Yesterday was Day 1 for me: 35 Minutes Elliptical about 10 minutes trying out new gym equipment for a few minutes at a time on each.

Sorry I haven't checked in for a few days group... I just got back from a long weekend in Chicago where I did about 15,000 steps a day not to mention the 10+ flights of stairs constantly going up & down to the metro... I'm CRAZY sore... this girl is not used to walking/standing all day

Just normal walking around... grocery & Christmas shopping for the last 2 days to re-coup from Chicago. Back to the gym again after Thanksgiving

Day 1: walking, 30 minutes.
Day 2: walking, 30 minutes.
Day 3: Elliptical! 60 minutes.
Day 4: Walking 60 minutes.
Day 5: Elliptical! 60 minutes.
Day 6: Walking 60 minutes.
Day 7: Elliptical! 60 minutes.

jr1985 wrote: »

Back at it hard today... starting a new diet that my sister said that she lost about 20 lbs in 20 days from, and 1/2 hour bike on my lunch break.

Can you share the details? Looks like my commitment to things only lasts about 7 days I'll have to start over I've had two days not following an exercise or diet regimen. Back at it tomorrow!

Sure I will try to attach the PDF when I get home. Basically you eat LOTS of lean protein & veggies, but you are NEVER supposed to let yourself get hungry. super low carb and sugar, if you are going to put sauce, salad dressing etc on anything make sure that it does not have sugar, corn syrup, etc in the ingredients... (with spaghetti sauce etc, it will have some natural sugars from the tomatoes, this is ok)

Breakfast should be an unprocessed carb: (fruit - this is the only time in the day you can have fruit, or oatmeal, grits, wholewheat toast, etc.) and a protein just 1 3oz serving or equivalent (protein powder, 2% milkfat cottage cheese, beans, lentils, 2 egg whites, shrimp, most fish, chicken, turkey, or 93% lean beef)

mid-morning protein snack. ( I usually do just 1 scoop of vegan protein powder with almond milk)

Lunch can be an un-refined carb (brown rice, sweet potatoes, quinoa, whole wheat bread (just one slice, etc) a serving of protein and a large serving of veggies.

mid- afternoon protein snack, I usually do protein powder again for this too... I cannot eat meat 5x a day...cottage cheese would also be good.

Dinner - Zero carbs, except what occurs naturally in veggies, huge serving of veggies, and 3 oz of meat... Last night I sautéed the veggies and some shrimp... there are a lot of sauces that are only like 35 - 50 calories per half cup without any sugar that are pretty reasonably as well if you don't like just plain bland veggies, salsa, spaghetti sauce, curry sauce, and even butter chicken sauce... Pesto sauce is higher calorie, but I don't think it has a lot of carbs)

Day 2 of that... so far so good..

Yeah... I think that I will just try to stick with the group to be accountable until after Christmas, and will try to stick with the diet and exercise hopefully 80-90% of the time between now and Christmas... but there are just too many things going on until after that for me to be at 100% of the time until after that.

jr1985 wrote: »

Sure I will try to attach the PDF when I get home. Basically you eat LOTS of lean protein & veggies, but you are NEVER supposed to let yourself get hungry. super low carb and sugar, if you are going to put sauce, salad dressing etc on anything make sure that it does not have sugar, corn syrup, etc in the ingredients... (with spaghetti sauce etc, it will have some natural sugars from the tomatoes, this is ok)

Breakfast should be an unprocessed carb: (fruit - this is the only time in the day you can have fruit, or oatmeal, grits, wholewheat toast, etc.) and a protein just 1 3oz serving or equivalent (protein powder, 2% milkfat cottage cheese, beans, lentils, 2 egg whites, shrimp, most fish, chicken, turkey, or 93% lean beef)

mid-morning protein snack. ( I usually do just 1 scoop of vegan protein powder with almond milk)

Lunch can be an un-refined carb (brown rice, sweet potatoes, quinoa, whole wheat bread (just one slice, etc) a serving of protein and a large serving of veggies.

mid- afternoon protein snack, I usually do protein powder again for this too... I cannot eat meat 5x a day...cottage cheese would also be good.

Dinner - Zero carbs, except what occurs naturally in veggies, huge serving of veggies, and 3 oz of meat... Last night I sautéed the veggies and some shrimp... there are a lot of sauces that are only like 35 - 50 calories per half cup without any sugar that are pretty reasonably as well if you don't like just plain bland veggies, salsa, spaghetti sauce, curry sauce, and even butter chicken sauce... Pesto sauce is higher calorie, but I don't think it has a lot of carbs)

Day 2 of that... so far so good..

Yeah... I think that I will just try to stick with the group to be accountable until after Christmas, and will try to stick with the diet and exercise hopefully 80-90% of the time between now and Christmas... but there are just too many things going on until after that for me to be at 100% of the time until after that.

Thanks for posting!

jr1985 wrote: »

yesterday I literally only ate 937 calories and was not a bit hungry because of all of the veggies

That is amazing! I hope you're able to keep it up!