Failure is not an option
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I stepped on the scales this morning. It's driving me nuts flying blind and not knowing what my eating and training is doing to my body. I think I should be good in terms of not going crazy with the weighing now im back at work. Because I work nights, there really isn't a good time for me to weigh so that means there are really only 2 days in the week where its ideal for me to step on the scales. That's Sunday and Monday Morning. I reckon i will be good getting back into my routine of Monday morning weighs. I will be able to track my progress. This morning I was down to 111.5kg (246lb), 1.3kg (3lb) down on my last weigh. I'm also back to using my new scales as my last weight of 110.9kg (242.5lb) was on my old scales. From now on my weight is only from my new scales. Onward and upward0
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I love stir frys! I'm kinda (read a lot) obsessed with those little corn on the cobs! haha
Way to go on the meal prepping! That's awesome!
Good luck in your gym competition and I'm glad you got your mojo back!
I am not on instagram but if yours is public, I'll definitely bookmark it!
I look forward to your next update!
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You've got a great plan in place. I think it's great you fix your meals ahead.0
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Hey Kell I'm back in action now and there's so much to talk about, hopefully I can remember it all.
Your body comp scan. Ditch that company because it's clearly *kitten*. Your body fat went up .6%, your LBM is down, and your muscle mass is down? *kitten*. Either they messed up the first scan or the second one, regardless they obviously aren't accurate. You are thinner, lighter, fitter and stronger. LBM will drop along with muscle mass, that is a side effect of eating at a deficit. But gaining body fat % is *kitten*. I'm not a doctor but I can sure as *kitten* look at your progress pictures and tell you are carrying less fat. From my research online, it seems like the only way to lose fat and gain muscle mass is to increase protein and only have a small calorie deficit. The issue with that is you slow down your fat loss. For me personally, fat loss is #1 due too all of the health concerns and gaining muscle is secondary, so I would choose the higher deficit and keep working out hard and try to hold on to the muscle mass you have now. You can still get stronger muscles without gaining more mass. Worry about packing on lean mass once you have said goodbye to the weight for ever.
Next, fitness comp. your killing it at the office competition, I 100% think you should enter the competition, clearly it's a driver for you and I can't wait to read about the success that you are going to have in it. If you end up getting the free month that's just a bonus, the lifelong skills that the one on one sessions are going to teach you are immeasurable.
Scale stuff- as far as I am concerned you made your goal. It doesn't matter that you are a touch heavier now you still made that goal and I'm happy for you. Now that you are sticking to using the same scale you know where you are at, if you are open to suggestion, I would say that now is a good time to reevaluate and possibly set new goals with new timelines. You hit a bit of a snag with your enthusiasm it seems after that body comp test, plus you fell off a bit around the birthday party. There's no better day then today to set some new targets and start working towards them
And now, your no weighing plan - I tried it, it was hell. I'm glad you seen the light and are going to stick to the weighing on Mondays. That's the same as I do. No matter how good we feel, or how much better we look, or how much better our clothes fit, each and every EXTRA pound of fat we carry we literally put our lives in danger. Weighing is a vital part of this journey, and being so early into the losing stages we have to make sure that we get it off of our bodies. A scale is a good measure of that. I'm healthier at 230 than I was at 240 and I'm healthier at 220 than I was at 230. Sure I could measure strictly with how my belt fit but I know with 100% certainty that my health is improving when I can consistently lose weight. I think your doing the right thing by getting back on to the scale.
So now that holidays are over I'm back in your corner. Clearly you are ready to work hard. Your food prep sounds on point, one suggestion of can give from experience is to make sure you prep more food before you run right out of pre made dishes. It's really easy find excuses to not cook more food when there's nothing in the freezer, by making your next batch before you need them it takes away chance of eating conveniently over healthy. Plus it will put a couple different types of food so you don't get sick of what you are eating.
Keep it up, let's get burning together again.
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Wow... Looks like I missed a lot when I switched accounts. Looks like you're on the right track and moving forward no matter what. Your determination is really inspiring. I'm glad I'm back to seeing your posts. 0
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@50extra you're on. Let's smash this thing. My mojo is definitely back. I'm feeling quite organised and really good about things. I'm loving the meal prep and all the advantages it brings. It is just so easy to say oh i'll have that today and bang there it is. it is so worth it. And I'm finding that i'm doing a better job of keeping control of my macros this way too. I have noticed with my stir fry's that im using too much salt so have made some substitutions for next weeks prep round. The change in protein powder is doing wonders. My recovery is so much better and I can go harder at the gym than I was doing. I do react to it but it's generally only for about 20 mins and I figure I can put up with that.
In just over 10 days I start the fitness challenge at the gym and get my new program. My trainer teased me the other day by telling me she already has it written up. i so want it now. I never have been very good at waiting for things . So after saying that if I lose another 10kg by the time my tax money comes in I was going to buy myself a you beaut whiz bang sports watch, I went and got it tonight. I do so much better when i can monitor numbers and trends and visually see what is happening and while I love the watch I have I can't do that. So I bit the bullet and got a Polar M400 and HRM tonight. I should get it next week and have it in time for the challenge. I reckon it will give me enough data to keep me sorted for months and months.
Well i have been awake all night listening to all of the unwell people in Australia and tending to their needs. I have one more hour and I will be going to bed to catch some zzz's. After having 6 weeks off work it's taking me a bit to adjust back to being a night owl. I'm wondering how being back on nights is going to affect my weight loss as most of the weight I have lost so far has come in the 6 weeks i was off work. I have a feeling night shift is going to slow it down. I know I'm certainly not as active as I have been the last 6 weeks but there is not much I can do about it. I will just have to make the most of the 3 days a week that i don't work nights.
Happy Travelling peeps
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How's that new watch treating you?0
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Mate I am loving the new watch. It's become like my conscience. Everytime i sit still for longer than 30 mins i get an inactivity marker on my stats for the day. It's like a triangle of shame. It gives me so much information and I can follow everything on both my phone and the web plus the watch itself as well. Best thing i have bought for my fitness journey yet0
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Hmmm I may look into something like that then. When I'm working I will look at the clock and realize that I hadn't so much as stood up from my desk for like 7 hours. If I had a constant reminder that I needed to move it might help.0
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I got the Garmin VivoSmart - it vibrates if I don't move for an hour. Then reminds me again at 2 hours. I call it my "lazy meter" and I LOVE IT. It's such a perfect little reminder during the day that the more I move the better I will look and feel. Glad yours has had a similar effect on your life! Mine doesn't have a HR monitor (I could buy it, but it's prohibitively expensive for me right now) but I love the step tracker and "lazy meter." Mine also sets progressive goals for me (started at 5000 steps in a day and now I'm up to 9434 steps per day) and if I reach the goal it vibrates, says "GOAL" and has little animated fireworks. My Mother-In-Law is looking into a similar product - I'll make sure the Polar watch you got makes the list for her to look at.
You are seriously rocking your goals Kell. Woo! \o/0 -
So Massive victories on the scale and off the scale today. It's been a bit of a big day.
Scales: I jumped on the scales for my official Monday weight and it came back at 110kg (242.5lb). First goal reached!!!!! It has taken me a bit longer than first thought (16 weeks) but then I think my first goals were a bit unrealistic. I feel like I have broken a bit of a mental hurdle reaching this milestone. So now onto the next. Again i'm giving myself a 16 week timeframe and hope to weigh 100kg (220.5lb) by the 15th August. MY determination is at an all time high right now. My Starting weight was 121.1kg (267lb).
Non Scales: I have dropped 2 dress sizes since the beginning of January. When I started I was a 22-24 (18-20 US). As of today I am a comfortable 18 (14). I haven't been in this size clothing for around 5 years. I got so excited I went a bit nuts and bought a heap of clothes for the gym. Not sure i'm game enough to wear them yet as they show all my flabby bits in all their glory but i'm wearing them around home. My habit of wearing bigger clothes to hide the fat is going to take some breaking. But i'm so happy. For the first time in years I was able to go to the sports section of Kmart and buy clothes rather than have to go to another shop and buy from the "fat" section. I treated myself to that star wars belt that i may have mentioned a few weeks ago. It still doesn't fit but its very close to it. I'd say another 2 months and it will fit. Can't wait.
So it's been a massive day here and so many positives. I'm feeling really pumped and ready to takle the next goal now3 -
I can't even put into words how excited I am for you over your massive victories but suffice it to say that I am doing a celebratory dance right now! Way to go! 0
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AWESOME! I'm with @WifiresGettingFit - Happy Dance all around! That Star Wars belt is just around the corner. Hang it up next to your scale as extra motivation in the mornings 0
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Kell, fantastic update I'm glad to hear that your back at it and hitting it hard. Take that enthusiasm and burn burn burn. Great job hitting the 110kg mark. With how you set yourself up with the gym competition, new eating plan, regimented weighing plan, and that fancy fandangled new watch I have a ton of faith that you will crush your 16 week goal to lose the next 10kg. Oh yeah, speaking about the gym, what package did you decide on with the trainer? I don't remember you saying if you actually pulled the trigger on buying it or not.
Congrats on the new sizing for your clothes! Fitting into new stuffs a lot of fun! I hate shopping other than online so luckily I still have 90% of my old clothes that I am working on getting into. Don't have to worry about going shopping any time soon.
I wish I could jump on the train with you, but for now I'll have to be your obese male cheerleader!0 -
@50extra i definitely did pull the trigger on the fitness challenge and I have purchased the top package for $230 which gives me an individual 6 week program and 6 30 min PT sessions with the trainer. I get my program and do my first fitness test on the 3rd of May. I am totally pumped for this. it's going to go off!!!!!0
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Well that's great news. I'm looking forward to reading about how it goes.
What is the premise for the fitness challenge? What are you going to be measured on? Wondering how you find out who wins it.0 -
Basically there are 4 exercises that we do at the start of the challenge. They have been chosen as they have no variables so one is 300m on treadmill (walk or run) / 300m on Rower at set tension same for everyone. Not sure what the other two are but you get the idea. We do these at the beginning and at the end. The person with the most improved numbers is the winner. So ideally at the first test on the treadmill I will walk my 300m and by then end of the challenge be able to run the 300m.
Today i am having an enforced rest day. As I have mentioned before for some reason we don't know (although the doctors keeps telling me it's cause im fat) my knees fill with fluid every 10 days. Sometimes its worse than others but mostly I have been exercising through it and dealing with it. This week however, my knees are really full up with fluid and stiff and sore. I tried to exercise through it but it just seems to have made it a bit worse. I didn't go to the gym yesterday but did 30 mins on my pedals. Today i'm just going to have to suck it up and completely rest them and perhaps tomorrow too. My wish is that when I lose this weight and am down to my goal weight my knees still do this so I can go back to them and say now do your damn job and work out whats wrong. I swear all they see is obese person it has to be the weight. It only started when i tried to lose weight by riding an exercise bike. Anyway that's my rant for the day back to curing the ill people of my country.
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Hahaha, get fit and tell your doctor to shove it, I like that.0
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@Kell2912 My aunt had a ton of knee problems and eventually had to have a knee replacement. I'm definitely no expert but I did do a little digging and swollen knee (also called water on the knee) is usually caused by trauma/overuse injuries/or underlying disease or condition. I don't recommend exercising through it. Have they taken a sample of the fluid to test it? If not, I would request they do so.
(you may have seen this already in your own research but just in case)
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/swollen-knee/basics/definition/con-20026072
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yeah i have read those. Thanks for the link. They wont take a sample of fluid cause they are just putting it down to me being fat. I'm going to go to the gym today but not do any leg work. Just arm stuff0
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I'd get a second opinion then if you're able to. (or third if need be - I wouldn't wait on it though like you mentioned because you never know what kind of damage it may be causing and the longer they piss around and the more you wait - it could be extensive)
Hope you enjoy your time at the gym!0 -
There's a reason they call what they do "practice"...I would use arnica and comfrey topically, if you are comfortable with non-western medicine.0
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Just read this blog article. Thought it might be useful
http://blog.myfitnesspal.com/how-often-should-you-weigh-yourself/?utm_source=mfp&utm_medium=Facebook1 -
That was a good read. As I state over and over, I am a huge fan of daily weighing. It cuts all the crap from the once a week weighing where you go "I don't know why I haven't lost weight". Weighing every day takes out the surprises. I only record my weight once per week but I know roughly where I will be each time because chances are I weighed the following morning and night if I worked out.
I've been overweight, sorry obese for the better part of my life and to stay on track I need the constant reminder of how I am doing. The more I weigh myself the better.0 -
HUGE LOSS today!!! Lets hear about it!0
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Whoooo hooooo!!!!0
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Nah not a huge loss. I think it was a misfire on the scales. There's no way i can lost 1.5kg one day and then put 2.5kg on the next. I have consistently been closer to the higher reading for the last 2 days. Especially given I have been unwell and laying in bed for most of the weekend. Also drinking fanta as when i'm sick i crave sugar.
So at the end of the month I lost 2.2kg (5lb) in April. Not as much as I would have liked, but on the flip side of that I have made a lot of body changes and am noticeably building up muscle so all in all im pretty happy where things are at the moment. Bring on May and the fitness challenge and everything that brings to my table0 -
Hey you came out of the month 5 pounds lighter than you went into as. That's a win. I would have been happy to get out of April down 5 pounds instead of up 5. You are getting stronger every time you hit the gym, and every one of those pounds lost makes you healthier. Sorry to hear about the cold and the sugar binge. Make sure you kick it in the *kitten* and kill it at your challenge. When you get the official challenge, make sure you post it on here. When does your first 1 on 1 start with the trainer?0
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Feeling much better today. Thankfully only a 48 hr thing but still feeling pretty tired. I think that's going to be a constant state now i'm back at work on nights though. I go back to the gym on Wednesday (my time) and I will get my new program which I will definitely post here. I'm hoping my first 1:1 can be on Friday morning after I finish work. That will be my only opportunity this week. I'm getting quite pumped about it. To be honest i think after 6 weeks I was getting a bit bored with my old program and it was affecting my motivation.
I want to try and be more active while i'm at work of a night. Generally when i get a call I stand at my standing desk and take the call and in between calls i sit at my home computer. Some nights it's busy and I am up and down all night but others tend to be slow and I often will sit for extended periods of time. I work in a small room and there isn't much space with 2 desks and and 3 computers in here so i'm limited what I can do. I did however find on instagram today something that might just fit the bill for getting me moving for a bit. It's a monthly kettlebell challenge. Each day for the month of May you do a different kettlebell exercise. So day 1-5 of the week its a different exercise. day 6 you do days 1-5 exercises all together and Sunday you rest. And so it goes through the month until you get to the last 2 days where you combine weeks 1-2 and then 3-4. Its just challenging enough to be interesting but not out of reach. I need to buy another kettlebell as some of the exercises require 2 but I did one tonight and wow it worked the arms. I got a bit of a puff up too. I'm also going to do some core work in between calls as well. That way I don't feel so bad about sitting when I do.
I've set myself a little mini goal this month to lose 5kg (11lb). It's just over a kg a week. I won't be devastated it i don't get there as I believe with a new program building new muscle the scales are not going to be entirely accurate but I will give it a try. It will help me keep on track with my eating.0 -
Also when I have my body Comp scan done on the 25th I want to see an increase in Lean Muscle Mass. I can feel the muscle building, I just hope it translates on the scan. My nutritionist wants my BMR up to 1800 cals. So far with the LMM loss last month it went down to 1523cals but if i can get it back up to say 1650 this time around I will be happy0
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