Tinysara's weight loss diary extrordinare!

tinysara said:
Thankyou as always JZ :) Feel free to give me 'tough love' if you think I need it :D
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I barely got away with that for a 6'-8", plus 300 pound man... I would be gettin' my ASS KICKED if I tried anything like that with you!! ;) ;) Besides, you aren't going to need tough love... you are determined, and focused, and already seeing great results!!! You have accepted this as a LIFESTYLE!! :) Wat to go!!
 
Bertjo44: Thanks so much! Unfortunately I have a serious aversion to some of those things...namely beans, eww! I only eat beans in Chili. I've got a good recipe for low fat chili if anyone would like it! The low fat PB is a great call. I'm a bit addicted to PB though. Working on that. Thanks for dropping in :)

Karl: Thankyou thankyou thankyou! I'm looking more into soy products and stuff like that...I really like soy milk, but I haven't tried any soy yogurts or anything like that. Also, would you say Tofu is a good idea? I would definitely like to up the dairy in my life, so thanks for your input. I need to go shopping now!!

Trops: Hiya! Thanks for coming by...Hahah, I'm sure the girls will come and visit in time :) I definitely have a less interesting journal than most of them though!

MissDFITT: Hey! thanks for coming in, and thanks so much for the congrats!! I had a SLAMMIN' time on the treadmill! I didn't feel winded at all (well, maybe a bit) after the running intervals, so I'm looking forward to an increase in times next week (I'm following the couch to 3mile plan). This was my first time on a treadmill for more than 10 minutes and I did it in a breeze. I ended up being on there for 23 minutes (23 as opposed to 25 because instead of a 5 minute brisk walk, I did 3mins, because I 'briskly walked' to the gym which was 2 minutes away from the library.) INFACT I felt so confident and good after the 23 minutes I did a 5 minute 'cool down' walking somewhat slowly on the steepest incline to get my heart rate back down. It was so fun!! Thanks for your input, I can't wait to be able to run longer and faster.

Jz:Thankyou!! Hahahaha I know some people find it mean, but it really helps to whoop me into gear. But thanks for the kind words. I'm really thinking of this as a change in my life, especially now that I've started running! Have an awesome day :)


Well onto today. If you hadn't noticed in my comments above, I had a GREAT time running at the gym!! It felt incredible, I didn't get tired, I went at the proper pace and I DON'T HAVE SHIN SPLINTS TODAY WOOOO! Any other time that I've gone for a run I've pushed myself too hard and too soon, resulting in hurting myself. This means that now I can:
a) go to karate tonight
b) go for ANOTHER run on Tuesday!

Since this works so well into my schedule, Here's my tentative future workout week:

Monday: Karate, 1.5 hours
Tuesday: couch to 3 mile run (30 mins)
Wed: Karate 1.5 hours
Thurs: Couch to 3 mile run (30 mins)
Friday: tentative additional run for the week, 30 min
Saturday: day of fun and laziness
Sunday: Brazillian Jiu Jitsu (anywhere from 2-5 hours) and Couch to 3 mile run.

I'm so glad that I have a PLANNED OUT schedule now. Now I can no longer say "oh maybe I'll go to karate...oh...but I should study..." I must fit my school AROUND the workouts. I have plenty of time to do homework, it doesn't have to be conveniently during my work out times.

Today's 'menu':
-Boost shake for breakfast
-1 L of water
-1/2 tuna sandwich on whole grain with tomatoes and sprouts. No lettuce because my cafeteria has contracted E. coli and they think it came from the lettuce. Gross.
-For dinner I'll probably have Salmon with home-made dill sauce (light sour cream + chopped fresh dill) and possibly a salad, most likely caesar.

Thanks for all the positive input you guys, you've really helped me a long. Have an awesome day!
 
Sara, EAS and Genisoy are the two companies I saw at Walleyworld with soy supplements. Tofu works well in some situations, if you like it. Lots of people shy away from tofu for some reason. I mean, it isn't the answer to the worlds food prayers like the media would like to have you believe, but properly prepared its a good way to do stuff (BTW, I have a recipe for an outstanding chocolate/mocha pie made with a silken tofu filling - NOT low calorie though)
 
Have a beautiful and PRODUCTIVE day! :) :) If by chance you see any "stick thin" biotches on the way to the gym... smile inwardly and think to yourself ... you may be "skinny", but I am HEALTHY!!! :D

How about "subliminal"(wish I could spell) love as opposed to tough??!?!?! :D
 
Wow, reading your planned out workouts is really inspirational! Congrats on the running! Isn't that such a great feeling when you get done with a long run? I am slowly getting back into my former "running" shape, and I can't wait to get back to the point where I can just run as long as I want...

Congrats on all of your exercise and healthy diet!

-Adam
 
Hello! just stopping by to say hi, I'm a new member too! I was reading your diary (very funny by the way), and I'm guessing you go to Moo-U? E. Coli in the lettuce? Hahaha, tell me if I'm right, I graduated spring of '07 in biomedical sciences, it's a great program. Anyway, just wanted to say I'm inspired by your workouts (karate and brazilian jiu jitsu!!!) and I'm going to go try a class at the Y instead of the elliptical today. Have a great day!
 
Karl: Thanks so much pal! I actually do like tofu, if it has the right dressings on it. I find it just kind of takes on the flavour of whatever you put on it. That chocolate mocha pie sounds DELICIOUS, but you'll have to give me the recipe when i'm further into my weight loss, and not tempted to maw down chocolate cake like I did lastnight....more on that later...:(

JZ: thankyou for the subliminal encouragement!! It really does help :) Don't you worry, I'm pumped as hell for my run tonight. However I didn't get my karate lastnight, more on THAT later too....

Adam: Hey! Thanks so much for coming by, I used to hate running, but taking it in slow steady chunks like this has made me really love and appreciate it. Hopefully someday soon we'll BOTH be able to run for miles, it'll be a first for me in my entire life!

Lizzie: Hey girl! Wow, a fellow Moo-U student!! Hahah yes, I do attend aggie-central, and yes, there is still e-coli in our damn lettuce, which has been making my tuna sandwiches significantly less crunchy. Thanks for the kind words, it's so cool to find someone on here from ONTARIO much from my own school!! AND the same program! :) If you're still in the area, you should consider taking some of the classes at the athletics centre...Karate and Jiu jitsu are just the only ones I have time for! They're still really cheap too :)


on to today's entry.

Well, you'll be disappointed in me for last night's debauchery. I had a great night planned: Chicken caesar for dinner, badass karate work out...

Turned out my mom decided last minute to come up to visit me and my sister, and take us to dinner, which was fine. It was going to cut into Karate time, so I decided to go to the first hour of Karate (when we do most of the sweating-and-gasping stuff), leave, and get a healthy dinner with Ma and Sis.

I get to my Karate class, and the lights are off, and the room is locked. My Sensai is nowhere to be found! Very unlike him. Waited around a little longer, he didn't show up. I was really bummed out because I had such a great class last week and couldn't wait for yesterday's class. So I trudge home from the Athletics Centre, cursing, storm back up to my study hole, and wait for my mom to get my sister and I.

Here's where it gets really bad. We get to the restaurant. "Cesar salad, water' I say in my head. The waiter comes, my sister orders an Italian soda. Somehow, I order an Italian soda. Wtf? I thought I told myself water?? I got my Chicken Caesar salad (Eh? eh? More protein!) and after dinner, I felt full. then my mom decides she's going to get a dessert. I never get dessert. Why would i want dessert? I'm on a diet! Her dessert comes, as do 3 forks, and the 3 of us MOW DOWN on this gigantic hunk of chocolate and fudge cake, probably 11000-calories-per-bite , and it wasn't even something I wanted! So why did I eat it!

I've realized that I get way too easily influenced by others around me. I've got the boyfriend-dinner-date thing down pat: He knows what to order (and what not to order) to make things easier for me *what a superstar!*. This sister and mom thing threw me a real curve ball.

I know it's harsh, but I think next time I'll just have to take a long hard look at my mom and say, "Do I want to weigh that much when I'm her age?" Of course not. My mom is obese (although once lost 70 lbs on Atkins) and knowing how much this has changed her quality of life will probably make it much easier for me to say NO to the giant-chunk-of-fat-laden-fat-chunks.

ANYWAY, enough of that little rant.

Here's today:
breakfast:-Boost shake (mmm! i love these more and more every day!)
-Water (though not as much as yesterday)
snack: Single slice of whole grain toast with natural peanutbutter and "twice-the-fruit, half the cals" jam. I had a snack today because I was going to be having a late lunch that afternoon and didn't want to go all crazy.
Lunch: 1/2 tuna sandwich.
dinner: small amount of "Sweet and spicy" pork with cooked vegetables. I know, not the healthiest.

tonight I'll be doing my run. so that's:
-brisk 5 min walk
-run 60 seconds, walk 90 seconds for 20 mins

I can't wait until next week when I get to up the intensity of my runs! slow and steady, though.

Thanks for all the encouragement you guys. I really appreciate it!

tiny izzout
 
Hey, Sara. Those lessons about eating out and all are tough. Some times you have to relearn them more then just once or twice. We've all been there. Don't be so harsh on your mom and her weight. For each of us it is a personal battle and for her she is losing it. You are winning. It is two seperate battles.

tuna sandwhiches are great. One thing I'll do is use sliced cucumber instead of lettuce. Great crunch plus more flavor and vitamins. You can also eat it open face if you want to cut one slice of bread out of it..
 
Sara, if I could count the number of times I've gone into a restaurant saying "salad" and ended up telling the waitress "ribs"...

Best for me just to avoid them altogether till I get further along...
 
Oh Karl! Ribs are the meat of the GODS! I could eat ribs all day, err'day. It started to get embarrassing when the BF would order salad, and I would order ribs, and the unknowing kitchen help would put his meal in front of me, and mine in front of him....

If only it weren't so manly and unhealthy to love ribs...
 
I've heard another trick is to have them wrap up half before it's even brought to the table. I've not tried this one myself because if I'm going out I want it to be nice and I'm not worrying about counting. But then I haven't been going out too often these days. If I was, I might be utilizing some of the tricks.
 
I :beating:Texas Road House, (I live in New England, hard to get real BBQ, but for a chain restaurant their pretty damn good).

Okay stop talking about this now, I feel like Pavlov's dog :drool5:
 
You are doing so wonderfully. You're a true inspiration and are probably one of the only people who has made me want to work out. So, since reading your journal I've decided whether or not I fell yesterday that im going walking tomorrow with my boyfriend after work.
 
Ewww, Greek Yogurt?! Do i even want to know?!

Thanks so much diamonds. I'm really still new at this too, so it's nice to hear that I've been able to encourage someone else to do the same! Go for that walk, even if you're still hurtin', take it slow. It's way better than nothing!

On to a little rant.

I feel as though the god of Obesity is trying to reign me back into his herd.

Just like yesterday, my workout today was sabotaged. I brought my bag of running gear to school with me, and ended up leaving it on the city bus. I was so sad, thinking I'd never see it again, that I wouldn't get my work-out in, and I'd have jut lost 500$ in insoles. Then, I ended up finding it! Turns out my favourite bus driver held on to it for me...What a gem!

So I had my workout bag. I went up to the library to get a project done. At around 9:30, I change into my gear to get ready for my run at the Athletics Centre. I like to go late, because they have limited treadmills. As I go to put my shoes on, I realize...I only have one shoe in my workout bag. One goddamn shoe. How the hell do you run with one shoe?!

I decided, fuck it, I'm going to go home as fast as I can to get my other shoe! I run to get the bus, get home, barge in the door, grab my shoe, and my roommate tells me the next bus isn't coming for another 18 minutes...and I would end up having, oh, 5 minutes at the gym before it closed.

It just really pissed me off that I'm trying so hard to get into this new lifestyle and it's like someone is trying to get me all tripped up, and lose hope. Well, right then and there, I decided to run/walk for 25 minutes around my block. Mind you it's currently 1 degree celsius (one above freezing), my tummy was hurting from my crappy dinner, I had a blister from Sunday's run (which ended up popping and bleeding during my run around the neighborhood) but by joe I WENT FOR THAT RUN. It may have burned only a fraction of the calories as it would have but HELL THAT'S COMMITMENT.

I'm just proud of myself because I know not 6 weeks ago I would have given up with the lost shoe. I feel like, maybe in some effed up way, this was some kind of test to see just how serious I am about this. Well, let it be known. I'm dead fucking serious.

Tiny out.
 
tinysara said:
Ewww, Greek Yogurt?! Do i even want to know?!

Thanks so much diamonds. I'm really still new at this too, so it's nice to hear that I've been able to encourage someone else to do the same! Go for that walk, even if you're still hurtin', take it slow. It's way better than nothing!

On to a little rant.

I feel as though the god of Obesity is trying to reign me back into his herd.

Just like yesterday, my workout today was sabotaged. I brought my bag of running gear to school with me, and ended up leaving it on the city bus. I was so sad, thinking I'd never see it again, that I wouldn't get my work-out in, and I'd have jut lost 500$ in insoles. Then, I ended up finding it! Turns out my favourite bus driver held on to it for me...What a gem!

So I had my workout bag. I went up to the library to get a project done. At around 9:30, I change into my gear to get ready for my run at the Athletics Centre. I like to go late, because they have limited treadmills. As I go to put my shoes on, I realize...I only have one shoe in my workout bag. One goddamn shoe. How the hell do you run with one shoe?!

I decided, fuck it, I'm going to go home as fast as I can to get my other shoe! I run to get the bus, get home, barge in the door, grab my shoe, and my roommate tells me the next bus isn't coming for another 18 minutes...and I would end up having, oh, 5 minutes at the gym before it closed.

It just really pissed me off that I'm trying so hard to get into this new lifestyle and it's like someone is trying to get me all tripped up, and lose hope. Well, right then and there, I decided to run/walk for 25 minutes around my block. Mind you it's currently 1 degree celsius (one above freezing), my tummy was hurting from my crappy dinner, I had a blister from Sunday's run (which ended up popping and bleeding during my run around the neighborhood) but by joe I WENT FOR THAT RUN. It may have burned only a fraction of the calories as it would have but HELL THAT'S COMMITMENT.

I'm just proud of myself because I know not 6 weeks ago I would have given up with the lost shoe. I feel like, maybe in some effed up way, this was some kind of test to see just how serious I am about this. Well, let it be known. I'm dead fucking serious.

Tiny out.
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I'm damn proud of you as well. I'm still in that phase of where I would have most likely given up. So, major props to you for still going for that run in freezing weather. I love the way you write, it's very humorous and descriptive.
 
tinysara said:
It just really pissed me off that I'm trying so hard to get into this new lifestyle and it's like someone is trying to get me all tripped up, and lose hope. Well, right then and there, I decided to run/walk for 25 minutes around my block. Mind you it's currently 1 degree celsius (one above freezing), my tummy was hurting from my crappy dinner, I had a blister from Sunday's run (which ended up popping and bleeding during my run around the neighborhood) but by joe I WENT FOR THAT RUN. It may have burned only a fraction of the calories as it would have but HELL THAT'S COMMITMENT.

I'm just proud of myself because I know not 6 weeks ago I would have given up with the lost shoe. I feel like, maybe in some effed up way, this was some kind of test to see just how serious I am about this. Well, let it be known. I'm dead fucking serious.

Tiny out.
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You are fucking awesome! Let it be known that you are now one of my heroes, and you have just been elevated into the same circle as JZ, Val and Trops with regards to exercise dedication.
 
tinysara said:
I WENT FOR THAT RUN. It may have burned only a fraction of the calories as it would have but HELL THAT'S COMMITMENT.

I'm just proud of myself because I know not 6 weeks ago I would have given up with the lost shoe. I feel like, maybe in some effed up way, this was some kind of test to see just how serious I am about this. Well, let it be known. I'm dead fucking serious.
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6 weeks ago, maybe you would have given up when your bag continued on the bus when you did not!!! :D Great job, and as you said above... but I will combine them for effect... THAT"S DEAD F___ING SERIOUS COMMITMENT!!!

VERY WELL DONE!! :) :)
 
tinysara said:
Ewww, Greek Yogurt?! Do i even want to know?!
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Hee, hee. Greek yogurt is not something disgusting. It's made with different kinds of milk (goat I think but I'm not sure exactly) but the end is that it is creamier and has a different flavor. The up side is that it has twice as much protein as regular yogurt for the same calories. I'll have 8 oz of the FF and it has 120 cal with 22g of protein. Add a spoon of honey and some walnuts or some reduced sugar fruit preserves and you are one happy camper.


tinysara said:
I feel as though the god of Obesity is trying to reign me back into his herd.
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tinysara said:
It just really pissed me off that I'm trying so hard to get into this new lifestyle and it's like someone is trying to get me all tripped up, and lose hope. Well, right then and there, I decided to run/walk for 25 minutes around my block. Mind you it's currently 1 degree celsius (one above freezing), my tummy was hurting from my crappy dinner, I had a blister from Sunday's run (which ended up popping and bleeding during my run around the neighborhood) but by joe I WENT FOR THAT RUN. It may have burned only a fraction of the calories as it would have but HELL THAT'S COMMITMENT.

I'm just proud of myself because I know not 6 weeks ago I would have given up with the lost shoe. I feel like, maybe in some effed up way, this was some kind of test to see just how serious I am about this. Well, let it be known. I'm dead fucking serious.

Tiny out.
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There is no outside force that you need to overcome. All this is retraining yourself to have regular exercise as part of your normal day. This you are doing and doing well. You are not the person you were 6 weeks ago.

I think Steve used to have a signature that said "little movement is better then no movement" I think this was referring to scale movement, but it can be exercise, too. Getting out for that run, even though it might have been less then you would have done at the gym, probably did more to bring you to your goal. Good job.:gnorsi:
 
Hi all!!

Diamonds: Thanks so much for the compliment! I've never been much of a writer or into a daily journal/diary but I think that weight loss is something that impassions me quite a bit. Is impassions a word?? Hahah don't worry, you'll start becoming a stone-cold-diet-and-workout-aholic soon enough. It's not just a switch you turn on! Takes a couple of weeks :)

Karl: hahaha wow thankyou! Although I don't think I'm even close to JZ and the rest, that is a wonderful compliment. It feels so great to have commitments to stick to. I hope you had a good day, glad your crappy cholesterol class is done!

JZ: Wow, thankyou! I only hope someday to increase my workouts to more like your caliber...I'm interested in this HIIT thing! Sounds like my kind of workout, i love to sweat!

Trops: thanks so much pal. I know there's no crazy obesity god, but having that mindset of having something to prove (even if it's just to myself) really got me going. Thanks for coming by :)

Familyweese: Thankyou so much for coming by! Your diet is coming along so nicely, you're going to drop weight like ROCKS once your exercise program starts. I'm glad there's another wee girl around, I think it's definitely harder for us small folk to lose weight and keep it off. Keep your chin up!!

Sorry about being a little crazy lastnight folks, I was just a little...pumped up I guess.

Well, today was an excellent day in terms of diet/exercise. Although I did cheat (i'll get to that in a minute) the cheat was quite small and I got my ass KICKED in karate.

Food for today:

breakfast: Boost shake
Water
Lunch: 1/2 tuna sandwich
snack before karate: 1 Gala apple, my favourite!!
snack after karate: 1 slice whole grain toast with a bit of PB and J
dinner: Shrimp and Broccoli stir fry (this was DELICIOUS!)

cheat: 2 small golf ball sized peanut-butter cookies.

Here's my issue: I have a serious weakness for bake sales. At the University Centre (the main hub of pretty much everything around me) there are constantly bake sales, for varieties of reasons. SPCA, certain clubs, raising money for people to go to Kenya/Malawi/other African country, breast cancer awareness...And these bake sales are always by donation, so you essentially put a dollar in and take whatever treat you like. I have such a hard time turning these places down! It's for a good cause!! The people running the one today were raising money for some global warming cause. I know I need to just walk straight-through the UC without looking at them, but it is darn tasty...

Anyway, enough of that. I need to get more serious about my diet, and there's no room for peanut-butter cookies, amirite?

Karate today was awesome! We did a similar warm-up with a few changes.

At the start, we did a 5 minute run around the room. Then, we went into the stations:

Station 1: pushups
Station 2: squats
Station 3: Leg lifts
Station 4: pummeling the heavy bag with jab-crosses as fast as possible
Station 5: situps
Station 6: Dragging the other heavy bag across the room, pushing it back, dragging it across, pushing it back.

As per usual the timing was set by the person dragging/pushing the bag, ending up to be about 2 minutes per station.

We did this entire circuit twice, except this time our sensai didn't let up stop and breathe between the two rounds...Usually he lets us grab a drink and take a 2 min breather. Needless to say we were all totally pooped after (including him! Nothing is more satisfying than seeing your Sensai struggle with pushups :reddevil:)

After this we did lots of jiu jitsu work: Chokes, defense when someone has you mounted, defense when you're in guard, and this super cool scissor-kick thing that lets me mount someone. Totally awesome. (By the way, if you don't know jiu jitsu this might have sounded very dirty.)

I feel like I did really well today. My blister still hurts pretty bad, so I'm going to go to Shoppers tomorrow morning and pick up those blister-cushion-bandaid things so I can do my run. Those bandaids are incredible, it makes you feel like you don't even have a blister!

Hope you all had a successful day :)

Tiny out!
 
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