Sarah's OMAD Journal
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Hi all,
Re-post from the newbies thread.
Name: Sarah
Current weight: CW: 88.8 kg / 195.4 lbs
Height: 5'6"
Age: 48 (49 next week)
Past struggles you've faced or are facing:
Time of your OMAD: around 6-8pm
OMAD start date: 23 May 2017 (this time)
Weight lost so far: 1.9 kg / 4.2 lbs
I've been doing some form of IF (Leangains, ESE, etc.) for years - this is a way of eating that has always worked for me and worked for the large amount of exercise I do (did). I was doing OMAD sometime about a year ago to try and get my weight down - can't remember exactly why I stopped and started the eating free-for-all!!
Anyway, will probably start a separate accountability thread and go from there!
Everybody's results look encouraging and I need all the motivation I can get...
Sarah
Re-post from the newbies thread.
Name: Sarah
Current weight: CW: 88.8 kg / 195.4 lbs
Height: 5'6"
Age: 48 (49 next week)
Past struggles you've faced or are facing:
- Clearly I eat too much!
- Injured my leg/hip a few years ago while running which has really made my exercise suffer.
- Totally burnt out on the gym as up until a few years ago I'd been going pretty much consistently since I was about 10 years old (competitive swimmer when I was a kid).
- Swimming is my preferred method of exercise but I can't find a pool that is close that isn't:
- gross
- outdoors in full sun.
- Up until a year ago I was swimming, in the lovely 50m outdoor pool, 2500m on 5 or 6 days a week - I quickly stopped that when my partner mentioned that my skin looked like it was aging really quickly and I realized that the constant Australian sun on my body was doing me no favors (this is with putting massive amounts of sunscreen on, before and between sets)
- Since stopping exercise other than walking, I've gained close to 15 kg/33 lbs and I was overweight even before the weight gain!
- I miss swimming SO MUCH!
- I work from home which means the fridge is always there!
Time of your OMAD: around 6-8pm
OMAD start date: 23 May 2017 (this time)
Weight lost so far: 1.9 kg / 4.2 lbs
I've been doing some form of IF (Leangains, ESE, etc.) for years - this is a way of eating that has always worked for me and worked for the large amount of exercise I do (did). I was doing OMAD sometime about a year ago to try and get my weight down - can't remember exactly why I stopped and started the eating free-for-all!!
Anyway, will probably start a separate accountability thread and go from there!
Everybody's results look encouraging and I need all the motivation I can get...
Sarah
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Forgot to mention I am a vegetarian (who tries to be as close to vegan as possible - after reading Dr. Greger's book "How Not to Die" - but likes cheese too much!)1
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I am also a super nerd (coder/information analyst/IT geek)
My weight loss chart so far (I grew up and lived in Canada until I was 30, lived in the UK (where I was born) from 30-40 and then moved to Australia - hence the different units (lbs, kg, st) used - I know what I weighed at certain points in my life but in different units depending on where I was living, so I need to track them all!):
The highlighed row is my official weigh day (Friday) for the week, but I will try to weigh every day as I like the data (there are a ton of not shown columns for calculating running averages etc!).0 -
Forgot to mention I am a vegetarian (who tries to be as close to vegan as possible - after reading Dr. Greger's book "How Not to Die" - but likes cheese too much!)
swimmer and veggie trying to be vegan I already like this thread haha . I swim in my small 25 meters gym indoor pool it has so much chlorine that it literally burn my lips, not to mention about the gross stuff the old ladies from the aerobic class drop to the bottom from time to time, there's no way around this type of stuff if you wanna swim for most people. I'd kill to have an olympic pool within reach that actually uses the lanes in 50m's length
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OMG - that's exactly the issue with the gross indoor pools around. The aerobics classes, the over-abundant chlorine, the people WALKING in the lanes (last time I checked it was a SWIMMING pool), and the fact that you can't actually see through the water to the end of the lane. Shudder.... I have to enjoy exercise to actually do it and there is no way I can swim in those places.
This is what the lovely outdoor 50m pool looks like on a gorgeous winter's day a couple of years ago:
If I could make it there in the mornings or evenings, I'd be there in a heartbeat, but my work schedule doesn't allow a morning visit and there's no room to swim in the afternoon/evening due to the kids' swim team practices...
Boggles my mind that in Australia, with such high skin cancer incidence, that this pool isn't at least some percentage covered by shade sails. The kiddie pool is covered, but I guess they figure that anyone over the age of 5 doesn't need any sun protection... So bizarre. I actually still have swimsuit tan-lines from swimming in that pool and I haven't been swimming in the sun in over a year.
ETA: Looking at this picture, I just noticed that the stands where you can sit to watch are covered by sails. UGH!
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Hello! Our stats are very close to the same... Welcome and I look forward to hearing about your progress!0
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Swimming is great. They had a great pool close to where I worked that shut down. I was going just twice a week and would do about 1k-2k meters (I was also running 3xweek and biking twice a week on same days as swimming).0
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that's a good looking pool, maybe if you limit it to 3 times per week, and keep it to 45 mins strictly timed, quick warm up and throw in a few lactate sets, too good to pass up haha
anyway, with the one-two punch of the daily dozen+OMAD you will get your swimmer body back, guaranteed 0 -
that's a good looking pool, maybe if you limit it to 3 times per week, and keep it to 45 mins strictly timed, quick warm up and throw in a few lactate sets, too good to pass up haha
anyway, with the one-two punch of the daily dozen+OMAD you will get your swimmer body back, guaranteed
I wish - but I'm thinking even 45 mins is too much Australian sun!! I think I've just got to give up the dream for now.... The swimmer body would be nice though!!
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Swimming is great. They had a great pool close to where I worked that shut down. I was going just twice a week and would do about 1k-2k meters (I was also running 3xweek and biking twice a week on same days as swimming).
Sounds like me a couple of years ago.. I am thinking of dusting the bike off as it's winter now and cool enough in the day to go out for a ride.
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mistymeadows2005 wrote: »Hello! Our stats are very close to the same... Welcome and I look forward to hearing about your progress!
Thanks, will check out your posts...
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Welcome! This community is amazing and you will find great support here! Keep up the good work 0
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Welcome. I hope you enjoy the group and all the support it offers!0
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That pool is gigantic, I would love to try it out but on a cloudy day because I can't be in the sun either 0
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Thanks everybody!0
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Today's weigh in:
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Nice on the loss!0
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Welcome glad to have you here! Yep the sun is pretty intense down under
I grew up in Australia and I miss it terribly!
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Today's weight - not using my spreadsheet chart as I gained and trendweight is nicer (and much more realistic) about gains!
(Ignore the goal - I just set up a small initial goal so it isn't as depressing/overwhelming as looking at the date it expects me to get to my real goal...)
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Though it is still pretty depressing that it thinks it will take me 2 months to lose 7.1 more pounds! That should change though, as it gets more data to work with...0
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I like that he idea of a smaller goal, I may do that if I find myself never seeing an end. The August prediction is based on your settings, sounds like maybe you have it set to lose a pound a week? That's why it's making that prediction. I like to encourage people to look at those with weight charts, Brenda's especially. It's so encouraging to see that she lost slow and steady over 36 weeks or so and, in the end, she reached her goal weight. 0
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I had a few weeks where I lost 3 or more pounds BUT my overall weight loss average was 1.73 pounds a week...Don't get discouraged if you have a week with no losses or less than a pound because it will average out eventually 1
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wsandy8512 wrote: »I like that he idea of a smaller goal, I may do that if I find myself never seeing an end. The August prediction is based on your settings, sounds like maybe you have it set to lose a pound a week? That's why it's making that prediction. I like to encourage people to look at those with weight charts, Brenda's especially. It's so encouraging to see that she lost slow and steady over 36 weeks or so and, in the end, she reached her goal weight.
I just set a goal weight of 190 in it - it uses a trend weight or moving average to smooth out noise from daily fluctuations in your weight. So if your average is going down, then you really are losing weight. I think it uses the last 14 days to calculate the average so it will get more accurate when I have more days of weighing.1 -
brendagaudette wrote: »I had a few weeks where I lost 3 or more pounds BUT my overall weight loss average was 1.73 pounds a week...Don't get discouraged if you have a week with no losses or less than a pound because it will average out eventually
YES - I have to remember this! If I don't lose or gain in a week, I have a tendency to just throw in the towel and eat because clearly life isn't fair!
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And actually I just realised Brenda is correct - I have also put in there that I want to lose 2lbs per week so that's why it says "You must cut 598 cal/day to match your plan." Though the numbers on that don't actually add up to 2lbs (3500cals x 2) a week. Unless it takes into account what you have already lost... Who knows! 0
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brendagaudette wrote: »I had a few weeks where I lost 3 or more pounds BUT my overall weight loss average was 1.73 pounds a week...Don't get discouraged if you have a week with no losses or less than a pound because it will average out eventually
YES - I have to remember this! If I don't lose or gain in a week, I have a tendency to just throw in the towel and eat because clearly life isn't fair!
I used to be the same way and I would give up too soon but this time it was different for me and Im glad I stuck with it...I was about the same weight that you're starting out at and if I can do it then you can do it too!!! 1 -
brendagaudette wrote: »I used to be the same way and I would give up too soon but this time it was different for me and Im glad I stuck with it...I was about the same weight that you're starting out at and if I can do it then you can do it too!!!
Absolutely - I am using you as inspiration for sure...
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Official (Friday) weigh in: -6 lbs in just under 2 weeks so I am quite pleased. I've never been a fast loser and certainly not one of those people who loses, like, 7 lbs in the first week.
Even TrendWeight has taken 2 weeks off the time it thinks it will take me to get to 190!
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You are doing great! Keep going!0
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AWESOME!!! 0
