I only had classes three days this week and I'm completely whipped. I think it's simply the change in routine, which eventually I'll get used to. Hope that you do as well.
I hope so too!! I'll have to get used to earlier bed times. I was soo tired last night, I slept in until 9am. Just like the summers!
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I would love to see your weights in your workouts. Good luck in the challenge and getting back into a solid routine with being back to school.
Thanks. I can put weights in. They're not impressive. I'm okay with that since I'm not in any rush for strength gains.
09/11 Training: OFF Cardio: 45 mins of tennis. It's been a long time and it was a good workout. Weight:blah
However!!!!!! 09/12 Weight: 121.0!!!!!! Phew. Hopefully I can get down to 120 by the end of the week.
Isn't it nice kicking spousal butt during workouts? And I'm glad to hear the back-to-school transition has been good. My best friend also teaches special-needs children, and completely loves her job. She says she can't imagine doing anything else professionally speaking.
My weights were never impressive, either. But I did make some improvements against the "old me," so that's what's important.
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Isn't it nice kicking spousal butt during workouts? And I'm glad to hear the back-to-school transition has been good. My best friend also teaches special-needs children, and completely loves her job. She says she can't imagine doing anything else professionally speaking.
I've never worked with special needs students before so I'm sure it'll have its challenges and rewards!
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Yay for 120 being in sight!
My weights were never impressive, either. But I did make some improvements against the "old me," so that's what's important.
Yup, but my sushi dinner last night bumped up my weight to 122 this morning. Oh well, all cals accounted for, just not the sodium.
Sept 12 Training: B2 (my last B2 workout!!!)
3x12
db DL: 25's
OH Squat: 5's
Close grip pushups
Lateral raises: 5's
Planks 60 sec x3
So nothing too impressive but gets the job done!
Cardio: 1:15 hrs tennis, 35 mins on the treadmill doing the 4:3 intervals.
So, doing the intervals might have been slightly over-doing it since I played so much tennis yesterday and I also lifted but I really wanted to finish off the week having gotten all my workouts in. Especially since I started my rest week today.
This week is supposed to be a rest week but I figure a leisurely bike ride and a couple days of hitting a tennis ball are okay.
The rest week has come at a good time since I've started the work week tired, could not get to bed last night! Hopefully tonight will be better...I need to sleep or else I get grumpy.
I'm also considering IF'ing this week. Just b/c I find that by the time I spread out 1260 cals over the day, I don't ever feel satisfied. If I fast breakfast and lunch then I can pretty eat what I want in the evening and still meet my caloric goals. And I don't have to spend time prepping breakfast and dinner!
Rest weeks are hard, aren't they? But do remember to keep the activity low-key.
Hope IF works out for you! It's rough not feeling satiated, but at the same time I get headachy and draggy if I don't eat in the morning.
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09/15 Cardio: OFF Training: OFF
And I actually didn't do any form of exercise!!! Hubby and I just walked to a near by park and played on the swings a little. Cals: Hehehe...confession: we opened a bottle of barolo to go with my ground turkey spaghetti and so my cals were about 50 over. Oh well......We had to celebrate our first paycheck since the end of June!!! Since we only get paid over 10 months, summer is hard!!!
In other news, our homestudy report is done which means in the next couple of weeks, we'll actually be in the program for waiting to adopt a child from Korea! It's sooo exciting. I'm soo ready to be a mom.
Weight: 123.4 (I think, I can't remember, I've blocked it out since this rest week is wreaking havoc on my weight). I also think eating a major chunk of my cals at night is also affecting my morning weight.
Positives though: I feel that my arms are more muscular, my pants are fitting looser and by Sunday, I'll be off of this rest week!
In other news, our homestudy report is done which means in the next couple of weeks, we'll actually be in the program for waiting to adopt a child from Korea! It's sooo exciting. I'm soo ready to be a mom.
Yay! So exciting!
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Weight: 123.4 (I think, I can't remember, I've blocked it out since this rest week is wreaking havoc on my weight). I also think eating a major chunk of my cals at night is also affecting my morning weight.
Heh, I'm finding the same thing with my maintenance weigh-ins. During the deficit it was no problem to remember my morning weigh-in and often the previous day's weigh-in for comparison. Now I forget the morning weigh in if I don't write it down.
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Hubby and I just walked to a near by park and played on the swings a little.
This sounds so cute! I wish I had someone to play on the swings with.
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We had to celebrate our first paycheck since the end of June!!! Since we only get paid over 10 months, summer is hard!!!
So, is your husband a teacher too? I was going to ask after you wrote about your lie-ins over the summer.
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In other news, our homestudy report is done which means in the next couple of weeks, we'll actually be in the program for waiting to adopt a child from Korea! It's sooo exciting. I'm soo ready to be a mom.
You sound like you'll be a great mum (excuse my British spelling)! Once you're in the programme, how long do you have to wait?
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Positives though: I feel that my arms are more muscular, my pants are fitting looser and by Sunday, I'll be off of this rest week!
Yay! So exciting!
Heh, I'm finding the same thing with my maintenance weigh-ins. During the deficit it was no problem to remember my morning weigh-in and often the previous day's weigh-in for comparison. Now I forget the morning weigh in if I don't write it down.
Yup, tres exciting. I've now made it a point to diligently put my weight into Fitday. Plus next week, it'll be fun watching the weight go down....I hope!
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This sounds so cute! I wish I had someone to play on the swings with.So, is your husband a teacher too? I was going to ask after you wrote about your lie-ins over the summer.
You sound like you'll be a great mum (excuse my British spelling)! Once you're in the programme, how long do you have to wait?
Yes, my husband is a teacher as well. Make for awesome vacation time! Thanks, I'm excited to be a mom. Once we're in, we should get a child proposal by December and hopefully be able to go pick up the child by March!!!! Just thinking about it makes me soo excited.
09/16 Cardio: OFF Training: OFF Weight: 123.2 Eats: I have to put this in here that while I've stayed within cals, I haven't been very successful with macros. Really, due to planning and the fact that I've been skipping breakfast. So yesterday was higher in fat and lower in protein while carbs were under control.
So today, I'm off to a great start with 1/3c oats + 3/4c egg whites but for "lunch" I have a protein shake, pear and sf/ff yogurt.
In other news, our homestudy report is done which means in the next couple of weeks, we'll actually be in the program for waiting to adopt a child from Korea! It's sooo exciting. I'm soo ready to be a mom.
How exciting!!!! Congrats - and hope the wait isn't too long!
It's always a balancing act w/the macros. While I'm generally good at staying within allotted calories, I have a hard time staying away from fat and carbs, and getting the protein in if I'm not truly focusing on that.
And you're getting closer to being a mom. That's so awesome!
Hi! I can't believe there are still challenge logs I haven't subscribed to yet!
Congrats on being in the adoption program! That's so cool!
Thanks!
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It's always a balancing act w/the macros. While I'm generally good at staying within allotted calories, I have a hard time staying away from fat and carbs, and getting the protein in if I'm not truly focusing on that.
And you're getting closer to being a mom. That's so awesome!
Yeah, getting the protein in is hard, especially breakfast. I like a good egg white omlette but it's the time it takes in the morning to make it that gets me! LOL......
Today, I'm just saving up some cals since it's the weekend and we might go out on "date" night!
09/17 Training: OFF Cardio: A bit of doubles tennis, not strenuous at all since we were just having fun. Weight: 123.2 Still Cals: On
Enjoying me last day of rest......and I think I need a mental break so today will be whatever cals (which I tend to not go overboard anyways, around 1500) and then tomorrow I begin the last section of OPT which means I'll be down to 1160 cals, lots of protein, low fat and low-ish carbs......
I wound up having problems getting the protein in all the time, as well. I could only take so much chicken breast and protein powder, and then I started thinking about how I'd save a bit of money if I went back to using two whole eggs rather than 1 whole egg and 3 egg whites for my breakfast eggs. But I did all right on the whole, I think.
Anyway, good luck with this last bit of OPT! The last weeks were in general my most successful, so maybe it'll be the same for you!
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Enjoying me last day of rest......and I think I need a mental break so today will be whatever cals (which I tend to not go overboard anyways, around 1500) and then tomorrow I begin the last section of OPT which means I'll be down to 1160 cals, lots of protein, low fat and low-ish carbs......
I could calculate into fitday what I ate but the breakdown yesterday is as follows....
09/19 Breakfast: 100g Danone silhouette yogurt, 1/4c cereal Lunch: 1T hummus, a few baked pita chips, veggies, 1/2c tuna Snack: a few almonds/cashews Dinner: 3x2" piece of homemade lasagna, salad, 1.5 glasses of wine Dessert: 1 homemade white chocolate, cranberry, macademia nut cookie and a cosmo (kind of, it was really a vodka cranberry w/ a splash of triple sec and a lime....highball style, not shake in a martini shaker)
So crazy? Not really, it's funny when I do feel like eating "off"plan it usually means some kind of lowfat carb anyways b/c there's pretty much no appealing junk food in the house.
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I wound up having problems getting the protein in all the time, as well. I could only take so much chicken breast and protein powder, and then I started thinking about how I'd save a bit of money if I went back to using two whole eggs rather than 1 whole egg and 3 egg whites for my breakfast eggs. But I did all right on the whole, I think.
Anyway, good luck with this last bit of OPT! The last weeks were in general my most successful, so maybe it'll be the same for you!
Thanks! Eating lots of lean protein does get $$$ for me at least. Which is why I've started to buy pork tenderloin and chicken thighs. Egg whites when I buy the cartons at Costco aren't so bad.......but basically I rotate through lean ground turkey, chicken breasts, pork tenderloin, chicken thighs and occasionally tofu.
THE LAST THREE WEEKS
So I'm reminding myself that I only three weeks left on OPT and I really want to make them count. Plus, I'll finish up just in time for our Thanksgiving, which is perfect. After OPT, if I still feel like I need to lose fat, I'll start OPT all over again and then re-evaluate month by month. Once I've stripped enough fat then I'll start running in earnest again.
So, that being said, I have goals for the next three weeks.
Goals 1) Calories: 1170
P: 146g
C: 88g
F: 26g
2) Training: at least 2x/week if not 3x
3) Cardio: walk for an hour every day I'm not training, except Sundays. I may substitute tennis or low intensity elliptical, etc instead
4) Get 7-8 hrs of sleep each night.
09/20 Cardio: OFF Training: OFF Cals: I went to my in-laws for dinner so I saved about 700 cals for that meal. M1: 1c egg whites, tsp oil, onion/mushrooms, 2T salsa M2: Salad w/ 1/2c tuna Dinner: grilled chicken breast (6-7oz), salad w/ apple cider vinegarette, carrots, 1/2 dinner roll, 1 glass wine. Dessert was a chocolate cheesecake, I had 1 bite of hubby's b/c I always say no to dessert there and they don't mind.
Then I came home and had 100g sf/ff yogurt.
But what the heck is going on with my weight? This morning I was at 124.8!!!!!! I KNOW that it's just water weight. Contributing factors: ovulation time, lack of water intake, stress, higher than usual carbs. I don't know how much stress is playing into it....but I was up last night thinking about work. What I can do about it is make sure I get sleep (I even had a relaxing bath last night!), and drink tons of water today.
In other news: to run or not run a marathon on May 3, 2010. I am turning 30 in January. I would love to run one marathon in my lifetime. Perhaps not a lifetime marathoner but still to run one. I figure, if I can drop down to 115lbs (depleted, about 118 carbed) by Nov. 1 then I'll start trying for a full. If not, then I'll see where I'm at by Dec 1. If I'm at goal weight by then, which I should be I will start training. I'm hoping that will give me extra incentive to make sure I drop the last few pounds in the next two and a half months.
Stress can definitely be a factor in water retention. And ovulation. And all the other stuff you mentioned.
And the marathon does sound like excellent incentive to meet your goal! Good luck!
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They call me Amanda, that being my real name, and "They" being people who know me in person as I don't go around introducing myself in real life as "scribess." 'Cause that would just be strange.
Stress can definitely be a factor in water retention. And ovulation. And all the other stuff you mentioned.
And the marathon does sound like excellent incentive to meet your goal! Good luck!
Well, it's still not left....the water I mean.
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I say go for it!!!
We'll see.....if not then I'll at least do the half.
09/21 Eats: Great Cardio: 1 hr tennis, 30 mins of which was frustrating. Training: OFF Weight: Still sucks.
I don't know if it's the diet, it probably is but I feel waaay more irritable, tired, prone to headaches, etc.....I have thought about refeeds as prescribed by Lyle Mcdonald's Guide to Flexible Dieting since I have it but then I wonder if I should freak out, finish out the three weeks and then re-evaluate from there?
I think I started implementing weekly refeeds (instead of semimonthly) four weeks out from the end of OPT. My opinion is to go for it--you're already fairly close to your goal, right (I want to say 5-6 pounds or even less)? So in that case refeeds become more important. A refeed could even induce a whoosh.
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They call me Amanda, that being my real name, and "They" being people who know me in person as I don't go around introducing myself in real life as "scribess." 'Cause that would just be strange.
I think I started implementing weekly refeeds (instead of semimonthly) four weeks out from the end of OPT. My opinion is to go for it--you're already fairly close to your goal, right (I want to say 5-6 pounds or even less)? So in that case refeeds become more important. A refeed could even induce a whoosh.
Yeah, well before I went up to 124.8, I was 6 lbs from goal. I'll re-read my book and then figure it out from there....
So you're gonna do a marathon??? Woohoo!! That's awesome. I'm still deciding what marathon I want to enter next year. Decisions, decisions....
Since Amanda has experience w/OPT and the "wooshes" after refeeds, it might be something worth implementing. I know that my greatest weight loss achievements came when I started jacking up calories again, after a fairly lengthy period of low cal intake.
So you're gonna do a marathon??? Woohoo!! That's awesome. I'm still deciding what marathon I want to enter next year. Decisions, decisions....
Since Amanda has experience w/OPT and the "wooshes" after refeeds, it might be something worth implementing. I know that my greatest weight loss achievements came when I started jacking up calories again, after a fairly lengthy period of low cal intake.
LOL...well, the marathon decision isn't set in stone until I fork over the $100 some odd dollars to register!
Yeah, I've decided that I'm going to do a one day refeed this Saturday and then another one two weeks after that. We'll see how those refeeds go......and then I'm going to decide if I need a weekly 5 hour refeed or a bi-weekly day long refeed. Hopefully that'll help me out. It's kind of frustrating knowing that I'm only 6-ish lbs from goal and it's taking soooo looong!!!!!! But then comes the fun part of maintenance.
9/22
Before I forget, I wanted to update today's workout. Training: C1
I went through the whole thing 3x w/ 2 min rest between each circuit and a 20sec max rest btw each exercise. All were for reps of 10.
Walking wide lunges: 15's (I switched to regular lunges b/c our fitness room is too small to walk and lunge. Every other step I was running into a wall!!!
Fly's: 10's
DB windmills: 10's
Lat. raise: 10's then 2x5
Bentover db row: 15's
Standing hammer curls: 10's
Plank progression (plank, side, leg raise, alternating sides, held for 30 secs each) Cardio: Walk with a friend, at least 60 mins. Meals: Breakfast: 1c eggwhite, 1tsp oil, peppers/musroom/onion, 2T salsa Recess snack: The blueberries of a individual tart. No crust. Lunch: 30g whey, pear Snack: 1 slice ww toast, 1T light creamcheese, 1tsp jam, a couple of almonds Dinner: A scoop and a bit of lean ground turkey spaghetti-style sauce. It's a bit random b/c I made lasagna for hubby and extra sauce so that I could eat that instead of the lasagna. I have a good idea of portions since I know how much went into the lasagna vs. leftover, etc, etc...Plus, salad. Snack: 100g sf/ff yogurt, 1/2c blueberries/strawberries.
So that's what a typical day would look like. I had the toast b/c of the workout and b/c I had extra cals due to lack of protein. This is getting tooo anal. Basically, I've hit my caloric target.
Go do that marathon. It's neat to have a goal like that to work towards. And don't let your weight be a factor in doing one either.. Wendy did several marathons & triathlons at much heavier weight. Let the only factor be how bad you want to do it.
Water weight gain is nothing to worry about, it's just strange how sometimes it is happening despite what you ate & then another time when you ate like a pig, there's no gain! Don't knock ovulation gains, these used to be really insignificant but over the years they got way more pronounced (could be aging, could be because of swinging back to normalcy after having had PCOS).
There is absolutely NO reason to get mad about it.. it's only water that will (literally) pass.
During maintenance most people also gain about 3-4 lbs just from eating more carbs, so that's another huge factor. Everyone should expect to gain that amount when you finish your cut.
Go do that marathon. It's neat to have a goal like that to work towards. And don't let your weight be a factor in doing one either.. Wendy did several marathons & triathlons at much heavier weight. Let the only factor be how bad you want to do it.
Water weight gain is nothing to worry about, it's just strange how sometimes it is happening despite what you ate & then another time when you ate like a pig, there's no gain! Don't knock ovulation gains, these used to be really insignificant but over the years they got way more pronounced (could be aging, could be because of swinging back to normalcy after having had PCOS).
There is absolutely NO reason to get mad about it.. it's only water that will (literally) pass.
During maintenance most people also gain about 3-4 lbs just from eating more carbs, so that's another huge factor. Everyone should expect to gain that amount when you finish your cut.
Thanks for the encouragement! I'm viewing training for the marathon as a reward for some fat lost.....
Still waiting for the water to come off................still waiting......**sigh**And hungry these days......
But do remember to keep the activity low-key. 
But I did all right on the whole, I think.
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