Hello, all, I'm glad to have found this place and I'm hoping with keeping an on-line workout journal that I will gain the support of others. I tried keeping one on shape.com, but found out that nobody really uses it anymore. I will copy and paste the last few days on here.
Posted 24 July 2012 - 10:55 PM
I've wanted to start exercising again and haven't had the motivation to do so and so, I'm hoping with all of you reading my posts will help with that. Right now my stats are:
Height: 5'3"
Weight: 165 lbs
Age: 30
I want to get down to 130-140 lbs. There was one time back in high school when I got up to 150 lbs and decided to lose the weight, but I realized I was restricting myself too much on my diet. I would bring a ham and cheese sandwich, light mayo, something like 3 SnackWell devil's food cake cookies and an apple to school everyday and I don't remember how long it took me to do that to lose the weight. I was up to, I think, size 12 jeans and when I lost the weight, I was at size 9 jeans.
I've also had a job where I was on my feet for at least 8 hrs a day and now since I'm not working, I don't move around so much. I did try starting a fitness routine where I would walk/run for at least 30 minutes a day about 4-5 days a week, but that didn't stick so well. And since I don't move around so much, after trying that, my knees hurt like hell, or really, right below my knee and right above my shins. So, I had to stop for nearly a week to let them recover. I know I tried to push myself too hard for the first time after not exercising for a long time.
Another thing that kinda annoys me, too, right now, is that I barely have any room to move around in my bedroom. And also, living in a trailer, it bounces the floor too much if I jump around. I would love to get some workout dvds to do in my room, but because of all that, that makes it nearly impossible.
I do have dumbells to use: 1, 3 and 5 lb dumbells. And I pretty much have the idea of what exercises I want to do for strength training, getting ideas from different websites. And also, I got a pedometer to use when I do my walking, but I don't think it's that accurate. But, at least I get the basic idea of how long I'm walking, since it has a clock on it, too.
I think I'm going to take out that workout routine I made and get going on that again. I will start walking first before trying to jog again. I hope I will get yall's support on my endeavor!
Posted 25 July 2012 - 07:01 PM
I do kinda have a job, but it's not really. I drive someone I know's husband to dialysis 3 days a week and get paid $100 to do it. They provide the car and gas and some lunch money, too, which with the lunch, I am grateful for. I've been drinking a lot of soda on those days, which is Monday, Wednesday and Friday. So, today, I started to drink more tea than soda. I will allow myself one soda a day, since I don't like to eat breakfast, it never sits right in my stomach first thing in the morning, but I can't live without coffee!
I only got 5 hrs of sleep last night. Tried to sleep for about 3 hrs with no success, finally fell asleep and had to get up at 8:30 in the morning for the job. I get back home at around 5 pm and I was thinking yesterday, I wanted to, when I got home, go back out and do my walk, but I don't function very well on so little sleep. So, now it's 8:00 at night and I am just exhausted. Probably gonna make an early night of it tonight. Tomorrow, will be a new day, so I want to do my walk then. Btw, I don't like to say "try". If I say that, I KNOW I'll make up some excuse not to!
Posted 28 July 2012 - 02:01 AM
Man, excuses, excuses...the weather outside is getting up to almost 100 degrees during the day and I ended up taking a nap again today for a couple of hours. The weekend I have nothing to do, so I might brave the heat and just go outside and do it! The only thing I want to do is take my turtle out for some natural sunlight (I own a baby red ear slider). I try to do that at least 3-4 hrs once a week, but I pretty much have to babysit, since I have to use ice bags to keep the water temperature cool and have to change those out every 30-45 mins. We'll just have to see how that turns out.
And I may not be doing the driving thing, he just got a call for a heart and kidney transplant. I hope that goes well for him. The only downside is I won't have a job.
Posted 28 July 2012 - 09:16 PM
So, I didn't get to take the turtle out today, helped my hubby, instead, putting the gas tank back on the truck. It needed a new fuel pump. And it definitely was freakin hot! So, I definitely do some sweating today. But, I did decide to do a walk today! Walked for an hour: 30 min one direction, 30 min back. According to my pedometer I did 7068 steps, 3.346 miles and burned 190.8 calories. I always forget how good it feels to sweat and get the heart pumping! It was much later in the day, too, an hour before the sun was setting, so it was pretty cool outside, too. Definitely not a morning person and that would be the only other time it would be cool enough outside. I also did some ab exercises:
Bicycle crunches: 3 sets of 20 reps
Reverse crunches: 3 sets of 20 reps
Regular crunches: 3 sets of 20 reps
I also tried doing the plank and side plank, but man, are those hard! I also heard of an exercise called dumbell side bends where you hold a dumbell in each hand and bend sideways to work the obliques, but I was using 5 lb dumbells and I don't feel any kind of burn doing those. Also, I did a few leg raises where you sit on the edge of a chair and lift your legs up to work the lower abs.
I definitely want to continue walking at least 4-5 times a week and try to pick up the pace today, so I'm walking briskly enough to burn some more calories.
Posted Yesterday, 11:27 AM
I realized after the fact when I took my walk that my pedometer reverted back to the default settings cuz the backing to the battery came loose and reset all my settings! The default settings are that you weigh 100 lbs and have a 30 in stride length! Eesh...So, I went ahead and reprogrammed it and will have a much different reading today! And I wasn't happy about another thing...I weighed myself this morning and now I weigh 170 lbs! I was like OMG...not good not good...Well, when I was taking the guy to dialysis, he loved to get glazed donuts from the donut shop in town and always offered me a couple. For someone who doesn't do breakfast very well, I couldn't resist, even though I really don't like donuts all that much. And I was drinking way too much soda, too. It was only after that first day that I decided to start drinking more tea, did I stop drinking so much soda. I guess it hurt, big time.
But, I do have a feeling that I might be pregnant, haven't had one yet and there's only been a couple of times in life when my dreams came true. But, on the same morning that I dreamt that my period would start a couple of weeks ago, and it did start, that I also dreamt at the same time that I was pregnant. So, I definitely shouldn't dismiss it. I'll be getting a pregnancy test, soon, to see what happens with that.
Posted Today, 12:33 AM
So, I took another walk today for an hour, I did 5221 steps, 1.483 miles and burned 256 calories. And man, did I feel like I was sweating a lot more this time! It may have been just a little bit warmer this time. Still did it from 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm, right before it was getting dark outside.
"End of old journal entries"
I'm sorry to anybody who reads this that it's so long, but I wanted to make sure I got it down to keep for records.
Also, today, when I went out in the car, I wanted to see about how accurate my pedometer is and it's about 1.7 miles to go 30 mins in one direction. I did cut back about 5 mins early that last day because I should've gotten out for my walk probably about 15 mins earlier than I should have and the sun was starting to come down and there is no streetlights on our street.
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Posted 24 July 2012 - 10:55 PM
I've wanted to start exercising again and haven't had the motivation to do so and so, I'm hoping with all of you reading my posts will help with that. Right now my stats are:
Height: 5'3"
Weight: 165 lbs
Age: 30
I want to get down to 130-140 lbs. There was one time back in high school when I got up to 150 lbs and decided to lose the weight, but I realized I was restricting myself too much on my diet. I would bring a ham and cheese sandwich, light mayo, something like 3 SnackWell devil's food cake cookies and an apple to school everyday and I don't remember how long it took me to do that to lose the weight. I was up to, I think, size 12 jeans and when I lost the weight, I was at size 9 jeans.
I've also had a job where I was on my feet for at least 8 hrs a day and now since I'm not working, I don't move around so much. I did try starting a fitness routine where I would walk/run for at least 30 minutes a day about 4-5 days a week, but that didn't stick so well. And since I don't move around so much, after trying that, my knees hurt like hell, or really, right below my knee and right above my shins. So, I had to stop for nearly a week to let them recover. I know I tried to push myself too hard for the first time after not exercising for a long time.
Another thing that kinda annoys me, too, right now, is that I barely have any room to move around in my bedroom. And also, living in a trailer, it bounces the floor too much if I jump around. I would love to get some workout dvds to do in my room, but because of all that, that makes it nearly impossible.
I do have dumbells to use: 1, 3 and 5 lb dumbells. And I pretty much have the idea of what exercises I want to do for strength training, getting ideas from different websites. And also, I got a pedometer to use when I do my walking, but I don't think it's that accurate. But, at least I get the basic idea of how long I'm walking, since it has a clock on it, too.
I think I'm going to take out that workout routine I made and get going on that again. I will start walking first before trying to jog again. I hope I will get yall's support on my endeavor!
Posted 25 July 2012 - 07:01 PM
I do kinda have a job, but it's not really. I drive someone I know's husband to dialysis 3 days a week and get paid $100 to do it. They provide the car and gas and some lunch money, too, which with the lunch, I am grateful for. I've been drinking a lot of soda on those days, which is Monday, Wednesday and Friday. So, today, I started to drink more tea than soda. I will allow myself one soda a day, since I don't like to eat breakfast, it never sits right in my stomach first thing in the morning, but I can't live without coffee!
I only got 5 hrs of sleep last night. Tried to sleep for about 3 hrs with no success, finally fell asleep and had to get up at 8:30 in the morning for the job. I get back home at around 5 pm and I was thinking yesterday, I wanted to, when I got home, go back out and do my walk, but I don't function very well on so little sleep. So, now it's 8:00 at night and I am just exhausted. Probably gonna make an early night of it tonight. Tomorrow, will be a new day, so I want to do my walk then. Btw, I don't like to say "try". If I say that, I KNOW I'll make up some excuse not to!
Posted 28 July 2012 - 02:01 AM
Man, excuses, excuses...the weather outside is getting up to almost 100 degrees during the day and I ended up taking a nap again today for a couple of hours. The weekend I have nothing to do, so I might brave the heat and just go outside and do it! The only thing I want to do is take my turtle out for some natural sunlight (I own a baby red ear slider). I try to do that at least 3-4 hrs once a week, but I pretty much have to babysit, since I have to use ice bags to keep the water temperature cool and have to change those out every 30-45 mins. We'll just have to see how that turns out.
And I may not be doing the driving thing, he just got a call for a heart and kidney transplant. I hope that goes well for him. The only downside is I won't have a job.
Posted 28 July 2012 - 09:16 PM
So, I didn't get to take the turtle out today, helped my hubby, instead, putting the gas tank back on the truck. It needed a new fuel pump. And it definitely was freakin hot! So, I definitely do some sweating today. But, I did decide to do a walk today! Walked for an hour: 30 min one direction, 30 min back. According to my pedometer I did 7068 steps, 3.346 miles and burned 190.8 calories. I always forget how good it feels to sweat and get the heart pumping! It was much later in the day, too, an hour before the sun was setting, so it was pretty cool outside, too. Definitely not a morning person and that would be the only other time it would be cool enough outside. I also did some ab exercises:
Bicycle crunches: 3 sets of 20 reps
Reverse crunches: 3 sets of 20 reps
Regular crunches: 3 sets of 20 reps
I also tried doing the plank and side plank, but man, are those hard! I also heard of an exercise called dumbell side bends where you hold a dumbell in each hand and bend sideways to work the obliques, but I was using 5 lb dumbells and I don't feel any kind of burn doing those. Also, I did a few leg raises where you sit on the edge of a chair and lift your legs up to work the lower abs.
I definitely want to continue walking at least 4-5 times a week and try to pick up the pace today, so I'm walking briskly enough to burn some more calories.
Posted Yesterday, 11:27 AM
I realized after the fact when I took my walk that my pedometer reverted back to the default settings cuz the backing to the battery came loose and reset all my settings! The default settings are that you weigh 100 lbs and have a 30 in stride length! Eesh...So, I went ahead and reprogrammed it and will have a much different reading today! And I wasn't happy about another thing...I weighed myself this morning and now I weigh 170 lbs! I was like OMG...not good not good...Well, when I was taking the guy to dialysis, he loved to get glazed donuts from the donut shop in town and always offered me a couple. For someone who doesn't do breakfast very well, I couldn't resist, even though I really don't like donuts all that much. And I was drinking way too much soda, too. It was only after that first day that I decided to start drinking more tea, did I stop drinking so much soda. I guess it hurt, big time.
But, I do have a feeling that I might be pregnant, haven't had one yet and there's only been a couple of times in life when my dreams came true. But, on the same morning that I dreamt that my period would start a couple of weeks ago, and it did start, that I also dreamt at the same time that I was pregnant. So, I definitely shouldn't dismiss it. I'll be getting a pregnancy test, soon, to see what happens with that.
Posted Today, 12:33 AM
So, I took another walk today for an hour, I did 5221 steps, 1.483 miles and burned 256 calories. And man, did I feel like I was sweating a lot more this time! It may have been just a little bit warmer this time. Still did it from 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm, right before it was getting dark outside.
"End of old journal entries"
I'm sorry to anybody who reads this that it's so long, but I wanted to make sure I got it down to keep for records.
Also, today, when I went out in the car, I wanted to see about how accurate my pedometer is and it's about 1.7 miles to go 30 mins in one direction. I did cut back about 5 mins early that last day because I should've gotten out for my walk probably about 15 mins earlier than I should have and the sun was starting to come down and there is no streetlights on our street.
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so, that puts me at 2185 cals today.
slept for 4 hrs today, but don't want to go to bed until at least 10 pm, so I keep on a regular schedule, now that I decided I wanted to do my walks in the morning. Will set my alarm for 6 am, sun will come up at around 6:30 and then I will take my walk.