My Story

a-n-g-e-l said:
wow! a size nearly every 2 months! i have been at this for about 3 months now and have only just about dropped a size! that is awsome!!! :hurray:
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Don't I know it!! Now, after loosing the initial weight, I've still got a couple more lbs to go, but what's going on now, is the toning of my body. Because cardio is one of the most efficient ways to drop belly fat, I'm doing it gradually and significantly. I highly doubt I want to be under a size 8 though. I really do think even a 6 would be unhealthy for me. I don't know though. I mean, it's quite plausible that my weight will remain the same at that size, my body has simply toned itself to me weight loss efforts.



well done! you have had a good sunday what with new under-briefs lol and the 5 mile run! i have idea about calories so can't advice you on that. i seem to be just consuming (after a lot of trial and error) the amount that will let me lose 1-2lbs a week.

have a great week sweets!
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LOL, oh absolutely! The new briefs made my day and the run made my night!! I do truly feeling amazing after a run. My body hums in contentment and my muscles and joints are lax with exertion. It's why when I wake in the morning, I'm never tight or cramped. On the morning's of a runless night, I'm terribly cranky, no joke. *I* wouldn't want to be near myself and that's saying something considering how much I entertain me. :)

Have a good Monday too, sweets!!
 
The undies bit totally slayed me! I've been contemplating buying some new ones. I've been setting a "goal" weight before I buy any. How sad is it that underwear is a reward? I not even planning on getting any that are real fancy (or raunchy) ones. I'm excited about good 'ol cotton. *LOL*
 
I like your plan of upping your calories a bit. :)

I'm glad you had another great day. :hurray:

I, too dislike Walmart. As there are plenty of other stores around here, there is nothing i like about it. :D

Enjoy your new undies. :smilielol5:
 
Not much to report on this tranquil night of a Monday.

As always, I feel awesome cause I just ran. Not five miles like last night, but four and a half. At 4.5, 5.8 and 5.0 miles an hour on a 3.5 incline, I burned 630 calories in sixty minutes. I would liked to have gone as far as yesterday's workout, but I didn't want to do more harm then good to my body.

By 6 o' clock today, I'd only eaten six-hundred calories. My boys, bro and I were going to play scrimmage but the gym was occupied by auctioneers, so we resolved to hanging out downstairs. 'We Own the Night' was the wonderful movie we watched. I actually cried and I didn't expect to. It impressed me greatly. Joaquin Phoenix is such a fantastic actor. I loved him in 'Walk the Line' and even more in this captivating work of cinematography. If you guys haven't seen it, 'We Own the Night' is definitely a 'Must See'.

Getting back to the point-because I was so enthralled by this movie, I didn't watch the clock and simply forgot to eat. I really wasn't hungry today. Usually I'll get pangs during the day, but on this day the cravings didn't come. So I went until the evening filled up on only six-hundred calories. Which is, for me, not very good considering I'm an avid runner.

Naturally, I was going to resolve my deficit before nine, which is when I work out. So, I ate a whole bag of veggies with chicken breast for dinner. An hour after I stuffed myself with that meal, I ate two bowls of both cereal and oatmeal. By eight-forty five I'd managed to down about 1900 calories. Now, keep in mind that I burn off 600-700 cals a run, so even if I took it easy and only burned off the former, that would still leave me with only 1,300 cals consumed for the day. My recommended allowance for my BMI is 1,700.

There was no way however, that after eating two whole bowls of cheerios and two bags of oatmeal, I could have crammed anything else down. I was absolutely STUFFED, and I'm standing there in the kitchen with the fridge open and I sigh. My dad asks me "What's wrong?" and I say "I want to run five miles tonight again, but I haven't eaten enough calories to sustain my metabolic functions and there's no way I can chow anything else down. I'm stuffed." But he says..."So eat ice cream. That's got plenty of carbs."

Of course I didn't. It's the complex carbs I crave before a run, but I didn't feel like explaining to him the semantics. So instead of shoving my face s'more, I just went downstairs to run.

So, long story attempted to be made short, I still can't seem to eat enough in the day to support my running fetish. I'm just NOT hungry enough lately. Which is both a good and bad thing, I think. I really do love leaving about 800 cals to be eaten before my workout. I scarf down SO MUCH and I feel like I'm cheating. Emotionally, it tricks me into thinking I'm eating dessert because my Honey Nut Cheerios are sprinkled with cinnamon and taste like heaven.

I never thought I'd ever complain about not eating enough. I still haven't reached my goal weight yet, but this running is definitely helping. I can see the physical changes and I get more and more excited about it everyday.

Overall, I'm doing extraordinarily well lately. Better than I thought I would be considering I gave up chocolate candy. Huh, woulda thunk I could live without it?

I hope all of you have had a wonderful Monday and will enjoy Tuesday even more!!

((Big Hugs to you all!!))
 
Hi Rae

I have been catching up on you.

You really had a brilliant day on Saturday. Charming lots of people and impressing so many with your accomplishments. I get the same reaction - people think that they have misheard when you tell them how much weight you have lost.

As far as advice regarding your body's optimal requirements for the amount of exercise that you want - I suggest that you contact Steve on this forum. He is very knowledgeable and I am sure that he would be able to give good advice. He often picks up questions on the Advanced Weight Loss thread. Alternatively you could try PMing him or popping into his diary.

I am just the same with clothes - we dont really want to buy too much (other than the barest necessities) until we get where we want to be. You must be so near there now. Are you going on a clothes shopping spree when you get to goal?

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Wow, you definitely better make sure you eat enough to sustain that super high level of exercise you have WOW>

Plus, I have no idea how you eat and then go exercise. I would be barfing all over the place. If I eat within 2 hours before running, I'm probably in trouble. Best time for me to run is 2-3 hours after eating my lunch (which normally consists of a pb&j on whole wheat).

Anyway, way to go on that run with the incline set YAY!!! :hurray:
 
Marg-

Honey, I was just popping over to your journal when I stopped in here! haha.

You know what, I should go on a shopping spree. Truth be told though, I'm a huge, huge thrift shopper. I love stores like Goodwill and St. Vincent DePaul. I can get two outfits for the price of one at Wallie world. Most all of my formal wear is from a thrift shop. Of course, I only by what's reasonable looking and you can find a surprising amount of clothing that hasn't been worn before. When stores like Wal-Mart and JcPenny have end of season deals, they ship the clothes off to thrift stores afterwards. My favorite time to shop at Goodwill is when all the seasonal items at other stores have been replaced. It's how I know I can get GOOD clothes for a quarter of the price.

I can tell you this, when I do finally reach my goal, I'm definately buying an outfit. I may even go crazy and invest in a dress. LOL.

Tash-

Isn't that amazing? All of my friends don't understand it either. Personally, neither can I. You'd think that after stuffing myself with carbs I'd get dizzy, nauseas, and in the least out of breath. I must be some kind of freak genetic human. Haha.

Yesterday, I was hanging with two of my boys and I tell them "Guess what I did last night guys?" And one of them says, "What's that?" I answer, "I ran five miles. I was so excited." At this the front of the car goes silent before I hear, "Wow...holy crap." Then I said, "Yeppers. 720 calories burned off an an hour." My other boy, he says, "Wow that's... is that good for you?" And I says, "Heck yeah, as long as I eat enough." and then both of them go silent before one of them says..."Holy crap, Rach." again.

You know what? I cannot help feel so empowered with my powers of impressionment. I realized this at Pizza Hut on Saturday night. When I told one of my boys that I lost the weight by running four miles a night, the look he gave me screamed massively impressed. I mean, I may not feel completely comfortable in my skin, and I may not have the self-confidence of a model, but I feel AMAZING when I can tell someone that I can run four or five miles a night.

Between me, you guys and the fencepost...I think active girls are EXTREMELY attractive to men, truth be told. Having first hand experience by hanging out with mostly men, I can tell you this is most likely true. On the nights when my boys sleep over and I run, I'm always doing laundry afterwards, so I'll be carrying in my bro's clothes, drenched in sweat and one of my boy's will ask..."How far did you run tonight?" and I'll answer, and no matter if I tell them 3, 4 or 5 miles, they always look at me with a glint in their eyes, shake their heads and mouth "Wow."

I don't know if it makes me conceded to say I like showing off my stammina, but I really do. I hate bragging about clothes, or my hair, or my five pairs of high-heeled boots, but I LOVE bragging about my exercise level. I think in the grand scheme of things, maybe it's okay that I'm proud of it. LOL.;)
 
Hahaha, Rachel, we both have the same problems, we do too much to our bodies for our caloric intake. Amazing, never thought I'd ever say in my life, wow, I didn't eat enough today ;)

Great read as usual... always makes me smile.

What cereal do you eat? I love my Kashi Go Lean, there is an Almond Flac Seed, tastes so yummy and no HFCS like other cereals.
 
You could always try eating something after you run on those sorts of days, but it's probably important that you make them the exception rather than the rule. Eating at regular intervals is important, there's a reason why skipping meals is a no-no for dieters. Of course, I think we're all guilty of it from time to time. I know I am, on weekends when I sleep in and eat a late breakfast. Sort of throws the rest of the day off. :)

I have to second the suggestion of getting in touch with Steve. I've seen his posts, he knows his stuff about nutrition and high activity level.
 
Darth Pooh said:
Hahaha, Rachel, we both have the same problems, we do too much to our bodies for our caloric intake. Amazing, never thought I'd ever say in my life, wow, I didn't eat enough today ;)

Great read as usual... always makes me smile.

What cereal do you eat? I love my Kashi Go Lean, there is an Almond Flac Seed, tastes so yummy and no HFCS like other cereals.
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I know right?

I do get crazy looks when I'm standing in the kitchen with the fridge open at nine o' clock at night, and have just said..."I need to pack in 500 calories in the next five minutes" with a spoon dangling from my mouth. My sister will say to me..."You're just too weird, Rach." I just laugh then. Explaining to her the fundamentals of packing in carbs for a good run always seems like too much an effort. I think she'd just give me an even stranger look...

I eat whatever's healthy and on sale. I can't stand sugar cereals. I never eat just one brand of cereal either. Mixing them together is my secret pleasure. Usually it's a whole wheat cereal like Cheerios or Crispex mixed with a special cereal like Honey & Oats or some kind of Post Select without HFCS. So I eat six scoops of a bland cereal, and two scoops of a flavored one. The new brand I found that I quite enjoy is Kashi Heart to Heart. It's seven grains toasted with honey and white tea. It's absolutely delicious. I even got my dad addicted to it. This is the cereal I usually eat dry when I need a snack before a bball game. Kashi is a very good brand. Everything they make is so flavorful.

Anyway, my late night cereal is accompanyed by a shake or two of cinnamin. I LOVE how it flavors the milk, especially. Oh, and given the price of milk, I usually recycle it. Meaning that after my first bowl of cereal, I use the milk from that bowl for my second. This way it makes me feel like I'm NOT eating my family out of house and home. LOL.
 
Rach!

I'm just letting you know i will be absent from AIM tonight...im exhausted and im headed to bed...but i will definitely be on tomorrow night, so we can catch up

i hope you had a great day

Trevor
 
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The new brand I found that I quite enjoy is Kashi Heart to Heart. It's seven grains toasted with honey and white tea. It's absolutely delicious. I even got my dad addicted to it. This is the cereal I usually eat dry when I need a snack before a bball game. Kashi is a very good brand. Everything they make is so flavorful.
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Haha. Now you sound like a cereal commercial rather than a budding journalist...I can see you in the commercials already! It does sound good. I don't eat cereal all that much, but I've recently become addicted to bran buds. Plain ol' bran buds. If you eat to much, however, it'll make you "run" in a whole other way. Not a good thing!
 
Trevor10 said:
Rach!

I'm just letting you know i will be absent from AIM tonight...im exhausted and im headed to bed...but i will definitely be on tomorrow night, so we can catch up

i hope you had a great day

Trevor
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Wow, you and I are living on some similar plain of existence, my friend. LOL.

I wasn't able to be on AIM last night either so really, no worries. I was hanging with my boys to help them pick out a new/used car. Twas fun, but cold as heck outside. Haha.

Sounds good, hon. I don't see why I won't be on tonight. Might be a little later though, because I run at a later time on Wednesday nights. Of course, if we don't catch each other on, there's always next time!!

Happy Wednesday Trev!
 
Exhaustion kept me from updating last night, you guys. I was worn out as ever. I don't know why considering I had a fairly low amount of physical activity yesterday. However, I did have quite a bit of emotional exhertion that would account for the headache that knocked on the backdoor of my cranium.

Needless to say, I crashed early Tuesday night. As for my caloric intake, I honestly lost count. At 1,500 calories I decided I was going to treat myself to a brownie sundae. I try and treat myself with something chocolately and delicious at least once a week, something with the caloric intake of Lousiana fried chicken. That's exactly what I did, too. I piled a whole row of brownies in the bottom of a bowl, topped them with three scoops of ice cream and smothered the whole dish of processed sugar with chocolate sauce. Let me tell you, it was heaven on the tip of my tongue.

The best part about my guilty pleasure of heavenly lust was my inabition of guilt afterwards. I felt NONE. Which, as most of you know, is a rare happenstance, yet, I was more happy then disappointed in myself. Why? Because I know I'm not going to touch another dessert this week and I also know that I deserve to say "I don't care" at least once a week and stuff my face with that which I cannot live without...chocolate.

I didn't run last night, either. I figure I need to break at least two days a week. If I run two nights in a row, on the third day I rest. It just revamps my body and gives me more energy for the following night. I'm definitely going to run this evening though....I miss it...lol...

I hope all of you are having a wonderful Wednesday so far!!
 
hey glad to hear you enjoyed your chocolate and the day. guilt is never good when theres no need for it. i couldn't live without chocolate...have it nearly everyday. so i really admire you for only having it once a week!

have a good wednesday!

x
 
Girl, your diary is so high energy, I get exhausted just reading it..lol

Your running IS impressive and you should be proud of it. :hurray:

My H is also a runner, and he was rather pleased with himself for doing 3 miles in 29 min today. He is 36, so not too shabby for an old man. ;)

I think you're right about guys liking active girls. Why wouldn't they? :)

I'm glad you enjoyed your little bit of decadant eating yesterday. :D
 
Again, I was too exhausted to update last night.

Yesterday. I didn't run until ten thirty in the evening. I didn't want too, at first, but beforehand I was ravishingly hungry and ate way too much peanut butter and ice cream. I had no choice but to run it off.

So by midnight last night, I'd run 4.80 miles and burned 640 calories. It really is ridiculous how much energy and stammina I have when I eat TONs of carbs beforehand. I know I keep saying how crazy it is, but really, I never, ever felt this good before I started eating complex carbs at eight o' clock at night.

I have a passionate love affair with my treadmill, I realized this last night. It is my only constant, never changing friend, like a lover I find under the covers every morning. It's loyal, trustworthy and doesn't care if I'm wearing lip gloss or high heels, all it cares about, is that I pound my sneakers into it everynight. It merely wants to be needed, wanted, visited, and I fulfill its desire. You see? Love affair. Plain and simple.

In other news, my personal life is all over the radar. I really don't feel like getting into it right now. I'll simply say this...I'm a smart cookie, I can sense when a guy is interested, and if it's more than one, I start hyperventilating and having panic attacks. Yeah, that's pretty much where I am right now. It's not the thought of them being attracted to me that freaks me out, it's something else. As soon as I figure it out, I'll be sure to let you guys know...

Knowing myself, I'm sure the issue lies somewhere in the deep recess between lack of self-confidence and fear of dissapointment. Given I don't want to feel deprecated today, I'm going to refrain from talking of it.

There is a hint of great news in today's update, the skinny jeans I bought a month ago fit miraculously...finally. I love them and I'll have to invest in another pair before Spring Break's vacation in Florida. I'm toning up, I can tell. Everything is tightening. I attribute it to my constant cardio and lack of laziness. As you can assume, this excites me to no end.

I'm a happy camper today because my skinny jeans fit like awesome. That would make anyones day, no?

In an hour, I have a meeting at a local lunch buffet. Though I can hear the gasps and horror stricken screams already, I promise you I know how to control myself around a hot pan and tongs. Thankfully my four years of 'dieting' has taught me self-judgement when it comes to food's open invitation to feast gluttonously. Instead of consistantly refilling new plates, I spend a longer time picking at one. It conssumes the time until it's time to get out of dodge. I'm proud of myself for being able to do this. Buffets use to be my downfall, now they're a challenge I face head on and with great pride and determination. I'll let ya'll know how it goes when I get back.

Wait and see...I'll report I had WAY too much coffee for my own good. Lol.

I love all of you guys!! Without you, I'd go crazy with myself. Lol.
 
WOW, that was a more than usual hyper reading experience for me... chalk it off to COFFEE.

Congrats on the skinny jeans...

I love my little Rachel. Good stuff as usual.
 
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