Ok, so I've had knee issues that has stopped me getting on the treadmill for a little bit - I've been resorting to the cross trainer more because of it.
So yesterday, I found Elf Man's knee brace and I put it on. I could never get it on my knee before because I was too fat, so it fits now that I've lost some weight. Still tight, but I still have feeling in my toes so I don't think its cutting off any crucial circulation.
We tried out a new workout yesterday, one that took us each an hour to complete. Three sets of exercises, and each set was:
* Run for 3 minutes on the treadmill at 8km
* Jump on the cross trainer for 3 minutes at 10 degree incline and 10 resistance (keeping rpm above 63)
* Jump on rower for 3 minutes on resistance 4
* Box for 3 minutes
* 30 jumping jacks
* 10 squats
* 10 pushups
* 10 crunches
* 10 trunk extensions
Each set took 20 minutes, so one hour all up. Elf Man burnt over 1300 calories with his (which was pretty similar to my workout) but since the heart rate monitor doesn't like me, I have no idea what I burnt. I was pretty happy with the effort though.
So earlier today I braced my knee again to go on the treadmill. Previously I had been running at 10km for my intervals, but I didn't want to push it, so I ran at 9km. I usually do half an hour of my intervals (running, then walking for a minute), but I got to 23 minutes and I wasn't out of breath like I normally am, and I wasn't counting down the seconds on each run, so I thought I would push myself a little bit more.
So I kept going, still doing minute intervals, until I reached 42 minutes, then I ran until I hit 44 minutes, then walked the last minute. I was pretty stoked with that effort, usually its really hard for me to complete 1 minute, let alone 2 minutes - at the end of the workout!!!!
I felt strong, and my knee was being awesome for me - thanks knee brace!
I've also been pleased with my nutrition efforts, I am really trying to get those 2 fruit serves and 5 vegies serves per day - and I've discovered that Elf Man has a really awesome breakfast so I've been making him make it for me too. Its pretty high in calories, but its so filling that I really don't need to eat until lunch. I have a cup of coffee at morning tea, but don't actually feel hungry. It contains: half a cup of oats, some linseeds, pepitas, sunflower seeds, dried cranberries, shredded coconut, cut up fresh fruit (today was blueberries, strawberry and banana), splash of low fat yoghurt, splash of low fat milk, drizzle of honey - and zapped in the microwave for a little bit. It is SO nice, think I'll get him to make it for me every day.
On another note, it was weigh in day today, and I lost a bit too - what a freakin' awesome day.
Current weight: 75.5kg
Total weight loss (so far!): 27.5kg
Sunday 30 September 2012
Wednesday 26 September 2012
Back on the horse I tells ya
Ok, so 10 years ago I was married to my first husband (yes, even fat girls can have a few men interested in them in their life time!) and I was going to Vic Uni and studying legal studies. I used to ride my husband's bike to uni, because we lived about 5 blocks away. One day I was riding and I swerved to miss a little kid who jumped out in front of me, and my handle bar got stuck in a fence and the bike flipped. As did I. And then the bike landed on me and ran over my face. I was traumatised by the experience! I limped all the way to uni (crying of course like the big sook I am) and had a hug from one of my friends (I think he was a bit weirded out cos I was normally pretty tough!).
So then I got cleaned up, went to classes as usual, took the bike home (walked - I wasn't getting on that again!). So when my husband got home, I told him about the accident and expected a bit of love and affection because I was still hurting from it, and all I got was...
"IS THE BIKE OK?!"
Fuck the bike buddy - how about your wife!!
Anyhooooo....... that was the last time I went on a bike. Until today. I felt like going for a walk (6 months ago I never had those feelings) and so we put the kids in various prams, Sparrow rode his bike, and Elf Man and I headed out for a small 3.2km walk.
Then after we got back - I took one of our bikes out for a ride. Just up and down the street, and it felt so free! To have the ground so close to me whilst moving quickly was a bit scary for me, and the friggin' magpie that was attacking me was a complete pain in the arse, but it felt good to be back on there.
I'm realising that this IS a lifestyle now, and calorie counting is great and it does get you where you need to be - however its not a lifestyle you can do forever, and I wouldn't want to. So I'm going to eat good food, move my arse at least 6 times a week in various exercises, and my new goal isn't to be 65kg - its to have my legs not wobble when I walk. Too much fat on my legs and arse and I wobble - so thats my goal! To have that stop wobbling.
Forget about the scale, forget about BMI, forget about body fat percentage - my goal is to not have wobbly legs when I walk.
Good wholesome food + exercise = my wobbly jelly legs gone forever!
Well, thats the plan anyway........
So then I got cleaned up, went to classes as usual, took the bike home (walked - I wasn't getting on that again!). So when my husband got home, I told him about the accident and expected a bit of love and affection because I was still hurting from it, and all I got was...
"IS THE BIKE OK?!"
Fuck the bike buddy - how about your wife!!
Anyhooooo....... that was the last time I went on a bike. Until today. I felt like going for a walk (6 months ago I never had those feelings) and so we put the kids in various prams, Sparrow rode his bike, and Elf Man and I headed out for a small 3.2km walk.
Then after we got back - I took one of our bikes out for a ride. Just up and down the street, and it felt so free! To have the ground so close to me whilst moving quickly was a bit scary for me, and the friggin' magpie that was attacking me was a complete pain in the arse, but it felt good to be back on there.
I'm realising that this IS a lifestyle now, and calorie counting is great and it does get you where you need to be - however its not a lifestyle you can do forever, and I wouldn't want to. So I'm going to eat good food, move my arse at least 6 times a week in various exercises, and my new goal isn't to be 65kg - its to have my legs not wobble when I walk. Too much fat on my legs and arse and I wobble - so thats my goal! To have that stop wobbling.
Forget about the scale, forget about BMI, forget about body fat percentage - my goal is to not have wobbly legs when I walk.
Good wholesome food + exercise = my wobbly jelly legs gone forever!
Well, thats the plan anyway........
Monday 24 September 2012
5 month weigh in
Ok so I've been on the "Melcra" lifestyle for 5 months now - and this is the results from good diet and exercise.
On April 23rd I looked like this:
And this:
On April 23rd I looked like this:
And this:
Now I look like this:
Yes I still have lots of flabby bits (arms, tummy and thighs I'm looking at you!) but I am proud of what I have achieved in 5 months.
And even though today I ate bread that I wouldn't normally eat, and I had soft drink and I had an iced bun - I am not going back to those first pictures.
Current weight: 76.6kg.
Wednesday 19 September 2012
A confession
Ok so I've been absent for a bit.
On Sunday (and Monday) I had a binge. I admit it, take responsibility for it, and have suffered for it. On Monday I ate SO much food (homemade chocolate, jelly beans, other lollies, red rooster for dinner, a HUGE homemade chocolate cheesecake slice thing).. that I vomited. I forced so much crap into my system that I had the chills, shakes, vomits, the runs, I felt hot, was sweating - quite honestly I felt like I was going to die.
So while all this was going on - Elf Man was in the bedroom googling my symptoms. He said that I was having a reactive hypoglycemia. So basically I had eaten such huge amounts of sugar that my pancreas freaked out and pumped out a lot of insulin to make up for it - and it left me with low blood sugar. And since I was suffering that, I also had a panic attack (which is interesting to note that there have been some studies about the correlation between low blood sugar and panic attacks!). Then Bubbles woke up for a feed. So I had to pause what I was doing, and feed her. That was one of the lowest points of my weight issues, I created this crap that I'm suffering - AND - I did it without thinking of my family.
So it seems that even though I'm 25kg down, I still have the same issues I did when I was 103kg. My mental status is still set to excess. I'm such an addictive type of person, I get addicted to everything, I replace all addictions with another one.
So I think we've discovered that I can't have "treats". I just go overboard and it sets me off on a bad path to wanting more and more and more until I binge and then suffer. What pisses me off is that all my life I've been told that you should treat yourself now and then, and lollies/chocolate = treats. Why aren't there other foods considered "treats"- like a really nice punnet of fresh strawberries, or other fruit that you don't buy because they are too expensive, like raspberries or blueberries? Its set in everyone's mind that junk food is the only thing thats classed as a treat, and to be honest, thats fucked up. Even my mum buys shit food for my kids and calls it a treat. They wouldn't be happy with nice fresh fruit now as a treat, because they have been "treated" so many times now with lollies and junk food. Rewarded for good toilet training with jelly beans and chocolate.
So! Since all this crap started I'm revising. I was calorie counting Monday - Saturday with Sunday off. Now it appears I can't do that cos then I eat crap. So, now its been revised revised (haha) to being no calorie counting at all (it becomes an obsession) but I'm going to make sure that I'm eating the following way:
1. 2 serves of fruit every day.
2. Water. Must. Drink. More. Water.
3. 5 serves of vegies every day. Most nights I eat at least 5 different vegies, but I wouldn't class it each one being a "serve". So I have to work on eating more through the day too.
4. Palm size of meat when having it. Work on portion control.
5. Anything I eat must be fresh or homemade. I made some "Casharoos" today, a fruit and nut bar that I found online, and they are delicious! So although they are a bit calorie-high, its good food - and thats what I'm putting into me. For me. To be the best me.
6. Exercise. 6 days a week. To be fit and healthy, nothing to do with weight loss.
I was watching the biggest loser the other night (as usual) and Bob said something that really struck me. Something along the lines of those who don't celebrate and recognise every small achievement they have on their weight loss journey are usually the ones that are so focused on the end goal that they don't recognise what they have already done - therefore since they haven't recognised it, they are usually the ones to put all the weight back on.
So - yay for me losing 25kg already. I may have at least 13 to go, but I'm working on my mental state now, because that needs it more than my body does.
Current weight (as of 16 September): 77.1kg.
Total weight loss (since March 2012): 25.9kg
On Sunday (and Monday) I had a binge. I admit it, take responsibility for it, and have suffered for it. On Monday I ate SO much food (homemade chocolate, jelly beans, other lollies, red rooster for dinner, a HUGE homemade chocolate cheesecake slice thing).. that I vomited. I forced so much crap into my system that I had the chills, shakes, vomits, the runs, I felt hot, was sweating - quite honestly I felt like I was going to die.
So while all this was going on - Elf Man was in the bedroom googling my symptoms. He said that I was having a reactive hypoglycemia. So basically I had eaten such huge amounts of sugar that my pancreas freaked out and pumped out a lot of insulin to make up for it - and it left me with low blood sugar. And since I was suffering that, I also had a panic attack (which is interesting to note that there have been some studies about the correlation between low blood sugar and panic attacks!). Then Bubbles woke up for a feed. So I had to pause what I was doing, and feed her. That was one of the lowest points of my weight issues, I created this crap that I'm suffering - AND - I did it without thinking of my family.
So it seems that even though I'm 25kg down, I still have the same issues I did when I was 103kg. My mental status is still set to excess. I'm such an addictive type of person, I get addicted to everything, I replace all addictions with another one.
So I think we've discovered that I can't have "treats". I just go overboard and it sets me off on a bad path to wanting more and more and more until I binge and then suffer. What pisses me off is that all my life I've been told that you should treat yourself now and then, and lollies/chocolate = treats. Why aren't there other foods considered "treats"- like a really nice punnet of fresh strawberries, or other fruit that you don't buy because they are too expensive, like raspberries or blueberries? Its set in everyone's mind that junk food is the only thing thats classed as a treat, and to be honest, thats fucked up. Even my mum buys shit food for my kids and calls it a treat. They wouldn't be happy with nice fresh fruit now as a treat, because they have been "treated" so many times now with lollies and junk food. Rewarded for good toilet training with jelly beans and chocolate.
So! Since all this crap started I'm revising. I was calorie counting Monday - Saturday with Sunday off. Now it appears I can't do that cos then I eat crap. So, now its been revised revised (haha) to being no calorie counting at all (it becomes an obsession) but I'm going to make sure that I'm eating the following way:
1. 2 serves of fruit every day.
2. Water. Must. Drink. More. Water.
3. 5 serves of vegies every day. Most nights I eat at least 5 different vegies, but I wouldn't class it each one being a "serve". So I have to work on eating more through the day too.
4. Palm size of meat when having it. Work on portion control.
5. Anything I eat must be fresh or homemade. I made some "Casharoos" today, a fruit and nut bar that I found online, and they are delicious! So although they are a bit calorie-high, its good food - and thats what I'm putting into me. For me. To be the best me.
6. Exercise. 6 days a week. To be fit and healthy, nothing to do with weight loss.
I was watching the biggest loser the other night (as usual) and Bob said something that really struck me. Something along the lines of those who don't celebrate and recognise every small achievement they have on their weight loss journey are usually the ones that are so focused on the end goal that they don't recognise what they have already done - therefore since they haven't recognised it, they are usually the ones to put all the weight back on.
So - yay for me losing 25kg already. I may have at least 13 to go, but I'm working on my mental state now, because that needs it more than my body does.
Current weight (as of 16 September): 77.1kg.
Total weight loss (since March 2012): 25.9kg
Monday 3 September 2012
An update - back to basics
Ok so first up I will confess and say we didn't finish the whole 30 challenge. We really did give it a good go, but we quit for two reasons.
1) I was sick of having the runs. Yup, it's out there - I felt like I had IBS again, I had to run to the toilet to avoid disaster and I hate that feeling.
2) I was looking at treats too much. Since you are so restricted, you go looking for stuff you can have, which led me to treats that replace normal foods. However they are so high in calories - its not good for weight loss. I hated obsessing about foods.
I also obsessed about food when calorie counting. So we are going back to basics - back to what worked for the first 10kg. Just good food.
No lollies, chocolate, chips, takeaway food - you get the idea. If I want white potatoes, I'm going to have them. We will stick with the cauliflower rice instead of regular rice, and zucchini instead of pasta, but that's only because we like it, not because it's paleo or low carb or whatever.
So I'm going to get up at 6am to exercise and I'm going to write out an exercise plan for the week. I weighed in yesterday and I still have a way to go, so I'm not going to let myself lose focus.
Current weight: 78kg
Total weight lost to date: 25kg (I'm recognising that I was 103 in March instead of ignoring that achievement of losing 3kg the month before I officially started)
Weight left to lose: 13kg
1) I was sick of having the runs. Yup, it's out there - I felt like I had IBS again, I had to run to the toilet to avoid disaster and I hate that feeling.
2) I was looking at treats too much. Since you are so restricted, you go looking for stuff you can have, which led me to treats that replace normal foods. However they are so high in calories - its not good for weight loss. I hated obsessing about foods.
I also obsessed about food when calorie counting. So we are going back to basics - back to what worked for the first 10kg. Just good food.
No lollies, chocolate, chips, takeaway food - you get the idea. If I want white potatoes, I'm going to have them. We will stick with the cauliflower rice instead of regular rice, and zucchini instead of pasta, but that's only because we like it, not because it's paleo or low carb or whatever.
So I'm going to get up at 6am to exercise and I'm going to write out an exercise plan for the week. I weighed in yesterday and I still have a way to go, so I'm not going to let myself lose focus.
Current weight: 78kg
Total weight lost to date: 25kg (I'm recognising that I was 103 in March instead of ignoring that achievement of losing 3kg the month before I officially started)
Weight left to lose: 13kg
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