Shani's Diary

shanifaye

shanifaye

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I read the sticky and am starting with the questions on it





-- How much weight do you want to lose? 50 pounds

-- What is the timeframe for reaching your target weight? 1 year

-- How do you want to accomplish your goal (what methods do you want to use)?Exercise

-- Who or what can support you in reaching your goal?My husband

-- How realistic is your goal?I think its very doable

-- When will you start? I started Dec 29th 2007




What is your current height and weight? height is 5'2 and on 12/29/07 I weighed 221 pounds
If you were at an ideal weight now, what would that weight be? 170
At what weight would you like to be at four months from now? 190
Why do you want to lose weight? to have more engery and not look preggie all the time
Do you want to lose weight for a specific life event such as wedding or reunion? If so, when is that event? no event
What obstacles could get between you and your weight loss goals? well lets see, last year it was pneumonia, 2 broken ribs and a broken ankle all at different times
Why do you think that you now have a weight problem? I'm having to buy larger clothes
What lifestyle changes do you think would help you lose weight? being more active
Have you lost weight in the past? If so, what has worked in the past to help you lose weight?I lost 60 pounds once doing nothing but walking
Why do you believe that you did not lose weight or you gained the weight back?got lazy
What, if anything, has not worked for you in the past in helping you to lose weight? Why do you think it did not work?Dieting...I dont know why it doesnt work
Would you try writing down all food and drink consumed for a given period of time?Sure
Do you cook at home often? If so, what do you cook?I cook at a lot...most meals are grilled meat, steamed veggies, a potato of some form and salad
How often do you go out to eat? Where do you go?Depends on budget...usually fast food when I do
What are your three favorite foods?Spaghetti, salad, steamed veggies
What are your three favorite restaurants?Longhorns, Red Lobster
What are three things you can do differently when it comes to food?grill not fry, steam not fry
If you woke up tomorrow and your body was exactly the way you want it, what would be different?I wouldnt have to keep buying new clothes
Do you eat when you are not hungry?nope
Do you binge eat (large amounts at a time)?nope
Do you hide your food or eat in secret?nope
Do you eat when you are sad, nervous, or depressed?nope
Do you eat as a reward?nope
Do you eat while watching TV or using the computer?Yes
What do you normally eat for a meal?grilled meat, steamed veggies, a potato of some form and salad
What type of snacks do you eat?popcorn or chocolate
In terms of exercise, what, if anything, are you currently doing?working my way up to extended cardio
Where do you go for exercise? A local public gym? School/work gym? Home? Home and Gym
What, if anything, are your three favorite types of exercise?I dont have a favorite yet
What is your daily/weekly/monthly/yearly motivation to move towards your goals?I have noticed Im not ready for bed at 7 pm now that Im exercising
Do you have rewards for certain goals?New clothes!!!
 
I have been writing things down on my own forum....I am just going to copy and paste here to catch things up

January 2 2008

ok...we are going to try this again....after having the pnuemonia, the 2nd exploding boob, the hives and the broken ankle (not to mention Dave's mom took the treadmill back) everything went to crap.

I got a treadmill for christmas (Dave's mom gave me hers back for good as she has been told she has bursitis so she cant use it anymore) and since im SO sore from all the walking and lighthouse climbing I figure now is as good a time as any to get back "on it"....I shouldnt let this pain go to waste lol

I forgot to weigh today...but I did a few weeks ago and I was 221 and I feel its from total inactivity. I do not feel my food intake is all that bad....lots of grilled meat, lots of veggies etc so Im not going to "diet" I have already learned the trick of stopping eating before I feel full and I always do that....Im going to see how being more active goes for awhile...I will be walking every day for two weeks (and after I weigh tomorrow, I wont weight again for the 2 weeks to see what kind of progress I get before I adjust what Im doing)

So....today I did the treadmill for a total of 2 cher songs (this ipod is going to come in handy)...that came to 6 minutes and 50 seconds at 2.5 miles per hour, and for 30 seconds I ran at 5 miles per hour

January 3 2008
Well I weighed this morning.....still 221, I guess I should be glad I didnt gain any during the holidays

woohoo two days in a row

walked 2.5 mph for 2 def leppard songs...total of 8 minutes I made it .33 of a mile hehehee

January 4 2008
same def lep song twice.....I was really grooving to it lol 8 minutes 10 seconds

I have now walked 6 days (didnt do anything on tuesday cause of all the driving home)

walking around savannah was more fun hehehehe

January 5 2008
wow..so Im walking today...using def lep again and when the first song was over I was like...hell I just started, I wasnt even winded....the same with the 2nd song(well a tad winded, but not breathing so heavy im trying not to puke)

I did 10.5 minutes today

tomorrow I will kick it up from 2.5 mph to 3 and see what happens

January 7 2008
ok so yesterday I kicked it up a notch to 3 mph and managed 7 minutes (2 bon jovi songs)

Im really depressed though, I went ahead and weighed this morning....I havent lost even 1 single pound

January 8 2008
I forgot to write down what I did yesterday....I was so pissed/depressed I only manged 4.5 minutes at 2.7 mph....better than nothing I guess prob would have done better but I didnt use the ipod i had the tv on and I never seem to do as good without music

Today I did 3 songs, Frankie goes to hollywood..Relax, The go go's...we got the beat and Phil Collins...Invisible touch for a total of 10 minutes and 3 seconds at 2.5 mph

January 9 2008

Considering the mood I was in this afternoon I really didnt want to walk....but I started watching last nights episode of The Biggest Loser and when I saw Jillian was telling them they had to do an hour on the treadmill, I thought to myself....and Im griping about 10 minutes?

So....I walked watching the show and I pushed myself past the 10 minute mark to 11.....yeah Im proud I didnt break my streak

January 10 2008

ok so I didnt exatly walk today......but..

I did meet with my personal trainer at the gym and did 2 sets of reps on all the weight machines and some time on the eliptical, treadmill and bike smile.gif so that counts right?

The scale says I weight 218 pounds....thats 3 down woohoooo!!!

12 days of walking without quitting
 
Had red cross training most of the day today (all my certifications have expired) but it was over at 2 so I hit the gym on the way home

I did:

11 minutes on the treadmill, started at 2.5 increased to 3 at 6 minutes, went back down to 2.7 at 10 minutes... I walked 1/2 mile

Did two sets of 8 reps on all the weight machines

Did 4 minutes on the bike...went 1/2 mile

Did 20 seconds on the eliptical (just couldnt do anymore of that)

all in all I worked out for an hour

Scale at the gym says 217.4 pounds

note to self **** need to take body measurements tonite
 
did measurements before I chickened out...lol I knew they would be bad

Bust 44 in
Waist 42 in
Hips 47 in
thighs 26 in
arms 16 in
calves 17.5 in
neck 16 in (dont know if neck will get smaller, I just figured I'd measure it too lol)
 
my neck did get smaller so there's no reason to believe it shouldn't :)

they aren't bad at all :D it's a starting point....
 
Hubby and I went and worked out together today....that was fun!!!

I was in serious pain all nite, every time I rolled over in the bed and anything touched my triceps I woke up screaming lol poor Dave. It feels like someone is skewering me with hot pokers there..oh well what Im doing must be working right?

Dave and I went and did our grocery shopping so we could be finished when the gym opened a 8. I really didnt think I would be able to do much but cardio...but somehow I managed to make myself do one set of 12 on all the machines....even the one that works my tri's....just about cried thru all 12 but I did it lol

Had a scare on the scale....(I dont own one of my own) weighed at the gym and it told me I weighed more than I did yesterday........

who knew having an ipod in your pocket could affect your weight ahahahaha

Im so dumb sometimes. So...when I took off my hat and my ipod I was .2 down from yesterday yay me!!!

I've had my shower now and Im gonna have Dave rub my arms with banalg to see if that will help them just a little
 
havea fun rubdown :)

And don't be too concerned with daily fluctuations in weight -it happens to everyone... pick one day a week and use that as your "official" weight - then if you want to weigh in daily do that merely as a guide but it's going to go up and down based on what you've eaten, what you're wearing, what you have or haven't eliminated from your body, etc...

Good job thougho n having the scale go downwards again :)
 
I am in so much pain today (no Im not whining....Im glad for the pain) but something seems to be wrong with my stomach too, so Dave kept me home from the gym (prob just as well lol)

Soon as I can get things under control I will do the tread here at home just so I have something down for today...He keeps telling me there is nothing wrong with taking Sunday off....I wish I knew I wouldnt feel guilty if I did lol
 
I dont know whats wrong with me today....I told Dave when I laid down to take a nap that I felt like I'd had a whole nite of drinking...without the drinking lol. I slept for about 2 hours and felt a little better when I woke up but not much.

I dont know how I did it, I dont know if its the fact that if I didnt I would break a streak of doing something every day for 15 days or what...but I made myself get on the tread.

I told him I was just going to do a few minutes because I didnt feel so hot...but next thing I knew I'd done 11 minutes....Im so proud lol
 
Good for you for trying the elliptical. I tried it one day and I couldn't stay on it longer than a few dozen seconds, either. Those things are torture, dude.

That's awesome that you got on the treadmill even though you didn't feel good. I find it much easier to work out if I go every single day. I'm great at making bad habits, but good habits are SO much harder.

Proud of you, girl! :D
 
thanks!!!

I think the main prob I have with the elip is that my legs are SO short the stride is unbearable, I feel like Im about to fall on my face at any minute lol
 
oh god I felt like crap today....stupid PMS....I feel so bloated its insane I took a complex b vitamin today, made god knows how many trips to the bathroom, have drunk almost all my water for the day and I still feel like Im about to pop

Breakfast was a cup of coffee and a sausage biscuit
Lunch was salad containing, iceburg lettuce, tomatoe, cucumber, onion, a few black olives and ranch dressing
snack was strawberries and honey
dinner will be, one grilled pork chop, one ear of corn and a baked potato

that aside

As it is monday....and I plan on doing this every monday I upped my cardio

I did 3/4 of a mile on tread at 3 mph and 3/4 a mile on the bike...still havent figure out the mph thing...the machine said 81 but Im not sure? that doesnt seem right to me lol...took me about 3 1/2 minutes to go that far and heart rate was 175

Today was weight day so I did two reps of 8 on each machine and upped the weight 10 pounds on all the leg machines and the abdominals (my arms are still protesting badly so I kept those the same)

I didnt figure there was any point in weighing today...but I did anyway lol Im the same as I was saturday 217
 
hi shanifaye!!!! Thanks for stopping by my diary! Good for you for still working out even though you didn't feel so well! My time's coming up towards the end of the week, so I'm worried about how I'll do with it! Seem's like you also had a very good diet today....I'm still working on eating consistently well! Anyway, great job today despite how you're feeling!
 
Thanks :)

I really feel like I accomplished something by not letting how I felt "rule" me and give me an "excuse" to be lazy, Im one of those that usually will let the stupidest excuses keep me from exercising...

This is kind of like when I was a recovering drug addict (20+ years ago) and I was in a 12 step program....only there are no chips to show my progress, just a smaller me (in some place I obviously cant see yet lol)

only 12 more days before I can say 30 days NOT exercise free!!!!

lol I think the coffee is hitting me a little hard this morning
 
only 12 more days before I can say 30 days NOT exercise free!!!!
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I've read that it takes 28 days to build a habit -- so you're wellon your way to a new exercise habit -that's awesome...

I hope you have a great reward planned for yourself when you hit the day 30 :) you'll surely have earned it :D
 
So for kicks, because I said I was not going to count calories....Im doing portion control, I looked into how much I ate yesterday....which pretty much is a normal day for me, it came to roughly 1300 calories...some days will be a little more because I alternate lunches salad one day, sandwhich the next so I dont get bored.

I'm kinda surprised
 
I got tied up last nite and couldnt post.....Tuesday is cardio only day and I did 3/4 mile on both the bike and the tread....got a really strange pain in my right leg.....I think I goofed, normally I do the first .25 mile at 2.5, this time I started straight out at 3.

Still feeling bloated....stupid TOM, I weigh tomorrow and Im sure its not going to show anything....

Im almost to upset/depressed to go workout today....I got bad news about a friend last nite and its just left me speechless and numb and feeling helpless.....I cant let it stop me though....and not going to work out isnt going to change the situation any....but damn (dont mean to be cryptic.....one of my best friends came home yesterday from work to find her b/f of 4 years had moved out...leaving her a note...this is a couple thats very very close to Dave and I and Im just devastated and confused and I hurt for her so much)

Anyway....today is full work out day....so maybe if I get the adrenaline going this afternoon I might feel a little better
 
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