<p>Plant mom, one of the advertisers has malware associated with its ad, according to google, I think it’s straightened out now. When you belong to an ad network, can be hard to control.</p>
<p>Hops…this weekend I resembled this remark:
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<p>In my case, farmers carry came to mind especially while moving a bucket filled with 50 lbs of sand!</p>
<p>I was thinking to myself while cleaning, organizing, moving stuff around ll weekend that even though I didn’t log it, I was getting more god work than I do on my hill and airdyne :)</p>
<p>But the awesome thing was that I was ABLE to do it all without muscle exhaustion, was ABLE to keep going, and felt good and energized – which I attribute to the hill, airdyne, and calorie management!</p>
<p>BTW, 5 lb party - I’m now down 30 lbs, which was my initial goal. I predict there may be some bounce back during the three-day-grad extravaganza this weekend, but I’ll manage it. My “next” goal is to lose another 10 over the next three months and simultaneously get some core and shaping going on! Thanks, everyone, for the support to date. It helps more than you know!</p>
<p>Excellent work, KMC! Party time! Congrats to McS and enjoy the festivities, you have earned it every bit as much as he has!</p>
<p>I’ve lost some real pounds now. For me I have to stay under a certain threshhold weight for a good month before I consider it as true weight loss as I fluctuate a good 10 pounds. I’ve cut down on all portions, but left my eating habits pretty much the same, and focused on cutting the bready carbs as much as I can bear to do so, but being conscious of eating any of them and compensating if I splurge. That’s really where my down fall is, as I love, love, love breads, especially the very bad for us white flour foods. I could live on them, truly. Bread and water diet would be fine for me as long as it was a good white bread. Sigh.</p>
<p>For exercise, I was going up and down my staircase at home 20 times, 3 times a day. That’s going up 20 times, I don’t count the downs. I couldn’t do it at first–frightening, 3-4 times and I was winded. Now I can do 20 without a problem. I only do the twenty several times a week now, but every morning I do 10 when I first get up and go downstairs, and every evening when I retire. </p>
<p>Now I need to get rid of the flab around my waist and I only have 3-5 lbs to go. But it’s taken me nearly a year to get here. The loss has been very, very slow for me. </p>
<p>Though I knocked off a few pounds initially for morale and jumpstart purposes with the Hollywood diet, I’ve found that at my age and my mindset, trying to stay on any diet is problematic, in that I am pretty set in my eating habits and that other than my penchant for baked goods and breads, I eat well, and my diet is well balanced. I am healthy and enjoy my foods. My problem was/is that my appetite has gone up as well as availability of things I really like to eat, and my metabolism and activity level has gone down. I used to be able to lose 5 lbs in a week, 10 in a month if I wanted to go down size in super tight, slim looking clothes and deliberately had outfits that were below comfort level size that I would go on diets to wear for certain occasions. Those days are long gone, and now my comfort level every day clothes were going on the back racks which is what alarmed me. I was so packed in girdle products for certain special occasions these last few years, that I could hardly breathe, much less eat. I want to set my weight according to those clothes and leave it there for the rest of my life, but without those flab binders that I needed, and probably still need as the flab seems to still be there.</p>
<p>KMC, sounds like you’re doing great!</p>
<p>Cpt, nice to see you post. Are you looking to add some core exercises to your routine? Here’s some of what I do in that regard (not all in the same day). Planks, modified side planks, hip raises, bird dog, superman, pallof press (using Bodylastics), and these exercises with the stability ball: dead bug, hamstring curls, jackknife, and these toe touch thingies that probably have a real name, but I don’t know what it is. Maybe there’s something here of interest?</p>
<p>Another idea, you could join the ValSlides contingent here.</p>
<p>Cpt, you’ve done some good work! I feel pretty strongly (because I can see the effects on my own body pretty quickly when I ingest) that white flour based items promote bloat - right around the middle. Maybe you can limit yourself to a couple times a week when you get to indulge (within reason!) in that yummy white bread??? </p>
<p>What other types of physical activity do you like or are you willing to do besides the stair climbing???</p>
<p>Oh and putting my party hat on for KMC and her 5 pound party!!! :)</p>
<p>I went for a 1.5 mile run last night with another 1/2 mile of walking. Ugh. Felt awful!! I think the problem is/was that I had just eaten dinner an hour and a half before - I have been doing my runs BEFORE dinner - that worked good for me -mornings are already pretty early with work and D’s high school carpool, I work during the day. So a run around 5 and then dinner at 6:30 or so worked out great - I run better on a more empty tummy. Well now the weather is warming so I’d prefer to wait till 8 or so to head out - but yuck, my stomach says no! Go an have to figure this one out…</p>
<p>Yay for kmc!!! 30 lbs lost is awesome! So happy for you! :)</p>
<p>I started a 10 minute daily arm workout. Will see if it tones these old wings!</p>
<p>Can you share your arm workout??? Great idea!</p>
<p>Cpt, by working on portion control and cutting down on the bread it sounds like you’ve had a lot of success. What’s the best part? :)</p>
<p>You and I are the wing workout crew NM! </p>
<p>Let me second what everyone is saying about white flour. I can definitely tell by the scale when I’ve had bread. It is an occasional treat now, which is a real hardship for me. I love bread.</p>
<p>Cheers for KMC and cpt! Keep up the good work. </p>
<p>For arms, I use weight machines, but doing the New Rules core exercises seems to have helped with the toning, a lot. Probably the pushups–much as I hate them.</p>
<p>Another one here that could live on bread and water. In the past I could and would eat an entire doughy white hamburger bun package in on evening. I have to avoid the bread aisle. Used to LOVE Wonder Bread. Helps build strong bodies 12 ways.</p>
<p>Ohio- Do you remember that squishy “Hawaiian” bread that was (maybe still is) in the grocery stores? I would buy that and rip large chunks off of it to eat! I’m a bread person, too. I even like raw dough.</p>
<p>Stretch/strength/core including seven semi-reasonable floor level pushups. That’s good for me. 
I would still probably prefer to do pushups with hands at bench level like I would if I were at the gym, but I usually do workouts that include them at home where that’s not an option.</p>
<p>Yay KMC. PARTY ON!!!</p>
<p>KMCMOM:</p>
<p>Partaaaaay! 30 pounds is a pretty big change. I bet you really notice it in the mirror! Isn’t it interesting how the mindset shifts from losing some weight to enjoying being more fit? I did not expect that.</p>
<p>CPT:</p>
<p>Awesome. Getting the process underway is the hardest part. The way I could make the permanent changes to the way I ate was to triage the situation and get rid of the worst offenders or the things that just weren’t that essential. For example, I stuck with a good deli bun when we grilled hamburgers, but I skipped the bread with meals otherwise. And, no more Dunkin Donuts coffee rolls. And no more late night snacks of french toast.</p>
<p>Yesterday’s [Dilbert</a> cartoon](<a href=“http://dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/100000/80000/3000/300/183355/183355.strip.gif]Dilbert”>http://dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/100000/80000/3000/300/183355/183355.strip.gif)delved into a passion for bread.</p>
<p>My lunch workout today:</p>
<p>Out on the FieldTurf, 75 degrees (estimate around 85-90 at surface), bright sunny day.</p>
<p>4 trips of 100 yards nice and easy for a warm up. Did some dynamic warm up activities. Then got to it…</p>
<p>30 yards, walk back.
50 yards, walk back.
70 yards, walk back.
100 yards, walk back. Walk length of field again.
30 yards, walk back.
50 yards, walk back.
70 yards, walk back.
100 yards walk back. Walk length of field again.
30 yards, walk back.
50 yards, walk back.
70 yards, walk back.
100 yards, walk back. Walk length of field again.</p>
<p>May try to hit strength this evening still… we’ll see how I feel after work this evening…</p>
<p>Hops, were those intervals of running? Pardon my being clueless here.</p>
<p>I’m guessing those are sprints. I’m not used to thinking of intervals in terms of yards, more meters, so this leads me to think this is something maybe football players do as part of their practices or the sport where the concept comes from? I know you’re doing a special program, but I don’t know what kinds of exercises it includes, thus my dumb questions.</p>
<p>Sprint intervals! That sounds like a terrific workout, HOPS. Those are what? Intervals from 5 seconds to 20 seconds? Rough…</p>
<p>There’s video somewhere of iPod nazi doing that kind of a conditioning test for the University of Toronto mens soccer team. Sprint a distance, walk back, sprint again. They were dropping like flies.</p>
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