Hey Mystic, just got to keep doing what you're doing. How long is your trip to New York for? If you think you're really going to struggle, just eating at maintenance and keeping up with your exercise will be better than bingeing here and there... You'd be holding at least 6lbs of water weight too. Ha, this journey will never stop being a fight for me... It's always a good week, several bad ones, then a few good ones fighting to get back to where I was... then a small drop and repeat. You can do this though, you got this far and you did it before too! Just got to keep fighting for it and accept the bad days/weeks as part of the journey!
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with all of the above(incl. on the previous page). Keep up the good work Mystic. You have done so well & will continue to do so. It is so worth it. I mean, look at you & what you're accomplishing. Really! xoxo Cate
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Thanks guys. The New York trip is only 5 days, 4 nights.
As far as my next race. I don't really know. We are heading into winter. There appear to be no more obstacle races, mostly regular 5-10k races which aren't terribly interesting to me so I will probably have to wait till next year.
151 this morning. Can't wait to drop the water weight, get back into the 140's and see where my weight evens out at.
Had a good eating day today!! Yay!
Had an ok day at work, still slow due to school starting. Left at 2:30 and went to the barn. My ride ended up being really short because I got to talking with the barn owner, then I went to ride outside to do a jump school but the arena was far too wet to ride in, so I had to go to the indoor and that just kinda lost me all my motivation so I ended up riding for like 10 mins!
I felt really tired on my drive home. Really wanted to sit and do nothing, but I got home, had a quick snack (found a 60 cal sample package of beef jerky from my Tough Mudder), then headed to the gym! Did 5 min walk, 5 min run, 5 min walk warm up before weights. OMG it was hard to run!
Squats 135
Bench Press 65
Barbell Row 65
I then wanted to do a 30 min run. What I wanted to do was do enough exercise to eat 1700 cals. I started to try to run and OMG could not do it today. Nope nope nope haha. But I checked my calories allowed and I definitely made my cal goal so I decided to do a 10 min walk and call it a day.
I don't need to do crazy amounts of cardio without any races coming up. Just enough to allow me to eat the cals I would like to
I had had my fitbit goal set to 15,000 steps a day, but I am going to back it down to 10,000 till I sign up for a longish race again.
I said yesterday that I would start posting my fitbit stats today, but I meant to post TODAY's fitbit stats which I usually post the next day so I will start tomorrow.
Calories Eaten: 1966
Forgot to add that I finally have the possession date for my house! November 13th! Now I just need to sell my current place before then (aka. possession date for my current house BEFORE my new house so I get the money for the downpayment!)
As far as my next race. I don't really know. We are heading into winter. There appear to be no more obstacle races, mostly regular 5-10k races which aren't terribly interesting to me so I will probably have to wait till next year.
151 this morning. Can't wait to drop the water weight, get back into the 140's and see where my weight evens out at.
Had a good eating day today!! Yay!
Had an ok day at work, still slow due to school starting. Left at 2:30 and went to the barn. My ride ended up being really short because I got to talking with the barn owner, then I went to ride outside to do a jump school but the arena was far too wet to ride in, so I had to go to the indoor and that just kinda lost me all my motivation so I ended up riding for like 10 mins!
I felt really tired on my drive home. Really wanted to sit and do nothing, but I got home, had a quick snack (found a 60 cal sample package of beef jerky from my Tough Mudder), then headed to the gym! Did 5 min walk, 5 min run, 5 min walk warm up before weights. OMG it was hard to run!
Squats 135
Bench Press 65
Barbell Row 65
I then wanted to do a 30 min run. What I wanted to do was do enough exercise to eat 1700 cals. I started to try to run and OMG could not do it today. Nope nope nope haha. But I checked my calories allowed and I definitely made my cal goal so I decided to do a 10 min walk and call it a day.
I don't need to do crazy amounts of cardio without any races coming up. Just enough to allow me to eat the cals I would like to
I had had my fitbit goal set to 15,000 steps a day, but I am going to back it down to 10,000 till I sign up for a longish race again.I said yesterday that I would start posting my fitbit stats today, but I meant to post TODAY's fitbit stats which I usually post the next day so I will start tomorrow.
Calories Eaten: 1966
Forgot to add that I finally have the possession date for my house! November 13th! Now I just need to sell my current place before then (aka. possession date for my current house BEFORE my new house so I get the money for the downpayment!)
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How many calories do you "have" to burn to be allowed to eat 1700? Great job sticking to that one packet of jerky by the way, I find that if my snacks contain too many fast carbs (ie sugarbombs and chips) I run out of control a lot more than when my snacks actually have some nutritional value.
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I will respond to you tomorrow lama. Just logged on to say grr! Something went wonky between my Fitbit and Mfp so it told me I had more calories to eat today (from exercise) than I actually did! I still ate under maintenance but I easily could have eaten 150 less cals and stayed where I had a true 0.5 lb a week loss deficit!! So unhappy. Will have to try to watch out for that!
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So I got my calorie problem sorted. The website version was set to maintenance and my phone was set to 0.5lbs lost a week and I assumed both were set to 0.5lbs per week.
As far as how many cals I need to burn to eat 1700 cals. My base cals are set to 1640. So if I am 'lightly active' I can eat 1640. So I need to do just a little more to get to 1700. Usually getting in my 10,000 steps a day gets me there.
150 this morning. Starting the slow journey back down.
Yesterday's Fitbit
Steps: 10,053
Floors: 13
Miles: 4.52
Calories: 2040
Yesterday's Deficit: 74
Pretty good day today.
Had a light day of work with a gap between dogs so I went for a 30 min walk to get some steps in, saw a couple deer.
After work I went to the barn and had a really nice ride on my horse.
I thought about going to hot yoga, but instead decided to walk to the grocery store as I was pretty stiff from my weights yesterday. I also stopped in at the mall as my mom gave me a couple of her old rings and I needed to get them resized a bit. I had to boogie on my walk back from the grocery store as I bought ice cream and frozen raspberries and needed to get them home before they melted!
Cals Eaten: 1739
As far as how many cals I need to burn to eat 1700 cals. My base cals are set to 1640. So if I am 'lightly active' I can eat 1640. So I need to do just a little more to get to 1700. Usually getting in my 10,000 steps a day gets me there.
150 this morning. Starting the slow journey back down.
Yesterday's Fitbit
Steps: 10,053
Floors: 13
Miles: 4.52
Calories: 2040
Yesterday's Deficit: 74
Pretty good day today.
Had a light day of work with a gap between dogs so I went for a 30 min walk to get some steps in, saw a couple deer.
After work I went to the barn and had a really nice ride on my horse.
I thought about going to hot yoga, but instead decided to walk to the grocery store as I was pretty stiff from my weights yesterday. I also stopped in at the mall as my mom gave me a couple of her old rings and I needed to get them resized a bit. I had to boogie on my walk back from the grocery store as I bought ice cream and frozen raspberries and needed to get them home before they melted!
Cals Eaten: 1739
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Very good daily program Mystic! The calories deficit is important in a diet plan. I decided yesterday to start again with counting calories. I limit my unimportant calories from chocolate and slices of bread. I found a little difficulty to control again what i'm eating after the period of holidays that i didn't care very much about diet. Yesterday was the first day and i saw a little progress today but i was feeling extremely hungry in the morning and without energy. I was feeling hungry, however i decided not to succumb to temptation of food filled with calories. I think that this feeling of hungry is temporary and it will pass soon. Another day for staying on diet plan.
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Thanks guys. Feeling really tired so won't do a full update.
148.4 this morning.
My day was going great eating wise till 8:30pm when I left the horse show I had been watching and stopped at Dairy Queen on my way home which just started an avalanche of bad eating. Whoops.
Finished at 3200 cals or so. Though I parked super far away at the horse show so had to walk a good bit I didn't even make 5000 steps today!
Tomorrow is another day though so will try to do right tomorrow.!
148.4 this morning.
My day was going great eating wise till 8:30pm when I left the horse show I had been watching and stopped at Dairy Queen on my way home which just started an avalanche of bad eating. Whoops.
Finished at 3200 cals or so. Though I parked super far away at the horse show so had to walk a good bit I didn't even make 5000 steps today!
Tomorrow is another day though so will try to do right tomorrow.!
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The difference between 3200 calories and 1700 is less than half a pound, so it's no big deal.
I've been slack on diaries lately because I've been busy (and a little bummed about my injury) so I apologize, but I caught up with your travails. Congrats on finishing the tough mudder. For whatever reason that was one of those things I've never had any desire to do (or the spartan race or similar).
On the NY trip, take the fitbit obviously. It's a city where you can see an awful lot by just doing a lot of walking and you might be able burn more than usual just by sightseeing. In any event, all the lost weight and the increase in cardio endurance gives you room to enjoy yourself in New York, so make that priority one.
I need to get there myself so I can get my mug on TV...
I've been slack on diaries lately because I've been busy (and a little bummed about my injury) so I apologize, but I caught up with your travails. Congrats on finishing the tough mudder. For whatever reason that was one of those things I've never had any desire to do (or the spartan race or similar).
On the NY trip, take the fitbit obviously. It's a city where you can see an awful lot by just doing a lot of walking and you might be able burn more than usual just by sightseeing. In any event, all the lost weight and the increase in cardio endurance gives you room to enjoy yourself in New York, so make that priority one.
I need to get there myself so I can get my mug on TV...
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Thanks guys.
149.8 this morning
So I actually slept in this morning which was awesome. I started out really feeling like sitting around all day and vegging. But after much debate I pushed myself to the gym. Did 15 min warm up (5mins walk, 5 mins run, 5 mins walk) before weights.
Squats 140lbs
Overhead Press 65 (did not complete all reps in 4 out of 5 sets)
Deadlift 140lbs
I could not convince myself to go for a run though, but planned to do a decent amount of walking.
Got back up to my place and had food then again sat around wanting to stay there and eat and not do anything, but managed again to get myself going and head to the barn. Had a great ride on my horse and the weather was lovely.
Ran some errands, picked up some protein bars to try, then stopped and got frozen yogurt (which I made sure nicely fit into my cal goal). Got home around 4.
Really felt like I was going to have a good eating day... then I totally didn't. Got addicted yesterday to bagels with butter and cheese and had like 4 of them today, and a protein bar, and chocolate, and some cashews, and a little bit of this pasta salad I make (though was too full to have much of it)
Finished my cals around 2600 or so, which actually could have been much worse. It actually felt more like a 3000+ cal day. And I did get my 10,000 steps in.
On a positive note, I have my house conditionally sold again. Unfortunately for 3500 LESS than the last time I had it conditionally sold and close to 15000 less that what I paid for the house 6 yrs ago! But if this stupid sale just goes through I will be happy. Since now that I know my possession date is Nov 13th I just needed my money for my down payment by then. I will definitely have to take out a line of credit to cover the difference between what I sold my house for and what I need to get to 20% down payment (so I don't have to pay 11,000 in insurance and can only get a 25 yr amortization) unless I can borrow it from my mom instead that way I don't have to pay the interest on it, but it's a decent amount of money for her to lend me and it would probably take me close to 5 years to pay it off unless I do get a roommate. Will have to see.
I have my food roughly planned out for tomorrow. My friend has not gotten back to me on if we are going to watch the horse show together or not so my food plans may change a bit if we are gonna be there for lunch but I'm going to really try to keep to my plan and goals! Hopefully get a workout in too.
149.8 this morning
So I actually slept in this morning which was awesome. I started out really feeling like sitting around all day and vegging. But after much debate I pushed myself to the gym. Did 15 min warm up (5mins walk, 5 mins run, 5 mins walk) before weights.
Squats 140lbs
Overhead Press 65 (did not complete all reps in 4 out of 5 sets)
Deadlift 140lbs
I could not convince myself to go for a run though, but planned to do a decent amount of walking.
Got back up to my place and had food then again sat around wanting to stay there and eat and not do anything, but managed again to get myself going and head to the barn. Had a great ride on my horse and the weather was lovely.
Ran some errands, picked up some protein bars to try, then stopped and got frozen yogurt (which I made sure nicely fit into my cal goal). Got home around 4.
Really felt like I was going to have a good eating day... then I totally didn't. Got addicted yesterday to bagels with butter and cheese and had like 4 of them today, and a protein bar, and chocolate, and some cashews, and a little bit of this pasta salad I make (though was too full to have much of it)
Finished my cals around 2600 or so, which actually could have been much worse. It actually felt more like a 3000+ cal day. And I did get my 10,000 steps in.
On a positive note, I have my house conditionally sold again. Unfortunately for 3500 LESS than the last time I had it conditionally sold
and close to 15000 less that what I paid for the house 6 yrs ago! But if this stupid sale just goes through I will be happy. Since now that I know my possession date is Nov 13th I just needed my money for my down payment by then. I will definitely have to take out a line of credit to cover the difference between what I sold my house for and what I need to get to 20% down payment (so I don't have to pay 11,000 in insurance and can only get a 25 yr amortization) unless I can borrow it from my mom instead that way I don't have to pay the interest on it, but it's a decent amount of money for her to lend me and it would probably take me close to 5 years to pay it off unless I do get a roommate. Will have to see.I have my food roughly planned out for tomorrow. My friend has not gotten back to me on if we are going to watch the horse show together or not so my food plans may change a bit if we are gonna be there for lunch but I'm going to really try to keep to my plan and goals! Hopefully get a workout in too.
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Thanks guys.
Around 151 this morning but that was after eating some food already (forgot to weigh in right in the morning!)
BAAAAD eating day today. Ugh. So hard to pull myself out of this slump. My realtor texted me at 8am to tell me he sent me the files I needed to sign and I couldn't fall back asleep so I ended up getting up early. Instead of waking up at 9:30 and getting ready right away to go watch the horse show, I had too much time to sit and think about food.
Then since I was already over indulging when I got to the horse show I over indulged there, then got dairy queen on the way home, then got chinese food for supper (huge calories there!) then had 2 protein bars afterwards!!
And I only got around 7000 steps today!
We are getting busier at work again so I'm hoping that getting back into a more normal routine, and having longer work days which will hopefully result in less sitting around bored and wanting to eat time will help me get on track but it's going to be a fight for at least a couple weeks to be back on track, then there is New York!!!
I almost didn't enter my food properly into MFP but decided I had to keep entering my food into MFP or that would be one step closer to giving up. I need to force myself to see my cal counts. Today it was roughly 4500 cals.
And the bad part is is that I have leftover chinese food! But I'm going to give most if not all to my mom. I wish you could order smaller orders but I guess they don't thing about us loner losers when doing up their menus!
Another thing I'm going to do is start updating my weight 'loss' ticker every friday again, whether I have gained or lost. I have stopped updating it since I was waiting for it to go down again, but it's been up for too long to keep ignoring it. I will also go back to logging my weight everyday on my Happy Scale app to show the way my weight is trending. Need it to give me the kick in the pants I need to get back with it.
Around 151 this morning but that was after eating some food already (forgot to weigh in right in the morning!)
BAAAAD eating day today. Ugh. So hard to pull myself out of this slump. My realtor texted me at 8am to tell me he sent me the files I needed to sign and I couldn't fall back asleep so I ended up getting up early. Instead of waking up at 9:30 and getting ready right away to go watch the horse show, I had too much time to sit and think about food.
Then since I was already over indulging when I got to the horse show I over indulged there, then got dairy queen on the way home, then got chinese food for supper (huge calories there!) then had 2 protein bars afterwards!!
And I only got around 7000 steps today!
We are getting busier at work again so I'm hoping that getting back into a more normal routine, and having longer work days which will hopefully result in less sitting around bored and wanting to eat time will help me get on track but it's going to be a fight for at least a couple weeks to be back on track, then there is New York!!!
I almost didn't enter my food properly into MFP but decided I had to keep entering my food into MFP or that would be one step closer to giving up. I need to force myself to see my cal counts. Today it was roughly 4500 cals.
And the bad part is is that I have leftover chinese food! But I'm going to give most if not all to my mom. I wish you could order smaller orders but I guess they don't thing about us loner losers when doing up their menus!
Another thing I'm going to do is start updating my weight 'loss' ticker every friday again, whether I have gained or lost. I have stopped updating it since I was waiting for it to go down again, but it's been up for too long to keep ignoring it. I will also go back to logging my weight everyday on my Happy Scale app to show the way my weight is trending. Need it to give me the kick in the pants I need to get back with it.
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I didn't indulged a lot this weekend only a little. But i feel really irritated because i think i am deprived of food. Anyway i will make a little patience until i feel better. I have the feeling that when you are eating until you get full you can do things more easily and you have more energy. I am not sure that this is true. I will make something different this week and i will avoid over indulging to see if the fact that i don't have the feeling of fullness stops irritating my anymore.
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