Daily Workout Thread Tues 11/15

[MissAva]

Morning All!
5.71 miles this morning.

Lorelei- they are easy to use if you buy the right one. Personally I found the one with the arm exerciser through off my balance becuase of my shape. But the one we have is a wonderful thing I can do 90mins and burn overf 1000 calories. I love it!!! And my mother who has had same back problems from carrying my sister too often likes it is well becuase it does not make her her hip or back joints hurt.

 

[Lorelei]

I wil have to look at those more closely Mat, especially if they are easy on your joints. Blimey 1000 calories in 90 mins????

Think of it - I could get one and work hard and eat xtra chocolate and STILL lose weight

Sounds good to me

I have dropped some more weight, folk are really noticing now which is good and I am about where I want to be which will give me some slack with Xmas coming

 

[MissAva]

Congrats on your new svelte frame.
You have to go pretty fast at the 9/17 (resistence/incline) setting for someone who weighs 175lbs, but yes it is wonderful. My knees are bad and make sickly sounds when I run on pavement or a treadmill, I like being able to go quickly without the pain. Combing that with music or an audiobook and I am in heaven!
I have decided to lay off dieting. It is making me ill and I have not been doing well anyway. So yea for exericse I will be fat and fit.

 

[larussel03]

I really need to get more on the ball with this, I''m only working out like 1 or 2 times a week lately....

 

[MissAva]

You do not have to work out daily to be fit, 3 times a week for 30 minutes is all it takes. That said I would love to see post here!

 

[Lorelei]

I agree with your views on dieting Mat, I have learned through many years it is the permanent changes that make the difference, not the mad slimming regimes. I have only really now got the hang of it over the past year or so. It is finding a good healthy low fat eating plan you can stick to, yet eating reasonable portions, eating regularly so you don''t get too hungry and blow it on rubbish, and keeping active.

 

[MissAva]

Date: 11/15/2005 1:59:34 PM
Author: Lorelei
I agree with your views on dieting Mat, I have learned through many years it is the permanent changes that make the difference, not the mad slimming regimes. I have only really now got the hang of it over the past year or so. It is finding a good healthy low fat eating plan you can stick to, yet eating reasonable portions, eating regularly so you don''t get too hungry and blow it on rubbish, and keeping active.

Aw, now I have to admit I am a hypocrite. I have fad dieted a gazillion times, and proably will again. I have yo-yoed so many times, it is just sad.

I love the exercise it makes me feel healthy and alive so I can keep with it. I like the way I feel when I am done.

For the good healthy low fat...well I am in college and that is not really working to well. I lack will power. I am going to try and do Atkins while I am home for thanksgiving and yule holidays...cuase I know that I will be stress eating during finals.

I can go through a 3lb bag of baby carrots in an hour, and the applesauce wont be safe either.

 

[Mara]

It's so important not to buy into those fad diets IMO. Eating right is a permanent lifestyle change. It doesn't mean you can't have dessert or snacks etc. Everything in moderation. Blah Blah everything you always hear but it's very true.

Kickboxed last nite, had chicken soup for dinner (yum!) from Whole Foods; this morning had cereal and coffee; salad for lunch and dinner will be feta and pepper stuffed Halibut from WF (double yum!) and one of my fave salads from WF. It's pretty easy to be good during the week because I know on the weekends, I can do whatever I want, like have dessert or a coke!

 

[Lorelei]

Date: 11/15/2005 9:21:34 PM
Author: Mara
It''s so important not to buy into those fad diets IMO. Eating right is a permanent lifestyle change. It doesn''t mean you can''t have dessert or snacks etc. Everything in moderation. Blah Blah everything you always hear but it''s very true.

Kickboxed last nite, had chicken soup for dinner (yum!) from Whole Foods; this morning had cereal and coffee; salad for lunch and dinner will be feta and pepper stuffed Halibut from WF (double yum!) and one of my fave salads from WF. It''s pretty easy to be good during the week because I know on the weekends, I can do whatever I want, like have dessert or a coke!

That''s pretty much what I do too Mara, be good in the week then I can have a treat on weekends!

As to fad diets I have tried them all except Atkins, I have done Cabbage Soup a few years ago

, Beverly Hills, F Plan etc, better ones like Weight Watchers and they caused me so much grief. As I said it is only now I have got the hang of what works for ME like Mara, I well know the fad diets are tempting, but it is finding your own way. I think these diets have their place, but often they are so hard to stick too and the relief when you come off them is that I tended to blow it all the time with the wrong food as I felt so deprived. Gosh Mat, I wish I could enjoy baby carrots and applesauce like you, instead of chocolate

You are doing great and finding your own way too, the exercise and everything you do will get you there and permanently, do a fad if you need to - they can be useful for motivation used occasionally and carefully - just don''t ever try the Cabbage Soup diet, it will make you gag

 

[MissAva]

Heh, my BFF mother make cabbage soup and yikes no I tired it once and felt like I deserved a gold star.

The baby carrots and applesauce are really not very good for me, I noticed about a week ago the applesauce has more sugar per serving the regular soda.

I am a big fan of Atkins, but I lack the self control. My aunt lost 85lbs and kept it off, my father lost about 70, and my BFF has lost 30lbs this fall. I lose weight on the Atkins plan but it requires discipline and I lack that. I am hoping to do that over thanksgiving and Yule break to get jump started again.

 

[Lorelei]

You'll do it Mat!

My memories of the cabbage soup diet

Day 1 - make soup consisting of a whole shredded cabbage, onion, carrot, tin tomatoes, veg stock, boil till revolting and the veg is tender .

Drink as much of this stuff as you can.

Day 2 - Drink as much cabbage soup as you can without gagging, eat as much red meat as you want.

Day 3 - Drink as much cabbage soup as you can and keep it down

and eat 6 bananas.

Day 4 - Ingest cabbage soup via stomach tube as this is needed by this point

and eat boiled rice I think

Day 5 - Give up

, feel ill

and eat a huge bar of chocolate, doritos, dry sugary cereal straight from the box and what
ever else you can lay your hands on as you are so starving hungry

BIG SHOUT OUT to all those brave souls who could stick to this diet and had good results!

I'm afraid I wasn't one of them

This diet menu isn't quite accurate as it was a while ago I tried it.

Glad to hear it worked for someone Mat!

Keep going girl, you will get there and think how fit you are now!

 

[MissAva]

Wow that sounds revolting...I think atkins is a good one for me becuase I

beef. Sadly I cannot cook, hence the post about giving two peopl food poisioning last week. So any dieting I do down here needs to be 100% prepackaged.
The thing is I am an awsome baker, but I try to cook and the dog wont try it.

My darling SO was so sweet on Monday (weigh in day) and told me to relax and enjoy the college food groups. I am so grateful I have him other wise I would have given up long ago.

 

[Mara]

Lorelei, I think part of it is just experience that you gather as you get older. After a few fad diets or a year or two of denial about how your body works, I think that acceptance is a huge part of it. I adore sweets and great food, I'm such a foodie. But my body is not the same as when I was 20 anymore. If I do not work out and be diligent about things then I cannot eat the way I want to and not have treats the way I want to and still fit into my clothes. That's just a fact. There's no getting around it. I also know that I won't suddenly miraculously lose an extra 20 lbs or even after a year of trying lose 20 lbs and suddenly look like a model. That just won't happen either...even if I didn't have a dessert for a year. It's important to know how your body works, what it responds to, what it doesn't. I refused to give any more power or thought to trying to be thinner than I am now, I just do what I know works and I maintain and that's fine. If I can still look like this when I am 40 and then 50 etc...I'd be very happy. I'm not 20 anymore and I never wore miniskirts anyway.

So I think much of it is setting realistic goals.

Mat..I saw your pic in one of the threads. You talk about losing 30 lbs. Is that from that picture weight? Because if so, that is insane. You look fine, very healthy in the picture, I could see maybe losing 10 lbs or something but not 30. Or is that an old picture? Sometimes you concern me, with your lack of sleep and all that walking, neither of them seem very healthy to me...what happened to moderation? Anyway...I don't know if you are being too hard on yourself to want to lose 30 lbs, maybe that is an unrealistic goal? Sure you said your relatives and friends have had success but that does not automatically mean you will. In the event that it is unrealistic, you will fail if you don't set yourself up to succeed, and you will be depressed about it the whole time.

ETA: Lorelei that Cabbage Soup diet gave me chills just reading about it. UGH!

 

[MissAva]

Which picture do you mean? I have posted two, one at the Zoo with my BF and another standing outside on my front porch at home last thanksgiving. In the first I weigh about 135lbs in the second 172.

 

[Lorelei]

Date: 11/16/2005 11:46:47 AM
Author: Mara
Lorelei, I think part of it is just experience that you gather as you get older. After a few fad diets or a year or two of denial about how your body works, I think that acceptance is a huge part of it.

ETA: Lorelei that Cabbage Soup diet gave me chills just reading about it. UGH!

I completely agree Mara, that it is experience and acceptance that comes with getting older. For many years I tried to force my body to be far thinner than it wanted to be and suffered much misery from it. As thin as I was at times, especially as I am quite tall, I couldn''t see when I had overdone it and still felt lumpy, despite what everyone else was telling me. I am now finally free of that thank goodness, I no longer want to be " thin" but trim and healthy and accept that for me I needed to make permanent changes in which to do it. My body doesn''t react the same as when I was 20, but as long as I am as trim and as fit as I can be that''s fine, it is very " freeing" to be able to finally be at peace with my shape instead of always being at war with it.

Yes the Cabbage Soup diet was horrendous and it still makes me gag thinking about it

!!!!

 

[Mara]

I just saw one with you and your BF...that's the one I was thinking of. Where is the other image?

 

[MissAva]

This is the image from the introduce yourself thread...
Old one/new one

 

[Mara]

You look the same to me in each!! Definitely not a 40lb difference.

 

[MissAva]

Thank you, very sweet of you to say that.

 

[larussel03]

Date: 11/16/2005 3:02:02 PM
Author: Lorelei

Date: 11/16/2005 11:46:47 AM
Author: Mara
Lorelei, I think part of it is just experience that you gather as you get older. After a few fad diets or a year or two of denial about how your body works, I think that acceptance is a huge part of it.

ETA: Lorelei that Cabbage Soup diet gave me chills just reading about it. UGH!

I completely agree Mara, that it is experience and acceptance that comes with getting older. For many years I tried to force my body to be far thinner than it wanted to be and suffered much misery from it. As thin as I was at times, especially as I am quite tall, I couldn''t see when I had overdone it and still felt lumpy, despite what everyone else was telling me. I am now finally free of that thank goodness, I no longer want to be '' thin'' but trim and healthy and accept that for me I needed to make permanent changes in which to do it. My body doesn''t react the same as when I was 20, but as long as I am as trim and as fit as I can be that''s fine, it is very '' freeing'' to be able to finally be at peace with my shape instead of always being at war with it.

Yes the Cabbage Soup diet was horrendous and it still makes me gag thinking about it

!!!!

It really is too bad when you think about how the media really influences our way of thinking, and makes us try so many fad diets. I''m 24 and about 121 pounds at 5''7" (down from 130) and I still feel like I need to drop 5 pounds b/c I sit here and compare myself with actresses and skinny women, and wonder why I can''t manage to be like that. I see that gorgeous girl from Lost or Angelina Jolie and wish that I could be skinny like them. I mean, I can sit here and, knowing fully well that I''m thin, and pick apart flaws. Like, how I''m developing love handles, or how big and wobbly my butt is, or how I hate my thighs. I''m starting to realize that perfection is not attainable, but I am a perfectionist and this is hard to swallow. Am I willing to starve myself over 5 pounds? No....but when I work out I tend to have better overall self esteem about my body, even if my weight doesnt change. When I''m not working out I tend to feel untoned and gross. Time to hit up the weights in addition to the cardio!! For my sanity as well as health...

 

[princessv]

Just seeing this thread makes me feel ashamed I''m not working out like I used to.

But seriously I''m at school 12 hours a day

and will continue to be till the end of exams. Well at least I can get back to my regular regime when I finally finish this hellish semester! It''s weird though I''ve lost weight since I''ve been here and I eat junk sometimes...so I feel all flabby if that makes sense!

Matatora you look great, you don''t look like you need to lose weight!

 

[Lorelei]

Matatora, you are a BEAUTY and your figure looks great!!!! You honestly do NOT look in any way overweight to me, but terrific! Please don''t worry, the exercise in moderation is great, but look in the mirror girl and see how lovely you really are!!!! BTW you and your BF look so suited!

 

[MissAva]

Aww arent you all just so sweet.
Lorelei- Guess what came in the mail? The slendertone! It tickles, I did not realize...
My weight is on my belly, hence my love of black tops.

As for V and I think we are perfect for each other, though sometimes I get upset about his weight, he is 6'' even and his weight varies from 137-150. I would like to weigh less then he does, and he gets stressed becuase even though he eats truckloads of food cannot gain weight.

 

[Lorelei]

Cool beans!

You will love the slendertone! If it tickles, try pausing it and repositioning the pads slightly, then crank it up until you feel a pull on your stomach muscles and see them contracting. It is a weird sensation but you soon get used to it and the results are great! I love mine! I know it is so sickening with these metabolically blessed men, can eat what they want and not gain an ounce

 

[MissAva]

Oh I can feel it now at 41! This is really neat! I wonder if I could use this like a stem machine on my sholders...

 

[Lorelei]

They are good aren''t they? So easy! I am up to 120 now, does yours keep a record of the amount of sessions and strength of impulse? I am so glad you bought one - I know you will love the results!

 

[pebbles]

Yeah! I got to the gym yesterday! I haven''t been keeping up on this thread but I went to the gym last Friday, Saturday and Sunday too.

It is just so hard to lose weight! I really watch what I eat and even though my hubby says I look a lot slimmer, the scale just doesn''t agree! Everyone tells me it''s that muscle weighs more than fat, but come on! I did go down 1 pant size so maybe I''m doing something right...

 

[MissAva]

A pant size is great! Way to go Pebbles!!!

 

[Lorelei]

You are doing a lot right Pebbles, don''t worry about the scale too much - dropping a pants size is a huge success!