WIR ~ Let's Get Fit 2016

[Jaguar]

Jan 27, 2016 21:57:02 GMT -5 forwardwego said:

Hello chen35 and financialpeace !! 


Jaguar I am very sorry for your loss of your sister. 

Thank you very much, it was expected cause she had alzheimer's for over 10 years.

[Knee Deep in Water Chloe]

Jan 27, 2016 23:08:32 GMT -5 Jaguar said:

Jan 27, 2016 21:57:02 GMT -5 forwardwego said:

Hello chen35 and financialpeace !! 


Jaguar I am very sorry for your loss of your sister. 

Thank you very much, it was expected cause she had alzheimer's for over 10 years.

Hugs

[Knee Deep in Water Chloe]

January 1 Weight: 137.9 lbs. | Weight Range 137.5 - 139.5
January 3 Weight: 139.2 Wrong direction!
January 8 Weight: 139.0
January 12 Weight: 137.0
January 13 Weight: 137.2
January 16 Weight: 136.6
January 24 Weight: 137.4
January 28 Weight: 136.6
January 30 Weight Goal:134.4 lbs. | Weight Range 134 - 136

June 30 Goal Weight: 125 lbs. | Weight Range 124 - 126

[flamingo]

I don't know what's wrong with me. I've been feeling super bloated for the past week. Because of that, I've been trying to eat better, thinking maybe I'd eaten something wrong. Maybe it's just the cold and feeling tired of being stuck inside all the time. Thank goodness this weekend is supposed to be in the mid 40s. Maybe I can get out and take a walk for some extra steps.

Have a good weekend, all!

[financialpeace]

I was on track for a good day yesterday, but then a friend asked me to lunch and completely derailed it.

I have started using the lose it app to track calories. I have to net 900 calories or less to lose weight. No wonder I'm struggling!

[flutterby]

Week 4 checking in:

Flights of stairs: Goal of 200, did 210

Gym days: Goal of 4, did 4

I must have been hallucinating last week when I said I maybe saw some changes. There are no changes.

I'll be sitting by a pool in Vegas in less than 3 months, so I'm not giving up.

[Knee Deep in Water Chloe]

Jan 29, 2016 15:06:42 GMT -5 financialpeace said:

I was on track for a good day yesterday, but then a friend asked me to lunch and completely derailed it.

I have started using the lose it app to track calories. I have to net 900 calories or less to lose weight. No wonder I'm struggling!

That doesn't sound right. Anything less than  1200 net calories per day will send the body into shock. You'll retain all of your fat reserves because your body will think you're starving yourself and is trying to prevent that from happening. 

[Knee Deep in Water Chloe]

Jan 29, 2016 10:31:03 GMT -5 flamingo said:

I don't know what's wrong with me. I've been feeling super bloated for the past week. Because of that, I've been trying to eat better, thinking maybe I'd eaten something wrong. Maybe it's just the cold and feeling tired of being stuck inside all the time. Thank goodness this weekend is supposed to be in the mid 40s. Maybe I can get out and take a walk for some extra steps.

Have a good weekend, all!

How's your water intake?

[Knee Deep in Water Chloe]

January 1 Weight: 137.9 lbs. | Weight Range 137.5 - 139.5
January 3 Weight: 139.2 Wrong direction!
January 8 Weight: 139.0
January 12 Weight: 137.0
January 13 Weight: 137.2
January 16 Weight: 136.6
January 24 Weight: 137.4
January 28 Weight: 136.6
January 29 Weight: 136
January 30 Weight: 136.6
January 30 Weight Goal:134.4 lbs. | Weight Range 134 - 136

June 30 Goal Weight: 125 lbs. | Weight Range  124 - 126


January reflection: 
I definitely didn't track calories well. I like to tell myself I can just do it in my head. I had a few really bad stretches of days in a row of over eating. I also had a four day stretch of not going to the gym. None of that will help me be successful. I 've made sure to weigh myself every day to avoid being in denial about how much I'm eating. 

February plan: 
Track with myfitnesspal regularly. Do not skip the gym more than one day.
February Weight Goal: 134.0 lbs | Weight Range 133 - 135 

[forwardwego]

financialpeace what do you mean by "net 900 calories"?

[Knee Deep in Water Chloe]

Jan 27, 2016 19:26:42 GMT -5 financialpeace said:

Hi there I mostly lurk, so most of you don't know me, but I'd like to join in if that's alright.

I had twins a little over a year ago. I breastfed for just over a year, and was eating an insane amount of food to maintain a good enough supply for the both of them. Now that I'm done, I'd like to reign in my eating and lose some weight. Exercise is challenging for me because I have diastatis recti which means no planks or traditional ab workouts, and I have to be very careful with yoga and pilates type exercise. I don't have much time to exercise anyway, so I'm going to focus on food first and hopefully drop some weight. My main problem is a serious sugar addiction. I eat out of boredom and stress. Work has me stressed right now, and I ate 2/3 of a bag of hostess mini powdered sugar donuts yesterday. I would've eaten the whole bag, but some co-workers helped me out. I seriously have no self control, and I somehow need to find some. I will try to post regularly and not flake like I usually do.

Starting weight: 1/27/16 132.4
Goal weight: 6/1/16 115
5'2" petite frame

This is me exactly!!! Let's both post here more often and help each other!

[flamingo]

Jan 30, 2016 16:47:33 GMT -5 Knee Deep in Water Chloe said:

Jan 29, 2016 10:31:03 GMT -5 flamingo said:

I don't know what's wrong with me. I've been feeling super bloated for the past week. Because of that, I've been trying to eat better, thinking maybe I'd eaten something wrong. Maybe it's just the cold and feeling tired of being stuck inside all the time. Thank goodness this weekend is supposed to be in the mid 40s. Maybe I can get out and take a walk for some extra steps.

Have a good weekend, all!

How's your water intake?

Usually it's good. I'd say for the past week, it's been average. So that definitely could have something to do with how I feel. 

On the tracking calories, I used MFP for about 6 months a couple years ago. It really helped me figure out how many calories I was eating. I now stay away from it, because I also found that if I didn't hit the calorie goal (like I'd eat 1200 and the goal was 1400), I'd feel like I had 200 calories that I could still eat. And then I'd eat them. But I wouldn't eat 200 calories of carrots or apples, I'd eat cookies or cake or ice cream. So once I figure out serving sizes and what a "handful" really was, I had to quit using MFP.

It was close to 50* here today, so Dh and I took a mega-walk around the city. It was great! It was mostly cloudy, but still, just being able to be outside for as long as we were makes me feel better!

[ilovedolphins]

I started following the Weigh and Win program through our hospital and I am now hopeful I can lose some weight. They provide you with daily exercises and daily meal plans. I started the meal plan on Tuesday but haven't done the exercises because I am battling a cold for the last 2 weeks. I got on the scale today and I am down 4.5 pounds. I am so excited.   And it is good nutritious filling food.

[financialpeace]

I've been using the Lose It app. It worked well for me pre-kids. By net calories I mean the calories I eat minus the ones I burn exercising. I don't have much time to exercise which makes it really hard. I played with the settings because of your comments, and it is 860 net calories to lose 2 pounds a week. Two pounds a week didn't seem aggressive to me, but I changed it to 1 pound a week, and it gave me 1360 calories per day. That is much more reasonable since I can't exercise much. I'm going to stick with the slower plan because it's achievable. Thanks

Glad I'm not the only sugar junky. Confessing here might make me think twice, so I'm up for that challenge. I will confess I was dying for sweets last night and made some lemon pudding. I didn't even like it that much but ate it half of it then and half just a little while ago. Tomorrow will be better!

I'm 132.0 today, down just a little bit.

[ners]

Weekly check in

Let's just say steps were pathetic last week.

Missed my monthly goal by about 38000 steps.  Behind on yearly goal by 24,100.

This week's goal is 70000.  I have after work commitments 4 out of 5 nights this week.

The monthly goal will be 300000.   

On the plus side my cholesterol number is under 200 and I did not stress eat.


11/16/2015 172
11/23/2015 170
11/30/2015 170.
12/7/2015 168.8
12/14/2015 168.6
12/21/2015 167.4
12/28/2015 169
1/4/2016 171
1/11/2016 170.4
1/18/2016 169
1/25/2016 168.8
2/1/2016 168

[forwardwego]

I blew it yesterday with a day trip to St Augustine. Cheesecake brownie for dessert. Back on the wagon today...for new folks I'm endeavoring to overcome sugar also.

[Blonde Granny]

I've been walking the outside streets of my little community 3 Xs per day. I decided if my Mom could do that when she was 90, I can do it at age 71. I'm having a better lunch lately and that has kept me from eating everything not nailed down during the afternoon. Then dinner is a light meal and no snacks before bed.  The scale said this morning that there has been a 2 # difference in the last week.

[yogiii]

Huge breakthrough...DH agreed to exercise with me. We are starting with weights/abs 3x per week for about 30 mins (already have 2 days down so far) and will build up to 5 days of 45 mins (3 weights, 2 cardio) per week.  YAY!

[financialpeace]

Congrats yogi! It's always helpful to have a workout buddy

I continue to overindulge in sweets. Any general tips on how to improve self-discipline?

[Pants]

Feb 3, 2016 22:47:55 GMT -5 financialpeace said:

Congrats yogi! It's always helpful to have a workout buddy

I continue to overindulge in sweets. Any general tips on how to improve self-discipline?

Have a plan. Whether that plan is to substitute something else, take a walk, whatever. And have healthier snacks on hand. Also, if you're a sugar fiend, bring something sweet to eat, but in a manageable portion size, like a couple of small chocolates or something.

Also get an under desk bike. I cycle in 15 min spurts, I try for once an hour. Gives me an extra few hundred calories to play with every day and I swear makes me eat less because I have something to think about besides food. I'm a desk bike convert.

[Pants]

I'm back from Costa Rica. Despite a VERY active vacation I'm up a couple pounds. I didn't eat badly but there were several fruity drinks every day, and it was hard to time meals right so I frequently would have a coke to keep from fainting while waiting for the food to arrive. Not ideal but whatever, we will see how it shakes out in a couple days.

[yogiii]

Do any of you have aerobic videos you like to use that do not require a ton of floor space?

Day 3 is supposed to be today but DH requested we postpone until tomorrow, he's sore .  Funny since he used to sort of laugh when I'd do these routines on my own ....

[sarcasticgirl]

Feb 4, 2016 12:21:26 GMT -5 yogiii said:

Do any of you have aerobic videos you like to use that do not require a ton of floor space?

Day 3 is supposed to be today but DH requested we postpone until tomorrow, he's sore .  Funny since he used to sort of laugh when I'd do these routines on my own ....

I hate her, but jillian michael's 30 day shred is good. 
I am going to try out some kickboxing videos this week. I'll report back.

[sarcasticgirl]

Feb 3, 2016 23:03:47 GMT -5 Pants said:

Feb 3, 2016 22:47:55 GMT -5 financialpeace said:

Congrats yogi! It's always helpful to have a workout buddy

I continue to overindulge in sweets. Any general tips on how to improve self-discipline?

Have a plan. Whether that plan is to substitute something else, take a walk, whatever. And have healthier snacks on hand. Also, if you're a sugar fiend, bring something sweet to eat, but in a manageable portion size, like a couple of small chocolates or something.

Also get an under desk bike. I cycle in 15 min spurts, I try for once an hour. Gives me an extra few hundred calories to play with every day and I swear makes me eat less because I have something to think about besides food. I'm a desk bike convert.

do you have a link to the one you got? did it require assembly?

[Pants]

Feb 4, 2016 14:06:27 GMT -5 sarcasticgirl said:

Feb 3, 2016 23:03:47 GMT -5 Pants said:

Have a plan. Whether that plan is to substitute something else, take a walk, whatever. And have healthier snacks on hand. Also, if you're a sugar fiend, bring something sweet to eat, but in a manageable portion size, like a couple of small chocolates or something.

Also get an under desk bike. I cycle in 15 min spurts, I try for once an hour. Gives me an extra few hundred calories to play with every day and I swear makes me eat less because I have something to think about besides food. I'm a desk bike convert.

do you have a link to the one you got? did it require assembly?

www.amazon.com/Stamina-15-0120-InStride-Cycle-XL/dp/B000PEM63K/ref=sr_1_6?s=sports-and-fitness&ie=UTF8&qid=1454616313&sr=1-6&keywords=under+desk+bicycle


This is the one I got. Assembly involved 6 screws and took about 2 minutes. I'm thinking of getting one of the more expensive ones if I'm still using it in a couple weeks, they have a lower profile and track time/speed/etc. 

[WholeLottaNothin]

I've been thinking about this all night...now I want an under the desk bike.

[Pants]

Feb 5, 2016 11:55:23 GMT -5 WholeLottaNothin said:

I've been thinking about this all night...now I want an under the desk bike.

You really, really do. Really. It's awesome. I'm finishing up my 58th minute biking for the day, and it's only 11:13.  

*Note: if you don't have an adjustable desk that goes up and down, might be worth getting one of the lower-profile, more expensive options. 

[WholeLottaNothin]

Yeah, the one I was looking at was around $100. I'll have to research them a little more.

[Pants]

This is the one with the lowest pedals so you don't bump your knees: 

www.amazon.com/DeskCycle-Exercise-Pedal-Exerciser-White/dp/B00B1VDNQA/ref=sr_1_2?s=sports-and-fitness&ie=UTF8&qid=1454694143&sr=1-2&keywords=under+desk+bike

[flutterby]

Week 5 check-in:

Wow, 5 weeks already! And I did really well for 4 of them. This week, not so much. We had a big snow storm Mon-Tues, so I took the bus to work, which means I got home later than normal, which means no gym. Then ODS's car wouldn't start, he was stranded at the college, so spent 2 evenings dealing with getting that up and running. Which is all to say, I could've still found the time to work out, I just didn't want to.

Goals:

Gym 4 days, went twice.

200 flights of stairs, did 200.

Still haven't noticed any big difference, but I feel like I look better, so that's something. I'll do better this week.