Exercise and Weight Loss Challenges
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Well, it's accept what you can not change, right? I will check out the firming creams and get my fanny into more exercise opportunities. Revelation: not enough to be pleased with my list of resolutions, now I need to act on them!0
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I've got some sag and wrinkles too.I thought about getting wings tattoed on my arms because they're so saggy and flap like birds.I was putting hair spray on my hair and thought, what's that sound? It was my arms flapping. lol.I guess short sleeve shirts are out from now on.I don't think I can afford enough firming cream for that problem.gaylebodine wrote: »You guys, I've lost 30+ pounds since last July. I went to try on new jeans and got a real gander at my legs--yikes! All saggy skin and varicose veins. I know part of this is losing weight without exercising and part is just getting another year older. Any suggestions, encouragement? Know I need to consistently exercise, but will my skin ever catch up with my weight loss? I've had turkey neck. But now I have turkey legs too!
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I have noticed on my tummy but .... it is better than it was a few months ago and I know this because of sewing. The tape measure says so and my eyes say so too.
Exercise helps get the supporting muscle tone and the skin looks tighter but, not so much collagen there any more so not so much snap back in the skin as there was when we were all younger. The skin takes more time to get back into shape and sometimes stops short of what we would like. Yes, modern creams do help. And, unfortunately, the faster the weigh loss the more sag to the skin but it does get better. Hydration and exercise help a lot but mostly time.
"Hang in there" Tee-hee.
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"Hang in there", LOL. Thanks for the advice. Yes, I've got "wings" too (not the tattoos). I think I can probably not afford the really effective creams, but I will look around. And yes, that would be a LOT of cream. Ah, each year more to accept about the aging process, but that is part of the journey, for sure. Not feeling that great today but need to work on getting all of Christmas put away and getting my ducks in a row for the new teaching term. Have a great day. Determined to make progress on my goals this week!0
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I use a CVS drugstore brand for my face. It seems to work well. They have body firming formulas in their body lotion section. I'm sure Walgreens and Rite Aides do too. It is like Marney said: hydration.0
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Oh thanks Charlie, I was thinking you were using some 100.00 an ounce treatment. Glad to hear that stuff that works is available in the local drug store.
Today I am back to my pre-Christmas (12/23) low (186.6) so feel like I am finally moving in the right direction. Go Team!0 -
Gayle, you are doing so good! keep up the good work.gaylebodine wrote: »Oh thanks Charlie, I was thinking you were using some 100.00 an ounce treatment. Glad to hear that stuff that works is available in the local drug store.
Today I am back to my pre-Christmas (12/23) low (186.6) so feel like I am finally moving in the right direction. Go Team!
Charlie,I need to check out some of that cream.I go to CVS every once in awhile so i'll be looking for it.
Marney,I don't think I have any snap back in my skin.A women went to the Dr. and when he asked her what was wrong she told him she had furniture disease.He told her he never heard of that.She told him her chest fell into her drawers.I'm not that bad yet.lol
I hope everyone is having a good day.
Mary.
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Mary, that is so funny. I am laughing and crying. I have antique furniture disease. I have noticed that I do occasionally snap back to my son. That might be the only snap back I get, lol.
Way over on salt today but think I can still get to a happy scale on Friday. Just read that coconut oil helps the memory so I went and bought some while I remembered. Also some firming serum. I could lose weight just by spending my money on extra health items rather than food
Charlie, tell us the name of the CVS cream you use.0 -
I use the CVS Smooth Lifting Cream. Here is a link. cvs.com/shop/skin-care/face/anti-aging/cvs-smooth-lifting-cream-skuid-460216 It is out-of-stock on-line. I can always find it in the face cream section. I think it is usually around the Olay Regenerist products. It is in a plastic package (shown in photo) and the jar is purple with a silver top. It lasts a few months using it twice a day on face and neck and the $19.99 price is usually a couple $$ off with your CVS card.
Like I said, CVS also makes some firming body lotions. I need to start using them.0 -
Thanks Charlie. I have been avoiding creams all my life but now with older skin and our really cold winter (-10F at the moment!), my skin is getting drier. Will have to find a similar product here.0
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Jan2nd-165.5
Jan9th-163.50 -
1/02/15: 187.3
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Wow Mary! 2 pounds! You commitment shows! Charlie, thanks for the link. I just bought some fancy (for me) stuff at the health food store and it's making me break out. My darn sensitive skin. I'll order some of the CVC stuff online when it is back in stock.0
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gaylebodine wrote: »Wow Mary! 2 pounds! You commitment shows! Charlie, thanks for the link. I just bought some fancy (for me) stuff at the health food store and it's making me break out. My darn sensitive skin. I'll order some of the CVC stuff online when it is back in stock.
Great job on your weight loss Gayle.I walked 33.5 miles this week to accomplish that 2 lb.loss.I hope I can lose again next week.0 -
Jan 2 165.5
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Hi Guys
Lost the internet for a long while yesterday.
I am so glad that you two had successful weeks. You are really inspiring to me and keep me coming back to the basics. You make them work.
I did get my water in this week but it is not yet a routine thing so I think I will keep it as my goal this week. I have a pix of myself but just did not get it posted. So that is still a goal this week too. Not moving along very well.
However, did get the bicycle bought and put together and rode it twice. Even though this was not a specific goal for the week.
I am very frustrated since my weight has been bouncing around all week. Above where I started, 5 lbs down, then up again......
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Mary, 33.5 miles, amazing!! Marney, 1 pound lost, that is real progress! So great that you got, put together and used your new stationary bike. For the last week or so I'd been less committed to drinking all my water. When I realized it I got back to it and really see the difference in the scale! Happy dance today!!! New low of 184.8.
My oldest cat (around 16) is having health issues and am spending my used treadmill budget on her this month. Will have to wait until February.0 -
Marney,a 1 lb.loss is fantastic!I know all about the bouncing around part.you've seen how my weight loss goes up and down.Exercise bike and all that water will keep you on track.dasher602014 wrote: »Jan 2 165.5
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Thanks guys. Really helps because this week I worked hard on water and keeping to calorie count and when the scale read 162.5 I was really excited. But by end of week, it was up again. Who said 'reward behaviour, not scale". Guess I have to re-focus, again.
Pix is there as you see. From a boat trip on a rare hot day last summer and I am not really pleased with it, but it is me.
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Marney, great to see you! The pressure is on Mary! Kd of course, it is up to you. Today I had a bounce up but know I will see an overall loss by next Friday. I actually baked yesterday! 144 calorie bran muffins (yum!), BBQ chicken and oven fries. I tend to live on frozen food, so this was a win for me.0
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I posted on Saturday, or thought I had, but must not have hit "post."
Marney: Love the picture! Finally get to see who we are talking to.
Great losses. The pounds are melting and some melted on to me. Last Friday I was at 159.5. That was a 4 pound gain, although it was at 161 on Thursday! I hadn't had a big gain in a while. It is my water retention and cortisol levels. I didn't start on the lasix right away, but did finally as I was having some swelling and water retention is bad for me.
So:
Starting Weight Jan. 2, 2015: 155.5 lbs.
January 9, 2015: 159.5 lbs.
Today I was at 156 so I'm getting closer to a loss, but that is how I go. Down, up, down, up! We all fluctuate, so don't worry, as long as we are on a downward trend! Let's face it, Gayle, your trend has been a pretty steady downward one!
Mary: Love the 33 miles, but did you know that MFP doesn't figure calories burned on miles? It figures it on steps. Because of the difference in strides (and I know you have a short one like me), we burn more calories in a mile if we are short. MFP and most calculators figures a mile at about 2,000 steps. That is about how many steps the average stride is. The 2,000 steps is very accurate if you count steps. So, I look at a step-mile and a distance-mile as very different things. Bet if you counted step miles, you would have way more than 33!
Yesterday and today I walked 7.20 distance miles, but I walked over 21,000 which would be 10.5 step-miles. My stride is only 21" compared to the average at 31".
That realization really helped me allow myself not to over-stride. At first I kept trying to complete that mile faster so I tried to take longer steps. Consequently I got shin-splints. Now I take shorter steps just faster so more of them. No shin-splints and I burn more calories and I enjoy the walk more!
Have a good, rest of the week, ladies! Gayle, I hope everything works out for your cat. Tough when a pet is ill.
Charlie
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Hi Guys your daily exercise is so impressive. I will try to catch up with you when I finally get that treadmill. Our kitty is doing the best she can. We are taking one day at a time. My cats are all getting elderly (I had three and lost one last year) so just grateful for the good years they have been with us. Sorry that it is my son's cat who is failing this time. Very hard to know what to do and when.
Tip for the day: don't know if you guys have noticed in my food diary, although of course you probably know already, but important to get in those prunes (I eat three a day) and the activia yogurt as well as all your water. Sure makes a big difference I think!0 -
Just remembered that my Grandma was always pushing prunes to us grand kids (she used to stew up a big pot of them) and we always turned up our noses. Many years later they taste so good!0
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Good advice, Gayle. I had to up that though. I like fiber gummies.0
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Hi there,
Charlie, I was a great hiker and in the early days suffered from shin splints a lot as I tried to keep up with the longer legs in the group. I still do not like organized group hikes because they walk too fast for me. I need a good 1/2 warm up before my feet can go round fast enough to keep up easily and I found it works only with some groups. I took awhile to put 2 and 2 together about longer stride and shin splints. I found, though, if I sort of though of water skiing and lean a little back and walked from the hip instead of my usual bouncy step from my knees, I could go longer and faster with less effort. But, yes, I think all of us shorties get some leg problems trying to keep up until we figure it out. (JUst though of the poor carriage horse in Black Beauty who was a problem because she had a skip in her step every third step because she had been paired with a larger horse for too long. They weren't sure she was 'redeemable'!)
I also gave myself rotator cuff issues using an elliptical. I avoid the arm thingmies now because when I was new at the gym, I tried to do it with my hands on the HR monitor pads and, although it did not hurt at the time, boy, did all that over extension do a number over time to my shoulders! Never again!
Gayle, I am onto prunes too. They are good. Stewed prunes my mother tried to pass off as dessert, are not!
Older pets. Been there too many times. My thoughts are with you and your son, Gayle.
Still working on those same 5 lbs here but it is going down at the moment!
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Black Beauty! Wow, my parents read all those books to us. I've stayed away from stewed prunes but am fooling myself, these days, that those individual prunes (each wrapped in their own wrapper) are dessert and/or a sweet treat. LOL0
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I'll be so glad to get in the 150s.it seems like it's taking forever.(sigh)grandmothercharlie wrote: »I posted on Saturday, or thought I had, but must not have hit "post."
Marney: Love the picture! Finally get to see who we are talking to.
Great losses. The pounds are melting and some melted on to me. Last Friday I was at 159.5. That was a 4 pound gain, although it was at 161 on Thursday! I hadn't had a big gain in a while. It is my water retention and cortisol levels. I didn't start on the lasix right away, but did finally as I was having some swelling and water retention is bad for me.
So:
Starting Weight Jan. 2, 2015: 155.5 lbs.
January 9, 2015: 159.5 lbs.
Today I was at 156 so I'm getting closer to a loss, but that is how I go. Down, up, down, up! We all fluctuate, so don't worry, as long as we are on a downward trend! Let's face it, Gayle, your trend has been a pretty steady downward one!
Mary: Love the 33 miles, but did you know that MFP doesn't figure calories burned on miles? It figures it on steps. Because of the difference in strides (and I know you have a short one like me), we burn more calories in a mile if we are short. MFP and most calculators figures a mile at about 2,000 steps. That is about how many steps the average stride is. The 2,000 steps is very accurate if you count steps. So, I look at a step-mile and a distance-mile as very different things. Bet if you counted step miles, you would have way more than 33!
Yesterday and today I walked 7.20 distance miles, but I walked over 21,000 which would be 10.5 step-miles. My stride is only 21" compared to the average at 31".
That realization really helped me allow myself not to over-stride. At first I kept trying to complete that mile faster so I tried to take longer steps. Consequently I got shin-splints. Now I take shorter steps just faster so more of them. No shin-splints and I burn more calories and I enjoy the walk more!
Have a good, rest of the week, ladies! Gayle, I hope everything works out for your cat. Tough when a pet is ill.
Charlie
I use Leslie Sansone walk at home tapes and she tells how many miles they are.that's what I go by.I get a very good workout using them because you use every part of your body.Even some jogging.And lets not forget the sweat.When I log in my exercise I may be burning up more calories than I post but haven't quite figured out how to post it so I put it under brisk walk.
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merrygrannie wrote: »
I'll be so glad to get in the 150s.it seems like it's taking forever.(sigh)grandmothercharlie wrote: »I posted on Saturday, or thought I had, but must not have hit "post."
Marney: Love the picture! Finally get to see who we are talking to.
Great losses. The pounds are melting and some melted on to me. Last Friday I was at 159.5. That was a 4 pound gain, although it was at 161 on Thursday! I hadn't had a big gain in a while. It is my water retention and cortisol levels. I didn't start on the lasix right away, but did finally as I was having some swelling and water retention is bad for me.
So:
Starting Weight Jan. 2, 2015: 155.5 lbs.
January 9, 2015: 159.5 lbs.
Today I was at 156 so I'm getting closer to a loss, but that is how I go. Down, up, down, up! We all fluctuate, so don't worry, as long as we are on a downward trend! Let's face it, Gayle, your trend has been a pretty steady downward one!
Mary: Love the 33 miles, but did you know that MFP doesn't figure calories burned on miles? It figures it on steps. Because of the difference in strides (and I know you have a short one like me), we burn more calories in a mile if we are short. MFP and most calculators figures a mile at about 2,000 steps. That is about how many steps the average stride is. The 2,000 steps is very accurate if you count steps. So, I look at a step-mile and a distance-mile as very different things. Bet if you counted step miles, you would have way more than 33!
Yesterday and today I walked 7.20 distance miles, but I walked over 21,000 which would be 10.5 step-miles. My stride is only 21" compared to the average at 31".
That realization really helped me allow myself not to over-stride. At first I kept trying to complete that mile faster so I tried to take longer steps. Consequently I got shin-splints. Now I take shorter steps just faster so more of them. No shin-splints and I burn more calories and I enjoy the walk more!
Have a good, rest of the week, ladies! Gayle, I hope everything works out for your cat. Tough when a pet is ill.
Charlie
I use Leslie Sansone walk at home tapes and she tells how many miles they are.that's what I go by.I get a very good workout using them because you use every part of your body.Even some jogging.And lets not forget the sweat.When I log in my exercise I may be burning up more calories than I post but haven't quite figured out how to post it so I put it under brisk walk.I joinedWalk100 miles in January which is why i'm keeping track of my miles.I'm half way there.I didn't quite make the challenge in Dec.so trying again.
I hope everyone is having a good week.
Mary
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I am with you Mary about wishing for the 150's. With me it is the same 5 lbs, up and down, up and down. I am wondering if there are such things as set points of weight. Logically, I don't think so, plateaus, yes, but set points, not so sure. It is just that I weighed 165 for about 10 years, a few years ago, and I just cannot seem to get away from the number very far. Sigh.
But water is happening more easily now so I am thinking of a new goal next week. Progress.0 -
Mary: Since Leslie Sansone is walking "miles" in place, she must also be using the step-mile system. I bet if you counted your steps while doing her video that it would be about 2,000 for a mile. They are more accurate for calorie burn and you can count that they will pretty much match MFP. I think her tapes are great and I have used them on raining vacation days away. I'm lucky to have an indoor track at my gym. Most don't. I don't use treadmills for fear that if my defibrillator went off, I might get thrown off and hurt. You are right about the whole body moving. I probably look like a joke walking the track. I alternate punching my arms in front or above me with each step. When I get too tired, I still move them in an exaggerated way. I started doing this when just fast walking wasn't enough to raise my heartrate.
As for the 150's, nothing magic about it. I still haven't reached that 154 that I wanted by January 1! It will come for both of us. I do think that our body settles in, like Marney suggested, and then we lose. I tend to usually have a large gain, too, but then I lose it gradually and whoosh! I lose two or three pounds in a day or two.
Gayle: I love prunes. Plain or stewed. It is funny as my mother was very, very, very thin, but she would always use artificial sweetner (saccharine) when she would stew prunes or apricots. For some reason, we all liked the taste better. I still do. I love stewed apricots. Cook them way down so that they make a great spread on toast!
Marney: When I walk now, I never totally straighten my knee. My stride is mostly behind me. When I step down, my step is almost under me and then as my foot goes from heel to toe, the step has moved behind me. I never get shin-splints and think it is probably a lot better for my knees, too, that I don't straighten/lock them. Sounds like you and I learned the hard way how to avoid the shin-splints.
I think I really realized today that weight loss takes a long time and then in takes forever after that! I imagine when I get to my goal that I will eat pretty much like a eat right now as by then I will burn a lot less with exercise and my body will be used to the exercise, too. That is why I never counted calories as moderate housework or cooking; those everyday chores. I did that while I was 238 pounds. Didn't help me lose back then. 0
