Weight loss & fitness log

AprilT said:
Sorry you're getting little too little sleep Annie, it's been like that all week for me as well especially the earlier part of the week, last night was tad bit better. As far as eating, though, my appetite has increased, for reasons, I won't get into, for the most part,I've managed to stay on board, yesterday mostly just eating veggies and a few slices of turkey breast from the deli. I had a baked sweet potato with a hefty serving of zucchini for lunch and dinner, might have the same for lunch today. As I've no desire to do much cooking. Next week I will pick up some shrimp and other quick fix proteins like steak I can throw on my George Forman grill.

The good thing though, I can feel my body agreeing with me and my abs laying flatter.
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Thanks, April. Last night was my choice. I didn't intend to stay up, but the party I voted for was predicted to do almost a full sweep of Scotland. Had to watch.

Glad you are making progress! Your meals sound healthy.
 

Thanks Ameriscot, both you and April are doing very well despite the little things that life throws at us. :love_heart: No exercise today except for morning walk, Aussie Bite for breakfast, veggie burger with tomato, onion and mayo on whole wheat bun with a beer for dinner, dessert will be yogurt again, nonfat Greek, raw honey, organic lime juice and flaxseed meal.
 

Hi ladies. :)

Intended to do all my muscle workouts and stick to calories today, but instead I only did my upper body dumbbells routine. Then hubby and I went for a bike ride to botanic gardens, long walk around the gardens, much of it uphill. Lunch was a yummy warm whole grain baguette filled with thick slices of ham and melted white cheddar. There was quite a lot of butter as well as it was dripping out of the sandwich. Lovely side salad came with it. I was full after eating half the sandwich but continued to eat. Halfway through the second half I was about to burst so stopped. Not even going to guess at the amount of calories, but it's a lot!

Hubby had a bowl of pea and ham soup with a roll.

The bike ride was 15 miles in total. Calories for breakfast and dinner will be good, but lunch is a wipeout. :rolleyes:
 
Doing a quick check in, on my way out to the beach in like three minutes. I'm down two lbs, yay! Finally the scale is moving southward again.

Talk with you all a bit later. Annie, you are quite a gal, still sounds like a good workout to me. :) Have a great Sat everyone.
 
I have lost some weight but these last few pounds have been especially hard to shed. I get down to a certain weight and I become like a rubber ball, my weight bounces up and down and up again. I suppose I’m simply eating too much, still. I always spike when I have a steak and either late afternoon or early evening we had a specially good choice ribeye steak with only a salad but I did use some regular french dressing on the salad and had some good bread rise up rolls with the steak and salad. It’s easy to fatten up a hog but hard to get that weight off. I'm up 3.5 pounds to 205.5. My goal was 199.0 so I've 6.5# to go. My, my.
 
Way to go April, kudos on your 2 lb. loss! Ameriscot, that ham and cheese sandwich sounds yummy. One thing I notice about you is even if you indulge a bit now and then, you're quite aware and don't let it get away from you. You really are an inspiration, I admire your commitment to your health.

Drifter, hang in there, it's so easy to gain, I feel your pain. Today my husband is barbequing a couple of rib eyes for us, and well be having them with broccoli and cauliflower mixed with light olive oil and a touch of Smart Balance spread. Still have a good cherry pie in the freezer calling my name. :eek:

This morning I was down one pound, so although I'm yoyoing with these last ten pounds for a couple of years now, I'm always happy to see those numbers go down again. Maybe one day, with some more discipline, I can lose these last pounds and keep them off. Worth dreaming anyway. :D

Hope you all have a great weekend and a good week ahead!
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Thanks, SB. At home with visitors or local visits for a few days I don't worry too much as I get it back off. It's those looooong trips that are trouble!

You're doing well SB. If you're never more than ten pounds overweight, you've no need to worry about your health.
 
I hope the campers among us keep in Mind it may be snowing in the high country and cold throughout the region.
 
Thank you Annie, you're right about it only being ten pounds, I'm lucky. A few years ago I started going up in weight and I tried to nip it in the bud...didn't want to be on medicine for diabetes like my mother was and sister now is. We take a lot of goodies on our camping trips, hubby doesn't have a weight issue and we both have a sweet tooth, as you can see in this picture of my kitty in the camper pantry, lol. Luckily, just being out there and doing things like we do in the outdoors burns more calories, the daily longer hikes at high altitude will help me stay in check. Sometimes I even lose a couple of pounds, although I eat more in fattening foods.

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I know you'll enjoy your trip, SB.

I was never more than 10 pounds overweight until my late 30's. Got down to 120 lbs after I turned 40. Been up and down ever since maxing out at 167 a couple of times but haven't been back up that high since I was 59 - 4 years ago. Ideal weight for me now is between 128 and 135.
 
I remember being up to 163, but likely went up to 165 for awhile. That's when I knew I didn't want to buy larger clothes and I didn't feel good anymore climbing up stairs, etc. Got serious, did step aerobics several times a week at home and started cutting back on fatty foods and sweets until I was in the 150s again. When I first met my husband in my early 20s, I was 118 lbs., lol and ate what I wanted, didn't exercise or worry about a thing. But like they say, many people gain one pound per year as they age, doesn't sound like much until 40 yrs. later, lol. :eek:
 
SB, I ate anything I wanted in my 20's and 30's and then it caught up with me around age 37ish.

Doing my lower body workout today. Keeping under 1400 healthy calories. No scale today but will get on tomorrow.
 
Did nothing today but a little bit of packing and cleaning. Weak in the food department, we had crispy chili rellenos smothered in green chili from a good Mexican restaurant, and that cherry pie in the freezer made it to the oven last night, so had a piece of that for dessert. Lazy snowy Sunday, pretty much hibernated all day.
 
Oops. Scale went up just a bit. Good workout at the gym but didn't get to do my muscle workouts at home. Some friends were coming by so I picked up some big chocolate chip cookies from the bakery. I had one with tea, then we began sampling hubby's home brewed beer. Nice visit as we hadn't seen this couple in ages. I sent the extra two cookies back home with the couple for their two young kids. (even though I easily could have eaten both!).
 
Resitalasitence, (<----no idea,). Well in the end, you sent the rest of the cookies off to a better place, and your resistance to scoff down those extras, probably saved you from gaining an extra lb on top of just the one. :goodjob: At least I think so. :)
 
AprilT said:
Resitalasitence, (<----no idea,). Well in the end, you sent the rest of the cookies off to a better place, and your resistance to scoff down those extras, probably saved you from gaining an extra lb on top of just the one. :goodjob: At least I think so. :)
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Aye, but I think I made up for it in later beers!
 
Ameriscot said:
Aye, but I think I made up for it in later beers!
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Only live once and it's not like you need to lose any weight to begin with, just bounce between a few lbs during the year and keeping your pace of activity, you are doing a great job. Just don't get crazy and do it again and again, ya know what I'm sayin. LOL! At least not past the summer, you know, you have that whole holiday season to follow then your pucked.
 
AprilT said:
Only live once and it's not like you need to lose any weight to begin with, just bounce between a few lbs during the year and keeping your pace of activity, you are doing a great job. Just don't get crazy and do it again and again, ya know what I'm sayin. LOL! At least not past the summer, you know, you have that whole holiday season to follow then your pucked.
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Yea, I need to get strict and never fluctuate more than about 5 pounds. Otherwise it's unhealthy. But these long holidays are really challenging.
 
Haven't done much in the exercise department beside my morning walk. Trying to keep the food part under control, shrimp salad sandwich on french bread yesterday, tonight will be grilled Norwegian salmon fillet with gold potatoes. Had small pieces of the cherry pie until it was gone, now back to yogurt. Hope everyone is having a good week. :)
 
Workout at gym:
30 mins spin bike
10 mins rowing machine
10 mins elliptical
4 x 12 on 4 resistance machines
4 x 12 rope/pulley for triceps

After the gym hubby and I went for a lovely bike ride stopping at a cafe for lunch. Round trip was 20.5 miles, and lots of hills. So halfway round we stopped at a rural restaurant and had a pint of beer. I only had to walk for a bit on a couple of steep hills, otherwise I put it in low gear and stood up to pedal like I do on the spin bike.
 
Annie, I'm getting a workout just reading all of that, thanks, I'm tanked, no need for me to do anything more for the day. My little work with my PT went well, but, do I feel like a slacker, next to you. LOL
 
LOL, April! I did have a very active day yesterday. I've never done the gym and a long bike ride in one day before. I guess I'm doing things right as I have no pain in my leg muscles at all. Glad I never have knee issues and hope it stays that way.

Today I'll do my upper body muscles with the dumbbells and also abs, but I'll skip the lunges and squats and glutes stuff. Riding a bike up a hill uses your butt muscles so I guess those are good. :D

Menu: under 1400 healthy calories.
 

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