Codi is Back!!

Ha ha...well we had purchased the filet mignon a few weeks ago and froze them for another time. But last weekend I went Christmas shopping and will be broke until Monday. Funny...

Hhhmmm...about the oats, I am unsure as to the exact type of oats, i bought the large quaker oats cannister, the quick 1 minute kind because I dont have time to cook a feast in the morning. but its not instant so thats good. i will keep an eye out for steel cut, however, i like the kind where i can cook it in the microwave and it be done in 75 seconds. yea, i should eat some fruit instead of juice. like eat some messy fruit at home in the morning and bring something less messy like apples cut up for at work.

This morning I took a rest day to allow my legs and feet and hips to rest. will work out wed-fri, maybe saturday too. i have a pedometer i wear to see how far i have walked, i have a stop watch so i will time myself, my treadmill was given to me but the digital part (miles/calories/etc) doesnt work so i just make do with what i have. i dont mind not knowing the calories, i just like to know the distance. good idea Stingo to track my time, thanks!

Last night dinner: grilled chicken with yellow & red bell peppers, asparagus grilled, beans. water, handful of reeses pieces.

Breakfast: 1/4 cup oatmeal with 1/2 cup fat free milk, approx 1 tbsp honey, 1 glass pomegranette juice. 1 cup of green tea.

Lunch: (planned) cup of soup

Snack: (planned) peanut butter granola bar

Dinner: (planned) tonight if its not too windy will have the 1/2 filet mignon with steamed veggies and beans.
 
What are your goals?

And (to keep with the filet mignon theme) what does the wind have to do with having filet mignon? (A grill?)
 
Yes, sorry, we have an awesome BBQ pit outside and I live in an area where its windy a lot; however, the past few days and even today its super windy so my sister was having a hard time keeping the coals lit. We ended up broiling it inside last night and boiled some corn. I live in Texas and we actually had white roof tops this morning!! It somewhat snowed last night, of course nothing stayed on the ground, but for Texas thats crazy!!

Goals: To compete in a 5K race on 02/21/09. Somewhat of a short-term goal for me. Long-term is to keep up with the exercising and make it a part of my daily schedule, rather than thinking of it has an annoying task and blowing it off. Since I am just getting back into working out, this morning and the past few mornings I find it hard to push myself too hard and my chest/back of throat hurts as if I am getting a lot of cold air in my lungs. Trust me, its not anything to where I need to see a doctor, I just need to work my way up to strengthen everything in my body and my endurance. So to break down my goals to reach that 5K race, I found some information online for "preparing for a 5k". Here it is:

Wk 1: alternate 60 sec jog & 90 sec walk = 20 min
Wk 2: alternate 90 sec jog & 2 min walk = 20 min
Wk 3: jog 90 sec, walk 90 sec, jog 3 min, walk 3 min X 2
Wk 4: jog 3 min, walk 90 sec, jog 5 min, walk 2.5 min X 2
Wk 5: jog 5 min, walk 3 min X 3
Wk 6: jog 5 min, walk 3 min, jog 8 min, walk 3 min, jog 5 min
Wk 7: jog 25 min
Wk 8: jog 28 min
Wk 9: jog 30 min

**So this week is my chance to get myself used to working out (only cardio for now), then next week I will start the above schedule and try my best to keep up with the increases each week! I may have gotten this training schedule from coolrunnings website, cannot remember.

I have only 1 set of 5 lb. dumbbells at home. So maybe in a week or two I will start getting into strength training. I used to do it all the time and I def want to get back into it. I am just trying to ease my way back into the working out scene and not injure myself....also maybe its just trying to focus on one thing (like cardio) at first, then try to implement strength training a little later. ?? Unsure, but that's my plan anyway.

Thanks Stingo for your assistance!

I should weigh myself tomorrow morning, but I weigh about 130 and I am 5'6", 26 yrs old. Never been overweight, thankfully I have those genes, but I def don't want to live an unactive lifestyle and I always feel tired and lazy when I eat like crap and don't work out. So I have lots of reasons to make this change in my life.

Cardio of choice: treadmill/local park for running/jogging. I don't currently have a gym membership because I have a treadmill at home, an exercise ball, ankle weights, jump rope, and those 5 pounders. I love working out in the a.m. before work rather than after work so its easy working out at home.

Last night: 1/2 broiled filet mignon, corn on cob, 2 bites of spinach (my sis bought a gross kind of premade/frozen spinach....i love spinach but this kind was nasty). water. 1 handful of reeses pieces, 2 dark chocolate pieces.

Breakfast: oatmeal with ff milk, tsp honey. glass of pomegranette juice.

Snack: (planned) pb granola bar

Lunch: maybe chili or soup

Dinner: (unsure)
 
Work out for this morning (forgot to post):

5 min warm-up on treadmill with 5 min cool down. I walked approx 30 min excluding the warm-up & cool down with a total of 2 miles.
 
If you want to strengthen your entire body, I'd suggest starting some kind of resistance training, whether it's body weight, or weights (like a jug of water etc) that you make up yourself. That way you'll avoid imbalances between your upper and lower body.
 
Last night for dinner: premade/frozen lasagna. 1 small glass of red wine, although it tasted more like a chardonnay. 2 pieces of dark chocolate.

put up christmas lights in the freaking cold but its all done now.

morning work out: 2 miles in 40 minutes (including warm up and cool down). walking fast and i jogged for a minute or so. (didnt time it).

Breakfast: oatmeal with ff milk and tsp of honey. glass of pomegranette juice.

lunch: cup of soup

snack: 3 cookies and 3 bites of cheese. work had a holiday treat.

dinner: probably left over lasagna. cleaning the house tonight.
 
crap-a-zoid! I forgot to post my weight. I got on the scale this morning so I could get a more actual weight as I simply posted my approximate a day or so ago. I weigh 127.6 supposedly. I am not sure that I trust that scale. But, I will get weighed by the doctor scale tomorrow morning so I will try to compare. i will work out tomorrow morning and drink water and eat breakfast, but i was thinking i could go straight home after the appointment and weigh myself to try to compare my scale to theirs with the same amount of food/water in my system.
 
Dinner last night: left over lasagna and whole grain toast, 2 glasses red wine, dark chocolate.

Work out: 2 miles walking x 30 min excluding warmp up and cool down. 1 minutes jogging.

brkft: 2 slices whole grain toast with reduced fat crunchy pb and a little honey. 1 glass pomegranette juice. approx 10 blueberries.

lunch: unplanned, grandparents are in town for my graduation so we will go out to eat.

dinner: at my moms house.
 
2 chalupas for lunch on Friday, spinach and beef lasagna on Friday night with some wine and 1 beer.

saturday morning: toast with pb, pomegranette juice. (finally the pomegranette juice is gone so i will stop buying it).

sat lunch: calamari, grilled fish.

sat dinner: 2 slices pizza with beer.

sat night: too much alcohol for graduation celebration.

sunday: breakfast at 3pm (migas, coffee, queso and chips)

sunday dinner: still hung over, ate fried chicken tenders with gravy, mashed potatoes and gravy, few bites of mac 'n cheese.

monday: finally feeling better. bkft: 1/2 blueberry bagel with cream cheese.
lunch: soup

snack: pb granola bar

dinner: not sure. going grocery shopping after work.

will work out tomorrow morning since i needed the sleep last night and i didnt wake up this morning to work out.
and i think my scale at home is only 1 pound less than my doctors office. not bad.
 
More like where's the cardio at all? This week I havent worked out. I partied saturday night and had a 2 day hang over. I cant work out with a hang over. Then I pretty much just made excuses, was really tired and still am this week. Im hoping to work out tomorrow, Saturday, and Sunday and so on so I can get back on track. I will begin ST once I am comfortable with the cardio, but I keep slipping up.

extremely bored at work today, it makes me want to eat junk food at my desk. and buy stuff online....i just bought myself a memory foam mattress topper with 2 contour pillows....cant wait!
 
Well, I spent about 2 hours at work this afternoon reading all kinds of fun stuff on here. It totally gets me freakin motivated to eat healthy and work out!!! This weekend I will put together my strength training & cardio work out plan (i.e. which days i will do what and how many....im thinking about 3 days per week of a full body workout like one of the posts i read for beginners) and also put together my diet trying to eat 5-6 times per day with the correct proportions of protein/carb/fats. And I will start logging my food consumption into FitDay like I used to. I have lots of info gathered, now I need to spend time this weekend putting it together and then for the implementation.

But I still have the goal for 5k on 02/21/09.
 
Last night's din-din:
Approx 18 small ****tail shrimp with ****tail sauce, handful of broccoli with fat free ranch dressing, 1 string cheese, 1 glass red wine, few bites of chocolate, 2 sugar cookies. This was all over about 3 hours. I had boiled some artichoke but since it was my first time it didnt work out, had to throw it away. Anyone reading this with a great recipe or way to cook it would be much appreciated.

Meanwhile, I created a wo plan, but I will post it once I get feedback from people on here. I posted it under weight training this morning. I am trying to follow the full body wo by chad waterbury.

Current weight this morning: 129.4.
Cardio this morning: fast paced walk, probably about 3.8-4.0 (that used to be my speed when I worked out a year or so ago; however, my current treadmill doesn't show the speed). walked 2.15 miles. I can already tell Im having an easier time just walking!

Breakfast: 1 slice whole grain toast with tbsp reduced fat pb, tbsp honey, approx 15 blueberries and 6 small strawberries.

Snack: 8 baby carrots with about 2 tbsp hummus

lunch: 1/2 can of lentil soup

Snack: other 1/2 of soup

Dinner: out to eat with friends, will try to eat a salad or something healthy.

I'm keeping track of exact calories on fitday.com, this weekend I need to create some custom foods because my food choices are much healthier than the ones they provide!! I had to pick frozen strawberries from the list because they didnt even have raw, unfrozen, no sugar strawberries! how strange.
 
cbolding said:
Last night's din-din:
Approx 18 small ****tail shrimp with ****tail sauce, handful of broccoli with fat free ranch dressing, 1 string cheese, 1 glass red wine, few bites of chocolate, 2 sugar cookies. This was all over about 3 hours. I had boiled some artichoke but since it was my first time it didnt work out, had to throw it away. Anyone reading this with a great recipe or way to cook it would be much appreciated.

Meanwhile, I created a wo plan, but I will post it once I get feedback from people on here. I posted it under weight training this morning. I am trying to follow the full body wo by chad waterbury.

Current weight this morning: 129.4.
Cardio this morning: fast paced walk, probably about 3.8-4.0 (that used to be my speed when I worked out a year or so ago; however, my current treadmill doesn't show the speed). walked 2.15 miles. I can already tell Im having an easier time just walking!

Breakfast: 1 slice whole grain toast with tbsp reduced fat pb, tbsp honey, approx 15 blueberries and 6 small strawberries.

Snack: 8 baby carrots with about 2 tbsp hummus

lunch: 1/2 can of lentil soup

Snack: other 1/2 of soup

Dinner: out to eat with friends, will try to eat a salad or something healthy.

I'm keeping track of exact calories on fitday.com, this weekend I need to create some custom foods because my food choices are much healthier than the ones they provide!! I had to pick frozen strawberries from the list because they didnt even have raw, unfrozen, no sugar strawberries! how strange.
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***Wow, I don't normally talk dirty about my shrimp, but apparently the website thought it was dirty. :jump1:
 
Well, this is my work out schedule for now. I will try it out and I may not even like it, who knows. It is suppose to be for beginners from Chad Waterbury's Total Body Training. After studying that, I implemented my exercises into it, keep in mind that I only have dumbbells and no bench nor a barbell.

(Cardio train M, F doing Intervals on treadmill, just walking on T, W, Th, Sat.)
(Weight train T, TH, Sat.)

Tues:
Quads - single leg squat = 3 sets x 5 reps x rest 60 sec between for all below
Calves - single leg calf raise
Chest - flat db press (i can do this on the exercise ball)
Shoulders - seated shoulder press
Triceps - overhead triceps extension
Back - deadlifts/or exercise ball
Hams - deadlifts
Traps - upright row
Biceps - seated curls
Abs - ball
Hips - (i have some moves from a DVD I have learned. no weights required)

Thurs:
Same thing, but 3 sets x 8 reps x rest 90 sec between for all above.

Sat:
Same thing, but 2 sets x 15 reps x rest 120 sec between for all above.

Then week 2 would be incorporating antagonist:
Triceps/Biceps (alternating each set for all below as well)
Chest/back
Quads/hams
Abs/Hips
Shoulders/Traps
What the heck is opposite of calves?

Week 3 continue following the Waterbury routine, then change up the types of exercises after approx 6-8 weeks. On days that I do the work outs, I will just walk on the treadmill at a fast pace/no intense interval training.
 
Worked out on Saturday, approx 2.5 miles on treadmill.

Didn't work out Sunday, took the day off, snuggled by the fire.

Monday - lazy, didn't work out.

breakfast: whole grain toast with tbsp reduced fat pb and tbsp honey. approx 15 blueberries, 1 strawberry, 1 kiwi.

snack: plan: strawberries and cherries

lunch: soup

snack: trail mix, unsalted. (seeds, almonds, dried druit, soy beans).

dinner: grilled chicken with veggies, unsure yet which type of veggies.
 
Been off of work since Dec 22nd. Didn't work out or stick to any nutrional diet during that time either.

I found some cool trails to hike in my area. I went to one park in early December which bit. I found 3 new ones I want to try out, this is more of a weekend thing to do though.

No work out this morning.

Bkf: 1 slice whole grain toast with redu fat pb, 1 tbsp honey, approx 5 pieces of pineapple.

Snack: pb granola bar

lunch: pb & j on whole grain bread. i didnt really plan my meals before hand so i totally ate too much pb today!! and i brought nuts for a snack too!!

snack: maybe trail mix/carrots

dinner: probably will cook chili made with deer meat.
 
Goals for week 01/05 - 01/11

This week I plan to not drink any sodas or vending machine foods. I'm not horribly bad at the habit, but I am officially making it a goal to not allow it completely.
Cardio goal for the week: 6 days cardio with 3 days interval training:60 sec jog/90 sec walk = total of 20 minutes.

Next week I will add another small goal regarding lifestyle choices PLUS a goal to reach regarding cardio increases.
 
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