50extra - My weight loss journey with all the embarrassing details
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@50extra congrats on your journey so far! Your posts are funny and motivating, it's good for me to read about the realities of someone else's journey to help me remember that mine
won't be perfect either. Thanks so much for sharing! I'm on MFP most days, trying to do LCHF and be consistent with exercise, please add me as a friend if you'd like! --Angie0 -
Hey Angie thanks for reading this, I'll add you as soon as I get on a pc, I'm too stupid to do it on my iPad.
Well I made it home from Russia and its great. I ate like a slob for the two travel days and drank a few beers while I overnighted in Frankfurt. I didn't log anything for the trip but was over for sure. I did step on the scale and have mediocre results but the weigh in day is Monday so I'll update then. I plan on shedding a couple pounds by then.
I had crazy energy this morning and crushed a great cardio session. As I am writing this my wife's buying me a tape measure so Monday's update will be a good one.
Have a great weekend everyone!0 -
You are getting there. I'm glad you're going home. It's hard when you have to travel.0
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Looking forward to the update!0
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Glad to hear you made it home. I'm looking forward to the Monday update too!0
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Glad you got home ok mate and that you're keeping up the good work now you're there. I'm also doing the tape measure thing tomorrow and will post the shocking numbers when I do them. Keeps us posted with everything0
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Glad you made it home - that sounds like quite a journey !
Have fun with the Heart Rate Monitor. I guess that 60" TV is on the way
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Hey 50extra miss your posts!!!0
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Ok so I guess now is as good of time as any to do my Monday update and there's lots to talk about.
First, my weight. I was able to drop 10 pounds since I weighed myself on January 12th. It's not as much I was hoping for but I will take it. It sure would have been nice to see 229 though. I really started following a plan on about January 18th and have had many overages since then. Valentine's Day weekend was a disaster for eating. Friday night we had friends over and definitely drank our fill and snacked all night. Saturday we had a family birthday party for our daughter and again drank beer and ate burgers. Then Sunday had friends over and had beer and pizza which I just remembered I forgot to log the pizza. All in all I'd say 10 pounds is pretty good considering this weekend.
Next, I got the body composition test done. I am glad I did and I will post a picture of it below. What it told me is that my body fat % is 29.7. I'm still fat but thankfully not as fat as I thought. The guy said that my lean muscle mass is great and is around the levels he typically sees when he tests hockey players. My favourite part was when he told me that he can tell I don't skip leg day in the gym and I told him I can't remember the last time I worked out legs in the gym the other main thing I wanted was my basal metabolic rate which is the amount of calories my body burns in a day without exercise and it was 1984 calories. This reassures me that when I got over my MFP recommended I'm still in good shape. I mentioned how many calories I have been eating and he says to up it because I am burning off muscle with the fat. He recommended I lose 30 pounds of fat and increase my muscle mass by 10 pounds or so. 30 pounds is my next goal so that's right in line.
My pictures are so so. I feel a bit thinner around my stomach and back and hope to see big losses there in the future. I still haven't received T25 in the mail yet but hopefully I will tomorrow.
And finally the best news of all. I got my mom to download MFP today. She's 60 and has 20 or so extra pounds to lose. She's coming over tomorrow to walk on the treadmill while I ride my bike. It's awesome because I haven't seen my mom exercise ever!
I took measurements too
Neck - 17.5"
Chest - 46"
Left bicep - 15"
Right bicep - 15.5"
Stomach - 41"
Waist - 39"
Left thigh - 26"
Right thigh - 26.5"
Left and right calve - 17"
And that's it for this update!
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Hey... Just had time to read your update. Pretty cool. Valentines weekend wasn't so hot for my husband and I either. He baked a cake.. and we planned our one takeway for this month.. I haven't gained.. but I seem to be stuck at the same weight for over a week now. Sucks.. and I haven't lost weight with any real fitness .. just controlling my food, so Ive ordered a fitbit tracker.. and I'm going to jump on that wagon and see how it helps me along.
Keep up the good work!0 -
I see a difference! Having a good amount of starting muscle muscle mass will save you so much time when it comes to achieving your ideal "look".0
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I love that you've got your mum on board ! Its great that you're having such a positive influence and that she'll start to see benefits, too.
Thanks for posting the body composition results. Did you have to go in a pool of water for them to measure it ?
The results are really interesting, and they explain it very clearly. I didn't know that there was an optimum amount of LBM. I thought I just had to keep my fat % down.
With so much muscle and such a high BMR, its like you've won half the battle before you even start. 0 -
Yeah I was pumped when she showed up today and I got her set up on the treadmill. She had never been on one in her life. She started off saying that 2.2 on 0 grade was fast and by the end of the 30 minutes she was going 3.2 on 0.5 grade. Hopefully she wants to consider.
As for the LBM I do have quite a bit of muscle and always have been strong but it's the 70 pounds of fat that's on top of it that I have to lose.
I'm going to hold off on buying the tv until I know I can stick with the program. Until them I will use a 27" monitor hooked up to my laptop.0 -
Nice progress! I love that your mom is in. I am still prodding my dad, but so far no success.0
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Wow read your results looks very thorough. I think it's great you can work out and spend time with your mom. Keep up the good work.0
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As for the LBM I do have quite a bit of muscle and always have been strong but it's the 70 pounds of fat that's on top of it that I have to lose.
I totally relate to this! It's not that I'm lacking muscle mass or strength, it's the fat covering it.
That's awesome about your mom. Has she ever been a fitness walker? 3.2 on a treadmill is pretty good for a beginner.
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No she's not. I'm 32 and I can't remember a single time where she did anything active. I think when I was a baby both mom and dad played softball but that's 25 plus years ago. I'm super proud of her, I hope we can continue it.0
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Way to go mum. Awesome work. Hopefully the start of new habits for her.
I'm having a body composition done next week. i can't wait. I love numbers and figures the more the better. It will be good to see exactly what is hiding under all of this fat.0 -
I haven't updated on here for a while so noes a good time because I am procrastinating working out. I weighed in yesterday and took some measurements last night but never got a chance for photos. 1.8 pounds lost or something, I weighed in at 230.8 I believe. Now losing any weight is a good thing....
I read what I just typed and realized how stupid I was being. I am now writing this while on my stationary bike.
Ok, so while losing any weight is a good thing, I am mad at myself for gaining so much over the weekend. On Thursday morning I weighed 228.0 so I put on 3 pounds due too eating like a hog and drinking beer. I don't make excuses for it and I know why it happened but I'm still pissed off with myself. My measurements are very similar .5 here 1 there, but that could be an error in self measuring. I'll post them up next Monday in a little chart.
Hmmm what else....
I started doing C25K yesterday which I'm happy about. I looked ahead and the first few lessons are real easy for me so I change it up a bit. I will only being doing the C25K workout after a good bike workout. The purpose of this is to start training my body for a triathlon, the bike to run transition is killer on me so I will train it. I am only running on a treadmill for it and the treadmill will stay at a 2 degree incline until I can increase it. Right now with the intervals being easy I am increasing my run speed each time and my walk is 3.5mph. I used to be able to run on the treadmill decently and hopefully will again.
My T25 program still has not arrived. Apparently it's delayed two weeks because of the snowstorms down in the states. Sounds like *kitten* to me but there's nothing I can do about it. I was so excited to start it when I got home, it's a real buzz kill to wait and I am losing enthusiasm.
Some other random thoughts, my wife decided to go for a run outside the other day and busted out 5km no big deal after not running for a long time. I was jealous and it's the reason I started the running app. I'm proud of her too. She also came down two nights ago and did a 3 mile treadmill run while I biked. It was nice to have her down here to workout. I'm pretty much exactly 100 pounds heavier than her so I gotta work on that.
My grandmas been in the hospital for a while and my mom has been out of town helping her out. Gma's home and so is mom, I called her tonight to ask her to come for a walk tomorrow and got a solid maybe. She stopped tracking her calories already so I hope to encourage her to start up again.
Well I'm starting to sweat onto my iPad, only have 62 minutes left!
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Great catching up with you. Glad your Gram is ok. Sounds like you are planning a lot of exercise. A triathlon sounds big to me. I think it's great your getting your family into fitness too. Don't be so hard on yourself with the food, I can say that to you, but I beat myself up too when I don't eat right.0
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Hey man it sounds like you are tracking well (apart from the odd beer which you're entitled to so don't beat yourself up).Keep posting you're inspiring me to go to the gym more often and get things done. I'm like you not seeing a lot of movement on the scales but some upward trends. Good on you for creating a triathlon goal. I admire anyone who can do those sorts of exercises. I look forward to seeing your progress with this0
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Good luck with C25K! I started it a bit back and just ran a (slow) 5K race this past weekend! I'm lucky because I can run outside, I live in Florida, because I get really bored on the treadmill. I use an app called 'map my run" to create running routes equal to the distance I want to run that day then I'm off. Maybe it's something that will help you someday.
Don't kick yourself too much about slow or stalled weight loss, it's going to happen. Just remember that you're in this for the long haul and life is going to happen along the way.
Best of luck to you, I'm here cheering you on!0 -
Had to do a littl update on my workout since I'm pretty impressed with it.
So after watching my 600 pound life and then starting to watch Fat chance I went downstairs to do cardio. My normal 45 minute ride on the bike was the best one I have done yet. I worked up to a level I hadn't got to before so I was already pumped with my workout.
Then immediately after the bike I got on the treadmill. I have done my first two days of C25K on a 2 degree incline and a varied speed increasing each new set. The first two days were really easy for me so I wanted to test my running with no incline. I gave up just after half a mile and decided to do day three of C25k. The difference was I immediately set my incline to 4. My walking intervals are done at 3.6 and for my 8 running intervals my speeds were 5.2, 5.4, 5.6, 5.8, 6.0, 6.2, 6.4, and 6.6.
Tonight turned out to be a real nice workout and I wanted to share. Mommas in bed already so I had to share with MFP friends instead! Now I'm starving and it's almost 1am, need to make some healthy choices now.0 -
So happy for you!!!!!! Late night workout do you have trouble sleeping after? Just curious. I have trouble sleeping wondering if I worked out if I'd get tired enough to sleep. I was afraid it would wake me up more.0
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I have trouble sleeping at normal times all the time. My body would run perfect on a 30 hour day, stay up for 20 hours and sleep for 10.
If anything though I'd say working out at night would help me sleep. I do cardio hard even though the numbers I post up for my burns seem low. I use my heart rate monitors burned calories to post because I don't want to overestimate how many calories I burn in a day. By the time I'm done my cardio session the back of my shirt is completely drenched and over half of the front, I'm pretty much exhausted even trying to walk up the stairs afterwards. I run anywhere from 150-165bpm for my cardio session.
After every workout I also take a real hot steam. We have a beautiful spa style shower with a steam unit in it. It's got two huge rain shower heads and four body sprayers. It's a real nice treat to relax in there and drink a cold protein shake after a hard cardio session and it definitely calms me down at night. It's got a two person bench in it, truthful four people could steam at once in it if two stood up and two sat down. It's pretty cool!0 -
Wow I love your bathroom. I probably would work out just so I could steam in your shower. I hope you know how lucky you are!!!!
Seriously thanks for your imput. I wish my knees would let me work out like that, cause I used to do that too. Walking is okay but it doesn't get me like a serious Zumba or run. But I have to be realistic maybe I need to do longer distances to get the sweat on.
I hate having weakness. I guess I have a younger inside and an older outside.0 -
Isn't it awesome when you have a massive workout. You feel like you are going to die at the time but once its done you feel like you can conquer the world. Congrats on the great workout.
Oh and I want your shower. It sounds lovely0 -
I also find that I sleep better when I do my cardio later in the day or evening and push hard. And that description of your shower...I think you're going to have the entire group jealous of your bathroom!0
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Yeah we are pretty lucky in regards to our earnings, we both have awesome jobs and when we built this house we went all out in the ensuite. It's not crazy but it's pretty nice. It will be hard to top if we ever move.0
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In case people are wondering. It's nothing crazy but seriously comfy. I steam every time I shower too.
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