Week 4 Chat (10-16 February)
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Well I went to the doctor last night for my tummy troubles. I've been told that I may have a sucrose or maltose intolerance and I should cut them out of my diet for the next 10 days, then start reintroducing one at a time.
My first reaction was "sugar?? too easy!". Did you know sucrose is in practically everything? Even fruit and veg? And what sucrose isn't in, maltose is in?! The next 10 days are going to be pretty much only meat, low sucrose fruit and veg, and coffee. I'm going to die without variety!
I'm such a whinger. Haha. I do hope this is the solution though.
And I hope it's sucrose I'm intolerant to, not maltose. Beer has maltose... noooooooo!0 -
Hi everyone, hope your week is going well! Congrats to everyone who weighed and / or measured themselves this week. Shanna, great abs!
I'm on track for the week so far: I played squash Monday, and ran Tuesday (steady run) and Wednesday (intervals today were a bit lacklustre, but my average pace over the distance came out ok, so can't complain too much).
The rest of my week is planned out as follows: Thursday rest / strength, Friday tempo run, Saturday strength, Sunday long run.
My half marathon training is starting to ramp up - my long run this week will be 70 mins. I'm pretty tired today, and my calves and ankles are sore after I misguidedly tried to change my foot-strike pattern to forefoot striking the last 2 days. (I am probably naturally a mid foot striker.) I don't think the middle of a half-marathon program is the best time to try this. Running volume is too high, and my ankles are not strong enough for it. I think I will wait until after my HM and then ease into it very gradually. Oh well, live and learn. I'm not injured, just sore.
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I havent checked in for a while - it's been a tough couple of weeks. I've had to deal with a few family things, including my grandmother going to hospital for open heart surgery, which has really thrown me about. I have still been logging my food, regardless of whether I meet my target for the day. Accountability is key I reckon
Bigldesigns - congrats on your news, both weight loss and MS wise! Keep that postive energy running through you and you'll do exceptional things you never dreamed possible
Lorelei - I use bodybuilding.com for strength training technique videos. I'm currently using Jamie Eason's 12 week live fit trainer for my strength training programs, which use both machines and free weights. I'm loving it.
Flyer - Congrats on your 5km time! I just recently had some improvements with mine too so I know how you feel! Are you trying for a full or half marathon in June? I agree with mmk - compression socks are amazing! I also find my foam roller helps too - I usually use this while watching tv or something at night.
merse81 - I always seem to binge on the weekends too - it's a hard habbit to break out of! I usually find that when I do some form of exercise in the morning, like park run or a mini triathlon or a group fitness class, then I'll eat better on a weekend.
Skim - I love a good spin session too!! So much sweat
In fact, I'm contemplating casual visits to an actual gym to do proper spin classes, unless someone can point me in the right direction of a good app to use.
Mon - I keep getting asked to do colour run but the obstacle of walkers really frustrates me. I might be doing one in Ipswich here soon ish (can't remember exactly when it is though) so will prepare myself for the walkers I love that you're doing body balance - another reason I want to look at a proper gym! As for your intolerance, maybe you'll end up like I did with wheat/gluten. A few years ago I was having horrible tummy issues. Doctors put it down to stress, which I disagreed with as I didn't feel stressed in the slightest. A naturopath suggested a food intolerance might have been the culprit. I cut out all wheat/gluten for a month, with a plan to try it with dairy the month afterwards. It worked and I stopped having problems. I slowly introduced wheat/gluten back into my diet and have had no major issues since. I do find it flares up a little if I have too much wheat/gluten, so I just limit it. I call this a food sensitivity, as I'm not intolerant to it but it does weird things to me. Does that make sense?
Michable - what half marathon are you training for? When/where is it?
I completed a mini triathlon on the weekend with a 300m swim, 10km cycle and a 3km run. I had barely trained at all for the swim or cycle - two months since I'd done either. This showed in my swim, which got worse by 2 minutes from last time I did it. My transition from the swim to cycle was absolutely terrible - I took forever! This time gets added onto your cycle time on the results website. Cycle itself was good, with my HRM/GPS watch showing I covered 10km in about 20 minutes, which is excellent for me. As for my 3km run at the end, I smashed it in 15:34. I was super super stoked at my run time, still am in fact! I've now registered for the last of the QTS Gatorade Series on 23 February at Raby Bay (if anyone's around that area) and will be tackling my longest distance to date - 400m swim, 15km cycle and 4km run. I'm so excited! I've actually done some swim training already (my ribs are feeling the effects of this - I feel bruised!) and have some plans for transition training too - mainly putting shoes on with wet feet
Strength training took a back seat last week, as I didn't want to be sore before the tri. Back to it this week, starting at Week 4 of the Jamie Eason Live Fit Trainer. It's getting tough but I love the burn. I have slacked a little on my half marathon training, but aim to pick it up again properly after my next tri.
Food wise, I'm just trying to watch portions. I had a big binge on Sunday and gave up my 'no drinking until March' plan. I do only drink on weekends and it's not often, so it's not like I'm falling 'back into old habits'.
My friend and I are practicing/preparing for auditions for My Kitchen Rules for next year, with applications opening next month. I know this will have a bit of an impact on my food intake, so I really have to pace myself!
Goals this week -
1. To actually weigh in and record my measurements!
2. To do one swimming, one cycle and one brick triathlon training sessions
3. To stick to my weight training plan (3 more sessions to go this week)
4. To run 5km at some point this week (I'm going to miss parkrun as I'll be travelling to Bundaberg for my brother in laws birthday party, so I just have to do it on my own)0 -
Hi Broncos, sorry to hear about your grandmother. I hope she is recovering from her surgery ok.
I plan on running a half marathon at the Rocky River run in Rockhampton on May 25. (Rocky is local for me), then maybe the Gold Coast on the first weekend in July. My son plans on running the half at the Gold Coast, too, and my husband will probably do the marathon. We'll see how all our training pans out!
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Hi everyone!!
So sorry I didn't check in with you all yesterday, I was busy at work, only had access on my iPad and the app was playing up, couldn't get into Safari... :grumble: argh!!
Anyway, I'll be back later - got to get out the door for an early meeting!! Will try to get back when I'm on the train
Happy Thursday - Week 4, Day 4 today!!0 -
Hope everyone's week is going well so far.
Broncos sorry to hear about your grandmother hope she is on her way to a speedy recovery.
Michable sounds like you should be ready by May for the half marathon. Have you done a few in the past.?
I'm planning to do my first one on the 4th may in Adelaide, not sure what to expect on how I'll go but am determined to give it a go.
Have a great day all
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Hello again from me!! Finally got a little time to have a look at updates and see how everyone is going...
Lou, it's good not to log every now and again so you can get an idea of how you are managing without constantly counting everything that goes in your mouth. As long as you are eating well everything should be ok. It's good that it keeps your night time snacks under control too, that's been a real killer for me in the last month, I go really well during the day but if I stay up late I invariably end up with my head in the fridge...
Ricki Lee, you are not the only one! What you ate doesn't sound too bad though and I wouldn't be worried at all about berries. 1.2kg will be gone in no time at all, especially with your goals for this week - sounds great!! I also tend to go over on the alcohol at weekends, a bottle of wine can easily be consumed in one night, especially if it's over a few hours. I doubt I'm going to stop social drinking, but I've also stopped having a glass at home during the week.
Hey Mon, I haven't heard of that, but I am totally on board with giving up recreational sugar. When I'm wheat and sugar free I feel SO much better. Part of my binge eating problem is that I have a bit of sugar, I just go beserk and on a rampage to have more. I find that berries and citrus are fine, and just sweet enough to satisfy me, but packaged stuff - uh uh. Hope you week isn't too difficult and you find out what the problem is.
Mich, good work!!! Marathon training sounds good. I've got no idea about the whole front/mid foot thing, but you sound like you have it all sorted. I only run a little bit on the treadmill for some HIIT and that is about it for me The CLOSEST I have ever come was the beach run I did last year and that was only 8km. :laugh: (and I walked half of it).
Mel, :flowerforyou: sorry to hear about your grandmother, hope she is ok. I think I'm the same with wheat. After I cut it out last year, I find that I can have a bit of bread every now and again, but if I have more than a bit I get really bad stomach ache and diahhorrea the next day, oh it is not pleasant. I haven't had pasta for over a year, I have my bolognese sauce on broccoli and I love it that way. gluten is in SO many things, but if I keep out the main culprits I seem to be ok.
I think it's a great idea to experiment on myself, see what works, what doesn't.
Fantastic effort with the mini-tri as well. I admire you - I would never do something like that :noway: Good for you!! I've also looked at Jamie Easons series, and signed up for it online, but I just do my own thing... I've got it there in case I need something different to do. Oh and good luck for MKR!!! Wow, that's exciting!!
I'm very happy to say that I'm doing GREAT this week. I don't know what happened to me the last couple of weeks, I was just SO "off". Ok, last week I was very busy with work, but really that is no excuse. Anyway, I seem to have dusted myself off, have been eating really well, been to the gym 4/4 days this week and right on track.
Tomorrow will be my rest day, plus am going out tomorrow night for Valentines Day, but I'll be going to the gym on Saturday or Sunday (depending) and am totally psyched for next week as well. I'm not weighing myself at the moment, but I can tell that I've lost the bloated look around my gut and feel really good. Think it will take me another 2 weeks to get back to my pre-Christmas status and then I'll be improving from there. I may not make my 12 week goal, but with 8 weeks to go, I'm going to give it a really good shot.
I've decided to keep my daily average calories in to about 1400-1500 if I can. This means I'll have a couple of 1200 days during the week so that I can have a couple of 2000 days on the weekend and it will average out over the week. My TDEE is about 2000, so 1500 for me is a moderate deficit.
Anyway, that's enough rambling for me. I'm going for a walk now (lunch break) to get my steps up. Already at 10,000, should make it to about 15,000 today. Yesterday I did 20,000 - pretty happy about that!0 -
Shannan - just saw your abs in the weigh in thread. I know you are away for the next couple of weeks, but OMG - awesome!!!
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Hi Lou,
It will be my first half marathon. I should be ready for it, assuming no injuries or other factors (loss of motivation, getting too busy, etc). My longest race distance to date was 10 km about 8 - 9 years ago, then I had another 3 children which meant my running has been on-off for the last 8 years. I have only been back running regularly for the last 4 months.
I am a bit nervous about the long runs I have coming up over the next half of my program - 70 mins this week, increasing up to 2 hours in about 8 weeks time. It seems impossible - but the training plan says it, so I will do it. I see you have a 12.5 km run coming up this week. That's getting up there. Let me know how it goes!
Skim - so pleased to hear you're going great this week. Enjoy your night out on Valentine's Day - new love is awesome, isn't it?0 -
Happy Friday and valentines day!
Had a kick *kitten* legs and shoulder session after work and feel I may not be able to walk for another 3 days again! Feeling really good at the gym and already feel a difference in my body (the added fibre is helping the $&@ too) heheh
So it's the weekend again and I need to harness the will power not to binge. Shouldn't be too hard this time as I haven't been under eating this week like last. Will be on track today (as not doing v-day as hubby works till10). Tomorrow is mega super crazy garden and house clean day for visiting relies next week! So I'll be pretty active tomorrow and will be in control of my food. Sunday is also super busy (but has a chance of naughtyness - but I'll work it in my day) I have puppy training, costco for the hubby, local market and American car show, of and food shopping and prep! I guess I'll sleep next weekend maybe? Hehe
So excited to see the changes in myself!!!
Ps - will still have a few wines tomorrow as I'm only human 0 -
Hi there Challengers!!
I hope everyone had a great Valentines Day I certainly did. Haven't celebrated it for many years and probably never had one like yesterday. For a start, I've got the most wonderful man in my life, he's just unbelievably fabulous in so many ways. He sent me cute little text messages all day. Then night picked me up to go for dinner and gave me a bunch of the most gorgeous red roses and a lovely card. I was all dolled up and all night he told me how beautiful I looked and loved me bla bla bla. We went out for Thai and then met a couple of friends for a drink but were still home by about midnight. Had an amazing night, DIDN"T eat too much or drink too much and I ended the day at or about maintenance calories - which was unexpected but I'm pretty happy about it. I was prepared to go over.
Have been out for brunch this morning and am going into the city this afternoon with friends and kids for an early movie and dinner, so I'm expecting today to be a maintenance day as well. Not going to get any exercise in today but I'll be at the gym tomorrow for an early workout.
I'm really happy right now. Most things in life seem to be going well, and even the things that aren't are easy to deal with.
Part of my problem going off the rails the last couple of weeks is that Bumper is very complimentary about my body and the way that I look. So I guess I get a bit complacent about it all. Or I was. But this week, getting back into my routine feels just SO much better and I feel good knowing that I'm heading in the right direction to where I feel most comfortable with MYSELF. I don't think there will be any complaints from him either.
I'm right back on track with my nutrition and exercise plan. Even though this weekend is going to be a maintenance weekend, I'm happy with that because I've had a deficit during the week and I'm probably at the right weight to have a smaller deficit rather than a bigger one in order to lose fat, not muscle. I think I'm looking pretty good, still up a bit from my pre-Christmas condition, but not by much.
Going forward, I think this is the best way for me to handle my progress - eat at a deficit during the week, keep up my gym routine and then have the weekends "off". Still keep an eye on my food intake and stay away from wheat and recreational sugar (to stop myself getting into that binge mode) but not overly worry about calorie intake. It also helps because I don't feel like I'm restricting myself, or missing out on anything. If I want to have chocolate, I will, but I'll wait until the weekend to do it. I'll see how it goes...
Merica, I love legs and shoulder day - it's by far my favourite workout. I have noticed that the power and strength in my legs is really good. One of the surprising things I've discovered is when I have to run to catch a set of traffic lights or something, I can just push off and dash with very little effort. It's a great feeling. I also love walking up the very long set of escalators at the train station and knowing that my legs don't get fatigued like they did a year ago. It's why I love lifting weights and encourage everyone to take it up - the benefits in everyday life can't be denied. Plus it's just nice to feel strong.
I like being able to run too - but it's not my first love. I think it's great to do something for fitness and I am constantly amazed by all the runners and what you are able to achieve, I wouldn't and couldn't do a triathalon if you paid me! Especially the swimming part, I think I'd drown in the surf hehe..
Well, I hope everyone has a terrific Saturday. Let us know what you are all up to and what your plans are for next week.0 -
Checking in on a Saturday night (yes, I know I don't have a life).
Sounds like you had a lovely night Skim - and Thai food too - lucky you
Everybody seems to be doing so well - as in even if they slip off the wagon it's straight back on again. Good for all of you.
I'm plodding along much as usual and trying to resist the urge to shake things up a bit - due to scale issues. I was told yesterday that my son has been jumping on my scale and I'm sure that isn't very good for it. Anyway it registers very strangely as in I will weigh more after I go to the toilet than before - which I didn't think was physically possible unless the earth's gravity field encountered a shift - so I'm trying not to be phased by this.
In the meantime I've been doing more playing with dumbells and lifting a "weight" (it's a long metal crowbar and quite heavy) - I certainly did feel some muscle tenderness the next day after doing upright rows so obviously it's heavy enough to do what I want it to do - which is work my upper arms and hopefully reduce the bingo wings/bat wings/tuck shop arms - yes I know you can't spot reduce and you're not supposed to be able to build muscle in a deficit etc but I'm a noob as far as weights go and it can't hurt can it. And next summer I want to be able to wear a sleeveless top/dress without feeling, well, flappy.
Have a good rest of the weekend.0 -
Sounds great Robin, about the weights... Actually newbies can build muscle, it's the joy of being a newbie!! Just make sure you eat your allowance of protein and by that I mean 2g per kilo body weight and you will at least RETAIN the muscle that you already have and ensure that the weight you lose will be fat.
Start with squats, they are so good for your legs and butt. As for your arms... Push ups. They are good for shoulders, arms, chest and get your heart rate up as well. At the beginning of last year I couldn't even do ONE.. A month later I was doing 10 and then 3 sets of 10. Start small but just do it.
Forget the scale, take your measurements. You are here, you are trying and you will succeed.0 -
Hi all,
Well we've come to the end of another week. All in all mine hasn't been too bad food wise. The end of the week has been better than the beginning.
Did 12.5k run thus morning so was happy with that as that's been my furthest. Week 7 next week of my training which ends with 14.5k run. Am looking forward to it as we're going away to one of my favourite beach towns so it will be nice doing it there.
Mich, congratulations on your run this morning. I must say I hate running in the heat so always love to go early as well. Problem the sun is rising later and I'm not one for running in the dark. Plus have to be home during the week by 7am. Did a couple of runs on the treadmill during the week but it's just not the same.
Skim, I'm so happy for you as things sound like they are going so well and you sound so happy. It's so easy to get complacent when you start getting compliments so keep up the great work.
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