50extra - My weight loss journey with all the embarrassing details
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You're welcome!
Hopefully getting carbs closer to your workout helps with your energy. That's odd about losing a pound a day but could be just normal fluctuation especially if you're weighing at a different time or have the scale in a different place or something of that nature perhaps could be affecting it.
You look great! Amazing progress!0 -
Wow, those are some impressive results!!!0
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Ok so it's Monday and boy did I enjoy my weigh in this morning. 4.0lbs lost this week. I don't know how or why or what happened but I am going to take it. The crazy thing is that after I seen what my weight was post workout I intentionally ate more than I felt I needed to just so it wasn't so drastic. I don't need any naysayers telling me that I am losing too fast even though I have changed nothing from last week and only lost .8lbs or something last week. Eating at 2000 calories a day is really suiting me. I am NEVER hungry past what I am eating throughout the day.
Last night was my dreaded Pure Cardio and Insane Abs workout. It was the same 70 some minutes of hell but I am glad that I got it done. I went over my 2000 calorie limit by something like 45 calories yesterday
This morning, in the pouring rain I even forced myself to go for a quick walk. Have I mentioned before that walking each morning is putting me in a great mood for the day?
So with the weight loss as drastic as it was last week I don't know how this week is going to go. I had said at the start of my trip that I would like to be around 205 by the time I go home. That was a long shot when I said it but there is starting to be a real possibility that I will make it there. That means that I actually have a chance to hit my original goal weight that I set in January by the end of October!!!!
I hope you guys had a fantastic weekend. Mine was the same old thing.
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Well if you didn't lose as expected last week or the week before perhaps this is your whoosh!
That's great that your calories are working out for you so well and you're staying full and it's great to read that the walks are helping your mood for the day! I may have to try it. haha My good moods hardly ever last. =P
I would say it's a definite possibility that you could reach that goal. You've been working hard! But in any case, you made major progress and you should be proud!
My weekend was mostly spent at various stores stocking up for the week and trying not to scratch my legs off (poison ivy) so absolutely nothing exciting or worth bragging about. haha
I hope you have a good week and I look forward to your next update!
EDIT: I forgot a word.0 -
I somehow forgot to check in yesterday! I don't know what got over me!
It must have been because day before yesterday wasn't a great day. Although I was able to get up and go for my walk, I had a brutal day at work, then I only had Cardio Recovery which is a slower paced exercise routine and then I got a crappy sleep. That cause me to miss my Tuesday morning walk.
Then it turned out Tuesdays day at work was just as brutal as Mondays. I got home from work and immediately put on my gym clothes and pressed play. I wasn't going to let my crappy days get in the way of putting in a solid effort working out. During the workout, each time I stopped in the middle I kept repeating to myself, No more excuses, and then it helped me get right back into it after only a few seconds.
I finished my 40 minute Cardio Power and Resistance DVD and was sitting down recovering and as weird as it sounds, said out loud to myself, "No more f*cking excuses" and got up right that minute and banged out a really tough T25 workout. Funny thing is after putting in the time and effort on those two workouts, my two bad days just didn't seem so bad anymore. Whatever the endorphin's are that your body releases while working out are something special.
This morning I got up extra early, started to check MFP and realized I was just wasting time. I got up, put on my clothes and went out side for a 55 minute walk. I'm still having to wear two jackets, a hood and gloves but it feels nice to get out. I ended up making it 3.43miles which is slightly slower than I normally walk but hey, a walks a walk.
@WifiresGettingFit Yeah I have been recording my weight every single morning for over two weeks now and watching it go up and down is very interesting. My weight on Monday morning wasn't actually the lowest I have seen on the scale. For the last three days now my weight has either gone up or stayed the same even though not much has changed in how I am working and eating each day. You say you should try a morning walk, yes 100% you should. I have never really gone for walks and after just a couple weeks I am completely hooked. Not only does it give me a bit of a calorie burn it allows me to clear my head and get right mentally for the day. I can't possibly explain the mental stress being over here causes. My wife has been telling me that my daughter grabs my pictures and runs around the house saying Dada Dada and grabs her phone and gets Lisa to call me. It breaks my heart every time I hear about it. I have no real friends or family here, there are only Russians and a handful of people from North America. The times that I get into a setting where I can step back and forget that I am in Siberia are few and far between. It gets exponentially harder every shift around this time because there is nothing more that I want other than to go home. Taking the morning walks has helped relieve some of those stresses. It's like nothing I have experienced over here. When I get out and I'm by myself just walking before many people are out and about, it's very calming. Could I use the extra sleep? Of course I could. I'm getting up at 5am, walking for anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour, and getting ready for work. Thirteen hours later I get back to the apartment, I unwind for 30 minutes and workout for an hour or so, shower and go back to sleep around 10:30. That extra hour or so of sleep would be great, but not as great as the benefits I am seeing from walking in the morning.
Well this has turned out to be one of the longest updates I have done in a while so I'll cut it off now.
Never mind, one more thing on eating. I am finding that with all of the extra working out I am doing the 2000 calorie limit isn't always achievable. I promised I would let myself eat when I was hungry but I am getting hungry faster and faster between meals. I might be missing my calorie limit more often then I want to, but if that's what my body wants, that's what its going to get.0 -
Working out in the morning definitely improves my mood for the rest of the day! I don't know what you are eating since your diary is locked down, but I find that if I'm getting hungry between meals adding in a bit of extra fat will help, might be worth a try! For me that extra bit of butter or half an avocado is way fewer calories than an extra snack.0
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My diary is locked? I had no idea... I'll remedy that in a second. I'm pretty positive the extra hunger is coming from the extra workouts I am putting in. As long as I stay around the 2000-2400 calorie range and continue working out like I have, I should stay losing about 1.5-2 pounds a week. That freak 4lb loss last week can afford me a couple more calories if I need to go over.
As for the fats I have been pretty consistent getting them to my MFP macro goal of around 65. I typically use nuts to get me there. I agree with you that fats definitely help curbing the hunger.
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@tcunbeliever Diary is now unlocked, if you want to see someone who eats the worlds most boring food, feel free to browse.
I started off yesterday with that killer walk and man did it make me hungry. I ended up stopping by the store in the morning and bought some junk food which already put me behind the 8 ball for calories on the day. All in all ended up eating around the 2500 mark which is higher than I wanted, but I will lie to myself and say that it was a needed re-feed day
Last nights workout was both great and bad at the same time. It was because of the amount of work I was able to put in. Again after my Insanity workout I put in a T25 disc. The bad part was that my feet started to light on fire and I started rubbing through the balls of my feet during the workout. I wasn't able to finish the whole 25 minutes. It would be devastating if I let the bottoms of my feet blister because of the limited workouts I would only be able to do so I had to shut it down. All in all yesterday I had close to two hours of exercise, more than I need but if I am capable and willing to do it I'll take it.
Like I mentioned in the September tracking, my scale hasn't moved since Sunday morning, I am really hoping for one of those fancy whooshes again. Even though I am not losing weight I can definitely feel my jeans (which are already too loose) getting looser. I took a picture in February and posted it on this page in a pair of blue shorts. In the photo those shorts are sucked tight with the string and holding on for dear life, now when I work out in them I am constantly pulling them up because they keep falling down. It's a good feeling.
I have a long way to go but am slowly getting there, slow and steady.0 -
A quick little check in today. Last two days have gone pretty good in both the eating and the calorie restriction parts of my fitness journey. I did almost two hours of exercise on the 15th but then turned around and only did 39 minutes last night. With only a four days of work in Siberia then one day in Moscow it is looking like I will be able to work out every day this trip in Russia except for the first one. That is definitely a new record for me. I was a little upset that I slept in yesterday and missed my walk but I was able to get out in the light rain today and got a real good one in.
Also I have been on sort of a roller coaster with the calories this trip. At the start it was super easy to eat at the deficit, then it got much harder, now it seems to be easy again to the point where I am eating just to get to my allotted number. I am two days in a row now with the correct amount and am hoping to make it stick until I leave here.
Since this is a social media site as well as a fitness site, I have now started to put out feelers for new jobs back in Canada. This is a tough decision as I am lucky to have a job that pays extremely well and I only have to work over here for six months a year. The being away from my family is the main factor now. My daughter is really coming into her own now and it breaks my heart every time I think about it. I want to be there for her more than I am now, even if it means making peanuts compared to what I do now and working way more. I have a good feeling about one job, and hopefully will hear something back in the next couple weeks on it.0 -
You're doing great! I hope the job pans out for you! I know I've said this before but I couldn't imagine being so far away from family. I know it must really take a toll. Good luck! 0
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happy hunting, I totally agree that being able to be home with family is worth a pay cut0
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Good luck in the job hunt @50extra . It will be so worth it.0
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Been a few days since I updated. Have been finding that my enthusiasm is wearing thin and some days just don't feel like logging in here to write about my day in my journal.
Sunday I was hungry all fricken day. I was actually already over calories by like 330pm and then decided to say *kitten* it, I'm going out with the boys from work. Needless to say 1600 calories worth of beer didn't help the situation and neither did being hung over yesterday. On a positive note, before I went out for dinner I got my workout in first!
Yesterday I was over calories by a little but all in all I am ok with it. My workout last night was crap, I made it through the Pure Cardio DVD but when I put on my Insane Abs DVD I quit at about the 6 minute mark. My energy was gone and my knees were hurting. Insanity is finally starting to take its toll on my body. I have my final month one workout tonight and then go into recovery week when I get home. It can't come soon enough.
Oh yeah, my little night out cost me about 1.5 lbs of weight loss which sucks. Only logging in .8 of a loss this week even though the scale was lower earlier on. I'll take it. I'm 209.2 right now and when I first arrived in Siberia I was 218 something. Can't complain too much about that even though I wish it would fall off faster.0 -
I enjoy reading your updates so I hope you still continue to update us as often as you can.
How did your final month one workout go? I hope you enjoy your time home and the recovery week! It sounds like it's very much needed!
A loss is a loss, you're doing great! Don't get discouraged, you've got this! 0 -
@50extra enjoy your time home with your family.0
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@50extra Haven't seen anything from you in a while and thought I'd check in! How are things going?0
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Ok well I'm back at work and back on the wagon. I have decided that I am going to stop telling myself that I will be able to workout when I go home for a month because clearly that hasn't happened much. Ah well..
Time off was great and got a ton of stuff done. Closed out my property at the lake for the year and brought my trailer home, went to Arizona for 10 days with the family and got a nice suntan which is already starting to flake off after one day in coveralls in Siberia, enrolled and was accepted into a university degree, taking a Bachelor of Commerce majoring in finance, will be starting courses when I get home at the end of the month. Hmmm what else??? Started mudding and sanding my garage so that I can get the walls all painted up and looking puurdy.
Ok that thats my recap for the last six weeks or so since I posted.
Coming into this shift my body is in rough shape. Both of the knees are still buggered from my month of Insanity, I broke my middle toe on my right foot about four days ago, and my left wrist is hurting like crazy. (I don't know if I have talked about my wrist before but I have had three surgeries on it and was in a cast for 13 months or something a while back). So thats where I sit.
The scale...
Got into my apartment last night at 4:10am, unpacked and stepped on the scale to see the damage, the damn batteries were dead. Sent my interpreter out today to find some, I will see when I get back to town if he had any luck or not. On September 19th I weighed in at 209.8lbs, my best guess is that I am weighing in today at 219.9 but don't really have an idea.
So I am logging again and will be sticking to my calorie level, once I know what I weigh I can make some goals to hit over the next little while.
Oh yeah, I have a fitbit now, its a blaze, not really too sure how to use it yet other then the pedometer but I'm wearing it regardless.
Sorry for this post to be all over the map. I have some figuring out to do to see how I want to use MFP moving forward. Over the first 10 months of 2016 there is one thing I know with absolute certainty, when I use MFP as its supposed to be used it works perfectly, when I don't use it I gain weight and live like I did for the first 30 years of my life. I need to find a balance that will work for long term.
I will check back in tomorrow when I have my head screwed on a little tighter, I'm running on 2 hours of sleep and its almost home time.0 -
Welcome back, can't wait to hear more about your plans for the future!0
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Welcome back!
Wow, sounds like you've had quite the last 6 weeks. That sucks about your toe and wrist! I hope things turn around for you and look forward to hearing more!0 -
Ok so I got some sleep last night and can actually think today.
It turns out that the scale wasn't as angry at me as I thought it would be. I weighed in this morning at 216.0 and as bad as gaining 6.2lbs sounds, I'm pretty happy considering everything I ate and drank this time home. I am literally texting my wife at the same time I am writing this post and she agrees that we need to do much more to stay healthy when I get home this time. Anyways, my official weigh in days aren't until Monday so I will try to drop a pound or two by then before I log it into MFP.
No workouts last night, I went out and got some groceries but didn't have the enthusiasm to even cook anything. Tonight's plan is to cook the meals for the next three or four days and workout. Not sure what the workout is going to be yet but I will do something.
Calories yesterday were right where they should be too. Hoping to continue that.0 -
@50extra so glad you got to enjoy your time at home. Can't wait to read how you are doing!!0
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Well first day of exercising was a success I guess. Got home from work last night and nailed out a 45 minute ride on my bike. I didn't go crazy on it since I hadn't worked out for 6 weeks or so but I got a real nice sweat going and held my heart rate around 155. My calories were in check for the day... And then it was bedtime. I showered and closed out my day with a real nice deficit and then the stomach started to growl. I ended up eating some of this delicious Uzbekistan style bread, and when I say some, I mean like half of a small loaf before I was able to stop. Since I had already logged my day I chalked it up as my freebie for the shift.
Tonight I'm not too sure what is in store. It's dropped down to around -18 now so walking outside is pretty much out, I don't have proper winter gear for that but may bring some next shift. I have been setting my alarm to wake up early and exercise but for two days in a row now haven't crawled out of bed when my alarm went off. I can only hope that tomorrow morning is different.
Oh, last night I while riding my bike I started reading a Jack Reacher novel and really got into it, so today I purchased the other 20 books. Hopefully they will give me a good reason to get on the bike for the next couple of months.
I am also considering buying an Assault Airbike again. I have the money sitting in my account for and I know they are worth every penny. I'm pretty sure that the only reason I haven't bought one yet is because EVERY SINGLE person I have talked to that has rode one has made it very, very clear that they are hell to ride but very worth it. Maybe I will order it today if I start feeling fat and lazy!0 -
No workout last night, cooked some food and then got caught up in a book. Calories were on check though and hoping tonight will be different.0
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So last night driving home from work we broke down on the highway about 35km out from the base. Ended up being there for a little over an hour and it really made me realize I need to start packing emergency gear here in the winter. It was only around -18 but by the end of it I was freezing. Thankfully it wasn't -45 or -50 like it has been other years.
I got home and a hopped on the bike for 45 minutes. Again got a nice sweat going and burned off some calories. Today being Monday was my weigh in, I was able to get it down to 214.2. My body is too beat up to work out super hard so if I am able to get back under 210 this shift I will be a happy camper.
One thing I have noticed is even though I have only gained 5 lbs I am way softer than I was two months ago at this weight. Insanity really was changing my body and I wish it wouldn't have given up so quickly, I would have liked to see the end result from month 2. Finishing the program is definitely on my bucket list but I feel as though I will need to have a much higher muscle mass and less fat for my body to be able to take that abuse.0 -
So I finally made the decision and ordered myself an Assault Airbike. I was really torn between that and a Concept 2 rowing machine but decided to go with the harder of the two pieces of equipment. The nickname for the air bike is Satan's Tricycle so I am sure that it's going to be just as hard, if not harder than I have read about and watched in the reviews. I am hoping that it doesn't end up being another stagnant piece of equipment just sitting in my basement not being used because they are fairly expensive.
The bike should be at my house sometime next week, I just hope my wife is able to get it inside the house or the garage before someone decides to steal it off of the porch!0 -
Last night I came within millimeters of having a run away day. I got home from work and was starving. I had already eaten a majority portion of my calories but needed to eat again and did. Then I layed on my bed and started reading my book, thinking I had well over 100 pages left I told myself I would read for 20 minutes and then ride my bike, little did I know my book ended about 5 minutes into reading. Basically I had convinced myself that I was going to be bored on the bike with nothing to do so that I would just work out the next day, flipped a few more pages and found that the book came with a short story from the author. Ended up getting on the bike and riding for 65 minutes until I finished the story. Ended the day with a very nice deficit.
I have also downloaded an ebook for further reading. It was a waste spending the $11 on a book that I have sitting at home waiting for me but I really want to start this series and I rationalized it by thinking $11 is less than one drop in session at a gym so its all good.
Enthusiasm is a funny thing, crazy how fast it comes and goes.0 -
Mader' on the bike again last night, butt was sore so got off after 47 minutes, may need to think about bringing in a gel seat cover.0
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Another 45 minutes last night on the bike, my weight hasn't moved too much yet, hoping for a small whoosh by Monday.1
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No exercise for me last night. Got wrapped up in a book and just said screw it. I received my text book for my first university course today and might have figured out the answer to having the motivation to work out. I may tell myself that the only time I am allowed to read books for fun is to and from the base, and when I am on the bike. The rest of the time I read, it has to be a textbook. Should do the trick, may try it tonight!1
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Went on the old stationary again last night and rode for 45 minutes. I can definitely tell that my enthusiasm to ride is less than other months. I can't bring myself to do any HIIT which I had great success with in other months but that being said, I'm still happy that I am able to get on it and ride for a bit. I really miss the walking that I was doing last shift, my mood is no where near as good as it was then but I honestly can't go outside to walk without full winter gear (which I don't have). This morning was -32 and that doesn't count the wind chill.0
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