LIVIN' LARGE: Minimizing yourself and maximizing your life!When you have over 100 pounds to lose it can seem impossible to get started in the right direction.
Roses- Keeping to my nutritional plan with a planned "cheat" for Sunday dinner. Did 3.6 miles walking on Saturday night to keep on my training schedule.
Thorn - Did not get my first lifting session in this weekend - will finish moving my weights back from the garage to the basement tonight.
__________________ It all starts with the mind, but the thoughts, the intention aren't enough. Action needs to come next. Dream it, believe it, plan it, execute it, celebrate it. - Wendy
Roses Started NROL FL today with a good work-out.
Thorns: Missed a planned SS cardio over the weekend. Wanted to finish the weekend with 5 out of 6 nutrition point intact. Only got 4.
As of 6/3/07
NG 4/6/110
RT 0/22
HIIT 1/18
SS 0/8
Personal Goals:No weigh in until 6/11. Attended mass yesterday.
You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your f---ing khakis.-Tyler Durden
Checking in and since we are talking about roses and thorns I had a strange one this morning -- At my gym we have three squat racks and one of those smith machines so normally there is never a line to do squats; however when I got to the gym every single one had someone in them doing squats!
Who would have thought a squat rack would have been good for squats and people were actually doing them!
It is even more amazing since it was at 4 AM this morning.
Jim~
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Roses: workouts like planed, althoug I just got a new job wich I will start this week and also have to work all nights except 2 so I still have to find out how I will plan my workouts.
Thorns: I find it difficault to eat enough, but I´m doing my best
June 01: Nutrition 2/2 ; Cardio walking: 2x5 outside + 1x20 treadmill; weigh in 300.6 lbs
June 02: Nutrition 2/2
June 03; Nutrition 2/2; RT:1 circuit
Weekly & Overall Totals Weigh-in: 297.8 (-2.8)
Nutrition: 6/6/95
RT: 1/21
SS CT: 1/21
Competative Goal: 0
Personal Goals:
1) Read and implement 2 books about emotional eating. - Ordered: Shrink Yourself by Roger Gould)
2) Read and implement 2 books about parenting. - 2 chapters read in Martin Seligman's The Optimistic Child
3) Be in bed by 10:30 on 31 of the days. -1/3/31
4) Make the 2 overdue doctor visits that I have. -Not yet
5) Complete at least 9 stretching sessions. 0
Thorns and Roses
Roses
I have a lot more energy than I did last week. I find that I have a more positive outlook in my daily life.
Thorns
I'm having a hard time planning preparing and measuring each meal. My wife is very helpful, but measuring almost everything I eat is really time consuming.
As an energy and environmental policy consultant, all of my projects involve writing. I help corporate and research institute clients understand the implications of energy and environmental issues. I also work with them to manage identified risks and opportunities through development of and implementation of targeted public policy strategies (I don’t do communication strategies), provided they choose an economically and environmentally sound course of action. 90% of my work is focused on global climate change, an issue that has consumed most of my time over the past 19 years.
I’m constantly developing scientific, economic, and technology development overviews, executive briefings, issue papers for lobbyists to use when they visit Congressional and Administration offices in Washington, DC, strategy documents, reports on multi-stakeholder meetings and workshops, etc.
In addition, I “translate” scientific, economic, and technology papers for a research institute so that an educated layman can more readily understand the results and their significance. These are papers that result either from their own research or the research of others, usually in universities, that they fund. They send me the papers prior to publication either in peer-reviewed journals or their own institute research reports and then distribute my summaries to their funders soon after publication. I really enjoy doing these because it helps keep me abreast of many of the latest developments….And, I know about them before they become public, which helps me in working with my other clients.
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I suck at these challenges. I know 1 day at a time...yeah, I haven't earned a single point in 3 days.
Today I've been on program & doing well.
I leave for Hawaii in 26 days. I'm so psyched. I found a run for the competition portion. I'll be doing a 5k in Honolulu with my DH, DD, niece, & a girlfriend & her BF. It should be tons of FUN! It's a run to raise funds for epilepsy research. http://www.active.com/event_detail.cfm?event_id=1442438
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I had a very good friend who did similar types of stuff for a think tank. Hmmm I must go track him down now.
The reason I actually asked is that I do technical writing for the oil and gas industry. I also do a lot of personal and expository writing when I'm not writing manuals.
Thanks
__________________ It all starts with the mind, but the thoughts, the intention aren't enough. Action needs to come next. Dream it, believe it, plan it, execute it, celebrate it. - Wendy
I had a very good friend who did similar types of stuff for a think tank. Hmmm I must go track him down now.
The reason I actually asked is that I do technical writing for the oil and gas industry. I also do a lot of personal and expository writing when I'm not writing manuals.
Thanks
My experience is mostly in the electric sector. I've also done some work in the gas pipeline industry.
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Week 1 check in
June 1 - Nutrition 2/2, Boxing workout
June 2 - Nutrition 2/2
June 3 - Nutrition 2/2, Mobility Work
Thorn - Weekends are always busy and eating enough food is always difficult.
Roses - Completed a major clean-up of the house/yard and still managed to eat properly.
Week 1 Checkin
Nutrition 5/122 blocks. I did have to purchase oatmeal but I was still on plan foodwise.
Exercise
Meals Carried for work 2/100 completed
Resistance 2/26 completed
Interval 0/8 completed
Cardio 1/8 completed
Missed the Event I registered for this past weekend. Will try for another event Father's day weekend.
Doing well on eating when I get up instead of waiting.
1 article written and posted on my web site: http://dontbeapicklebump.com/mambo/i...d=59&Itemid=50
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report for week 1: Jun 1-3
nutrition: on track (6/6 on the week, 6/122 on the challenge)
fitness: on track (1 RT, 1 HIIT, 1 SS)
personal: nothing yet
event: chosen but not yet registered
Rose = feeling good in general, especially regarding my food ... minimal cravings and what I've had I've been able to deal with using "authorized" foods.
Thorn = had to switch my workout plan around due to fatigue. I think this will work better as I have plenty of energy to workout on the days I workout but will give me more time to recover in between (details in my log).
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New THORN!!! Grr, my new bike is being a jerk. crank arm keeps loosening and i have to stop every half mile and tighten it back up with a socket wrench. putting a damper on my goal of riding to work everyday. if anyone knows a lot about bikes, i could use some advice. i already posted in the biking forum as well, but if anyone else knows,
So far pretty good. I've worked out every day, 2 resistance, 1 interval, 3 ss cardio. Only I missed nutrition block. My weight is down about 4 lbs since starting the nutrition plan last Monday, 5/28.
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Location: In a swirling vortex of children (in western PA)
Posts: 5
First check-in - generally rosy, taking each day as it comes. Focusing on planning my food, which is not something I'm good at yet. Big rose - being able to post! Thanks, Newman!
I've pretty much stuck to my plan so far. I did have one of my cheat meals on Saturday. My husband and I left the kids w/ mimi and went to Pappasitos! It's the most fabulous mexican food on earth!! If you are from TX, you know what I'm talking about.. .if you are not, you are missing out!!! :p
My plan is to weight train 3 times a week and do cardio 2 times. I'm on target thus far
I'm still trying to figure out which 5k to do. There is one next saturday. I would love for my husband and kids to do it with me.
For those who seem confused about having this thread up already, I am keeping it up for the entirety of week 1. Then I will put up week 2's thread. This allows for greater flexibility and more ease in communication.
Newman
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MAJOR THORN: Today was a pretty piss poor day for the most part. Worked sucked badly. I get tired of going to work at a gender biased corporation. It seems if you are female and work there, you are placed on a pedestal. Meanwhile I feel as if the guys do as much or in some cases more work, yet get nothing in return.
ROSE: I couldn't take being in a bad mood anymore, so I murdered my legs at the gym. Nothing beats taking out your frustrations on the weights. It's such a good stress reliever.
Just had to vent a little more. I think I'm good now. At least for today.
Thorn today: Woke up this morning and just don't feel all that hot. Got my oatmeal in before I got on the bus but the thought of eggs just wasn't doing it at that point in time. Went and got some eggs when I got to work this morning. Not sure what's going on with my tummy today but I'm not looking forward to eating at all.
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