Week 6 Chat (24 February - 2 March)
SkimFlatWhite68
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Hi Challengers!!
Welcome to Week 6 of the Trim Taut and Terrific Aussies (and friends) 12 week challenge!!
The purpose of this thread is whatever you want
Chat away to your 
content - it's all about sharing and support.
If you are a late starter (welcome), please make sure that you have read the GOALS thread, and posted your details under INTRODUCTIONS.
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I seem to be in a pattern of one week on track and one week not... :ohwell: This is the week of being on track, and I'm hoping to back it up with 2 in a row next week. Not exactly sure what's the problem, I think it's a combination of work, my hand injury, and just a lot of stuff going on. Mind you, I managed all the same things last year and didn't seem to have the same level of difficulty with my focus. Not to worry - onwards and upwards!!
Yesterday I did a heap of cooking in the afternoon, to set me up for this week. Made the Quinoa Berry bake that I used to eat all the time last year, Cauliflower Fried Rice (cauliflower instead of rice) which I had for dinner last night and was amazingly good. What else... Coconut ice cream, well, it's really coconut frozen yoghurt but I call it ice cream, cooked some chicken sausages and boiled some eggs for snacks. Think that's about it. Anyway the fridge is stocked and I am ready for a good week ahead.
I'm going to be super busy at work so might have to keep my check ups until after hours, but I will be here!!
Already been to the gym this morning. Did chest and triceps plus 20 mins HIIT on the bike. Legs are still super sore from Saturday. I had a joint PT session with my BFF and we did a Pump style workout with half the weight I would usually use, but 20-25 reps. OMG - legs were already feeling it at 1am yesterday morning and today is day 2 DOMS and they are still really sore. I find that really weird as I usually squat about 50kg and was only using 20kg but boy oh boy, those additional reps made the difference!!
Looking forward to hearing how everyone is going
XO from Skim
Welcome to Week 6 of the Trim Taut and Terrific Aussies (and friends) 12 week challenge!!
The purpose of this thread is whatever you want
Chat away to your content - it's all about sharing and support.If you are a late starter (welcome), please make sure that you have read the GOALS thread, and posted your details under INTRODUCTIONS.
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I seem to be in a pattern of one week on track and one week not... :ohwell: This is the week of being on track, and I'm hoping to back it up with 2 in a row next week. Not exactly sure what's the problem, I think it's a combination of work, my hand injury, and just a lot of stuff going on. Mind you, I managed all the same things last year and didn't seem to have the same level of difficulty with my focus. Not to worry - onwards and upwards!!
Yesterday I did a heap of cooking in the afternoon, to set me up for this week. Made the Quinoa Berry bake that I used to eat all the time last year, Cauliflower Fried Rice (cauliflower instead of rice) which I had for dinner last night and was amazingly good. What else... Coconut ice cream, well, it's really coconut frozen yoghurt but I call it ice cream, cooked some chicken sausages and boiled some eggs for snacks. Think that's about it. Anyway the fridge is stocked and I am ready for a good week ahead.
I'm going to be super busy at work so might have to keep my check ups until after hours, but I will be here!!
Already been to the gym this morning. Did chest and triceps plus 20 mins HIIT on the bike. Legs are still super sore from Saturday. I had a joint PT session with my BFF and we did a Pump style workout with half the weight I would usually use, but 20-25 reps. OMG - legs were already feeling it at 1am yesterday morning and today is day 2 DOMS and they are still really sore. I find that really weird as I usually squat about 50kg and was only using 20kg but boy oh boy, those additional reps made the difference!!
Looking forward to hearing how everyone is going
XO from Skim
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My challenge to myself for this week: NO MORE WHEAT AND RECREATIONAL SUGAR!!!
Last week I overindulged 5 days out of 7. I didn't fill in my food diary and I don't even what to THINK about what I ate. No more!!! Today I am getting rid of all things wheat and recreational sugar. I'll still have my berries, but all the other stuff is going. It's just not good for me, or my waistline.
Today I am having Chicken Sausage and Avocado Salad for lunch, Protein shake for afternoon snack, Cauliflower Fried Rice for dinner (it also has chicken in it) and the Quinoa berry bake with Chobani yoghurt for dessert. That's my plan and I'm sticking to it!!
What is everyone else eating today?0 -
Had breaky, done day one of 30ds and feeling pumped 0
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Good morning everyone!
Great start to the day. Pump class, followed by a delicious breakfast of overnight oats with coconut milk, flaxmeal, raspberries and blackberries. For the rest of the day I have home made protein balls and home made paleo brownies for snacks, home made mushroom risotto and salad for lunch, and a chickpea & broad bean salad with turkey rissoles for dinner.
Uni exams this week, so I'm just going to wing it with the exercise and not make a set plan. Not that I ever follow the plan anyways, haha.
Candi - hooray 30ds. I loved that when I was doing it. Have fun with it!
Skim - fail to plan and you plan to fail. Sounds like you've set yourself up for success! Go team!0 -
Hey everyone, glad to hear people are already off to a great start this week!
Mon - your food today sounds delicious!
Candi - way to go with 30DS this morning! I did that in November last year, and it was great - great when you know the pain will all be over in 20 minutes! I did feel a lot stronger after doing it.
Skim - good luck with your goals for the week. Sounds like you are well prepped! Your food for today looks yummy!
I met all my goals for last week, which I am pretty happy about, and was able to complete my 80 minutes of long run, without difficulty, which I was a bit nervous about. I guess you just have to trust your running program. If you could run 70 minutes the week before, why would you not be able to run 80 minutes the next week? The whole endurance thing is pretty amazing to me. I never thought I would be able to do it.
My plan for this week is like this:
Monday - AM: 50 min steady run (done!); PM: Squash
Tuesday - Interval training (34 min)
Wednesday - bodyweight strength program
Thursday - Tempo run (45 min)
Friday - rest / strength
Saturday - 90 min long run
Sunday - rest / strength
My food diary for today looks like breakfast for breakfast, and breakfast for dinner. Lots of weetbix, skim milk, fruit, nuts and chobani today to refuel after my run this morning, and to prefuel for squash tonight.
Lunch is a left-over taco mince, egg and salad sandwich. Yum!
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Hi everyone
Life returns to normal this week as my fringe binge is finished :sad: but at least that means no more going out 6 days a week. I've had a play with my macros and my cals and so am still sorting out my diet. I am trying to focus more on nutrients, esp micronutrients, and so have added many more nuts and seeds to my diet. Unfortunately they are also high fat so my macros don't look good, but it will sort itself out in time.
I upped my activity level to active and my goal to 0.5kg loss per week. It used to be set to sedentary and I ate back my exercise cals. Hopefully the new regime will break my plateau.
I should also be back exercising this week as I won't loss so much time to socialising :laugh:0 -
Awesome start to my week. Was working 8-6pm today so hit the gym for some early morning cardio before work then did my legs and shoulder session in my lunch break felt good. Went up in my step ups and db for shoulders!!!! Going to be a good week
Nothing too extreme planned for this week, trying to hit closer to 1400 cals a day min, still working on getting there, could easily get there with added chocolate but rather eat a tad better (although still havi so e choc as I'm only human right???)
Hubby's bday tomorrow and I'm a bad wife and haven't gotten him anything (mainly because he doesn't want to need anything) and I'd rather let him choose
Oh well I got nothing for mine from him so we are even heheh
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Good morning everyone! Looks like we are all off to a great start this week!!
Here's my recipe for the Quinoa Berry Breakfast Bake. I posted it in my blog, http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/SkimFlatWhite68 but in case anyone isn't in my friends list here it is:
Ingredients:
2 whole Eggs and 3 Egg Whites
1/4 cup Milk (or a bit less)
60g Vanilla Protein Powder
1/2 cup Quinoa flakes
25g shredded Coconut
75-100g Frozen Berries (or fresh)
Method:
Pre-heat oven to 180C
Whisk Egg and Egg Whites.
Whisk in the Protein Powder, add milk and whisk that too.
Add Quinoa and Coconut, stir all together.
Pour mixture into greased oven proof dish.
Sprinkle the berries evenly over the top (they will sink)
Place in pre-heated moderate oven (180C) and bake for 20 minutes.
Then what?
- Good for breakfast - heat up first, then serve with a dollop of plain greek yoghurt on top.
- or dessert
- or afternoon tea
- take it on a picnic cut into small squares
Serves 4
Mine is 208 calories per serve, 12g carbs, 8g fat, 22g protein (depends what your protein powder is, will change calories etc).
I've also made this when friends are coming for afternoon tea and cut into squares. It's just like a cake type slice. No one knows the difference.0 -
And here is the link to the Cauliflower Fried Rice in case anyone wants to give it a try. Very nice.
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/SkimFlatWhite68/view/cauliflower-fried-rice-6322360 -
I went to the gym at 5am again this morning but didn't do my planned back/bicep day. My hand was so sore overnight and this morning I just didn't think I'd be able to pick anything up, and lets face it, if I don't rest it and have it heal properly this could drag on. :sad: So I went anyway but did the dreaded cardio. 30 mins on the treadmill, walk/run 6/12kph. Good workout.
It's not that I absolutely hate cardio, but I like it a lot better when I've finished!! I don't mind doing a walk/run because the time seems to go a lot faster.
Tomorrow I've got leg/shoulder day. Legs should be fine, I'll have to use the pin loaded machines so I don't pick anything up, and for shoulders, not sure, might be able to do a machine press and light weights for front/side raises. Anything over 5kg is causing me problems, but I could do low weight high rep for shoulder work.
Another big day for me at work today, I think it's going to be a big week. Last night I got home, got dinner, folded the washing, did a couple of things and went to bed at 7:30!! I read my book for a bit and lights out at 8:20pm!! I was really tired.
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Hi everyone!
I've had a really busy couple of days but hopefully things should calm down tomorrow.
Yesterday I did HIIT interval walk/run at the gym and ended up doing over 21,000 steps for the day (according to FitBit).
Today I did light shoulder weights and pin loaded machines for legs, plus another half an hour walk/run intervals, but didn't go as hard as yesterday. And I'm already over 22,000 steps for the day!! On a normal gym/work day I usually do around 12-15,000 so this is really good for me Pretty happy about it.
Tomorrow however, I am going to be working from home, so steps will be down as I wont be doing the walk to and from train/work/home. Wonder what the difference will be? Anyway, I'll still go to the gym in the morning. Cardio again as I don't want to do anything to aggravate my hand injury, but I'm actually starting to enjoy my cardio week. It's different that's for sure.
I'm also doing well food wise. No wheat or recreational sugar for 3 days and I feel SO MUCH BETTER!!!! It's amazing how addictive that stuff is - but now that I've passed the 3 day mark I think I'll be ok to keep it out (again).
Hope everyone is having a good week!! Happy Hump Day!!0 -
Time flies when you are having fun!!! :-)
Busy time at the moment as it grading time at the soccer club and I am heavily involved, besides my daily gym, I now play twice tennis, twice soccer, golf this week but I guess I am loving it.
Better still next Friday I am off for 10 days to Lombok, booked a bungalow over the water on a small island for 3 days and then we travel around a bit, maybe hire a car, climb a vulcano or just drink some cocktails. Obviously that is exciting to look forward to.
The bummer is that I kind of strayed a little of the path and had foods (carbs + beer) which slows my weight loss down, but nothing to serious to not been able to deal with it. Hopefully I can not gain to much over the holidays although it always seems to be muscles i loose in the beginning as well so it will not be to bad but to then kick start it again will be hard.
Positive was offcourse the fact that I alrady reached my target goal of 20,000 steps a day for the month of February and still have over a day to go. As well as the fact that I still manage to increase my mileage and now ran 12k's non stop and 15k's interval. This means I have to slightly increase my change to run the marathon to 25%. Those compression pants and socks seem to help when I wear them I think so that is good.
Bit to little chat going on on here (besides our great leader Skim), so if you are struggling then pick yourslef up and start again. I have done that a few times and ended up furher ahead, so if I can do it, you can do to. There is no better time then right NOW!!!!
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Hi All
I saw the dietician today, and to identify what my issue is I've been put on a low FODMAP diet. For those interested, details are here; http://www.lowfodmap.com/fodmaps-explained/ but basically it means I'm fructose, lactose and gluten free for the next 3 weeks.
I had to go to Woolworths again today with a list and figure out what I can eat. I have half eaten packets of ryvita, tomato paste, muesli, dried fruit, ect... it's all in my pantry going to waste. That's what annoys me the most. I'm not so worried about the restrictions. But hooray, I get potatoes and corn back! Boo, I had to give up bread and milk. Rice milk, wtf man!
Keeping on track with my exercise, at least 6 hours a week is easy to do... what's not easy is days that I get a belly ache, I also feel very very tired. But it's getting better!
Hope everyone is doing well. Don't forget, when you fall off the horse, the best thing to do is get back on! (sorry Maury, I'm not a gymnast. Zoolander FTW!)0 -
Monbot, my whole family suffer from gut and bowel related issues and the eldest daughter has been on the fodmap diet for well over a year now and her body has adjusted accordingly. She lost the couple of kilos she had wanted to. She heals faster and her iron levels have stabalized. (They were horridly low)
She eats no grains, no onions, (or shallots, and needs to watch additives of the onion family when eating out.) She misses bananas terribly but will indulge in a small slice of my homemade banana almond cake, which I make Gluten free and she has no gut pain etc, as long as she keeps the foods she knows she doesn't digest to a minimum her whole system operates beautifully.
All in all I believe she's terribly happy now she has her diet down pat. Happy and healthy so well worth throwing the stuff out of your pantry cupboard, there can't be a price put on health and piece of mind. Good Luck with it. 0 -
Thanks Alkirra! It's good to know that it's a managable lifestyle.
I've been force feeding my poor bf all the things I can't eat so it's not in the pantry, haha.0 -
And thus ends my week from hell!!
SO the stress at work finally hit boiling point where myself and two colleagues broke down (crying in the tea room is very unflattering) to upper management about all the bullying and backstabbing the 4th member of our team has been doing. It's now gone to HR to be investigated. he has been taken out of our office and placed in a differ net office while they investigate but I doubt he will ever be able to come back to our office again.
Feeling good that its all out in the open but it really has been a terrible week. the next few weeks will be stressful as they interview us all ect and we wait for an outcome but trying not to dwell. we have all been emotionally eating really badly and none of us have made it to the gym (i think its been 2 weeks since I went)
I am going to attempt to get back on the horse. hopefully I will be back on here and back into weightloss mode rather then weight gain!!
Gym tomorrow morning, pump and a dance class.
I will be udrinking a lot of wine tomorrow night with my best friend but will be back at the good diet by Sunday.
Hoping everyone else is going great at week 6! I am still determined to hit my goal in the next 6 weeks 0 -
Hi all,
Mon - good luck with your low FODMAP diet. I hope they work out what your gut doesn't like.
Candi - thank goodness your disruptive team member has been moved! I hope things settle down for you and your team now.
I have my 90 min long run tomorrow morning (early), so gotta hit the sack soon. I have quite a bit on tomorrow, including my oldest son's engagement party tomorrow night. I'm hoping my ex-husband is civil.
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Well, wasn't here last week as had a serious psychological meltdown on the previous weekend. Went back to my family for nearly the whole week, which was good for me. I didn't bother about food or exercise as I was focusing on my head. It was for the best.
Weighed in the same this last Monday, so that was good...reassured me that I did the right thing to adjust my focus.
I've been good with food and exercise this week. Going to have a day off tomorrow, but I'll be exercising because my house is the Wreck of the Hesperus and needs serious work.
Hope you're all well!
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Good to see you back, EGirl, and glad you're feeling better!0
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Thanks Michable. Getting there. :-)0
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Thanks mich how did your run go?
congrats on your sons engagement!! heres hoping the ex was civil for your sons sake
Welcome back Egirl, definantly is important to get the head straight! lets both get back on this horse!!!!
My plan is to get back inot regular exercise and eatiing.
gonna stick to my meal plan 100% and cut dairy. gluten and sugar mon-fri (except the odd greek yoghurt for breakfast)
i have had an upset tummy for 2 weeks and hopefully this helps 0
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