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I don't look like a "fitness model" - but I have decided that my "new" measurements is going to be very simple: when people look at me, I want them to CLEARLY be thinking: "yep, she works out!"
That's it.
So, it is *not* about "fitting into a bikini" (I'm just not a bikini-person - can't explain it, but I'm obviously not all about showing very much of my own flesh - likely some deep-seated issues there, but, what-evah - a tankini suits me fine!).
It is "not" about hitting a certain number on the scale.
It really is just going to be about carrying myself well, dressing to suit my age/style, and knowing that I'm very, VERY HEALTHY AND FIT!0 -
sue - get your trainer to tape you and put THAT tape up on youtube for me to see (he can black-mark-out your face, right??)....I don't want to see some dude doing bad form. I will say that "single-leg squats" have never been a good move for me - I can't go that deep.
Comparatively, the one-legged-get-ups I *am* getting better at, and I think they mimic the "single-leg squat" move, just in the reverse (although I'm unsure of this, so don't quote me).
Today, my hams are sore. Not my glutes - my hams. So, I did *not* fire my glutes, yesterday - like I should have - I fired my hams. Ugh.0 -
Beeps..that's a great goal. I shall adopt it as well. I think with the nice muscles I'm getting just cutting out fat will do that for me.
I missed yesterday..working out today but so tired. Going anyway..wish me luck.0 -
dropped a 25lb plate on my two fingers of my right hand..OUCH workout incomplete..sigh..not broken..I'll workout tomorrow...but OUCH0
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Ouch, breeze! I'm glad it's not broken.
cphaneuf, you look awesome!
samntha, I'm so stealing 'cheap dress, expensive underwear'. It's a brilliant tip.
Beeps, I like your motto. I'm going with that, too.
maniac, I'm with you in a bit of a funk. My tummy/hip measurements aren't going down the way they were there for a while...2 AMRAP workouts (I'll decide after 1 if I do the second, I think) and I'm on Phase 2. Maybe the change will be a boost?
Beeps, I promise I'm not stalking your profile, but your pics show MAJOR loss in your upper thighs. Like a-mazing, lady! So maybe that's where I'm losing some? Thigh measurements aren't around the 'saddle bags', so maybe I'm missing a change? Clinging to a shred of hope. :ohwell:0 -
holy crow, breeze!!! You are LUCKY that nothing "broke" - my goodness! I hope it heals really fast and it sounds like a REAL "OUCH"!!
pearlmullet - I totally think there's TONS of work to be done on my hips/saddlebags. Truly there is. I'm working them like MAD and I haven't lost even an inch off my hips in, oh, 6 months?????? And, my saddlebags! Yikes!! If I stand in a "normal" position with my legs a little bit apart, you can CLEARLY see that my saddlebags stick out about AN INCH on either side of my hips/glutes. It's just THE saddest thing. No, I don't take my "month-end" pictures in that pose, if I can help it.
....I've actually had people comment on the "major loss" in my thighs, but the tape measure tells me a VERY different story. I have NOT lost "majorly" on my hips/butt/thigh region - it is MY WORST AREA - and I STILL HATE IT.0 -
...so, I think the "lesson" is that my body shape has IMPROVED, for sure - and that's GREAT!
But, it still needs LOTS of improvement, I believe, and the ONLY "problem" with THAT is that the 'changes' are becoming more and more miniscule as I carry on. The "leaps-and-bounds" part of this transformation is D-O-N-E. It's now a mm here and a mm there.0 -
Beeps you are correct. The major loses are over for us. I haven't lost really anything off my thighs. What's up with that? My waist is tiny, my hips are good, my butt is WAY smaller, but thighs...nothing. However, I think you are way to hard on yourself, but I get that maybe you're a bit of perfectionist and I don't mean that in a bad way.
Breeze. I'm so glad you didn't break anything. My friend thought he broke his foot last week, but nothing on the x-ray. He went back for a follow-up today, and now it shows a fracture.
Sue feel better and enjoy your week. My mom wants to come into the city one day in July
Mary Mary Quite contrary perk up my dear and stop being so hard on yourself too. (I know, this coming from the woman whose mood swings are legend :laugh: )
I had a fabulous day today. Took the kids to six flags. My mom came in the morning so my older son and I were able to hit a few coasters. We seriously walked onto the rides. Our longest wait was 10 min for a water ride. AWESOME! Burned some serious calories with the walking in 90+ degree heat. Came home and made spaghetti because it was easy. I will finally be home pretty much the remainder of the week as I will be babysitting for a friend. So we'll just go to the movies, bowling and the spray ground and pool. lol Did I say staying home
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Took the last three days off. Need to workout tonight. Official measurements coming up at the end of the week!0
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Back to say I got my workout done and I increased weights all across the board! :drinker: My cals are low but I exceeded my protein goals. I'll definitely get the calories tomorrow.0
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Beeps, I wouldn't mind having your measurements
But I understand the need to keep persevering to your goal.
Sam, that sounds like so much fun!
Run, great job!
I am under on cals but my macros are off today. I didn't plan well at all. I'll try to make up for it tomorrow!0 -
Thanks ladies. Hand is much mu ch better..typed two stories for the paper tonight..nearly 4000 words so there's that..not sure I can lift tomorrow..will see..if not I'll just do something active and I'm sure it'll be ok by Thursday. It only hurts when I touch the bruising but function seems ok. I'll lift lighter weights perhaps if it's store at all. something is better than nothing right?
Need to get a bit stricter with the diet..I'm not terrible and there was no junk but just not quite there...was over calories by less than 100 so nothing too serious.
I've been thinking long term. I have my daughter's wedding and will be away until end of July and with 3 kids(my two and a grandson) workouts at a gym will not happen for ten days but since I haven't hard rest weeks I'm just calling this that. She has a pool so the exercise will happen and we'll walk and do stuff. Then I have a month where I will be home but my kids will be too..hoping to figure out a way to work out around them...no sitter in town but maybe I'll find a girl who needs a bit of cash three times a week? It'll be pretty much maintenence though..then comes september. I'm determined that this winter I will be focusing on lifting and setting some pretty big goals. I feel so much better..I want MORE of this.
I will start to look more at macros and stuff and try to just get a little more perfect without becoming obsessive. I'm certainly enjoying it so far..damaged digits aside 0 -
samntha - I haven't been to six flags since I was 14 - but I REMEMBER that it was *the* place for coaster-riders! I do want to figure out how to get my kids there in the next few years!
runzalot - yay for a GREAT work-out! Sometimes backing off for a few days DOES lead to a really great (and HEAVY!) work-out!
chubby - I'm totally happy with my measurements above the waist - no problemo. Below the waist, there's still LOTS of work to be done, that's all.....everybody has their "stubborn" areas, right?!?!?!?
breeze - I think a 10-day break will be PERFECT. I wouldn't sweat it! Likely your scale weight will "fall" because the water your body is retaining for muscle repair will dissipate. So, step on the scale a time-or-two! When you get back to lifting at the gym, I bet you'll be able to go HEAVIER, even! Bodies also "need" rest breaks! I'm glad you're taking one!
Today, I lift!0 -
I don't weigh on the scale much..I have a quantum scale..it's amusing to me to watch my size going down and my weight stay the same...I look so much smaller but weight pretty much the same...hilarious.
Hand is stiff and I'm going to lift tomorrow and just go for a nice walk today....I can't do nothing...I submitted and met all my deadlines..nothing now until next Tuesday..kids gone..hubby at work...I am FREE...
retaining water for muscle repair? That explains a lot. I was blaming hormones..good time to study the physiology of all this a bit more closely.
My waist is so large...I want to get below 30 inches...just working on fat reduction which is happening bit by bit.
I ate above my calories yesterday but it was remarkably clean eating.0 -
Morning ladies, been a bit since I posted, but just wanted to check in. I'm kinda feeling in the "funk" a few of you have been talking about. I'm over halfway done with stage one and am not really feeling stronger or better. My fiance tells me he can notice a difference, but I just simply can't see/feel it. I think I just still see my waist which isn't getting ANY smaller, sometimes it feels bigger than when I started. Perhaps I just need to stop weighing myself all together?
Hoping to dig out of this funk sooner rather than later, I'm sure TOM has something to do with it. Getting in the gym today to do workout 5B. Looking forward to taking measurements when I'm done to see if anything has improved.
Happy Wednesday ladies and sorry for the Debbie Downer post 0 -
OK, can anyone say DUMMY......half way through stage 1 and I just realized this week that I have been doing my workouts wrong!!!
Well, I've been doing the lifts, etc. correct, but I haven't been rotating the workouts correctly. I got to thinking ya know I am not going to get in as many B workouts as I am A which seemed off to me, so I reverted back to the book and low and behold I screwed myself on that one! I was doing A B A on M W F, then the next week starting over again doing it the same....what an idiot! No wonder my squats have been progressing a little quicker than my DL's! Needless to say I am switching up to the proper rotation these last 3 weeks.......
ramalem....yes, throw that scale out the window, it WILL keep doubts in your head for sure! I quit weighting myself and focused on my clothes fitting better, etc.... I am sure you hear this from everyone, but just hang in there! I guarantee you your body is changing for the better!0 -
Cut your calories back - your waist will appear!
mrs_mab - okay, that's pretty funny that you were doing TOO MANY "A" work-outs. But, now that problem is solved, it's all good!0 -
Thanks, Sam. You're right. I am hard on myself. If I would stop , I think I would see changes but I am hardcore and then FALL WAY down because I can't keep up with my own expectations.
Ate 6 mini powdered donuts ( I think ) and will be eating ice for lunch!
I haven't noticed a weight loss BUT the good news , when I am not majorly bloated from PMS or junk food, I have lost an inch off natural waist and 2 off the belly button region! Nothing off saddle bags, butt, or thighs. (((sigh))) It never goes away for me either.
Beeps, you look awesome. I can't imagine you have lost very little off the bottom region.0 -
It's a true story, manic....if I posed in EXACTLY the same way, today, that I posed in on January 1, 2012 photos, you'd literally notice only a VERY SMALL change in the hip/butt/saddlebag region. IT'S TOTALLY DEPRESSING.
maybe all I've REALLY learned in the last 18 months is how much photo-shopping exists, how "fitness models" really only look the way they do for 1 second of 1 day in any given YEAR, how bodies (in the flesh) DON'T look like bodies captured on camera.
IT'S TOTALLY DEPRESSING!!!!!!!!!
Aaaaggghhhh.0 -
Well, got my lifting in-and-done.
Literally, I am losing 0.1 lbs per week. Ugh, ugh, ugh.
The GOOD news is that I'll be down by 5 lbs next June, 2014. The BAD news is I was SUPPOSED to have ERASED that 5 lbs by end of May, 2013.
Boo.0 -
My feet hurt. TTYL0
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Beeps, I just got a chance to look at your pics. Girl, I would pay money to have your body. I are awesomely ripped! I know it's definitely not your goal, because who needs the drama or the headache, but I could totally see you winning trophies :flowerforyou:0
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I posted photos in my profile...the first from June 4 and the second set from today. I'm totally floored by the fact that this time when I am losing weight it appears the top of me is actually getting smaller...the bum is totally not flat anymore and my waist is appearing. I started stage 7 right after the first photo so am cutting right now.
I like what I'm seeing..the belly pouch looks a bit more prominent currently but it's still shrinking overall.
Anyway..will continue stage 7 until my vacation..fingers much better..lifting tomorrow 0 -
Correction..losing size..I've only lost 2 pounds0
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samntha - heavy-lifting HAS changed my shape. I am WAY happier with my shape than I was 18 months ago. All true.
breeze - your pictures are a testament to ALL of the efforts you are putting in! Looking better-and-better-and-better all the time!0 -
In other news, I've ingest 83g of protein so far, today, and I still have my supper to eat! 0
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somehow, I've eaten over 100... no dinner yet either. At least I know why I'm not hungry 0
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protein...need to focus on that0
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no gym tonight
Huge blister on my foot and couldn't get my sneaker on. weird excuse I know, but my calorie and macros were pretty much perfect today. I'm over 120 on protein, guys I'm not even trying. 0 -
Today's adventure, dollar movie day at REgal Cinemas. CAN I eat only half a box of candy? oh, and the blister popped while I was sleeping, but I'm still wearing sandals today lol
Question: do I count the five spoonfuls of cereal I had this morning before I realized my milk went bad?0
