Twenty Pound Somethings Week 11

kistinbee

Good morning gals. Sorry I didn't check in last night...it was a HORRIBLE night! My husband and I got in a big argument and I ended up going to bed at like 8...just wanted the day to be over. I ended up eating about 400 calories UNDER...I only had a small turkey burger on a light bun with 1 sl. fat free swiss. Oh well. I was just not in the mood...and yes, it was my birthday, so poopy! Oh well...today is a new day! (Like Amy said!) I am feeling a lot better and this morning my husband told me he's taking my out for dinner tonight...which is great...but I'm ALSO going out for lunch today with people at work (that Indian food I've been mentioning). SO....this is going to be my most challenging day. I had 1 c. Multigrain Cheerios with 1/2 c. skim milk and 1 med. banana, 8 oz. PlumSmart Lite juice, and 1 multivitamin for breakfast. I have my 2 c. coffee with 2 tbsp. sugar free vanilla caramel creamer and a Kashi TLC blackberry graham bar for this morning snack (I seriously can't make it until lunch without a snack...I'll get sick!) And I brought a TLC Peanut Peanut Butter granola bar for me to eat before my workout. So...lunch will be Indian and dinner I think will be Applebees (which is okay because I order WW menu and know the calories). AND since I'm not weighing again until next Tuesday, I won't know if I'm up or not from this...so actually a good thing I'm not weighing everyday like I usually do. But...it is a challenging day. I am going to the gym for a 1/2 hour run and 1 hour BodyPump so that will help. I will still have to do some searching online about nutrition for Indian food...NO clue! Anyways...wish me luck and have a wonderful day gals! I'll check back later!!!

cassangelidy

Amy, I'm sorry to hear about your weigh in...TOM is soooo frusterating when you are trying to lose weight!!! :grumble: I totally feel the pain too!! :flowerforyou:

Kristin--I'm sorry to hear you guys got in a fight. I'm proud of you for not over eating...that is what I do when I get mad...I comfort eat. "I'll show you...::eats cookie::" LOL Wow you really got back at him Cassidy. lol. Today sounds like it will be a fun day. Indian food isn't THAT bad. They do a lot of veggies and vegetarian food. I'm sure you will find some calorie info online.

I have good news this morning!! I got up and got my booty to the gym!! WOO HOO!! I did Turbo Jam last night and then 25 mins on the stair climber and 15 mins on the treadmill at 5% incline. SOOO the *really* good news is....I'M OUT OF THE 190'S!!! My weigh in was 189.8lbs. That's a 2.4 lb loss for the last week!!

YIPPEEEEEEEEee

If I can lose 3 pounds a week for the next 3 weeks, I'll meet my goal of 180lbs by 10/14/08!!

WE CAN DO IT LADIES!!!!!!!!

kistinbee

Thanks Cass.:flowerforyou:

PedalHound

Yay Cass!!! That's wonderful :bigsmile:

Kristin, I'm sorry your birthday ended in a fight. That's no fun. But I'm glad that you'll have a bit of celebration today too!

Today is off to a beautiful start for me. I've been starting my days with a sun salutation (yoga) which has been so nice. So much to do for this trade show but I am feeling like it will be okay.

Meals today:

1: egg white omlette w/ skim milk cheese, tomato, pea shoots & salsa, 1 slice ezekiel cinnamon raisin toast w/ homemade olive butter and fruit juice sweetened raspberry jam

2: 1 apply w/ cashew pistachio brazil nut butter, a dried apricot & a vanilla protein shake w/ skim milk

3: homemade 7 bean soup, 2 brazil nuts, 1 banana sliced w/ 1/2 cup blueberries and 1 tbsp dark chocolate chips melted over top (yum!... and I needed to fill in some calories :laugh: )

4: chocolate protein shake w/ skim milk, veggie burger (rice, lentils & vegetables) on 2 slices Ezekiel sodium-free bread w/ hummus, pea shoots, tomato

5: 3 cups air popped popcorn

Workout today is my advanced step class at the gym :bigsmile:

Well, I don't know if I'll be checking in until later or possibly tomorrow. So much to do!! Have a great one ladies if I don't get back on here, and Kristin, just stay away from the BUTTER chicken

katyk08

GOOD AFTERNOON ALL

Great start to the day...weighed this morning and the scale read 205.0!!! Yay, so I adjusted my ticker and that is a total of 5lb loss for this week!! Yippee! So down 34lbs for this challenge so far..!

PT this morning went well. She started me on weights today :bigsmile:

Foodwise: bfast: cinnamon raisin cereal bar snack: fiber one bar lunch: chikfila chargrilled chkn garden salad no dressing, no sunflower seeds and no croutons! Not sure what dinner will be..maybe pizza but who knows!

Exercise: None yet, but will go for a walk this evening- atleast 30 min!

Great job this week Cass, thats a great loss!!

Kristin, I hope today is much better for you!

I hope everyone else has a great afternoon as well

Ill check in later this evening!!!




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cassangelidy

GOOD AFTERNOON ALL

Great start to the day...weighed this morning and the scale read 205.0!!! Yay, so I adjusted my ticker and that is a total of 5lb loss for this week!! Yippee! So down 34lbs for this challenge so far..!

PT this morning went well. She started me on weights today :bigsmile:

Foodwise: bfast: cinnamon raisin cereal bar snack: fiber one bar lunch: chikfila chargrilled chkn garden salad no dressing, no sunflower seeds and no croutons! Not sure what dinner will be..maybe pizza but who knows!

Exercise: None yet, but will go for a walk this evening- atleast 30 min!

Great job this week Cass, thats a great loss!!

Kristin, I hope today is much better for you!

I hope everyone else has a great afternoon as well

Ill check in later this evening!!!




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Thanks Katy and Rhiannon....

WOW KATY!! NICE ACTION!!!!

I'm glad PT went well for you today!!

Rhiannon, have a good day! Check in with us when you can...you will be missed.

DebLaf

Wow Katy, You are really on a roll. I wish I could drop 5 pounds in a week.

Pedal, sounds like your doing good keeping on track while you are extra busy lately.

Kristen, I'm glad your off to a good start today & you didn't do any emotional eating last night to soothe yourself.

Cass, Great job on the weight loss.

I went to exercise class today, forgot how many cals I burned & how to get back to that on the HRM so I will figure it out later.

1: fiber one cereal & skim milk
2: light & fit yogert, 4 oz. skim milk & kashi cookie
3: turkey wrap
4: apple
5: lean cusine pizza
6: skim milk & the light cookie I was going to make yesterday and still havn't made them yet.

Have a great day everyone. I'll check in later.:flowerforyou:

kistinbee

Thanks all for your kind words.:flowerforyou:

Lunch was good. I think I probably ate a little more than I should...it was a buffet. And I don't really know how to count it all so I kind of extimated. I had about 1 c. rice with peas, 2 quarters of flat bread, about 1/2 c. fresh honey dew, and about 1 cup of this vegetable/creamy stuff...it was full of carrots and other veggies and not too spicy (I'm not a spicy person). It was good but I was full when I was finished. Drank lots of water with it. So...I'm pretty sure I over-estimated calories and it will put me over my limit for today (without exercise or dinner) but it's okay. Like I said, today is my challenging day this week and if it's my one day over, I won't feel too horrible!

Well...back to work, but I'll check back later!

PedalHound

Quick check-in!

Kristin, one of the things I REALLY like about not weighing in every day is the fact that one day doesn't have as much power. You can be right on point for the rest of the week after this challenging day and next time you weigh in you won't even know it happened.

Alright, back to the grind! I'll feel SO relaxed Sunday night... AHHHH....

kistinbee

Quick check-in!

Kristin, one of the things I REALLY like about not weighing in every day is the fact that one day doesn't have as much power. You can be right on point for the rest of the week after this challenging day and next time you weigh in you won't even know it happened.

Alright, back to the grind! I'll feel SO relaxed Sunday night... AHHHH....

You're totally right! Thanks!:bigsmile: I won't worry SO much!

cassangelidy

And, you know what's so great!!!???!!! Your challenging day comes at the begining of the new week! You have 5 more days before weigh in...5 days of workouts and 5 days of great eating!! See...nothing to worry about! :drinker:

pdxmomof2

Hello Ladies,

Hope everyone is having a wonderful day.

I have never had Indian food myself but it is sounding yummy! And it sounds like you didn't overdo it too much.

I went for my long walk this morning. Got about 8 miles in, yahoo! I may try to drag myself to the gym tonight. I pay for this membership but never go. I just love to get my exercise outdoors!

Breakfast was Oatmeal and fruit.
Lunch was a pulled pork sandwich from a good BBQ place. We had to take the little one out to lunch as one of his fish he got for his birthday on the 5th died. We discovered it right before school so my DH and I took him to buy a new fish and to lunch. Hopefully this doesnt happen often?!

So, since I dont have a whole lot of calories for dinner I will be doing a prepackaged veggie medley and 2 spicy black bean garden burgers. Snack this afternoon will be a fruit leather and some carrots.

Hopefully I can loose the 3 pound gain and then some for Tuesdays weigh in!

Amy

DebLaf

Good for you Amy, sounds like your on your way to losing that weight.

I on the other hand feel like I'm starving this evening and got a little out of control. I stayed within my calories and hope I am not feeling this hungry again so I won't be tempted to eat again tonight.

Good night ladies:yawn:

PedalHound

woohoo :drinker: :glasses: :drinker:

I have to say, a 3 week plateau is *almost* worth it for how fabulous and motivated I feel :bigsmile: Although it may also be releasing the scale's grip on my life... AND I lost a bunch of inches again finally.

I have to share this soup I made up today. It was soooo tasty. Sorry, no measurements for the spices - I just add to taste.

7 Bean Soup
1L low sodium vegetable stock
1-2 cups water (after soup is made, just for simmering to thin out)
1.5 cups mixed beans & lentils (many stores have 7 bean mixes in their health food bulk sections)
1/4 cup brown rice
5 bay leaves (remove before eating)
1 tbsp dried onion or .5 cup chopped onion
ground ginger
garlic powder (or 1-3 cloves minced garlic)
black mustard seed
chili powder
turmeric
thyme
basil
pepper
lemon juice (1 tsp?)
1/3 cup raisins
3/4 cup red cabbage (thinly sliced)
1 large carrot grated

OR... celery slices, cubed squash, quinoa rather than rice...

Okay, have a great evening everyone!!! :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile:

DebLaf

Good Morning All,

Pedal, So glad to hear how great things have worked out for you. Soup sounds good. Do you just mix all ingredients in a pot together & simmer? For how long?

I just had breakfast & am still hungry. I've had 16 oz. of water allready. I am going to have a cup of coffee & hope that helps.

Today:
1: oatmeal, banana, & coffee
2: apple
3: Lunch not sure yet I will be out running around
4: skim milk & biscotti
5: grilled chicken salad
6: popcorn

I'll check in later. Have a good day:flowerforyou:

cassangelidy

Morning Ladies!!

I just got back home from the gym and had a couple mins so I'd thought I'd say Morning and log my exercise. I hope you all have a beautiful morning!! :flowerforyou:

Oh, I watched Shred lvl 1 last night (didn't actually do it) and it looks pretty hard. At first I was like....oh this is going to be easy...however the fact that you have no rest and go from one thing to the next...I bet my little body is going to be sore. I'm determinded to do it tonight...not just watch.

For those that have done Shred....Do you do it everyday? It says "lost 20 pounds in 30 days" does she mean 30 workouts, or actually 30 days?? It would make more sense to do it every other day....anyhow...thoughts?

pdxmomof2

I have it, I dont do it everyday but I think that is the idea behind it. I should do it daily, if I came even close to loosing 20 pounds in 30 days I would be soooo happy!

kistinbee

Good morning! Sorry I didn't post AGAIN last night. Ended up being busy. I went to the gym after work (and that Indian lunch) with full intentions of doing a 1/2 hour run and 1 hour BodyPump class as planned. However...I started my run and my WHOLE body was aching. So...I decided to walk with incline on the treadmill instead...did that for a half hour and burned around 250 calories. By this time my whole body was SO sore I thought I would cry. SO...decided not to stay for BodyPump which is VERY sad because I LOVE it! So...went home and Michael took me out for dinner (AppleBees as I expected). I didn't do too bad. Had the WW cup of onion soup to start (150 calories) and the WW Chili Lime Chicken Salad for my meal (250 calories). I had a red apple sangria (the big one) to drink...which yes is a mixed drink. but can't be HORRIBLE since it's mostly red wine. And my real treat was the caramel apple dessert shooter (in a shot glass) which I know has calories (NO idea how many) but I think it's one of the greatest inventions ever because they are small but perfect for satisfying the sweet tooth. And I went home happy....not stuffed, but happy. The rest of the evening I spent going over paperwork, 401K stuff, and benefits for this new position...so no evening snacking. So...I feel the evening went fairly well and if it's the only day I go over this week (which is the goal) I feel pretty confident it won't inhibit my weightloss. Right?

Anyways...back on track today. Here's the plan:

Breakfast:
1 c. Multigrain Cheerios, 1/2 c. skim milk, 1 med. banana, 8 oz. PlumSmart Lite juice, 1 multivitamin.

AM Snack:
2 c. coffee, 2 tbsp. vanilla-caramel creamer, 1 soft-baked Kashi TLC blackberry graham bar.

Lunch:
2 sl. village hearth wheat bread, 4 sl. turkey lunchmeat, 1 sl. kraft free swiss, alfalfa sprouts, 1 tsp. mustard, 1 small cucumber, 14 baby carrots, AE YoLite yogurt, diet coke, Jello Dark Chocolate Raspberry pudding cup.

Afternoon Snack:
1 med. apple, 100 cal. pack almonds, Kashi TLC Honey Almond Flax granola bar.

Dinner:
No clue!:noway: I forgot to thaw anything out...so really NO idea! I might do some searching online today and think about it. I also need to go to the grocery store, so who knows.

PM Snack:
Depends on calories remaining.

Exercise plan--45 minute Step class, 15 minute Ab workout.

So...I think today should be good. Just need to figure out dinner. Have a great morning ladies and I'll check back in a bit!

cassangelidy

I'm going to try to do it tonight and if I really like it then I'll do it 3-4 times a week...see what happens. I'm not doing any strength training right now...working on losing fat..so this would be a great way to get in some weights.

cassangelidy

Kristin,

Nice job at dinner last night!!! Aren't those shooter desserts AWESOME!!! They are so fun...and you said it perfectly. They satisfy the sweet tooth.

My food plan for the day is:

Protein shake and oatmea, coffee w/NF milk....275 calories
yogart and apple 120
Salad with 1 whole egg and two egg whites, mozz cheese spray dressing and craisins
Soup with 5 saltine crackers
Granola bar 150
Dinner....probably a chicken pasta thing....something out of chicken at least.
PM Snack...protein shake and 2 graham crackers 220

I burned 395 calories this morning at the gym and I"m going to do Shred lvl 1 AND Turbo Jams Ab Jam (its 20 mins long) tonight at some point in between laundry. :laugh:

Hope to talk to you all soon!

PedalHound

Just a very fast post - today and tomorrow are total write-offs for me as far as communication goes!

Cass, as a personal trainer I would not really recommend that you do the shred every day. Every other day is great, but keep in mind that your muscles develop and grow stronger when they are RESTING, not when they are working. Once you begin to find the exercises less challenging (you're not feeling like the last few reps are a struggle) then doing it 4 or 5x per week would possibly be okay, but way better if you use that and incorporate other cardio and weight training of areas you didn't train during the Shred. I have the dvd also and I still don't do it daily, it's just one of my options.

Have a great one ladies!! :flowerforyou:

cassangelidy

Just a very fast post - today and tomorrow are total write-offs for me as far as communication goes!

Cass, as a personal trainer I would not really recommend that you do the shred every day. Every other day is great, but keep in mind that your muscles develop and grow stronger when they are RESTING, not when they are working. Once you begin to find the exercises less challenging (you're not feeling like the last few reps are a struggle) then doing it 4 or 5x per week would possibly be okay, but way better if you use that and incorporate other cardio and weight training of areas you didn't train during the Shred. I have the dvd also and I still don't do it daily, it's just one of my options.

Have a great one ladies!! :flowerforyou:

I didn't know you were a PT!! :bigsmile: Nice! My hubby is trying to push me in that direction. (former body builder, gym rat gone astray:grumble: ). I was thinking the same thing about doing it only 3-4 times a week. I NEVER:noway: work the same muscle group 2 days in a row, so I thought it was funny that is says 20 pounds in 30 days...It should say 20 pounds in 30 workouts.

Thanks Rhiannon for your input! :happy: You confirmed what I thought. Since I'm not really working on building muscles right now, if I just did some sort of circut training (Shred or Turby Sculpt) 3 days a week...I think it will be a nice little additive.

Just a side note...I'm having a "skinny day". Weird. You know...one of those days were you feel skinny for some reason.(I hope you guys know what I'm talking about.)

kistinbee

Cass...Yay for a skinny day!!!!!:drinker: :drinker: I LOVE those!!!!!!!

Rhiannon...as a personal trainer, I have a question...and you probably won't be on here for a couple days, but whenever...

Here's kind of my workout plan as of right now. Will I see results? I really want to tone as I lose fat...so I'm trying to incorporate cardio and weights. Let me know what you think...

Mon-1/2 hour run on treadmill, 1 hour BodyPump class
Tues-45 minute Step class, 15 minute Ab workout
Wed-1/2 hour run on treadmill, 1 hour BodyPump class
Thurs-45 minute Step class, 15 minute Ab workout
Fri-I usually try and get some cardio in, either eliptical or treadmill at the gym or out with the dogs, but sometimes my Fridays are busy and it ends up being a day off.
Sat-1 hour spinning
Sun-Usually a 1/2 hour walk or run with the dogs or a day off.

Am I getting enough weight training in with BodyPump twice a week? How often should I bump up weights? This is already a lot of time for me, so if I need to add some things, I'll probably have to eliminate some others. But I really do want to tone. What are your thoughts?

**And anyone else, please share your feelings as well!

cassangelidy

hey you. I used to do BodyPump 3 times a week....and definitely saw results.

My question to you is...what is your biggest priority? If losing fat is the main priority then your plans look good...but if you want to gain muscles *more* then I'd do 3 days a week...

just my thoughts on the situation.

kistinbee

I guess I initially want to lose the fat...so maybe I should stick with something like this until I get down to the weight I want, then start adding in more weight training and less cardio? What do you think?

cassangelidy

Building muscle is GREAT!! However you aren't going to see that muscle without diet and cardio. For ME...when I was within 10 pounds of my goal I upped my weights and decreased the "length" of my cardio...but I started doing high intensity internvals. HIIT its called. So I was working out the same amount of time each week..but focusing on different things.

This is what I did....so you need to find what works for YOUR body...:glasses:

Remember though...once you start concentrating on lifting more often....you will gain a little weigh before you start losing again. :huh: Sorry to tell you...but the good news is you will lose inches durning that time.

For ME...I've decided to focus on cardio and circut training and then when I hit 160lbs...(hopefully 1/1/09) then I'll change up my routine to include more concentration on my weight lifting and more intensity in my cardio.

kistinbee

Thanks Cass...this was kind of what I was thinking.

kistinbee

Amy...familygirl37167 has been looking for you. She even made a post looking for you. You should maybe send her a message.

cassangelidy

Thanks Cass...this was kind of what I was thinking.

:blushing: I hope I didn't sounds like a know it all....:embarassed:

kistinbee

Thanks Cass...this was kind of what I was thinking.

:blushing: I hope I didn't sounds like a know it all....:embarassed:

No...not at all...but since you used to body build, I trust you know what you're talking about. I appreciate the advice...I asked for it!