SJ's Journal

Oct 25

Most 'normal' day this week - although I'll be up late watching the Red Sox...

I went to the gym-15 minutes on bike, then lifting-shoulders/bi's/tri's - All of the hours I've been awake this week are catching up with me tonight and I was defintiely tired, but I completed everything-shoulder press, side/front raises, some odd thing I don't have any idea how to describe-cable bicep curl, tricep push down in a combo, then tricep extension on a flat bench with a bar in combo with bicep curl eith the same bar-maxed at 35 pounds...then abs-crunches on a ball/legs/chairs/slant x2

Ate pretty well, I think in November I need to go back to listing food-this is a lazy way to go and I'm not really happy with it...I'm getting good results but I think its unrealted to discipline and I want to add the discipline back.
 
Oct 26
Life is definitely getting in the way of working out...I planned to leave work at 4:30 to go to the gym for Pilates but I just couldn't leave - and I couldn't be too late at the gym because I went to the Celtics game...when I got home from the game I did a long stretching/abs routine but I don't make myself do the hard stuff -

Eating was good. Being on a new floor at work keeps me away from the candy, and in general I am eating on plan. Although there was that beeer at the game...so maybe not as good as I thought.

Oct 27
Another no gym day. I am really tired and so I went to have a massage instead - which was great. Tomorrow I am definitely going to go swim. I have managed only four days a week at the gym all month-the only month this year that I don't have at least two five day weeks. I put in for a week off in November, and I think I am going to take the whole week off from working out-well, maybe except swimming and stretching,but no lifting. I have little nagging pains in my elbow and my hamstring and - wierdly-my big toe, all on the right side. I think I might need to let everything heal up, and going away might be the time to do it. I did walk across the city today so I wasn't a total slug, and I went to the grocery store and it took four trips up and down stairs to get everything in - hopefully I won't have to shop for a month.

I had a good food day for a weekend - I worked this morning and I packed food, and I went out for lunch and had iced tea even though I was thinking of something more fun.

Oh, and the Red Sox are up 6-0....so life is good...
 
Oct 28

Good day -went to the gym and swam 120 laps, 1 hour.

Eating was ok but not great - tomorrow I am going back to listing everything I eat as I am falling into the snacking trap again. I passed up frappacino from Starbucks but I think I grazed my way through as many calories...but lunch is packed for tomorrow and dinner is planned so I can be on track again -although my scale seems to have died....maybe there will be a miracle tomorrow...

I'm posting now because the Red Sox are up 4-1 in the 8th and I can't bear to watch - or to not watch....
 
Oct 29
Food
Breakfast-oatmeal/protein/low fat half and half
10:00 -protein bar
lunch-salad/shrimp, celery, 2 hersheys dark chocolate kisses-at least I walked up 3 flights of stairs to get them
2:30-peach
4:15-yogurt/protein
6:30 (post work out) protein shake
dinner-beef/mushroom soup(made by me!), piece of bread/provolone cheese, 16 wheat thins, cottage cheese - and a handful of chocolate chips
planned for later-another shake and some cheerios with almonds

Not bad except for the chocolate...

Workout
Walked to work/to the gym/home and for a few minutes at lunch-70 minutes
Stairs-15 flights
Gym-
Bike 9 minutes
Lifting chect/back
Chest press/incline bench 15/12/10- using 20/25/30 lb dumbbells
Chest press/flat bench/smith machine-65 lbs 3x12
Pushups - 3x12 - these are still not good but the first four in each set were almost good, and a few in the third set felt really good although after that I hit the floor and had to start from the top
Deadlifts-15/10/10/8-ending at 135 lbs
Lat pull down-15/12/10-don't know the weight
Seated row-15/12/10-also don't know the weight
Back extention-2x12
Abs-slant/legs/chairx2

My scale is still broken - no miracle....maybe will have to try a new battery but I hate buying batteries and then having things still not work...

I am coming to terms with how social the rest of this month and all of November will be - 2 Celtics games, 2 parties, 2 luncheons and a few days in Florida, and then Thanksgiving - this is so unusual for me and I need to really think about how I am going to stay on plan when I can and work out hard except for a planned break.

One of the events will have a lot of people I've known for a lot of my life -I've seen most of them since I lost the weight but I am also remembering a couple events from five years or so ago when my weight was out of control and I had to buy a size 22 dress -when I saw the pictures (and I'd tried not to be in any, so there weren't a lot) I was horrified at how I looked - That I am approaching this feeling like I look good and feeling good about myself is so fabulous. I don't need to buy anything new to wear because everything in my closet fits - well, some things might be a little big, but I'm not wondering what will zip...I am hoping that remembering this great feeling will carry me through and keep me on track.

Oh, and did I mention that the RED SOX WON!!! I amgoing to bed at the half tonight, I don't care how great a game it is....sleep has to be part of this plan too.
 
Oct 30

Food
Breakfast-oatmeal/protein/ff half and half
10:00 protein bar
lunch-1/2 pastrami sandwich, some cookie, little piece of cake (not great but I passed up more than I ate)
3:30-peach
7:15-protein shake
dinner-beef/mushroom soup, bread/cream cheese, 16 wheat thins/cottage cheese
snack-almonds/raisins/chocolate chips
I should have another shake but I might not, and I might have cheerios...

Workout
50 pushups so far-working towards 100 and its not midnight yet...or maybe I have until 7:00 am-was it 24 hours?
walked to work.to the gym/home-60 minutes
stairs-16 flights
workout
bike-22 minutes
leg lift-15/12/12
hack squat-15/12/12
leg press-15/12/12 (100/200/300)
squats/smith machine-15/12/12
lunges-one leg, then stationary, then alternating, 10/12/12-with 35 lb dumbbells
leg curl-15/12/12
abs-legs/chair/slantx2

Good but very busy day-I missed a protein/yogurt snack because there were just too many meetings....
 
10/31/07 - Trick or Treat!

Food
Breakfast-oatmeal/protein/ff half and half
10:00-protein bar
lunch-I thought I was going to a lunch presentation but got meeting's instead-but I hadn't brought my lunch-it sbeen so long that I had to really think about wha to doo-I ended up with turkey, a little stuffing, a lot of vegetables, and some gravy-a good treat but funny that that used to be a standard lunch-and then I ate the rest of yesterday's cookie...
2:30-raspberries
5:00-yogurt/protein
8:00-protein shake
dinner-shrimp/mushrooms/rice/squash
immediately followed by snakc-almonds, raiosins, chocolate chips-a bad habit that is starting and needs to go.
Probably cheeros later, probably not another shake

Workout
walk to work/gym/home, and to get lunch-70 minutes
stairs-10 flights
went to the gym
stairmaster-20 minutes
bike-20 minutes
abs-floor/ball-15 minutes
It would have been so easy to blow off the gym but I just said 'go' and I went. I pushed myself through everything I did but I am glad I did it.

Tomorrow we are having a lunch meeting with pizza...which means made by me lunches are at one for this week...need to work on this next week
 
wow! you are for real over here happy. did you notice i have you rname written on my fingers there? hahaha

what does the SJ stand for?

120 laps?? how many meters in an hour? I also notice you have bike in there. I am Mr. Mom tonight, so not much timem, but i will read your log.

what are your goals?

how about some pics?

you have a very impressive regimen going here.

FF
 
OK, i cou;dn't resist,,, i read a few pages. First I will tell you this--- I LIKE ME, and I THINK ABNOUT ME, and I USE THIS PLACE TO HELP ME.... i am self centered and not even in denial about it....

But YOU are working your tail off lady!! I'm totally impressed.

you have goals of continued weight loss, and endurance traingin and just plain ol getting fit.... very good in deed.

One thing i have found that really adds "LIFE" and a "PULSE" to this whole lifestyle is to - register for an event. Any event. a 5K to a sprint triathlon, to a bike race, to a kyaking trp. It gives your regimen a whole new spark of purpose. Most events are cheap. the bigger things can get expensive, but anything will give you a refreshing boost.

nice ot meet you

FF
 
flyinfree said:
wow! you are for real over here happy. did you notice i have you rname written on my fingers there? hahaha

what does the SJ stand for?

120 laps?? how many meters in an hour? I also notice you have bike in there. I am Mr. Mom tonight, so not much timem, but i will read your log.

what are your goals?

how about some pics?

you have a very impressive regimen going here.

FF
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FF
Nice of you to stop over - and to write my name on your hand...the SJ is an abbrevation for a nickname someone special uses for me...not something I share, just a way I think of myself...

The pool is 50 feet-I'm not good at the metric system so don't know how to translate but I think the amount I swim is about a mile in an hour.

I've been working out for 4+ years and I've lost around 70 pounds. I found out kind of by accident that I love to lift weights-which is a total shock to me because although I always liked to swim, I never considered that I would be a gym rat, but I think am. I would like to lose another 15-20 pounds and to continue to increase the amount I can lift. My focus is on keeping with the program - making enough changes to keep making progress and not get bored but retain the things I like.

I am technology challenged so actually have no idea how to get pictures uploaded - and I am not sure I could be comfortable showing my body online...I am happy with how I look but it's only impressive in a 'how far I've come way' not in a 'I really look good compared to most people way'.

I am on the older side of people who post here (51). I really enjoy reading about the challenges people take on and seeing how hard they work. One of the things I never knew that I learned from working out at the gym was how dedicated you have to be to get and sustain results. I see that attitude here and it keep me motivated.

Thanks for asking.
 
hehehe.... I am no spring chicken myself. Even a picture of your face. I really enjoy the people element of this all.

I totally understand not feeling comfortable showing yourself on line-- not that I have that lack of comfort myself.

AFTER ALL-- this is my MID LIFE CRISIS and I have embraced it. So much better than a convertable and cheating on my wife...

;)
FF

p.s. the one part you skipped over was going for an event- do a breast cancer 10K or somthing punkin! It will excite your athletics.
 
Nov 1
Another new month...

Food
Breakfast-Oatmeal/protein/ff half and half
9:30-protein bar
Lunch-slize of mushroom/pepper pizza, and soon after a peanut butter cup...brought to me by someone who I let leave early yesterday to trick or trat with his kids
3:30-apple, but proceeded by a visit to the 10th floor where the candy lives- a miniature Mr. Goodbar and a little Tootsie roll
7:00 - Bacon Ranch Salad from McDonalds-could have made a worse choice I guess....followed by two glasses of wine....and then 16 wheat thins at 10:00

Maybe I'll have a protein shake before bed, but I doubt it...not with wine...maybe cheerios...

Exercise
Walk to work and a little more-30 minutes
Stairs-10 flights
And---that's all....this will have to be my rest day for the week because I got nothing...planning a really great gym visit tomorrow though...and had a fun night tonight-life can't be always just about working out....
 
flyinfree said:
p.s. the one part you skipped over was going for an event- do a breast cancer 10K or somthing punkin! It will excite your athletics.
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I am not a runner at all - I've broken bones in my feet multiple times and somehow I just can't run - but I do like the idea of training for something...I'm not very competitive, but I do like to keep challenging myself so I'll have to see what might be possible. Thanks for the suggestion.
 
Nov 2-Nov 4
Three days that were wonderful from a life perspective if not great from a food/workout perspective.

Friday I palnned to be off work and get a bunch of stuff done at home.
I started with oatmeal/protein/half and half, and had a protein bar @ 10:00...and then nothing else until 3:30 when I had yogurt/protein. Except somewhere along the way I had a peanut butter cup....my plan for the day invovled going out to lunch, which never ahppened, adn going to the gy, which also never happened - I did go up and down my stairs about 10 times as various workmen came in and out and uo and down. And I did walk to get my nails done and then home, and to/from the Celtics-about 60 minutes total - and I climbed the steps to the balcony at the Garden...and in the afternoon I did an abbreviated weight routine at home-all with 8 lb dumbbells-shoulder press/front/seide laterals, bicep curls, press backs, hammer curls, overhead tricep extension-I did sets of 15 reps, and I did it as a circuit three times...and I did abs...excellent Celtics game...

Saturday I started with yogurt/proten, then hade date nut bread with cream cheese. The @ 11:00 I had a small danish, then lunch was an Italian sub. I had a protein bar and an apple during the afternoon...but then I cannot account for the dinner - lots of great stuff-lasagna, checiken picata, salad...cake...brownies-blond and chocolate...and much wine - but such a wonderful night...and I did strecthing and abs for like 15 inutes, so the day wasn't a totla wash...

Today, more date nut bread/cream chhse...then some yogurt. A decent lunch-I wanted onion rings but I didn't oder them-I had turkey, mashed potatoes, syuffing, squash_I ate all the squash, half of everything else. Then a protein bar...Then I walked home from the train, @ 30 minutes-and I bypasseed a frappacino...but I had hot chocolate with low fat cool whip, 2 cookies, wheat thins with cottage cheese, and raisins/almonds/chocolate chips mixed together...adn then an apple-yes I was on a food scavenger hunt...I had vegeatble beef soup and some crackers with cream cheese for dinner. I hope I am done eating and I am about to go explore the lettuce situation to see if I can make a salad for lunch tomorrow. I need to have a good strict eating week and hard hard workouts....

People I've known for years totally did not recognize me this weekend-lots of compliments...and I want to stay on this path despite how the past few days look. So even though I am not feeling great, I am going to make myself do abs and then I'm going to bed early...the scale will be a challlenge tomorrow...
 
happysj56 said:
People I've known for years totally did not recognize me this weekend-lots of compliments...and I want to stay on this path despite how the past few days look. So even though I am not feeling great, I am going to make myself do abs and then I'm going to bed early...the scale will be a challlenge tomorrow...
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Doesnt that feel great! It does doesnt it? Use this to move and inspire you to keep you widdling away at yourself!........


KEEP ON ROCKEN ON!
 
Nov 5

Back on track - the thing I like the best about having done this for so long is that I am no longer afraid that a few days of off-plan will totally derail me - I knew that I'd be back to basics today and I was...

Food
Breakfast-oatmeal/protein/ff half and half
9:15 -protein bar (think my body forgot we set the clocks back)
lunch-salad-roast beef, provilone cheese, celery, carrots
a little later-sugar free hot chocolate
2:30-apple
4:00-yogurt/protein
6:15-protein shake
Dinner-vegetable soup/roll/pice of chhese, 16 whea thins, cottage cheese-sadly lacking in vegetables-the soup had few...and heavy on carbs...
Later-protein shake and cheerios ahead

Workout
Walked to work/the gym/home
Stairs-10 flights
Workout
Bike-10 minutes
Pushups-3x12-the best so far-partially because they were first but I got to 10 in each set before I felt like I was floundering-maybe the challenge last week gave me some confidence...
Chest press/flat bench-15/12/10
Fly/incline bench-15/12/10 (weight was 15/20/25)
Deadlifts-15/12/10/8-ending at 135-need to confess to trainer that I want to up the weight on these...got comments on these from 'the guys in the back room' - that I was doing deads just like them (oh yeah, but like 400 lbs lighter)
Bentover row with bar-never did this before, was a nice change-15/12/10
Lat pull down-15/15/15
Back extension-15x2
Abs-slant/chair/legs, then reverse

A good day and I feel good about myself and what I accomplished-some of the things I did at work today are the kind that will stay done...
 
Nov 6

Food
Breakfast-oatmeal/protein/ff half and half
9:15=protein bar
lunch-salad, roast beef, provolone, celery, peppers
a little later-sugar free hot chocolate
3:30-grapes
5:00-yogurt/protein
7:00-protein shake
dinner-hamburg, mushrooms, corn, roll
maybe later-another shake, cheerios

Exercise
Walk to wokr/gym/home
Stairs-12 flights
Bike 12 minutes
Lifting/legs
Leg lift-20/15/12
Squats-15/12/12
Leg press-15/12/12 (100/200/300 lbs)
Steps ups-one legged 2x15, two legged-one set with 15 lb weights
Leg curl-20/15/12
Abs-slant/legs/something I don't know what its called

A good and very busy day....
 
Nov 7

Food
Breakfast-oatmeal/protein/ff half and half
9:15-protein bar
lunch-salad, hard boiled egg, celery, peppers
a little later-sugar free hot chocolate
2:30-grapes
5:50-yogurt/protein
dinner-chicken soup, half a scone
maybe later-a shake, cheerios

Exercise
Walk to work/home-40 minutes
Stairs - 15 flights
And nothing else - I knew the gym was iffy and I'm getting a cold and I worked late...excuses excuses...but I am going to make today my rest day for the week and not even do abs - going to bed soon...very soon
 
I hope you get over the cold soon. Keep moving forward. :)

You have the heart, the will, and desire to achieve great things.






Chillen
 
Nov 8
Food
Breakfast-oatmeal/protein/ff half and half
9:15-protein bar
lunch-salad, chicken, celery, carrots
a little later-sugar free hot chocolate
2:30-apple
dinner-chicken. pasta, zuchini/peppers/onoins/mushrooms, 6 crackers
snack-raisins/chocolate chips

Exercise
Walk to work/gym/home-80 minutes
Stairs - 14 flights
Gym
Bike 12 minutes
Lifting-shoulders/bi's/tris
shoulder press/bar-15/12/10
Side/front raises-15/12/10
Cable push down-15/12/10
skullcrushers-15/12/10 (weight was 12/15/20)-just learned the name for this...
bicep curl/bar-15/12/10
hammer curl/dumbbells-15/12/10
And that was it-I couldn't make myself do abs, just really didn't feel good, But I could have blown off the whole workout and I didn't, so I give myself credit for that.

Went to bed at 9:30, which is why I'm awake now but I feel much better. I am going to do everything I can to get to Pilates today....
 
Nov 17

OK, vacation is over....this is the first week I haven't lifted in more than two years...and I can't say that I enjoyed it that much. But I feel rested and ready to tackle stuff again - although my elbow and my hamstring still hurt, so I didn't get what I was looking for out of the not lifting. But my weight is the same today as last Sunday, so I am holding my own.

Since I missed some journaling, let me report that I did go to Pilates last Friday (11/9) and swam 120 laps on Saturday (11/10) Then off to Florida, where the only exercise i got was bending my elbow - maybe dragging a lounge chair into the sun...I slept a ton, and my cold is 99% gone. I wasn't really sure what to do about cardio while I was taking a week off, and Thursday it was pouring so I didn't go swim - got to the bottom of the stairs, then gave up, which is not like me.

But yesterday I went to Pilates and did 17 minutes on the bike because I got there early, and I am going to go swim in a little while.

I ate OK - I had a protein bar and at least one thing that I mixed protein with every day, and yesterday I was at four times - today I'm at two but I'll have a shake after I swim and then maybe one more later. And I ate reasonable sized portions and not too much crap.

Now I need to to make sure that I step things up for the next six weeks - not give in to 'holidayitis'. I saw the food challenge but my idea of 'good' eating is so far from 'clean' that the best I can do is to plan to be on plan any day that I am in the city and to be wise on the days I am with family - that will be enough for me. I am once again vowing to step up the cardio - to make it 20 minutes on the days I lift even if I have to finish after I lift. And to do the damn stairs 20 minutes a week - even if it takes four sets of five minutes...and to walk on days I can't go to the gym.

On the excellent side, I bought a pair of size 12 jeans yesterday - now it is entirely possible that they are sized wrong, but I was looking at the 12's so I must have had some hope they'd fit, and they do...

I've gotten rid of the clothes in the size I didn't admit I was...I've gotten rid of the clothes I was grateful to fit back in to...I am about to need to replace the replacements....all this is good and something to hold on to. There were people in Florida that I have't seen in a really long time and I think they were amazed at how I look - they only knew me in the 'fat' version, and this version is so much happier...more to hold on to.

So I guess I should stop typing and go swim...tomorrow I will start journaling food and exercise again - but I have done at least 15 sets of stairs today, and I stll have more to do.
 
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