And that right there is where you have to draw the line. Hope nobody else was involved.Quote:
Originally Posted by Darrell KSR
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And that right there is where you have to draw the line. Hope nobody else was involved.Quote:
Originally Posted by Darrell KSR
Just got back from the store. Have a new mp3 player. This one is smaller than the last one, so I stand a reasonable chance of misplacing/losing it, too, but installing the software on it now. That should take a month or so. Should be exercising again by Christmas.
2014.
4.8 miles tonight on hilly track at Chelsea Park while son had soccer practice. Will. Pay. For. It. Tomorrow.
I drove to Frankfort and back today and I still weigh 235 and I'm still 6'2" but I'm still meeting my goal of not gaining any weight. Now if I can just make it through Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas at 235.
Google apps has a fantastic app sale on today--I'm going to start another thread for it, but wanted to mention one today I downloaded, Runtastic Pro.
Runtastic Pro (normally $3.99 on Google Playstore for android, $5.99 on iTunes) is only $0.25 today. The thing is AMAZING. I'm wanting to go running just so I can play with it. It does everything but run for you.
Check it out if you get a chance.
So I have a new mp3 player, and a new fantastic app--no excuses from henceforth.
Some of the features of Runtastic Pro:
Description
Your personal tracking app for running, biking and other sports activities!
Take your fitness to a new level with runtastic.
runtastic uses GPS to map your fitness activities - running, biking, walking - and track your progress (distance, speed, calories, and more). Be part of a global fitness community that is both fun and motivational.
PRO features:
* Voice feedback during a workout: Get audio feedback for each mile or kilometer
* Live tracking: Show your friends and family where you are
* Cheering: Hear cheers and receive messages live from your friends and be motivated to go even further
* Auto pause: Session is paused automatically when you stop movement (e.g. at a red light or tying your shoe). Works for running, biking, skating, cross-country skiing and handbiking.
* Colored traces: Different colors on the map indicate changes such as pace, elevation, heart rate, slope etc. Have a look at steep climbs and very fast intervals directly on the map.
* runtastic Earth View: Watch your workouts in 3D, including mountains, monuments and buildings (free Google Earth App required)
* Heart rate support: runtastic chest strap
* Heart rate zone training and analysis: Choose a heart rate zone to monitor and optimize your training (i.e. fat-burning zone)
* Split table with dynamic mile and kilometer split
* Calorie goal: Set a specific calorie goal and use the voice feedback to reach your workout goal
* Pace goal: Define your favorite pace
* Geotagging: Take pictures during a workout and see these pictures online at your map trace
* Weather and Temperature: Receive live weather information and save weather data automatically after a workout
* Prediction of sunset and sunrise
* Ad free
Features:
* Map your workouts in real-time with built-in GPS and monitor your progress (time, distance, speed, pace, calories, altitude, etc.)
* Personal workout diary and metrics
* Mapping: Detailed live mapping and historic mapping of previous sessions (Google maps)
* Dashboard configuration: Display preferred statistics
* Graphs: Get charts with altitude, pace, speed and heart rate information
* Performance analysis with lap times
* Enjoy your workouts with the integrated music player
* Set goals for time and distance
* Accurate calculation of elevation gain and loss
* Manual entry of workouts: Add treadmill, spinning and weight lifting workouts
* Monthly and overall metrics for distance, number of workouts, duration and calories
* Share your activities on Google+, Facebook and Twitter
You can save all your workouts at runtastic.com. Using the online community you’ll get further analysis, metrics and comparisons to your friends. Additionally, you can choose a training plan and track your body statistics.
Share all your workouts easily with the Google+, Facebook and Twitter connect.
Well, after I started I actually gained two pounds pretty quickly after my first 9 miles. But I'm now at 226.8, which is down from the 232.0, and I'm happy with that.
More walking today. When I get to 220, I'll start light jogging.
I need to start running. I ran for basketball and ran cross country in high school. Lots of my co-workers run - and they love it - but I was always one of the people who ran because I had to. 20 years ago I could run all day - I just wasn't that fast. I had great endurance. Now I get tired getting out of bed! (lol) I have gained an enormous amount of weight since January - and I truly feel disgusted with myself. No one can do this but me - but night shift, living in a basement room without kitchen access, and lack of motivation keep me from getting up and going. I have been inspired by this thread. Keep up the hard work everyone. I look forward to hearing about your progress.
The worst part for me is just starting. Dedicate a time before, during, or after work and just start! I am always slow and in pain starting back but the results a few months later make it worth it!Quote:
Originally Posted by uklandrn
Weighed in at 190 on official scales today. Dropped a couple of pounds despite my best attempt to ruin it with European cuisine.
And imported beer. Dang I like a Dunkel Weiss...
I'm 2/3's of the way through the weight gain gauntlet (Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas) I did pick up 3lbs and am now at 238 and expect to be close to 240 by years end. So, here we go again, Jan 1 it starts coming off with exercise and diet and I'm shooting for 215 by Easter and 210 by Derby.
No cry baby surgery excuses this year...God willing.
Back to working out after taking some time off. Using the Tabata protocol to get jumpstarted. I can tell a difference after a week, but dang it kicks my rear. Two more weeks on Tabata before I cycle off to crossfit. Looking to join the bootcamp at the gym up the street from me but waiting until March so that all of the folks with New Year resolutions can join and then drop out. Of course, by then, the weather should be good enough that I may just prefer to be outside vs. early morning at the gym.
BTW - for anyone doing any kind of interval training that requires a timer, I highly recommend getting "HIIT Interval" app for your phone. So much easier than keeping up with a stop watch or purchasing a special timer.
This makes sense...weighing yourself every day and posting the results online...if you gain weight you get laughed at and feel like an idiot so it makes you want to keep the weight off
http://deadspin.com/5972345/the-publ...ium=socialflow
I will do it if it is weekly. I stunk in 2012 at this, though.
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It's whatever you want, you can do it daily or weekly, it's better to do it daily so you can actually see your progress, it motivates you to continue and lifts up your esteem.Quote:
Originally Posted by Darrell KSR
Start whenever you want, just post your weight and what your goal is...I can keep record at the first post or we could just let the thread go as is
Also here is an article I found...9 foods that reduce your stress level that'll replace unhealthy sweets
http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-livin...145300125.html
I highly recommend this. I've lost 28 lbs using it. A friend of mine has lost over 40 lbs with it and another friend 25 lbs.
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/
Okay it starts today, 6'2" 238. I'm on the elliptical starting today/tomorrow and right after I eat these beef short ribs I cooked on the grill and drowned in BBQ sauce I'll start looking at what and when I eat.
I'll get back to you guys a week from Friday.
6'0, 233.4. Yech. Plus I'm still eating awful, and made a batch of crockpot chocolate last night.
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D/Jazy,Quote:
Originally Posted by jazyd
I couldn't agree more with the consistency and the food advice. If the hour works for you, stick with it. 3-5 times a week. When you become comfortable with the routine, work on speeding up the pace - but stick with the schedule. You will be knocking out 5k runs in wellunder 30-40 minutes eventually. On the week days you don't walk, do something for muscular strength. Nothing intense, just concentrate on upper body one day and lower body the next. All the cardio in the world doesn't help much without lean muscle mass.
Stick with it!!!
IMHO, an ipod/iphone/ipad/tablet and music/movie on a treadmill are a distracting replacement for exercising outside. It works for me over the winter.
192 lbs, up 3 from the pre-holiday weight.
Well, I managed to gain 4.1 pounds, rather than lose 19.2.Quote:
Originally Posted by Darrell KSR
Better than gaining 19.2. At the least you acknowledge the goal and how near or far you are from meeting it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Darrell KSR
OK, I'm in....again........embarrased to say but the truth is the truth.....I'm still 5'10 but my weigh in last week at the VA was 298.....2freaking98 yall....wtf has happened to me?????????????????????
It's alright, CG...you've got company, and we're in this together.
Let's do this thing.
Guys if you want a work out that is fun and WILL CHANGE YOUR APPERANCE. Try the video series tapout. My whole familey is doing it and you will see results. It is not easy at all, but it is well worth it.
Well I went from 193 to 158. The first 10 were intentional, a program to lose 20 in 2 months. (I lost eighteen but gained 8 back). I did it with south beach and 4X a week 45 minute 800 calorie treadmill mixed with instructor led group exercise 2X a week. Weekly weigh ins. I think you have to have put $ on the line and have constant reinforcement for fitness/fat loss.
The next 25 I can't recommend. I'm up from 158 to 166, all chubbiness I think, so I bought a barely used rowing machine from my wife's club. It uses water. The Docs won't allow me in the health club, too much Petri dish ideal sickness spreading moisture, sweat, heavy breathing, people, etc. I'm not able to stand the zero and below cold enough to run.
So I will report my daily use of the rower once a week for public mocking! Incentives!!!
234.0Quote:
Originally Posted by Darrell KSR
Amazing that eating badly and no exercise will make you continue to gain weiht.
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Finished lunch. Backyard burger 1/3rd pounder, waffle fries, lemonade, and blackberry cobbler for dessert. The guy asked me if I wanted ice cream with the cobbler, but I told him I'm trying to lose weight. Tough to be disciplined.
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This morning I weighed in at 236.8 which is promising. I have finally built up enough stamina and gotten my wind to go ten minutes on a gazelle with out fear of a heart attack, by the end of next week I should be in good enough shape to go 20-30 minutes at which point I will be burning calories.Quote:
Originally Posted by blueboss
I'll get back to you all next Friday
I started crossfit. Its tough but I'm enjoying it. Its not so hard that its discouraging, but it does push you.
Pats Steak House didn't do me any favors last night in the weight loss department.
I watched The Music Man the other day, and was noting with interest Professor Harold Hill's "think system" for learning music. You know, you don't have to read music or anything other than think the notes.
I'm doing the same for diet and exercise. Eventually it may work.
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if thinking about diet and exercise worked I'd be invisible if i turned sideways.Quote:
Originally Posted by Darrell KSR
180 lbs this morning down from 212 lbs on June 12, 2012. 6 lbs to go. I really recommend the MyFitnessPal App. It is addicting!
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/
235.4, I'm up to 25-30 minutes on the gazelle and I'm on it 5-6 days a week. I usually take Fridays, and Sundays off. Still haven't changed my eating habits "yet" for now concentrating on getting in shape (cardio)Quote:
Originally Posted by blueboss
See ya next week..
1/25/13
Well here we are and with 35-40 minutes on the gazelle 5 days a week I'm at 233.8. Still haven't got around to dieting however I am more aware of what and how much I'm eating. For instance after busting my hump on the machine every evening I'm not going to blow it over a giant bowl of ice cream and some cookies, so I settle for maybe a small bowl of ice cream and no cookies or maybe three or four cookies and no ice cream. The hard part is not waking up in the middle of the night and eating a couple Lil Debbie zebra cakes and a glass of milk and going back to bed.
See ya next week.
How's everyone else coming along??
Just downloaded new app that a friend showed me at practice this week, Lose It!
Easier to use, more likely I will use it. He showed me on his phone first, and it looked so simple I could do it, so I downloaded it. Have my weight input, my goal input, and a realistic 1.5 lbs per week loss input. It is designating my calories and exercise is additional if/when I do.
I know to "ramp up" the calories occasionally and keep the metabolism at a peak, thanks to this group, so I am pumped up about it. No weighing right now, but I will check in about a week, since I'm using this app.
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Does it reach out and slap the potato chips out of your hand? That's the one I need. It should be called "stop eating you fat bastard".Quote:
Originally Posted by KSRdallen
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Depends on if I'm trying to lose weight or get more chins than a Chinese phone book.Quote:
Originally Posted by blueboss
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