This is the time

I'm now 86.6 kg (190.5 lb), so down 1.2 kg (2.6 lb) since last week and 10 kg (22 lb) since I started. Though I was feeling lighter this week I didn't expect to get to 10 kg, so I'm pretty happy.


"LORD, LET US THANK YOU FOR SATURDAYS
AND MAY THEY REMAIN OUR FRIENDS!!" - Bobby Russell

Time to get back to the day. :)
 
Congrats! You're even skinnier!

Yeah, I said "skinnier", because your starting weight is about where I want to end. Funny, innit?
I'm glad you hit 190 :D I would say proud, but that goes to your determination and the many ways you continuously torment your poor doggy with long walks and jogs throughout the hottest part of the year. I'm proud of anyone who'll go exercise in weather a dog don't wanna play in! :p
 
:) Well that made me smile. As I'm a 5 foot female, my BMI is tellilng me a different story about what category I'm in.

I am liking the changes though. This week I have a lot of muscles which, from the inside, feel tight. Three times today, I stood up from a squat, noticing that the muscles on top of my thighs were doing the work, rather than some protesting part at my knees!

My "poor" doggy comes walking with me very happily - she just wimps out before the end sometimes. :D They just don't make dogs like the used to. Our last dog was so tough, he cut his leg to the bone while he was out with us in the bush one day and we didn't notice until we got back to the car! This one has a ton of personality though - she pretty much does as she's asked but she has a mind of her own and likes to let us know what's on it!

I do try to avoid the heat for my exercise because I feel obliged to take it slower.
 
PS I don't actually jog. I try to walk as fast as I can sometimes, but I try to avoid jogging unless I'm in water, cos I'm chicken about what might happen to my joints! :D
 
Congratulations, Felici!!!
You have so much to be happy about: 10 kilos down (wow!), you feel the difference :D
Go on, update your signature to suit your wonderful accomplishments!!
Have a fantastic weekend and keep going!
Juliette
 
Thanks T2. :)

1 stage down, 4 to go.

I first got up around this weight 6 years ago. At the time, when I saw how heavy it was, I was overwhelmed that it was so high. Now I'm glad to get back down to it!

Today, I feel like I'm sitting pretty comfy in my lifeboat - complete with oars and maps. I can't see dry land - but I believe I will get there.


Breakfast ~ 7:00 1 slice wholemeal toast with minimal margarine and strawberry jam. 2 weetbix, 1/3 C diced peaches. 1C lowfat soy milk. 1 boiled egg. 1 C White coffee ~ 40 ml Hilo milk

Lunch 12:00 2 Salada crackers. ~ 16 raw almonds. 1 glass tomato juice.

A busy day – I ate as I drove! I don’t like to do this to often but I had some nice things later so I’m not feeling deprived.

Snack 4:15 A slice of the (w/m) bread I’d just bought. 6:30 Pepsimax.

Dinner: 7:15 Chicken with dates, orange and thyme. (About 1 ½ thighs, 1/3 red onion, 1 tspn butter, flour and chicken stock. Probably 2-3 dates and 2-3 segments of orange.) A smashed potato. Lots of salad. - Baby cos, snowpea sprouts, cucumber, mushrooms and capsicum. A little diet Italian dressing.

My husband cooked the chicken and I made the salad. I checked it out first and it seemed fine to me. It tasted great! It is sitting a little heavily now though.

Exercise ~ 5:10 pm ~ 35 min exercise in the pool at Craigie. Mostly jogging, A bit of breastroke.Water: 2500ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: 11:45

That was one busy day! Lucky my girl had tried to persuade me that I would have time to go the pool before I proved to myself that I really didn’t.

The pool was a great exercise for feet that had done much too much shopping! :) Though it didn’t last as long as I wanted it was fun. My daughter was trying to walk backwards in front of me in the water putting her hands up and saying, “Come on. Try and punch me. You know you want to. Let that anger out!” It did make me go faster too!! :D

On plan:86 days. Achieved food target: 71 days. Exercised: 70 days. All goals: 7 days.
 
T2, cinderelly - thanks for the kind words.
Qjay - yep! Lots of fun for me lately. I'm glad you got some today too.

Thank you to all the people who have inspired, and questioned, and supported me so far. I came here hoping to get enough support to be able to start changing my diet. I have gained so much more than that. People on here exercise! So now I have been exercising too and tonight I’m feeling so pleased about the result of that.

It is amazing to be able to step up on the little step inside my pantry and reach for something from the top shelf and step down again – with no pause or special plan of attack, or little grunts of effort! Clearly I still notice that I’m doing something which takes more effort than ordinary walking, but I love the extra control I have now!! I didn’t expect to get anything like this so soon. I wasn’t even sure that my knees would improve like this, some time in the future, let alone after just losing 10 kg and increasing my exercise. I think the exercise has given me back a lot of strength and mobility at weights where I didn’t have it before.

Thanks again.

Breakfast ~ 7:00 1 slice wholemeal toast with minimal margarine and strawberry jam. 2 weetbix, 1/3 C diced peaches. 1C lowfat soy milk. 1 boiled egg. 1 C White coffee ~ 40 ml Hilo milk

Lunch 2:45 2 Salada crackers. 100gm lowfat cottage cheese. 1 tomato.

Snack 4:00 Handful of almonds.

My cracker store in the glove box needs a refill.

Dinner: 8:00 140 gm grilled rump steak. A microwaved potato. About 3 tinned asparagus. Gravy. (Instant gravy). Lots of salad. - Broccoli, snowpea sprouts, sugar snap peas, mushrooms, carrot, capsicum and a few olives. A little diet Italian dressing and balsamic vinegar.

More olives than usual as my daughter found her salad overdressed and we swapped some.

Exercise ~ 12:30 2 x 20 min aerobics + stretches..Water: 2500ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: 11:45

I started today’s workout thinking that it would be a long time till I finished it. The first bit of the first one was making my thighs cane again and I wondered if I would be feeling as though I wanted to stop for the whole time!! :D However that feeling passed.

I kept up with the slow workout with the weights really well today. The faster one.....well…at least I kept moving. :D

I really like that stretch program a lot. I was thinking it might be because it means I hold the stretches for longer than if I was just having a stretch by myself. Anywho I finished up feeling great and so glad I started.

It strikes me as funny that I am being encouraged by the words and smiles of people I'm merely watching on a tape or DVD. They aren’t here and never met me – but I am encouraged anyway!!

On plan:87 days. Achieved food target: 72 days. Exercised: 71 days. All goals: 7 days.
 
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Im happy to hear you liek your tapes and the stretching - I love Yoga for that reason it makes me feel good - I need to find time for Yoga somewhere - LOL - Ive been crazy busy with work - anyway - I love to hear/read abt your excitement and enthusiasm and energy and great positive attitude towards doing your tapes and everythign esle - you trully seem happy :) or happier :) The weight loss is working for you!!!
 
Thanks a lot Cerella. I am still feeling buzzy today. And more flexible. It's very nice.

I don't quite see where you would fit much more into your routine! :D

I do think flexibility is important for making the most of your body though. (At least I do this week - I can't say I ever thought about it too much before - I just thought of stretches as something to fix problems - like medicine.)

Breakfast ~ 7:00 1 slice wholemeal toast with minimal margarine and strawberry jam. 2 weetbix, 1/3 C diced peaches. 1C lowfat soy milk. 1 boiled egg. ½ glass tomato juice. 2 C White coffee ~ 40 ml Hilo milk

Lunch 2:45 2 Salada crackers. 100gm lowfat cottage cheese. 1 tomato.

Snack 4:00 1 Salada cracker. 1 cup watermelon.

This is more than I’ve been having because I was much more hungry than usual. I expect that’s because I had exercised for longer than normal in the morning.

7:00 A little grilled lamb ( 20gm?) 1 carrot. Lots of sugar snap peas. 2 broccoli florets. 1 stalk celery.

Dinner: 9:00 70 gm grilled rump steak. Some eggplant lasagne (1/3 eggplant, 2 mushrooms, 1/3 tin tomatoes, 10-20 gm (?) cheese). ½ largish potato microwaved. A few peas.

Exercise 9:00 4 km walk Carine. Including 1200 m fast/ fast & slow intervals. 11:30 2 x 20 min aerobics + stretches. 8:15 30 min walk including 20 min fast/slow intervals. Water: 2500ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: 11:05

Today I exercised more than I have been. I walked early because I’ve been telling myself that if I haven’t exercised before I take the kids to school it’s natural to walk on the way back so if things go wrong I did still get to exercise. I did the DVD because I am trying to learn the steps, I kept going because nothing was stopping me. Afterwards, I wasn’t tired though. Just rather buzzy. I didn’t do a lot of housework or shopping and by the evening I just really wanted my local walk.

Once I started this evening I was especially glad I had, because I realized that part of the reason I was hanging out for it is I hadn’t been for the last 3 days. I don’t feel as though I push myself as much with any of the other things I do. Even though I walked this morning, my usual route round the swamps turns to a hard surface after about 2300 m, so I didn’t get 20 minutes of it. Also walking when it’s dark or nearly dark, I feel less distracted and less self conscious. Whereas Carine is a busy place.

I changed my route tonight to make sure I spent some time doing a warm up and cool down, as I just read something today about it being important. (I finally caught up with all those emails.) I did know about that already but kind of hadn’t put it together properly with this.

Also I read that stretches are more effective at promoting flexibility after a work out, whereas in the past I’ve only used them beforehand. So maybe that’s why I really like the feeling I’ve been getting after these new ones. (Well it’s a very old tape – but new to me.)

On plan:88 days. Achieved food target: 73 days. Exercised: 72 days. All goals: 7 days.
 
I like stretches, and I really like being flexible; it means you are a lot less likely to hurt yourself if you get caught unprepared when you do something dumb and it goes wrong.
I know that some eastern martial arts require daily massage and yoga-style exercises and stretching in order to keep the body flexible enough to perform the maneuvers (Kalaripayit and Gatka, for example), but I have often wondered what effects it has on muscle toning when it becomes the primary form of exercise. I have found many articles that promote it between sets when lifting weights, or as a part of warming up or cooling down, but outside of certain "graceful" forms of exercise (dancing, figure skating, gymnastics all of which focus on other exercises, as well) it is usually mentioned as "important, but secondary".
I wonder what the long term muscular effects would be... Slow twitch muscle fibers would obviously be the primary beneficiaries from this, I wonder how it would affect endurance and toning. The general way I have seen it described is "stretch until it aches a little bit, but stop before it hurts" but that isn't a direct quote, just how it seems to be described.

I guess Yoga would be a dedicated form of stretching for exercise, but I haven't done enough yoga research to see anything other than those twig-people they always put in the pictures. I wonder if there are fat guys like me doing difficult yoga maneuvers... Hmm... *pretends to look thoughtful*
 
Qjay
I don't actually know anything about yoga. Looking on the net I see that there are a couple of places at least that have modified programs to make it easier for overweight people to follow them. (eg )

I remember being told a few years back that flexibility was important, using the same terms Jane Fonda uses on this video, but I guess I wasn't ready to take the message in then. Having lost a lot of flexibility since then, I am well and truly ready to hear it now!! I think your point about the protection it gives is pretty important too.


bmohearn
Nice to see your smiling face back after your weekend. :)


Breakfast ~ 7:30 1 slice wholemeal toast with minimal margarine and strawberry jam. 2 weetbix, 1/3 C diced peaches. 1C lowfat soy milk. 1 boiled egg. ½ glass tomato juice. 2 C White coffee ~ 40 ml Hilo milk

Exercise 11:30 2 x 20 min aerobics + stretches (20min). As ever I felt reluctant to start, thinking of all the time it would take, and how I was already hungry, yet found that it wasn’t long before it was time to finish and I was feeling good again.

I’m noticing that I’m learning a bit more of the faster tape each day. I think tomorrow I will skip the first one, which includes light weights, because I did feel that it was taking some effort today. That’s fine, but from all my recent quick and dirty reading, I’m not sure that it’s a good idea to do that every day. So maybe I’ll just do that sometimes.

Lunch 1:05 2 slices of just baked wholemeal bread. (Yummm) 100gm lowfat cottage cheese. 1 tomato. 1 nectarine.

Wow. I haven’t had those nectarines for a few days. The first mouthful was spectacular!!

Snack 4:30 1/2 Salada cracker
5:00 1/2 Salada cracker. 5 almonds.

I was still hungry after the first bit of the snack, hence the extra. I was really hungry. It reminded me of a couple of weeks ago when I worked and my husband stayed with my girl and cooked a stew so it was ready by 5:00 and I was hungry and tired out after the first day working again, so I ate it then and pretty much threw my whole evening out of whack.

I don't know why I was hungry tonight. I didn’t do as much work as yesterday, and I ate more lunch. Still, I guess if I feel more hungry then eating a bit more is basically the right thing to do.

7:00 Lots of sugar snap peas. 2 broccoli florets. 1 stalk celery ½ capsicum, 1 mushroom. 1 teaspoon lite French onion dip.

Before I ate this I was feeling a bit off. Like I couldn't really be bothered with the effort of preparing food. Was I really hungry or not hungry at all anyway. How come I have to stand in this kitchen so long? Why do I make so many separate types of food when my mum cooked everybody chops and veges and we all sat down at once? Blah, blah.

So I don't like this feeling. I decided that walking would help it go. Also that eating a bunch of food whether I felt like it or not would probably help it go, because I remember that eating a healthy after dinner dessert (when I didn't really think that was what I wanted), was a good trick to stop me wanting after dinner crap, so maybe it works for pre-dinner blahs too.

Exercise 8:05 35 min walk. Every day pace.

I didn’t want to push hard today – for the same reason as not wanting to do the weighted aerobics tomorrow. However, I love being out in the evening air, and my understanding is that it might be good to follow a more intense day with a quieter one. So we walked.

I have had this idea for a while that maybe it would be good, sometime in the future when I am fit, to walk to Carine instead of just walking around it. I usually drive – it takes 5 minutes. It’s possible to get there by just walking through the suburbs though – mostly you can walk in parks or down connecting pathways between the houses and stay off the roads. So I just thought I would try walking that way for half my time and see how far I got. I actually think it would be doable right now if I had a chunk of time (2-3 hours) and the right weather. I guess that means it will be a while yet!!

Dinner: 9:00 Salad 100 gm tuna w. lemon and pepper. 125 gm 4 bean mix. Cucumber, snow pea sprouts, cherry tomatoes (about 5). 2 fresh dates.

The dates were a nice change from juicy fruits. Like instant little cakes. In fact from their taste, I wondered if they were really allowed! They're not actually on my list. I looked them up though and it says 20 cals each. Hard to believe. I'll take it though!!:D

Water: 2000ml Yesterday’s Bedtime: 11:10

On plan:89 days. Achieved food target: 74 days. Exercised: 73 days. All goals: 7 days.
 
great goals!

i just came up with something similar...in that one day next week I would be trained enough to run home from work...it's a 10 min drive but a 40-50 min run =-) it's more entertaining that way.
 
Hey you - you dont have to do plus sized Yoga I dont - if ou get a beginners tape they modify it for you if not you can make your own - and stretching afterwards can definately increase and add to your work out - at Curves the make sure we dont skip it -
 
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