Daily Check-In
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Started off my week with a bang yesterday, trainer during the workday, 90 mins thai boxing and then an indoor soccer game right after last night. Was hard to get all my protein in after that because I just wanted to crash. I was a little under but not too bad. The scale is moving in the right direction but we will see if I am losing fat or muscle in a couple weeks. Fingers crossed!0
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"Daily check-in" - heh - apparently my "day" is a couple of months long! Been in a holding pattern for a couple of months. End of the school year was BUSY. Just attended HS reunion and then drove an extra day to meet up with an old college friend. Back home, recording again, motivated to drop the last 10ish pounds. I'm at a healthy body composition now (which is why I've been okay with the holding pattern); but I'm ready to work on the flatter stomach and make use of the remainder of summer vacation to really get the exercise thing going and consistent. New profile pic - I'm actually brave enough to be seen in a sleeveless T.0
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Well, it took me a week, but I got a good jaunt of exercise in today. I weighed myself last week and I had apparently gained... it threw me RIGHT OFF... I barely kept to my calories for a few days, gave up on exercising and couldn't find my "mojo" but today, I bit the proverbial bullet and I went to the dog park with my pup before work this morning. After that, I worked out some at work. I've decided not to weigh myself again for a few months. I can't take the distraction. I can SEE the weight difference, so I will stick with that. Thank goodness I got back into it, it was super hard! That said, in the past, I dropped things for YEARS, this time it was a week. Yesterday my knee hurt and the day before my finger... both pains are fairly constant however, when I'm doing well exercising, both fade a lot (never go, but fading is a close second in my books!) so when I noticed the serious pain, i KNEW i had to get back on the horse! I'm doing it. One day, one step, one moment at a time, I won't give up this time.0
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Just back to MFP for a couple of weeks now, after being gone for nearly a year. Saw this thread on my feed today and thought I'd check it out. Have had a good day thus far. Just got in from a 5 mile walk. Trying to figure out what I'm going to eat for dinner tonight.0
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Had a "sort of" yummy dinner tonight. I've been wanting to try out this recipe for using an avocado instead of mayo to make a chicken salad. Well, sadly I got out of work late tonight and just wasn't in the mood to cook some chicken and make a chicken salad, and the avocados at the store weren't all that ripe, they need a day or two sitting out.
So, instead, I bought some pre-made chicken salad and some packet guacamole and mixed them together. Not as good as I imagine the real home made version will be, but it was enough to satisfy the itch I had tonight for it. 
I'll try the full monte this weekend when I've got the time to cook and the avocados are ripe. 0 -
I love using Avocados in my chicken salad... along with celery, onion (or jicama) and peppers, and dried cranberries and hemp hearts...
*slowly eating my stupid celery....*0 -
BIRTHDAYS! Curse birthdays and having 3 friends born in the same week! Big meals and heavy drinking do not a fit body make. Seeing the scale go up sucks.
Nevermind, we all need to have fun sometimes I guess, back on it now.0 -
Look at all us gripers!!! I tweaked my knee yesterday and am so sour over it...hopefully it works itself out by tomorrow, I hate missing a soccer game! Did a full upper body workout today but doesn't feel like enough and am grumbling over getting all my protein and water in already today. Grrrrr, someone needs to send me a swift kick in the a** today!
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I was taken into an office to be told that I have been promoted which is fantastic news. Though I then find that I have worked through my lunch and caught in the office for an extra hour. A bit of better planning from now on methinks! I hope everyone has a fantastic weekend.0
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Did agility and obedience classes with my dog. Trying to eat healthy. Have a great rest of the day everyone!0
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Morning all! Getting ready to hit a morning walk before work, didn't eat so great yesterday, here's hoping today will be better!0
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Mondays are my killer, 3 tough workouts that drain me and completely dehydrate me by the end of the day no matter how much I drink before hand. I drop a lot of pounds but I know it's water so I end up gaining a bit back over the next few days as I replenish water stores. Get's frustrating to see the scale go up when I am on point with my intake and exercise but it does make sense. Long term, slow, steady loss is what I am looking for so trying to keep that in mind today.0
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I'm finally back on track in a solid way, day 5 of 30 day challenge. I'll be keeping it up and have decided that weighing myself needs to be every couple of months. I'm looking for NSV anyway, and the only thing that has deterred me at all was weighing myself and so I'll not be doing so for the time being.0
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My gym buddy's arms have been getting noticeably bigger than mine in the last couple of weeks & i've been struggling to keep up so I invested in some matrix whey protein that I saw cheap on groupon. Eaten well within my goal today and don't feel too hungry, if only every day was like today! 0
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Have a good day all!0
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today is a good day! Hope all of you are enjoying it!0
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Awesome day today! Got tons of work done at my job, super productive! Now, getting ready to hit an evening walk planned. Looks like a gross day is coming tomorrow, according to the weather channel, so got to enjoy today while it's still here!
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Feeling pretty positive today. I'm back on track, reporting, taping, and paying attention to my eating and loving to exercise. Some days it is a chore, but i ALWAYS feel so good after! It's great to feel like I've accomplished something!0
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robbie_1982 wrote: »I then look up and realise the other client is the 20-odd-year-old girl and then it makes sense.
Yes this goes on all the time. My gym is down to one floor trainer at night who is supposed to circulate and give people guidance and instruction, and also help keep the place neat. He spends 85% of his time talking at this one buff young dude who very clearly does not need a trainer, while n00bs try to figure stuff out on their own and the weight room looks like a cyclone hit it. I've pretty much learned to expect this.
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I had an all day dentist appt yesterday so we went out for dinner! Stayed under calorie but was way short on protein so back to the basics today.0
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Had a "sort of" yummy dinner tonight. I've been wanting to try out this recipe for using an avocado instead of mayo to make a chicken salad. Well, sadly I got out of work late tonight and just wasn't in the mood to cook some chicken and make a chicken salad, and the avocados at the store weren't all that ripe, they need a day or two sitting out. So, instead, I bought some pre-made chicken salad and some packet guacamole and mixed them together. Not as good as I imagine the real home made version will be, but it was enough to satisfy the itch I had tonight for it. I'll try the full monte this weekend when I've got the time to cook and the avocados are ripe.
If you eat dairy and just want to avoid mayo, try greek yogurt in chicken salad. My sis made it with a little bit of champagne but you can do anything with it (curry, tarragon, dill, etc.) depending on your tastse.0 -
Got up the nerve to wear one of my vented t-shirts to the gym, and of course there is a guy there with absolutely SICK arms that made mine look like balloon animals.... oh well, you're only in competition with yourself... right????
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balloon animals, vodka through a straw, I think we will get along just fine....0
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The scale is moving in the right direction but we will see if I am losing fat or muscle in a couple weeks. Fingers crossed!
@annemmr - how do you know whether you're losing fat or muscle? I'm losing about 1/4 kg per week, maybe a little less, and I have no idea whether it's fat or muscle!0 -
I didn't know this thread was here but I like the idea, so I'll try it out. Here I am.
I've got chronic illness stuff going on of a vague and unhelpful nature, and the past few days have been something like a flare-up? So I've had to sleep in the day a lot, and I've not been able to move around much. 1,000-3,000 steps per day, according to Fitbit. But of course I still get hungry, so I've been quite far over on my calorie goals for about 5 days. I am looking forward to getting a bit back to normal, but goodness knows when that will be.
On the plus side, I am doing way better with my protein goals, and I can really tell the difference. There is a particular kind of tired that I get if I keep not getting enough protein, and that particular kind of tired hasn't shown up in a while.
I wish I knew what was causing this phase of sleep-requiring exhaustion. It's been almost a week now. >:( I want to kick its *kitten* and carry on like before!0 -
Got up the nerve to wear one of my vented t-shirts to the gym, and of course there is a guy there with absolutely SICK arms that made mine look like balloon animals.... oh well, you're only in competition with yourself... right????
Competition with myself....that must be why I suck in my gut every time I pass someone on my walking route, I'm certain that's the reason!
Speaking of which, I'm out the door for a quick morning walk before work. Not looking forward to any walks this weekend, the weather channel is calling for 900 million degrees this weekend. Guess I'll be walking through Nazareth for 40 years this weekend, blah..... 0 -
The scale is moving in the right direction but we will see if I am losing fat or muscle in a couple weeks. Fingers crossed!
@annemmr - how do you know whether you're losing fat or muscle? I'm losing about 1/4 kg per week, maybe a little less, and I have no idea whether it's fat or muscle!
This is always a puzzle... how are clothes fitting? If they are getting looser, is it in the areas where you have fat to lose? This is simple enough for a guy (sort of) but may be more complicated for women.
If you have access to a competent personal trainer they may be able to measure it for you, but the caliper method is highly subjective to the method and location of measurement (best to always have the same person do it because technique varies) and the displacement method is the most accurate, but rare and expensive.0 -
@shiftynj Ahhh, so it's not a very easy question to answer for an individual then. I'm not a woman but I've got a lot of oestrogen, so I'm guessing there would be a lot of similarities for me with women when it came to measuring whether it's fat loss or muscle loss or both.
For me, I have noticed that my arms and legs are both slimmer, and I did have fat to lose there. I noticed my arms being slimmer this morning because I have a little more muscle definition, and it gave me a bit of a confidence boost in making me feel like lifting weights might help me look better. So that's a mark on the "fat loss" column, I guess. The slimmer legs part is a mystery. I've been walking more, so I'm hoping that's kept my muscle tone at least the same as it was before.
I'm gonna be a bit more diligent with taking progress photos. A big part of my problem is I can't remember what my body looked like last month!
Thanks for the info, @shiftynj. 0 -
My gym buddy's arms have been getting noticeably bigger than mine in the last couple of weeks & i've been struggling to keep up so I invested in some matrix whey protein that I saw cheap on groupon. Eaten well within my goal today and don't feel too hungry, if only every day was like today!
How do you guys compare size-wise, and how many calories are you eating on average?
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