Exercise Goals for 2008

if there are, i want in on the secret! i don't care if i burn in hell, or eternal hell, or limbo of the innocents or limbo of the forefathers (the four official chambers of hell, reinstated by the german pope as REAL couple of weeks ago, doing away with John Paul's statememnt that hell is a state of mind.... wonder what God makes of the popes rearranging hell all the time)....anyway....


Bye bye CYST IN THE WRIST. I had it drained today. It is highly unrecommended. they stick the thickest needle into your joint and it feels exactly as if they were stickig the thickest needle into your joint. typing is a bitch, but does that stop me? no, i'd rather suffer.
Luckily the flu/cold that i got after skiing does not warrant antibiotics. i had a fever yesterday, but not today. (that's what spending 10 hours in wet clothes in freezing weather gives you if you're european.... ifyou're american you can apparently only get sick from viruses and bacteria, not from cold. us european are however also responsive to weather, most unfortunately.)

hopefully in a week or two i'll be my old self again. i am not wired to be sick or wounded! and far too young!

Wow!! I'm so happy for you, Jes (((((((((big hugs!)))))))))))

I'm really glad for this thread, you guys have inspired me to keep on my schedule so many times when I've been tempted to skip a workout... I'm noticing a big difference in my muscle tone, which is *sooo* cool! Thanks for being such good influences, guys & gals!

Peer pressure is now "good influence".
How politically correct can we get!


AND ANOTHER HURRAH FOR JESPAH!

Having read Region's post, I think Jes's secret is "leafy greens".

Soz--

Have you gymmed?

Week 9

Mileage: 24.09

Scheduled cumulative mileage: 180
Actual cumulative mileage: 196.3

[Shuffling along through Bridgeport CT]

I have indeed, Noddy! Thanks for thinking of me.

(It was SO nice to come out of the gym into balmy 60's rather than the usual arctic blast...)

I am sitting in the dentist's chair waiting to have the teethys scraped and polished. I am wearing my running gear because after I escape from this 13th level of hell ( the office number is 1310) I am jumping on the 6 up to the park for a long loop.
The weather girl says it's 54F out there but with North winds at 15mph.

I am officially 100 miles behind my goal.

Joe (I am not worried)Nation

Spring is coming, brother.

Soon you'll be out there in shorts and tee enjoying the contrast of a warm
sun and a cool breeze.

Soon your spirits will be lifted by nubile maidens loping by on long, lithe
limbs.

Soon that winter padding will melt, thaw, and resolve itself into a dew.

What, Joe worried?

Okay the deep dark secret.
1) Calorie restriction. As in 1800/day. I'm of the size where I can maintain on about 3000/day so, by definition, every 3 days or so I should lose a pound (1 pound = 3500 calories). As in (since I've been restricting calories since mid-January, about 6 weeks all told) 12 lbs. However that's not 100% right as there are days when I'm probably not calculating perfectly correctly.
2) Fat is restricted to about 20 - 30% of entire diet. Since that's kinda tough to do at times, we eat a lot more vegetarian than we used to.
3) Salt restrictions. I have no blood pressure problems but salt makes you retain water. Which means pounds. Hence I stay at 2400 mg/day or less (this is the max RDA).
4) Exercise. Every single day since 12/31/07. Today, for the first time, I did 40 reps! I use light weights, usually (4 lbs.), there are also 15 lb. weights for using on occasion. It helps to mix things up. Also, my weight training goes in cycles. Today was chest, shoulders and triceps. Tomorrow is quads, buns and abs. Wednesday is biceps, back and calves. Then on Thursday the cycle starts up again but the exercises are different so different angles are worked. This accounts for 6 days out of the week. On Sunday, I do 2 abs and 2 bun exercises, any kind. I also do resistance bands (100 reps/day) and walking (15 mins/day on weekends, varying amounts of time on weekends). With exercise, I've burned over 30,000 calories, or about 9 lbs. Again, since estimates as to time duration may be off, the numbers are a ballpark.
5) The junk is out of our house. We really combed through it. I was eating a lot of garbage. Pop tarts, chips, pretzels (usually fine but a lot of salt), etc. -- it's all gone. We've got a lot of fat starlings in our back yard.
6) Portion control. This goes along with caloric restriction but it's also per meal. This leads to ...
7) Lots of small meals and snacks. Calories at any one meal rarely go over 600. Snacks are healthy, like light yogurt, oranges, apples, soy nuts, etc.
8) Weighing and measuring ingredients.
9) A lot less going out to eat.
10) Multivitamin at night, being off the pill, not menopausal yet, e. g. in a good hormonal/chemical balance.
11) Last but not least, excellent support all around!

I am more or less monitored by my doctor but I do my own weighing. I figure I'll hit the 16-lb. goal on or about mid-May or so. Right now my measurements don't seem to be cooperating but I'm a mess at taking measurements so I'm betting the problem is in method rather than in size.

that sounds a lot less fun than 'dark secret'..... but i bet it feels like a million bucks.

Wow, that's a damn impressive plan, Jes...I'm gonna have to crib off you for my nutrition and weight management class--you'd so get an A with that!

Jes--

Speaking from my own experience, the more pounds you lose, the easier it is to move and the more you are likely to move.

As a natural sloth, I find the exercising every day since the start of the year very impressive. Not eating is not eating. Getting up and moving....that is more difficult.

As for measurements, the pile of donations for Good Will says something very practical about decreasing girth.

Well, sometimes the only exercise is resistance bands. But basically I just decided I wanted to do something already, after a few decades of pretty much nothing.

Yeesh, I was just looking it over again. Man, it's complicated. Then again, I'm organized (read: anal) and so it all appeals to that.

Trotted just 3.25 miles last night.

Joe(though at a brisk pace.)Nation

Jes--

As I remind myself when I fit in a few extra stretches--or contract my routine to only a few stretches--anything is better than Nothing.

I bet I can beat you on stuffing my face while doing Nothing.

Oh I bet I'd've won a few contests way back when (not so long ago but it's a little mental exercise I give myself -- I tell myself I've been doing healthy things for a long time, that this is totally normal for me and nothing new). Man, I lie to myself a lot.

If anyone is still looking for the deep dark secret to success, this is it.
Lying.

Get good at it.

Telling yourself that it's NORMAL for you to only eat half the chef salad on Monday, that the healthy stuff is your favorite favorite food yum yum, that (I've had so many of these conversations....) you can't be tired at only seven miles, shoot, seven miles is a short run for us...(
(I often refer to myself as us, it seems to calm my inner child who is always whining about something)

Your inner mind hasn't a clue what's real. It only know what it's told. Tell it that you don't get hungry after 8pm and after awhile ...... you won't hear a thing from your inner self about being hungry after 8pm.

Tell yourself what you want as real. Lie like a rug. It will become real.

It doesn't always work. Last night I tired to get myself to finish the five miles but at three miles that bastard baby boy child inside began to campaign for stopping so we could get some dinner.

Joe(It was late. and he won out.)Nation

One mile today. Very brisk. 15K this coming Sunday..... .

lie like a rug.... <snort>

it's true though and all sorts of quacks make big bucks writing self-help books about it. DaSilva, Satir...well, maybe not quacks. I actually like them.

My first day without painkillers in almost 3 weeks. It hurts still, but only when I, say, turn a door knob or lift a pot. Didn't quite handle recycling yet, but typing is already a lot easier. at least i'm drug free and the home run is ahead of me.

This is also the big lie: that chocolate over there, at the smoker's desk? It's tainted. Those bagels? They're made with pork and aren't kosher. Those potato chips? Why, they're liver-flavored. It's new. Cool ranch sour cream n' onion liver-flavored chips. The M & Ms are radioactive. The nachos have been kept out for a week and are spoiled.

You get the idea.

Dang, this shirt is too big. :wink: