AprilT
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The K means Kill me before I do this. The K stands for kilometer.
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I learned about kms when I started jogging back in the early 90's. Never raced though. Funny that in the UK almost everything is metric but we still use miles. Although races of course are in km.
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Yes, most races here are in Kms. I know what K's are.. but in my frame of reference, miles are more familiar and I can picture the distance better..
ANYHOO.... Just got in from my 5K... It was my first this season.. and it felt good.. I used the Ankle weights too.. so I feel it was a great workout.. My New Balance walkers are wonderful.. No sore places or blisters..
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:clap::thumbsup:
Were you walking or running with ankle weights on?
Well done! I just convert it to miles as I'm not good as visualising km either.
Tuesday. Since I did all of my workouts yesterday - gym plus upper and lower muscle workouts - no workouts today.
Menu:
B: porridge/dried fruit/cinnamon/almond milk
L: whole wheat tortilla w/low fat hummous, grapes, strawberries, yogurt
D: veg & Quorn curry & basmati rice, salad
S: almonds - 10g
tea w/soy milk, herbal teas, flavoured water, water, coffee w/almond milk
Cals: 1220
Menu:
B: porridge/dried fruit/cinnamon/almond milk
L: whole wheat tortilla w/low fat hummous, grapes, strawberries, yogurt
D: veg & Quorn curry & basmati rice, salad
S: almonds - 10g
tea w/soy milk, herbal teas, flavoured water, water, coffee w/almond milk
Cals: 1220
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Looking at planning a 15K walk by the fall. So I am researching to see what is out there. Too many of the sponsored events are races.. with a fun run/walk offered for only 5K. So I just may map out a 15K along the Chicago Lake front and do my own. The Breast Cancer 39mile walk over 2 days is coming up, but it's in June and I will not be ready by then. I will train over the Summer.
:yougogirl: Can't recall if you're a smartphone user but there are good apps for tracking how far you've run/walked and planning the route and showing where you went, how fast you walked, etc.
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Heck... I might even try a half marathon... 13 miles.. I am going to plan a route along Chicago's Lakefront.. It's a very interesting and beautiful walk. Lot's of scenery, Lake Michigan, interesting people watching, places to stop and rest or grab a quick bite.. I'm not going for time, but distance.. It can take the whole day for all I care.. just hope to have the stamina to make it. Plus it's often cooler by the lake in late summer.. so that's the plan for now.
That'll be a nice walk. Went to Chicago once but it was winter and bitter cold. Love the lakefront though.
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WOW! I'll be cheering you on from my seat,:happy: . I might hit the tread mill.
QS, you are quite the inspiration, all you ladies are inspirational. Thank you all for keeping me focused by seeing you stay the course.
So far, the only place I've cheated is in my dreams and boy that was scary. In that dream, I was hiding all kinds of cakes from someone who was inquiring as to what I was trying to hide in my purse or bag from their view. What I think that dream had more to do with, partly, is a movie I had watched yesterday evening, "The Equalizer, in it Denzel Washington's character, was helping keep a young guy on track to get in shape for a physical exam for an upcoming test. Denzel asked about what he was eating and if it's contents were as they discussed. The young guy said yes, but when the young guy went to take a bite, you heard a big crunch, Denzel asked for a look at the sandwich, it's contents contained potato chips. The guy looked embarrassed, but, tried to recover by telling Denzel the chips were a vegetable.
Anyhoo, I was so glad to wake up and know my dream was just that, a dream, and I wasn't about to gorge on those goodies, though, at the same time, I was a little sorry I didn't have the cake in my possession to look forward to a bite of which was my very first response.
I'm doing very well sticking to plan, not cheating, but, I will be having a little more carbs this coming weekend, as I'm going out to that Beach club with my meetup group again and we're stopping in at a place called the hub prior to hitting the club. I'm not going to get crazy, I planned for this little higher carb day, nothing outrageous, just will allow more than I do on my regular week days.
I agree April, you and the other gals here are doing so well with diet and exercise and the new challenges like QS is doing....awesome! I've been pretty good about staying away from desserts, had some bean burritos yesterday smothered in cheese, I'm sure that wasn't good, but I'll try to balance the good with the bad. Ameriscot, looks like you eat super healthy each and every day, good for you! April, I'll have to think about some goodies tonight as I lie in bed, and hope for the best...maybe a nice slab of key lime pie, lol. :hair:
Very healthy when I'm being good and I'm at home. Harder when I'm out. A couple of upcoming short trips where it's hard to behave, but I will try!
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Thanks everyone for the nice words.. This challenge has been very helpful
I'm worried about my corned beef and cabbage dinner.. I have to be VERY careful.. Corned beef is fatty AND salty... two of my favorite things.
I'm worried about my corned beef and cabbage dinner.. I have to be VERY careful.. Corned beef is fatty AND salty... two of my favorite things.
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I wish I had cooked up a pot of corned beef and cabbage, it would have fit right into my plan and would have been able to eat as much as I wanted. I might make it next week. Man, it the restaurant I was going to this coming weekend were to put it on their menu, I could stay on point.
Well, QS, just think of it as your one cheat day for the week, we all get one ever so often,
, just not too often, we don't want to make it a habit especially before we reach out goals.QuickSilver
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I wish I had cooked up a pot of corned beef and cabbage, it would have fit right into my plan and would have been able to eat as much as I wanted. I might make it next week. Man, it the restaurant I was going to this coming weekend were to put it on their menu, I could stay on point.
Well, QS, just think of it as your one cheat day for the week, we all get one ever so often,
I love CB & C.... I would eat the whole thing if I didn't watch myself.. I've never been a "sweets" person.. but fatty and salty are right up my alley.
I wish I had cooked up a pot of corned beef and cabbage, it would have fit right into my plan and would have been able to eat as much as I wanted. I might make it next week. Man, it the restaurant I was going to this coming weekend were to put it on their menu, I could stay on point.
Well, QS, just think of it as your one cheat day for the week, we all get one ever so often,
I think a cheat day every two weeks is perfectly fine. Actually gives your metabolism a boost if you've been fairly low cal.
I love fat, salt and sweets!!
My favourite way to eat corned beef, which I rarely do, is Reuben sandwich. Mmmmm
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Yep, next week, I'm going to buy a good size corned beef and have it for several meals. I have a freezer full at the moment, gotta get rid of some of what I already have before I go stocking up on more meat, I think I have some beef sitting in the back of freezer from last year that I keep forgetting about and saying I'm going to get to it and just keep picking up new pieces of sirloin. :crying:
Calories:
Mon(3/16/15): 1620
Tue(3/17/15): 1420
Total calorie deficit so far ~ 4000 or 1.1 lbs. Too slow. Don't seem to have the discipline.
Food the last 2 days was basically the same as Sunday except for lunch Mon: 6 chicken McNuggets, and Tues: 1 DQ crispy chicken wrap. But then I added
too many peanuts, lima beans, ham, cheese, and some sugar (snacking in the evenings).
Mowed the front lawn Monday, tumbled (too heavy to lift) 11 huge rocks in the back yard down over a bank today. I've been meaning to do that since last summer
so I can mow there, Loaded a chest of drawer into the truck. Got out of shape over the winter. Too much huffing and puffing going on.
Mon(3/16/15): 1620
Tue(3/17/15): 1420
Total calorie deficit so far ~ 4000 or 1.1 lbs. Too slow. Don't seem to have the discipline.
Food the last 2 days was basically the same as Sunday except for lunch Mon: 6 chicken McNuggets, and Tues: 1 DQ crispy chicken wrap. But then I added
too many peanuts, lima beans, ham, cheese, and some sugar (snacking in the evenings).
Mowed the front lawn Monday, tumbled (too heavy to lift) 11 huge rocks in the back yard down over a bank today. I've been meaning to do that since last summer
so I can mow there, Loaded a chest of drawer into the truck. Got out of shape over the winter. Too much huffing and puffing going on.
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Calories:
Mon(3/16/15): 1620
Tue(3/17/15): 1420
Total calorie deficit so far ~ 4000 or 1.1 lbs. Too slow. Don't seem to have the discipline.
Food the last 2 days was basically the same as Sunday except for lunch Mon: 6 chicken McNuggets, and Tues: 1 DQ crispy chicken wrap. But then I added
too many peanuts, lima beans, ham, cheese, and some sugar (snacking in the evenings).
Mowed the front lawn Monday, tumbled (too heavy to lift) 11 huge rocks in the back yard down over a bank today. I've been meaning to do that since last summer
so I can mow there, Loaded a chest of drawer into the truck. Got out of shape over the winter. Too much huffing and puffing going on.
Nancy, have you considered following some sort of food plan or diet that might work for you, have you looked over any particular plans, that look like they may be filling and convenient?
April, I try to eat a good amount of protein and complex carbs. That kind of stuff sticks with me better than lettuce, or fruit, or simple carbs.
It's not that I get hungry, it's just a bad habit I've got into lately of snacking mindlessly. What is it they say, it takes 3 weeks to break a habit?
I'll get into the swing of it.
What about you? Do you follow a plan?
It's not that I get hungry, it's just a bad habit I've got into lately of snacking mindlessly. What is it they say, it takes 3 weeks to break a habit?
I'll get into the swing of it.
What about you? Do you follow a plan?
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I just follow a lower carb higher protein, so mostly meat and veggies, some days brown rice and fruit, but I avoid sugars any of the white stuff like breads and pastas. I will have a higher carb day abut once a week or depending on how my body is holding onto or letting go of the weight. So basically, I have eggs cooked in olive oil and some sort of meat product for breakfast, meat and veg for lunch and dinner. I can have shrimp scampi, or any number of meat dishes as long as I'm not adding flours and things like that. I do a lot of butter/garlic and ginger sauces over my meats. baked meats, stewed, tomato, love kale, broccoli things like that.
I keep forgetting to purchase almonds so I can make my sudo bread. I would use flax, but it doesn't agree with me, I still have a big bag of it. I do have some low carb pita type bread, I'll use when I want to make sandwiches to take to the beach or something.
I've eaten this way before, and my doctors are usually happy with the results more than me, especially when they take my blood pressure.
I keep forgetting to purchase almonds so I can make my sudo bread. I would use flax, but it doesn't agree with me, I still have a big bag of it. I do have some low carb pita type bread, I'll use when I want to make sandwiches to take to the beach or something.
I've eaten this way before, and my doctors are usually happy with the results more than me, especially when they take my blood pressure.
Sounds like a very good plan, and similar to what I try to aim for. Every so often I get the itch for sweets. I gave up white bread a long time ago.
That is bad stuff in many ways, imo. I go out for an inexpensive lunch almost every day with a friend. That's why all the fast food items on my menu, lol.
It's a challenge to find something low calorie in those places.
That is bad stuff in many ways, imo. I go out for an inexpensive lunch almost every day with a friend. That's why all the fast food items on my menu, lol.
It's a challenge to find something low calorie in those places.