Phoenyx's Final 10 & Journey to Fitness

Heh... thanks! But yeah, I was wearing those. Granted they look wider than they were because they are flat. I'm still going to have D take a pic with me standing in them and post that.

Right now I'm right at the beginning of TOM, nay, PMS... and I'm in the psychotic stage right now. Not fun since I'm at work. :banghead::banghead: I had to warn my cellmates, er, the guys I share the room with.

Bleah. I just want to go home and sleep, after curling around a hot water bottle. :ack2:
 
Thanks. I'll probably go home and work out, get some of the ARGH factor mellowed out. THEN I'll curl around a hot water bottle.
 
So, I got through yesterday without killing anybody, so that's not a bad thing. Headed to the local health food store after work and picked up another bottle of PMS formula. I guess that stuff works, because I wasn't doing 'too' bad while taking it, just didn't bother to get more when I ran out. Apparently not a good idea.

While I was there I also picked up some wheat and gluten-free baking ingredients (flax seed, rice flour, etc.) to try out a muffin recipe I saw in this month's issue of Women's Health magazine. Amazingly enough, they are PMS buster muffins. Bananas, walnuts, yogurt... no sugar, no added salt, grapeseed oil, main mixer is oatmeal. They are sooooooo tasty! I don't know about the claim to being a mood fixer, but if your mood can be fixed by flavor, these will definitely help.:drool5: Not exactly 'low' cal or low fat (147 cal, 20g carb, 2 fiber, 3 protein, 7 fat), but all the stuff in them is good for you, and as long as you don't eat the entire batch at one sitting its a tasty treat that only feels like you're cheating.

Did upper body weight training last night. About 45 min. Tonight's the last class of the Total Body Workout class, then a couple weeks of no classes, and Cardio BellyDance starts back up.

I'm going to start getting more diligent about journaling what I eat. I haven't quite decided the medium to use. I find fitday a pain in the ass, because it doesn't have what I eat already listed, and its a real pain to have to keep entering this crap in. Maybe I just don't have the patience for it.

I need a database that I can list ingredients for a recipe I'm putting together to calculate out the nutritional info for me. Something like fitday meets MacGourmet.

Something cool did happen yesterday. I caught my reflection in the window/walls of the health food store as I was walking up, and the first thought through my brain was not "oh, that's my reflection", it was "who's that?" It totally did not register seeing a relatively trim redhead wearing my shades and my clothes, walking towards the store, that it was me!

So, I know how a lot of people have written about seeing the heavy pictures of themselves, and not realizing that it was them (I did in my first diary entry), let me tell you... the opposite is true as well! Only it gives you a much happier feeling inside. It validates what I've been doing, truly tells me that its all been worth it.

I think I'll have to add that to the 'what inspires you' thread.
 
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Or to the NSV (Non-Scale -Victory) thread!

Oh, I'm mad about health shops... gotta stop me from splurging when I'm in there!

Wow, those muffins sound great... mind putting the recipe up here??? PMS is a-knocking! :nopity:
 
Still not too sure on link posting policies here, so I'll pm you the link, and if anybody else wants to check it out go to the women's health magazine web site (womenshealthmag.com) and look for the article on muffins. They're called Banana yogurt muffins. Yum!

There's a non scale victory thread here? Cool!
 
I gave Fitday another chance. Seems they have just revamped their web site. Its a little less aggravating to deal with. So with that, and the weight loss tracker booklet I bought a while back, I'm actually starting to write everything I eat down. I've been going by my doc's recommendation of a certain amount of protein, carbs, dairy, etc. per day, but figured I'd really like to see just how many calories I end up eating in a day.

My BMR is 1517 and my 'caloric intake requirement' is 1972.

Yesterday was the first day I fully kept track of what I eat.

The good news: I only consumed 1559 total yesterday, which put me at a 413 cal deficit (because I'm still trying to lose those last few pounds).

The not so great news: I consumed WAY too many carbs.

Gotta cut out the dried fruit in my yogurt for now. That's the killer right there.

On the other hand, everything I ate was something that had nutritional value, no junk.

Last night was the final Total Fitness class. While I'm sad to see it go, it also served as a reminder why I don't take aerobics classes. Straight aerobics bores the ever loving SHIT outta me. When we were in the aerobics part of the class... I got bored. Once we started getting into the cardio strength training part (involving weights) it got interesting. Ah well, I'm looking forward to the 'cardio bellydance' class starting back up. Meanwhile, there's no cardio or martial arts for a couple weeks, so I have to devise other ways to keep myself occupied with the workouts.

Maybe I'll take up jogging.

Riiiiiight, maybe monkeys will fly out of my butt too.

I hate jogging. I hate bicycling too.

Guess its time to kick it up a notch, do my cardio dance DVD stuff in the morning, do the weights at night when I get home from work on a more regular basis.

Thought I had killed my knee last night during the warmup for the class... did a move and something just 'didn't feel right' and it was a bit sore through the class. I kept going (because I'm an idiot), but took it as easy as I could. Put ice on my knee when I got home. Seems fine today, but I'll pay close attention to how it feels while I'm working out tonight. Ah well, at least there's 70 fewer pounds for it to have to support.

And TOM is still kicking my ass. TOM decided it would be fun to give me cramps of an epic magnitude today where all I wanted to to when I got up this morning was curl up around a pillow in my gut to help ease the cramps. At least until the prescription strength ibuprofen kicked in. Would've been a great day for vicodin, but I wouldn't have been functional.

Ah well, enough whining. :nopity:

I'm also experimenting with eating smaller meals, a few hours in between. Not sure whether I like it or not yet, and its a little harder to stay dilligent about time between meals. I may need to set an alarm or something.
 
In my opinion it's not necessary to be diligent about the times... then again, my stomach reminds me it's time to eat again!

I probably eat about 6 times in the day, including snacks AND splitting my luch up into two... Just find it easier that way...

Fitday's pretty cool. I got REALLY bored with it though, so now I just count portions of starch, fat, fruit, veg, protein and dairy per day. CAN'T handle inputting so much info everyday!

Watch that knee now!
 
W00t!!

Went in for the weekly weigh-in this morning.

Lost 2 pounds, putting me down to 169.5 YEAH!!! I'm below 170! 4.5 pounds to 'goal'! Also lost more in the body fat... can't remember if it was 28.7 or 28.2%, but either way, its that much closer to 25!

:party:

So even if TOM kicked my ass this week, I still managed to get closer to goal!

The Fall semester started this week. I only take one class, and that's on Saturdays. No more sleeping in on Saturday for a while. *sigh* Ah well, its welding, so its worth it. Time to play with fire and melting metal again.

Did the Rachel Brice isolations workout today. Gonna hit the weights and work on upper body tonight.
 
YEAH! Go with the weight loss! It's really cool to see you moving so steadily towards your goal. Gives me hope.

Do you do the yoga on the Rachel Brice DVD? It's one of the things I hate the most because I've never enjoyed yoga - I have the flexibility of a door. (I did just buy "Yoga for Wimps" so hopefully that will ease me in . . .)

And welding . . . that so cool. My classes are utter crap this semester.
 
I do some of the yoga on the Rachel Brice DVD, but I tend to do a different warmup before doing the isolations. Often I'll pop in the Michelle Joyce DVD for the warmup, then move on. Or if I'm feeling froggy, I'll do the warmup and the cardio, then move to the Rachel Brice isolations. I like to mix it up like that.

Friday night I ended up working until 6:30 (when I should have been able to leave at 3, yeah, right) and was so burned out by the time I got home, all I wanted was to go eat dinner, and go home, watch the Truck race I'd recorded from Wednesday, and collapse. No upper body workout.

That's ok, I made up for it yesterday. That Indonesian Silat seminar I took was AWESOME! Its great, when you're doing it, it doesn't feel like you're doing much, but boy do you feel it the next day!

And I felt it today. Didn't stop me from doing an intensive upper body workout, increasing weight on bench press (still not a lot, but more than it was), doing some pretty intense ab exercises, plus practicing my kicking. Did a little ballet barre work (pliés, releves, leg lifts, etc.) for my warmup. I'm still on a bit of an endorphin buzz.

Good thing yesterday and today were intense in the workout department... I was kinda naughty last night with the food. I had bbq spare ribs and some fries. Ordered the Junior portion, which contained 5 ribs... but was only able to eat 3.

I am liking Fitday a whole lot better this time around, now that they've redone the site. It was a pain in the ass before. Its pretty cool, so I'll have to continue to keep track.

Ok, better go shower so I can go grocery shopping for the week. Oh yay.
 
I've been busy lately and just popped onto the forum for a few minutes. I poked through your thread.

First of all, congratulations on your weight loss! I saw your picture, and I cannot believe you were wearing those pants seven months ago. You must be ecstatic that your wedding dress fits and that you're in even better shape then when you originally wore it.

Isn't it a great feeling, as well, when you toss article of clothing after article of clothing into a 'doesn't fit me' piles? I did that recently, and now I have three garbage bags full in my trunk waiting to be dropped off for donation.

And thrift shop pants are the best, especially for goal motivation. You may not find things all the time, but when you do, it's gold.
 
'ware the Blood Sugar Monster! RRAAAARRRRRR!!!

Ecstatic? Oh you betcha!

I'm also looking at that picture, those pants especially, and thinking to myself... "why was this acceptable to me to wear these? Why was this acceptable to me to let myself get like this?". And I have no answer. Those pants didn't look so bad when I was wearing them, but now they're horrifically ginormous! :puke:

Those 501s, they're a lot closer to wearable. I can get them on, buttoned up, even sit down in them. They're still just a wee bit on the snug side. No matter, I'm thinking they'll be wearable soon enough. 'Sides, I'm heading to Las Vegas next week... a nice tight pair of jeans will be a good thing to wear.

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Oh man... the Blood Sugar Monster kicked in today like it hasn't in a while. Normally I'm pretty good about gaging my hunger vs irritability levels these days, but it got past me this time. Just about bit off a couple of my coworkers' heads. I'm eating some chicken breast & zucchini to stave the beast off. Yikes!
 
hmmm, slight insecurity here...

So after keeping track of my caloric intake over the past few days it looks like I'm averaging 1250 to 1500 per day. Its going to be weird when I have to actually start adding to that. I've been doing the reduced amount for long enough to where that is going to be difficult to add more. I probably have some fear that putting in more calories means I'll start putting on more weight... The thought just makes me wanna :puke:
 
Hooked on Endorphins

Its amazing how a post-workout endorphin rush can really be a big :chillpill: at the end of a crappy day at work.

Yesterday was one of those days that I absolutely HATED my job. Normally I like it ok. I mean, job is a job, and there's gonna be bullshit no matter where you go. Just seems lately I've needed a canoe to paddle my way through the bullshit that has been going on here.

Got home last night, wasn't able to get to my workout right away (and sulking because there was no MMA class), got my Rant on to my husband (he can be an excellent listener for situations like this), went ahead and cooked dinner so at least he could eat, then I hit the workout area.

Let me tell ya, Marilyn Manson's Mechanical Animals is EXCELLENT to work out to when you're feeling particularly frustrated. Started my warmup with some basic ballet moves (a grand plié to a relevé really illustrates how well the quads move), then moved on to the squats & lunges, other resistance type exercises for the legs & butt. Practiced my kicking for MMA, though I had nothing to kick. Still, kicking the air as quickly as you can do it with control... that's one hell of a cardio boost. Really got a good sweat going.

I felt a LOT better afterwards... I love that endorphin rush! I can see why people become exercise junkies... they get addicted to the endorphins. Wheeeeee!

This just confirms that I need a punching bag at work, and one at home. I may have to get one of those desktop punching bags, just for the hell of it. I still want one of the standing punching bags that is the head and torso of a man. Not that I need to take my aggressions out on men, but there's none that are shaped like women. Pity, because its some of the women around here I'd like to put their face on the bag when I'm kicking the crap out of it.

I think I'll get a Tae Bo DVD...

Hey, I'm still relatively calm, even managed to hear the current Object of My Annoyance tell me she's making yet MORE changes to images for this book she's working on an remaining calm... at least outwardly. AAAAARRRRGH. Can't wait to head to Las Vegas next week, even if it is a convention for work. I'll still be away from here. Only bummer about that is I have to leave my husband at home. I don't sleep well without him. :(
 
maleficent said:
no one sleeps in vegas anyhow :)

don't need to gamble -but there's always people watching to be had... :D
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I try to sleep at least some while I'm there... otherwise the zombie hunters come after me. And I have to be somewhat coherent since I'm there for a conference that has a lot of classes I need to attend. Not that I mind... I love this conference!

I don't gamble beyond spending some time on the video poker machines at the bar. Hmmm, come to think of it, I don't drink as much as I did last year either. Guess I'll be doing a whole lot more people watching.
 
Phoenyx said:
So after keeping track of my caloric intake over the past few days it looks like I'm averaging 1250 to 1500 per day. Its going to be weird when I have to actually start adding to that. I've been doing the reduced amount for long enough to where that is going to be difficult to add more. I probably have some fear that putting in more calories means I'll start putting on more weight... The thought just makes me wanna :puke:
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I'm using Spark People for tracking, and when I ran my weight and height (and cardio level) through their software, I saw the amount of calories and wondered if their software was broken. It seem like WAY too much, especially since lunch for me is about 75% raw vegetables.

So when I stepped on the scale, I was terrified. I'd read a couple articles than when you start eating right for your size and activity level, your weight may go up before coming back down. I was prepared for the worst.

And actually, over the course of 5 days of eating right and exercising, I lost half a pound and half an inch of my waist and my hips.

So it'll be fine! Nom away!

Have a great time in Vegas.
 
Hey!

That is an irrational fear of calories! Once you decide you want to maintain, you may have to play with the actual amount of calories for a while, but YOU WILL FIGURE IT OUT! :chillpill:

I know what you mean about that exercise "rush". Love it!! I've got a Tae Bo Basics (VHS tho :( ) that I've bn meaning to watch... erm, do...

Ooooo, Vegas sounds fun... can't wait to go there one day!
 
Ankebuzz said:
Hey!

That is an irrational fear of calories! Once you decide you want to maintain, you may have to play with the actual amount of calories for a while, but YOU WILL FIGURE IT OUT! :chillpill:

I know what you mean about that exercise "rush". Love it!! I've got a Tae Bo Basics (VHS tho :( ) that I've bn meaning to watch... erm, do...

Ooooo, Vegas sounds fun... can't wait to go there one day!
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I know its irrational but I can't help it! I've been busting my ass (almost literally) to get the weight off... the thought of it coming back freaks me right the frak out. I'll get over it eventually.

Worked upper body today. I need to figure out more ways of working my back with the free weights since I do my weight lifting at home. Started adding more weight to the barbell when I'm doing bench press. Not a lot still, but I'm building up to it. I'm getting definition in the delts and biceps, starting to see a bit of tricep too. AND getting a hint of back definition. Get a little more of that body fat off and a lot more will be visible.

Man, I WISH there was a way to 'target' trouble areas when you're working out. I'll just have to focus on getting it ALL down to shrink the trouble spots.

Las Vegas is going to be fun! I'm going to shoot for getting up early at least a couple mornings to get in a workout before going to the conference. Then there's going to be the challenge of where/what to eat. Guess I better grab a few protein bars in case of emergency, and the Blood Sugar Monster attacks. :reddevil:
 
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