Yesterday was going to be the day of the swift kick in the ass, but a sore throat really derailed that. Today was better, maybe.
Being home sick meant a lot of snacking and my husband deciding to make me gelato (sweet and the gesture is appreciated... but not when I'm desperately trying to get back in gear) didn't help.
I did go to the gym, and i really just wanted to leave the whole time.
I know I just need to get back on track and I'll start feeling better. I'll try again tomorrow but yeesh.
So, tomorrow, I've another weights workout, and I plan to give myself a serious kick in the pants. I just need to get back in mode, and I'll be good to go.
In other joyous news, my IT band is definitely improving. IT band sounds like a recreational activity at work, come to think of it. Anyway, I should be able to run again within two weeks- hurrah!
Now I just need to get out of work at a reasonable time!
Workout:
This is my last go at 3A unless I decide to do another week on stage 3. I think I may just go ahead and move to four to switch it up a bit, esp as all the 3 exercises will be back.
I was surprised that I had to drop my weight on the dumbell snatch, but I suppose that's what i get for being a slacker.
I definitely need to work more on my core strength. The Planks are still very hard for me. I am hoping that the pilates class i signed up for will help me on that.
So, I did my stats for the challenge, and the little changes I had were a pleasant surprise.
...Especially because I didn't work as as I wanted to or should have!
My waist got a tiny bit smaller, my back and arms got bigger. No change in my thighs, but maybe next month. So, for someone who did halfassed workouts because of an injury and got lazy with nutrition, I'm thrilled to see any changes at all!
I've never really measured myself, I always assumed that if my fat% wasn't shifting that there was no change. It made me feel completely defeated, but now there has been change, and that's so encouraging!
I'm planning to work more on my eating this month, and to commit to the level of cardio I planned to in my goal list as soon as I get the OK from my physiotherapist. I keep wanting to just go for a run, but I don't want to undo all the work that has been done to date.
In other news, it is snowing lots here in London. This is the most snow seen here in 18 years. I'm sort of working from home, and I'm finally writing up the Rome trip/ sorting pics. Anyone who still wants to see, let me know and I'll PM you the links.
Nutrition: 2103 Cals, 139 g protein. Not bad! I'm often a bad eater when I work from home, but today wasn't a disaster. Even when my husband decided to bake sticky toffee pudding, I resisted!
Workout: Had my last go on workout 3B. I can't do the intervals, so I sort of cheated and jogged sloooooowly for 10 min at the end. I just miss doing cardio so much (it keeps me sane) that I couldn't help just a tinyjog.
I'll do 4A on Thursday, as I have physiotherapy late tomorrow and my photo class on Wednesday. I can't say I was missing those step ups!
Nutrition: 2103 Cals, 139 g protein. Not bad! I'm often a bad eater when I work from home, but today wasn't a disaster. Even when my husband decided to bake sticky toffee pudding, I resisted!
nice workouts, I'm impressed with the 30 reps of swissball crunches, they kill me. Did your husband bake the pudding from scratch, or heat up a bought one? Either way thats impressive too
Congrats on finishing Stage 3! Cool on the snow, also!
Thanks! It's pretty, but given that no one has a snowshovel, I am looking forward to it melting!
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Originally Posted by dixiechick
nice workouts, I'm impressed with the 30 reps of swissball crunches, they kill me. Did your husband bake the pudding from scratch, or heat up a bought one? Either way thats impressive too
The ball crunches are hard. I tend to put my hands ahead, rather than crossing them on my chest, on the last 15. I'm also not holding a weight.
Sticky Toffee Pudding is a weakness of mine. It's one of my favorite English desserts, but to be fair, I do really like them all. It was from Tesco's. I am currently resisting its siren song emanating from my fridge.
Thanks! It's pretty, but given that no one has a snowshovel, I am looking forward to it melting!
The ball crunches are hard. I tend to put my hands ahead, rather than crossing them on my chest, on the last 15. I'm also not holding a weight.
Sticky Toffee Pudding is a weakness of mine. It's one of my favorite English desserts, but to be fair, I do really like them all. It was from Tesco's. I am currently resisting its siren song emanating from my fridge.
Even better is to glue your arms to your ears -- staight up. This assures you that you aren't using your arms at all for momentum.
In other news, it is snowing lots here in London. This is the most snow seen here in 18 years. I'm sort of working from home, and I'm finally writing up the Rome trip/ sorting pics. Anyone who still wants to see, let me know and I'll PM you the links.
Beautiful snow! And I'd love the links to the Rome trip!
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Sticky Toffee Pudding is a weakness of mine. It's one of my favorite English desserts
I've never heard of that one before but dang if that doesn't sound yummy! Put "sticky" plus "toffee" together in the same sentence and I'm all over it. Off to google...
Even better is to glue your arms to your ears -- staight up. This assures you that you aren't using your arms at all for momentum.
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that's what I do. Sometime with a barbell between my hands, too.
Someday, I will have the core strength to do it! No exaggeration, my core strength is very poor, but I'm working on it. I actually have stuck at thirty reps this stage while working to improve form. I've a long way to go, but things keep getting easier, which is encouraging!
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Great job on the progress!
Beautiful snow! And I'd love the links to the Rome trip!
I've never heard of that one before but dang if that doesn't sound yummy! Put "sticky" plus "toffee" together in the same sentence and I'm all over it. Off to google...
Thanks so, so much! We're getting more snow tomorrow, supposedly, so there may be more snowy pics.
Sticky Toffee Pudding is really just ridiculously good. I'd strongly advise making it sometime when you decide to briefly abandon your healthy goals.
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Oh, I was wondering what happened to the Rome pics, so I'll be PMing you for the links. Congrats on finishing stage 3 and your progress this month !
Thanks! You know, the bit of progress just makes me want to work harder, which is such a nice feeling.
Rome link - i'll PM a link to my blog which has some of them, including my collage of gluttony. Just filter for travels for the Rome links. The entries are shorter than I would have liked, but time has been short. I still need to put the pics up properly. (I'd post the blog link, but I have concerns about google tracking back to it. I'm not quite ready to share my pudge with my colleagues.
Way to go on Month 1! I finally figured how to do my pics on here. Thanks for the help and the tutorial earlier in January. Def. helped shrink my mega-sized pics.
Way to go on Month 1! I finally figured how to do my pics on here. Thanks for the help and the tutorial earlier in January. Def. helped shrink my mega-sized pics.
Thanks, you too! When I saw you had much smaller pics, I meant to drop you a line and then...oops!
No big workout today. I got home at around nine, and I couldn't see how I'd manage to eat enough to meet my lifting day intake reqs and workout before bed. Thus, there will be a bit of time with a pilates DVD before bedtime, but that's it. I'l start stage four tomorrow.
Nutrition:
1767 cals. I am kicking some protein intake butt. I only had part of a shake today... i managed to eat the rest of it! The last few days have been among my best eating days, and i'm really pleased w myself.
Friday, 6 Feb & Saturday, 7 Feb
Let's start with Friday.... after yet another fully craptacular day at work, I decided that going drinking was a much better idea than working out.
I'm not sure I made the right choice, but it was fun.
I've been taking a beginner's pilates class every Saturday morning, so I had that today. I've never woken up the next day hurting, but it is a beginner class. It is a much easier class than the standard pilates class at my gym, but I think I'm also getting much better guidance on my form.
In my latest physiotherapy session, the PT said that my IT band problem is likely caused by my not using my glute enough (go figure) and he stressed that i should keep with the pilates and do a few extra exercises that he gave me.
So, Hopefully, all this is going to help me.
I started NROLFW Stage 4 tonight. I did squats on a bosu instead of my usual leg press to replace the first exercise because it was one that the physio told me to do
In general, i found I had to use lower weights than I was using at the end of stage 2, partly because of the IT band problem On the step ups, I dropped from 15kg to 10kg and *still* it was too painful on my knee so I dropped to 8. Otherwise, workout was cut short when lights out came at 1045. I wish i were seeing more progress on the pushups and planks, but given that core strength is a shortcoming of mine, I think I might need to be a bit more patient.
I was a pretty bad eater today; although I did tons of walking. I'm hoping my good behavior cancels out my bad. Seems reasonable, as my bad wasn't that bad. I'd add it all up, but it seems unnecessary.
I was a pretty bad eater today; although I did tons of walking. I'm hoping my good behavior cancels out my bad. Seems reasonable, as my bad wasn't that bad. I'd add it all up, but it seems unnecessary.
Yeah.
I've found that when I'm not on good behavior and I actually write it down, it's usually not half as bad as I imagine.
don't get me wrong, I am so NOT proud of Sunday, but I really could have done so much worse, hehehe.
In other news, I was looking over my food logs and found that my cottage cheese entries on several days recorded as 100g instead of 300g. Grr! There goes a bit of my deficit; although, I suppose if I'm going to cross over my deficit, doing it with cottage cheese doesn't seem as awful as doing it with a bacon sandwich.
Today was good in terms of macro breakdown; although I was under my deficit threshold on cals.
and I did workout 4B.
I need to sort out an alt exercise, as doing deadlifts with the pulley machine is officially not challenging anymore.
I also did some really wimpy intervals, which have got to be better than nothing. I'm trying to ease back into running.
I also tried to do the swissball crunches the hard way. We'll see how I feel tomorrow.
Workout -
I did a pilates DVD and spent half an hour on the treadmill, largely jogging
11th -
I had class tonight, so there was my 30-40 min walk to Waterloo to catch the train, but that's it
On the Eats, I also was a little low on protein... I had leftover quiche for lunch instead of the tuna sandwich that has kept my protein numbers up. There was also a small glass of wine.
1929 cals... this is a bit imprecise. Dinner was a ready made dinner from M&S (one of the markets) and the nutritional info included gravy that I passed on. That said, I had a small choco cornflake thing at work. It was really small, so maybe I break even. Either way, it's done now.
Fat - 32.1% (74 grams)
Protein - 23.6% (122 grams)
Carbohydrates - 36.0% (186 grams)
Alcohol - 8.3% (24 grams)
Other - 0.0%
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