JadeLynn's Weight Loss Diary

HR monitors are the best even though I no longer wear them as often as I used to (I was wearing it for so long, I now have a pretty good handle on my exertion levels just by observing how hard I'm breathing and sweating.

Keep up the hard work and some day you too may become a mega-star in Germany like the Hoff.
 
Quercus and MrVee you both made me laugh! I'm thinking perhaps you both also watched a bit of Knight Rider like I did back in the day? ;)

I really do like this heart rate monitor! It is fun to watch the number of calories go up and up. I even ran an extra lap today just to see the difference that would make.

I am liking it so much that I ordered one of those basis watches. I won't wear it when I run, I will continue with the hr monitor because that watch doesn't work well with serious workouts according to the instructions, but it will be interesting to see how many I burn during the rest of the day, how many steps I take and also information about my sleep.

I ordered one for my Father too. He lost quite a bit of weight, but I see it is creeping back up. He needs to have surgery in the near future and being thinner will make that easier. So I am hoping that he will get some inspiration from seeing how his body is working throughout the day. I figured I'd need to show him how to use it, so having one too will make that easier.

Today was a good day...I ate pretty well and I had a good workout. Not too shabby for a Monday. Hope everyone else had a good one too!
 
JadeLynn said:
I have been running probably at least 5 times a week since 2008 and can run for 45- 50 minutes at a pretty good pace.
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That is super awesome! I'm really pleased to hear how long you've been running that frequently. It gives me hope.

That's great that you are looking out for your Dad. I hope it benefits him.

Your HR monitor is really cool. Hopefully the technology works well and eventually I can have a GPS watch with HR monitoring without the strap.
 
Quercus said:
That is super awesome! I'm really pleased to hear how long you've been running that frequently. It gives me hope.

That's great that you are looking out for your Dad. I hope it benefits him.

Your HR monitor is really cool. Hopefully the technology works well and eventually I can have a GPS watch with HR monitoring without the strap.
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Thank you Quercus. Running was something I just wanted to 'conquer.' I was a fitness instructor in college, but never a good runner. Exercise has never actually been a big problem for me because I really do like it. I think sugar is my nemesis :banghead: It seems that there are more and more of the watch HR Monitors and no chest strap. I thought it was interesting that TomTom and Garmin make one.

I suppose we all have our struggles, eating healthy is mine, but there is nothing to do, but do it i suppose :)

Today I am wearing my basis watch and it is pretty cool. I had a little bit of a difficult time figuring it out, but once I signed up for the online account, it was pretty easy. Looking forward to finding out about my sleep habits. I will still wear the ePulse when I run since the basis isn't made for vigorous exercise. I really wanted to figure out how to use this thing so that I could show my Dad. Father's Day will be here before we know it!

I did have some junk food today, not too much, but more than I should have. Had a good workout though. Burned 600 calories doing that and then an additional 3942 according to the basis. Not sure if that is good or not though. I have never thought about the calories I burn besides during an actual workout.

I will have to do some research!

Hope everyone had a good day!
 
I have to say that I am having fun with this watch. It was really interesting to see my sleep patterns. I usually only get about 6 hours or so a night, but the quality of the sleep was not bad according to the watch.

Anway...I've still yet to see any significnt weight loss. But I do realize that it will take time.
After a comment that someone made to me I am evern more motivated. I think they meant it as a compliment, but I didn't take it that way. I am wearing a shirt that is a little bit more fitted, I think I had gotten in the habit of buying them too big over the last year. So someone said they liked my shirt because it made me look thinner. Well:

1. I didn't ask you.
2. Please don't comment on my body/looks in a public place in front of others who will also look at me and add their opinion.
3. The shirt does not make me look thinner. It shows my actual shape. It is not a magic shirt.

I'm still used to the person I used to be. The person who people told.."You are so thin!" Although I have never really liked when people said something like that in front of others, I now realize that given the choice I like that option a lot better.

Enough of the pity party. I can fix this!

And here's the catty comment...she is still at least 30 pounds heavier then I am <Meooooow> :biggrinjester:
 
Well today wasn't the best day. Eating was fine, exercise was fine...but I really am pissed about the comment from earlier. And there really is a part of me that wishes I would have told those women exactly how I felt. It would have been different if she had said, "That shirt looks nice on you." But to say "That shirt makes you look thinner." And then the other 2 studying me and nodding their heads in agreement. That I don't get. I mean there were other people around too. It was just embarrassing. It is not as if anyone would ever mistake any of them for a Victoria's Secret Model.

But if I did that or heaven help me gave my opinion about what they were wearing or their shape or their hair or any other thing, then I would have been the rude one.

I really must say that I do, as a general rule, prefer my male co-workers!
 
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I am trying to motivate myself to run for 20 minutes. That is a goal on this darn watch that I 'won' when I reached other fitness goals. I run Monday-Thursday and normally walk 6 miles with weights on Saturday and Sunday. I used to run at least 6 days a week, but time has become a factor with the heat.

According to this watch I have burned 966 calories today. That does include playing with my dogs and some other walking around though, not all from my 6 mile walk or ab workout. It is 10:45 am and I have all ready walked 2766 steps. I have exceeded my goal of 10,000 since I have had the watch, so I suppose I always walk that much, just never knew it.

Well since I do want to lose this weight I suppose I will get to it. I was sitting here earlier trying to figure out what I ate when I was much thinner. I don't remember denying myself anything on a regular basis. I do workout just about every day.

Nothing to do but keep at it all I suppose. Going on vacation in July, will be spending a lot of time in a bikini so even a 5 lb weight loss will be nice! I have a lot of chores to do today, so better stop procrastinating!

Hope everyone is having a good Saturday!
 
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MrVee said:
How's things goin' JadeLynn?
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Hi there MrVee :waving: Things have been going fair I suppose. This is my very busy time at work and I have avoided stress eating for the most part. We have a new 'baker' at work. I am trying to avoid her and her plates of cookies and brownies that she brings to work! Like you have mentioned it is a lot harder to eat well when bad and tempting food is around!

Quercus...that little watch has been keeping me on my toes a bit. Prompting me to meet those goals :)


And I have bought a bike. I have never been a huge fan of bike riding, but Jacob likes to. So I figured I'd get some practice. It is a sturdy 7 speed beach cruiser. My little fur baby enjoys riding in the basket on the handlebars.

Still progress is slooooow!

Hope everyone is doing well!
 
A bike is pretty nice if you a have a good area to ride around with it :). Besides, it doesn't really feel like exercise, does it? You could burn a lot of extra calories that way without even noticing it.

I hope you're doing well too Jade! Keep on going! :)
 
Bikes are fun! I can't ride mine because of my back. My dogs don't have enough sense to ride in a basket. They are sweet, but far from bright. One has a tendency to run into walls and the other falls off of furniture. Slow progress is PROGRESS! Hang in there!
 
Well guys...I feel like a bit of a failure. I have not lost any weight in almost a year. i exercise every single day and often the kind of exercise where I am dripping wet and exhausted. I burned almost 800 calories during my workout yesterday and 700 today. I have this nifty HR Monitor and health tracker watch. But I EAT JUNK! I have turned in to a terrible stress eater! I eat to ignore my emotions and lately I have been having a very hard time not getting stressed out!

My stress is my job. I'm sure just about everyone who works has a very stressful job, but I think that there are people who deal with that better. I think I used to deal with it better and then I honestly do not know what happened.

I'm also rather odd because I tend to gain weight in the summer. This heat is a killer and I just seem to get so much more irritated by things. It was 101 F today.

I'm not going to start a new thread...because that is what I do with my diet. Each day is a supposed to be a 'new day.' But it is not! It is a continuation from the previous day. So I am going to try to learn to break this habit in this diary..where I said I was going to do so.

Funny...I so often thing..."I'd do anything to weigh what I used to weigh." Hmmm really because I do have the power to do this 'anything' which is simply stop going and grabbing handfuls of junk when I'm stressed/unhappy/angry etc. but yet I have not. Sigh!
 
Welcome back JadeLynn.

Try to be only as hard on yourself as you need to be for motivation, but don't beat yourself up too bad. Ultimately you'll need to believe in yourself a bit to achieve your goals. So chalk up the 'junk' to a momentary mistake rather than some sort of "personal failing."

You can try, when you find yourself reaching for food for whatever reason, reaching for something that won't do as much caloric damage: like a pickle or something.

Either way it's good to have you back. Your PMs a few months ago really helped me get over what was becoming a tough time for me mentally. So I very much appreciated that.
 
Thank you so much for your kind words MrVee! I think many of us here find you to be such a source of inspiration. When I feel like quitting I do think about how you stuck with this and got such amazing results!

And to all of you who keep at it, that also makes me want to as well.

I am a perfectionist, black and white thinker all or nothing person. And so when I feel like I fail, then it seems to make it very hard to 'dig myself out' and keep going.

I left work a little early today. I did not see my boss who I really do think is emotionally unbalanced and creates a lot of chaos. I noticed I had no urge to reach for junk. It is difficult to know how to avoid her, even her emails stress me out, on a regular basis. My former boss, who retired, was a very calm and rational person.

So I began to think of something called distress tolerance. When I began running, there was a point where I had to learn to push through the pain that running can cause. Sometimes my lungs would burn and sometimes my legs were tired. But as I began to push through it, I sort of developed a tolerance for it. When you are working out there is a point when you really can go beyond that distress, I am not talking about serious pain, torn or strained muscles...nothing like that. Just the discomfort that comes as a natural part of pushing yourself. This morning it was about 100F and I knew it would be tough to run, but I pushed through. Did my 5 miles and burned 600 calories.

So I think that with situations where it is more about feeling emotional stress/anxiety...I need to learn to tolerate those distressing feelings. Maybe if I think about it like running, it will help.

I have also made a list of rules. I am pretty good with structure. And maybe when I don't give myself that structure I flounder more.

Some of my rules are:

Do not eat when you first walk through the door from work. Wait until you have changed, taken care of the dogs and are ready to eat a proper meal...not just junk food snacking. <This one will be hard for me at times>

Do not eat anything after dinner except 1 small low calorie snack (around 150 calories) Like MrVee suggested, nothing that will do a lot of caloric damage.

When upset sit quietly and try to think of something pleasant. Do not eat when upset, wait until you are calm. <This one will be really hard for me at times.>

Go to bed by 10:30 pm during the week. Exercise by 5:15 am at the latest, shower by 6:30pm. Eat breakfast before you leave.

Some of these are for specific reasons, ensuring I'm not rushed..which stresses me out etc.

And I am going back to a food journal. Seeing what I eat on paper helps. I got lazy and also probably just didn't want to face what I was going to have to write down.

So we will see how this works.

Hope you are all doing well!
 
Welcome back! You have some great plans for succeeding. Nice run. 5 miles is tough anyway, but in 100+ is awful. Great job!
 
Thank you Quercus! Unfortunately it rained this morning, but I did a DVD. I'm feeling a bit sore, so maybe that was a good thing.

I wrote down everything I ate today, what time and even how I was feeling. The past 2 days have not been stressful and so then it is not as hard for me to eat well. When I was on vacation I lost 6 pounds, just because I wasn't stressed out. I also worked out every day. But I work out every day not on vacation and don't lose weight. Who loses weight on vacation, that is usually when a person puts on a couple pounds!

So today was a good day, but now it is bed time.

Good night all!
 
Unfortunately I have not been as good about coming on here as I'd hoped, but I do have a semi good excuse. Work has been really tough and there could be some people getting laid off.

I think I have weathered the stress better than I usually would, as far as eating goes, but I haven't been as good as I would have liked to be. I did pretty well with moderation. Like I really wanted a snickers bar, so I ate one. What I have been doing is not eating the snickers bar, but eating everything else in site and probably having more calories. So I am trying to not just put things on the 'bad list' because then I actually eat more.

I work with a woman who went on this special 24 day diet. She was about 5'8" and before her diet I'd say 130 pounds. So she was all ready pretty thin. Well she has now lost 14 pounds and gone down 2 pants sizes. In less than a month. Of course the diet was expensive, lots of supplements and protein shakes, absolutely no sugar. She was like a 4 cans of soda kind of day person. She decided to do this, did it and voila...down 14 pounds. Maybe I will be inspired.

Hope everyone is doing well!!
 
I hope things smooth out at work. Layoffs are always a terrible time. I've been there and done that and I feel for you.
 
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