Same deal as yesterday: at least 30 minutes on the treadmill at a fast walk, and 20 minutes of stretching.
I managed to pull the key off the treadmill halfway through, which erased my progress, naturally, but I did 15 minutes after that, so... pretty sure I got at least 30 minutes.
Sparkpeople says that I need to be eating between 1200 and 1550 calories per day. I did some quick calculating, and I already do that ^_^. I think the only change I'll be making to my diet is to add fruit.
Now i just need to figure out my budget and see if I can afford to buy a scale
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Oh, updates? Man, this thread will fill fast.
Anyway, about 10 years ago I hurt my shoulder at work and it never properly healed. Always hurt when I would raise my arm laterally. That pain was lessening over time, but if I would lift my arm until it was held straight up, it would still hurt and I couldn't do any straight lateral arm raises. I compromised with Arnold Presses to try to work my shoulders without aggravating the injury. Anyway, today I tried out some tradition shoulder presses and low and behold my shoulder is working perfect again! Woo!
Did 30 min on a stationary bike as well - My heart rate used to go just over 150 at the intensity I do by the time I was finished, today it was only 141, so that was cool. It's getting easier.
Same deal as yesterday: at least 30 minutes on the treadmill at a fast walk, and 20 minutes of stretching.
I managed to pull the key off the treadmill halfway through, which erased my progress, naturally, but I did 15 minutes after that, so... pretty sure I got at least 30 minutes.
Sparkpeople says that I need to be eating between 1200 and 1550 calories per day. I did some quick calculating, and I already do that ^_^. I think the only change I'll be making to my diet is to add fruit.
Now i just need to figure out my budget and see if I can afford to buy a scale
Keep it up, girl! Good for you! What are you doing for stretches? I believe you mentioned yoga in a previous post? Any particular program you're following?
Busy week has been busy. Due to medical stuff and work, I've gotten very little exercise in this week. I only managed a 40 minute session on my stationary bike on Monday, and due to leaving my house at 6:30 in the morning yesterday, and not getting home until 10:30 at night, got absolutely nothing done yesterday. Today's been nearly as busy, but I figure I can get in an hour tonight to try and make up for some of it.
Same deal as yesterday: at least 30 minutes on the treadmill at a fast walk, and 20 minutes of stretching.
I managed to pull the key off the treadmill halfway through, which erased my progress, naturally, but I did 15 minutes after that, so... pretty sure I got at least 30 minutes.
Sparkpeople says that I need to be eating between 1200 and 1550 calories per day. I did some quick calculating, and I already do that ^_^. I think the only change I'll be making to my diet is to add fruit.
Now i just need to figure out my budget and see if I can afford to buy a scale
Keep it up, girl! Good for you! What are you doing for stretches? I believe you mentioned yoga in a previous post? Any particular program you're following?
I have yet to try the yoga ^_^; The DVD I have came with the "yoga fitness set"... which I bought a year ago and just opened up on Monday. I watched a bit of it, and it's... they walk you through each pose, but it's not really a unified workout, and there isn't any music (which totally betrays all of my expectations for workouts ).
Most of the stretches I'm doing are basic ones that I picked up over the years from doing basketball, and belly-dancing, and karate. I concentrate a lot on my hamstrings and Achilles tendon. I'm probably not pushing the stretches as much as I should, but...*shrugs*
Well... you don't have to update if you don't want to. I'm doing it for the accountability. I'm really poor at maintaining an exercise regimen... and I'm hoping that if I update, I'll be able to keep it up longer.
Okay. Is sparkpeople easier to use if you set up a sparkpage?
'Cause if not, I'm really tempted to just make myself a spreadsheet and keep track of food offline.
Okay. Is sparkpeople easier to use if you set up a sparkpage?
'Cause if not, I'm really tempted to just make myself a spreadsheet and keep track of food offline.
Not really. It's a bit of a learning curve, but I actually like their tracker. Is there something you're specifically having difficulty with?
Do you mean the actual profile page, or registering a Spark People account? I'm assuming you mean the former, but please correct me if my assumption is incorrect.
Okay. Is sparkpeople easier to use if you set up a sparkpage?
'Cause if not, I'm really tempted to just make myself a spreadsheet and keep track of food offline.
Not really. It's a bit of a learning curve, but I actually like their tracker. Is there something you're specifically having difficulty with?
Do you mean the actual profile page, or registering a Spark People account? I'm assuming you mean the former, but please correct me if my assumption is incorrect.
No, I have a sparkpeople account...
It's mostly the food that I'm having trouble with ( well... that and navigating the site >.> ). The food that I eat doesn't appear to be in the database. I guess that means I'll just have to get the packages and input the info manually.
However! The real question is: how do I get my points to show up on the team leaderboard? :oops:
It's mostly the food that I'm having trouble with ( well... that and navigating the site >.> ). The food that I eat doesn't appear to be in the database. I guess that means I'll just have to get the packages and input the info manually.
However! The real question is: how do I get my points to show up on the team leaderboard? :oops:
There's a bit of lag in the points showing up on the leaderboard. I'm not sure how long it actually takes. I realised I had my account flagged to not show up on the leaderboards, so make sure you don't have that set. After I unflagged it, I went to bed. So I'd say probably an hour or more before the points will show up, but they will!
The food can be tricky. Try looking up things in the general sense. (i.e. corn rather than sweet corn, canned corn, creamed corn, etc.) But you CAN manually add the foods you eat with their packaging info, which - in theory - should help you be more accurate anyway.
It's mostly the food that I'm having trouble with ( well... that and navigating the site >.> ). The food that I eat doesn't appear to be in the database. I guess that means I'll just have to get the packages and input the info manually.
However! The real question is: how do I get my points to show up on the team leaderboard? :oops:
There's a bit of lag in the points showing up on the leaderboard. I'm not sure how long it actually takes. I realised I had my account flagged to not show up on the leaderboards, so make sure you don't have that set. After I unflagged it, I went to bed. So I'd say probably an hour or more before the points will show up, but they will!
The food can be tricky. Try looking up things in the general sense. (i.e. corn rather than sweet corn, canned corn, creamed corn, etc.) But you CAN manually add the foods you eat with their packaging info, which - in theory - should help you be more accurate anyway.
You should totally hit the "Search foods shared by other members" button on the search page under the list of results. I made a turkey sandwich today and they actually had the "Prima Della Golden Roasted Turkey Breast" I picked up at the deli yesterday. Also, for any turkey breast fans, Prima Della Golden Roasted Turkey is vastly inferior to Boars Head Ovengold Turkey.
i went to the gym this afternoon and ran on the treadmill until i almost fell over, and goddamn, i felt RAD. running to carolla's podcast is working pretty well for me, it's a better distraction than music somehow. also helped that the world cup was on ESPN. :P
and now i can no longer move under my own power. holy jesus my quads are SORE!
i went to the gym this afternoon and ran on the treadmill until i almost fell over, and goddamn, i felt RAD. running to carolla's podcast is working pretty well for me, it's a better distraction than music somehow. also helped that the world cup was on ESPN. :P
and now i can no longer move under my own power. holy jesus my quads are SORE!
Oh you go girl! It's a great feeling knowing you put your body to the test.
Just remember that you might feel incredibly sore tomorrow, especially if you haven't been eating alot of protein, which helps recovery. Stretching will also help.
I think you're on to something, retro. For whatever reason, I watch MSNBC when I work out (politics get me fired up, I guess!), and I watched during my thirty on the elliptical. I pushed myself a lot harder than I usually do. I managed two miles in thirty minutes, which is good for me.
Then, I switched to my iPod on shuffle because I haven't made a workout playlist yet. I usually get close to six miles in my half hour on the recumbent bike (I use it as my cool down), but tonight I barely broke five. The tempo of my music on shuffle is all over the place and it makes it hard to stay consistent. Lot of slower songs tonight and I'm pretty sure that hurt me.
I'm going to have to try your method and listen to some podcasts, I think. Keep up the great work!
Actual weight this morning: 221.2. I really figured I was closer to the 230 end of that scale.
Oh well.
I broke down and had a brownie yesterday after accidentally taking the bus 40 minutes out of my way on a 40 minute ride home. I was on the bus for nearly two hours, and halfway, stopped and was all OM NOM BROWNIE YOU WILL BE MY SUBSTITUTE DINNER UNTIL I CAN GET HOME RAWR RAWR MONCH MONCH.
For what it's worth, I immediately felt bad about it, and two days ago, I wouldn't have.
Actual weight this morning: 221.2. I really figured I was closer to the 230 end of that scale.
Oh well.
I broke down and had a brownie yesterday after accidentally taking the bus 40 minutes out of my way on a 40 minute ride home. I was on the bus for nearly two hours, and halfway, stopped and was all OM NOM BROWNIE YOU WILL BE MY SUBSTITUTE DINNER UNTIL I CAN GET HOME RAWR RAWR MONCH MONCH.
For what it's worth, I immediately felt bad about it, and two days ago, I wouldn't have.
All good mate! Just work that shit out. Do pushups in between posts on the forum or every ten minutes and youll work it off. will be fine .
OK, gonna go out for a run (mostly walk) tomorrow. I'm debating whether or not to go ahead with my plans to quit smoking now or wait until I get comfortable with my weightloss routine first.
I also need to give up soda, but that's gonna be rough because I'm pretty sure it's the caffeine in the ridiculous amount of soda I drink that makes it so hard to do.
At the least switch to diet.
Also, for those signed up for sparkspeople, check out their work out routines. It's crazy how much a change in the workout can make you look forward to the gym.
I am, I had a bowl of pineapple for breakfast this morning. Eventually I want to work my way back up to at least 2 miles every monday, wednesday and friday. I know if I quit smoking it will make that goal easier, but I also know that if I try to quit smoking it will make my diet much more difficult to stick to.
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Monday - ate really, really bad. As in donuts for breakfast, salad for lunch with a slice of DQ ice cream cake for dessert and two slices of pizza for dinner. Almost no physical activity.
Tuesday - 2 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and coffee for breakfast, salad for lunch, mix of tuna and steamed vegetables with a bit of sauce for dinner. Light yoga session of 30 min just so my muscles don't feel too shocked on the following day.
Wednesday - 2 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and coffee for breakfast, salad for lunch, mix of tuna and steamed vegetables with a bit of sauce for dinner. Yoga X session of 1 hr 30 min. If you're familiar with P90x, well, that's the one I'm doing. I felt awesome, full of energy and could follow about 95% of the session.
Peanut butter, nuts and almonds are actually prescribed by my doctor and my mom to rise my good cholesterol level.
Thursday - Medicial sandwiches and coffee for breakfast, lunch probably chicken breast and side salad, salmon and veggies for dinner. Planning on doing mild session of yoga (1hr) to help with sore muscles and prepare for cardio tomorrow.
Nothing is killing me but my pecs, upper back, shoulders and the back of my legs know they've worked out.
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I feel it's worth noting, for those of you who do like/need a little competition for motivation, the Spark page has a leaderboard. Which I would like to point out I am kicking all of your butts on right now. Gauntlet thrown. I dare you to do better.
ohh, this shit is on.
Though I find recording the food to be the hardest part mostly because i tend to make my own meals as opposed to pre-packaged stuff and my method of measuring is all "yeah... that looks like enough"
I suppose i could just start measuring it properly though. Though i've no idea how I'd enter something like the sandwich i made for lunch - it was brown bread, turkey ham, tomato, red onion, some salad cream and a small bit of grated cheese in it.
Just throw in the individual ingredients and let the website worry about it?
Ballpark the calories and just add it that way?
Any ideas are welcome.
I feel it's worth noting, for those of you who do like/need a little competition for motivation, the Spark page has a leaderboard. Which I would like to point out I am kicking all of your butts on right now. Gauntlet thrown. I dare you to do better.
ohh, this shit is on.
Though I find recording the food to be the hardest part mostly because i tend to make my own meals as opposed to pre-packaged stuff and my method of measuring is all "yeah... that looks like enough"
I suppose i could just start measuring it properly though. Though i've no idea how I'd enter something like the sandwich i made for lunch - it was brown bread, turkey ham, tomato, red onion, some salad cream and a small bit of grated cheese in it.
Just throw in the individual ingredients and let the website worry about it?
Ballpark the calories and just add it that way?
Any ideas are welcome.
Just throw the ingredients into the site. You don't have to be 100% accurate. I noticed that the site is pretty decent about giving the right info.
I'm not a fan of killing yourself when you just start out, it takes too long to recover and getting stronger isn't your biggest concern at that point.
And there's nothing worse than finally getting motivated to hit the gym, overdoing it, pulling/straining/damaging something and finding yourself sidelined again, possibly burrying your misery in Ben & Jerry's Americone Dream or If I Had 1,000,000 Flavours.
But enough about my favourite snack foods.
Seriously, just a suggestion to those starting on the long road; ease into it. Spend the first couple of days or even weeks getting accustomed to what you can do. Find 100 pounds easy on the bench? Add 10 or 20 to a set, don't slam on a pair of 25's. Find level 5 easy on the elliptical, listen your body when it tells you that level 15 isn't such a good idea yet.
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I feel it's worth noting, for those of you who do like/need a little competition for motivation, the Spark page has a leaderboard. Which I would like to point out I am kicking all of your butts on right now. Gauntlet thrown. I dare you to do better.
ohh, this shit is on.
Though I find recording the food to be the hardest part mostly because i tend to make my own meals as opposed to pre-packaged stuff and my method of measuring is all "yeah... that looks like enough"
I suppose i could just start measuring it properly though. Though i've no idea how I'd enter something like the sandwich i made for lunch - it was brown bread, turkey ham, tomato, red onion, some salad cream and a small bit of grated cheese in it.
Just throw in the individual ingredients and let the website worry about it?
Ballpark the calories and just add it that way?
Any ideas are welcome.
Just throw the ingredients into the site. You don't have to be 100% accurate. I noticed that the site is pretty decent about giving the right info.
Edit; likely because we had a fire drill today for one of our towers, which means there are crates of Drumsticks, Oreo icecream cookies and Del Monte fruit bars around. They used to get Rolo Bars too.
It's a lot of temptation to fight off, and is apparently affecting my subconscious.
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edited June 2010
Ahh...wednesday is my cheat day...I had a beer and a burger. Now I gotta make up for it. I am doing that by going to a football match and standing in the supporters section. Later I am going to be a designated driver for a bunch of girls that demand that i take their drunken asses to Taco Bell. Then I am going home and having a yogurt. Time to carve out an hour for workout.
Managed to get up at 6 this morning and start biking again. Pulled 12.5 miles, and burned approximately 425 calories (according to my bike). I've been really lazy this week, as I was getting up around 36 miles combined last week, so hopefully I'll get my ass on there two more times today.
Really need to eat something for lunch though. The coffee and orange for breakfast is sitting uncomfortably in my stomache.
I feel it's worth noting, for those of you who do like/need a little competition for motivation, the Spark page has a leaderboard. Which I would like to point out I am kicking all of your butts on right now. Gauntlet thrown. I dare you to do better.
ohh, this shit is on.
Though I find recording the food to be the hardest part mostly because i tend to make my own meals as opposed to pre-packaged stuff and my method of measuring is all "yeah... that looks like enough"
I don't understand those Spark Minutes. I was under the impression that it just includes exercise...is nutrition factured into it as well?
With that in mind, I also noticed when I entered in my strength training workout yesterday it didn't seem to effect it, even though I checked things off that I did. I am I doing something wrong?
I'm a bit late to this party, but I started to make a push to lose some of my fat ass 5 weeks ago. So I guess put me down as starting at 249(as of the 5 weeks ago) with a 'milestone' goal of 220.
I went on WeightWatchers and as of Wednesday, I am at 239.
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I feel it's worth noting, for those of you who do like/need a little competition for motivation, the Spark page has a leaderboard. Which I would like to point out I am kicking all of your butts on right now. Gauntlet thrown. I dare you to do better.
ohh, this shit is on.
Though I find recording the food to be the hardest part mostly because i tend to make my own meals as opposed to pre-packaged stuff and my method of measuring is all "yeah... that looks like enough"
I don't understand those Spark Minutes. I was under the impression that it just includes exercise...is nutrition factured into it as well?
With that in mind, I also noticed when I entered in my strength training workout yesterday it didn't seem to effect it, even though I checked things off that I did. I am I doing something wrong?
Honestly, i have no idea how minutes work and how they differ to spark points so I'm just going to throw stuff in as best i can and hope it all works out in the end.
So far so good for me. Day 4 of eating healthier and 4 straight days of exercise.
I just have to keep reminding myself that even if I'm tired, I'll feel better after I exercise. This is easier to convince myself of some days than others.
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So far so good for me. Day 4 of eating healthier and 4 straight days of exercise.
I just have to keep reminding myself that even if I'm tired, I'll feel better after I exercise. This is easier to convince myself of some days than others.
Yeah, I'm trying to convince myself I should go while there's a lull in the very wet weather outside... it'll totally clear up in like 20 minutes
Uff da. Thursday was bad for me, but I knew it would be. Had a friend's birthday party to go to and it was nomihodai (all you can drink). Lots of empty calories there! Plus, a very yummy set menu of Okinawan food. But at least I ran that morning. It's Friday morning here already, we'll see what exercise I can squeeze in today.
On a side note, last call at a nomihodai is hilarious. Everyone orders extra drinks so you get a TON of drinks that last round.
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Same deal as yesterday: at least 30 minutes on the treadmill at a fast walk, and 20 minutes of stretching.
I managed to pull the key off the treadmill halfway through, which erased my progress, naturally, but I did 15 minutes after that, so... pretty sure I got at least 30 minutes.
Sparkpeople says that I need to be eating between 1200 and 1550 calories per day. I did some quick calculating, and I already do that ^_^. I think the only change I'll be making to my diet is to add fruit.
Now i just need to figure out my budget and see if I can afford to buy a scale
Anyway, about 10 years ago I hurt my shoulder at work and it never properly healed. Always hurt when I would raise my arm laterally. That pain was lessening over time, but if I would lift my arm until it was held straight up, it would still hurt and I couldn't do any straight lateral arm raises. I compromised with Arnold Presses to try to work my shoulders without aggravating the injury. Anyway, today I tried out some tradition shoulder presses and low and behold my shoulder is working perfect again! Woo!
Did 30 min on a stationary bike as well - My heart rate used to go just over 150 at the intensity I do by the time I was finished, today it was only 141, so that was cool. It's getting easier.
I have yet to try the yoga ^_^; The DVD I have came with the "yoga fitness set"... which I bought a year ago and just opened up on Monday. I watched a bit of it, and it's... they walk you through each pose, but it's not really a unified workout, and there isn't any music (which totally betrays all of my expectations for workouts
Most of the stretches I'm doing are basic ones that I picked up over the years from doing basketball, and belly-dancing, and karate. I concentrate a lot on my hamstrings and Achilles tendon. I'm probably not pushing the stretches as much as I should, but...*shrugs*
Well... you don't have to update if you don't want to. I'm doing it for the accountability. I'm really poor at maintaining an exercise regimen... and I'm hoping that if I update, I'll be able to keep it up longer.
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edit: you shouldnt be eating fried chicken, of course. that's quite unhealthy
Okay. Is sparkpeople easier to use if you set up a sparkpage?
'Cause if not, I'm really tempted to just make myself a spreadsheet and keep track of food offline.
Do you mean the actual profile page, or registering a Spark People account? I'm assuming you mean the former, but please correct me if my assumption is incorrect.
No, I have a sparkpeople account...
It's mostly the food that I'm having trouble with ( well... that and navigating the site >.> ). The food that I eat doesn't appear to be in the database. I guess that means I'll just have to get the packages and input the info manually.
However! The real question is: how do I get my points to show up on the team leaderboard? :oops:
The food can be tricky. Try looking up things in the general sense. (i.e. corn rather than sweet corn, canned corn, creamed corn, etc.) But you CAN manually add the foods you eat with their packaging info, which - in theory - should help you be more accurate anyway.
Now I just need to not eat the pizza in the fridge...
You should totally hit the "Search foods shared by other members" button on the search page under the list of results. I made a turkey sandwich today and they actually had the "Prima Della Golden Roasted Turkey Breast" I picked up at the deli yesterday. Also, for any turkey breast fans, Prima Della Golden Roasted Turkey is vastly inferior to Boars Head Ovengold Turkey.
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and now i can no longer move under my own power. holy jesus my quads are SORE!
Oh you go girl! It's a great feeling knowing you put your body to the test.
Just remember that you might feel incredibly sore tomorrow, especially if you haven't been eating alot of protein, which helps recovery. Stretching will also help.
Good job though! Keep it up!
Then, I switched to my iPod on shuffle because I haven't made a workout playlist yet. I usually get close to six miles in my half hour on the recumbent bike (I use it as my cool down), but tonight I barely broke five. The tempo of my music on shuffle is all over the place and it makes it hard to stay consistent. Lot of slower songs tonight and I'm pretty sure that hurt me.
I'm going to have to try your method and listen to some podcasts, I think. Keep up the great work!
Im working on gaining weight like a manly man does. Good on you all for exercising.
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You guys should visit the somethingawful forums, they have a very dedicated fitness community going on there.
Oh well.
I broke down and had a brownie yesterday after accidentally taking the bus 40 minutes out of my way on a 40 minute ride home. I was on the bus for nearly two hours, and halfway, stopped and was all OM NOM BROWNIE YOU WILL BE MY SUBSTITUTE DINNER UNTIL I CAN GET HOME RAWR RAWR MONCH MONCH.
For what it's worth, I immediately felt bad about it, and two days ago, I wouldn't have.
All good mate! Just work that shit out. Do pushups in between posts on the forum or every ten minutes and youll work it off. will be fine
I was 150 lbs, at 5'10 just 2 years ago, and somehow, I ballooned to 190. So, it's time to lose it again.
I figure swimming an hour a day every day like I used to will probably do the trick. And working out in general motivates me to eat better.
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I am, I had a bowl of pineapple for breakfast this morning. Eventually I want to work my way back up to at least 2 miles every monday, wednesday and friday. I know if I quit smoking it will make that goal easier, but I also know that if I try to quit smoking it will make my diet much more difficult to stick to.
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Monday - ate really, really bad. As in donuts for breakfast, salad for lunch with a slice of DQ ice cream cake for dessert and two slices of pizza for dinner. Almost no physical activity.
Tuesday - 2 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and coffee for breakfast, salad for lunch, mix of tuna and steamed vegetables with a bit of sauce for dinner. Light yoga session of 30 min just so my muscles don't feel too shocked on the following day.
Wednesday - 2 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and coffee for breakfast, salad for lunch, mix of tuna and steamed vegetables with a bit of sauce for dinner. Yoga X session of 1 hr 30 min. If you're familiar with P90x, well, that's the one I'm doing. I felt awesome, full of energy and could follow about 95% of the session.
Peanut butter, nuts and almonds are actually prescribed by my doctor and my mom to rise my good cholesterol level.
Thursday - Medicial sandwiches and coffee for breakfast, lunch probably chicken breast and side salad, salmon and veggies for dinner. Planning on doing mild session of yoga (1hr) to help with sore muscles and prepare for cardio tomorrow.
Nothing is killing me but my pecs, upper back, shoulders and the back of my legs know they've worked out.
ohh, this shit is on.
Though I find recording the food to be the hardest part mostly because i tend to make my own meals as opposed to pre-packaged stuff and my method of measuring is all "yeah... that looks like enough"
I suppose i could just start measuring it properly though. Though i've no idea how I'd enter something like the sandwich i made for lunch - it was brown bread, turkey ham, tomato, red onion, some salad cream and a small bit of grated cheese in it.
Just throw in the individual ingredients and let the website worry about it?
Ballpark the calories and just add it that way?
Any ideas are welcome.
Just throw the ingredients into the site. You don't have to be 100% accurate. I noticed that the site is pretty decent about giving the right info.
And there's nothing worse than finally getting motivated to hit the gym, overdoing it, pulling/straining/damaging something and finding yourself sidelined again, possibly burrying your misery in Ben & Jerry's Americone Dream or If I Had 1,000,000 Flavours.
But enough about my favourite snack foods.
Seriously, just a suggestion to those starting on the long road; ease into it. Spend the first couple of days or even weeks getting accustomed to what you can do. Find 100 pounds easy on the bench? Add 10 or 20 to a set, don't slam on a pair of 25's. Find level 5 easy on the elliptical, listen your body when it tells you that level 15 isn't such a good idea yet.
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Cool, will do.
Lets see how this goes....
Edit; likely because we had a fire drill today for one of our towers, which means there are crates of Drumsticks, Oreo icecream cookies and Del Monte fruit bars around. They used to get Rolo Bars too.
It's a lot of temptation to fight off, and is apparently affecting my subconscious.
Really need to eat something for lunch though. The coffee and orange for breakfast is sitting uncomfortably in my stomache.
I'll try and sneak into a gym and weigh myself, I suppose.
I don't understand those Spark Minutes. I was under the impression that it just includes exercise...is nutrition factured into it as well?
With that in mind, I also noticed when I entered in my strength training workout yesterday it didn't seem to effect it, even though I checked things off that I did. I am I doing something wrong?
I went on WeightWatchers and as of Wednesday, I am at 239.
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Honestly, i have no idea how minutes work and how they differ to spark points so I'm just going to throw stuff in as best i can and hope it all works out in the end.
I just have to keep reminding myself that even if I'm tired, I'll feel better after I exercise. This is easier to convince myself of some days than others.
Yeah, I'm trying to convince myself I should go while there's a lull in the very wet weather outside... it'll totally clear up in like 20 minutes
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On a side note, last call at a nomihodai is hilarious. Everyone orders extra drinks so you get a TON of drinks that last round.