of you out there as well, thanks for reading xoxo

WEEK 13 OF EXERCISE DAILY WEIGH IN

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HIGHEST WEIGHT: 159.1kgs (350.7pounds)
CURRENT WEIGHT: 143.8kgs (317pounds)
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Saturday: 16/05/09 - 146.5kgs (322.9pounds) : (second rest day and had a treat meal)
Sunday: 17/05/09 - 147.9kgs (326.1pounds) : (3pounds increase from yesterdays treat: 60min treadmill, 45min combat, weights)
Monday: 18/05/09 - 147.3kgs (324.7pounds) : (10mins elliptical, 50mins treadmill, 45min combat)
Tuesday: 19/05/09 - 146.8kgs (323.6pounds) : (30mins elliptical, 30mins treadmill, 45min aerobics)
Wednesday: 20/05/09 - 146.1kgs (322.1pounds) : (40mins elliptical, 20mins treadmill, 45min combat)
Thursday: 21/05/09 - 145.8kgs(321.4pounds) : (rest day)
Friday: 22/05/09 - 145.5kgs (320.8pounds) : (second rest day)
Saturday: 23/05/09 - 145.5kgs (320.8pounds) : (10min treadmill, 60min elliptical, 45min weights)
Sunday: 24/05/09 - 144.5kgs (318.6pounds) : (10min treadmill, 60min elliptical)
Monday: 25/05/09 - 143.8kgs (317pounds) : (can't make it to gym today)
 
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cherrygarcia said:
the last 7 weeks i've only had two treat meals....and now i regard my treat meals as rewards and no longer as cheating because i now eat healthy the entire time. i'll be having a treat meal every two weeks or so then after a while make it every once a week. the rest days are a rest from exercise (not from health eating).
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This sounds like an unbeatable plan. You go girl!
 
Hello cherry :). Can't believe how determined you are and how much you are losing!

As for the scale weight, you must remember the popular diet internet site phrase: "weight loss is not linear". No one consistently loses the same amount all of the time. I recently read an article of Lyle McDonald that discussed how the fat cells fill up with water after the fat dissolves out, and then it takes a little while for the water to flush out. You lose the weight on the scale only when the water is released from the fat cell. This is called a "woosh effect" so apparently it must be a common phenomenon where all of a sudden the water replacing the fat in the cell is shedded at once. I'm sure switching up your routine has its benefits as well as you mentioned. I love the elliptical myself!
 
thanks blancita for all the support! i'm taking things one day at a time, some days are good and some days not so good but i just keep on truckin either way!

and thanks for letting me know about that woosh effect, it actually makes alot of sense because there are some weeks where i've lost almost nothing and then others where it's been quite good. i'll try google the article and have a look. all the best xoxo
Blancita said:
Hello cherry :). Can't believe how determined you are and how much you are losing!

As for the scale weight, you must remember the popular diet internet site phrase: "weight loss is not linear". No one consistently loses the same amount all of the time. I recently read an article of Lyle McDonald that discussed how the fat cells fill up with water after the fat dissolves out, and then it takes a little while for the water to flush out. You lose the weight on the scale only when the water is released from the fat cell. This is called a "woosh effect" so apparently it must be a common phenomenon where all of a sudden the water replacing the fat in the cell is shedded at once. I'm sure switching up your routine has its benefits as well as you mentioned. I love the elliptical myself!
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okay, so i wasn't supposed to go to the gym today because i was supposed to be writing a report which i've left too long but decided since i wasn't getting much done anyway to go to the gym. so today did:-

-10min treadmill
-60min elliptical (i've noticed i now have to increase resistance more to keep up my heart rate)
 
An interesting day

wow, so today i got hit on/ someone actually made a pass at me! i can't remember the last time a guy so much as looked at me leave alone talked to me! (cruel cruel world!)

so i was taking the bus to the gym, usually if i'm even a second late even if the bus driver see me they just speed off, but today was one of those good days when the driver spotted me waving like crazy and gave me time to get to the bus stop and hop on it...i didn't think anything of it but thanked him and was really grateful. there was like 5 of us only in the bus and people kept leaving so when i got out at my stop i was the only one left. i always have my ipod on because i know no one ever takes notice of my existence and never get hi's or smile's from strangers. anyway, so i'm the last to get out of the bus and start walking a few steps then notice the bus had stopped and i turned and saw the bus driver looking at me and holding a blank bus ticket in his hand. so i was like OMG i must have dropped my ticket in the bus so went back to pick it then he pointed at the ticket and he'd written something on it....he'd written 'WOULD U ?' so i was all confused and asked him what? and he pointed at the ticket again so i was like me? 'what do you mean?' would i what? so he says he's seen me on the bus loads of times and thinks i'm really attractive and would like to take me out on a date. i was thinking what? my jaw must have dropped because he was like 'oh do you have a boyfriend?' and i was like YES (i've never had one in my life how sad) and he asked if he could take me out sometime (i've never been able to say no so just said i'll think about it and smiled) then he asked me for my number and i was like 'i'll think about it'. and tried to wrap things up by telling him to have a nice afternoon and continued on walking to the gym...i had the biggest grin on my face and it just wouldn't go away! i couldn't believe that someone somewhere in the world who is of the opposite sex thinks that i'm attractive and would like to go out with me! of course i'm chancing on the fact that it'll be a long time before i see him again and have a story prepared for then....i think for now i just need to work on ME and loving ME. and that's the only way others can love me too. when the world ignores you for so long you start to believe that you're unworthy, i think if brad pitt came up to me and asked if he could take me out i'd be like 'i have a boyfriend'...why? not because i wouldn't want to go out with him but because i'd feel like i'm not worthy! which is just soooo wrong. this weight loss journey is so much more than just being physical, its very emotional for me as well because i'm learning to love myself which is something i've never done in my life.

so thats the story for today...when your female 5feet and 300+pounds, believe me NO ONE looks your way, you don't exist to the world, again i say it's a cruel cruel world that we live in. all the girls i went to school/uni with are all married, having babies or engaged but i'm still single old me. when i tell you that it's been more than 2years since anyones made a pass at me or so much as glanced at me i'm not lying....i got so used to the loneliness i can't even feel it anymore. i'm 28yrs old, i've never had a boyfriend, i can say i had a semi-boyfriend in my last year of primary school, i was 14 then, what a joke. i don't know what it's like to be in love or be in a relationship. this is why i'm doing what i'm doing now...to get my life back because i just haven't been living.

everyday i'm getting to know ME and getting to love ME a little bit more and this is what drives me everyday to keep going on, i don't want to be sad and unhappy anymore, i want to live life and love life....and i wish the same for everyone else on this journey as well. all the best xoxo
 
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Oh WOW Cherry, that is fantastic that you are learning to love yourself hunny! It doesn't surprise me that the Guy made a pass at you, you are very cute from your Avy pic, and you must be just glowing with happiness right now, for what you are doing... and how much you have already achieved! That subtle shift in self confidence is very very attractive to people!

You are amazing, and deserve all the best in the world!!!! :D Congrats on getting below the 320 mark! awesome work girl!
 
Wow, what an inspiring story, your a fantastic person Miss and you're so pretty, your avator reminds me of my much prettier younger sister. That bus driver obviously saw a good thing! If you think he is hot then go for it!!!
 
Well?! Were you into the guy or not..you never gave your opinion of him. If he's someone you could possibly interested in, may I please ask why you would want to wait until some later time?! Girl you've waited too long already. Everyone deserves some companionship and closeness in life. I'm so glad you are on the road to that. I say stop putting your life on hold while it passes you by.
 
great job on the workouts and weight loss cherry! i am loving all the elliptical users, lol! anyway i was going to to tell you, if you are going for an hour on the elliptical now, one thing that i do to keep the heart rate up is to try to meet a certain distance in an hour. that forces you to keep moving at a steady pace, and your heart rate to stay up. i only change resistance when i can do nine miles in an hour. what i come to realize is that if i don't do it like that, my body will just do a speed it is comfortable with and it becomes too easy. Setting a goal forces you to stay above a certain speeed and it increases endurance as well. I can't even imagine what level 1 resistance feels like now! I am so dreading level 15 today, as i didn't charge my ipod :( anyway, have a great day!
 
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