Weight loss & fitness log

Yesterday I had about 1500 calories. Did my exercise bike for about 40 minutes. Still have this cold! BBQ tonight at friends so extra calories. Really hoping to get back to gym by Friday!
 

It's nice that you have some exercise equipment in your building April, but please watch out for your back. I can't imagine all the extra effort and concern that goes into exercising when you are in pain. Enjoy your BBQ Americsot! I've been doing some bike, elliptical and various weight machines at the gym. Yesterday, had a banana for breakfast, a veggie burger with tomato and onion on whole wheat bun for dinner, dessert was nonfat greek yogurt.
 
You're doing well, SB! I'm ready to get back on track!
 

SeaBreeze said:
It's nice that you have some exercise equipment in your building April, but please watch out for your back. I can't imagine all the extra effort and concern that goes into exercising when you are in pain. Enjoy your BBQ Americsot! I've been doing some bike, elliptical and various weight machines at the gym. Yesterday, had a banana for breakfast, a veggie burger with tomato and onion on whole wheat bun for dinner, dessert was nonfat greek yogurt.
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Thanks Sea, just saw my PT guy today, he's not recommending I mess with any of the equipment just yet, he doesn't feel my body is body can handle it right now, so, a day at a time, but, the back is much better this week, and I'm getting around better. I might not be ready for the machine, but, I should be good for a night out after a few more sessions, I'm not missing out on a fun b-day weekend if it kills me. LOL I'm going to stay away from carrying anything heavier than a couple of lbs and no pushing or pulling any tables or other furniture, I must be in boote' shaking condition in two weeks + 2 days time. Well at least be able to move side to side for a song or two would be nice :D I'll admit, the pain had me in a bit of a downward mood, but, now that, it's subsiding a bit, from high 10's to where it almost is my normal pain that I can tolerate enough to want to be around others, I'm feeling in better spirits, so hoping to get out and have some fun with friends at the beach and The Beach Club, soon. :)

The concern is appreciated.

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Ameriscot, sounds like you are doing great, great workout. :)
 
You PT sounds like he cares about you, I'm glad you're taking his advice. Is your birthday coming up April, is that the weekend of fun your talking about? I hope you'll be able to move to the groove by then. :cool:

No exercise today except for mowing the lawn and the weeds. Just starting up those two gas lawn mowers for the season and pulling those starter ropes is a mini workout in itself, lol. Food for breakfast was a banana, dinner was eggplant parmesian with a brewski, and dessert was greek yogurt. I know, ho hum....boring, LOL! :eek:

Update, just had 3 natural lemon cookies, around 90 calories total.
 
SeaBreeze said:
You PT sounds like he cares about you, I'm glad you're taking his advice. Is your birthday coming up April, is that the weekend of fun your talking about? I hope you'll be able to move to the groove by then. :cool:

No exercise today except for mowing the lawn and the weeds. Just starting up those two gas lawn mowers for the season and pulling those starter ropes is a mini workout in itself, lol. Food for breakfast was a banana, dinner was eggplant parmesian with a brewski, and dessert was greek yogurt. I know, ho hum....boring, LOL! :eek:
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Sea, sounds like all that yard work counts for quite a workout.

Yes, hence my handle here on the board, my birthday is this month last week actually, but falls on a weekday, so celebrating the weekend just before, no surprise, I'm born under the sign of a bull ie Taurus :D As far as dancing, I don't mind dancing seated if that's all I'll be able to do, but, I think if I take it easy this next two weeks, I should be able to manage to dance my usual stand in place tiny spins to two songs sit most of the time routine have people bug me why I'm not dancing more, but just smile and grin and enjoy everyone else having the time of their lives as I watch on till my knees and back recoup for another round. :) :fingerscrossed: It doesn't always work out that way, I've already had to cancel attending two other birthday events for this month, this will be the first year I missed at least two of my groups members b-celebrations, I know I won't be able to handle so many events close together even if I sat the entire time. Plus my girlfriends are driving to town to spend that weekend with me, it's going to be more than enough to have to do as it is. Plus my blood pressure was very elevated to the dismay of my doctor, I ended up taking a long nap this afternoon, this is something that happens rarely, when I get to the point, I actually can't keep my eyes open during the day, but, it happens and I just have to give into it and go to sleep or lose consciousness whether I like it or not. Weeeeee. LOL Anyway, going to take it easy the rest of the week and going to take the bp meds, I've been avoiding, I mentioned I had been over doing things, plus, the pain factor may also be contributing to the elevated bp, I'll see how things go.

Sorry if I'm rambling, I'm going to head back off to bed, till tomorrow then.

Good night.
 
I am having an exacerbation in my lungs. Last May I had my last one and went into the hospital with pneumonia for a fews days but also lost a few pounds. I'm hoping this is a lesser variety.
 
Sorry to hear that Drifter, I hope it's not too bad this time, helluva way to lose a few pounds that's for sure. :(
 
Drifter, take it easy. Hope it doesn't turn into pneumonia!

SB, cutting the grass and weeding is definitely exercise. I know that because I watch my DH do it! :D

April, take care of that back so you can dance on your birthday!

No counting calories yesterday as I'd probably faint if I did. I baked oatmeal raisin cookies to take to our friends' house for a BBQ last night. Had too much red wine as well. Starting again today - about 1400 calories. Still not up to any hard workouts and getting really really tired of this! I have got to go into town tomorrow to shop so I'll go to the gym and do what I can. At least my nose isn't constantly running any more.
 
Friday

Didn't make it to the gym this morning, but I will do my muscle workouts at home this afternoon and maybe get on the exercise bike as well.

Eating under 1400 calories today.
 
Ameriscot, hope you're over with your cold soon, I haven't had one in a long time. I do things like megadose on vitamin C and eat raw garlic when I have a bad one, seems to help. Hard to get to the gym when there's other errands or chores to do. I didn't go yesterday, but I will get there today. Yesterday I had a banana, a half of a small frozen pizza and a sausage, yogurt for dessert. I still feel pretty bloated, not sure my weigh in tomorrow will be good. I've been taking sodium bicarbonate at night for heartburn, I don't have an issue with sodium and it's healthier than taking calcium carbonate (tums) or those other pills. I wonder if the salt is making me retain water weight, dunno.
 
Did 16 miles and an hour on the exercise bike today. Didn't have the energy to do anything else exercise-wise. Breakfast was an Aussie Bite (135 calories), dinner was a couple of scrambled eggs with onions and mushrooms, no bread. Dessert will be yogurt. Every morning with my one or two cups of coffee, I have a LOT of powdered creamer with each cup, don't know if I mentioned that, but I know it adds up to fat and calories.
 
Drifter, So sorry to hear of what you are going through, I so hope all is ok, that's nothing to mess with, take care of yourself dear man.

My goodness Sea, Kudos to you, that is some workout. :)

Well, I can tell you right now before I even step on the scale tomorrow, I didn't do well this week, I know that because, I had to step on the scale at the doctor's office on Tues, and I was holding on to a lot of fluid, hence the bp and other issues this week. According to that scale and the one when I got back home, I was up about 6 lbs. I was shocked, I had to check to see if maybe my scale had been giving me a false sense of accomplishment, the numbers matched up, so I know this happened in just a few days since the last time I had weighed, so, I know it was like I said retaining retaining fluid, the med she prescribed should kick in soon, but, I'm not expecting anything miraculous when I step on the scale tomorrow. Sigh. Either way, I'm going to do my best to stay with plan and hope my body decides to act right soon. :aargh: LOL!

Drifter, keeping you in my thoughts, hoping you are getting better.
 
Thanks April! :) These scales and fluid retention seems to be tricky business, we shouldn't let it get us down too much, hard to control really when it's a result of medications. Good luck tomorrow!
 
Well, as you can tell by my scale, the weight is still holding to the body, so, I'll just have to contend with it and hope something will give by the next weigh in, I'm sure it will, these things happen.
 
I thought sure as shoot'en the place was going to be deserted today because Ameriscot had not made a showing. Knowing she has a five or six hour earlier wakeup call and the opportunity and the right to address the morning weigh-in, yet she has not appeared. Makes you wonder if she's traveling. April got the ball rolling with a, "As you can tell by my scale ..." reminding somedays there's sunshine, some days there's rain. Me, myself, and I have been on the puny side and maybe the fever, chills, and inflammation has made things easier for me to drop a pound. I did decide not to get a weight scale, mainly because I'd have to wag it around to all the other stops I make on Senior Forums when I'm up and running. I did wake up feeling my oats this morning and was surprised when I stepped on the scales: 202.0. I have dropped two pounds this week. Now the hard part begins for reaching one's goal is a constant struggle. There's ups and downs, wins and losses as the struggle continues...
 
You have company April, my scale hasn't moved from last week, so I guess that's a lot better than a gain, I'll take it! :) Drifter, a 2 pound loss sounds great, congrats! How are your lungs feeling, any improvement there? I no longer have the weight ticker show in my signature, I just post it here once a week in this thread.

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Well done, Drifter!

I got up early this morning and went into Glasgow - involves car, ferry and train to get there. We visited my DHs uncle in his care home and of course we ate out. So had extra calories today.

Scale says I'm 0.4 lbs heavier than last Saturday. Could have been worse with the lack of much working out, the comfort eating because of my cold, the BBQ and wine at friends. So actually okay with that. The scale WILL be less next Saturday!
 
SeaBreeze said:
You have company April, my scale hasn't moved from last week, so I guess that's a lot better than a gain, I'll take it! :) Drifter, a 2 pound loss sounds great, congrats! How are your lungs feeling, any improvement there? I no longer have the weight ticker show in my signature, I just post it here once a week in this thread.

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Mama said there'd be days like that, there'd be days like that yes she did, mama said it. LOL! Don't we all know it.

I had stop posting my scale as my signiture, but when I went to post it just for the one time thing, it didn't take and my brain wasn't up for the challenge of figuring it out. I think the karma thing just wanted to get at me for funs sake, let the world know, I gained. LOL. I ain't scared, let them see, but, it comes off at the end of the day as it has for the past couple of weeks. :pfff: :giggle:
 
Ameriscot said:
I got up early this morning and went into Glasgow - involves car, ferry and train to get there. We visited my DHs uncle in his care home and of course we ate out. So had extra calories today.

Scale says I'm 0.4 lbs heavier than last Saturday. Could have been worse with the lack of much working out, the comfort eating because of my cold, the BBQ and wine at friends. So actually okay with that. The scale WILL be less next Saturday!
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Good to see you Ameriscot, I hope your husband's uncle is doing okay in the home. For me, .4 pounds equals zero, because it is less than .5....I don't do the decimal thing. :playful: Feeling under the weather and getting together with friends, I'd say you did very well! ;)
 
Ameriscot said:
Well done, Drifter!

I got up early this morning and went into Glasgow - involves car, ferry and train to get there. We visited my DHs uncle in his care home and of course we ate out. So had extra calories today.

Scale says I'm 0.4 lbs heavier than last Saturday. Could have been worse with the lack of much working out, the comfort eating because of my cold, the BBQ and wine at friends. So actually okay with that. The scale WILL be less next Saturday!
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:wave: Good to see you, you did good, could have been a 4 or more lb gain like myself. We're still trudging ahead, no matter, no looking back. :)
 
SeaBreeze said:
Good to see you Ameriscot, I hope your husband's uncle is doing okay in the home. For me, .4 pounds equals zero, because it is less than .5....I don't do the decimal thing. :playful: Feeling under the weather and getting together with friends, I'd say you did very well! ;)
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Thanks. His uncle is 87 and has alzheimers. His memory is about 3 seconds long. But he's fine in the home, it's quite nice with very nice staff. He's well taken care of. Hard to tell if he's happy. He can't really focus on anything for long but he doesn't seem to be stressed about it.

My scale is digital and does 0.2 lbs so when it keeps going back and forth between numbers I know it's probably in the middle of the two.
 
AprilT said:
:wave: Good to see you, you did good, could have been a 4 or more lb gain like myself. We're still trudging ahead, no matter, no looking back. :)
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I can easily gain 3 pounds in a week. I've done it. So I don't feel bad about less than 1/2 pound. We'll just keep going, as long as we don't quit, we're good. :)
 

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