MoonShadow_1au Member

Hi Aussies, found you (don't know why I missed it before). Sydney-Sider / Fitness First Gym junkie / IT Techy and more importantly MFP enthusiast :)

Tonight I tried something a little different. While I craved food I forced myself to exercise before eating and I just did not want to after. I cleaned up and had a healthy dinner instead.

I have very similar issues (I consider them an issue for me). For me it goes like this. 1) I am up late, get tired and should go to bed but eat to keep awake. 2) I am up late, get tired and should go to bed and alone, so I eat for comfort 3) I am up late, get tired and should go to bed but am hungry so I wait for the wife…

The whole "danger" of starvation mode is that your body decides to burn muscle and store extra fat if you are exercising and not eating enough (my simple understanding of the whole debate). If your goal is to loose 2 pounds a week you should be trying to eat smaller amounts more often to spread your total calories and…

June 6: 555 cal 4.625 miles June 7: 514 cal 4.283 miles

Really only drink pepsi MAX (1 cal / glass) so is that counted ? I have heard reports on A Current Afair (Sydney) that sugar free softdrinks make the mind think you should have sugar to burn ... and as there is no sugar the body craves it more. If you can then RESIST you should be tortured by OK, if not then maybe the…

have not followed a strict pattern of trying to before and am now finding that a couple of days after I go WAY under (especially as this occurs a couple of days in a row) I have a spike in %Body Fat. From this week I am watching my intake and trying to get close to my Cals burnt. I am adding snacks before workouts to have…

Looking into it. I go through ups and downs in my %Body Fat that I believe relates to two days of 200 cals under net. Last weekend I have an unexpected workout (cycling with the family) and I could not eat the extra 800 caories, and a couple of days before the same thing (with planned workout). Body Fat went up 1.5%…

I am starting to believe the "starvation" mode theory. After comming off a light food weekend I have increased %Body Fat (and I know it is going on around my middle). The theory is you need to eat enough fat / carbs etc. for your daily limit AND workouts to ensure your body does not panic and store fat and eat muscle. Will…

Every time I have a long break from the gym and then go back I almost always over do it and the next few days are killer, but there was one time I started back with a PT (a real hard one). By the time I got down stairs to the showers I realized I could not lift my arms to wash myself. But for absolute pain (and I assume we…

June 4: 72 cals 0.6 miles June 5: 809 clas 6.74 miles

Can we please go through Austin Texas, I have dealings there and always wanted to visit ;)

June 3: 618 Cals .... 5.15 miles

If I am allowed to participate from Australia ... June 1: 434 (cals) 3.61 miles June 2: 449 (cals) 3.74 miles (assuming 120 cals = 1 mile from others calculations)

I did that after high school. Hit the gym 6-9 times a week for 3 months solid and stopped eating. I went from 82 Kg to 72 Kg before my body complained, my arms and legs got really bad pins & needles and shook all by themselves. Pity I was in a pool at the time it happened (whatever happened to aqua aerobics?). All that…

That was ME !!!! I heard two guys at the gym today looking in my direction saying "that's a female exercise". I was doing core training, squatting on one leg reaching out pulling weights up on a machine .... go figure :)

Sending you a friend request from the other side of the bridge. Work in the Sydney city, so who knows :) I found a group of other Sydney siders in another thread, check out the profiles of my other friends, you know us ausies are all friendly :)

Parents (and in-laws) believe you cannot feed yourself and want to make sure they can stuff you with as much food a physically possible until you burst !! :) Well that is how my parents and in-laws were in the early years. Eventually I stood up to them and basically told them "I no longer eat crap". The in-laws took it…

I have also heard this from my PT last week. Essentially to reduce %BF you need to 1) Train cardio by going in short intervals of flat out and rest. For example I use the elliptical trainer and work out at 150 rmp for 15 seconds then 120 rpm for 15 seconds (and do this for 15 - 30 minutes). It encourages your heart rate to…

Body Fat is m main goal as well. I find it fluctuates annoyingly and I have not been able to put it down to food or exercise. Happy to work on a challenge through our News Items so friend request coming your way. Anyone else want to join in on the %Body Fat Challenge drop me a FR with some reference to %BF so I will…

Friend request sent. Love the idea of getting shape for a tattoo, but I would have thought that what you would not want is to be skinny, get the tattoo and then get bigger (which would stretch it). If you get one when you are bigger and loose weight then would it get skinny with you?? Definitely a tattoo would get out of…

I would love to get up that early, but when I get to bed at 1:00 - 2:00 every day it just is not going to happen. In my youth I would get up at 6:00 and bus it into work early to do weights from 7:00 - 9:00 and everyone thought I was crazy. You are just my kind of normal :)

I get in trouble for that all the time, then if I pull out the razor I get in trouble for being presumptuous !! At lease the "cat" likes to rub against it.

We all get a down time, and injury is just an excuse for it. Glad you are hear looking for encouragement to get around this. You have to keep moving, don't let the injury dictate what you cannot do, just work that area easier but keep it moving (I am not a doctor - if it hurts dont do it), work out what you can do. If…

My fav of all time must be Lexx (reason for my icon ;) ). But I also religiously watch CSI (all of them) NCIS Bones Desperate Housewives (talk about getting a life 8o) Big Bang Theory Two and a Half Men (R.I.P. Charlie Scheen k/o'ed by own hand) Top Gear And then there are the DVD series I just have to have Lexx Battlestar…

Well when you look for Sydneysiders they fall out of the wood work everywhere. Finally getting on top of my goals (basically to sew my mouth shut and lock the magikal food cupboard door). Getting back into the gym @ Fitness First George st (under Suncorp).

All reports I hear about plateaus require a big change to your workouts (and changed regularly). If you are using a cycle and do a constant 30 min then try changing to do 20 min but go at 100 rpm for 10 seconds and 60 rpm for 20 seconds (and repeat for the 20 min). This high intensity / low rest workout is suppose to be…

Not sure if you have it good or not, over here (Australia) the highest SPF rating we can get is 30 (supposedly for "health" reasons). I remember the old days as a kid putting on SPF 2 oil and going for a bake at the beach. Never got very burnt, however the wife had a bout with nausea vomiting and seeing weird images…

Looks like everyone has hit the nail on the head. When starting out ... do just that and start out. Ramp up to flat out at your own pace. Every time I spend more than 1 week out of the gym I need to step back and ramp up again. If you had not been hard working out before this then it sounds like a normal if not desirable…

When I work from home (regularly) I found that I missed getting to the gym. If you are not up to going outside then you may be able to hre a stationary bike. My sister hired one for $10 a month once which may be an option. Otherwise, steps are great. You could get a platform like a STEP AEROBIC platform (low coffe table ?…