Boot Camp (Let's make this a thread on accountability)
OK, I am going to measure and weigh myself on Saturday. For those of you that said some of your summer goals were to lose weight and get fit....hope you will join this thread.
Not that I am going to post my weight and measurements but maybe I need to be accountable.
Sooooooo... I will make a comment on Saturday. Then every Saturday, I am going to say weight lost and inches lost. (remember that if you gain muscle the scale will not move or go up. Use a tape measure)
I truly am going to put myself through boot camp. The program I have been watching on TV has shown that in 6 weeks with real effort, one can make a huge difference.
As well, I am going to comment each Saturday on how am reaching the goals I stated for the summer.
We all stated goals for the summer. Let us all be accountable. Some we will attain, some we may fall short on but lets all support each other.
When the fall officially starts (when the h*ll is that?), we can state what we actually achieved.
Sometimes our cyber friends are our best friends. We are non judgemental and hugely supportive.
I know for me, the hugest thing is quitting smoking.
Next, getting fit and healthy. One of my goals is to walk and hike with Cali more. That will fall in to the get fit and healthy boot camp thing.
One was to spend more time with Biko. I clip his wings in the summer, he prefers to walk anyway. I will start taking him to the park on my walks with Cali. That way he can feel he is a part of my life.
Spending more time with my BF. He is hugely busy, I am hugely busy. This is going to be a tough one.
De-cluttering....I am ready. I want it done and I want it done now. I am finally so sick of the mess that I want to do it, Get it done!
So guys, lets have a huge reach your summer goals support group. No better place than this board.
Veg on...
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Day #2 of my "plan" (hate the word "diet" for some reason). I weighed a gut busting 194 lbs at the grocery store scale yesterday. An alltime high. Sigh..........
I went to the gym yesterday. I break up my cardio and do 20 minutes on one machine prior to weights and then 20 minutes afterwards. They have four different cardio machines, so I'll do two on one workout and then two the next. My problem with cardio is boredom. I watch the TVs, read and listen to my iPod, so breaking it up helps.
I ate lightly and did well yesterday. This AM I'm hungry but am going to have to get over it.
Is there a good calorie counting site that lets you enter your food and actually has vegan food in it like quinoa and tempeh? My problem is that I eat such bizarre foods, but would like to keep under 1800 cals.
I got a big tub of Vega meal replacement. It was extremely expensive, like $3.00 a serving is what it adds up to, but I suppose that's not bad for a meal.
i just checked igoogle and that has quinoa and tempeh. just go to www.igoogle.com you'll have to sign up for google, but you'll get gmail out of it as well (i think). and you can read blogs, check the weather and everything there. they have a pretty simple calorie counter.
Thanks, I think I already have an iGoogle account. I'll look for that, if I'm not too lazy. I remember trying fitday once a long time ago and they didn't have seitan and I quit. LOL
Starting Day #3 today. This will be the big test because I'm working today and starting the Vega meal replacements for lunch. There's often junk food around work, so I'll wing it wether or not I'll tell anyone. I had miso, seaweed and tofu (the silken boxed kind) soup for breakfast which was light, but I'm hoping the protein keeps hunger at bay.
Yesterday I went to the gym, mowed the back yard and walked the dogs, so I'm hoping energy expendure was good. Today I hope to go to the gym after work. That would be a change because I usually don't exercise three days in a row, but if I switch things around I should be o.k.
The Vegan Fitness Team video was o.k. It was nice to meet the atheletes and see how they live.
Day #2 of my "plan" (hate the word "diet" for some reason). I weighed a gut busting 194 lbs at the grocery store scale yesterday. An alltime high. Sigh..........
I went to the gym yesterday. I break up my cardio and do 20 minutes on one machine prior to weights and then 20 minutes afterwards. They have four different cardio machines, so I'll do two on one workout and then two the next. My problem with cardio is boredom. I watch the TVs, read and listen to my iPod, so breaking it up helps.
I ate lightly and did well yesterday. This AM I'm hungry but am going to have to get over it.
Is there a good calorie counting site that lets you enter your food and actually has vegan food in it like quinoa and tempeh? My problem is that I eat such bizarre foods, but would like to keep under 1800 cals.
I got a big tub of Vega meal replacement. It was extremely expensive, like $3.00 a serving is what it adds up to, but I suppose that's not bad for a meal.
i just checked igoogle and that has quinoa and tempeh. just go to www.igoogle.com you'll have to sign up for google, but you'll get gmail out of it as well (i think). and you can read blogs, check the weather and everything there. they have a pretty simple calorie counter.
Thanks, I think I already have an iGoogle account. I'll look for that, if I'm not too lazy. I remember trying fitday once a long time ago and they didn't have seitan and I quit. LOL
Fitday still doesn't have seitan, but it does have "vital wheat gluten" which I guess would be okay if you made your own seitan. It has quinoa and tempeh. I have a FitDay and it really only does work if I use whole foods (lots of fruits and veggies and grains, + beans and tofu/tempeh). If not I spend a lot of time entering custom foods using nutrition labels. At least it's an excuse to eat whole :)
I've been off the wagon, although I've been eating relatively healthy lately. I don't know what my problem is. I did the 30-day-shred for a few days in a row, then I traveled and fell off that wagon. (This happens a lot). The other thing I can think of that didn't help was I left my earphones at the gym never to be seen again. (I had them plugged into the TV receiver of the cardio machine I was on and never saw them again). I got replacement headphones which should make me want to go to the gym.
Although I did weigh myself recently and wasn't as heavy as I thought--that's good! But still, nothing fits quite right, and that's bad.
DH and I are getting each other bikes for our birthdays. I can't wait!
Eee! I finally got back on track with my exercise thing. Sometime last week I tried the first Shred and it really really really kicked my ass. I couldn't even get through the first circuit! I'm gonna work on my endurance though..maybe the running will help.
The most exciting part though is that I did a Couch to 5K day today (still on week one because it killed me when I was starting..I'm REALLY incredibly out of shape.) and I could do it for the whole time! And I felt like I could do more! It felt so so SO awesome and I'm really proud of myself for that. It was a good day :)>>>
did an hour this past Monday
Tue-Fri - wasn't able to work out
Sat/Sun, did an hour of cario each day, respectively
... i keep flirting w/that next lower belt notch but i'm still the upper notch's b*tch - grrr, let go of your hold on me ... :D
Good job ponycakes!
sirdidymus37, I can so relate to those stubboarn pounds!
Day #4 today. Yesterday was a good day. I wasn't too horibbly hungry. I went to the gym and did 20 minutes on the stairmaster, and 20 minutes on the treadmill. I took a break from the weights. Plan on stopping by the gym after work today. Told people at work that I'm on a diet, which I rarely do, but drinking a Vega shake for lunch kind of gave me away.
Day 4! Very nice!
I felt like shittttt yesterday (worst allergies of my life--and I NEVER have alleriges--I think it's our new school building because it's a common problem here) but I went to the gym anyway. I did my intervals on the treadmill, but I increased the pace to 30 seconds on and 30 seconds off, and I did pretty well. I was too tired for more cardio (again, feeling sickish) but I did the complete weight circuit. I forgot to do abs yesterday for some reason.
I'm not sure what I'll do today--I might just do some light cardio like the elliptical, plus some different strength stuff than what I did yesterday. I might do Pilates. Or Shred Level 1. Not sure. I need a nap though. Many people have noticed a change, which is exciting! The jeans that were tight on me a month ago are loose now.
Day 4! Very nice!
I felt like shittttt yesterday (worst allergies of my life--and I NEVER have alleriges--I think it's our new school building because it's a common problem here) but I went to the gym anyway. I did my intervals on the treadmill, but I increased the pace to 30 seconds on and 30 seconds off, and I did pretty well. I was too tired for more cardio (again, feeling sickish) but I did the complete weight circuit. I forgot to do abs yesterday for some reason.
I'm not sure what I'll do today--I might just do some light cardio like the elliptical, plus some different strength stuff than what I did yesterday. I might do Pilates. Or Shred Level 1. Not sure. I need a nap though. Many people have noticed a change, which is exciting! The jeans that were tight on me a month ago are loose now.
You are doing so amazingly well! I haven't really done all that much lately..
I'm having allergies, too. That's not why I'm not doing much, but just sayin'.
i only have three shorts to exercise in. so i'm doing laundry and THEN i'll be going to the gym. haha. i'm starting week 2 of couch to 5k today. excited!!! week one was really nice. not too difficult, but it certainly helps when you've been walking/running on the treadmill for a couple weeks already.
last night i played a show and ate three pieces of greasy vegan pizza and drank a pint. yeahhhh. extra time in the gym today. which i certainly dont mind. i've been loving going to the gym!! it's so fun and relaxing.
What ab stuff do you guys do? I need to get a "at home, every day" routine going since I'm failing at finding an actual place to go...
I do a couple of ab things at home when I can't make it to the gym. If you have a pull bar or dip bar, you can do straight leg lifts, or knee lifts. These tend to work a broader assortment of ab muscles than just situps or crunches, but I do those as well. I also like to lay on my back and hold my straight legs a couple of inches off the ground, or while in the position pretend you are walking up the will without bending the knees or touching the floor.
These are some exercises I found in one of my climbing magazines that help core and ab strength.
You should do situps if you can. Also, those leg raises where you lay on your back, raise your legs, and lower them until they almost touch the ground and then repeat.
Sparkpeople has a bunch of videos of at home ab exercises, I believe.
I had a really good work out today.....and KMK was my inspiration!!
I did 17 mins on the running machine (2m@7k/hr, 1m@9k/hr, 1m@10k/hr, 1m@11k/hr repeated x 3 then 2m@7k/hr to warm down)
then 3 sets of: 30 crunches, 15 reverse crunches, plank for slow count of 30 balancing my arms on a fitball
15m on the elliptical cross-trainer thingy on level 7 at 140-150 steps per min (which is really really really good for me!!)
then 3 sets of: 10 lunges each side balancing front leg on balance dome tingy & 12 reps on leg press @ 30kg
finally 1k on the rowing machine
AND THEN: 45mins aqua aerobics.
And like I say KMK was my motivation!! Whenever I was getting tired and wanting to give up I thought 'KMK would carry on now, so I wll'
Is that a bit sad of me!?!
And like I say KMK was my motivation!! Whenever I was getting tired and wanting to give up I thought 'KMK would carry on now, so I wll'
Is that a bit sad of me!?!
Oh wow! That's so nice to hear! You're doing great!
It's not sad! I have people I use for inspiration--mostly K and those skinny little bitches who do the elliptical at level 1 for an hour as fast as they can in their coordinating gym clothes and think they're getting a workout when you know they're not even a bit athletic. You know. Positive things like that. >:D
i did my pilates dvds today with the resistance bands, i gotta get back in the habit of doing it everday again to get toned up.
*i havent used the resistance band in awhile and it was sorta sitting in the sunlight so when i went to use it today the first time i pulled the thing split right in half cus it was brittle! so then i took one of the halves and started using that - one pull and that one split too! it was pretty funny.. luckily i have a couple extra bands.. they're shorter and don't have the 'great winsor pilates logo' but they'll do..
now i just gotta convince my neighbor to stop being so nice! yesterday she brought me a loaf of banana bread, and today she made blueberry muffins and gave me 2 regular size ones & 2 giant ones... one regular size one is gone.. i put the rest of everything in the freezer so i won't be so tempted.
i feel like the gym isnt kicking my butt as much. i'm usually beat until a couple hours later and i usually want to go back to the gym for more. i was thinking of getting a video to do at home, but i have some notes about that
i want to find a video that
1. doesnt require me to buy any thing other than the dvd (i dont own any weights or anything)
2. isnt ridiculously funny (i usually cant help but laugh at the trainers and their encouraging words. hehe)
3. can kick my butt and is fun!!
any ideas?? what was that dancing exercise video i heard about a while ago??
30 Day Shred! It kicked my wimpy ass (they use weights, but you could use water bottles filled with sand if you want them..I didn't hah), is available for illegal download if you really don't have ten dollars to buy it from amazon, is fast paced and switches stuff up a lot, and everyone on VW is doing it too :P
Ponycakes, I am intrigued about the 30-day shred and feel a bit left out. LOL (Although I can afford $10.00)....Also I was considering buying the Engine 2 diet just to get ideas.
Anyway, today is day #5. Day 4 went well. I stuck to a healthy eating plan and went to the gym for 40 minutes of cardio and weights. Today is a day off from the gym since I'm going bowling this evening. I found myself eating most of my food in the evening, which probably should be the other way around - eating most of my food during the daytime in around five small meals. My problem is I can't go to sleep or stay asleep hungry. I get insomnia and then get up in the middle of the night to eat something.
So I'm sick, and not doing anything but I got the 30 day shred (totally legally of course) and had a flick through, looks doable! So what's the deal, do each level for 10 days?
So I went to the gym this morning - yay, go me!
15mins running - as above with various speeds
3 sets of: 2mins on cross trainer level 2, 20 crunches, 15 reverse crunches, 16 spider plank
3 sets of: really slow count of 25 plank with arms balancing on a fitball and 10 press ups - there should have been lunges in there but I set up all my equi[ment, went to get a mat and by the time I had walked the 5 seconds to get a mat and back one of the personal trainers had stolen half my stuff!!
1k rowing.
My right knee hurts today - kind of inside my knee. I think it's the runnung. N had the same problem a=on his left knee after lots of running. We are obviously getting old people legs if we can't even manage gentle running!!
I am taking tomorrow off the gym, but I am determined to do some stomach work - so crunches at home maybe.
I turn 30 in exactly one month (Oh noes!) and want to look my absolute best then, so June is a key month for me. Gym a min of 4 time a week and 1-2 aqua aerobics classes a week and stomach work every day.
Everyone has permission to slap me if I don't stick to it.
So I'm sick, and not doing anything but I got the 30 day shred (totally legally of course) and had a flick through, looks doable! So what's the deal, do each level for 10 days?
Here's the thread with more stuff about it: http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=26640.0
For the "30 days," you are supposed to do level 1 10 days --> level 2 --> level 3, but I know most of us did not do that. Just start with level 1, and do that until you are pretty comfortable doing everything fully, and then progress. After that, you can keep doing it, and switch up between the levels (or do 2 at once, etc.). I'm going to shred today!
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