I started NROLFW yesterday and can't wait to continue it and see my results at the end of it.
I have to admit though, I'm going to need some help with being kept accountable, so if people want to harass me, feel free
Stats:
5'11
192lbs
Mother of a toddler/student/wife
I'm fairly active and truly enjoy working out, my biggest hurdle is figuring out my food intake.
I instruct theraputic riding for children and adults with special needs/broken homes in my free time, and as you can tell from my avatar thingy, I love my dog.
So, like I said, I started it yesterday and I'm feeling the pain today! I love it!
Well, I kind of did it. I forgot the list of exercises at home, so did some of them off memory and then did a couple things from previous work out programs.
My goal with this program? 10, I repeat, 10 REAL push ups.
And one unassisted chin up, ha.
Day 1:
5 minute incline walk
10lbs/15 squats
10lbs/15 squats
12/12 medicine balls things.
12/12 medicine ball things.
15/15 push ups
12/15 push ups
30s/plank
26s/plank
15/15 swiss ball crunch
15/15 swiss ball crunch
I was sweating after this, haha. I'm going to make sure I have the list next time I come. I might do the first exercise again, since I missed a couple.
I felt this ALOT more then when I would go and do my sets of bicep, tricep, and lunges/squats. Lots more of my body felt utilized.
God my push ups are pathetic. I WILL SUCCEED. Really, you'd just feel bad for me if you saw me doing them!
You ever get the feeling some things were meant to be?
I have a hard time with my diet, as posted above and a couple things happened today that made me laugh/think.
This morning after dropping my son off at daycare, I stopped at home for a quick shower and bite to eat before leaving for class, so I go and pour a bowl of cereal (for vanitys sake, I'm not saying what kind, I will add that it's VERY sugary) and when I go to get the milk, there is none! So I put it back in the box and made two eggs with whole grain toast and coffee.
So this after noon I took my dog for a walk and stopped to pick up lunch to eat in the park, so I buy my flax bread/turkey/loaded with veggies sandwich, a bottle of water, and out of the corner of my eye see an oatmeal peanut butter chocolate square eyeballing me right back.
So, being me, I bought it. At the park I gave my dog half of my sandwich (they're huge) and took a couple bites of my square. Well, I'm almost half way done when it drops on the ground.
I dropped my son off at daycare and puttered on over to the gym and when I got there realized I'd forgotten my workout gear and shampoo stuff.
So I had to drive home and I live a ways out of town and by the time I got there figured that by the time I drove back again, I wouldn't have time to do my workout at the gym, so I improvised with what I have at home.
For my deadlifts, I tried to do them with dumbells. I think this might work in the future, but my weights weren't heavy enough to feel like I was making any difference. However, my legs are still sore from mondays workout, so even if I missed out on the benefit that comes from deadlifts for the back and hips, the extra squatting motion was definetly felt!
I don't have a lat pull down machine hidden in the tupperware cupboard, so I made do with one arm rows. I tried to find the equivalent in the book, but couldn't.
I did my shoulder presses with 10lb weights and was feeling the burn like a mofo by the time I was finishing my second set. I'm disappointed that I've let myself go far enough to feel a burn at that small of a weight.
I also don't have a swiss ball, so I tried to do the plank in place of the crunches, and felt my muscles curling up into the fetal position as I attempted it.
So I used 10lb dumbells for all the exercises and still felt it pretty well. Just not as well as I'd like, so unless I'm willing to buy all the extra stuff I need, I'd better not forget my workout stuff again.
Also, just to give you all a little to much information, I'm a little hesitant going to the gym right now, cause I'm having a reaction to SOMETHING and while I don't think it's contagious, I'd rather not risk it. I think it's a rash from mold :S
My neighbors just had to move out of their suite cause mold was found in there apartment, and since the wall got opened up (on their side) I've delveloped a hive like rash that itches and is just getting bigger. I'm terrified but have a doctors apt on Friday. I'm not a doctor lover.
My nutrition isn't off to the greatest start, what with a crossiant and an iced cap from breakfast, but I'm drinking my repulsive protien shake now and then in a while will have some chicken and something. I've got to really get my macros on track. I talked to my old man and told him for the next little bit (while I'm adjusting) I'm going to eat my own food and make different stuff for him and O'Rian.
I know that can't be practical for my whole life, but while I'm getting used to my calories and macros, I think it'll be the best way for me. Then when 've figured out what's what, I can eat what they eat again.
Dropping in to say hi and welcome. I have found NROLFW to be a very fun and rewarding program, and I hope you will, too. By the way, I couldn't do push ups worth a darn when I started, but can do them fairly decently now (though there's always room for improvement). Cute doggie!
I have to admit though, I'm going to need some help with being kept accountable, so if people want to harass me, feel free
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Calories - Who knows.
You didnt' mention a weight loss goal. If your goal is strength, you're doing fine. If your goal is fat loss too, its ALL IN THE CALORIES. You might want to think about gaining power in the calories.
You're right, I forgot to put my goal down, ha. My main goal for this program is using it to maintain what I have, but eating to remove some fat.
After I've stripped down, I'll see where I want to go from there.
As for my calories, you're absolutely right. 85% nutrition, otherwise I won't get there. However I haven't commited myself to eating properly yet. (Mainly because I have to go grocery shopping, ha)
I also don't like counting calories. I prefer to eat when I feel I need to. But if after a while I'm seeing no progress then I'll start logging them, or maybe I'll even start estimating it now, so I have a baseline for the future.
Yeah..that's a good idea.
What exactly did you mean when you said power in the calories?
Honestly? I have a vague idea, but nothing concrete about protien intake. I've read it seven hundred times, but can never seem to keep it in my head. I am taking protien shakes after my workouts, which is something. Not enough, but something.
I think starting tomorrow I'm going to take my diet a little more seriously. I really have NO food in my house till then, ha.
On the plus side though.
Last night at my riding dinner, someone put these chocolate eclairs on the table, you know the kind that sit in a box on a shelf lost in the bakery section of the grocery store?
Well, I went to have one and then thought to myself.."Hmmm...how many chemicals are needed to keep this cream filling from going bad?"
I noticed that you mentioned you wanted to be able to do 10 REAL Push-ups. What type of push-ups are you doing now? You listed 15 and 12 in your workout, but not what type (45 degrees, chair, etc.). I recommend attempting one real push-up every set of push-ups. One set start in the up position and lower yourself down, and the next set start down and push yourself up. Just my two cents.
I'm attempting real push ups on every set, for the full set. I just can't get as close to the ground as I would like. Or if I do, I'm certainly not coming back up again, ha.
So, lets talk about these croissants that seem to have a starring role in your log . . .
Is this part of a pack you bought, or is there somewhere that you tend to buy them? I am thinking you buy them 'out' because they are often paired with a drink that looks 'store bought'
What is the nutritional info on these breakfasts?
I am curious, cause that sounds really high in calories, but perhaps it is not????
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I pick my mom up and drive her to work in the mornings and we always stop at Tim Hortons and I succumb to the cheese crossiant and iced capp. Yummy! But you'll be pleased to know I resisted and instead got just a medium coffee with one cream.
But it's terrible. Not even real food, ha.
Not that my food besides that was any better today.
6 mini chocolate bars
coffee w/one cream
1/2 chicken stromboli w/salad
hot chocolate
1/2 chicken stromboli
snickers bar
chicken on bun
grapefruit
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I didn't get my workout in today, since I was hesitant to go to the gym with my issues that I've been having, but the doctor gave me the all clear and said I'm not contagious, so whee! I felt guilty all day.
I have to go out of town for an autism work shop tomorrow, so I won't be able to squeeze in a work out, but I'm going grocery shopping when I get home! So excited for real foods. I think my problem with real GOOD food is that I get so caught up in the mechanics of it, thinking I need seventeen different things to make break fast, when I can really just have an egg, egg whites, and whole grain toast with some natural peanut butter eh?
Welcome aboard. Your job sounds so cool, and the goals of real pushups and chinups are very worthwhile. Congrats on the Tim Horton's victory, too. (I've been holding strong against Dunkin' Donuts temptations recently, LOL). Getting the food in order is the hardest part for almost all of us, but it's also the key to achieving our weight loss goals.
Good luck with the dunkin doughnuts thing! I read something in oxygen magazine that put it in perspective.
A woman wrote in that she just couldn't resist stopping for a coffee and muffin every morning on the way to work, and she didn't know how to break that habit.
The editor wrote back "Where do you see yourself in 5 years? 10 years? 20? Still getting that coffee and muffin? How will your life have progressed, and how will your waistline look?"
Kind of helped, ha.
Not to mention the grocery shopping!
Thanks for stopping in I'm giving it an honest effort to really make a life change this time. Every other time has..not mentally been there. Does that make sense?
Ok, so it's been a bad week. Things gotta kinda thrown off track. My husbands brother was in a horrible accident and we had to leave town to go see him. Luckily he'll be ok, sadly the other guy didn't make it.
Sheesh. I'm not even bothering to get back on track till tomorrow. To much stress.
I just want to do a push up!
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