gillexplores wrote: »

Hi everyone! I’m just joining now. Thanks for having me!
I’m a 25 year old student in Canada. I tend to have a TON of fluctuations in my weight, so my weigh ins will likely be all over the map, but I’m excited to have a group for pals and accountability!

STATS:
Username: gillexplores
Weigh in day: Sunday
Height: 5’3”
Highest weight (2017): 191ish lbs
SW (Jan. 13 2021): 174.7lbs
CW: 169.0lbs
GW: 130ish lbs (TBD based on how I’m feeling)

jessicakrall8 wrote: »

Jen_967 wrote: »

Jen_967
Wednesday Weigh- In
PW: 214.6
CW: 220

I don’t know what’s going on with this weight gain. I need to get a better plan going. Anyone know any good work out plans on YouTube?

@Jen_967 I'm no expert, but when my knee blew up like it did with all the swelling, I knew I had to take swift action. Before, I was doing 1800 calories and being an above 300+ lb person, that was allowing me to lose but very slowly. I needed fast change, so I stopped eating out completely...cancelled DoorDash service and started using my air fryer and oven again. I prepare my meals every day now and am doing 1200-1300 calories per day...usually divided into two meals, but sometimes three if I wake very hungry. Try to eat fruits and veggies, but if I'm in a hurry, I do allow myself a turkey sandwich and chips for a quick fix...or a Stouffers frozen meal. My latest obsession is Tyson southern style chicken filets (180 cal) in the air fryer for 12 minutes, with OreIda golden fries or golden crinkles (90 cal). Fairly quick and tasty lunch...and a really good chicken sandwich...

I came down 23.5 pounds since Christmas...some of it was swelling, but not the majority. And I drink at least 68 oz of water a day and am inching back to my 6k steps a day...at about 4k right now. Don't want to risk re-injury.

Hope this helps...good luck!
Jessica

Jen_967 wrote: »

angmarie28 wrote: »

Week 4 Challenge
Fitness/Exercise

We all know to lose weight, we have to burn more calories than we take in. That is literally how every diet works, whether its paleo, weight watchers, or Keto, there is no magic to it, its all calories in vs calories out. So what we eat and how much is important, but to increase that calorie deficit, or to give ourselves the ability to eat more and still lose weight, exercise is the way to go.

Most people tend to go towards Cardio when they are trying to lose weight because of the high calorie burn you get from getting your heart rate up. And Cardio is good, its great for your heart, and great for some extra calorie burn when you ate that dessert the night before after you already hit your calorie limit for the day. But resistance training is seriously the way to go. When we lose weight, part of that weight lost is muscle. So in order to maintain as much muscle as you can while losing weight, you need to work those muscles. The more muscle you have, the more calories you burn when you’re at rest. There is also a greater afterburn effect with resistance training, meaning you burn more calories in the hours after your workout is complete.

So I challenge you to start working out. I know for a lot of us it seems hard to get it in, but I promise you can do it. Whether you get up 30 minutes sooner in the morning, squeeze in 20 minutes at night, do it on your lunch (we have access to some great workout areas in this school, I have used the fitness room by sturdavent a lot, it may be old, but you can get a good workout in for sure) Amy Wiggs informed me that on youtube, Orange Theory fitness puts out new workouts every Saturday. I checked them out and they are great, fairly simple workouts, with almost no equipment needed. They have HIIT workouts, and also arms, legs, core, ect. They are 20 to 45 minutes, you can start them and either do the whole thing, break it up and do half in the mornings, and half in the evenings, or just do what you can, you don’t have to finish it. What is important is you just start moving more.

Another idea is find a workout program and do it for 30 days. Jillian Michaels has a lot of these programs, for cheap, she also has an app now and you can have it customize a diet plan and a workout plan.

Find something and dedicate to it. Whether its daily, or 3 days a week. And if you wanna do something real crazy, You can join me in doing “75 Hard” Im starting Monday (I don’t actually expect anyone to do this with me, but if you want to do something a little crazy, feel free to join me in it, Im happy to give you info)

Yes! Details please 😁

echojuliet21 wrote: »

Welcome aboard gillexplores, wish you all the best in your journey.