Yeah.
Not too much I can say to help soften the blow.
I truly don't FEEL this fat.
Not sure how I got this way, really. I'm not a gorger, and I work out fairly regularly - running for 5+ hours a week for God's sake - even before NRL4W. This is just embarrassing. See what I mean about the big, hard belly? After 4 kids, it's usually squishy, saggy. Don't know what's up there. I CAN'T be preggers, cuz the tubes are tied, AND I'm about menopausal.
No where to go but down!
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LOL! You got that right, Kelly!
I can't say I've been ~airtight~, but not (teehee) excessive, either. HA!
After today - I didn't eat much at all - too crazy - and my belly is harder than ever, I think it has to be something with some kind of food. Or water, like Karla said. Or ???
While I'm here:
4/8/08
HIIT, 5:30 PM at the Y:
5 mins w/u: 3.0 - 4.0
8 x 45secs @ 6.5 + 1 min @ 3.8 x 5
incline going up -every set- (after the first 2) from 0 - 6.
then trekked it out to the music til 2.5 miles.
I think I died, really.
Some really obnoxious guy was running on the TM beside me, STOMPING his feet down as he ran intervals for 10- secs... I turned the music up and tried to ignore him, but I was giggling a few times, as was the lady on the other side of him. How much FUN is that?
Best song today: "Give a Little Bit" by the Goo Goo Dolls. Got me up those last hills.
God I'm tired.
'nite.
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I am the spirit of Sally... or maybe her evil twin, the way I've been eating! Clean choices 99%, but - so much. I'm so dang hungry. Last Stage 1, A before AMRAP!Deadlift: 3/10 @ 50#, 60#, 60# (forgot I was only supposed to do 8 reps!) OHPress: 3/8 @ 20#, 25#, 30# Lat PD: 3/8 @ 80# Lunges: 3/8 @ 30# Ball Crunch: 3/12 BW. This was interesting - I used a smaller ball (55cm v 64?) and it was much more isolating. Why is that? Taking 2 days off to repair. I'm feeling this one.
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I think if you eat clean 99.9% of the time that it is okay to increase to where you are not feeling much hunger. You will perhaps not cut as quickly but I think it would be hard to gain. I am finally starting to gain after months and months of over eating. (all cleanly)
Thanks Pauline, Byts, Karla. I really appreciate the input.
4/13/08 Warmed up by doing some BOSU balance stuff - I'm getting much better at staying on the samned thing.
Squat: 3/8 @ 50#
Pushups: 3/10 flat, nose to floor
Seated Row: 3/8 slow, Blue band, 1 foot away
Step-Up: 3/10 @ 30 on the BOSU
Jackknife: 3/12 on toes only!
Whew.
Ate some not so lean steak last night and it was delicious! Kept the portion under control at least. I feel so deprived some days, I just have to let a little loose. It's easier to get back to ultra-controlled after a free meal anyway. Most times. Unless it turns into a train wreck, which a gluttonous meal has been prone to instigate in my checkered fit/fat past.
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It's easier to get back to ultra-controlled after a free meal anyway. Most times. Unless it turns into a train wreck, which a gluttonous meal has been prone to instigate in my checkered fit/fat past.
I knew we had a lot in common! I have found, in the past, that one "bad" meal can totally throw me off the wagon... I think, having worked out this hard and this consistently for this long (6 weeks on NROL4W) AND having kept my eating going in the right direction, that it's easier to jump back on. Also, this board helps me keep perspective, even after a horrible unplanned cheat night like I had last night!
"20 Minute Solution" style HIIT today for the first time in a long time. It took some figuring to find my PLE's and MAN have they gone down! Gotta restart somewhere I guess.
PLE minutes speed
5 2 3.4
for a warm-up, then:
6 1 3.7
7 1 5.0
8 1 5.7
9 1 6.6
Did that 4 times, then
10 1 7.0
And that was enuff. You know, 7.0 is a lot harder after 16 minutes of climbing than in 2:1 intervals with 3.3! Inspired by "Love Letter" and "Something to Talk About", I finished off with 6 minutes of 2.8 w/ 10% incline (all my wimpy, second-hand Pro-Form TM will do) to try to work my booty.
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I have found, in the past, that one "bad" meal can totally throw me off the wagon... I think, having worked out this hard and this consistently for this long (6 weeks on NROL4W) AND having kept my eating going in the right direction, that it's easier to jump back on. Also, this board helps me keep perspective, even after a horrible unplanned cheat night like I had last night!
Ditto on THAT!!! Some of the thoughts that I have...."I can't eat that cuz then I have to go post about it in my log" or "I can't eat that - I have to check in with Leigh and she'll KNOW!"
Good on you for posting your pictures - it takes courage to do that (trust me I KNOW!!) but you will be GLAD that you did when you have some progress pics to post next to those in a few weeks!!!
I just have to give you kudos for posting pictures. That is so hard, isn't it??? I just posted mine for the world to see and I am so not happy with them. I mean, I see progress, but I'm mad that I got myself to a point where I NEED progress. Ya know?
BTW.......I love your new picture. Very nice and relaxing!
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understandable .. we Lisa's of the world tend to dominate the hotness categories, thereby confusing the masses...
I'm switching names!
And, Yes, Stephanie, it IS hard posting pictures of my fatness. I'm disgusted by the way I look. It doesn't matter how nice my hair turns out, or how expertly I apply make-up, I'm still so fugly to myself cuz of the phlub. Clothes just can't hide it.
I think at this age, (late forties), women tend to get invisible. We're between the obvious hotness of youth and the comfort and wisdom of old age. One is abviously more desirable than the other, but honestly, comfort and wisom seem SO much more easliy attained.
I need to go read a book. After I work out.
sigh.
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I think at this age, (late forties), women tend to get invisible. We're between the obvious hotness of youth and the comfort and wisdom of old age. One is abviously more desirable than the other, but honestly, comfort and wisom seem SO much more easliy attained.
I work with mostly 20-somethings, and I feel OLD around them. They flirt and joke and go out drinking, and I'm so far from that part of my life - just in a different place, with kids, husband... But some days I just feel so old compared to them... Maybe it would be easier to just be wise and old, but I still wanna be HOT!!!!!
I work with mostly 20-somethings, and I feel OLD around them. They flirt and joke and go out drinking, and I'm so far from that part of my life - just in a different place, with kids, husband... But some days I just feel so old compared to them... Maybe it would be easier to just be wise and old, but I still wanna be HOT!!!!!
For what it's worth, I'm not so far out of my 20's (I'm 31) that I can't remember the flirting and drinking to excess... and I never, ever, ever want to go back to that. Hot, yes? Young? Meh. I'll take old, comfortable, sober, and able-bodied over young and hot, any day!
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I work with mostly 20-somethings, and I feel OLD around them. They flirt and joke and go out drinking, and I'm so far from that part of my life - just in a different place, with kids, husband... But some days I just feel so old compared to them... Maybe it would be easier to just be wise and old, but I still wanna be HOT!!!!!
I know. I still wanna be hot, too. Hot grandma-ness, here I come!
And, yes, Willie, I agree that I'd rather be WHERE I am now in terms of comfort, sobriety, and choices, but, in the words of Goldmember, "I like to be toight!" I guess that's where able-bodied equates?!?
Anyhoo, my amrap workout was a bust. I could go all day with the wussy weights I started with! No way to find the end before I had to take dd to practice!
So, today, I created my own workout. Kind of let my music dictate what I did. Started with the intent to do a long, slow run on the TM with some older Alannis tunes, but when the Blues Brothers album came on, I slowed the speed, upped the incline, grabbed a pair of 5 lb wts and did a version of the old "heavyhands" workout. The music was surprisingly inspiring and I really showed my old, dilapidated TM how creative and sexy I can be. (Strained my left butt cheek in the process, but had great time!)
That took about 40 minutes, and so I did another 26 minutes of the old Ab Boot Camp exercises. I forgot about those until I was cleaning out my old workout binder the other day. I really like the active rest stuff, especially the stomach vacuumes. Back in the day, I could do those ANYWHERE. Not anymore, though they did feel really good, effective.
I also found my old BFL before and after photos. I can't believe how ... good... I looked. Want it back.
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I can't get the scanner to recognize this computer. I'll figure it out eventually. In the meantime that 8 year old photo is mocking me!
Had a lower body blast today, just for fun. Mostly on the machines at the Sports Complex while DD practiced. Did extensions, ham curls, and calf raises with high rep/low weight and then a few sets of the opposite. Finished off with some tricep/bicep stuff; I always felt stage 1 ignored isolating these, and I really like pain there.
teehee.
Stage 2 next week!
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I can't get the scanner to recognize this computer. I'll figure it out eventually. In the meantime that 8 year old photo is mocking me!
Had a lower body blast today, just for fun. Mostly on the machines at the Sports Complex while DD practiced. Did extensions, ham curls, and calf raises with high rep/low weight and then a few sets of the opposite. Finished off with some tricep/bicep stuff; I always felt stage 1 ignored isolating these, and I really like pain there.
teehee.
Stage 2 next week!
Sounds like you had a really good lower body workout today, Sally! Keep pluggin' away and you'll look like that 8 year old picture in no time!
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(Strained my left butt cheek in the process, but had great time!)
That line can be used in so many ways... for so many situations.
Yeah Stage 2!
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(Strained my left butt cheek in the process, but had great time!)
That line can be used in so many ways... for so many situations.
Yeah Stage 2!
You are one sick psycho, but I LOVE it!
Is it crazy that I want to go dancing now?!?
Gotta tell ya'll who care: went back to the complex for dd's other practice, and still had coverage since I already paid for the day, so I went back into the gym and it was PACKED with intense, high-number-happy folk; there were the kind of lifters who know EVERYTHING and yet haven't researched or read a thing. It's that kind of place.
I was a bit intimidated, considering they were dressed in black, bandana's, tattoo's, until... I saw that one of the guys who was breathing REALLY loud, exhaling with force out his mouth on the seated chest press had one 45 and one 25 on each side.
I've never used that machine with those weights, but, I can push-up my own weight ten + times on a flat plane.
So, I asked if I could work in. He said "sure" and started taking weight off, and I said, "Wait..." and I proceeded to press HIS weights!
Slowly.
Controlled...
... and QUIETLY for 12 reps!
He left the gym.
Sorry, but this just felt amazing and sad at all at once. I didn't mean to hurt his feelings; honestly, I just wanted to see if I could do it! I went on to do a few more combo moves, just to show off cuz I'm old and need a good go, but honestly, I felt powerful.
Still phlubby, but much more powerful than I did a mere 6 weeks ago.
I like this stuff. A lot.
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This is just embarrassing. 
See what I mean about the big, hard belly? After 4 kids, it's usually squishy, saggy. Don't know what's up there. I CAN'T be preggers, cuz the tubes are tied, AND I'm about menopausal.
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