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I decided to try South Beach for this. In phase 1, which lasts for two weeks, they say no fruit or grains - no sugars, obviously. I've got a 55-mile ride on Saturday, and aiming for at least 75, 80 miles on Sunday. What can I use to fuel those rides? I've got a 25-mile ride tonight, and I'm already afraid I won't be able to keep up without a carb-based meal all day long.
I AM IN!!
Look at all the responses!
I've already put on 4 lbs since the full-blown riding season came to an end in Connecticut (i.e., haven't been able to ride after work for weeks, and once on the weekend is JUST NOT CUTTING IT).
Yes, I know, I really need to motivate to get to the gym more often.
My wonderful sister just gave me a trainer yesterday, though. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! :D
Let's go girls! I weigh in daily. 148.5 this morning. UGH!!!!!!!!
Quint41, lose the Oreos! :D Welcome!
Can you believe I already fell off after only one day! My FIL had a heartattack late Monday night in the middle of moving. FIL is doing very well, minimal damage to heart. We are so thankful. Anyways, MIL and I spent all day yesterday getting them moved. Only 2 hours of sleep. Up at 4 to clean and move . . . I was a working zombie all day. And of course I ate fast food, halloween candy, and topped it off with pizza and pumpkin pie. I feel ill today.
I need some spinach.
Maybe you worked it off with all that moving. Back on the wagon!
Happy that he is doing well. And like Sandra said, "Maybe you worked it all off with all that moving!"
So it all balanced out.
After a couple of months of procrastination following an appointment with a nutritionist, I made an appointment for a body comp analysis. It's next Monday afternoon. I think it will be very helpful for me to know just what my fat/lean ration is. I know I have a lot of muscle. I can feel it. It's there. It's why I weigh what I do when I am just 5' 1". But I have that pesky layer of fat over the muscle that keeps me from really seeing it. I'm not looking to be "cut" like a weight lifter, I just want some visible definition. I do upper body weight work 2-3 times a week. I want the fat to slowly melt away to reveal those delts, bi's, tri's and abs I'm working so hard on. Being post menopause, I wonder if it's even possible :( .
But beyond the vanity of the above, what I really want is to lose the visceral fat that has sneaked up on me through the whole menopausal process. This is the stuff that I can still hide under my clothes. But it's the dangerous fat that is hiding around my organs and it's scary. Hopefully, after my appointment, I'll have a better idea of how much there actually is.
Yesterday when I got home from work, I cut up an apple and made a cup of tea. That got me through until dinner. If I can do that each evening, I'm getting some fiber and it will keep me from pre-dinner grazing on other food. I hope. Baby steps.
Here's to making good food decisions today.
It's not recommended to do P1 if you are exercising hard so I'd skip P1. You need those carbs, other stuff just won't cut it. Read up on the good carbs that you get to eat in P2 and go for those. Bananas with peanut butter, Larabars, and fruit seem to work well for me so far. On days that I put in over 30 miles I do a "full" P2 with 3 grains and 3 fruits. Other days I cut back on them and add more veggies but I always have my nuts and try to make sure and have my milk! Lotsa beans too!Quote:
Originally Posted by Pedal Wench
Lora
Joining a little late, but I'm in. I have been trying to gear up to lose weight for months now, and for some reason, I was able to start on Monday.
Monday, I was at my heaviest ever: 169 (I'm 5'6")
Today (Wed), I am at: 165.5 (thank goodness for that initial H2O drop!) ;)
I would like to be at 140 by the end of March. (135 would be better, but that is pretty aggressive.)
A couple of months ago in August I squeaked by to finish the Shasta Summit Century weighing 160. Next August I want to do the Super Century (130 miles & 16,000 feet), and I have GOT to lose weight if I am going to get fast enough. That is my motivation.
Thanks for doing this! :)
How's this for motivation????
The Red Sox have put a weight clause in Curt Schilling's new contract. He gets $333,333 each time he maintains his weight at 3 weigh-ins next season.
Now that's a diet that works for me!
I was strong today and did not give into the fresh, warm chocolate chip cookie temptation. We will see how tonight goes:D
Another good day for me. I love Reese's peanut butter cups. There were three of them sitting in front of me. I did not eat them.
Today's meeting got out early so I got out on my bike for about an hour. The best part, I was able to hit the hills pretty hard and it did not irritate the knee at all.
Hope everyone else had a good day as well. But if you give in to whatever tempts you - ten push ups please. :D
V.
Another good day for me too. Ate with a group tonight and everyone around me had chocolate cake and ice cream. I resisted. I didn't work in a bike ride today so I'm about to go get on the treadmill. I need a trainer for my bike.
Is it too late to join this challenge? If so, will there be another?
I'm doing well today. I did end up eating a single mini candy bar last night but was still within my calories for the day so it wasn't too bad. Better than the 5-6 I've been eating for the past few days.
Today, I past up buying a pizza for dinner when I was tired and hungry and came home to make something more reasonable. Good girl. Off to input my food on sparkpeople now and see if I get a snack tonight. :)
Good for you, KG...that is a big deal for me...coming home tired & hungry, wanting fast, easy and comforting. Good job!Quote:
Originally Posted by kelownagirl
I don't think it is too late. Welcome.Quote:
Originally Posted by kjay
Bad day for me. I was doing good until lunch time. I finished eating my healthy lunch and just couldn't resist the birthday cake sitting in the middle of the table in the staff lounge. It was delicious and I enjoyed it until I finished the last bite. Then I was mad at myself for giving in. Starting from square one again tomorrow. :(
Tomorrow is a new day Susan. Back on the wagon. Maybe we should make a rule. You can't have two bad days in a row. :p I'm going to make it a rule for myself anyway.
Did good today. Well -- I already abandoned the South Beach Phase 1 idea after one day :~. When I was bonking just sitting at my desk, I knew I wouldn't make it through my hard-for-me group ride tonight. They had bagels for breakfast at work, so I just grabbed a few spoonfuls of peanut butter. Ate half and was fine until lunch. Mixed greens, red peppers and turkey salad for lunch. By 4:30, I knew I wouldn't make it through my 6:30 ride, so off the South Beach wagon and I grabbed a banana and sliced it into the rest of my peanut butter. When I realized that lots of fast women were riding tonight too, I grabbed a gu right before we started. I didn't get dropped (usually do) so all was good. After the ride, a homemade veggie soup (split peas, lima beans, shredded cabbage and kale, and mushrooms in a chicken base -- yum!)
I think I need to just stick to what I know is good, clean food. I was gonna do South Beach, or Paleo/Caveman, but I think I just need to eat clean. Lean proteins, nuts and seeds, low-fat dairy, high-fiber grains, tons of veggies and fruit. I'll call it the Pedal Wench Diet and let y'all know how it goes!
I like having to be accountable. Thanks for listening!
Put away the ice cream and let's getcha started, baby!Quote:
Originally Posted by kjay
We'd love to have ya!
Hey, I did the same thing as you with WW the first time. Learn how to stay in range eating naughty foods. Knowing this though, gives me power to change my choices. I don't have to make the same mistakes twice. I am glad you decided to join us! How did you do?Quote:
Originally Posted by deidre
There are so many of you that I want to congratulate, Veronica, Sandra, who else?? Reeses????? Now there is some awesome willpower (sheesh, I started to type wheelpower :eek: instead of willpower, time for a nap! :o )
I did well today. At the conference today were numerous pasteries in the morning and cookies in the afternoon. I had none! Yippee!! Best conference that I have ever been to in regards to the speaker. I learned so much about substance abuse I think it will take days to process it all.
Tomorrow is birthday celebration #1 at Olive Garden with my dad. I promise to be good.
Hey, how do you quote more than one person within a reply to a thread? I can figure out how to quote one person, but not several.
Sorry for the spastic thread drifts, it is beddie by time for me. Long day.
Hit the quotes mark instead of the word quote. It changes colour but nothing else happens. Then go to another post and do the same thing. On the last post. just hit the quote button and they should all show up. Does that make sense, I'm tired too. :o
I did well today. No temptations at work. The only candy left is yucky stuff I wouldn't eat anyway.
I pack both breakfast and lunch every day and keep track of the calories for those two meals on a spreadsheet I made up. When I leave for home at the end of the work day, I know how many calories are left from the 1500 the nutritionist suggested starting with. Knowing what I have to "play" with at dinner helps me gauge what and how much I eat. If I can keep from snacking while cooking, I should see some results. I'm more concerned with losing inches than pounds right now.
On the weekends I eat well but don't track what I eat. And if I know I'm going to do a longish ride, I eat more.
I've already warned the family that I'm not doing much baking this holiday season. Gingerbread cookies - that's it.
I did pretty well today. I ate mostly frozen diet food (have GOT to make stuff at home to bring to work) because I haven't had time to cook. I'm within my WW point range, at least which is good because I didn't run today. I love the days I run, gives me more points :D
Has anyone tried the Special K chocolate cereal? To be honest, it's pretty good. It sounds funny but it really does work if you have chocolate cravings!
We have a birthday cake sitting around that I successfully avoided or included in my calorie+workout total. Last night at about 7:00 pm, after I was all fed for the day, I just HAD to have a slice of that cake!
It wasn't a big slice, but it was bigger than the slices I had included in my calorie totals.
Luckily it only put me over the top by about 50 calories. Still, I can't have that every day. I've been trying to get the birthday boy (14) to eat huge slices of the cake, but he's resisting (he tries to eat healthy, too).
I don't eat at night. At 4:00 pm I'm hungry for dinner or will be by 5:00, so my eating pretty much stops by 6:00 depending on what I'm cooking. So for me to have that cake late is unusual.
On a positive note, we've all avoided the leftover Halloween candy since Halloween night. We usually end up throwing it away anyway--except Smarties--I love Smarties (only 25 calories per roll).
Karen
Yesterday wasn't a good day. Not because I didn't make good food choices though. I didn't eat much food yesterday (or the last couple of days). I have had some major tooth and mouth pain and finally had a root canal on Tuesday morning. Haven't feel like eating or even excited about any food(which is scary for me).Quote:
Originally Posted by Flybye
Mouth is feeling better (at least one area) so I am off to find something for breakfast. Care to share any ideas on goods foods to eat that don't require a lot of chewing :(
Haven't worked out at all this week either...:eek:
Sandra I am going to try very hard today to be good! :D I like that rule no off the wagon two days in a row!
Five One I am a big time holiday cookie baker! But do I have the will power to bake and not eat? And my son, who will be home for the holidays from college, looks forward to my cookies, pies, and breads. And I love giving them away to neighbors and co-workers. But I also eat a lot of what I bake. Will power . . . I just need will power which I am finding I have less and less of these days.
So to bake or not to bake that is my question to myself! And I have a to die for rum cake that I serve up every Christmas Eve. When the lid is removed the aroma will knock your socks off!
Deidre . . . sorry about your mouth. Hey how about some nice homemade soup? This time of year is the perfect time for soups.
Okay, I am weighing two times a week - Monday and Thursday b/c the second weight gives me incentive to do well over the weekend -
Starting weight - 158.2
Today - 156.4
-1.8
Woot Wooh!!
Flybye - I'm following your weigh-in schedule. I've done daily before, and weekly before...and I still need to lose, so I figure twice weekly may just be the ticket!
Start: 159.2
Today: 158.6
-0.6 (I'll take it)
I haven't worked out since starting this because I have been very, very 'phlegmy' leftover from the flu. Tonight will be my first workout and I'm looking forward to it! I've also been having super cravings for veggies, so that's what I've been eating...a LOT. I'm averaging over 5 cups of veggies a day! I've had very little meat since last Saturday (which is odd for me) and I'm feeling good. Yesterday we had a group celebration lunch at PFChangs, but I really wasn't tempted by anything. I asked that we order a 'Budha's Feast' (all veggies) and I stuck to that, brown rice and two bites of grilled salmon. Everyone else gorged themselves, so I was feeling mighty self-satisfied, if I do say so myself! ;)
Now to just get the exercise component up and running... (no pun intended!)
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Originally Posted by deidre
I'm sorry about your mouth, Deidre! :(
When I had gum surgery a few years back, I lived on yogurt and soup....and I don't even like soup! :p I also made a lot of smoothies - but I had to use only fruits that had no seeds as those got stuck in my stitches (no blueberries or strawberries). I remember not even being able to chew cooked pasta or bananas!
I work at a place that has a chef for breakfast and lunch, and sometimes his desserts are incredible. When I just can't resist, I realize that I really only want to taste it. One bite will usually do it. The trick is to immediately make the rest inedible -- toss it, put a napkin over it (and smoosh it in so you can't change your mind) or anything else to get it out of reach.
And, with regards to leftover cake -- if your son doesn't want it either, throw it out! It's probably not as good as it was fresh, so toss it, or give it away. Bring it to work, invite son's friends over to polish it off -- get it out of your house! Same thing with the Halloween candy. Nothing worse than blowing your diet on the yucky Halloween stuff. Blow it on good dark chocolate, and give away the nasty stuff.
:eek: Someone brought bags and bags of their left over trick-or-treat candy to work and left them in the kitchen. M & M's and all kinds of chocolate. It's really small packs. No, can't have it. I got a piece of Double Bubble and I'm taking deep breaths.:D
I know you might not want to divulge this for privacy reasons, but I am dying to know where you work that provides a breakfast & lunch chef! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Pedal Wench
No worries. It's a post-production company -- video editing, audio (that's what I do), film transfer, graphics, interactive stuff. Our clients are tv producers, ad agency folks, creative types. It's cheaper for us to have lunch served here than to shut down our sessions and have everyone leave the building for lunch. Great for our clients, good for the company's bottom line (our rooms are billed by the hour, so if we leave the building for a two-hour lunch, that's two hours we're not billing!) but lousy for the employee's waistlines. :o Today was white-chocolate macadamia nut cookies. I'm sticking with fresh pineapple and apricots, but the cookies are gonna be out there all day.:mad:
reeses everywhere today! My class is driving me nuts! Why do ten kids have to go crazy and have issues on the same day? Why can't they spread it out? Must NOT eat the reeses!
V.
Thanks for posting! I haven't braved the scale again yet . . . maybe tomorrow morning. This week has just been too crazy. Anyways, your loss is encouraging me to finish the day strong :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Flybye
Start - 136.2
Today - 135.0
But I fluctuate several pounds depending on water retention and activity level, so I will allow myself only a little yahoo today and see where I am next Monday.
More Halloween candy here today - Snickers. I'm fine all morning with it sitting on a cabinet so close to me. I hope I can get through the afternoon when resolve begins to weaken. Maybe by then my boss - queen of the mindless grazers - will eat it all (then complain that she just can't seem to lose weight :rolleyes: ).
+1 for yogurt and soup (Trader Joe's tomato and roasted red pepper - yum!) following a root canal. Hope you're feeling better, deidre. They are no fun.
Brought a cup (measured) of leftover homemade lentil soup for lunch. Also have a container of carrots and red peppers and some lowfat yogurt to see me through the day.
Cheers to all :D
Congrats for all of those who have lost already!! That is really great and really motivates me. I want to post a loss on Monday.
I stayed at 147 which is ok. I usually put on a few extra during that wonderful time of month:rolleyes:
I feel good, have eaten well, did body pump this morning and am headed out after work to do a quick 20 on the bike while it is still light.