Ok, IT BEGINS!! 167 to Hottness!!!!!!!

Thank you everyone for the kind words!!

A side note...I like J.A. because she's not rail thin. I probably won't look like her but I want to be able to be in a 2 piece and say, "Yeah, I'm good lookin!" I want ot feel confident. That is what I see from that pictue the most.

I am going to the gym tonight. It will be my first evening workout. Lets see how that goes. I am also going to get weighed. Ugh! I hate it!

I'm glad to see that i'm not alone. I eat a lot during the day usually but I forgot my lunch bag today. Believe it or not that's when I weight more. I think my body stores it up for a 'rainy day'. LOL!

I'll write more tomorrow. I'll let you guys know how it goes.

:waving::waving::waving::waving::waving::waving:
 
Went to the gym last night and weighed in at 164.0. I also worked out for 2 hours! I had so much energy afterwards I now know why people work out in the morning. I just don't have the time...:mad: Oh well, time with my LO is better!!:hurray::hurray::hurray:

TTYL
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Ok, so I didn't write for a few days. I'm such a slacker...I went to the gym yesterday and the strangest thing happened. I was on the treadmill and after .75mi my stomach started to cramp. I then got off and thought I needed to take a minute to collect myself. I then got back on and tried to work through it. That didn't work. I went into the locker room and got sick. I then got dressed (out of gym clothes) and went to talk to my trainer. He thought it was my blood pressure and told me to drink some water and eat some fruit. I went back to my office and the stomach cramps continued to get worse. So I went home from work. I think I had a bit of a stomach virus or something. I was so weak afterwards...

Goodnote: I got back to the gym today and did the elliptical for 5 minutes at level 4. I then got back on the treadmill and did my personal best. I completed the mile in 15:24 and 1.75mi in 30minutes. That includes my warm-up and cool down time on the treadmill.

I should not have weighed myself but I did...165.2 :cuss::cuss::cuss:

On Monday it was 164.0. I know it could be water weight or something but my goal by the end of February is to be 160.0. I know to some that doesn't seem like much but to be that is a HUGE deal.

Wish me luck! :auto: :auto: :auto:
 
Thursday
Egg 1 whole
Egg 2whites
oatmeal .25packet--son ate the rest
coffee 8oz
cream 1tsp
sugar 1tsp
banana 1
shortbread cookie--1 large
slice lunch ham--2 slices
slice lunch turkey--2 slices
tuna salad .25cup
swiss cheese 1cracker size slice
mustard 1tsp
cottae cheese 7oz
coucous-parmesan 1serv
chix breast 3oz
1228kcal
30% fat/35% protein/36% carbs


Friday
Egg, white only, 2
Egg, whole, 1
Coffee 8fl
Cream 1tsp
Sugar 1tsp
Cereals, QUAKER, Instant Oatmeal, maple and brown sugar,.25 packet--2 bites...son ate the rest
Chicken (Tortilla) soup--1cup with no tortillas
Avocados, .5 of fruit
Hummus Roasted Garlic -- Athenos 1tbs
Bread, pita, whole wheat, 100% 1 pita--medium 5.25" diameter
Apple, raw 1
Chili con carne with turkey and beans 2cups
Sour cream 1tsp
Turkey 2 slices
tuna .25 cup
mustard 1tsp
carrots raw - baby- 4
grapes .25cup
1----oatmeal raisin cookie----Ugh! The will power just wasn't there.
1396kcal 32f/28p/40c
Todays food for the day...I also am going to go to the gym at 1pm. I'll let you know how that goes.

TTYL
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Went to the gym and did 3mins on elliptical to warm up. Then 'warm up' stretches, squats, fly things, circles. I then did 2 sets of 3 excercises and then I ran out of time and only could do 2 sets of the last set of excercises. boohoo! I feel like I've ate all day. you probably looked at my food log and agreed. I am still within my set calories and such but it seems like I eat too much. My PT told me that I wasn't eating enough so I had to amp it up. He said that I wouldn't lose weight without eating enough of the right things.

p.s. I know a cookie is bad but it was so good.

TTYL
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Ok, horrible weekend on all fronts. I over-ate, I didn't hardly excercise and not much good came from it.

I found out Friday that my husband got reassigned (demoted for $ reasons) and everything esle went downhill from there.

I work out at 1pm and I intend to keep that appointment.

TTYL
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Ok, so I haven't written in a few days...

I weighed myself on Monday and it was 162.2!! Yeah!

I did my weight training on Monday and completed the whole thing! I'm getting quicker the more familiar I become with the positions, etc.

I did good on Tuesday. I did a 15:15 mile and 1.5mi in 23:15. I know...I should push myself more but hey, I started at 17:36 mile and I was dying!! I have made progress!! I also knocked 7 minutes off of my 1.5 mile total since all of this began. I also did my cruch routine at the end.

Wednesday I did cardio as well. I did 1.45 in 30 minutes but it was on the incline weight training functions so it was harder and not so fast. I also did 2 sets of the arm routine that I usually begin with on weight training days. Trying to mix it up!

My goal is that I will be at or below 160 by the end of the month...10 days to get 2.2lbs gone. We'll see. Root for me!


Tuesday
 
Ok, so I have fallen off the wagon. I feel like crud and I have my monthly and all I want to do is eat and eat. I am not doing too bad but not too good either...
 
I know, it is tough, but this is a lifestyle change you're making, once you bang through the crust it will get easier. The same thing was happening to me. I'd do what i thought was right, ate a calorie deficit, and still hovering around the same weight. I never thought my goal weight in 2 months would be possible. I just toughed through it, kept my carbs low, and here I sit, 2 pounds off my 2 month goal weight, and I still have 2 weeks to do it, and I haven't weighed myself in a week (that's a pro tip by the way, as well as measuring inches and not pounds)

Your body can surprise you yet, but you need to stay on it. Just remember, this lifestyle that you're undertaking while you're losing weight you need to carry on once you're finished (only with a bit more food).

Eating that one junk food meal a week tastes that much better I find than if you eat every day, and from the looks of things, that Saturday didn't punish you too badly. Once a week isn't going to kill you, and you should allow for a meal a week where you cave into temptation. (more on what you eat more so than quantity)

I'm not a big advocate for cardio, and I really hope you're getting your weight training in. I notice if i don't get at least 2 days of weight training in, my muscle will loosen. I think the logic behind this is that your body is looking to fill in the gap with the calories you're not taking (and cardio increases this gap), and it's looking to draw for those deficiencies from within itself. That's why good amounts of protein (your body doesn't store protein like it does fat and carbs) and the stimulus to shows your body "hey, I still need those muscles" and helps focus the burn on the fat and not the lean mass. Just my observations.

Keep at it, cause if you're not looking like Jessica Alba in a few months, I can bet you I will. haha.
 
Thank you for the wonderful comment.

I have continued on and I still at at the 162.2 weight. I have been doing my cardio Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and my weight training on Monday and Friday with Sunday off. I have upped the reps from 12 to 15 and upped the weight as well. I was using 7.5lbs up from the 5lbs. I am now using 10lbs for everything and 15lbs for the incline rows. I have been doing the lateral pull downs on the machine at 37.5lbs.

I just feel like the number doesn't move and my eating is back to 'good'. I do not eat junk food as you know and I eat pretty clean. The only real processed food I eat is instant oatmeal in the morning (1/2 packet). I haven't even went over 1397 kcal since I started...even on the binge days. I average 1180 over 4 weeks and my breakdown is 42carb/27protein/32fat. I think the problem is that sometimes the carbs are at 47% and the fat at 33-35% instead of the 40/30. I don't know...

I do need to measure myself though. I have never done that. I really don't want to. I think it will be pretty bad. You are right about being able to see it though in the inches...I'm kind of nervous to do that because if the inches and the pounds are not moving then I'm a failure. I work out 5 out of 7 days I should be able to do this. I was doing so well and now it just stopped. I keep telling myself, i'm building muscle. I think that's a little rationalization...what do you think?
 
So I almost killed myself yesterday...I got an interval training schedule for the elliptical from FitSugar yesterday and at about 18-19mins I was going to fall off! I completed the whole thing though!

I printed out the one for the bike and did that one this morning. I was dying at 16mins. The sheet said to repeat the excercise after 16mins and I couldn't. I had warmed up on the elliptical and then did the bike and then did abs and stretches. I hope I start to see some results.

I have reviewed my food intake on FitDay yesterday and the carb was a little high--47% 26% fat and 28% protein with a 1011kcal. Today it is better. My goal is to keep cutting the carbs. Although, the majority of the carbs I eat are 'good' carbs I am still trying. Today my total calories for the whole day are 1127. The breakdown is 38% carbs 36% protein 26% fat. I eat really well but I think I'm just 'building muscle and endurance' who the heck knows...
 
Now you should know, that regardless of all the pain you put yourself through at the gym, that it's your diet that makes the big differences, not the exercise. Seriously, cardio is a drop on the bucket compared to what you eat. But you still need to do weight lifting.

I've lost 10 pounds in a month, and the most cardio I do is walking to and from the gym. (about 3 miles both ways) I should also mention, that your lean mass is maintained by protein intake, instead of worrying about percentages so much, try to do this instead:

Consume about 100-110 grams of protein a day. Take a table spoon worth of good fats per meal. Meaning: peanut butter at breakfast, olive oil on a salad at lunch, or just having a piece of fish for supper. Allow your calorie deficit come from your carbs, but still make sure you have around 200g's a day if you're going to be exercising that much. Now, I haven't done the math, but it may or may not work out to be more calories than what you're consuming now, but the funny thing is, you'd still lose weight where you'd want to, the fat.

Your body has no storage system in place for protein. If you eat too much of it, (while being at a calorie deficiet) your body will waste the excess. Your body will store fats in the liver, and it will store carbs in the form of fat.

Because you're looking to lose fat, this means that your body already has stored about 2/3'ds of what it requires to get by, leaving the only things you need to consume, are protein with a little bit of fats. It should be noted though, your body does need carbs to refill glycogen (which powers your muscles) and keeps your body out of ketosis. (Ketosis is a state when the body is so deprived from carbs, it starts burning fat exclusively for fuel, it's not the healthiest thing in the world, and you really shouldn't be doing exercise while under ketosis. It would also classify you as being on a diet and not something that should ever be sustained) So with that said, you really need to realize that all cardio really does, it let you eat more. By burning off that many calories doing cardio, you're starving yourself more than you realize.

Just remember though, the more harder your work yourself out, while maintaining that large deficit (when you combine your exercise with your low calories) the harder it is on your body, and eventually it will start to cause problems. It may also stall weight loss.

Just go a bit lighter on the cardio, lighter on the carbs, keep proteins up, but still do the weight training. It's worked amazingly for me, and it can work good for you too. I did the same thing you're doing now back in October, and my relaxed approach is working out much, much better for me.
 
Ok, so I'm trying to absorb this.

I should eat what???

My average for this week:
1138 calories
286 from fat =32g
508 from carbs =132.3
360 from protein =86.6 g

Calories burned 1992


So 1992 (burned) - 1138 (eaten)= 854 deficit...over a 7 day oeriod that is 5978 calories I put in the bank with...Still no weight loss. I actually weighed myself today (eventhough I know i'm not supposed to) and I weigh 1.1lb higher than yesterday! Ugh!

I didn't even put all of the cardio today and the lifting that I did on Wednesday and I will do today...I think I'm eating all wrong. I need help.
 
No judging...I have beenweighing myself everyday. I know you're not supposed to but I am a little obsessed. Anyway, I finally weighed in this morning after breakfast with all my clothes on at work...159.8!!! Yeah!!
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Thanks!

I feel sort of bad for the last few days. I didn't get to the gym on Monday because I had to take a personal day and I ate semi-bad. A little heavy on the carb side. I did complete my cardio and ab workout yesterday and I did farely well in the food area. A little heavy again with the carbs but all good ones. I don't eat any processed sugar or flour. All whole grains and natural sweeteners.

I enrolled in school on Monday and will be finishing my bachelor's in about 1.5 years. I'm excited. I know it isn't a big deal to some people but I have done all of it on my own with no help from my parents. I think this will be extremely rewarding to be a college graduate.

I have a pretty busy day today with 3 meetings but I am still going to workout in-between somehow. I am not getting lazy. I have a lunch meeting today and the organizers hadn't figured out what we were having so I brought my own. If it is acceptable I'll eat theirs but if not I have a back-up.

TTYL
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Yeah! I am at 156lbs! I have been working so hard and I see results in the mirror! Slow and steady win the race. I made my March goal!
 
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