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Hey everyone,:waving: my name is Amanda :)

I have been working out on and off since I was 17. My weight has fluctuated, but I have never been able to achieve my bikini body that I've always wanted. Now I am 20 and I am more motivated than ever. I stopped working out for about 6 months and I started working out again 2 months ago. I have some pics from last month that I will post when I go home and I will be taking new ones on the 30th of this month. I do notice a change in my figure, but I can't seem to get my weight to drop. It's really frustrating. Any motivation or similar situations would be helpful so that I know that I'm not the only one having this problem, and that it will hopefully change soon.

Also, how do I put my ticker in my signature? I tried to copy and paste the code but it doesn't seem to be working.


Wish me luck guys :) You are all great motivators!


May 28, 2008

Well, since my post got moved to the diary section, I might as well make it more like a diary. I guess I'll tell you a little more about myself.
I have recently become a vegetarian.. but I only eat fish.. Pescetarian?? whatever. Anyways I am doing it because of the health reasons not because of the animal rights. I try to eat healthy as much as I can but I do slip up every now and again because I love food so much. I think that's also probably the reason why I have such a hard time actually loosing weight.
This week I decided that for one meal of the day, I am going to eat a large salad. I have been doing it since monday and the scale is moving a little bit.
I am currently 20 years old, 5'5, 145lbs and I want to get to 125lbs

My exercise routine when I started working out 2 months ago was about half an hour..
4 days of:
10 minutes on treadmill at 4.2 mph
10 squats and 10 lunges each leg
10 dumbbell curls, pushups, and some other weight lifting moves
3 minutes of ab cardio and 100 reps of various crunches

My exercise routine has now advanced to (its an hour long)
5 days of:
25 minutes on treadmill at 5 mph
30 squats and 30 lunges each leg
30 reps of each weight lifting move and push ups
5 minutes of ab cardio and 200 reps of various crunches

I try to change up my meal plan as much as possible but it generally looks like this:

Breakfast: Fibre 1 cereal with sliced almonds
Snack: Apple or yogurt cup
Lunch: Salad
Dinner: 1/3 cup brown rice, 1 1/2 cup veggies, piece of fish.

Since starting to workout on March 22nd, I have lost about 4 lbs, but it is constantly fluctuating.

As I mentioned yesterday I am going to be posting some pictures from one month ago and some pictures of me now in 2 days. I am hoping to be able to purchase and get away with wearing a bikini by the 30th of June. That will be my three month mark.

One more thing if anyone has experience with this.. I am a heavy drinker on the weekend.. I drink vodka and water with a little bit of bar lime and I will usually have a 26er the whole weekend. If anyone has cut out drinking, or at least reduced it, did you notice a big change with losing weight?

I'll be snooping around the sight for the next couple days and looking at any responses but I won't post again until the 30th of May, unless I get those pics up. I will also record my measurements, new official weight and anything else I find relevent.

Also, what does everyone do on their off days of working out to stay active?


May 29th, 2008

Alright, I've finally managed to get these pics up from one month ago.. The quality is not very good though because they are from my phone. So on Saturday when I do my measurements and pics, I will take some with my phone and some with a digi (just so you can compare the new phone ones with the old ones) and from here on I will take pics with the digi cam. Unfortunately they don't really get much bigger than that either.. sorry oh yea I'm 146? here.
 
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...moved to the diary section...

check the stickied threads iin newcomers - youll find the instructions on how to add the ticker
 
I know I said I wouldn't post until the 30th but I'm addicted to this site it seems so I am going to post.

I didn't workout yesterday cus I just got my hair done and they told me not to wash it for at least 36 hours... it's red.

But I did eat a huge salad for lunch and I had a small veggie sub and veggie soup from quiznos for dinner. I went on the scale today and I was down another lb. :party:

I even had a little munch when I got home from my boyfriends house but I made sure to keep control. A few bites of corn and half a tsp of ice cream. Then before It got out of hand I went to bed. The best cure for munchies is going to sleep or getting away from any accessible munchies.

I have set my desktop at work to a great picture of Elisha Cuthbert in a bikini to keep me motivated. I am going to workout tonight doing the interval training when I get home.

Tomorrow is pictures day./.. but it's friday and i will probably be busy all night with my workout and then going out so I will take them saturday morning and post them at that time.
 
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I guess I should also post these.. My heaviest. 151.. january 2007. just a full body shot and an upper body shot.

UPDATED!! YOU CAN NOW SEE THESE PICS OF ME!!

And yes... I was drinking...... hence the canadian label on my forhead!
 
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May 30th, 2008

Well last night I bought a measurer and today I decided to unofficially measure my waist and it said 35.25. Thats about 0.75 in. lost in the last month. But im not losing any weight still!!! i'm really frustrated! I just want the scale to go DOWN!!!!!

I attempted the interval training yesterday but I couldn't find any good programs on my treadmill, so I kept having to manually move it up and down and up and down. It was a hard workout, but very distracting and annoying so I think I'm just going to stick to my 5mph run for 25 minutes. I'll probably increase the speed next week.

Meals today are lookin like this:
Breakfast: Fibre one cereal with 2% milk, sliced almonds, and blueberries. and a large DD coffee.
Snack: Crispy delights (only 90 calories!!)
Lunch: Smalllllll piece of salmon with left over wild grain rice and feta salad(wtf?) and a small side garden salad ffrom wendy's with reduced fat ranch.
Dinner: Piece of salmon (Double the lunch size) and 1/3 cup brown rice with some form of vegetable. probably asparagus.

I also decided that I was going to take a multivitamin today. It's called centrum performance. We'll see how it makes me feel.

Tonight I will probably face one of the biggest challenges of my life. I've decided that I wont drink all weekend and see how that affects the number on the scale. The tough part is not drinking. I hope I can manage. If I do I'm gonna buy myself something nice as a reward.

Also, next week, I'm thinking of buying some skim milk and keeping it in the fridge at the office so i dont have to deal with this 2% crap anymore. No where sells 1% or skim in 250ml cartons!!

Tomorrow, as mentioned, I am going to be taking some 1 month in shots and have my official measurements.

One thing I forgot to mention. This week I had to tighten a notch in one of my belts!!:party:
 
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I have been doing research pretty much all day today (I have a lot of time on my hands since I'm at a new job) on alcohol consumption while trying to lose weight, and doing weights before cardio.

I have always done my cardio before my weights..but after looking into it quite a bit, I notice that everyone is saying I should do my weights before my cardio. So tonight I'm going to start that. Hopefully I will see some numbers dropping faster and a more effective workout and quicker fat loss.

If anyone has any comments on this please feel free to advise me. I never get bored of workout/nutrition advice!:bigear:
 
June 1, 2008

So I started doing my workout routine with my weights first and cardio second and HOLY CRAP what a difference it makes!!! I could really feel a burn when I was lifting the weights and when I was on the treadmill, I felt the need to really push myself to get through the full 25 minutes. I really feel like I got more out of the workout overall.

So as I mentioned before I took some new pics and some new measurements. The first months measurements probably aren't as accurate as they should be, but this months are since I got my nre measurer.

April 30th measurements:
Arms: L 13" R 12.5"
Chest: 37"
Waist: 36"
Hips: 36"
Bum: 37"
Thighs: L 22" R 22"
Weight: 146 lbs

May 31 measurements:
Arms: L 10.5" (-2.5) R 10.5" (-2)
Chest: 36" (-1)
Waist: 34.75" (-1.25)
Hips: 35.25" (-.75)
Bum: 36.5" (-.50)
Thighs: L 21.5" (-.5) R 21.75" (-.25)
Weight: 144 lbs (-5)

And here are my updated pics from June 1, 2008 with the digi cam only. If you want to see the ones from my phone camera then look at the first post. I changed the last two pics.
 
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sounds like you're doing great. If you have to tighten your belt, I bet you're losing inches instead and gaining muscle, so good thing you took measurements :) I'm going to take mine tonight, but I'm scared lol.

Your first pictures show a huge difference in the month :) If your pics are too big and you don't have Photoshop, you can load them up to , resize them there, then save them to your computer smaller to upload, or just post a link to the photobucket page
 
Awesome, thanks so much purpleshirt. The pics are up now :)
Oh and definately don't be scared to take the pics.. just think... it will be something to compare to to show your progress... if you have nothing to compare.. its much easier to get discouraged!!
 
June 2, 2008

Well it's only the start of my day so there isn't really much to say about it. I can, however, write about my weekend.

I did not drink one sip of alcohol the entire weekend!!! And as a reward, I bought myself a nice new dress :) I didn't eat too bad but I didn't eat super good either.

Saturday I had a large salad and my friend had a bbq for his bday so i had a veggie burger on a whole wheat bun, macaroni salad, potato salad, and a piece of chocolate cake with 2 cans of Fanta (blahh).I know that's not very good but I did only have 2 meals and the first one was fairly healthy.
Total Calories: Roughly 1200
I also did my usual hour workout with weights BEFORE cardio.

Sunday I had 8 perogies and a slice of whole wheat veggie pizza from pizza pizza with renee's ceasar dressing (dipping sauce).
Total Calories: 1000-ish

I probably could have eaten healthier on sunday, but since I ate so well during the week, I decided that I would eat not soo good. And actually, I spent 35 minutes driving around looking for something really healthy like a salad and I was going to cook some brown rice at home, but everything was closing so I had to settle for pizza :(

Yesterday I also went to the driving range for half an hour: 74 cal burned
And I walked on the treadmill for 20 minutes at 3mph and an incline of 5: 120 cal burned.

Today's agenda probably looks like this:

Breakfast: Fibre one cereal with sliced almonds and SKIM MILK!: 236 cal
Lunch: Large salad - lettuce, orange pepper, mushrooms, onions, cucumber, sliced almonds, sunflower seeds, feta cheese, balsamic vinegarette (calorie-wise): Roughly 250 cal
Dinner: Brown rice and veggies (I hope) Roughly 250 cal
Total: 736 cal
Since my calories are pretty low for today, I am having a banana and cheese string: 187 cal
New total: 923 cal
( I might add some fish tonight. Maybe those haddock skewers in the freezer :) )

I will workout tonight for an hour as usual.

This morning I went to the store and bought a litre of skim milk because every morning before work i get a small carton of 2% milk cus they dont have anything else at Tim Hortons, so now I can eat my cereal with a little less fat and calories. I think I'm also going to start posting my total calories for the day on here.

I just compared side-by-side my phone pics and a few things that I notice have changed
1. My love handles have shrunk
2. My stomach has pulled upwards (not sagging so much)

Woohooo!!! I hope that next month looks great :)
 
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Thanks maleficent!! My hair used to be pink, but because I am a little older, I figure I can get away with the red in the workplace, unlike the pink.

Oh and if anyone has any suggestions as to how I can increase my daily caloric intake I would love to hear them. I recently learned (by recent I mean today) that I need to up my calories so I don't hit a plateau... which I may be at now. As of right now I'm thinking of having protein shakes... not sure what time of the day though. If I have them after my workout and then have my rice and veggies, wouldn't that be too many calories too late? What if I eat the salad for dinner and the rice and veggies for lunch????

I dunno.... suggestions???:ack2:
 
June 3, 2008

Alright so yesterday was pretty good. I had an awesome workout!! I kinda turned it up a notch. Heres what I did:

Various free weight exercises working shoulders, biceps, triceps, and back: 3 x 10 reps each
3 x 10 pushups
3 x 10 squats WITH 5 LB WEIGHT ON MY SHOULDERS
3 x 10 lunges each leg WITH 5 LB WEIGHT ON MY SHOULDERS
Various front and side crunches total of 255
Various ab exercises in standing position (from tae bo tape) : 5 minutes
Run on treadmill at 5.0 mph for 10 minutes
HIIT 30 sec @ 8.0 mph and 1.5 min at 5.0 mph for 10 minutes

So today I am SORRRRRRREEEEEEEEE!! My legs and my ass are killing me... well mostly my ass!! Not sure if it was from the HIIT or the lunges or squats... probably a combination of all three.

Yesterday my caloric intake was pretty low as well so I had a Haddock skewer for dinner with my rice and veggies... I think I had about 1/2 cup of rice too so I think everything turned out alright.

I have decided that I am going to eat my rice dishes for lunch and my salads for dinner. I didn't feel too good last night knowing that I ate such a big dinner. At least today I have time to burn it off.

Meals for today (I also added some more calories):

Breakfast: Fibre One Cereal w/ sliced almonds, 1 cup skim milk, and Activia Raspberry yogurt: 344 cal
Snack: Trail Mix: 138 cal
Lunch: Haddock Skewer (Haddock red and green pepps) w/ 1/2 cup brown rice and 1 cup green and yellow beans: 347 cal
Dinner: Salad (lettuce, pepps, onion, olives, feta cheese, almonds, sunflower seeds, balsamic vinegarette): 250 cal

Total: 1079 cals (thats a little better :) )

Every morning when I wake up I lay flat on my back and I pinch my stomach to see if I can grab anything, and I feel it to see how flat it is. I pretty much can't grab it anymore, but today it felt reallllllyyy flat!! I was really happy to see that. I think it has something to do with the weights before cardio! That is truly the greatest thing since sliced bread!! (whole grain of course :) ) I'm hoping that by the end of June I can be in a bikini! PLEASE PLEASE PLEAAAASSSSEEEE!!!!

Well, I'm off to do some work. I will check in a few times today... anyone else addicted to this site or is it just me??!?!?!??!

Ok bye for now :) :) :seeya::seeya:

P.s. I've pretty much given up on the scale... It wont move but I'm seeing results so obviously I need to throw my scale out haha.. It's just discouraging!
 
Okay I had lunch 2 hours ago and my stomach is rumbling!!
How is this possible??? Probably cus I've kept my metabolism going with that trail mix for a snack. Tomorrow I will bring a fruit for this time of the day.
 
June 4, 2008

So yesterday i had a pretty good workout. I did my standard workout with no HIIT, but I did do my squats and lunges with the 5 lb weights on my shoulders. Every morning when I wake up my stomach feels flatter. It makes me feel like I don't have that much further to go. I feel like all the weight loss everywhere else on my body has been temporarily postponed until my stomach gets nice. That would be fantastic. If any of you have seen my pics, you know that I have small legs for the most part, and a big tummy. So if I lose lots of weight in my tummy before anything, I'll be happy :)

I also had my salad for dinner yesterday instead of for lunch. I really like that idea because when you weigh yourself in the morning, there isn't really any remaining waste left in your body from the dinner night before. Well my scale has been fluctuating between 139-142 everyday. I am trying not to weigh myself but it's really hard.. especially when you can SEE and FEEL differences. Well the past day or so it has been hovering around the 142 mark and today it went down to 141. Having most of my calories before my workout probably has something to do with it.

My meal plan for today looks something like this:

Breakfast: Fibre One Cereal w/ sliced almonds, 1 cup skim milk, and vanilla yogurt: 314 cal
Snack: Trail Mix: 138 cal
Lunch: Haddock Skewer (Haddock red and green pepps) w/ 1/2 cup brown rice and 1 cup green and yellow beans: 347 cal
Snack: Baby carrots w/ dressing (not sure the name.. its red and starts with a C... catalina??): 86 cal
Dinner: Salad (lettuce, pepps, onion, olives, feta cheese, almonds, sunflower seeds, balsamic vinegarette): 250 cal

Total: 1135 (but because I've probably underestimated [especially trail mix] I'm gonna round up to 1200-1300)

The only thing thats sore from yesterdays workout is the sides of my stomach. I am not sure why because I haven't increased my stomach exercises.... maybe its from the weights before cardio?? maybe I'm spending a little extra time making sure I get the full benefit out of each exercise?

Today I am going to do the HIIT training again. I found that when I ran on the treadmill yesterday at a constant 5 mph, it didn't seem as fast as it usually does.. hopefully next week I can increase it to 5.2 mph.

I need to make an effort to go to the Y this week. I got a membership on the 23rd of last month and I've been once. I don't like it nearly as much as working out from home because I can't do my floor moves, which means no ab workout. So I am going to cancel it, but I have to get my $40 worth so I need to try and go more.

Thats all for now.. I'll post more if I find anything interesting.
 
April 30th measurements:
Arms: L 13" R 12.5"
Chest: 37"
Waist: 36"
Hips: 36"
Bum: 37"
Thighs: L 22" R 22"
Weight: 144 lbs

ur measurements to begin with were almost the exact same as mine!! :p

my arms are 13 and my legs are 22 :p i've got bigger hips though and a smaller waist lol ( my waists really bad, i think its naturally small, so it looks nipped in but it makes my back look really fat cause it kind of hangs over :S )

You seem really focused on your weight loss :) it's really motivating to see someone like that. I find it hard to stick to excercising regularly, not a very active person naturally.
 
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April 30th measurements:
Arms: L 13" R 12.5"
Chest: 37"
Waist: 36"
Hips: 36"
Bum: 37"
Thighs: L 22" R 22"
Weight: 144 lbs

ur measurements to begin with were almost the exact same as mine!! :p

my arms are 13 and my legs are 22 :p i've got bigger hips though and a smaller waist lol ( my waists really bad, i think its naturally small, so it looks nipped in but it makes my back look really fat cause it kind of hangs over :S )

You seem really focused on your weight loss :) it's really motivating to see someone like that. I find it hard to stick to excercising regularly, not a very active person naturally.
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Yea I would prefer the bigger hips and smaller waist because then you can get away with wearing fitted shirts... to an extent. Instead, most of my shirts are babydoll style so they don't show any of my waist.

And I definately am really focused on my weight loss. I am so determined to lose this weight so I can be in a bikini! I don't even own a bathing suit now.. I've just kinda given up on swimming all together.

I have found a workout that I enjoy doing... I used to do the Billy Blanks Tae Bo Boot Camp series, but I found it almost like a chore to workout. I am much happier with my treadmill and free weights.. I think thats why it's so easy for me to stay on track. My problem is food. I love bad food and good food... any kind. I think being a vegetarian has definately helped me to avoid those fast food restaurants though :D

Actually I started using the program that you use, Fitday, to record all my calories. So thanks for mentioning that in your journal!!

And it's good to see that I'm motivating. Me motivating you will motivate me to continue to motivate you with my good habits... hope I didn't lose ya there lol. Anyways.. I'm sure I'll be more than just a motivation through my journal. I am subscribed to your journal so if I notice your falling off the wagon... you'll definately be hearing some cheerful motivation from me :D
 
Thanks for visiting my diary! It sounds like you are doing really well with your workouts, I'm impressed. I have been doing 30 minutes of cardio everyday. You have motivated me to start incorporating some weight training in with it. I have all different sized dumbbells so I am going to go for it tomorrow.

So the key is to do the weight training before the cardio? I have never tried that before, but it seems to be working for you so maybe I will try it too.
 
:) It's good when people comment i think, helps to make me work at it. :)

i've got the same goal as you, to be in a bikini, :p only mine is for september becausei 'm a wee bit behind.
 
June 5, 2008

Yesterday was a good day. I stuck to my diet and had a great workout. Oh and I found out that it IS the HIIT that has made me sore. My legs are a little sore today from my HIIT workout yesterday, but they aren't too bad. My workout yesterday was the same as the workout on Monday so if anyone wants to see it, look at Monday's journal :)

I did the HIIT 5 times yesterday, but I felt that I could have done a 6th round. I will probably do 6 tomorrow.

So I was tempted a little bit to fall off my diet yesterday. My mom came home from work and the first thing she said was "I want cheesy fries for dinner, you gonna have some???" and I'm thinking in my head 'OMG I really don't want to fall off my diet but that sounds delicious!!'.... so i said no :D
And I ate my delicious salad for dinner :)
And my mom didn't feel too good about eating them herself which made me feel even better about my decision!

I was also talking to my mom while watching the Stanley Cup game last night and she was like "I've seen how you are working out and how you are eating and if you keep doing what your doing, and not drinking, you will be 129 in a month" I pretty much just laughed in her face. Is she friggin joking?!?!?!?! I have lost all of 2-3 lbs in the last 2.5 months and she is trying to say that I am going to be 10 lbs lighter in 4 weeks? I don't believe her for a second... but I guess we'll have to sseee.. At least it was a little motivating haha.

I woke up this morning and my stomach didn't really feel any flatter than yesterday (Its not gonna change every single day). If you've been reading my journal you know that I pinch my stomach and see if I can grab a chunk of fat... lately my fingers slide off and I cant grab it so I have started pinching from my belly button to the bottom of the fat build up to see how much I can grab. At first it seemed like I was able to grab a little, but thats only because it was all hanging out of the pinch. Now it is starting to feel like I am grabbing more, with less fat hanging out of the pinch... A good sign that my stomach is all coming in. I know you guys are all probably thinking that I'm absolutely insane right now, but it helps to motivate me. I am hoping that soon I can pinch that bit of my stomach and my fingers will just slide off my stomach and I wont be able to grab anything :D

So anywhoozer.. enough about that haha.
Meals for today look like this:
Oh and I think I have been short changing myself with my calorie intake. I measured my Fibre one last night and it said I'm eating 1.25 cups instead of just 1... so I have kinda upped everything to a logical point.

Breakfast: Fibre One cereal w/ skim milk and sliced almonds, and vanilla yogurt - 321 cal
Snack: Trail Mix - 262 cal
Lunch: Brown Rice w/ chili style beans and asparagus - 371 cal
Snack: Baby Carrots and Catalina salad dressing - 118 cal
Dinner: Salad w/ tomato, onion, red pepps, olives, cucumber, feta, sliced almonds, and balsamic vinegarette (calorie-wise) - 250 cal

Total: 1344 (for the sake of underestimating let's bring it up to 1450)

This is pretty good.. I'm glad that I have been able to bring my calories up to a reasonable number... I worked out my maintenance level yesterday and it was something like 2250!! At least my calorie defecit now is like 800 instead of 1200!!

I think I'm going to buy a skipping rope for the day's that I don't workout. Maybe have a skip for 20 minutes or so.

That's all for now... everyone stay motivated!!! Good things come to those who wait :D :D
 
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