thanks ginny, it was fun! I remember being pretty wasted with the first workout, so no matter what the scale and measurements show, I have made some wonderful strength gains, and that is worth it to me!
good morning!!
today was the special workout, where you go back to your weights from 6 weeks ago and do as many reps as possible
deadlifts 35 @65 lbs
dumbell shoulder press 30 @ 2 x15 lbs
lat pulldown 30 @ 65 lbs
lunges 45 with 8 lb db
swiss ball crunches 60 with 3 kg medicine ball.
I am amazed at my strength gains. tomorrow is measurements, and if I have maintained, I will be thrilled. time to get nutrition in gear (quantity that is, quality is 80-90 percent clean)
wow, so my mom had stints placed. 75 percen blockage of LAD and 80 percent blockage of circumflex, two major arteries to the heart. she was lucky she didn't have a heart attack. she is resting and doing well, but there are blockages in her carotid and one of the vessels going to the bowels that they are working up.
moral of the story--achieve and maintain a normal weight. diabetes plus hypertension plus hypercholesterolemia plus obesity is not a good thing.
I hope your Mom is doing okay, nice work on the training. I am jealous of your strength gains, mine have been very minimal in the past 6 mos. keep it up!
thanks everyone! she is resting well now and will go home tomorrow.
hoping my gains are limited to the weight room. kind of scared to get on the scale and measure tomorrow, but I have a new source of scary inspiration now to get leaner, so whatever the numbers, I know I have the power to change them.
thanks everyone! she is resting well now and will go home tomorrow.
hoping my gains are limited to the weight room. kind of scared to get on the scale and measure tomorrow, but I have a new source of scary inspiration now to get leaner, so whatever the numbers, I know I have the power to change them.
Wendy I'm scared too. I didn't weigh myself all month because I didn't want to obsess about every slight movement of the scale. But now I am worried I am going to be disappointed in myself and my progress.
Hopefully everything is good for us both tomorrow. I'm glad your mom is going home.
leah, that was my reasoning for not weighing daily-I wanted to seriously take their advice and use stage 1 as a maintenance stage, but also as a strength building or muscle building stage. I thought that the scale might mess with my head during this, and I wanted to train myself on how to workout heavy, which I have never done until this month. I am comfortable with lifing heavy now, and comfortable with my form, so now I feel ready to start a calorie deficit.
I really believe in the gflux theory, though. I watch too many people restrict calories for too long, tank their metabolism and end up having to live a low calorie life, and I really refuse to do that--my body now is healthy and free from disease, so if I have to live the rest of my days in the body I am in, so be it. I suspect that I am capable of doing a small calorie deficit and lose some bodyfat and a size or two by the end of the challenge.
if I find that my measurements have increased, I know what to do. I will be more diligent at weighing and measuring all of my food, and cutting down the portions of the clean eating that I already do.
so weight was exactly the same, and measurements were the same except for 0.5 inch gain in biceps and shoulders. so all is good! going to take pics later, I don't expect much change. but I will be hitting the calorie monitoring big time from now on!
'lotta guys here would take that. Keep up the good work.
__________________ 'I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. ' ~Frank Sinatra
WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may create the illusion that you are tougher,
smarter, faster and better looking than most people.
the front and back pictures show no real change, but golly, you can see it on this picture. so here is proof--scale weight MEANS NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ok, so today was a total ungood eating day. started out fine, but deteriorated at the chinese buffet that we attended after my niece's state cheerleading finals. live and learn!
oh, and my mom did well post stint. she is home and comfortable. and totally committing to a complete lifestyle overhaul. this has scared both of them.
ok, so today was a total ungood eating day. started out fine, but deteriorated at the chinese buffet that we attended after my niece's state cheerleading finals. live and learn!
oh, and my mom did well post stint. she is home and comfortable. and totally committing to a complete lifestyle overhaul. this has scared both of them.
As someone said on this forum, everything with a word "buffet" in it is pure evil. No Go!
Glad to hear about your mom...it's really sad though that it often takes a lifethreatening event for ppl to actually start making changes...
I know, the words "stint" and "buffet" seem to go together like PB & J.
or more of an equation. buffet=stint
or one of those SAT questions.
alcohol is to DUI as
a. buffet is to stint
b. peanut butter is to jelly
c. pig is to shit
d. steroid is to shriveling manhood (or expanding womanhood, depending)
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