50extra - My weight loss journey with all the embarrassing details
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@50extra So glad you enjoyed your time home! I know what you mean about the time feeling like days. I went on vacation with my family earlier this month and I swear I blinked and it was over. I know you'll work hard to meet your goals and your home gym looks awesome! So glad to see post from you again, I look forward to your next update!0
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Your home gym looks AWESOME!!!0
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Thank you! I'm happy with the shape my gym is taking. I don't know how much more I am going to do to it this year other than a large tv but there is a lot more that I want to do. I would like to lay down another 20 mats or so and I want to make the entire back wall a mirror just like in the real gyms but I have to be smart about how I do it. As of right now, its functional so I will deal with it.
As I guessed last night there was no starting Insanity and truth be told I don't know if I will be able to start tonight either because I'm already bagged. The good news is when I decided to go to sleep early I set my alarm for 5am and woke up and rode my bike before work. I love the fact that I have done this twice in a row because it has been many years since I had the drive to do that.
I am using the next couple days to set some goals for the first three weeks in September while I am here and I think I know what I am going to work towards. Nutrition is going to be messed up for the next several days because my new apartment has no dishes so cooking is difficult. I am going to be living on protein bars, cans of tuna and rice until then.
Small update today, but it feels good to be back on the bandwagon working towards a healthier life.0 -
So yesterday I finally mustered up the courage to officially begin INSANITY. Last night was only the fitness test that needs to be completed on days 1,15,36,50 and 63 in order to show your progress. To be honest it shouldn't be all that hard. There is like a five minute warm up followed by eight different exercises that are a minute long each with breaks in between each one. By the end of it I was literally laying on the ground with a headache and trying not to puke.
After that I made the mistake of watching the first video that I will be doing tonight. I used to complain about how hard T25 was and these videos are much more intense and sometimes twice as long. I guess there is a reason that they say its the hardest workout ever put on DVD. In all reality I should start back up with T25, see that through completion and not just 4 weeks of the Alpha stage and then do Insanity afterwards, but I'm impatient and would rather do the harder, longer exercises now even if I can't do the entire videos.
Today I am sore already but am going to try and do the workouts on schedule until at least the time I go home. If we don't go on a vacation when I get home I will continue and try to complete the entire program. I truly believe that if I am able to keep my body together and find the energy 6 days a week to press play and put in the time, that this could lead to a life altering body transformation. Mentally I am prepared to try and I hope that physically I can hold up long enough to see this through.
Back when I started this page I said that I would take progress pictures every week. Since my journey has had more bumps than smooth patches I haven't been able to do that. What I am going to try and do instead is take a progress picture tonight before I start and then every two weeks so I have something to gauge my progress with. Somewhere along the way (hopefully at the end of 63 days) I will post those shots to give a good example of what the program can do.
Also, when I get back down to 211 pounds and into the "overweight" category again, I will make a before and after picture to compare the difference in my body from 242 when I started. This is something that I had wanted to do when I was in Russia last shift but didn't end up reaching overweight until I got home.
Being back at work has definitely lit a fire under my butt again. I am happy to work out super hard here and make some progress and then do my best to maintain when I get home and am able to enjoy life. I feel as though this is the best way for me to work at this with how my life works.
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Yesterday was another successful day in my journey. I have touched on this before but it is extremely easy for me to eat at a high deficit for the first little while every time I come to work. I'm going to run with this while I can and not eat right up at the 1900 calories that I have for a goal until my body tells me it needs more food. If I can get a 2 pound loss a week out of it I will be very happy.
So after I came up with every excuse in the book yesterday as to why I shouldn't press play on the first real workout of Insanity, I changed into my gym clothes and got it done. Well I guess technically I should say that I made it to the end of the video because the vast majority of the workout I was standing in my room, guzzling water watching a gym full of super athletes getting it done. I was more of a spectator most of the time.
Insanity really is no joke. I do HIIT every time I ride my bike and honestly, the warm-up on these discs make my bike HIIT feel like a leisurely Sunday ride. The workouts are so intense that in my head I keep feeling like for the last 8 months I have only been pretending to workout hard.
After my workout was over I showered and was sleeping by 9, it was fantastic. I woke up this morning and every major muscle group in my body is jacked up. I guess that goes to show that this program is working on something. After I spent a few minutes rolling out my butt and legs I decided to go for a 5:30am walk around the city here. The weather is nice and cool in the mornings right now so I really enjoyed it. I ended up walking for 32 minutes and covered 1.87miles. It was a great way to start the day and if I can continue to force myself to go to sleep early I hope to do more morning walks in the future. I am not a morning person so I need to use this jet lag as long as I can.
I am happy to note that my morale right now is great. I was dreading coming back to work this shift but so far this first week hasn't been too bad. I am eating the proper amount of calories, I am sleeping like a champion, and I am getting my workouts in. Other than extreme muscle soreness my body hasn't shown me any signs of knee or ankle/foot pain which is an added bonus.
Oh, on a side note, for the first time in my life I took a flexed photo and other than the excessive torso fat, I'm starting to realize that with a bunch more hard work, one day I might even be able to have a nice body!1 -
Way to go! You're doing great! Keep it up!0
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Thanks Kayla.
So today was weigh in day and it's both positive and negative at the same time. The good news about it is that as of this morning I am 214.8lbs and I weigh the exact same as I did the day before I left Russia on my last shift. This is huge for me, it means that I have completely erased all of the weight gains from the three weeks of summer holidays. The bad news is I didn't progress on my journey for the last 6 weeks. Such is life and I am still happy with how its going.
I am fully aware that I will not lose 14 pounds in the next 3.5 weeks but rather than putting emphasis on getting down to a certain number I am literally just trying to lose as much weight while I am here as I can as long as I stay healthy while doing it. If that means that I am 210, then I am 210, if it means I'm 205, I'm 205. Whatever the final number is I will be happy with it. The most important thing for me is to stay focused for the next few weeks and make any progress I can.
Last night was Insane... Well it actually was just an Insanity workout. This is going to be kind of hard to explain but I can't really say that the workout was that hard. It literally is impossible for me to complete and I spent over half of the video again watching the people workout while my muscles were yelling at me and calling me bad names for what I have put them through the last three days. Walking is painful, sitting is painful, and moving in general is painful. I'm not hurt, I'm just sore. I haven't used the majority of my muscles for many many years and the DOMS I am going through right now is brutal. I'm literally living proof right now of "No pain, no gain". I've done enough research on it to know that if I can still workout through the pain then there is no problem doing it. In order to stick to the schedule, I'm going to have to get used to it and hopefully it will eventually taper off. I am stretching and foam rolling and doing everything I can to mitigate the feeling.
I went to bed early last night and got up early this morning. I went for a nice little 35 minute walk through town just before 6am. It rained here last night so the city actually smelled okay for once. Again I hope to do this tomorrow morning, everything hinges on if I can get to sleep early or not. I'm a night owl not a morning person.
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So I decided to post my beginning photo for Insanity. If I can stick to the program by the end I hope to lose around 15 pounds of fat and start to recomp my body. I believe that a hair under 200 pounds is the right place for my weight. Just need to increase my LBM and lower my body fat %.
Please excuse my resting b*tch face and the lopsided goatee. I promise I'm a happy person!
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Love the new picture, you look amazing!!! Your goatee reminds me of the bat signal, but that might just be my geek showing!!!0
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Haha now that you point it out it kinda does, a lopsided bat signal. And thanks for the vote of confidence, I wouldn't say that I'm happy with how I look but all things being equal I am seeing noticeable changes in my body and it should only be a few days from now until I'm not clinically obese anymore!
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Yesterday I finally got a bit of a break from the Insanity, it was a workout called cardio recovery and truth be told was kind of easy. Other than some real slow deep squats and lunges with some holding and some pulsing the rest of the video was mostly yoga and stretching. I suck at both of them because I am, and always have been extremely not flexible. My legs are still sore today but I wouldn't say that they are as bad as yesterday and I am hoping that this means I am finally on the mend. My next day off from the videos is day after tomorrow so that's exciting.
I did alright with food yesterday but the lack of a hard workout when I got home had me seriously hungry at night, I ended up making some perogies and unfortunately raised my calorie count higher than I would have liked. I will be eating them again tonight but am planning a little bit better this time. This morning the scale wasn't being nice again, it crept up a couple pounds yesterday but I know its just a fluctuation and will be back down within a day or two.
Sleeping wasn't a problem again last night and I got a solid 7 hours in. When my alarm went off at 5:30 I was freezing cold and I let that stop me from going for my morning walk. Instead I did a bit of meal prep and am now good for four more days as long as I can find some chicken or another protein at the store soon.
Not much else to report, just trying to keep on, keeping on.0 -
Sounds like you're staying on track, keep it up!0
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Don't know what got into me, I didn't do an update yesterday
Basically I have just been keeping on doing what I have been doing. I've got another two Insanity workouts under my belt now and if this makes any sense, its getting harder. What I mean by that is now that my body is starting to get used to the moves and the exercises I am able to do more of each workout and it makes it feel much harder. It was way easier when I was standing around for 50% of the videos panting and watching the people on the screen workout.
I am supposed to have a day off to rest today but I am going to move onto the second week instead. We have a huge Oilmans Day celebration booked for this Sunday and I want to attend it. The Russians do food and booze really good on celebrations so I know I wont be working out, nor will I be eating at a deficit that day. By moving Insanity forward one day the workout I will miss is Cardio Recovery and its basically just some stretching and some yoga. Not the end of the world to miss it by any means.
I also have some good news and bad news. The good news is I just booked a 10 day holiday down to Phoenix at the end of my time home this trip. It's great down there and I love it. The bad news is back in April when I went last time it through me for a loop and I basically took two solid months off of working out. I have a renewed drive this time and I am hoping that even though I will be eating more than usual that I can keep my workouts going. Its going to be tough but I have to do it, I want to see the results that Insanity gets. Also this time home I am going down to the lake for a few days. I have to close out the property for the year and bring my RV home. I am going to try to do the workouts in my trailer, hopefully I don't rock it off its jacks!
This morning was raining and cold so I didn't get out for my morning walk and I can already tell that my mindset is different because of it. I am not near as happy today as I have been the other mornings that I went outside and got some fresh air before work. Its supposed to rain again tomorrow but the rest of the week looks fine so I will continue it then.
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Short and sweet today
Last night had a great workout, still can't even come close to completing an Insanity workout. Like I'm talking I can do maybe 60%, maybe less, maybe more and then I stand there panting with sweat running out of every pore on my body. Its fricken great! Love this program!
Kicked off today with a 2.49 mile walk and once again was in a great mood all day. I wonder if I can force myself to get up early at home and go for a walk? hopefully!
Hope everyone's friday is as good as mine has been so far. Pure Cardio tonight, that means a bunch more sweating!
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Sounds like your making progress with Insanity, that's awesome! Keep it up! You're doing great!0
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Pure cardio last night was insane...pun intended. I was looking at my shirt afterwards and literally the only part on it that wasn't soaking wet was about 6" up from the bottom on the sides. I've preached it many many times on MFP, this program is so sweet! My HRM is giving me huge calorie burns of like 440 per workout. I am not taking them to heart, nor am I eating back the calories but I do tend to believe that the real calorie burn is close to 400. My heart rate was consistently at 160 sometimes pushing up to the 173, 174 range. The work out itself SUCKS! Its terribly hard and makes me feel like a weakling. I literally do the pushups on my knees after the first round.
Well when I got up this mornig I was happy to be greeted with my second consecutive day of weight loss. The last 7 days have been a wild ride with weight fluctuating by as much as 6 pounds in three days. My calories have been on point as I have kept my gross calories right around 2000 which is what MFP gives me for a 1lb a week loss. This is where I would like to keep them all month and I believe I will have some major success this trip.
I was able to force to get up early in the morning and went outside for a walk. It's definitely getting colder in the mornings but I see no reason why I can't keep walking outside for the rest of the shift. Maybe next shift I will get crazy and do a 30 minute session of HIIT in the mornings. I guess that all depends on how well I do with weight loss this time home and on the 10 day trip to Phoenix.
As of this morning I am still sitting in uncharted territory on weight for this scale that I have here. I think it was on the September page that I mentioned it, but currently I am lighter than I have been since I started this whole process. I have seen a lower number before but that wasn't on the same scale and this is the one that I classify as the official scale. Now there is a little catch for my Monday weigh in. Tomorrow night is the company party and I have let people know that I will attend. I am going to indulge in all of the festivities and that includes drinking beer, vodka, and stuffing my face with fantastic food. Now the problem is my weigh in is the next morning. I quite possibly might be setting myself up for a big loss for the next one. I guess time will tell.
I am really starting to enjoy logging this stuff again. Last shift it was getting a little tiresome but I think that's because I was having some good days and some bad days mentally. This trip so far has been great. I am really hoping that I can continue with being this positive for the rest of the shift and can hold onto it for my trip home. I haven't really worked out at home since I hurt my knee and I believe that was the beginning of April. Its due, and I am ready and willing to put in the time and effort moving forward. I literally want to have a new body by the time my 1 year anniversary rolls around on MFP.0 -
Same old thing to report today. Last night I did day 10 of Insanity. I am still going strong with it and the workouts seem to be getting harder rather than easier. I am willing to bet it would take two full rounds of the program before I was even able to complete a single exercise without stopping. My calories were on point as well. One thing I did notice last night and then again this morning is my foot is starting to hurt. It's taking a beating with all of the jumping. I will focus on landing softer from now on. This is a different pain than I had a couple months ago but hopefully its just because I overworked it and I can get through it.
Although I stayed up late cooking last night I still was able to drag my butt out of bed this morning and go for a half an hour walk.
I'm leaving work four hours early for the company party this evening. My plan is to go home, bust out a quick workout, shower and head to the celebration. I am doing my best to not eat a whole bunch before hand but no matter what I do I will be over my calories for the day. I expected this and have ate at a huge net deficit for the last 10 days. I'm really not sure if I will be able to log much because half of the stuff I am eating I won't know what the hell it is. Oh well it should be a good party!1 -
I hope you enjoyed that party!0
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Yes the party last night was a lot of fun. Drank a ton of beer and had more shots of Vodka than I should have but all in all it was a great night. Food was fantastic. Since I didn't count the drinks or remember everything I ate I didn't even bother logging it today. I am way over on calories but when I was there I told myself that it was a celebration and I let loose and had fun. My hangover today is well worth it.
Before the party last I was supposed to do a workout called Cardio Recovery and it's not much more than some stretching and some yoga poses. I opted out of it and did T25 Alpha Cardio instead. I am super impressed that I did that because now I have a really light workout and am going to bed super early. I will be over on calories today due to the hangover but its not the end of the world.
Oh yeah, weigh in day was this morning and I am 214 even. That's only a .8lb loss last week but I feel confident that I am lighter than that by a bit. Next week I am hoping to be 209.9 but its going to take a bunch of hard work and super strict eating to get there.
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So if there is one thing I can say about the journey of losing weight and learning to live a healthy life, it is that this is an emotional roller coaster. And this is coming from a guy that is extremely laid back and doesn't really let too many things fire me up.
Yesterday was embarrassing to say the least.
I got in car yesterday and we stopped by the little store as we usually do. Instead of getting a bottle of water like I had planned I grabbed two pigs in a blanket and wolfed them down. That was an automatic 300 calories that I didn't plan for or need. Then I got to work and ate my normal breakfast, all was good there even though I knew that I was going to be pushing my limits for the day if I didn't smarten up.
So I had a meeting 4 hours away, we went there, met and I decided to take my interpreter and driver for lunch at the mall. What did I pick.... F*cking McDonalds. And I didn't even have a "healthy" meal, I ended up stuffing my face with 1700 calories of pure junk food, and I'll be honest, that didn't even include the coke that I drank. So after filling my face with the *kitten* that put me at 252 pounds in the first place, I had a four hour drive down the terrible Siberian roads all the way back to my apartment to think about the stupid choices I made.
The workout last night was my Insanity disc and then a T25 disc. The workout was great and my net calories actually ended up being below my 1lb a week goal (not counting the coke) but I felt terrible. There was no reason to eat like such a pig and there were several healthy options right beside the McDonalds. I ended up getting severe heart burn as well and I only get heartburn once or twice a year.
So yesterday was the third day in a row that I was over on my calories. It was also the last day that I am going to be over on calories. I have two days worth of Fajitas left and then its rice and chicken until the end of my shift. I did climb out of bed early today and went for a nice 40 minute walk around the city which always helps put my head in the right place. Tonight is a workout that I have been dreading since I started Insanity. It is going to be over 70 minutes long and both of the discs that I have to do are super difficult. But it will be a great way to get on track again. The scale is definitely telling me that I am eating like a pig, I will fix that before Monday.0 -
Nothing you can do about yesterday, but today you can make better choices!0
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tcunbeliever wrote: »Nothing you can do about yesterday, but today you can make better choices!
Yeah I know that 100%. The thing is for me personally, if I don't beat myself up enough for screwing around and eating like an idiot, I let it slide longer than it needs to. But I am over it now, I gave myself enough of a mental beating and did some extra workouts and am right back on track. I only lost a couple days which is nothing over the big scheme of things.
Last night was the dreaded workout that I have talked about here, on my wall and in several other threads lately. It was Pure Cardio and Insane Abs together. The Pure Cardio disc was just as hard as always, and it again was a great workout that left me completely spent and covered in sweat. The Insane Abs disc was a complete failure as I expected it to be. @tcunbeliever Since you like Ab Ripper X, you should find a place that you can try Insane Abs. If you like the Ab Ripper you would probably like this disc. I hate it. It makes shooting pain go down my lower back and into my legs. My core's super weak and I am hoping that I grow through the pain but we will have to see. I have the same exercise another three times in the next two weeks and then have an even harder one four times next month.
This workout program better be worth it!
Yesterday I ate a deficit for losing 2lbs a week and as of this morning I have almost completely erased the three days of overeating weight that I had put on. Only a couple more days until weigh in day so I gotta hit it hard to record a nice loss this week.
Also this morning I got up extra early even though I had a late night getting to bed. I went for an hour long walk in the fog and it felt fantastic. I really should start using my HRM to record my walks because the pace that I was walking really got my heart rate going and turned me pretty sweaty by the end of it. I am already not looking forward to next shift when the ground is covered in ice and snow and I wont be able to walk anymore. It's going to force me to start riding my bike in the morning.
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Last night was my scheduled day off from Insanity and it felt weird to not workout in the evening. I have worked out every day this shift at night and it just doesn't feel the same without it. Thankfully I got some groceries and some cooking done so I am good for four days. As I mentioned yesterday I had an hour long walk in the morning (3.8 miles) so I only felt half guilty about no evening workout.
My calorie count for the day was right where I want it as well.
The thing that I found is that sitting around at night really gives me time to think about how much I miss being home. Truthfully it put me into a mental funk and I was still in it when I woke this morning. Luckily I was able to get out for a nice walk before work to clear my head.
Tonight is my second fitness test for Insanity. I know myself pretty good and I am worried that if don't do well in it that it has the possibility of taking some of the wind out of my sails. My body feels pretty good, a bit sore in the midsection but I have been working my *kitten* off for the last two weeks. All I am hoping for is to show a slight improvement over my first test results.0 -
Sounds like you're right on track so I don't see why there wouldn't be any improvement on your second fitness test. Don't sell yourself short. You're putting in the work, you'll see results!
I'm sorry you're missing your family. I know that has to be hard to be away from them and for long periods of time. I'm glad the walks help you clear your head. Time goes fast. You'll be back home before you know it!
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Even if you don't see improvement, that's not a reason to be discouraged...two weeks is not a lot of time, your body is still trying to adapt to the new routine, and if you are a bit sore that will impact your short term results - however, being a bit sore is building your long term results, so this fit test is just a benchmark along the journey, it's not the final score!!!0
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Well thanks for the confidence ladies! Turns out I was just getting inside of my own head. I guess fitness is kind of like looking in the mirror while losing weight, you see yourself everyday but in your own head nothing looks different. I did my fit test last night and absolutely crushed it, to the point that I phoned my wife just so I had someone to talk to about it. It felt great to see actual measurable results.
These last couple days my weight has been dropping like a rock. Between the new results of the fit test and my new weight I have to say that my fitness journey is right on track. I did throw together some comparison photos and I can see 100% how far I have come. I have found an amount of food to eat that doesn't leave me feeling hungry all of the time which is great. The first few shifts of MFP eating at 1490 calories was torture some days, I am really happy that I bumped it up to 1900+. I haven't felt the need to eat back many if any at all from my exercise calories but will if my body starts telling me to. I guess this is the one positive about still being clinically obese; having energy stored up! Truthfully in the mornings I am no longer "obese" on the scale, but after a days worth of eating and drinking, by the time I get home and weigh in I have just crept up over the edge of it again. I have been saying for three months that I want to post my comparison picture from 242 to 211.7 when I drop out of the obese class, and when I am that weight or under at night, I will make one.
This morning I again dragged my *kitten* out of bed again and took in some of the local scenery. It is getting colder here already and this morning I had to wear two jackets and insulated gloves or I would have froze. I sure am going to miss the morning walks
A couple NSV as of late
1. The driver told my interpreter that I am getting smaller and asked if I was on a diet. My response was "Yes". I think I played the man of few words card very well.
2. I am flirting with the last notch in my belt. I would easily be on the smallest notch if I didn't have a wad of my jean material all bunched up because my pants are too big now.
3. This morning a guy to Russia and I gave him a ride to the base. We talked about fitness, obesity and MFP for the hour long trip in and he downloaded MFP today.0 -
All great news, way to go! Keep it up! You're doing fantastic!1
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Thanks Kayla.
Same old same for this update. It's boring but good. Yesterday I got my workout in but wasn't too happy with my effort. I am going to try eating some carbs later on in the day because last night I felt like I had no energy to complete the full 45 minute workout. Tonight I am going to need everything I have because it's a tough one.
Calories were again right around the 2k mark, right where I want them.
I was able to get up again this morning and crushed a real good walk. I even started to run for .5 of a mile or so but realized that I wouldn't have time to take a shower before work and just started to walk.
I don't know whats going on but for the last four days straight I have lost almost a pound a day. I am eating until I am full and working out hard but my deficits shouldn't be causing a lb loss per day. As I sit right now I am just inside of the "overweight category" so that makes me happy. I threw some comparison photos from the first Monday I started this in January to the ones I took last night. I am so far from where I want to be but feel as though I have come a long way already. My original goal was to get down to 199 or so but looking at what 210 feels like, I think I may have to go much deeper into onederland.
Anyways, I don't have my photos on my pc so I will long onto my phone and post them there.0 -
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