Hi everyone! To those of you who don't know me, my name is Maiko. I'm a fourth year university student in the US. I joined this site at the beginning of summer and had some great success, but unfortunately rebounded a bit. And anyway, I'm starting another one of these little journal threads.
I made a second one, planning on getting off to an awesome start at the beginning of the school semester, but... let's just say, I've had a rather rocky start re-adjusting to the college lifestyle! >< So I felt it would be more appropriate to start a different thread, now that I've adjusted my goals and my plan a bit.
I hadn't weighed myself for about a month, but I got back out the scale, and it read a shocking 67kg. That's inflated a bit, since it's TOM and I admittedly binged quite a bit yesterday. But it's still a lot higher than I would have thought! My clothes are not fitting too differently, but it's still noticeable. I'll take official "starting" measurements tomorrow, after I've de-bloated a bit!
Anyway, my goal for this fall, which I am defining as the next three months, September through November, is going to be 55kg. So a loss of about 10kg; for those of you who like pounds better, thats about 22lb. If I don't quite make it, that's okay too. 55kg is my goal weight which I would like to be at by the end of the year, and ideally I would reach it early with a little cushion for the holidays. ^^
That said, here's my revised eating and exercise plan:
1. Eat about 1500 calories per day, in about 3 meals. The usual plan I've evolved out is something like this:
breakfast- protein shake, with whey powder and a banana
lunch- turkey or tuna sandwich with a can of V8
dinner- some kind of protein with lots of vegetables
Plus snacks, lots of cheese. ^^;
I wish I could do 5-6 meals like I did over the summer, but it is just not permitting with my class and work schedule! So some days I literally only have about 3 times at which I can eat, unfortunately. But that's OK- I've just got to plan for it and eat more that those times so I don't get overly hungry!
2. On alternate mornings, do either: run 5k plus strength training / 30-60 minutes of yoga.
I was hoping to be able to get in 60 minutes of cardio every day, but the problem is that I can't get to a gym with an elliptical machine due to parking limitations, so all I have access to is a treadmill, which I don't want to overdo it on to protect my knees. Plus, one thing about me is, I absolutely cannot do alarm clocks. If I wake myself up before my body is ready, and/or get less than 9 hours of sleep every night, I am much less happy and get awful bags under my eyes, haha. So since I prefer to do all my exercise in the morning, I'll just be under some time constraint.
But I also do a lot more walking around during the school year, just going around campus during the day, so it should help out.
And that's about it on the weightloss front, really!
I'm also going to try to post here every day, update on myself and comment on someone else's diary. ^^ Also, will continue drinking lots of tea when I've got the time, and continue trying desparately to drink more water.
Thanks to anyone who reads for following along!
I made a second one, planning on getting off to an awesome start at the beginning of the school semester, but... let's just say, I've had a rather rocky start re-adjusting to the college lifestyle! >< So I felt it would be more appropriate to start a different thread, now that I've adjusted my goals and my plan a bit.
I hadn't weighed myself for about a month, but I got back out the scale, and it read a shocking 67kg. That's inflated a bit, since it's TOM and I admittedly binged quite a bit yesterday. But it's still a lot higher than I would have thought! My clothes are not fitting too differently, but it's still noticeable. I'll take official "starting" measurements tomorrow, after I've de-bloated a bit!
Anyway, my goal for this fall, which I am defining as the next three months, September through November, is going to be 55kg. So a loss of about 10kg; for those of you who like pounds better, thats about 22lb. If I don't quite make it, that's okay too. 55kg is my goal weight which I would like to be at by the end of the year, and ideally I would reach it early with a little cushion for the holidays. ^^
That said, here's my revised eating and exercise plan:
1. Eat about 1500 calories per day, in about 3 meals. The usual plan I've evolved out is something like this:
breakfast- protein shake, with whey powder and a banana
lunch- turkey or tuna sandwich with a can of V8
dinner- some kind of protein with lots of vegetables
Plus snacks, lots of cheese. ^^;
I wish I could do 5-6 meals like I did over the summer, but it is just not permitting with my class and work schedule! So some days I literally only have about 3 times at which I can eat, unfortunately. But that's OK- I've just got to plan for it and eat more that those times so I don't get overly hungry!
2. On alternate mornings, do either: run 5k plus strength training / 30-60 minutes of yoga.
I was hoping to be able to get in 60 minutes of cardio every day, but the problem is that I can't get to a gym with an elliptical machine due to parking limitations, so all I have access to is a treadmill, which I don't want to overdo it on to protect my knees. Plus, one thing about me is, I absolutely cannot do alarm clocks. If I wake myself up before my body is ready, and/or get less than 9 hours of sleep every night, I am much less happy and get awful bags under my eyes, haha. So since I prefer to do all my exercise in the morning, I'll just be under some time constraint.
But I also do a lot more walking around during the school year, just going around campus during the day, so it should help out.
And that's about it on the weightloss front, really!
I'm also going to try to post here every day, update on myself and comment on someone else's diary. ^^ Also, will continue drinking lots of tea when I've got the time, and continue trying desparately to drink more water.
Thanks to anyone who reads for following along!
Good luck!!