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if you've failed a thousand times, you haven't failed you just learned a thousand ways not to do something...

well here I am starting at point A again trying to get to point Z, but one thing I must not forget is, you must get from point A to point B before you can think about getting to point C....

Saturday January 6th 2007 a new year to start with!!
worked today was so horrible.. I know I need to get back in the gym cause I need to get my cardio going again...
I'm an avid weightlifter, and I have focused in the past a little to much on strength, and not enough on fitness... I'm roughly about 325lbs as of right now... a few months ago I was about 308lbs which is the lowest I've been since 2005... my ultimate goal is to be a lean 225lbs... I have a big frame, so I'm not expecting much less than 225... my quota each month is a 10lb weight loss each month... so I'm hoping to get to 225 by sometime in october 2007... wish me luck everyone...

well todays saturday...
and I'm about to go to the gym, I'll let everyone know what I do, not to sure what I want to do yet, I'll figure it out when I get there...
keep my fingers crossed, lol
 
Hi & Welcome to the WLF :)

It sounds like you've got the gym work down, and that exercising isn't going to be an issue at all!

Are you throwing in some cardio? Even something as simple as a 45 minute walk can help lose the weight!

Good luck on this journey!
 
well I ended up doing 30min on the treadmill at 3.0mph, and once I realized I had enough time to workout I decided to do circuit training... my gym has a circuit training part of the gym where you can go from machine to machine to machine... its kind of like a line of machines that work opposing muscles... ex: bench/rows/triceps/biceps/quads/hams/calves/abs ect...
well I just kind of went around doing 3 sets of 12 pretty much for everything... I'll agree I might of done a little to much on my day back, but I think I'll be ok... I'll get a system going soon.. I just didn't want to do the same workout I usually do... I wanted to mix it up to get excited again...
well I weighed myself today at the gym with the doctor scale with shoes and all on, and I was 317lbs! I usually give myself 2 lbs for shoes and 1lb for clothes, so I would be approximately 314lbs... which 315 was quota from this month... Lets see what happens by the end of the week... I know weight fluxuates, but I also know I lost a lot of retained water I had, and water is 70% of your body... so a lot of weight loss is going to be water...

tomorrow I'm thinking I'm going to do 30min on the treadmill at 3.0mph again but no weights and than I'll go to work for a little bit..
 
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M2M said:
Hi & Welcome to the WLF :)

It sounds like you've got the gym work down, and that exercising isn't going to be an issue at all!

Are you throwing in some cardio? Even something as simple as a 45 minute walk can help lose the weight!

Good luck on this journey!
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thanks, yeah even though my goal hasn't always been weightloss, I've always gone to the gym, so I'm pretty familiar with training in general and what does what...
a weightloss program isn't a weightloss program without cardio! :)
thanks a bunch for the welcome, and kind words...
 
its sunday morning, and a brand new day... I feel a lot better today than I normally would on a sunday, I think it has to do with all the toxins I sweat out yesterday...
the agenda for the day is to go to the gym, do my 30minutes on the treadmill at 3.0mph and than go to work for a little bit.... I try to take it easy on sundays.... I can't wait for monday so I can start going at it again...
 
M2M said:
Have a good day :)
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thanks, I'm pretty exhausted from doing cardio and than going to work, so now that I'm home I'm going to take a long nap so tomorrow after work I'll have enough energy to do it all over again, lol

I also started taking some of my old supplements yesterday...
multivitamin, glutamine, glucosamine, and amino acids...
I'll also start taking my low carb protein shakes after my workouts as a post workout meal...
gotta keep muscle to keep burning fat... thats for sure... I'm also starting to feel my metabolism speed up through the roof, I'm always hungry now that I started working out and doing cardio hard again...
monday I'm going to weigh myself, and every monday after that as well for my official weigh in day at the gym they have a doctor scale so it should be accurate... I'll weigh myself before I start working out and after I workout... just for accuracy in weight fluxuation...
 
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here are some good quotes I've found that might relate to our journey of weightloss

"The future is purchased by the present."
-Samuel Johnson


"If fate means you lose, give him a good fight anyways."
-William McFee


"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks
others have thrown at him."
-David Brinkley

"What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is
what you feel bad after."
-Ernest Hemingway


"It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back."
-Mick Jagger

"A goal without a plan is just a wish"
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery


"If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything,
is ready, we shall never begin."
-Ivan Turgenev

"Every failure is a step to success."
- William Whewell

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
- Theodore Roosevelt

"A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at."
- Bruce Lee

"You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play."
- Warren Beatty

"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt."
- Henry J. Kaiser

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
- Winston Churchill

"Change before you have to."
- Jack Welch

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal."
- Henry Ford

"A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears."
- Michel de Montaigne
 
well I just got home from work, a little tired.. actually really tired, lol but I don't think its from training, I think its from lack of sleep this past week.. I'll be sure to sleep in tomorrow and wednesday as I have those two days off this week... I'll aslo have time on those days to focus on going to the gym more...

as for the rest of today... I'm going to take a power nap and than eat a banana and drink a gatorade and I'll do 30min on the treadmill at 3.0mph and do the circuit training course at my gym.. 3 sets of 12 trying to hit every machine in the circuit course... I'll also go in the sauna for 10 min before and after my workout...

also I'm going to stop drinking so much water at work... I felt like it was wearing me down a little.. where I usually feel lighter on my feet if I drink a little water here and there....
 
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Prfrmnc225 said:
I'm always hungry now that I started working out and doing cardio hard again...
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I can empathize with that. I find it so hard sometimes not to cancel out my workout by just chowing down! But I find that only lasts for a couple of weeks at a time and then I go through periods where I don't feel nearly as hungry. Sounds like you're doing great. Nice!
 
sunnydee said:
I can empathize with that. I find it so hard sometimes not to cancel out my workout by just chowing down! But I find that only lasts for a couple of weeks at a time and then I go through periods where I don't feel nearly as hungry. Sounds like you're doing great. Nice!
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thanks man, yeah I usually eat as much as I feel I need, just good foods.. and if I do eat something high in fat content I limit my portion... but I think I'll start getting a system down like I usually always do..
I'll have to check your journal out sometime, see how your doing :)
 
did cardio yesterday treadmill 3.0mph for 30minutes, than lifted weights for about an hour or so and than did 10 min with level intervals on a stationary bike....

today I'm going to do 30min on the elliptical machine and maybe do some time in the sauna... we'll see.. I'll post up later..
 
It sounds like you're doing a great prfrmnc - consistancy is everything in this game :) One day at a time, and you're doing just that!
 
M2M said:
It sounds like you're doing a great prfrmnc - consistancy is everything in this game :) One day at a time, and you're doing just that!
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thank you very much, that makes me feel really good about this journal that people are recognizing the hard work I put in here :) the way I look at it is... every day counts, whether I want to workout or not... christmas or 2008 will always be here eventually I mid as well do the work now so when 2008 comes along I don't go... wow its already 2008 if I would have kept doing those workouts I would be at my goal weight right now... lol :)

The thing I'm really liking about having a journal where I write how I feel or what I did and stuff is kind of the freedom... in the past I've always tried to do "programs" and my life became a program, and I would get bored after a few months, I'd lose weight, but it wasn't something I could do for the rest of my life.... but now I'm playing it by ear, doing as my body tells it to... and I go to the gym, and do something different every day... its very exciting to me where it was the exact opposite before where I knew everything I was going to eat that day, and everything I was going to exercise before I would go to the gym... now its an open book... I know this isn't a big deal to anyone but to me its much more of a breath of fresh air...
 
well I haven't posted in my journal in a few days.. partly cause I had to work in the rain and cold for the past few days, and I've been feeling on the verge of being sick for a few days... but I still feel energized in the gym... its weird... well I weighed myself, and I was 315lbs as of yesterday.. so thats 30lbs total lost since my heaviest weight
 
well I started a hand written journal in a black and white notebook, so I decided I would write in that, and whatever I wrote in that I would put on here as well... well I started it yesterday so I will start with yesterday and post todays as well...

Saturday 01/13/07 WORKED

breakfast: 2 breakfast bars + milk
snack at work: small energy drink + banana
lunch: 6" sub + milk + 1/2 orange + 1/2 banana
dinner: 6" sub + milk + 1/2 orange + 1/2 banana
snack/protein: chocolate frosty from wendys

machinepress: 3 sets of 12
machinerows: 3 sets of 12
machinetriceps: 3 sets of 12
machinebiceps: 3 sets of 12
machinequadriceps: 3 sets of 12
machinecalves: 3 sets of 20
machineabs: 3 sets of 20
machinehamstrings: 3 sets of 12
machinebackextensions: 3 sets of 20
gym closed before I could hop on the treadmill so I walked around the gym parkinglot with my ipod for 30 minutes
 
Sunday 01/14/07
weighed in at the gym at 314lbs with shoes and clothes on
I take off 2 pounds for shoes, and 1lb for clothes and with that rule of thumb I would approximately weigh 311lbs...

breakfast: 2 breakfast bars + milk
lunch: 6" sub + 1/2 orange + 1/2 banana + milk
dinner: 6" sub + 1/2 orange + 1/2 banana + milk
snack/protein: 2 fat free chocolate pudding jello cups and a cup of milk

I also worked for a few hours today...
treadmill: 3.0mph 30minutes
 
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