Weight-Loss 4 Week Get-Ready-for-Summer Challenge Chat Thread

Weight-Loss
Came in right around 2200 cals again today, so on target for that, but I'm still hungry..lol. May and I went for a long walk again--to my office and the library. Logged in approx 3-3.5miles and spent 1hr 15 min doing so. Not walking as fast as I used to before being preggers, but pushing her in a stroller slows me down--plus there are several long hills in this walk. It's different from where I used to walk since we moved.

The good news is that I'm already down 2lbs from yesterday's weight of 225.5..lol. I know most of it is water, but I'm glad to be rid of it again b/c I was at 222lbs a few weeks ago, and now am at 223.5. I am hoping to be down to 220 or below by the time MIL arrives on Monday. :ack2:
 
I'm here!! Stepping in with my numbers etc. I guess I should at least let everyone in on my plan right? Okay at 6' 8" and 300 + lbs I'm shooting for a cap of 2600 -2800 per day as a base. On days in which I exercise vigorously (which are fairly often), I allow a surplus of 400 -500 calories.

So... Today I did 30 minutes at the gym, all weights, an upper body pull split (lat pulldowns, vertical rows, standing rows, bicep curls), to this I added some P/T exercises for my shoulder and some core (weighted back hyper extensions and crunches).

After this I cycled for 46 minutes, 12.5 miles for an average speed of just over 16 mph.

My food for the day (using the daily plate as a tracking device), came out to 3076 calories, 90 g of fat, 169 g of pretein, and 426g of carbs.

Basically this works out just about perfectly. Using my base of 2600 calories and adding a 500 calorie surplus to cover some of my exercise deficit, gives me 3100 cal, so I came in just under that.

Day 2 was a success. Oh yeah, I'm at 2:16 so far for exercise on the week as well.
 
Ughh horrible eating day. I'm so disappointed in myself and I was doing so well:( I just want to get better already so I can start going to the gym and work all these calories off!!!!
 
It looks like almost everyone is off to a brilliant start. :party:

Well done!

Angelica - I'm sorry that you are having a difficult start there. Treat this as a new start and forgive yourself for recent events. Every one of us here has had a bad day despite being on their project. Immediate self forgiveness is the most effective way forward.

We can all do this.

Kimberly - well done on the walking and the weight loss. I knew that as soon as you got the stroller sorted out - you and May would be out walking all the time. Everyone - including your MIL - will be so impressed that you are virtually back to your low weight just a few weeks after giving birth to May.

Claudia - well done on the exercise and eating. Retain your focus on where you want to be and you will be fine while working from home. There are temptations in the home but we can get past them if we are strong. As you know Rod is big and his head is not in the right place for trying hard enough to lose anything much. Well - he had garlic bread last night and left a bit. He has gone off to work now. I got as far as weighing it (120g) - because it has been SO LONG since I had any. I have been on this project for 27 MONTHS now. Well I was just toying with how many calories would be in it and whether I could slot it into today if I had less fruit or something - when I thought NO!!!! It has gone into the bin. If I can do this - we all can.

I have one bit of news that I forgot to share with you. I went to my slimming clubs yesterday - and actually weighed in during the afternoon at 9st 3.5 lbs i.e. 129.5 pounds whilst wearing jeans!!! I weighed more on my home scales in jeans when I got home - but that is reasonable because I did drink some water in the interim. I will continue using my own scales for this challenge because they are accurate and I can be very standard in what I wear and the position of them etc. It means that my weight has come down by 2.5 pounds since last Tuesday and by 8.5 pounds over the past three weeks (and my slimming clubs have both confirmed this). It confirms that much of my winter gain was due to water retention from eating a lot of low calorie soup home-made over winter. They were made using stock cubes or vecon - which are recommended by the slimming clubs here - but are very high in sodium. I had never thought to question the soup that I was having - yet I have known for a long time that I am very sodium sensitive.
 
Monday was an ok eating day...I didnt exercise, Tuesday I did 45 mins Yoga with weights adn 30 mins on the bikle (5 miles) I actually ate...lol...and I managed to get some sleep:)My body is pretty happy at the moment, lol

I think my overall goal is to actaully eat and eat healthier...Im working on readding my protein smoothies and water
 
Cerella - It is great that your body is pretty happy at the moment. That is a wonderful place for us to be! You have to remember that you work shifts and that plays havoc with your ability to a/ sleep and b/ get exercise in every day. We all know that when you do exercise - you exercise like a demon. I cant imagine that you will have any difficulty picking up maximum exercise points.
 
Your reports are very motivating, keem em comin!

Angelica you are sick so bound to have a bad eating day under the right conditions. You'll get back on track as soon as your better so dont feel too badly.

Rells, glad to hear you got some good food and SLEEP. I do hope you'll be living with a guy (hint) at some point and can quit that night job. Ya need your damn sleep :D.

Omega, that vignette about you resisting (and actually BINNING) the garlic bread was very helpful. I must remember that when there is junk around. Luckily my H has really surprised me lately by commenting about how the baby (now 3, not exactly a baby lol) was eating too much junk and it had to stop. That night I had let her get to the large bags of chips and she was digging in munching away. I used to be way more strict about junk with her but as she got exposed to it I was letting her have it, though still not unlimited or anything. So H is into very unhealthy food but I see he has HEARD ME over these last years where I constantly comment on this and that is unhealthy, chemicals in food are unhealthy, McD's etc etc. So he saw that and was like NO MORE CHIPS and angrily ripped them away from here. And I was like COOL that will help my diet! I know he will regret this no junk thing since he will also be missing out. lol
 
Rjaz - well done on the short term goal success. All my old chums here (I've been absent for a while!) knows how important I believe milestones to be (i.e. short term goals).

On my way down I used to have a milestone every few pounds. Seriously - there are 14 pounds to a stone. Every number divisible by 7 is worthy of celebration. Then all the numbers divisible by 5 or 10 is too. Every BMI boundary 50,45,40,35,30 got celebrated - and truth be told I celebrated BMI integers - every whole number once I got under 30. I swear when it was active my diary seemed to be one long forum party.

I can see that you are getting towards the end of the journey. I found that I needed milestones even more at that stage (hence the BMI integer change). You are doing brilliantly.

Keep setting the milestones - and celebrating as you power through them. We need them to motivate us for the next step.
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Cerella - It is great that your body is pretty happy at the moment. That is a wonderful place for us to be! You have to remember that you work shifts and that plays havoc with your ability to a/ sleep and b/ get exercise in every day. We all know that when you do exercise - you exercise like a demon. I cant imagine that you will have any difficulty picking up maximum exercise points.
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thanx margaret. it has been harder lately as ive been so beyond exhausted.im not taking care of myself properly so my work out have been killing me...im not really eating im not drinking water and im not getting any sleep...or protein really

i simply need to take one step at a time...smoothies (fruit and protein) veggies protein and water.

and sleep of course
 
So the water weight is starting to come off, I have lost 2.5 lbs already since Monday. I expect some of that to come back but I am looking better even though I know its water. I just blow up with water as soon as I've had one or two bad days, but luckily it goes down quickly too. Now comes the hard part.. Doing well on eating so far. Best wishes everyone!
 
Oh man! I am sooooooooo hungry today. :ack2: Got in 30min at the gym before May started crying and we made a hasty exit. :rolleyes: Today is rainy so no walking.

Claudia, congrats on being down 2.5lbs! :hurray:

RJ--Congrats on reaching your short term goal! :hurray:

Cerella--Eat and get some sleep girl!!

Margaret--I have nothing to be proud of--I've caved in to the junk food too many times the past 5 weeks or I'd be down well below my pre-preg weight by now. One week post-partum I was only 4lbs from it. :angelsad2: Hopefully this week I can rectify some of it.
 
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omega - Thank you very much! You're almost there too! lets race :)
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I always was a girl for a challenge. Truth be told - my pal Claudia knew this and wrote and told me last week that she was setting this up.

I will be delighted to race you. My name is Margaret (by the way) - I presume that yours is RJ (based on your diary name and by Kimberly having used that name for you).

I am hoping that this four week challenge will get me much closer to where I want to be.

Are you having difficulty knowing that though? Quite a lot of people tell me that I am there already - but I am not so sure. I know that I am close though. I am heavier than I was before my years of severe morbid obesity - but I know that I carry a certain amount of loose skin that will never shrink at my age (too close to 50 for my liking!!!!!) Aside from the loose skin there is actually very little fat on me now. It is down to finding a number that I like and coming to terms with that number.... At the minute I quite like the idea of being 9 stone. If I get to that I will have lost 12 stone.
 
cinderelly said:
thanx margaret. it has been harder lately as ive been so beyond exhausted.im not taking care of myself properly so my work out have been killing me...im not really eating im not drinking water and im not getting any sleep...or protein really

i simply need to take one step at a time...smoothies (fruit and protein) veggies protein and water.

and sleep of course
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Sleep is vital! None of us can be at our best if we are not getting enough sleep. You can actually become quite ill. Rod had a lot of trouble with his sleep a few years ago. He has never had what I would consider a normal sleep pattern since he worked shifts.

I am getting quite a chunk of my protein at the moment from fat free yoghurt. I normally eat 4 of them a day (sometimes 6). I put them in the freezer for about an hour and a half and they come out very like ice cream. It is a really easy way to get quite a lot of nourishment when you dont really fancy a normal style meal. I would always prefer to eat sweet things - and the concept of eating that and a ton of fruit during the day instead of a standard breakfast or lunch really appeals to me. Fitday confirms that it gives me all the nourishment that I could want.

Maybe something like that would appeal to you?

Fortunately I am still pretty solid on drinking the right quantity of water for my current weight. I lapsed a bit on it while I was staying in Newcastle for quite a long time - but got back into the swing of it when I got home. I will probably lapse on it again this weekend - as we are back in Newcastle then. It is less easy when you are away from home for some reason.
 
Great stuff so far here!

RJ and Margaret, you two are so close! I seriously cannot wait until I'm in that spot, although it will be a while yet...

today: 2991 cal, 63 g fat, 440 g carbs, 188 g of protein. pretty good! A couple hundred cals higher than my chosen range, because of a solid 30 minutes cycling, I did 8.5 miles, so 17 mph avg.

Wednesday is a day that I usuall y cave in. There is a local restaurant, set in an early 1800's colonial farmhouse near us that we are friends with the owners of. They usually are only open on Wednesday and Friday. Their primary business is actually wedding functions, catering etc. Regardless, we have gone there on many many wednesdays...

Not today, grilled chicken at home, with a yam and some veggies. Lots of good stuff, no heavy fat and butter...
 
Thanks everyone for the encouragement! You are all doing great!

Still sick here but weighed in and found that I lost 3 pounds!! I stepped on the scale 3 times to see if this was accurate and all three times it said the same thing. Im not sure whats up with this but I just hope I can maintain it by Monday.
 
I have had an ok day, but still adjusting to having longer rests between sets at the gym making my training sessions take longer. as usual my exact workout is in my diary.
 
Angelica - I hope that you are feeling better soon. When ill - our top priority always has to be getting better. Stick with the challenge though and do and phase in any bits that you can (e.g. aspects of diet - eg vitamin C, protein, drinking water) - it will help you get back on track as you recover. So much of what we do is so much easier if we can continue an ongoing habit. I struggle to get my walking back to the 11 miles a day it was before I got flu in October. I still get stuck about 7 miles. When I had my emergency operation last April I was in the middle of a challenge. I started building up my walking the day after I got out of hospital and within two weeks of surgery was happily back doing 11 miles a day. I just wish that I had been in a challenge when I had flu!!! Celebrate the 3 pound loss though - we all would!

Cabbie - You will be at our stage before you know it if you just stick with things. You have accomplished a lot already and you are well on your way. In some ways the last 27 months has taken a long time - but in other ways it has gone by so quickly it is silly. Every couple of months I am still bumping into people who havent seen me since I was more than double my weight - and whilst I recognise them - they have no idea who I am!!! It is true what they say about nothing tasting so good as thin feels. I say that as someone who spent over twenty years as a seriously morbidly obese person. I just wish that I had managed to do this when I was much much younger. Well done on avoiding the temptation of the restaurant experience. We all deserve treats at times - but too many of them certainly can delay our progress to where we want to be.
 
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