MysticRealm
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Thank you.
Forgot to add my weigh in yesterday. I was 151.6 and this morning I was 152.8
Forgot to add my weigh in yesterday. I was 151.6 and this morning I was 152.8
Time's a Wastin, and I'm Still Fat.
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MysticRealm
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Thanks. That hair actually only takes me about 9 mins from wet hair to done. It used to take my FOREVER to curl my hair doing each 1 inch section at a time, then I found out about the pony tail method and bam. Quick, cute, curled hair!
I stand by what I say, no matter what the method.
MysticRealm
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Thanks guys. My back always looks so much better so much quicker than my belly with my lovely overhang. I should just walk around backwards.
152.8 this morning (at 9:45)
Felt terrible most all day today. Stayed in bed till 11:15 or so. But then forced myself to get up and go to the gym. Did weight lifting for the first time in a LONG while today! I have started Stronglift 5X5. Right now I can use dumbbells as the weight is low enough, but I'm not sure what I will do once I need to start using a bar as I don't have a proper power/squat rack at my gym, only a Smith machine. I know smith machines are not ideal at all, but it might be what I have to use for now. Then I'm REALLY not sure what I will do once I move to my new house and no longer have a gym. I either need to get a gym membership and those are expensive, or I need to buy my own weights, but to buy all I need that will also be expensive. And after the downpayment on my house, a little bit of furniture, and higher monthly payments (unless/until I get a roommate) I don't know what kind of money I will have for that stuff. But for now I will do what I can.
I started off pretty light as they recommend. Only 24 pounds of weights (12 pounds in each hand). Had no troubles getting to 5 reps on each of the 5 sets for each exercise, so I get to bump up the weights next time. However, I didn't see the 15 pound weights at the gym yesterday and those 20 pounders look ridiculously large. There is a barbell I could use but I have no idea how heavy the bar is. I know olympic bars are often 45 but I don't think this bar is olympic. Any ideas of how to figure it out without bringing a scale down to the gym?! I enjoyed the lifting, and I like that it's only 3 types of lifts each workout. Makes it simple and easy. I can't wait to get to the point where it's difficult, then pushing past it and getting to the next weight.
I would have liked to done some cardio but was feeling gross, I also thought that since I was going to my mom's house after that I could go for an easy bike ride. Unfortunately I felt too crappy to go. For lunch I only had a slice of toast and a couple spoonfuls of soup. I did start to feel less gross throughout the day. Was able to stomach a couple cookies my mom made, then had a helping of her chicken casserole for supper. When I got home I was very bad and had too much chocolate. Even though I knew I wasn't feeling amazing and that chocolate would not be a good idea, then had some popcorn and was bad again with having a 90 cal can of coke.
However I did stay under my weekly cal goal by 545 calories.
I really need to get in more fruits/veggies and just straight up food. I'm going to try to limit myself to one serving of chocolate a day and only having 2 snacks in the evening instead of 3.
I should have ridden today, but with not feeling well, and going to my mom's house, it just didn't happen. Would love to ride him 6 times next week since I have a horse show the next week that really needs to go well.
Lunch: Soup, toast
Snack: 2 cookies
Supper: Chicken casserole
Snacks: popcorn, coke, mini peanut butter cup, kit kat bites
Total Cals: 2012
152.8 this morning (at 9:45)
Felt terrible most all day today. Stayed in bed till 11:15 or so. But then forced myself to get up and go to the gym. Did weight lifting for the first time in a LONG while today! I have started Stronglift 5X5. Right now I can use dumbbells as the weight is low enough, but I'm not sure what I will do once I need to start using a bar as I don't have a proper power/squat rack at my gym, only a Smith machine. I know smith machines are not ideal at all, but it might be what I have to use for now. Then I'm REALLY not sure what I will do once I move to my new house and no longer have a gym. I either need to get a gym membership and those are expensive, or I need to buy my own weights, but to buy all I need that will also be expensive. And after the downpayment on my house, a little bit of furniture, and higher monthly payments (unless/until I get a roommate) I don't know what kind of money I will have for that stuff. But for now I will do what I can.
I started off pretty light as they recommend. Only 24 pounds of weights (12 pounds in each hand). Had no troubles getting to 5 reps on each of the 5 sets for each exercise, so I get to bump up the weights next time. However, I didn't see the 15 pound weights at the gym yesterday and those 20 pounders look ridiculously large. There is a barbell I could use but I have no idea how heavy the bar is. I know olympic bars are often 45 but I don't think this bar is olympic. Any ideas of how to figure it out without bringing a scale down to the gym?! I enjoyed the lifting, and I like that it's only 3 types of lifts each workout. Makes it simple and easy. I can't wait to get to the point where it's difficult, then pushing past it and getting to the next weight.
I would have liked to done some cardio but was feeling gross, I also thought that since I was going to my mom's house after that I could go for an easy bike ride. Unfortunately I felt too crappy to go. For lunch I only had a slice of toast and a couple spoonfuls of soup. I did start to feel less gross throughout the day. Was able to stomach a couple cookies my mom made, then had a helping of her chicken casserole for supper. When I got home I was very bad and had too much chocolate. Even though I knew I wasn't feeling amazing and that chocolate would not be a good idea, then had some popcorn and was bad again with having a 90 cal can of coke.
However I did stay under my weekly cal goal by 545 calories.
I really need to get in more fruits/veggies and just straight up food. I'm going to try to limit myself to one serving of chocolate a day and only having 2 snacks in the evening instead of 3.
I should have ridden today, but with not feeling well, and going to my mom's house, it just didn't happen. Would love to ride him 6 times next week since I have a horse show the next week that really needs to go well.
Lunch: Soup, toast
Snack: 2 cookies
Supper: Chicken casserole
Snacks: popcorn, coke, mini peanut butter cup, kit kat bites
Total Cals: 2012
Normally I´d say: find a friendly face (or just a hot one) and ask, but as far as I can tell you´re usually alone in there, right? Does it have markings on it? Google can be helpful in unexpected places.
Sorry you felt crappy, but good job staying under your calories! More fruit&veg/less processed stuff sounds like a good idea for anyone and might give you more energy too.
Great progress! I hope you are proud of what you've accomplished!
MysticRealm
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I did warn you to cover your eyes!
Still stuck at 152.2 Been at roughly this weight for like a week and a half!
I wasn't sure I would feel my weight lifting in my muscles today as I started out with such light weights and it didn't feel too difficult. When I woke up I didn't feel anything, but as the day progressed I did start to feel it. Mainly in my legs, they are pretty stiff, and also a bit in my upper body, though not as bad.
Work was longer today than I thought it would be. Left work around 4:30. Picked up my friend and went to the barn. The outside ring was finally dry enough to ride in, I even could pop over a few jumps out there which was great. My friend wanted to go out for supper so we went to vietnamese. I didn't want to leave too many cals for evening snacks so I had potstickers as well as my usual. Couldn't finish my usual dish as I was too full, though didn't leave a ton).
I ALMOST convinced myself to go for a 30 min run despite the fact that it was after 8pm by the time I got home, but couldn't quite.
Though I limited my snacks to 2 this evening they were both chocolate so I only stuck to half of my plan I made yesterday. I need to go grocery shopping to get other types of snacks.
I plan to try to change my Napa Cabbage Salad recipe to be able to make it much lower cal. Not sure how it will come out with the changes, but if it tastes half as good for half the cals I think it'd be good. Gotta get ingredients to give that a try.
Lunch: Salad
Supper: Vietnamese
Snack: Kit Kat Bites, Mini Peanut Butter Cups
Total Cals: 1503
Still stuck at 152.2 Been at roughly this weight for like a week and a half!
I wasn't sure I would feel my weight lifting in my muscles today as I started out with such light weights and it didn't feel too difficult. When I woke up I didn't feel anything, but as the day progressed I did start to feel it. Mainly in my legs, they are pretty stiff, and also a bit in my upper body, though not as bad.
Work was longer today than I thought it would be. Left work around 4:30. Picked up my friend and went to the barn. The outside ring was finally dry enough to ride in, I even could pop over a few jumps out there which was great. My friend wanted to go out for supper so we went to vietnamese. I didn't want to leave too many cals for evening snacks so I had potstickers as well as my usual. Couldn't finish my usual dish as I was too full, though didn't leave a ton).
I ALMOST convinced myself to go for a 30 min run despite the fact that it was after 8pm by the time I got home, but couldn't quite.
Though I limited my snacks to 2 this evening they were both chocolate so I only stuck to half of my plan I made yesterday. I need to go grocery shopping to get other types of snacks.
I plan to try to change my Napa Cabbage Salad recipe to be able to make it much lower cal. Not sure how it will come out with the changes, but if it tastes half as good for half the cals I think it'd be good. Gotta get ingredients to give that a try.
Lunch: Salad
Supper: Vietnamese
Snack: Kit Kat Bites, Mini Peanut Butter Cups
Total Cals: 1503
MandyH
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Great progress! Be proud of yourself. This may sound weird and I don't mean to sound like a creeper, but your arms are fabulous! I'm a total arm girl. I always look at and admire guys arms. Don't know what it is about them... LOL
Hopefully you'll get past your stalled weight soon. I know how frustrating it is to do all the right things and not see that number get smaller. So frustrating!
Hopefully you'll get past your stalled weight soon. I know how frustrating it is to do all the right things and not see that number get smaller. So frustrating!
MysticRealm
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Thanks guys. I like my arms, but that's pretty much how they always look (just a little less covered in fat now) I am naturally muscular, plus my riding so that's about how they stay.
Thanks for the bar info Quercus. It does have pretty thick ends, however I actually tried picking it up today and it feels more like 20 pounds than 40 pounds. Next time I will pick up the 20 pound dumbbell then the barbell and see if it feels the same.
152.2 again! this morning!
Long day of work today. Finished at 4:10 but my last dog didn't get picked up till 4:40 so didn't leave work till after 4:50. Knowing that I had to work my horse today AND workout I was not too pleased with that. I was feeling really hungry on my way to the barn and knew my evening would be running late so I stopped and got a frozen yogurt on my way. "Tart" flavored yogurt, cookie dough, nerds, cookie cluster mix-ins.
Lunged my horse instead of rode since that was quicker, however I was sad to be stuck inside instead of being outside in the lovely weather.
Went back home and decided to eat first before working out since it was around 7pm by the time I got home. Knew it hadn't been a good decision when I got on the treadmill to warm up and I got side cramps. Did 2 mins walk warmup, 3 min run at 6.0 speed. 0.42 miles.
Then did my second weight lifting workout. Squats, Overhead Press, and Deadlifts were on the ticket for today.
Squats I increased my weights from 24 to 30 pounds, still could do all my sets/reps. Overhead press was 24 pounds, I think I will feel that tomorrow, though I didn't have an issue finishing my sets/reps. Deadlifts you only do 1 set of 5 (after warmup sets, which I don't have yet since I am starting at such a low weigh. Next week I prob will). Did 30 pounds without issue. This means that next time all my weights go up again. If that bar is 20 pounds that means I can start using the bar and adding in weights in better increments.
I then hopped back onto the treadmill and did 30 mins. 25 mins running, speed of 5.8 except for the 1 min sprint at 8.0. 5 mins walk cooldown. Distance of 2.69 (total with warmup of 3.11 miles, 5.0km) and total cal burn of 390.
No chocolate today. Had popcorn for my last snack.
Lunch: Peanut butter granola bars
Snack: Frozen Yogurt
Supper: Thai leftovers
Snack: Popcorn
Total Cals: 1510
Thanks for the bar info Quercus. It does have pretty thick ends, however I actually tried picking it up today and it feels more like 20 pounds than 40 pounds. Next time I will pick up the 20 pound dumbbell then the barbell and see if it feels the same.
152.2 again! this morning!
Long day of work today. Finished at 4:10 but my last dog didn't get picked up till 4:40 so didn't leave work till after 4:50. Knowing that I had to work my horse today AND workout I was not too pleased with that. I was feeling really hungry on my way to the barn and knew my evening would be running late so I stopped and got a frozen yogurt on my way. "Tart" flavored yogurt, cookie dough, nerds, cookie cluster mix-ins.
Lunged my horse instead of rode since that was quicker, however I was sad to be stuck inside instead of being outside in the lovely weather.
Went back home and decided to eat first before working out since it was around 7pm by the time I got home. Knew it hadn't been a good decision when I got on the treadmill to warm up and I got side cramps. Did 2 mins walk warmup, 3 min run at 6.0 speed. 0.42 miles.
Then did my second weight lifting workout. Squats, Overhead Press, and Deadlifts were on the ticket for today.
Squats I increased my weights from 24 to 30 pounds, still could do all my sets/reps. Overhead press was 24 pounds, I think I will feel that tomorrow, though I didn't have an issue finishing my sets/reps. Deadlifts you only do 1 set of 5 (after warmup sets, which I don't have yet since I am starting at such a low weigh. Next week I prob will). Did 30 pounds without issue. This means that next time all my weights go up again. If that bar is 20 pounds that means I can start using the bar and adding in weights in better increments.
I then hopped back onto the treadmill and did 30 mins. 25 mins running, speed of 5.8 except for the 1 min sprint at 8.0. 5 mins walk cooldown. Distance of 2.69 (total with warmup of 3.11 miles, 5.0km) and total cal burn of 390.
No chocolate today. Had popcorn for my last snack.
Lunch: Peanut butter granola bars
Snack: Frozen Yogurt
Supper: Thai leftovers
Snack: Popcorn
Total Cals: 1510
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MysticRealm
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Finally the scale moved a bit. 151.0 this morning. Now whether it will stick around is another question.
BugDude
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So close to the 140s!!! Keep up the great work you've been doing and you'll keep seeing great results. Sometimes we hit a plateau while our bodies adjust and then BAM! it's like it kicks in and has a quick drop. Just be consistent in your approach and the number on the scale will take care of itself.
BeHappyWMe
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Congrats on increasing your weight on squats. I use to be so scared the first time but wow, that exercise is amazing.
MysticRealm
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Thanks guys.
I had a riding lesson after work today. I finally could have a lesson in the outdoor ring since it was finally semi dry enough to use. But this meant I had to drag the BIG jump standards out to set up a course with. The outdoor arena is also much bigger, and the dryest parts are at the far end so I had to carry those things a long way. 10 massive jump standards, 5 poles/planks, one large wooden 'coup', and 30 mins later I had everything set up. My horse was pretty good. I am trailering him over to my trainer's barn tomorrow to do more of a course on better footing.
I was surprised my shoulders and whole body wasn't more sore today from weights yesterday. I know I'm starting light with the weights but I thought my shoulders felt it a bit more yesterday.
I did not exercise today as I had to stay at my mom's house tonight and only got back from the barn around 7:30. It was quite cold outside and my mom currently doesn't have a treadmill or anything.
I over ate chocolate a bit today. I brought it with me for a snack today but didn't have a scale to measure. So I started to eat them and tried to guess on the serving size, then since I had more cals left than the single serving size I decided I would eat a bit more, then thought 'well there can't be too many servings in this small pack'. Ate the whole thing, THEN calculated the cals and it was over 600. I put me at around 1800 cals. I think I should still be ok. My days off work this week will be tomorrow and Sunday and I know I will be fairly busy tomorrow so should be able to stay under 1500 cals like a normal workday. So instead of my higher cal days being sat and sun it will be today and sun this week.
Probably won't go around to any/many diaries as I didn't bring my laptop to my moms house since I'm only here for the night (have to drive my mom early in the morning to Mexico so she can have fun in the sun) and writing too much on my phone is a pain in the bum.
Lunch: peanut butter granola bar
Supper: footling subway sub
Snack: m&m's
Total cals: 1817
I had a riding lesson after work today. I finally could have a lesson in the outdoor ring since it was finally semi dry enough to use. But this meant I had to drag the BIG jump standards out to set up a course with. The outdoor arena is also much bigger, and the dryest parts are at the far end so I had to carry those things a long way. 10 massive jump standards, 5 poles/planks, one large wooden 'coup', and 30 mins later I had everything set up. My horse was pretty good. I am trailering him over to my trainer's barn tomorrow to do more of a course on better footing.
I was surprised my shoulders and whole body wasn't more sore today from weights yesterday. I know I'm starting light with the weights but I thought my shoulders felt it a bit more yesterday.
I did not exercise today as I had to stay at my mom's house tonight and only got back from the barn around 7:30. It was quite cold outside and my mom currently doesn't have a treadmill or anything.
I over ate chocolate a bit today. I brought it with me for a snack today but didn't have a scale to measure. So I started to eat them and tried to guess on the serving size, then since I had more cals left than the single serving size I decided I would eat a bit more, then thought 'well there can't be too many servings in this small pack'. Ate the whole thing, THEN calculated the cals and it was over 600. I put me at around 1800 cals. I think I should still be ok. My days off work this week will be tomorrow and Sunday and I know I will be fairly busy tomorrow so should be able to stay under 1500 cals like a normal workday. So instead of my higher cal days being sat and sun it will be today and sun this week.
Probably won't go around to any/many diaries as I didn't bring my laptop to my moms house since I'm only here for the night (have to drive my mom early in the morning to Mexico so she can have fun in the sun) and writing too much on my phone is a pain in the bum.
Lunch: peanut butter granola bar
Supper: footling subway sub
Snack: m&m's
Total cals: 1817
MysticRealm
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A quick stop in as I'm in the middle of weightlifting but when I stepped on the scale this morning... 149.4!
Now that's a bit of a false weigh in because that weight was at nearly 10:00 instead of my usual 7:30 but it was still nice to see. Crossing fingers for tomorrow's official weigh in.
Now that's a bit of a false weigh in because that weight was at nearly 10:00 instead of my usual 7:30 but it was still nice to see. Crossing fingers for tomorrow's official weigh in.
Paladin-Cleric
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Good luck with the weight loss! I'm almost afraid to look at the scales this week, I'm always scared of seeing nothing some off at all, especially after all the exercise I've been putting in! It always feels so disheartening doesn't it, to put the effort in and see nothing in return. But, I have faith you'll do it!
Your horse sound really cool.
Your horse sound really cool.
MysticRealm
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THank you. It can be frustrating that's for sure.
So another quick stop in to talk about my weight lifting today. It was quite frustrating. I decided I wanted to try to use that barbell instead of freeweights. But I just could NOT figure out how much the damn thing weighed! I tried comparing it to the dumbbells but because you can't pick up the bar the same way as you pick up the dumb bell it was so impossible to tell. I initially thought it weighed 30 pounds so did my squats and half of my bench press, then decided it wasn't 30 it was 20-25 so then switched back to using 2 15pound dumb bells for the rest. Then decided that sicne it was only 20-25 poudns I needed to do my squats again as that's too light for the squats because I would have done 30 pounds last time so should have increased by 5 pounds. I looked at the smith machine bar and it said it was 20 pounds so I put 15 pounds onto that bar and tried using it for squats but hated it! You don't have to balance the bar at all and you end up leaning into the bar so you don't even have to balance yourself. Did one set and thought well if this bar is 20 then the other one prob is too. So I loaded up the free bar with the 15 pounds and finished my sets with that. It was definitely harder and the last couple reps on the last couple sets were a bit difficult but I did them. However, that means I'm getting to the point where the weight is heavy enough that I need a squat rack to stay safe! And we only have the damned smith rack! So now I'm not sure what to do! If I had someone else to work out with I could just ask them to spot me, but I don't.
I was also so pissy about the bar weight confusion that I lost all desire to do any cardio after my workout, and I still really had no idea how much I had lifted, so I finally went back up to my apartment, grabbed my stupid scale, took it back down to the gym and finally figured out how much weight I had lifted.
The bar, is 30 pounds. Which means I 'over-lifted' by 10 pounds on my squats today. I should have only bumped up to 35 pounds from 30 pounds, but instead I lifted 45. Whoops. Oh well it was doable but not sure if I'll be able to add to that next time.
What an annoying workout.
So another quick stop in to talk about my weight lifting today. It was quite frustrating. I decided I wanted to try to use that barbell instead of freeweights. But I just could NOT figure out how much the damn thing weighed! I tried comparing it to the dumbbells but because you can't pick up the bar the same way as you pick up the dumb bell it was so impossible to tell. I initially thought it weighed 30 pounds so did my squats and half of my bench press, then decided it wasn't 30 it was 20-25 so then switched back to using 2 15pound dumb bells for the rest. Then decided that sicne it was only 20-25 poudns I needed to do my squats again as that's too light for the squats because I would have done 30 pounds last time so should have increased by 5 pounds. I looked at the smith machine bar and it said it was 20 pounds so I put 15 pounds onto that bar and tried using it for squats but hated it! You don't have to balance the bar at all and you end up leaning into the bar so you don't even have to balance yourself. Did one set and thought well if this bar is 20 then the other one prob is too. So I loaded up the free bar with the 15 pounds and finished my sets with that. It was definitely harder and the last couple reps on the last couple sets were a bit difficult but I did them. However, that means I'm getting to the point where the weight is heavy enough that I need a squat rack to stay safe! And we only have the damned smith rack! So now I'm not sure what to do! If I had someone else to work out with I could just ask them to spot me, but I don't.
I was also so pissy about the bar weight confusion that I lost all desire to do any cardio after my workout, and I still really had no idea how much I had lifted, so I finally went back up to my apartment, grabbed my stupid scale, took it back down to the gym and finally figured out how much weight I had lifted.
The bar, is 30 pounds. Which means I 'over-lifted' by 10 pounds on my squats today. I should have only bumped up to 35 pounds from 30 pounds, but instead I lifted 45. Whoops. Oh well it was doable but not sure if I'll be able to add to that next time.
What an annoying workout.
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