I was doing ok most of the day. My husband took his last exam yesterday morning, he's now done and on to his MA next year, so he was out celebrating all afternoon. I talked to him when I got home and he was very drunk. It makes me very uncomfortable to be sober around drunk people so while I made him an apple crisp and experimented with oatmeal cookies, I had two gin and diet tonic's. I also had a cookie and a few bites of his apple crisp. All in all though, I didn't fall apart completely and only got to 1898 (ish, theres no way I can know for sure with all the little bites of this and that, but I tried to account for it). And 1898 is still under maintenence. My goal is to stay under 1700 though, so not perfect.
Today I have to have a drink with the girls from work because its the last day for one that I'm pretty close with. Thankfully, my husband is not interested in partying anymore this weekend, so I'll really just have one and come home.
2515 Calories yesterday
118 protein and 29 fiber though so that's good
We had a couple people over and ordered pizza. I did go over but it wasn't a disaster like in the past. I ordered a thin crust veggie pizza for myself and stuck to that mostly (other than two other slices). It sounds bad, but really, I kept it together mostly. The biggest problem was that I felt starving by the time we got them so I ate half my dinner in the first minute it arrived! All in all though, in the past I would have had wine with it and 6 - 8 slices of regular crust pepperoni pizza rather than 6 slices of thin crust light-on-the-cheese veggie.
I'm off on my all afternoon gym venture now anyway.
I signed up for a 5K race too. I'm excited. I've wanted to do one for a while now but keep putting it off because I get shin splints and haven't quite gotten to the point where I can run 5K three days in a week without getting them pretty bad. But I CAN run 5K once and be ok, so I'm going to do it. My uncle died of cancer last week and it motivated me to finally just sign up for the Race for Life and do it whether its perfect or not. (It won't be).
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Thin crust pizza tastes a lot better anyways. I've had my first non-gluten pizza a week ago, but didn't like it too much = thick crust.. made me very hungry too, as always when eating either cheese or gluten (pizza has both).. even 4000kcal can't fill me up then. Weird as I have other days when I'm just fine on 1200kcal.. but then there's very little carbs in them (just fruit, veggies and.. of course, chocolate )
Thin crust pizza tastes a lot better anyways. I've had my first non-gluten pizza a week ago, but didn't like it too much = thick crust.. made me very hungry too, as always when eating either cheese or gluten (pizza has both).. even 4000kcal can't fill me up then. Weird as I have other days when I'm just fine on 1200kcal.. but then there's very little carbs in them (just fruit, veggies and.. of course, chocolate )
Funny you say that, because I've always marvelled over just how much pizza I can eat! Plenty other dishes, I can fill up on just fine with a normal amount but pizza I can eat and eat and eat seemingly forever. I used to think it was because I like it so much, but it never really made sense that I could stuff myself with SO MUCH in volume.
Anyway, I just got back from my Saturday afternoon workout. My heart rate monitor says 1715 calories burned. I didn't run today so that I can go out for a run tomorrow. I think I'm ok, even with the 800 I went over yesterday.
Today shouldn't be any issues. I'm right on track for under 1700.
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Not perfect but, again, my resolve staying pretty high. At work we all were supposed to bring in baked goods (though only two of us did it) and it all stayed on either side of me at my desk. I had two of each in the morning and then resisted temptation for the rest of the day. I knew I had to because the day was all planned out.
Also, I wore my heart rate monitor from almost 8 am to almost 8 pm (about 11 hours and 45 minutes). I burnt 1677 calories in the most active 12 hours of my day. I'm doing it again today, and I plan to keep it on for 24 hours (minus my shower). It'll probably be a lot less though because I fixed my weight in its file from 74 kg to 70 kg and I probably won't work out quite as hard today.
Oh yeah, yesterday morning I was down 4 pounds from the week before. Woo Hoo!
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Yay for the loss & good for you to eat only 2 cookies! I'd have taken the 2 best cookies and kept them in my drawer till the end of the day as I wouldn't be sure to be able to resist eating more! (of course taking a pick first since otherwise you're left with the ones nobody wants to have )
What brand/type of HRM do you have that keeps 'counting' activity for 24hrs and shows it in calories?
Am on the lookout for another (preferentially pre-loved) Polar and am not sure what type to get.. more like the simplest of the more complicated ones if you get my drift
Yay for the loss & good for you to eat only 2 cookies! I'd have taken the 2 best cookies and kept them in my drawer till the end of the day as I wouldn't be sure to be able to resist eating more! (of course taking a pick first since otherwise you're left with the ones nobody wants to have )
What brand/type of HRM do you have that keeps 'counting' activity for 24hrs and shows it in calories?
Am on the lookout for another (preferentially pre-loved) Polar and am not sure what type to get.. more like the simplest of the more complicated ones if you get my drift
Its just a Polar F6, it does fine for me. I wore it all day; I'm guessing it should be close to accurate, but I don't know. I still only wore it for 12 hours today though. Its just not comfortable and its trying to wear a hole into my skin. It says I burned 1229 today which is a big difference from 1677 yesterday, but I changed my weight on it this morning and didn't go to the gym at lunchtime, only after work so its probably accurate.
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Calories today were about 1356, protein 104.7 and fiber 28.6. Pretty good day over all.
I'm doing well staying pretty focused. I may have to decline a lunch invitation for thursday at a chinese buffet restaurant. It just might be too much for me right now, even though I've been dying to try the place. Especially since we're supposed to go out with a bunch of people Saturday night to a Lebonese restaurant. I'm going to try to be mostly good there, but I want that to be the only flexible spot on my menu all week. I may be a little flexible there too, because starting next tuesday I go on my low iodine diet. Fiber is going to go way down, I can't have my bran cereal or oatmeal with wheat bran in it. I'll have to eat a lot more veggies.
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Yesterdays calories 1542, protein 99.8 and fiber 30.9 which is awesome.
The only problem was that I was exhausted yesterday, so much that I went home after work without going to the gym. I just couldn't hack it.
Todays calories 1534, protein 63.7 (I know!) and fiber 20.1 (ugh). I had a nice lunch with 70 grams of turkey breast and broccoli and cottage cheese but it didn't work out. I was training someone all morning and couldn't eat at my desk at 12:00. At 1:00 I had to meet someone for lunch so I ate there. I did ok, an egg, cheese, mushroom and tomato panini. It was yummy! It just didn't give me the protein I meant to have.
Anyway, I felt better today then yesterday and went in for some weights and elliptical after work. I'm defitely losing; even some muscle because I'm barely holding onto the weight I've been lifting. I'm not dropping back, it's just feeling heavier. I'm not too worried though. I'm doing the best I can and I'm pretty pleased with my resolve this time. I'm not a super strict person in anything at all so I'll never be a super controlled contest dieter or anything.
On another note though, I think I'm starting to see definition in my abs already. Back when I was chronically undereating and not exercising I almost had defined abs. Now that I've been over eating a bit for a while and training too, I must have some nice muscle under this layer here. I'm just waiting for it to show, and I think it might. That would be some luck.
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Saturday I ate ~2241 calories. We went out to a Lebonese restaurant celebrating the end of uni with a bunch of people and it was fabulous! My husband and I split a large appetizer and two bottles of wine, and a small plate of fries (which were really good, I never eat fries!)
Yesterday we made our own pizza and had wine again. We had the cheese for it that was going to go bad in the fridge because my low-iodine diet starts tomorrow. Three weeks with no cheese. So yesterdays daily total was 3108 (also had cheesecake).
The only thing that makes it ok is that I went and burned 1550 calories Saturday afternoon. So I'm only 395 over right now and I plan on running today. I'll be back to even by tonight.
I'm going to be on a weightloss hiatus for about three weeks now. I stop taking thyroid meds tomorrow when I start the low-iodine diet and I just don't think it'll be healthy to try to expect weightloss while I go hypothyroid. I'm just trying to maintain where I am now and when I get back I lose some more.
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Six days into not taking thyroid meds now. I'm shocked to remember how I used to feel all the time. Its awful, I don't want to do anything but I don't want to do nothing either.
I'm somewhat more hungry than normal, but not ravenous; eating more than at deficit but not gorging myself by any means. Most of my favorite foods aren't allowed anyway.
Saturday was strange because normally I do my 5 hour trek to the gym thing and I couldn't imagine even a walk around the block really.
On the upside, its nice to see that I've made progress since two to three years ago. Its easier to see when the feelings are side by side that these days I do have a lot more energy than I used to and back then I wasn't just a miserable, lazy lump. Well, I was, but I had a reason.
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Are you also feeling more nervous w/o meds? Feeling more calm & above all, not being depressed was the biggest surprise when starting treatment (am on 25mcg Cytomel myself)
Are you also feeling more nervous w/o meds? Feeling more calm & above all, not being depressed was the biggest surprise when starting treatment (am on 25mcg Cytomel myself)
I wouldn't say I'm more nervous, but I am a naturally calm person over all. I do want to be able to do things that I can't. I remember this from a few years ago too. Back then, I'd want to read a book, or cook a dish, or research a topic, or go for a walk but I didn't have the energy. When I'm on medication all I have to do is get myself started; tell myself I'm going to go for a walk around the block and I end up running or read a couple pages and I read a couple chapters, that kind of thing. Now, it takes consistent energy and I don't have the benefit of momentum. That's the best way I can describe it right now anyway.
I was watching a movie with my husband last night and really wanted to get some weights in my hands or do a couple sit ups. I irrationally feel like I'm going to atrophy completely over the next 2 weeks, which is silly. I'll be fine. A week or two later I'll be back to where I was in weight and strength I'm sure.
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I'm back from the hospital having read 95% of NROL now. Good stuff; I feel like I actually have some base of understanding in weight training now. I'm now in the process of trying to come up with a plan.
I spent the last three weeks on this awful diet that prevented me from eating my staple, healthy diet foods: cottage cheese, yogurt, beans, bran flakes. I was left simply with lean meats, vegetables and refined starchy carbs. Breakfast was impossible; just fruit or bake something enjoyable. I like fruit, but it doesn't satisfy me as a meal. I was also left using white potatoes, rice and pasta as my comfort foods instead of the cottage cheese, yogurt and beans. Suffice to say, adding in my lack of movement (1 - 2 naps a day, tired just from cooking a simple meal or sitting in front of the computer for an hour or two), I've gained some weight. Yes, most of it is water and I'm confident I can get it off, but it's still frustrating that something always happens at the magical weight of 70 kg to make me go creeping back up. Something's gotta give.
I'm devising a plan. Rather than a loose idea to lose weight, I need a plan. A way to know that I'm sticking to it or not. I'm also thinking of incorporating silly ideas like wearing noisy bangle bracelets (or alternatively a big bright red one) to remind myself when I pick up my food not to eat too much, and the phrase "I obviously don't want to be a personal trainer, I'd rather have this extra slice of pizza" before I eat what I know I shouldn't.
I'm still on this stupid diet until Monday, at which point I'm planning macaroni and cheese (with chicken and veg!) and ice cream but that's it; I'm not really craving too much more anyway - besides pizza, but thats nothing new! I'm watching my calories now already and will continue to, using that as a cheat meal and moving on. But I'm not weighing myself until the end of next week. Heheh...
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Finally someone who likes to cook! I love to cook and bake, though these days I limit the baking to a few times a year, and really focus on the cooking. I miss those homemade oatmeal cookies, though! And the apple crisps!
Finally someone who likes to cook! I love to cook and bake, though these days I limit the baking to a few times a year, and really focus on the cooking. I miss those homemade oatmeal cookies, though! And the apple crisps!
That's what I need to do, too: LIMIT. I conviced my colleages to have a bak-a-thon every month where we all bake something and bring it in to work. I thought it would be a good outlet for my baking obsession. Instead, it turned into every week and I had yummy baked goods all around me every monday! That needs to stop immediately. They'll be crushed!
But I really enjoy finding new recipes and switching them up, trying new things. Mexican and indian flavors are my favorite, I think.
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That's what I need to do, too: LIMIT. I conviced my colleages to have a bak-a-thon every month where we all bake something and bring it in to work. I thought it would be a good outlet for my baking obsession. Instead, it turned into every week and I had yummy baked goods all around me every monday! That needs to stop immediately. They'll be crushed!
My god, work bak-athons are the worst idea ever! I'm so glad no one thought of that at our place. They did have plans for a "pie of the week" event, but then someone piped up and said that was too unhealthy and they should have a "fruit of the week" event instead. Of course that got axed
My god, work bak-athons are the worst idea ever! I'm so glad no one thought of that at our place. They did have plans for a "pie of the week" event, but then someone piped up and said that was too unhealthy and they should have a "fruit of the week" event instead. Of course that got axed
Fruit Smoothie of the week could be fun!
The only thing that might save me is that I'm moving to a new department when I go back so I may bake and then bring it into them and leave it there. I won't have to look at it. Plus, I have to tell them. Once a month. Maybe.
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I am now feeling more normal. Not totally, but I'm getting there. I've gone on a few walks and managed to clean my house for a semi-extended period of time. Tomorrow I'm back to work.
I've designed a 6 week program, diet and exercise, to start tomorrow as well. I've detailed a calorie cycling program to work with my psychological diet issues; a weight lifting program based on what I learned in NROL (but not strictly an Alwyn program); and minimum cardio and NEAT for each day as well (which just means I've specified run/walk/crosstrainer).
I need to be this detailed, I think. I'm a flexible person, always have been. Lyle McDonalds Guide to Flexible Dieting seemed like common sense to me, but at the same time it gave me too much psychological leeway. I'm not prone to throw in the towel if I make a little mistake. I'm just prone to excusing too many "little mistakes".
Anyway, I even have a maintenence/refeed period at week four, which happens to historically be my plateu week but luckily is also a weekend packed with celebrations. I've managed to fit 3200 calories into each of three days and that's still technically a 1600 calorie deficit for the week. If I do it as a refeed I'll raise it even more (if I need to, I'm not sure?).
I'd like to lose 2 lbs per week (except for week 4/ maintain) so the goal for the 6 weeks is to lose 10 lbs. I think I'll lose more though, I'm guessing the first two weeks will be huge. What I'm holding now is from no movement, little to no caloric restriction and hypothyroid. Now that the thyroid is fixed and exercise is commencing, tightening up the diet should see some big losses. (Which, I know is not all fat but that's what will be comforting to know!)
Weigh in/bodyfat caliper/ body part measurements tomorrow morning and each Monday.
Weight -
Waist -
Hip -
Arm -
Thigh -
Bodyfat -
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Its just a Polar F6, it does fine for me. I wore it all day; I'm guessing it should be close to accurate, but I don't know. I still only wore it for 12 hours today though. Its just not comfortable and its trying to wear a hole into my skin. It says I burned 1229 today which is a big difference from 1677 yesterday, but I changed my weight on it this morning and didn't go to the gym at lunchtime, only after work so its probably accurate.
If you're going to wear it for extended periods of time you should invest in the Polar WearLinkŪ + 31 coded transmitter. It came with my F11, and I've slept in it. After a while I tend to forget I have it on. In the end I'm not a watch person and wearing the watch all day bugs me more. Although, I admit I don't bother wearing it all day much anymore. Just every now and then to see where I'm at.
If you're going to wear it for extended periods of time you should invest in the Polar WearLinkŪ + 31 coded transmitter. It came with my F11, and I've slept in it. After a while I tend to forget I have it on. In the end I'm not a watch person and wearing the watch all day bugs me more. Although, I admit I don't bother wearing it all day much anymore. Just every now and then to see where I'm at.
Cool! Thanks!
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I have 2 break in type workouts: squat, row, lunge, bench press (cuz I can't do a push up ) and swiss ball crunch; and a DB deadlift, step ups, reverse crunchs, DB shoulder press, and Lat pull downs. I'll alternate them, two of each. This thursday, then next tuesday, thursday and saturday.
Then, I have a Fatloss I (ish) plan: with squats, rows, hip ext, db should press, lunge, and crunches for A and bench press, bulg split squat, lat pull down, reverse crunch, a tricep raise and a lat raise for B. I'll alternate those on tuesdays, thursdays and saturdays. All together I get six of each plus the four break ins in the six weeks. Actually I don't. I get my last B workout two days after the whole thing is over. But, hey, whatever.
The difference is that I'm only using dumb bells. My gym is set up so that you have to walk upstairs from the main area to get to all the barbells and stuff. I'm just not ready for that kind of pressure, really. I'm working at getting my husband into joining with me, or I'll switch to the one he prefers, so we can lift together. At that point I should have lost some fat too.
Also, on both types of crunches I'm adding reps and sets rather than weight. It's my attempt to "sculpt" my straight, uncurvy body. If it doesn't work, I can aways adjust in the future.
Other than that, I have at least 30 minutes of walking. 3 days I start in the morning with a 10 minute run (2 of them are lifting days). Saturdays I'll get back to my endurance enhancer: 30 minute walk to the bus stop then at the gym some lifting followed by running for 20 minutes and then cross trainer for 30 to 50 minutes of intervals (not quite HIIT, obviously). Then bus and walk home. I know its more than anyone needs to do, and maybe I do less the rest of the day but I enjoy it. I do feel like it helps me gain energy and endurance.
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Unless you're super hydrated or have a massive maintenance, a 2lbs loss a week is hyoooge. I've never been able to pull that one off except at the start of a ketodiet way back in 2003 when I dropped 8kg in 6 weeks.. but then I just turned back to my previous set point = going from 80 to 72kg.
Going below that weight, albeit still at 30+% was a total & entire PITA.
Unless you're super hydrated or have a massive maintenance, a 2lbs loss a week is hyoooge. I've never been able to pull that one off except at the start of a ketodiet way back in 2003 when I dropped 8kg in 6 weeks.. but then I just turned back to my previous set point = going from 80 to 72kg.
Going below that weight, albeit still at 30+% was a total & entire PITA.
That may be true, but I almost always lose 3 - 4 lbs a week for the first two weeks. Its a rolling goal basically. 10 lbs in 6 weeks and/or 2 lbs each week.
I kind of wanted to have an attainable but still challenging goal. So, 10 lbs in 6 weeks in attainable. [Very, last time I dieted (another 6 week diet) I lost 10 lbs in 3 weeks and then plateued for the last 3 weeks. I'd like to do it again, but better.] At the same time if I find that I have lost it in 3 weeks I wanted to have a weekly goal to aim for more.
If I burn an extra 200 calories each day I should be at a weekly 7000 calorie deficit. Whether those stats add up or not remain to be seen. I don't really even know how to define "extra 200 calories." I think its over and above "moderate exercise" which should be fine because I don't have any day whatsoever that I haven't prescribed at least 30 minutes of walking.
You're right though, I'm not really going easy on myself am I?
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I was bad. I skipped lunch which was my most protein-ific meal. Then I decided I was hungry around 4:30 just before going home after work. I found these pre-packaged chicken bites and at a bit more than half the pack. I weighed out what was left though so I know the stats.
After dinner I'll have: 858 Calories, 44.6 protein and 12.5 fiber. We'll see how I feel later, I may grab a snack of some sort to get better protein and/or fiber numbers. Or, I'll just enjoy that I had a good low day.
Oh yeah, a good 90 minutes total of walking too. 30ish at lunch and another 45ish after work.
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73 kg today. I shouldn't have weighed myself but I was curious. Its not "official" until monday anyway... whatever that means.
I'm allowed 1400 calories today but I've only planned 930 somehow with three meals. I should probably add some fruit to take with me to work for a snack really. We'll see.
1/2 cut Oatmeal, 16 g brown sugar, cinnamon
2 eggs, spinach, cottage cheese, 50 g turkey breast (yesterdays uneaten lunch)
pork chop and roasted veg
In two days I can start taking my once a day thyroid meds instead of three times a day meds and then I'll be able to drink my soy protein drinks, but right now, soy may interfere with thyroid uptake.
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I irrationally feel like I'm going to atrophy completely over the next 2 weeks, which is silly. I'll be fine. A week or two later I'll be back to where I was in weight and strength I'm sure.
and I had yummy baked goods all around me every monday! That needs to stop immediately. They'll be crushed!
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