I miss the fitness threads and the fitness Doms!

[bhndblueyes88]

-_- I keep pushing myself too hard and then losing momentum. I started my weight exercises a couple days ago. I didn't think 50 lbs for squats and 30 for deadweights was that much (I used to do FAR more and it was only a bit of a strain during my sets), but APPARENTLY I was wrong. The lower back strain is no big deal, but my quads are killing me. Yesterday I could hardly walk and today going up and down my apartment stairs is still a trial.

I wish my body wouldn't be like "oh this is okay!!" when I'm doing something and then kick me for it later -_-

 

[Bellatrixie]

What is it about not being able to taste anything that makes me want to eat non-stop? I managed to wake up and realize what I was doing yesterday and then today I have been paying attention. Still can't taste a damn thing though which means I have no motivation to cook. Hopefully this cold goes away so I can breathe properly again! I was only 2.8 pounds from my 40 pound goal at my last weigh in...of course that goal has been going on forever but since I managed to get through the last month of treading water by still being down 3.2 pounds I consider that a victory!

 

[FurryFury]

I've been working out everyday since the third. However, I've gotten sick. I kept going though. Now I'm utterly exhausted. Not sure if I'll get it done tonight.

FF

 

[itismeinnz]

I've been working out everyday since the third. However, I've gotten sick. I kept going though. Now I'm utterly exhausted. Not sure if I'll get it done tonight.

FF

Definitely don't go furry. What you're saying has all the hallmarks of needing recovery time. In the long run you'll make better gains having a rest.

 

[Bandit58]

Well after a week in NZ I feel like I need to get home and get to the gym I've eaten way more fatty food than I usually do and haven't done any exercise apart from lifting and holding a little baby

I don't think it'll take me long to get back to normal though

 

[FurryFury]

Thanks. I really hate taking any day off. That's because I tend to not get back to it for quite a while.

I've taken two days off. Still feeling exhausted just a tiny bit less so. May do some today. I particularly want to do some yoga because my spine feels wrong today.

FF

Definitely don't go furry. What you're saying has all the hallmarks of needing recovery time. In the long run you'll make better gains having a rest.

 

[sweet_lusciousdesire]

You can do it!

I miss the fitness threads and the fitness Doms!

I probably weigh more right now than I have at any other time in my life except perhaps when I was pregnant. I've been too easy on myself and comforting myself too damn much.

It's almost a new year. I'm stuck halfway between saying, I just don't give a fuck anymore and wanting to get in fucking shape. How about you?

Darlin you can get in shape. It just takes a little fierce determination and a desire to be comfortable, extremely sexy and happy. If you don't mind I would like to suggest some ideas that have worked for me in the past. Do you have a favorite dress or outfit you'd like to get into again? Hang it in plain view and think of it often.
Grazing all day works well too, an apple here, a cracker with hummus there...Frozen protein shakes with fruit blended, and a little juice, is also 200 calories of tasty bliss.
When I overindulge I get back to counting calories and the weight falls off. You can do it!
Ohhh and I love to work out. Don't forget it's the best high going for a person...besides hot sex of course....You will feel the power surging through your body and you might feel lightheaded because you get a rush of adrenilin....Go for the rush darlin!

 

[FurryFury]

Thanks for the encouragement.

FF

Darlin you can get in shape. It just takes a little fierce determination and a desire to be comfortable, extremely sexy and happy. If you don't mind I would like to suggest some ideas that have worked for me in the past. Do you have a favorite dress or outfit you'd like to get into again? Hang it in plain view and think of it often.
Grazing all day works well too, an apple here, a cracker with hummus there...Frozen protein shakes with fruit blended, and a little juice, is also 200 calories of tasty bliss.
When I overindulge I get back to counting calories and the weight falls off. You can do it!
Ohhh and I love to work out. Don't forget it's the best high going for a person...besides hot sex of course....You will feel the power surging through your body and you might feel lightheaded because you get a rush of adrenilin....Go for the rush darlin!

 

[bhndblueyes88]

I don't know why the fuck I even bother. Every time I try the diet/workout thing it fails. I'll just wait until i'm out of school and i'm on my feet in the hospital all day....

 

[Bellatrixie]

I don't know why the fuck I even bother. Every time I try the diet/workout thing it fails. I'll just wait until i'm out of school and i'm on my feet in the hospital all day....

I'm sorry you're so frustrated. One thing I have figured out over the five months and (nearly) 40 pounds that I have lost is that I can't think in all or nothing. If I screw up (and I have many times over the months) I can't let that be an excuse to chuck it all out the window (which is what I used to do in the past). I pick myself up, kick my own ass and do better.

What has been working for me is eating 300 calories at breakfast, 400 at lunch and dinner and a 200 calorie snack. If I am not stupid about my choices I am actually rarely hungry which is good.

That being said, I need to do some of that ass kicking and start exercising more. The closer I get to "normal weight" the harder it gets to keep losing weight with diet alone. So I am going to try and get at least some exercise in every day. I already only do the stairs at work but there are only 2 floors so that really isn't enough. My preferred exercise is walking but it is seriously crappy out and the sidewalks rarely get ploughed around here so I need to be more creative!

 

[bhndblueyes88]

I'm sorry you're so frustrated. One thing I have figured out over the five months and (nearly) 40 pounds that I have lost is that I can't think in all or nothing. If I screw up (and I have many times over the months) I can't let that be an excuse to chuck it all out the window (which is what I used to do in the past). I pick myself up, kick my own ass and do better.

What has been working for me is eating 300 calories at breakfast, 400 at lunch and dinner and a 200 calorie snack. If I am not stupid about my choices I am actually rarely hungry which is good.

That being said, I need to do some of that ass kicking and start exercising more. The closer I get to "normal weight" the harder it gets to keep losing weight with diet alone. So I am going to try and get at least some exercise in every day. I already only do the stairs at work but there are only 2 floors so that really isn't enough. My preferred exercise is walking but it is seriously crappy out and the sidewalks rarely get ploughed around here so I need to be more creative!

Thank you for your support If I was just not losing weight that'd be one thing...I haven't been working out near as much as I should be so that'd be understandable. But I eat no more than 1300-1500 calories a day and I've actually GAINED weight...it's just. It's just so frustrating. The boy is going to be here in April

 

[wicked woman]

Thank you for your support If I was just not losing weight that'd be one thing...I haven't been working out near as much as I should be so that'd be understandable. But I eat no more than 1300-1500 calories a day and I've actually GAINED weight...it's just. It's just so frustrating. The boy is going to be here in April

I've know idea how tall you are or how much you weigh to know if that many calories a day is reasonable, but I do know people who have gained weight because they didn't eat enough. Is that a possibility? Their bodies think they're starving so goes into survival mode. Frustrating as the dickens.

 

[DeepGreenEyes]

Thank you for your support If I was just not losing weight that'd be one thing...I haven't been working out near as much as I should be so that'd be understandable. But I eat no more than 1300-1500 calories a day and I've actually GAINED weight...it's just. It's just so frustrating. The boy is going to be here in April

Keep going! But don't be too hard on yourself, and certainly don't make yourself sick.

Maybe this will help. I ran across this in Men's Health recently:


In the morning, you have an entire day's worth of activity to fuel. After dinner, you lie motionless for 8 hours. You don't have to be a nutrition scientist to understand why you should eat big right after you rise.

In fact, researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University found that dieters who regularly ate a protein-rich, 610-calorie breakfast lost significantly more weight in 8 months than those who consumed only 290 calories and a quarter of the protein. Turns out, the big-breakfast eaters, who lost an average of 40 pounds each during the study, had an easier time sticking with the diet even though both groups took in similar daily calories.


Protein! Since I read it, I've been eating a McRib for breakfast. Judging by the BBQ stains on my face, I'm doing great.

 

[FurryFury]

Here is my opinion.

Sudden diet changes don't work.

Lifestyle changes, building a life long habit works.

Personally if I want X, I will have it but just a bit of it not the whole container or whatever. Denial is a slippery slope to going off your healthy changes that you are trying to make a good habit.

If your new lifestyle diet is not something that is easy to get out, make sure to prepare snacks and meals ahead of time and take with you. I always have a baggie of natural raw almonds and another of dried apricots for those times when I'm out and suddenly hungry.

Water is essential. If you drink anything else. Drink at least that volume of liquid X 2 in water each day.

Exercising usually isn't fun. That's why it's so hard to do every day. Therefore find something you actually enjoy. For instance, I enjoy burlesque dancing, belly dancing, lifting weights, yoga, Tai Chi and swimming. Your things may be different. Try everything.

You can do that by looking on you tube or in your library for various kinds of work outs. I just found one on Bollywood dancing! I think it will be something I like.

Next make yourself and your body / mind a priority. Actually put time away each day for you to work on relaxing and working out.

Don't count calories or weigh yourself a great deal. That will drive you nuts, focuses on the wrong things (IMO) and often depresses. Instead focus on how you feel after exercising, particularly on days you were "too tired" but did it anyway. Or on how your clothes are fitting. Exercise gives you energy and makes you feel happier.

Never give up.

Always forgive yourself.

Each day is a new day.

 

[bhndblueyes88]

I've know idea how tall you are or how much you weigh to know if that many calories a day is reasonable, but I do know people who have gained weight because they didn't eat enough. Is that a possibility? Their bodies think they're starving so goes into survival mode. Frustrating as the dickens.

Yah...I figured out what was going on and now I feel like an idiot.

Someone (my roommate or I) kicked the adjustment dial on the bottom of the scale. It was about 10 lbs off.

So, downside, now I feel like a spastic idiot.

Plus side, I've actually lost about 5 lbs

 

[itismeinnz]

Here is my opinion.

Sudden diet changes don't work.

Lifestyle changes, building a life long habit works.

Personally if I want X, I will have it but just a bit of it not the whole container or whatever. Denial is a slippery slope to going off your healthy changes that you are trying to make a good habit.

If your new lifestyle diet is not something that is easy to get out, make sure to prepare snacks and meals ahead of time and take with you. I always have a baggie of natural raw almonds and another of dried apricots for those times when I'm out and suddenly hungry.

Water is essential. If you drink anything else. Drink at least that volume of liquid X 2 in water each day.

Exercising usually isn't fun. That's why it's so hard to do every day. Therefore find something you actually enjoy. For instance, I enjoy burlesque dancing, belly dancing, lifting weights, yoga, Tai Chi and swimming. Your things may be different. Try everything.

You can do that by looking on you tube or in your library for various kinds of work outs. I just found one on Bollywood dancing! I think it will be something I like.

Next make yourself and your body / mind a priority. Actually put time away each day for you to work on relaxing and working out.

Don't count calories or weigh yourself a great deal. That will drive you nuts, focuses on the wrong things (IMO) and often depresses. Instead focus on how you feel after exercising, particularly on days you were "too tired" but did it anyway. Or on how your clothes are fitting. Exercise gives you energy and makes you feel happier.

Never give up.

Always forgive yourself.

Each day is a new day.

Sounds pretty good to me Furry.

Just adding a few of my own...

- As above, drink water!!!!!
- Less red meat (very little now) and more fish resulted in a definite drop for me. I now eat a lot more veges, less red meat.
- Brown pastas/rice rather than white
- If possible, i.e. if you go to a gym as part of your training, incorporate strength (weights) training. Every study I've seen shows that strength training as well as cardio greatly increases fat loss, in fact very very significantly. Women, you will not build massive big muscles - there is a lot of nonsense spouted in "you too can have this physique in 30 days" type ads... it is extremely difficult for anyone to add significant amounts of true lean muscle mass, and even more difficult for women. When you see those really weird female body builders... steroids or similar, and they're lying if they denied it. Same with men actually.
- Many people including myself found boxing (fitness, not contact) to be the form of exercise that really accelerated both getting truly fit and losing weight. It's horrible, but you grow to love it.

And regarding that last comment "horrible but you grow to love it"... there is a weird paradox in exercising. When you really learn to do what you think is physically impossible (most people even when training hard actually have 20-30% still in the tank but don't know it) it is absolutely horrible in one sense but you start to crave it. I do 1 hour boxing sessions of non-stop push-ups, boxing, crunches.. lots of stuff and you can see the pain on everyone's faces, but next week they dare not miss it and are all smiling, a reak camaraderie grows in the group. And don't go by my av as an example of what I can achieve in those classes. That is after 2 months of being away pigging out at some of Aussie's finest restaraunts and then Xmas... exercise and diet right and you CAN get results quite quickly, anyone can (relative to their own physiology and genetic make-up I guess).

 

[Keroin]

- If possible, i.e. if you go to a gym as part of your training, incorporate strength (weights) training.

You don't need a gym for this. I spent two years training with water bottles, and I'm someone who is used to a gym and all the fancy equipment. Those bottles, (in plastic bags if I needed more than one), did the job just fine.

I agree with the benefits of weight training, wholeheartedly, I just think the expense of a gym membership keeps many people away from it / gives people a convenient excuse not to do it.

 

[intothewoods]

You don't need a gym for this. I spent two years training with water bottles, and I'm someone who is used to a gym and all the fancy equipment. Those bottles, (in plastic bags if I needed more than one), did the job just fine.

I agree with the benefits of weight training, wholeheartedly, I just think the expense of a gym membership keeps many people away from it / gives people a convenient excuse not to do it.

Fwiw, I also end up wasting a lot of time at the gym, and not pushing myself as hard as I should. I now do videos at home (with weights) and classes, and I find it works better for me. Also, if you are basically sedentary and then you go to the gym an hour every day, that may not be the best approach. Think about getting yourself moving throughout the day.

 

[Cattypuss]

Fwiw, I also end up wasting a lot of time at the gym, and not pushing myself as hard as I should. .

I don't - the gym is very focussed "me time" for me and my exercise. If I see someone I know there my heart sinks cos I know that at some point they're going to notice me and come up and want to chat for ten mins

Still, a chacun son gout.

 

[Lizzie_Borden]

Here is my opinion.

Sudden diet changes don't work.

Lifestyle changes, building a life long habit works.

Personally if I want X, I will have it but just a bit of it not the whole container or whatever. Denial is a slippery slope to going off your healthy changes that you are trying to make a good habit.

If your new lifestyle diet is not something that is easy to get out, make sure to prepare snacks and meals ahead of time and take with you. I always have a baggie of natural raw almonds and another of dried apricots for those times when I'm out and suddenly hungry.

Water is essential. If you drink anything else. Drink at least that volume of liquid X 2 in water each day.

Exercising usually isn't fun. That's why it's so hard to do every day. Therefore find something you actually enjoy. For instance, I enjoy burlesque dancing, belly dancing, lifting weights, yoga, Tai Chi and swimming. Your things may be different. Try everything.

You can do that by looking on you tube or in your library for various kinds of work outs. I just found one on Bollywood dancing! I think it will be something I like.

Next make yourself and your body / mind a priority. Actually put time away each day for you to work on relaxing and working out.

Don't count calories or weigh yourself a great deal. That will drive you nuts, focuses on the wrong things (IMO) and often depresses. Instead focus on how you feel after exercising, particularly on days you were "too tired" but did it anyway. Or on how your clothes are fitting. Exercise gives you energy and makes you feel happier.

Never give up.

Always forgive yourself.

Each day is a new day.

This is one thing I *do* do, but it works for me. I'm not obsessive about it, but I try to be mindful, I don't count every calorie, but I'll know the approximate amounts in the things I'm eating, because I've recognised my tendency to over eat, and unconsciously eat. And seeing results on the scales pushes me on, rather than being cause for celebration that I hear from other people, and causing them to fall off the wagon, so to speak.

And, I'm now -70 pounds, so I'll keep it up.

There's this one woman at work, who wants to know my secret. It's about being emotionally ready. Ready for the changes you need to make, ready to do the work needed, ready for the new shaped you.

 

[itismeinnz]

BTW, I should have added to my blurb up there.. do what you enjoy... have fun, live life. It was really just... stuff I have found is good-o for me.

Oh, if gyms might be your thing if it werem't for cost, do shop around. I never even knew that there was one tucked down a road literally 2 mins walk from me. Unbelievable value, in fact I am sure that the junk food I don't now eat easily covers it. But gyms aren't for everyone.

Have a good day

 

[Cattypuss]

ready for the new shaped you.

This part should not be underestimated. It was only recently, at the age of 44, after decades of yoyo dieting and conscious DESPERATION to be thin permanently, that I realised that all these years I have subconsciously been scared of unwanted sexual attention from men I wasn't attracted to (I was abused as a child) and that my fat made me unconsciously) feel safe. Hence regaining the weight instantly, every time I lost it.

 

[Bellatrixie]

Yah...I figured out what was going on and now I feel like an idiot.

Someone (my roommate or I) kicked the adjustment dial on the bottom of the scale. It was about 10 lbs off.

So, downside, now I feel like a spastic idiot.

Plus side, I've actually lost about 5 lbs

Embarrassment aside that is awesome!

I have been doing okay the past few days. Eating more frozen and easy choices then normal but I am in training at work and sick and the idea of cooking does not appeal so I am trying to keep it simple...husband is getting bitchy about that though so I will be cooking something simple tonight (starving guy chicken pie...mmm) so he has something to pack for lunch tomorrow.

Now I just have to stay focused and get out of the 160s because I have been here long enough.

 

[Daddy2mylilgirl]

http://www.planetfitness.com/

$10 a month gym memebership

 

[DeepGreenEyes]

Yah...I figured out what was going on and now I feel like an idiot.

Someone (my roommate or I) kicked the adjustment dial on the bottom of the scale. It was about 10 lbs off.

So, downside, now I feel like a spastic idiot.

Plus side, I've actually lost about 5 lbs

That's a pleasant surprise. It also has HUGE POTENTIAL for mischief! You lost 6 lbs. last week, but gained back 7 this week!