NEW YEARS RESOLUTION WEIGHT LOSS THREAD

[hrpiii]

Originally Posted by midnighter

On 01-01-11= 200 lbs.
Today= 197 lbs.
Goal= 185 lbs.

Eating a good sized breakfast, healthy lunch, healthy dinner no later than 5 p.m..

Exactly! keep doing what you are doing.

[SSMOKINHOT]

Originally Posted by midnighter

On 01-01-11= 200 lbs.
Today= 197 lbs.
Goal= 185 lbs.

Eating a good sized breakfast, healthy lunch, healthy dinner no later than 5 p.m..

Great job!! Keep it up!!

[JoeP@TeamBeckyD]

WOW, what a great start. Thanks
hrpii for your input, much appreciated. I cleaned the
shelves and frig of all the junk food. Have some healthy
veggies to munch on.

Working out is a BIG challenge. No excuse, but up at
5:30am - out the door at 6:30am- back home on a
"short day" at 7:00pm and a "late day" at 10:00pm. My
plan is to get a walk in around my condo complex until
the weather breaks and I can walk the neighborhood
and High School track.

Not real ambitious as far as the exercise goes, but the
diet will go along way to reduce my size. Maybe someone
has some ideas for exercising while driving???

[SSGirl]

Originally Posted by hrpiii

You are awesome SSGirl.. PEOPLE DO THIS ASAP!! If it is NOT in the house, you will NOT eat it! Get rid of the urge, out of sight and out of mind. Don't make it easy to get back into bad habits.

Don't give me this excuse about kids either.. As a responsible parent, you are responsible for your childs health... Do not put them down this same path you are HAVING to go down now. Kids don't need that juice box, or Little Debbie cake.. they can eat fruit, apples and everything else. If it's not in the HOUSE, they can not eat it either!

I'm on track and will get this extra 20lbs off!!!

[RubyCamaro]

Originally Posted by hrpiii

that is one high calorie shake if you break it down. Careful with the "it's healthy for you" and the "it's also high in calories". That is a great shake, but I would probably go with just one of the Strawberries, OR blueberries or Bananas, but not all.

Calories are calories no matter if they are "healthy" calories or mayo fat calories.

With your Zumba and dance, you are really burning some calories and we would need to measure that to see if you are needing more calories to get some muscle. Our muscles hold A LOT of great nutrients our bodies want to burn. If we are doing a lot of manual labor, exercising, lifting heavy, etc.. your body is needing a little more nutrition to keep up. That is why so many people have a hard time trying to lose weight, they are NOT getting enough nutrition. That's right, you need to eat more to lose more. ..and we all want to be in that catagory.

Well, I have been losing a lot, not so much on the scale (though I have lost some lbs) but moreso in size. I have dropped 2 pant/shirt sizes & having to buy clothes that don't fall off. Would not really want to lose weight faster. Clearly I have added some muscle or the loss would show up more on the scale. But want to do more to build muscle mass. At my age that is important for a lot of reasons. btw the protien powder I use has no sweetner, flavoring or filler, just protien powder. More thoughts?

[GTAHVIT]

OK hprii...

I've got a smith machine with low row and a pull down pulleys

also have dumb bells and curling bars

I've never lifted for mass only for trimming down...

I need to keep the lifting to less than an hour. with two kids and two jobs I only have so much time....

How do you recommend breaking up the workouts/exercises so I can be most efficient with the mass building.

[~Stacy~]

Well I will make my story quick and short. I was born as a skinny healthy child. As soon as I hit 12 I started gaining weight and gaining weight for no odd reason. In high school I wore a size 22 and was about 240 my highest weight ever. I have been out of high school for 10 years almost and I'm down 45 pounds which is good. I'm still fat I wear a size 16 I'm not afraid to admit it online. But I enjoy shopping ever than before because I fit into a XL and I'm not afraid to show my belly off like before ha! Two years ago I got diagnosed with having PCOS. My insulin is soo messed up in my body it doesn't know how to burn the fat off properly and I have other issues associated with it. Yes, their is no cure for my health issue but if I lose more weight the less complications I can get. I could lose a good 50 pounds.

[Pamaro]

Stayed on track with my diet today and did day one of the couch to 5k running program. GOOOOOO ME!

[JoeP@TeamBeckyD]

Originally Posted by Pamaro

Stayed on track with my diet today and did day one of the couch to 5k running program. GOOOOOO ME!

Yes Go You



Updated post #2....
It's very motivating to read the posts!

Make sure I have you listed,....
and post your achievements....
It helps.... all of us!!

[SSGirl]

Originally Posted by Pamaro

Stayed on track with my diet today and did day one of the couch to 5k running program. GOOOOOO ME!

GO PAM!!!

I also stayed on track today too!! The first week is always the toughest but WE CAN DO IT!!! GO C5!

[dianeokie]

Stayed on track with the exercise, but not so much with healthy foods. I will go to the store tomorrow, so I'm not tempted by "the easy foods". Keep it going everyone, we can do it. Becky, did you get some ideas on how we can report our progress?

[rtcat600man]

On track. Whole family discussed achievements at dinner last night. I went for 2 - 15 minute walks at work. My wife got on the tread mill last night. We have rid the house of the JUNK food. Lots of healthy good stuff to eat. Day 1 done in the change for the rest of our lives.

Good Luck everyone.

[metallicide]

I will post up an awesome chocolate protein brownie bar type of recipe my wife makes later today....For the calories/macro-nutrients they taste aweeesome!

[hrpiii]

Originally Posted by GTAHVIT

OK hprii...

I've got a smith machine with low row and a pull down pulleys

also have dumb bells and curling bars

I've never lifted for mass only for trimming down...

I need to keep the lifting to less than an hour. with two kids and two jobs I only have so much time....

How do you recommend breaking up the workouts/exercises so I can be most efficient with the mass building.

No such thing as lifting to trim down. That's like doing situps to make your stomach smaller? ... for example, I want to do squats to make my legs huge, do benchpress to make my chest huge, do curls to make my biceps bulge, but situp to make my tummy small.... uh, your body doesn't work that way.... lol

Now, onto the important stuff. The smith machine is one versital piece of equipment, but want you want to do it keep it simple. And you are correct, you should not be spending more than 45 min to 1 hour per session.

Break the session into your three main groups. Chest, Legs, Back. Combine some of your ancillary muscles into those three groups. Chest/tris/shoulders, Legs/abs, Back/bi's. Your primary three lifts should include about 5-6 sets, not counting warm-up.

Now, if you want to get some size, you are going to need to lift heavy and keep the reps low 80%(4-6 reps) and when at 90% (1-2 reps).

Get big = lifting heavy and eating lots of good calories (probably at least a couple protein shakes a day).

If you lift heavy and don't feed the muscles, not going to see the growth you want. In this case, it's better to have a few hundred calories over your meal plan than to few. Also important.. REST! Your muscles can not grow while lifting, they grow when you are resting and feeding your body.