I am soooooo sore! I decided to try out Clare Nasirs boot camp video on Sunday!!!! And I'm still sore today! Its Wednesday now :o. My legs are killing me. And because of this I haven't done any more exercise this week, its just too sore and I don't want to do any damage to myself.
I just wanted to kick this week off really well, being good and doing exercise. But no luck, I cant exercise and my food intake at the moment is not being tracked as I eat the same thing every day. :( Just generally sick of eating the same food all the time and sick of not exercising, and sick of going between 126.4 and 124.8 all the time :(
I just hope that I can figure out a new meal plan soon and that I wont be as sore and get my exercising into gear.
2011-03-02
2011-03-01
I did some more research... and got confused
I just did some research to see how many calories I should be consuming daily to lose weight and the results were very confusing. For my maintenance I got recommendations from 2420 calories to 1419 calories and to lose weight I got from 985 calories to 1920 calories. That's a thousand calorie difference! I am a 4' 11", Female, 23 years old, weigh 125lb and have a sedentary lifestyle (little to no exercise). Below are the results I got.
Maintenance 1475, 1816, 1775, 1814, 1625, 1684, 1642, 2420, 1633, 1544, 1686, 1751, 1419, 1871, 1683, 1475, 1633.
Weight Loss 1180, 1313, 1250, 1708, 1200, 1920, 1133, 1044, 1000, 985, 1314.
So what I decided to do was to add up the number and divide them to get the average. This has left we with a maintenance level of 1703 calories and a weight loss level of 1277 calories. I think this is where I should aim for now. Any comments welcome...
Maintenance 1475, 1816, 1775, 1814, 1625, 1684, 1642, 2420, 1633, 1544, 1686, 1751, 1419, 1871, 1683, 1475, 1633.
Weight Loss 1180, 1313, 1250, 1708, 1200, 1920, 1133, 1044, 1000, 985, 1314.
So what I decided to do was to add up the number and divide them to get the average. This has left we with a maintenance level of 1703 calories and a weight loss level of 1277 calories. I think this is where I should aim for now. Any comments welcome...
Monday Weigh in on Tuesday
I know I should have posted this yesterday, but I was a bit miffed at my weight and I didn't want to post it at all :(. But I have to take the good with the bad. I was looking back and seen that i had already lost 9 lb, a little loss was to be expected. I think because I was doing exercise I was expecting more. Here it goes, this weeks weight is....
124.8lb
That's it, about 1lb for a hard weeks work. But its still 1lb less than before so I cant complain. Still looking for support if any one reads this.
124.8lb
That's it, about 1lb for a hard weeks work. But its still 1lb less than before so I cant complain. Still looking for support if any one reads this.
2011-02-27
Its a new day!
Today has been a lot better. I ate a good breakfast, lunch and snacks. Now I can tell you that it could have been more structured, but definitely not bad. And......... I also went into town and bought a work out video! Two actually. I got Clare Nasir's-Boot Camp and Nadia Sawalha's-Fat to Fab.
I decided to take things easy, so for this week I will focus on Clare Nasirs video. It was tough! really touch, I'm sore all over and I'm sure its gonna be worse tomorrow :/ So first there is a cardio work out and then 4 different workouts (each 20 mins long) they focus on toning, resistance, cardio and abdominal. I did all of them. But towards the end I was getting exhausted so I didn't fully finish each section. I felt amazing and I hope it shows. I'm still trying to figure out exactly how often i should do this work out and when to do it. Any comments on this are welcome.
I really hope my hard work shows tomorrow in the weight in and I hope its not as sore as I am expecting it to be.
I decided to take things easy, so for this week I will focus on Clare Nasirs video. It was tough! really touch, I'm sore all over and I'm sure its gonna be worse tomorrow :/ So first there is a cardio work out and then 4 different workouts (each 20 mins long) they focus on toning, resistance, cardio and abdominal. I did all of them. But towards the end I was getting exhausted so I didn't fully finish each section. I felt amazing and I hope it shows. I'm still trying to figure out exactly how often i should do this work out and when to do it. Any comments on this are welcome.
I really hope my hard work shows tomorrow in the weight in and I hope its not as sore as I am expecting it to be.
Bit of a set back... or is it?
Hi all, so I've been on this ... 'journey' for about 2-3 weeks now and Ive had my first slip up. It's not too bad, but it was avoidable. I just wasn't prepared enough. I was invited to a party on Friday, so I went and bought three drinks, not even thinking about their calorific content. Well I'm sure it was high as they were very sweet. And then there was a lot of party food there. Things like, mini pizzas, sandwiches, chicken nuggets, popcorn and mini sausages. It was OK I didn't go mad :) I also only has 2 and a half of my drinks.
The next day I decided to go to the zoo, that was great. Did about 4 hours of walking. Solid. But i did have a hot dog. So from now on back on track! no more messing up. I have learned by lesson, its my birthday in 2 weeks and I cant mess up then I just need to be more prepared.
Also tomorrows is the day when I'm starting to exercise officially :) So I'm gonna head into town to see what exercise videos are around. I think ill need something like that to motivate me. Ive looked at some online, Ill post them below, if you have tried them please let me know what you think.
The next day I decided to go to the zoo, that was great. Did about 4 hours of walking. Solid. But i did have a hot dog. So from now on back on track! no more messing up. I have learned by lesson, its my birthday in 2 weeks and I cant mess up then I just need to be more prepared.
Also tomorrows is the day when I'm starting to exercise officially :) So I'm gonna head into town to see what exercise videos are around. I think ill need something like that to motivate me. Ive looked at some online, Ill post them below, if you have tried them please let me know what you think.
Nadia Sawalhas: Fat To Fab Workout
Clare Nasir Fitness
Jillian Michaels: 6 Week Six Pack
30 Day Shred
Carmen electera strip aerobics
Davina: Body Buff: Bonus Digital Copy
Davina Mccall: Super Body Workout
Any comments are welcome as always :) I need as much support as possible, especially when I slip up.
2011-02-24
Excel :)
So I have made some meal plans :) yay. Its quite repetitive but for now that is what I need.
Breakfast (195 Calories)
Poached Egg
Real Butter (only a scrape)
Whole grain Toast
Lunch (267 Calories)
Salad (tomato, lettuce, carrot, peppers, low cal dressing)
Wrap (lettuce, low mayo, grilled chicken or quorn, tomato)
Snacks (332 Calories)
Kiwi
Pear
Tangerine
Yogurt
Low Cal chocolate
Dinner (340 Calories)
Brown rice
Broccoli
Grilled Salmon
Korma Sauce
Drinks (15 Calories)
Dilute Juice
So altogether this meal plan usually comes in at around 1100 calories which still allows me to add some extras here and there if I'm still feeling hungry. I like this plan, its a nice framework. I even made an excel spreadsheet in which I can tell it the maximum calories I can consume daily and then i add the foods and calories I have eaten in a day and it will keep track of everything for me and tell me how many calories i have left.
I am always really hyper organised and this is perfect. Its fast and easy and takes out the thinking for me.
Breakfast (195 Calories)
Poached Egg
Real Butter (only a scrape)
Whole grain Toast
Lunch (267 Calories)
Salad (tomato, lettuce, carrot, peppers, low cal dressing)
Wrap (lettuce, low mayo, grilled chicken or quorn, tomato)
Snacks (332 Calories)
Kiwi
Pear
Tangerine
Yogurt
Low Cal chocolate
Dinner (340 Calories)
Brown rice
Broccoli
Grilled Salmon
Korma Sauce
Drinks (15 Calories)
Dilute Juice
So altogether this meal plan usually comes in at around 1100 calories which still allows me to add some extras here and there if I'm still feeling hungry. I like this plan, its a nice framework. I even made an excel spreadsheet in which I can tell it the maximum calories I can consume daily and then i add the foods and calories I have eaten in a day and it will keep track of everything for me and tell me how many calories i have left.
I am always really hyper organised and this is perfect. Its fast and easy and takes out the thinking for me.
Tools and such, the grity work
So armed with my research I went to tackle the issue step by step. Starting with the beginning. My plan is to go from 134lb to 100lb. This means losing 34lb in a healthy and sustainable way. So taking a leaf from Debra Moorheads book I decided to go and check how many calories I would require to maintain my goal weight and to just eat that many every day. This would already train me into eating the way I should continue to eat for the future, greatly reducing the risks of gaining back the weight one I go 'off' the diet.
The fist thing was check my BMI, I wanted to know where I stood and what weight I should plan to be at. So I went to lowfatdietplan and looked up the chart. Its easy to read where you are and where you need to be to be in the healthy category.Currently my BMI is around 27 and I need to weight in the neighbourhood of 100lb-125lb to fall into the healthy category.
So I checked what my daily calorific needs were for my target weight of 100lb with two websites, shapefit gave me a recommendation of 1511 calories per day and freedieting gave me a daily amount of 1338 calories. So for the sake of restriction I am going according to what the freedieting website has calculated. It easy, just put in your gender, height, age, weight and activity level.
For activity level I put 'deskjob' because that's why I do, and I do no exercise around that. I think that because I do not want to fail at this I want to succeed I don't want to overload myself with too much too soon. So for now I will tackle food until I am confident I can take on exercise. I am taking baby steps towards a new lifestyle.
Armed with this new information I decided that from now, until I lose all the weight I will write down EVERYTHING. I need to keep track of every biscuit I eat, every drink I take. And I made the decision that I could not cheat until the diet is over. When I cheat I usually relapse into my old habits.Writing everything down will teach me exactly what to eat and what not, what foods I can afford to have more of and where I need to be careful. Also using calories will allow me to eat whatever I want, but if it is a high calorie meal I will go hungry for the rest of the day. In the case that I do slip up and over eat I am not allowed to give up, I must get straight back onto the horse and forget that it happened.
For now, the first few weeks this is the plan, try to get used to the calories, see what works, make meal plans see what doesn't work and tweak it. Eventually I will add in such things as better foods and exercise. This will evolve and come with more research and time. For now I have a big task ahead of me, wish me luck.
The fist thing was check my BMI, I wanted to know where I stood and what weight I should plan to be at. So I went to lowfatdietplan and looked up the chart. Its easy to read where you are and where you need to be to be in the healthy category.Currently my BMI is around 27 and I need to weight in the neighbourhood of 100lb-125lb to fall into the healthy category.
So I checked what my daily calorific needs were for my target weight of 100lb with two websites, shapefit gave me a recommendation of 1511 calories per day and freedieting gave me a daily amount of 1338 calories. So for the sake of restriction I am going according to what the freedieting website has calculated. It easy, just put in your gender, height, age, weight and activity level.
For activity level I put 'deskjob' because that's why I do, and I do no exercise around that. I think that because I do not want to fail at this I want to succeed I don't want to overload myself with too much too soon. So for now I will tackle food until I am confident I can take on exercise. I am taking baby steps towards a new lifestyle.
Armed with this new information I decided that from now, until I lose all the weight I will write down EVERYTHING. I need to keep track of every biscuit I eat, every drink I take. And I made the decision that I could not cheat until the diet is over. When I cheat I usually relapse into my old habits.Writing everything down will teach me exactly what to eat and what not, what foods I can afford to have more of and where I need to be careful. Also using calories will allow me to eat whatever I want, but if it is a high calorie meal I will go hungry for the rest of the day. In the case that I do slip up and over eat I am not allowed to give up, I must get straight back onto the horse and forget that it happened.
For now, the first few weeks this is the plan, try to get used to the calories, see what works, make meal plans see what doesn't work and tweak it. Eventually I will add in such things as better foods and exercise. This will evolve and come with more research and time. For now I have a big task ahead of me, wish me luck.
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