Losing it
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Risty
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Yeah I understand what you mean. I only wanted to weight myself once a week, but I end up doing it every morning, just to make sure I'm still in the right direction, and not gaining anything! So yeah, I feel like I'm overdoing it just a tad, but hey, at least I don't weight myself multiple times a day.
I get my mom to do my measurements every 10 pounds I lose. So in a couple more pounds (at 165) will be my next measurement. She measures around my chest, waist, lower abdomen, hips, thigh (upper - basically the biggest part of my thigh
), calf, and upper arm. I think that's everything. We have a measurement chart on paper that she writes it on. But yeah, I find it easier for her to do it for me than to do it myself... plus... I might cheat and make it too tight J/k! It's been a while since my last measurement seeing as I was stuck at 175 forever! So I'm excited to see how much I've lost in inches when I get to 165. From the last time I got measured and I can't quite remember the total inches but it's something between 12-16 inches total or something. So I can't wait for the next total!
Anyways, I hope you have a great day and keep up the good work.
I get my mom to do my measurements every 10 pounds I lose. So in a couple more pounds (at 165) will be my next measurement. She measures around my chest, waist, lower abdomen, hips, thigh (upper - basically the biggest part of my thigh
), calf, and upper arm. I think that's everything. We have a measurement chart on paper that she writes it on. But yeah, I find it easier for her to do it for me than to do it myself... plus... I might cheat and make it too tight J/k! It's been a while since my last measurement seeing as I was stuck at 175 forever! So I'm excited to see how much I've lost in inches when I get to 165. From the last time I got measured and I can't quite remember the total inches but it's something between 12-16 inches total or something. So I can't wait for the next total!Anyways, I hope you have a great day and keep up the good work.
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Hello there my fellow springer. Here wishing you luck with the challenge.
rashmi
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Neither can i. I was advised to to weigh myself once a week coz weight fluctuates on a daily basis. But i need my scales fix everymorning!! The ecstacy ( i call it scales orgasm) on the day the scales show that i've lost weight far outweigh the disappointments on the other days!!
have a nice day!
I feel a thousand times better than I did when I first came here. I think it's partly because all the exercise I'm doing is making me feel good, and spring has really come here and the sun's out and it's warm and lovely. But a lot of it, I think, is because I'm doing something positive about it, and that makes me feel better about myself.
I'll be starting my new job three weeks today, and I'm going to be a bus driver, which should be fun. I have to do 2/3 weeks training first, to get my licence, then I'll have someone with me for the first couple of months on the job, but after that it will just be me, on my own, with my bus and my passengers. I can't wait. (Well, I can because it will upset my exercise routine, but I am looking forward to it, and the money will be nice too.)
Hi Alibran
Congratulations on losing so much weight already! I'm trying to up my exercise level to yours, as you're doing so well. I just wanted to stop in and say hello and nice job
Thanks
Bear in mind I'm not working at the moment. Things may have to change when I start my new job. But the exercise is really great. The main reason I exercise so much is because I love my food. The more I exercise, the more I can eat. So .... lots of exercise.
And I still love the gym. It's becoming my second home.
Today was the warmest day of the year so far - officially, they said so on the weather forecast. But tomorrow is not going to be so good, apparently, nor Wednesday, but Thursday is going to be better again. Typical, since L has tomorrow and Wednesday off work and I want to go for the long walk we've been planning. If we don't do it in the next three weeks, it will be ages before we get to do it at all because once I start my job we won't get any days off together for a while. And it will take us a good few hours to walk all the way to the beach and back.
Anyway, I went to the gym this morning. For the first time, it was actually dry enough to walk across the fields to the gym in my white trainers, which is quite scary really. It's only the beginning of April and there's hardly any mud at all. I know this is our first spring here, but I'm sure it should be wetter than this. Water shortages are a terrible thing. I think I'll have to look for a spot to put a water butt, so we can make the most of any rain there is.
Gym was good. I met the PT who did my induction (she was doing a fitness review for someone else) and she didn't mention that I didn't seem to be following the plan she had made up for me. She had put me down for less than 30 minutes of cardio, and I was doing 60, and I'd more than doubled the weight she told me I should be lifting (and it needs increasing again because some of the lifts are becoming very easy). She asked how I was getting on, so I said great, and I was pushing myself a lot harder than I had when I started.
I was talking to one of the other women there about the bike-with-the-arms, as I call it. I hate the thing, but I have started using it for 20 minutes as part of my cardio workout because I've figured if I find it that bad, it must be doing me some good. I checked my heart rate when I got off it today, and it was only 138, and I'd felt as if I was going to die. She asked me what my heart rate was like when I first started, and I said, "I couldn't have done 20 minutes on it when I first started," which made me realise how far my fitness is coming on.
Now might be a good time to detail my current routine, since it seems to be fairly settled:
Monday - 30 mins resistance, 1 hour cardio
Tuesday - 1 hour 20 mins cardio
Wednesday - rest
Thursday - 30 mins resistance, 1 hour cardio
Friday - 1 hour 20 mins cardio
Saturday - 30 mins resistance, 1 hour cardio
Sunday - 1 hour 20 mins cardio
Cardio is made up of:
Treadmill - 20 mins interval training using gradient (speed 3.6 mph, gradient 2.5 to 8.5)
Bike-with-arms - 20 mins steady 17mph
Elliptical - 20 mins level 6, "effort" 90 (whatever that means)
I'm gradually increasing the speed on the treadmill to get to 4 mph, the speed on the bike to get to 20mph, and the level on the elliptical as it starts to get easier. On my 1 hour 20 mins days, I usually do an extra 20 mins on the treadmill.
Some cardio only days are replaced with a walk of at least 1 hour 30 mins, if the weather's nice. This is not a relaxing kind of walk. I try to average 3mph, even though some of the hills are so steep you're practically climbing up them.
Resistance training is all using the fixed equipment at the moment because that's what I was taught and I'm still getting used to it. I want to move on to free weights before too long because that's what Steve would recommend and Steve's a really-cool-guy-who-knows-a-lot, but I want to make sure I know what I'm doing first because: a) I don't want to look like an idiot, and b) if I drop something on my foot and break my toes I'll have a hard time exercising at all.
Back to my day today .... I'd done my workout, made a half hearted attempted at some housework, played with my beautiful cat in the garden for a while, and was looking forward to a nice relaxing evening, when L came home from work and said, "Let's go for a walk." So, off we went for an hour's non-relaxing kind of walk. I had just eaten one of L's lemon cakes, so that was probably a good thing.
Life is pretty good at the moment.
Anyway, I went to the gym this morning. For the first time, it was actually dry enough to walk across the fields to the gym in my white trainers, which is quite scary really. It's only the beginning of April and there's hardly any mud at all. I know this is our first spring here, but I'm sure it should be wetter than this. Water shortages are a terrible thing. I think I'll have to look for a spot to put a water butt, so we can make the most of any rain there is.
Gym was good. I met the PT who did my induction (she was doing a fitness review for someone else) and she didn't mention that I didn't seem to be following the plan she had made up for me. She had put me down for less than 30 minutes of cardio, and I was doing 60, and I'd more than doubled the weight she told me I should be lifting (and it needs increasing again because some of the lifts are becoming very easy). She asked how I was getting on, so I said great, and I was pushing myself a lot harder than I had when I started.
I was talking to one of the other women there about the bike-with-the-arms, as I call it. I hate the thing, but I have started using it for 20 minutes as part of my cardio workout because I've figured if I find it that bad, it must be doing me some good. I checked my heart rate when I got off it today, and it was only 138, and I'd felt as if I was going to die. She asked me what my heart rate was like when I first started, and I said, "I couldn't have done 20 minutes on it when I first started," which made me realise how far my fitness is coming on.
Now might be a good time to detail my current routine, since it seems to be fairly settled:
Monday - 30 mins resistance, 1 hour cardio
Tuesday - 1 hour 20 mins cardio
Wednesday - rest
Thursday - 30 mins resistance, 1 hour cardio
Friday - 1 hour 20 mins cardio
Saturday - 30 mins resistance, 1 hour cardio
Sunday - 1 hour 20 mins cardio
Cardio is made up of:
Treadmill - 20 mins interval training using gradient (speed 3.6 mph, gradient 2.5 to 8.5)
Bike-with-arms - 20 mins steady 17mph
Elliptical - 20 mins level 6, "effort" 90 (whatever that means)
I'm gradually increasing the speed on the treadmill to get to 4 mph, the speed on the bike to get to 20mph, and the level on the elliptical as it starts to get easier. On my 1 hour 20 mins days, I usually do an extra 20 mins on the treadmill.
Some cardio only days are replaced with a walk of at least 1 hour 30 mins, if the weather's nice. This is not a relaxing kind of walk. I try to average 3mph, even though some of the hills are so steep you're practically climbing up them.
Resistance training is all using the fixed equipment at the moment because that's what I was taught and I'm still getting used to it. I want to move on to free weights before too long because that's what Steve would recommend and Steve's a really-cool-guy-who-knows-a-lot, but I want to make sure I know what I'm doing first because: a) I don't want to look like an idiot, and b) if I drop something on my foot and break my toes I'll have a hard time exercising at all.
Back to my day today .... I'd done my workout, made a half hearted attempted at some housework, played with my beautiful cat in the garden for a while, and was looking forward to a nice relaxing evening, when L came home from work and said, "Let's go for a walk." So, off we went for an hour's non-relaxing kind of walk. I had just eaten one of L's lemon cakes, so that was probably a good thing.
Life is pretty good at the moment.
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Risty
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Wow. That's all I have to say! You're doing such a great job on the exercise! And true, having the time makes it a lot easier (with not working yet) but it still takes the drive to actually go and do it, and you're doing awesome!
I lost a lot of my weight just by changing my diet, and now I'm getting into the exercise and so it's hard for me. Seeing your elliptical at level 6 was like omg! I can do level 2... I haven't tried anything harder yet because level 2 is plenty hard if I want to do it long enough. However, I don't do the elliptical often enough to improve on it.. so... that kinda puts me in a rut!
I find it really inspiring how you're increasing your exercises and doing great at them. Makes me realize that I need to step it up some. I was slacking a little last week. At least today I made myself do level 2 on the bike, which is really hard for me, but I took it 5 minutes at a time and everytime I finished that 5 mins I thought to myself... yeah I can do another 5.. next thing I know it's 30 mins later! So, I know I need to believe more in myself and just push it harder even though it feels like I'm in hell
I'm glad you're feeling really great! Exercise really does make you feel great and puts you in a great mood for the rest of the day.
Keep it up, you're doing so great!
I lost a lot of my weight just by changing my diet, and now I'm getting into the exercise and so it's hard for me. Seeing your elliptical at level 6 was like omg! I can do level 2... I haven't tried anything harder yet because level 2 is plenty hard if I want to do it long enough. However, I don't do the elliptical often enough to improve on it.. so... that kinda puts me in a rut!
I find it really inspiring how you're increasing your exercises and doing great at them. Makes me realize that I need to step it up some. I was slacking a little last week. At least today I made myself do level 2 on the bike, which is really hard for me, but I took it 5 minutes at a time and everytime I finished that 5 mins I thought to myself... yeah I can do another 5.. next thing I know it's 30 mins later! So, I know I need to believe more in myself and just push it harder even though it feels like I'm in hell
I'm glad you're feeling really great! Exercise really does make you feel great and puts you in a great mood for the rest of the day.
Keep it up, you're doing so great!
I just found out today that my beautiful boy is going to have to have most of his teeth out. He's got something called odontoclastic resorptive lesions, which basically means his teeth are disintegrating from the roots outwards. Apparently it's really painful, but he must have had it for ages and he hasn't shown any signs of it, apart from a bit of discomfort with his mouth sometimes when he's playing, and I always thought that was because he'd bitten something sharp.
I know he's only eight, and that isn't that old, and the vet checked his heart and said he's fine, but I'm still worried about the anaesthetic. And we've only been here a few months, it's a new vet who I don't really know, although he seems nice, and he took his time talking to me about what would be involved. I've thought about taking him back "home" to the vet he's known since he was a kitten for the operation, but it's a 3 hour drive and I know that wouldn't be fair on him either. He's a good traveller, but a 3 hour journey when he's still feeling weird after the anaesthetic would be horrible for him. Why couldn't this have happened before we moved?
Isn't it amazing how you can go from feeling so great to feeling so low? I know it isn't a major operation. Loads of cats have their teeth out and they're fine, but I'm so worried about him. I just wish it would all go away, but I know it won't. If I don't have the operation done, it will just get worse. L says we should be glad that it's just teeth and nothing worse, but that doesn't make it any easier.
At least I don't feel like eating.
I know he's only eight, and that isn't that old, and the vet checked his heart and said he's fine, but I'm still worried about the anaesthetic. And we've only been here a few months, it's a new vet who I don't really know, although he seems nice, and he took his time talking to me about what would be involved. I've thought about taking him back "home" to the vet he's known since he was a kitten for the operation, but it's a 3 hour drive and I know that wouldn't be fair on him either. He's a good traveller, but a 3 hour journey when he's still feeling weird after the anaesthetic would be horrible for him. Why couldn't this have happened before we moved?
Isn't it amazing how you can go from feeling so great to feeling so low? I know it isn't a major operation. Loads of cats have their teeth out and they're fine, but I'm so worried about him. I just wish it would all go away, but I know it won't. If I don't have the operation done, it will just get worse. L says we should be glad that it's just teeth and nothing worse, but that doesn't make it any easier.
At least I don't feel like eating.
M2M
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I'm so sorry to hear about your kitty's teeth - but it is a GOOD thing to have done.
I had a cat that I should have done this for - and didn't. He lived until he was 19 and probably would have lived much longer - but the teeth decay caused blood poisoning.
He'll be ok - and have a much healthier life in the long run because of what you're doing for him!
I had a cat that I should have done this for - and didn't. He lived until he was 19 and probably would have lived much longer - but the teeth decay caused blood poisoning.
He'll be ok - and have a much healthier life in the long run because of what you're doing for him!
ddiana212000
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Just wishing you all my best wishes with your kitty situation.
Thanks, all of you. I feel a bit better this morning. It was just such a shock yesterday. I only took him to the vet to have his claws cut, and asked the vet to check his teeth while he was there because it hadn't been done for a while. It felt like I went in with a healthy cat and came home with a sick one. But nothing has changed for him. He still slept all last night snuggled with me on the bed like he usually does, and he still tried to stop me getting up this morning. And I'm sure he'll want me to go in the garden with him when I come back from the gym, just like usual. I'll phone the vet later to book the operation. For the moment, I'm just trying to keep things as normal as possible.