Weight loss & fitness log

SB, hubby rides a lot and had his electric bike for several months before I decided I needed one to keep up with him. Didn't work well when I was still on my regular bike!
 

SeaBreeze said:
I imagine it didn't work well, I would have temporarily traded until my new bike came in, lol. :p
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Wasn't too bad unless he chuckled when passing me up a hill while I walked my regular bike!
 

I weighed myself this morning, 199.5, then I moved the scale out a to give me adequate room to stand. I weighed 203.0 I moved the scale and weighed again, 202.0. One more time I weighed, 201.5. I settled for 202.0. I don't know what the problem is with my scale. We went out to breakfast this morning with our son and grandkids, 13 and 16. After breakfast the twelve year old wanted something from Target. We all went. My wife and the granddaughter went one way, my son and I the other. I was looking for a pair of white slacks when I pass a mirror in Target. I peered at myself again. My God, I look like a hippopotamus. My thought was, 'I don't need any clothes, just a sheet to cover myself with until I can get to the car. I've got to lose some weight.
 
Things are not that bad Drifter, keep the faith, you'll continue to lose some. I heard that the scale should be on a hard level surface, not a rug or anything. I roll my bath mat away and set mine on the hard ceramic tile on the floor. I just have an old cheap scale I bought at walmart, 'weight watchers' brand. Happy Father's Day to you! :D
 
Hang in there Drifter! Scales are temperamental. You can't always believe them. The truth can be found in how your clothes fit - tight or loose. I keep my scale in the kitchen.

Calories for today will be just over 1300. It's partly sunny and is supposed to be mostly sunny tomorrow. So DH is cutting the grass today and tomorrow will be a bike ride.

Workout at gym:
30 mins spin bike
10 mins rowing machine
5 mins on treadmill on incline - but my plantar fasciitis isn't totally gone so I had to cut it short
4 x 12 on 4 resistance machines
 
28 mile bike ride today. Lunch was at a cafe near a castle: cheese on a brown roll, a piece of yummy orange cake. Later had a pint of beer of packet of crisps.
 
Meal plan today under 1300 calories.

Workout at gym:
30 mins spin bike
10 mins rowing machine
4 x 12 on 4 resistance machines
3 x 12 rope/pulley for triceps

I guess with all the biking we do I should switch from spin bike to elliptical for my cardio (until I can do the treadmill again), although I hate to give it up. On the spin bike there is a lot of standing and on my 'real' bike I don't need to stand any more to go up hills.
 
Nice work on your eating and exercising Annie. Your frequent and long bike rides are keeping you beautiful and young at heart...good for you! :love_heart: I'm trying to watch what I eat, but have only taken daily walks in the park. Maybe I'll make it to the gym this week, I really need to do something.
 
Thanks SB. :) If I don't workout I am wracked with guilt! I especially don't want to skip muscle workouts as I've worked too hard to lose what I've achieved. It's not like I've got bulging biceps etc unless I flex, but I know the muscles are there underneath that loose skin. :p

I will do my lower body muscles today but I've started skipping the lunges and calf lifts as I think they are getting a LOT of work anyway. But I still do the lifts with my ankle weights.

I went over calorie plan yesterday but only to 1350, so no problem. I should probably be at about 1500 on workout days anyway.

The bike rides are more pleasure than work, especially through the pretty landscapes and seascapes. This bike makes the hills so much easier, especially combined with the muscles and stamina I've built up at the gym on the spin bike.
 
Dragged myself to the gym today, and did an hour on the exercise bike (15 miles), it's been awhile, felt like quitting in the first ten minutes.
 
Went to the gym. Might do my dumbbells later. Nearly packed for our trip tomorrow. I'll keep treats and beer to a minimum, at least that's the plan anyway. There is a gym in town and we can for a small fee. Hubby would like to do laps in the pool and I might go and use the weights, but no cardio. We'll get plenty of that on the bike rides.

Workout at gym:
30 mins spin bike
10 mins rowing machine
5 mins elliptical
4 x 12 on 4 resistance machines
3 x 12 rope/pulley for triceps

Healthy menu today under 1400 calories.
 
On my best day a 28 mile bike ride would have taxed me. When I first moved to this place i now live I could see my driving days were going to come to an end some day soon. I got a bicycle. Every town in America I suspect has some old man who rides everywhere on a bike, carrying only God and himself know what. I wanted to be that man here in this forsaken land. I got a bike. One that had a rack on the back for my oxygen tank. I bought a pair of trendy sunshades, tried out a different hat or cap on each ride. The first week i got to the corner and back. The next month I was I was up to a half mile. The third month I was up to a mile but I ran out of steam and breath and couldn't push down on either pedal to go any further, unable to ride or even push the bike back home. Enough, enough. I wanted to come back and continue my journey of weight lose but I was embarrassed to do that since i have back slid to 204.5. Like a great general once said of advance and retreat. He hated to cover the same ground twice. I feel that way too but I am not the fighter he was. In the meantime while I won't be here but I will be reading about those long rides, those pounds lost and left behind, and listen to the interaction and see the fun you are having as you all trim down to where you want to be.
 
I feel your pain Drifter, so sorry you're not able to do more exercise or bike ride, but maybe there are other things you can do at home. Please don't give up. :love_heart: I'm up another pound this week, after gaining two last week...I haven't been eating that badly, but I have done hardly any exercise other than chores.
 
39 very hilly miles yesterday. Didn't realise how knackering it was until we got back to cottage to have dinner. Many of these hills would have been impossible on regular bike.
 
39 miles Ameriscot, that's excellent! Going uphill is really a challenge for me on a bike, and that's on cement trail. I imagine that your roads are mostly gravel or dirt, which makes it harder. Hope you're enjoying your new bike, sounds like it was much needed there. We just did our morning walk, will try to get to the gym again this week at least a couple of times.

Hope everyone has a fun and healthy week ahead! :eek:nthego:
 
SB our roads are paved with only a few rural roads dirt. Did 34 miles yesterday. Probably more today. Remember we have our electric battery to help us up hills.

On smartphone which gets annoying for posting!
 
Yes, I remember well about the bike, I think it's awesome, never saw something like that. Today after my morning walk, I did make it to the gym.

3X15 low rows (40 pounds)
3X15 tricep pushdowns (20 pounds)
3X15 lat pulldowns (40 pounds)

45 min. on exercise bike (13 miles)
 
Good job SB!

Did 46 miles yesterday. Getting tired! SB, curious why you thought our roads were gravel or dirt? Of the nearly 400 miles I've put on my bike so far, maybe 5 miles has been gravel or dirt. And most of that was a bike trail. Yesterday at least half our ride was a lovely tarred national bike trail.
 

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