Weight loss & fitness log

Congratulations ladies, looks like our scales are headed in the right direction! :cool2: I'm happily surprised to have lost 3lbs. I updated my ticker on the site, and copied the new image URL into the signature box, after deleting my old one.
 

Congrats to you Sea and everyone for all their efforts. Any that didn't lose anything this time around, don't give up, there's another week ahead, just give it another go and try to give it your best efforts.

Sea, I figured out what I was doing wrong and got my ticker to change, but, I still wish you didn't have to keep changing it on both sites, just hope I remember next time what I did wrong. LOL.
 
I agree with you April, those who haven't lost anything or may have even gained a bit should not let that discourage them...today is a new day and a bright future is ahead. It would be nice if it changed here when you updated it on that site, but I've never used a ticker that had to be updated at all, so I'm keeping my piehole shut and not giving out any advice on them, lol. :yes:
 

Today I had an Aussie Bite for 'breakfast', and barbecued rib-eye steak and broccoli and cauliflower for dinner along with a Foster's beer. Later my dessert will be nonfat greek yogurt again, seems to be working. I'll always have some goodies in the house because of my hubby, he has one Cadbury cream egg left and I have no desire to eat it, although I could. Still some heavy cream in the fridge...which I can drink right out of the carton. It's like an alcoholic who's trying to quit, much better I think if they can have some in the house and choose not to have it, rather than not have a drop around for temptation.
 
Got on the scale this morning and I'm down by 2 lbs since last Tuesday. Where I feel the loss besides my belly is my bra is getting a bit loser. Stuck to calories yesterday except I had one extra oatcake - 36 calories. For those who don't know what an oatcake is and it sounds like some yummy dessert, it's sort of like a soft cracker - made with oats, oil, salt.

Not a workout day but I'm doing housework.

Menu:
B: porridge/fresh raspberries/cinnamon/almond milk
L: whole wheat tortilla/low fat hummous, yogurt, grapes
D: veg curry & basmati rice, salad
S: 2 oatcakes w/low fat cheddar
tea w/soy milk, herbal teas, flavoured water, water, coffee w/almond milk
Cals: 1286
 
Calories Saturday (3/14/15): 1590 :( Got to get serious.
My latest excuse is the recent time change. Too many daylight hours in the evening, lol.
 
Calories for Sunday (3/15/15): 1020 :)

Hope I can keep it low 2 days in a row. Probably not.

Small coleslaw and 1 chicken tender for lunch, one Lean Cuisine dinner with pinto beans and lima beans,
1 cup of lowfat cottage cheese, 2 ginger snaps, 2 pieces of hard candy, and 10 peanuts!

For exercise I swept out the barn and moved the stuff out and off with a shovel. Gonna have to start lawn mowing
(actually weed mowing) in town soon. {sigh} Walk behind mower. At least it's good exercise, specially if you pick
up the pace a bit. I'm out of shape. Supposed to get to 81F tomorrow.
 
Menu:
B: porridge/fresh blueberries/cinnamon/almond milk
S: 2 oatcakes w/pb
L: grilled cheese - whole grain bread w/low fat cheddar, yogurt, grapes
D: cauliflower/veg/Quorn curry & basmati rice, salad
tea w/soy milk, herbal teas, flavoured water, water, coffee w/almond milk
S: 2 oatcakes w/low fat cheddar
Cals: 1499

Workout at home (upper):
dumbbells - 4 sets of 12 - 11 routines
push ups - 4 x 12
triceps dips - 4 x 12

Might also do this workout later this afternoon so I won't have any workout tomorrow.

Workout at home (lower):
side dips w/dumbbell - 4 x 10
squats with dumbbells - 4 x 10
lunges w/dumbbells using step - 4 x 10
lunges w/dumbbells - 4 x 10
side lunges w/dumbbells using step - 4 x 10
thighs/glutes with ankle weights - 4 x 12 - 3 routines
planks - 4
abs-4 routines x 4
bridge (for glutes, core, thighs) - 12 x 10 seconds
calf lifts w/dumbbell - 4 x 10

Edit: forgot to add my gym workout!

Workout at gym:
30 mins spin bike - intense!
10 mins rowing machine
4 x 12 on 4 resistance machines
 
NancyNGA said:
Calories Saturday (3/14/15): 1590 :( Got to get serious.
My latest excuse is the recent time change. Too many daylight hours in the evening, lol.
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That's not bad. I try to max out at 1500 on a workout day. But I wouldn't worry about an occasional 1600 cal day.
 
Bought me some brand spanking new New Balance Walkers on my shopping excursion. I'm going to give a try at a 5K tonight. This will be my first this year.
 
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QuickSilver said:
Bought me some brand spanking new New Balance Walkers on my shopping excursion. I'm going to give a try at a 3K tonight. This will be my first this year.
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Great! I'm itching to do a power walk/jog but I can't even do the treadmill at the gym as it hurts my heel. Getting better slowly though. Enjoy your walk! Or is it a run?
 
NancyNGA said:
Calories for Sunday (3/15/15): 1020 :)

Hope I can keep it low 2 days in a row. Probably not.

Small coleslaw and 1 chicken tender for lunch, one Lean Cuisine dinner with pinto beans and lima beans,
1 cup of lowfat cottage cheese, 2 ginger snaps, 2 pieces of hard candy, and 10 peanuts!

For exercise I swept out the barn and moved the stuff out and off with a shovel. Gonna have to start lawn mowing
(actually weed mowing) in town soon. {sigh} Walk behind mower. At least it's good exercise, specially if you pick
up the pace a bit. I'm out of shape. Supposed to get to 81F tomorrow.
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:thumbsup: Good going, you can do what you set your mind to do, so, you did that and you were successful, good going. :)

It isn't easy for most of us, including myself, we're here for you, to listen and cheer you on.
 
QuickSilver said:
Bought me some brand spanking new New Balance Walkers on my shopping excursion. I'm going to give a try at a 3K tonight. This will be my first this year.
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I love New Balance sports shoes and pulling for ya with that 3K, if anyone can do QS can kick butt. So with some pep in your step:pepper: I'm cheering you on from my seated position. :banana:
 
QuickSilver said:
Bought me some brand spanking new New Balance Walkers on my shopping excursion. I'm going to give a try at a 3K tonight. This will be my first this year.
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That's great Quicksilver, good for you, will be rootin' for you to finish the race! :yougogirl:
 
NancyNGA said:
Calories for Sunday (3/15/15): 1020 :)

Hope I can keep it low 2 days in a row. Probably not.

Small coleslaw and 1 chicken tender for lunch, one Lean Cuisine dinner with pinto beans and lima beans,
1 cup of lowfat cottage cheese, 2 ginger snaps, 2 pieces of hard candy, and 10 peanuts!

For exercise I swept out the barn and moved the stuff out and off with a shovel. Gonna have to start lawn mowing
(actually weed mowing) in town soon. {sigh} Walk behind mower. At least it's good exercise, specially if you pick
up the pace a bit. I'm out of shape. Supposed to get to 81F tomorrow.
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Wow Nancy that really low, you did very well! :D You do a lot of hard outside work with your property and animals, you must burn a lot of calories every day. I do the lawn and weed mowing by us usually, walk behind mower, average back yard only. It is good exercise to do those chores.
 
SeaBreeze said:
Wow Nancy that really low, you did very well! :D You do a lot of hard outside work with your property and animals, you must burn a lot of calories every day. I do the lawn and weed mowing by us usually, walk behind mower, average back yard only. It is good exercise to do those chores.
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True, you don't want to go too low on the calories, just estimate what is low enough to lose but not start losing body muscle in the process. If you go too low, the body will kill it's metabolism and will hold on to the weight at some point to protect itself.
 
AprilT said:
True, you don't want to go too low on the calories, just estimate what is low enough to lose but not start losing body muscle in the process. If you go too low, the body will kill it's metabolism and will hold on to the weight at some point to protect itself.
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Very true. Your body will go into starvation mode and the metabolism will slow down to compensate, thus defeating the purpose. But a couple of very low calorie days once in a great while is probably fine.
 
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