NEW YEARS RESOLUTION WEIGHT LOSS THREAD

[SSMOKINHOT]

Originally Posted by Bonnie

taste everything.......eat nothing! lol

Originally Posted by sugar'n'spice

Ok..taste...taste....taste the whole bag of vinegar chips !!

Luckily, I don't have any of it in the house !! Pheewww!!!

[Bonnie]

Originally Posted by sugar'n'spice

Ok..taste...taste....taste the whole bag of vinegar chips !!

Luckily, I don't have any of it in the house !! Pheewww!!!

Go to subway, get you a healthy sub and a small bag of vinegar chips.....
walla.. craving gone , problem solved!

[CFD]

Originally Posted by sugar'n'spice

Soooooo....do I give in to my craving or not??? AAAHH!!!!

Don't give in, try to find some healthy substitutes, here are a couple of suggestions that might help, If you're craving a little crunch and vinegar maybe some crunchy pickles might help, almost no calaories. You could try some soy chips with sea salt, there almost like little rice cakes and have that salty crunch, they are healthy in comparison to chips, good fat's, a bit higher in protein,less in calories and have no preservatives or hydrogenated oils etc. Just be carefull of portion sizes and calculate them into your daily cals.

[sugar'n'spice]

Originally Posted by SSMOKINHOT

I say an emphatic YES!!!! Eat it!! It is OKAY!!! You have been having this craving for a few days now and you are bound to give in at some point and potentially actually gorge yourself. I say go for it...just offset the calories by eating a lower calorie meal

Maybe I'll just wait for the weekend....since it will be hubby's bday...after all it is an occasion.! Haha!!
And..it's not like I want the whole bag...oh no...well...maybe half...oh who am I kidding I want the whole (small) bag !!

[TAG UR IT]

Originally Posted by Speedy1975

Ok things look to be going back in the right direction.

Here's the past 8 weeks of weight and BF%.

12/27/10 - 168.5 - 12.4%
1/10/11 - 166 - 12.1%
1/17/11 - 167 - 11.7%
1/24/11 - 167.5 - 12.2%
1/31/11 - 164.5 - 11.6% (finally found the right combo of calories)
2/7/11 - 163.5 - 11.2%
2/14/11 - 163 - 10.7%
2/21/11 - 165 - 11.2% (added back too many carbs - removed some also started thermogenic)
2/28/11 - 163.5 - 10.3% (Whooo hooo single digits here I come)

Also, for curiosity sake I checked with the pinchers today as well. They said I was between 11 and 12% so it seems the bio-electric gizmo is pretty close on me. It does have an "athlete" setting that I have it on. If I set it to "normal" it says I"m like 14-15% BF so that may be the difference.

Changed workouts today but I'm not sure I'm happy with it. I went back to dumb bells but I just hate picking the dang things up off the floor for each set. I'm gonna do some searches today and make a decision before Wed.

For example, I feel like I could have probably gone with 85s on the incline presses, but was afraid I'd drop them on my face when I failed (I've done that before).

Incline dumb bell press - 80/80/80 - 10/8/8
Flat dumb bell press - 70/70/70 - 8/8/6.5
Cable cross over fly - 20/25/30 - 10/10/8.5 (nice squeeze at the end of each rep)
Incline dumb bell hammer curl - 25/30/35 - 10/10/9
Incline dumb bell curl - 35/35/35 - 8/8/8
Cable finishing curl (lean forward elbows high) - 10/15/20/15/10 - 10/10/10/7/10 - 1 second squeeze at the end of each rep OWWWW

40 minutes elliptical. One thing I do on cardio is set the machine to random so it does change resistance ever so often up and down.

Today I wore my heart rate monitor for the whole workout. I paced my sets lifting by my heart rate. It'd get up in the 150s at the end of a set and when it settled back in the 120s I'd start my next set.

The monitor said I burned 1090 calories for the whole workout including cardio. The elliptical said I burned 345 today.

Probably more info than you guys wanna see, but just a couple of experiments I did today that may help somebody.

I just got my polar heart monitor replacement strap in the mail today. I usually burn between 900 to 1,100 calories per workout. And, that is WITHOUT cardio! ....oh boy.... I need to get back into it... (the cardio, that is). I usually am lifting for about an hour trying to get in all the different exercises. I try to get 45 seconds to a minute between each set. That way my heart rate stays up....kinda a cardio thing. But, I accidentally washed the strap in the washing machine with all the wrong stuff and it ruined my strap. That is the most aggrivating thing when that damn strap stops working.

Oh, one new thing I tried today was this mountain climbing machine. It sits at a 45 degree angle and you crawl up it on hands an feet kinda like going up stairs with hands and feet, but you stay in the same place. Anyway...that thing kicked my butt. I never had my quads worked so hard. DANG.

Anyway...did back today. Going back tomorrow to start week B of the workout.

[SSMOKINHOT]

Quote of the Day:

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,
is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle

[Speedy1975]

TAG, I hear ya on the mtn climbers. They used to torture us with those when I was in the Marine Corps. Definitely gets the heart rate up there quick.

I prefer to pulse the heart rate. It goes up and down. I do the same lifting weights and cardio. I didn't realize how high my heart rate got during cardio until yesterday when I had the HRM on. It was hitting 148 - 152 during the heavier parts of the program and about 128 - 130 on the lower parts. I set the elliptical to random or whatever it's called where it changes the resistance ever 3 minutes.

When I'm lifting weights I'm going for max effort on the lifts rather than cardio as I consider the weight lifting strictly for muscle building. You do get some cardio benefit obviously but that isn't what I personally focus on there. I'm a smaller guy so you have to curtail that to your personal needs.

I'm a bit sore today and haven't been in a LONG time so I think changing my workout yesterday was the right thing to do. I try to change it up every 8-12 weeks to prevent plateaus.

I was pretty blasted last night. I ended up needing a sweet potato with dinner and felt a lot better. I'm getting to the point where I'm confident enough I may post a status pic here soon.

I'm also ramping down the adult beverages. I'll miss them after work, but discipline discipline discipline haha. We'll see how that goes.

Here's a quote of the day for you guys:

"Garbage in equals garbage out"

Here are yesterdays meals:

6:30am 1 scoop ON Pro Complex pre workout
9:30am 1.5 scoop ON After Max post work out, 1 cup coffee
12pm 1/4 turkey sub, 1 cup broccoli, 1tbsp ICBINBL, 1oz almonds
3pm apple, carb master yogurt, 2 hard boiled egg whites
6pm 1 scoop ON Pro Complex, 1 tbsp peanut butter (this is what I replaced the whiskey with hahaha)
7:30pm 4oz turkey loin, sweet potato, 1tbsp ICBINBL, 2 cups mixed veggies broccoli/squash, spinach salad

[bossbunny]

So I have Insanity but I am getting P90X from a friend. There is no where to hang a chin up bar in my workout room... So I was wondering what is a good alternative move I could do.

[Speedy1975]

Originally Posted by badgebunny

So I have Insanity but I am getting P90X from a friend. There is no where to hang a chin up bar in my workout room... So I was wondering what is a good alternative move I could do.

For back width, front rack chins (chin ups) are one of the best exercises there is. I'd try to find a way to incorporate that.

The only decent alternative I know of is a modified chin up, but it will still require some kind of bar.

It looks like this and I recommend it to folks who can't do a full body weight front rack chin to work up to it.

I have no idea what P90X involves so this may not be relative at all.

Make sure the movement is palms out to focus the effort on the lats/traps.

[Bonnie]

Originally Posted by badgebunny

So I have Insanity but I am getting P90X from a friend. There is no where to hang a chin up bar in my workout room... So I was wondering what is a good alternative move I could do.

Originally Posted by Speedy1975

For back width, front rack chins (chin ups) are one of the best exercises there is. I'd try to find a way to incorporate that.

The only decent alternative I know of is a modified chin up, but it will still require some kind of bar.

It looks like this and I recommend it to folks who can't do a full body weight front rack chin to work up to it.

I have no idea what P90X involves so this may not be relative at all.

Make sure the movement is palms out to focus the effort on the lats/traps.

Also google TRX workouts this is something fairly new and you can do just about any workout using your own body weight

[sugar'n'spice]

Originally Posted by CFD

Don't give in, try to find some healthy substitutes, here are a couple of suggestions that might help, If you're craving a little crunch and vinegar maybe some crunchy pickles might help, almost no calaories. You could try some soy chips with sea salt, there almost like little rice cakes and have that salty crunch, they are healthy in comparison to chips, good fat's, a bit higher in protein,less in calories and have no preservatives or hydrogenated oils etc. Just be carefull of portion sizes and calculate them into your daily cals.

I didn't give in....I guess it just passed...oh well !
But, thank you...good back ups, just in case!

[bossbunny]

Originally Posted by Bonnie

Also google TRX workouts this is something fairly new and you can do just about any workout using your own body weight

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Those strapes just bolt into a rafter in the ceiling? Indeed I may need to get these. Would be good for my dad too.

[Bonnie]

Originally Posted by badgebunny

Those strapes just bolt into a rafter in the ceiling? Indeed I may need to get these. Would be good for my dad too.

I use it at the Gym and it hooks to the top of a machine but I'm sure there are many different ways you can hook those straps to something or the cieling, I'm sure it may tell you some different options.

[bossbunny]

Originally Posted by Bonnie

I use it at the Gym and it hooks to the top of a machine but I'm sure there are many different ways you can hook those straps to something or the cieling, I'm sure it may tell you some different options.

I have a machine I think I can hook it up too. Thanks for the idea. I want to switch back and forth between insanity and p90x cause doing insanity all week every week burns me out. And then I slack.