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Yay!!! Congrats on the new low, sounds odd when put like that. And the lost over 75 pounds!!! You must feel on top of the world! Are you celebrating? Maybe a new workout outfit, or that camera .
Unfortunately the budget is really tight right now, Bree. I just paid my car insurance for the next six months, and today I had a temporary crown put on a molar. The copay is $400. I’m just not getting ahead these days and frivolous spending has got to stop. However, I’ve had plenty of good times lately spent on little trips and with friends, so I’m celebrating my little milestone by sharing it here and just keeping going. Off to Jazzercise in a bit. I’d stop by the gym again afterwards, only I can feel I was a little extra tired today, and since I meet with the trainer tomorrow, I want to be in good energy for that.
I was listening to my dentist and her assistant both talking about trying to get motivated to exercise, and my dentist said she at least walked three miles this morning. I could offer nothing because I was numbed and my mouth was being mined.
Can I revise my goal to staying at this weight and just being six inches taller? Where’s my fairy godmother when I need her?
Wouldn’t it be great if we could grow taller. I reached my current height somewhere around 13 or 14, unfortunately I didnt’ stop growing in other ways.
Congratulations on you new low! I would be ecstatic if I got down to 154.
I’ll take another 6 inches, please! Just getting to “normal” height would be awesome.
Ann, toss a couple bucks in a jar every time you lose a pound, then you’ll have a built in celebration budget! WalMart has some really cute workout clothes for super cheap. I still haven’t been able to bring myself to buy a shirt for $45 to sweat in. I look, I dream, I go buy the cheapies. But I celebrate a lot like you, yell woohoo, post it, and keep moving.
Wouldn’t it be great if we could grow taller. I reached my current height somewhere around 13 or 14, unfortunately I didnt’ stop growing in other ways.
Yeah, I’m not quite 5’2”. Not the shortest person I know by any means, but I’m the one in the supermarket who can’t reach somethng at the back of the top shelf. On the other hand, I was treated to a discussion by two tall babes in the office about how they can’t find men tall enough. I’ve never had that issue.
Congratulations on you new low! I will be ecstatic when I get down to 154.
Yes, you will, Eileen! (Whew, still under 155 this morning on the scale. Only 20 more pounds to my original goal, though trainer Danny was explaining to me last night that that number isn’t as important as my % body fat, which I will have to tweak as I gain lean body mass and lose fat. More math...awgh!
I’ll take another 6 inches, please! Just getting to “normal” height would be awesome.
Ann, toss a couple bucks in a jar every time you lose a pound, then you’ll have a built in celebration budget! WalMart has some really cute workout clothes for super cheap. I still haven’t been able to bring myself to buy a shirt for $45 to sweat in. I look, I dream, I go buy the cheapies. But I celebrate a lot like you, yell woohoo, post it, and keep moving.
Bree
I like that idea, Bree. Though, I truly don’t need any new workout clothes for now, I just need to do laundry more often. I wore the one expensive-ish Jazzercise top last night for the meeting with the trainer. It’s just got straps and a lot of skin showed.. shoulders, top of my back, etc. I felt pretty exposed. But it also made me feel good that I could make myself wear that for being sized up by a pro. (I actually bought it from an instructor who ordered an L and it was too big for her, but I have to say I could probably wear an M also by now.)
I love starting Saturday morning with my double class. Beyond the sense of accomplishment, I see such a large group of women at the center. It was a pretty small 8am class actually, but the 9:15 was full and we were pretty close together. I like having the real estate to move around in, but a full class, and being along the wall, challenges me to expend the same amount of energy while taking smaller steps crosswise. As Manhattan and Tokyo know, that means building UP instead of OUT, so I found myself using some vertical energy and getting more lift on my chassez, instead of traveling. I helped Missy check in the 9:15 class and had to learn the names of many women I’ve been on a hi-smile-nod basis with.
Stopped off in a health food store which carries a particular good quality jojoba oil, filtered, which I use on my skin and particularyl my hair, which is dry at this point in my life. With all the workouts, I shower a lot, and though I don’t wash my hair every time, it needs more help than before. It’s also grayer, and it grows like a weed so I’ve been touching up the roots. I use a non-peroxide, non-ammonia hair color which also contains jojoba oil and other hair-kind stuff so I’m not constantly processing my hair with strong chemicals, though it is thick, coarse, and porous and fades quite fast. Haven’t used the flat-iron in a week, though my hair feels dryer and duller than before, so I guess I’m just due for a hot oil treatment with the jojoba, and maybe a cap for walking in the sun. I don’t spend gobs of money on my hair, but I do feel healthier when it looks and feels good.
Forgot to mention, a few weeks ago I switched from using fitday.com to dailyplate.com to log my calories. The reason is, I found most of the foods I was eating were coming up more readily in DailyPlate than FitDay, so it saved me the duty of entering in all the details on brand-name prepared foods such as Egg Beaters, Tyson chicken, etc., and many restaurant items, such as Panera. I also started entering the exercise more regularly. It’s been really interesting to see both my gross and net calories (food minus exercise) for the past ten days. Yesterday I ate quite a bit richer than usual, but since I’d done the double workout and the long afternoon walk, I came out pretty well. Tonight, I splurged and had a coffee milkshake for dinner, but I walked the nearly 2.5 miles round trip to get it and back, had water also, and all in all feel pretty good about it. I’ll be back to the steamed veggies and salads all week, but I treated myself and still stayed within my daily calorie parameters. Plus, the walk was perfect.
DailyPlate offers its calories both in “gross” and “net”—total foods consumed being the gross, and net being consumed versus burned with activities (beyond the level of activity I entered as “lightly active”, so just my exercise calories, not walkng to the back parking lot).
It is interesting to notice how much I fluctuated on both. I did sort of use my extra-active Saturday as the excuse to have a higher calorie day. I sure can’t say I’m starving myself. I just hope this looks all right.
I decided this week that I am officially moving into Phase 4 of this weight loss and fitness journey. Okay, so the phases aren’t a work of genius planning. Last October I decided to go back to logging calories, as I’d gotten a bit freehanded with things, and to step up the exercise, including adding some during my lunch break at the office. That was Phase 2. Phase 3 felt like something I was going through a couple of months ago. Phase 4 includes joining the gym, some of the new assessment work we’ve been doing, and so forth. It also includes some increased care for my self-esteem, my skin, appearance, and all-around self, all on a tighter budget.
Of course, technicaly I started off feeling pretty fatigued. But I managed the five Jazzercise classes, just no ‘extras’ there, and I hit the gym once this week. Diet’s going pretty steady. Next week I’m going to shave off some of the extra calories by buying leaner, plainer, healthier chicken instead of breaded chicken tenders, and try to keep increasing the water consumption.
I wish I’d walked earlier today as it got hazy and there were sprinkles of rain earlier, which tend to ward me off a long circuitous walk. If it’s nicer by 6pm (hey, it’s Florida, it happens) I’ll head out with some music in my ears. In the meantime I’ll be napping. Bought some beautiful ripe tomatoes today… I would love some fresh Italian bread to make a tomato sandwich, with a little salt, pepper, and olive oil. Maybe I’ll get the bread but walk to the store for it.
I’ve decided to give myself a new project: over the course of the next few weeks I’m going to put together a floor plan of the gym I go to, with all the resistance machines and what they do on them. There isn’t such a thing (I asked Danny) and it would help me, I think.
I used a machine tonight I’ve never used before anywhere, a biceps isolator, and even though I read the little paragraph of instructions I wondered whether I was using it right. Actually I didn’t need to work my biceps with a pulley machine, biceps are so easy to work with free weights, and I need work in the delts and triceps and shoulders more than that anyway. But it was the first machine I toddled up to. I haven’t yet tried the “pec deck” but hope to next time.
Did most of my hand weight work with my eyes mostly closed. It was my way of visually tuning out the rest of the gym, the mirrored wall, the men in the area, the sense that I looked like an oddball. I figure this self-consciousness will lessen in time, but for now I’m just pleased I’m doing some work.
I’m surprised my hamstrings and inner thighs are still somewhat sore from Friday, as the workout itself didn’t feel so hard at the time, but hamstrings are one area we don’t concentrate on a lot in Jazzercise, and even though we do adduct and abduct moves in class, it’s not the same as 70-80 pounds of resistance. I’ll have to keep that up, as it obviously did something. I need to work glutes and abs more. My waist is coming along, but my lower abdomen is still big, and I can’t blame the tumors for all of it, as I can feel how much fat there is there. I know belly fat will be the last to go.
So, if my leg muscles still feel a little sore from Friday and my arms don’t hurt from last night, does that mean I didn’t work hard enough on the arms? Truthfully, I’m a little sore all over. Lots of walking and other stuff this weekend. Got up early to do some laundry and I could feel it in my obliques, feet, calves, everywhere. The hamstrings are sort of the lingering ‘wow’ from Friday though. I guess I hadn’t been doing much with them.
I am golden, not a bit pink, today. I’m still pleased about not frying my skin. Brought the sunscreen to work with me, so that as I sit outside for lunch, I will protect my face and neck, which seem to burn first.
Forgot to weigh myself this morning, but I’m prepared for it to still be 3-4 pounds up from two weeks ago. Whatever.
I can so relate to your journey on several levels… and it seems to take an eternity for us over-40’s to be able to get that scale to budge just the tiniest bit (I tell folks that my scale insults me to the 1/10th of a pound! )
I had never seen The Daily Plate before… you’re right, it does seem to be much less time consuming to use than FitDay… one more reason to be happy I read about your journey!
You’re doing great, you don’t beat yourself up for all eternity when you slip, and you’ve got a great attitude… keep up the great work!!
sounds odd when put like that. And the lost over 75 pounds!!! You must feel on top of the world! Are you celebrating? Maybe a new workout outfit, or that camera
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