My fitness journal!

Day 38

Today's Weight: 175.2!!!

Yesterday's Diet:

Breakfast: Cereal with blueberries.

Lunch: 1 Sandwich with mustard, lettuce, and turkey breast. 1/2 Sandwich with PB+J, some juice, a peach, an apple, and some carrots

Dinner: Thin steak, potatoes, carrots, coleslaw. I actullay had dessert yesterday for the first time in a while, frozen yogurt and 2 cookies. Damn it was good :p, I don't plan on making it a habit though.

Yesterday's Workout: So I went to the gym yesterday, talked to the manager. I'm only going to be in the province I'm in for another month and they want me to pay 40 dollars for the month membership and 40 dollars for the enrollment fee. I was considering it for a little bit but the gym is crap! It's small, they lack equipment and space. No was Jose! I kind of did a free trial, so I did workout there. Even though it was small it was the best workout I've had since I started exercising. I've weigh lifted before so I went through a chest routine that I did before. Man I've lost so much endurance, I could barely lift my arms for the last set. I was unbelievably tired. I got home at around 9, took a shower, went into bed, chilled on my computer for an hour and fell asleep. So out of gas.

I'll be honest, it was a the best upper body workout than I've had in a long time but I just can't justify paying 80 dollars for 30 days of a gym that's below the standard I've been accustomed to. I'm looking into finding other gyms, maybe closer to my work that I could go before I go to work.

So I'm at 175!! Wow, I made my goal. Where do I go from here... I'm happy with my weight, and I have some good definition. I think I'm just going to keep working out and eating healthy, focus less on losing weight. I want to lose a little bit of belly fat I have left though.
 
I just joined Good Life Fitness for the rest of the summer! It's such a nice gym, very happy I didn't settle with the gym I went to last night. Super excited about it!

I will probably be going in the morning before work so this puts an even bigger emphasis on going to be early since I will have to wake up about an hour before I normally do.

I feel like it's Christmas! So pumped to get my physical endurance back.
 
Snezy said:
Day 14

Today's Weight: 184.4 Told you it was an outlier :p

Yesterday's Diet:

I woke up at noon so I had 2 eggs and two toasts for brunch. Then ate dinner at 6, I had 2 hotdogs and a salad. Had a few chips while playing cards at night time.

Yesterday's Workout: Couldn't motivate myself to workout because I was pretty seriously hungover :p.
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Ha ha - having the same problem myself today!! The thought of exercise is horrific and I want to eat everything in sight! To properly diet I seriously need to completely stop my social life, it's SO hard to incorporate that into healthy eating!! BUT, I won;t consider that, I want to be healthy and thinner, but I also want to be happy and enjoy my life!!

I always find after a couple of days the extra weigh from the alcohol/no exercise and hangover eating shift pretty quickly - thank god, how boring would life be otherwise!!
 
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haha for sure, no point improving your life if you're not living it!

Day 39

Today's Weight: 175.8

Yesterday's Diet:

Breakfast: Cereal with blueberries

Lunch: 1 Sandwich with mustard, lettuce, and turkey breast, 1/2 Sandwich with PB+J, an apple, an orange and some juice. I was still hungry after so I went and got a Spicy mama burger because they were on special for only 2.79! Not a great idea, I didn't feel very well after, I can't handle the grease anymore!

Dinner: Meatloaf, corn, potatoes, coleslaw. Had a rice crispy square for dessert. Dessert 2 days in a row, I'm so bad!

Yesterday's Workout: I didn't workout yesterday because I joined Goodlife Gym and I knew I would be working out this morning, which I did. I'll include this mornings workout in tomorrows post.

Hope everybody is having a great week, almost Friday! :D
 
Day 40

Today's Weight: 176.6

Yesterday's Diet:

Breakfast: Cereal with blueberries and some juice. After the gym I had a muffin and some fruit and yogurt.

Lunch: I tested a game that my cousin is developing and she provided pizza for us for lunch.

Dinner: Had a stir fry with rice and a piece of pork. Was really good, but I think there was a lot of sodium in there, woke up dehydrated today so I think that's why. I also had a rice krispie square, bad!

Yesterday's Workout: So it was my first day at the gym yesterday, I loved it. Such a nice gym, and it works out really nice with my schedule. I have to wake up a bit earlier but it's worth it. I worked my shoulder's and biceps yesterday, then went for a 20 minute run. Was pretty drained after and sore today, so that's good. I'm really excited about this gym! I'm like a kid on Christmas Eve!

My weight went up a bit, probably because the large amount of sodium and just unhealthy food I ate yesterday. I'm going to buckle down again and make sure it don't gain 5 pounds!
 
Congrats on meeting your goal!! I am sure you will do wonderful with the maintenance part!! You worked hard and you know what to do to keep it off!! WAY TO GO!!! :) :)
 
Weekend Update!

Day 41, 42, 43

Today's Weight in: 177.8

Diet: Up 2 pounds! No mystery there though, I did not eat healthy. It was kind of like the celebration of me losing, but I guess that's kind of counter productive. Like having a cigarette to celebrate quitting smoking. But I enjoyed my food and I'm back on track this week. Going to be cooking all my own meels so I should probably get back to 175 again because I cook pretty healthy. Hopefully I'll get there for the Friday weigh in!

Workouts: Didn't happen, went to gym on Friday morning which was good but I wanted to make sure I was rested for this week so I didn't work out on Saturday or Sunday. I plan on going to the gym on every weekday before work so I didn't want to tire myself out too much.

Anyways, hope everyone is enjoying there summer. It's going by so fast!
 
Day 44

Today's Weight: 177.8

Yesterday's Diet: I'm SO ashamed of myself. I binged so hard yesterday, I can't let reaching my goal get to my head! Ugh, I'm so embarrassed, I didn't go up but my workout went to waste. :'( I will not allow myself to gain any more weight! >:|

Yesterday's Workout: I had an amazing workout yesterday, worked chest and tri's yesterday and I was super drained after. I then went for a 3.15 mile run, about 5km on the treadmill in 26 minutes. Yesterday I felt in shape, I pushed myself that run but I wasn't light headed or feeling like I wanted to puke. My muscles were a little tired and I was sweating like a mad men but I felt in control. Very good feeling... I don't know WHY or HOW I binged as far as food goes.

Anyways, I'm amazed that my metabolism is good enough to take in what I ate and not gain weight, maybe I'll see the weight tomorrow. So disappointed in myself. But I will not let that happen again.

My gym is great, I really love it. It's so nice, it has everything I need and it's very convenient. I'm getting excited to go to the gym, it's one of the highlights of my day! Is that sad? I don't know but I think it's a good sign.

Been sleeping late again, gotta get to bed earlier. Especially since I'm getting up earlier than before.
 
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Snezy said:
Day 44

Today's Weight: 177.8

Yesterday's Diet: I'm SO ashamed of myself. I binged so hard yesterday, I can't let reaching my goal get to my head! Ugh, I'm so embarrassed, I didn't go up but my workout went to waste. :'( I will not allow myself to gain any more weight! >:|

Yesterday's Workout: I had an amazing workout yesterday, worked chest and tri's yesterday and I was super drained after. I then went for a 3.15 mile run, about 5km on the treadmill in 26 minutes. Yesterday I felt in shape, I pushed myself that run but I wasn't light headed or feeling like I wanted to puke. My muscles were a little tired and I was sweating like a mad men but I felt in control. Very good feeling... I don't know WHY or HOW I binged as far as food goes.

Anyways, I'm amazed that my metabolism is good enough to take in what I ate and not gain weight, maybe I'll see the weight tomorrow. So disappointed in myself. But I will not let that happen again.

My gym is great, I really love it. It's so nice, it has everything I need and it's very convenient. I'm getting excited to go to the gym, it's one of the highlights of my day! Is that sad? I don't know but I think it's a good sign. \

Been sleeping late again, gotta get to bed earlier. Especially since I'm getting up earlier than before.
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Hi Steve,

You are doing good!

My son is 6' 2" and weighs 160 to 163 lbs and he is a late sleeper too. He eats mostly in the after noon and at night. He is not a junk food eater, but you should see the food he puts together at night and he never gains a pound. He has tried to gain, but the doctor said with his body frame he doesn't need to gain. His metabolism is great!:waving:
 
Day 45

Today's Weight: 178.8... shit

Yesterday's Diet: I'm having a serious problem here. I don't know what's happened to me. I want to eat healthy, but I'm having a serious problem stopping myself from eating. Okay, let's identify my problem. I'm just going to type out what I think is going wrong.

Okay, so when have I been eating unhealthy. When I get home from work and I look what to eat for dinner. I'm usually tired and hungry. I have been sleeping late and getting up earlier than usual, really killing my energy. That's probably why I haven't had as much will power as the day goes on. So being tired and hungry makes me binge, or at least is a factor into it. What can I do about it. I guess the most obvious is sleep earlier. I find it really tough to follow my own advice sometimes. I know I have to go to bed on time and I want to but I stay up on my laptop for an hour or two before we I go to bed, usually. Gotta get out of that habit, will help me a lot. I also think I should plan my meals better than I have been, I've neglected planning my meals and as a result I've just been eating the easiest unhealthy option. I think the most important part is sleeping early. If I do that, I think the rest will fall into place. I hope to report better news tomorrow...

Yesterday's Workout: Luckily I've stayed on top of my workouts. I love my gym, it's actually a lot of fun, I look forward to it everyday. Yesterday I did my shoulder and bicep workout and then went on the stationary bike. Oh man it's been a long time since I've gone on a bike. It was a wakeup call. I have good cardio right now but that part of my leg muscles are very weak. Gotta work on them. It was a decent workout overall. I kind of wish I had a spotter to help me push the limits, but what can you do.

Okay, tonight I'm going to go home and take a nap. I need to get some rest. I'll wake up and make a salad for dinner. I'll get some chicken, bbq it, slice it up and put it on the salad. And that's all! I want to see my weight go back down tomorrow!
 
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Snezy said:
I find it really tough to follow my own advice sometimes. I know I have to go to bed on time and I want to but I stay up on my laptop for an hour or two before we I go to bed, usually. Gotta get out of that habit, will help me a lot.
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I have this problem. I know that I'll feel better if I go to bed early, but it NEVER happens. Stupid internet..lol. I hope you get it figured out though, and you see the numbers start going back down. :)
 
Day 46

Today's Weight: 177.8 phew, at least I'm back going down!

Yesterday's Diet:
Breakfast: Egg muffin, fruit + yogurt, muffin

Lunch: Turkey Breast Salad, twas really good. I had a tiny bit of some of my coworker's popcorn, I'd say around 10 kernals :p

Dinner: So I went home and slept for 4 hours... yeah I think I was a little over tired. I got up at 9:30pm so I had two bowls of cereal for dinner :p. Not the greatest choice but definitely better than the past few days! :)

Yesterday's Workout: Did my back and legs workout. I had so little energy yesterday because I didn't eat breakfast and because of lack of sleep. I didn't do any cardio :(, it's okay though, I've been pretty good. But it was the first time I've done dead lifts, and I didn't think they were that bad yesterday but today I am SO sore. The most sore I've been in a very long time... I guess that's where they get the name.

Yesterday was a very weird day, sleeping for 4 hours in the middle of the day really set me off. It was 1am and I wasn't even tired. I had a lot of trouble sleeping last night, that nap was probably not the best idea. I'm not tired now... but at 3pm I know I'm going to crash so hard :p.

Anyways, I feel great today, even though I didn't sleep that well. I feel like I'm back on track :D! Looking forward to the weekend!
 
I need to add, I LOVE CHEST DAY. So much fun! I don't know but I just love lifting the heavy weight. Makes me feel powerful!

Anyways, I've decided to add some fitness goals to aim for. So here they are:

  • Bench Press my own weight. Current weight: 177.8. Current Bench Press Weight: 135.0
  • Dead lift my own weight. Current weight: 177.8 Current Dead Life Weight: 135.0
  • Do 10 Pull Ups in a row. At the moment, with no aid, I can do 0.
  • Run 3 miles in 24 minutes.
  • Leg Press 2x my weight. Current Weight = 177.8 x 2 = 355.6 Current Leg Press Weight: 270

My goal is to achieve these by August 29th!

I don't know if I'll get all of them, or any of them... but shoot for the moon and you'll land among the stars. (So cliché, I know)

The bench press and dead lifts seem the easiest, especially since I didn't really push my limit the last time I did either exercise. I think I'll be able to tack on 10 pounds to Bench and 20 pounds to dead lifts pretty easily, then go from there.

Running 3 miles in 24 minutes could be tough, we'll see. I'll have to take a break from running for half a week to prepare for it.

Leg press, I don't know. I have very strong legs but I've never actually worked them, they just got strong from hockey. We'll see how much strength I can gain in a month.

The pull ups is definitely going to be the hardest. I can't do any at the moment by myself. I'm going to really have to work hard on this one. It's the one I'm the most focused on and care the most about. I don't know what it is about pull ups but I really want to be able to do them. I think it's just the fact that I can't do them right now, probably why I want to do them so bad.

Anyways, I'll try to keep everyone updated on how I'm progressing towards these goals.
 
@Jen

Yeah the internet is a killer, I kind of wish that I could set a timer for my computer to just shut off. Like the TVs have. Thanks for the support :)
 
Snezy said:
@Jen

Yeah the internet is a killer, I kind of wish that I could set a timer for my computer to just shut off. Like the TVs have. Thanks for the support :)
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lol! That's a good idea! I could totally use that.

....and your comments about "Chest Day" made me think of Tarzan beating on his chest. :smilielol5: Aaaanyways...you're doing a good job! Keep it up! :)
 
Day 47, 48, 49, 50

I was at the cottage for the long weekend here, didn't really get a chance to post.

Today's Weight: 177.6

Diet: My diet wasn't great, I ate the food provided and cheated with several home made cookies. At least it didn't show too bad in my weight. I think it will go down significantly tomorrow, as long as I eat healthy tonight.

Workout: I didn't get a real workout on any of the days, although I was semi active. I helped chop and split wood one of the mornings and I went skiing a couple times, which were both good exercise. I went to the gym today, did my biscep and shoulder workout. Felt so sick half way through, didn't get to do cardio. I still feel sick. I think it's due to lack of sleep.

I've been super angry/depressed since last night. My girlfriend just ignored me last night, I have no idea why. I don't know what's wrong, she just has no interest in me anymore. Rarely will she be the first one to text or contact me. And then she just didn't contact me at all last night. I was super angry, put on some angry music and just wanted to break things. I ended up by just punching my bed till I was too tired to continue. She still hasn't texted me. I just feel like she doesn't care about me anymore, makes me feel like she's going to break up with me. I feel hopeless, I don't want to lose her but I don't want to live like this. I don't know what to do. I have so much emotion built up inside of me I feel like I'm going to explode, or deflate.
 
Good luck with your weigh in tomorrow and the girlfriend thing. It's hard not knowing what's going on with the other person. So I hope all that works out for you. :eek:
 
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