<p>I’m guessing that I’ll end up with one of these as a warranty replacement. DCRAINMAKER says that it is stable after you get past the initial 8 minute flakiness issues.</p>
<p>Because I am doing the “insanity” and no body loses less than 25 lb after the 60 day program (foot note: per examples shown on TV). </p>
<p>The program claims to burn 1000 calories per workout. 5 workouts per week burn 5000. If I reduce intake by 200 calories per day, the total will be 7000 which is two lbs per week. In 9 weeks that will be 18 lbs. </p>
<p>Starting July 6th, I begin my full marathon training. I figure that will burn additional calories. So I pick 25 lb as the target. </p>
<p>Just finish my third week of Insanity tonight. Hopefully I will be at (target plus 16) ( 9 lb down) tomorrow morning. It is hard but I think I can hit the target.</p>
<p>The daily recording helps me to keep thing on track. While the promised cheers are far and in between, I am going to keep posting it. In doing the insanity, I do “dig deeper” when I know I need to sweat out another 1/2 lb.</p>
<p>The only thing that will derail my progress is muscle gain. I did not figure the weight gain from adding lean muscles from all those jumps in the Insanity. My legs are trashed at the end of every workout. I figure there must be some muscle gain.</p>
<p>Idad, thanks for posting those videos of your new workouts. I tried a couple with the 35lb DB after the insanity work out. It is not easy, especially on the left side. </p>
<p>Four rotations with 90 second rest in between is beyond me at this time. May be I would give it another try after the completion of the 60 day insanity workout.</p>
<p>CD, standing ovation from me. 100 lb, Wow!!! I reached 55 lb in this Feb but gained back 14 lb before I started “insanity” with a target loss of 25 lb.</p>
<p>1 mile + lots of strength-training stuff. Including single-leg squats. If I can do these, then my knee is in pretty good shape. There are many times after a lot of tennis matches where I can’t do a single single-leg squat. It’s too painful. I’m going to try to get back on track this week. There’s no way I can get to 1,000 miles doing 1 mile/day.</p>
<p>I was at Whole Foods this evening planning to get a coffee for the long drive home. The coffee bar was closed when I arrived so I looked at cola options. I bought a can of Zevia Cola. Crisp, not sweet cola drink. It reminded me of Coke without the sweetness. It didn’t have the aftertaste of regular diet drinks (maybe due to Aspartame).</p>
<p>Apparently Coca-Cola is going to launch a Stevia-Coke product. It will have half the sugar of regular Coke and Zevia to make up the difference in sweetness. Yuck. Why can’t they do an all-Stevia drink? They could also just buy out Zevia.</p>
<p>I’m going to try 6 reps per exercise and do the slightly easier swinging cleans and see if I can’t get both right and left sides non-stop. I have no prayer at 8 reps per exercise without resting between sides. I’m not at all sure I can do 6 reps per exercise and finish both sides without resting, but, I’ll see how it goes. </p>
<p>The push presses at the end are brutal. Those things send my heart rate into orbit.</p>
<p>Wow, so much is going on! I have been too busy with work and my class, so I fell behind. Congrats to the winners and losers! </p>
<p>10:30 pm and 80 degrees… We might see some record highs tomorrow! I just finished weeding the hidden part of the garden by the back fence aka the jungle. Raked, mowed, pulled weeds for a couple of hours in addition to my morning run. I think my activities burned about 2000 calories! Complete insanity… </p>
<p>I went with the basic Nike shorts and the Under Armor tech t that had been worn a couple of days around the house and was time to shift to the sweaty workout rotation and into the laundry basket! No cute outfits on the Airdyne.</p>
<p>Target + 18!! I am literally in tears this am when I see these numbers - took 6 weighting to get average. Instead of going down, I am going up.</p>
<p>You have not idea how much I want to hit target plus 16 mark. Other than the usual breakfast and lunch, I only ate 4 peaches, 1/4 watermelon, three handful of almond the whole day. </p>
<p>Activities wise, I did some house painting for about 1 hour, cut the grass for one hour, fix the lawn mow, went to take pictures of the local bike race, and did the whole insanity program plus some of Idad’s moves. I was at target plus 17.6 when I went to the bed.</p>
<p>Typically, I would lose about 2 lb of weight over night. But this time, the weight actually goes up? That is against physics - other than breathing, I did not have any intakes. How can the weight goes up!!!</p>
<p>There you go, part of the real life - gain weight by just breathing.</p>
<p>BB, what I want to know is why weed it if its a hidden part of the garden (which completely explains how my own jungle has become overrun by native species ;))</p>
<p>Idad, no doubt I’d be better off eating a home-prepared chicken breast for lunch on the fructose front, but in practice, the 16 g of low G/I sugar (fructose in this case and not high/corn fructose) is roughly the same as a banana or cup of berries and is worth the trade-off for me on the convenience/protein front. At 25g carb, it’s by no means compatible with a low carb/no carb approach, but its better than the former daily trip to jimmy johns in my case where quadruple-the-calories and high G/I grain awaits (Jimmy Johns opened in our building a few years back, and notably many of the employees in various suites have packed on the pounds - and I resembled that remark, even though I knew better.)</p>
<p>^btw, the above is not to suggest that all protein drinks use fructose from fruit…some do use high fructose from corn syrup (mine doesn’t.) Also, if you’re restricting carbs it does not make sense to add fruit to a protein shake or eat with fruit despite the fact that many advocate same. That in essence doubles your carb load and is incompatible with low carb diets. At the same time, in terms of the fructose effect, drinking one regular pop gives you about two to three times the fructose as the average protein shake, just to give some context.</p>
<p>DadIi, I just saw your post so I put those four peaches into the calculator at mynetdiary. In consuming the four peaches, you consumed 272 calories, ate 60 grams of sugar (fructose specifically, so not necessarily the worst sugar) and ingested 68 carbs with 8 grams of protein. </p>
<p>By comparison, TWO chicken breasts would have given you 48 grams of protein and zero carbs, zero sugar (for only 226 calories). So I’m not sure why you’re skipping dinner in favor of fruit, unless you’re deliberately carb-loading. Obviously, whatever worked for you before might need fine tuning in the face of an aggressive goal.</p>
<p>We all have to find what works best for us. With some programs like South Beach, you don’t need to track calories at all, just memorize the allowed foods. Same is true with low carb, paleo, or the type of high fat/high nutrient system that has worked so well for idad.</p>
<p>But if you’re not going to restrict carbs or follow a specific diet, then you end up needing to track components so that you can balance your caloric intake, sugar, carb and protein consumption. Either approach, tracked or not tracking, requires a bit of study.</p>
<p>What did you do last time to achieve your goal? Did you eat that much fruit then?
Again, not hating on fruit here. Just suggesting you may have more predictable results with fine tuning your nutrition.</p>
<p>Your body doesn’t know what to think. You’re starving yourself and trying to work out a ton. It’s already been shown numerous times that’s not effective weight loss!</p>
<p>DadII, I know it is easy to get discouraged when you think you are doing everything right, but you need to eat something to sustain your body doing all of these workouts! Even the thinnest marathon runners eat. Please listen to KMC and Hops. </p>
<p>KMC, I add fruit to my protein shakes because I like the way they taste with the fruit added. 1/2 cup of fresh raspberries it probably the most concentrated sugar I get, and I don’t drink the shakes every day. I am also adding fiber supplement to my shakes to get it down. Mmmm, tasty. :D</p>
<p>Have been really enjoying running. Saturday I ended up running in a monsoon (which I hadn’t planned on); it was my first real run in a torrential downpour. It actually felt good, very cooling. Last night was very hot and humid but had a nice run over some challenging hills. H and I also took Sabadog to the park for nice 2 mile walk which they both seemed to enjoy.</p>
<p>DadII, in addition to what kmcmom said about the fruit, 1 handful of almonds is about 1 oz (in my small hand), which is 161 calories, and you had 3 handfuls, so there’s another almost 500 calories. You could have had a nice dinner instead of 4 peaches and 3 handfuls of almonds.</p>
<p>Blank mind brought up a good point on the almonds. I tend to underestimate portions when calculating calories. Glass of milk vs. cup of milk, Tablespoon vs. 2-3 tablespoons on the peanut butter sandwich, including all the ingredients that go into the shake, forgetting to add the handful of pretzels and the peppermint patty at the office, etc.</p>
<p>Monday morning and time to re-detox. Tips/encouragement appreciated. Since 4/1/2012 I have lost 50#. The carb discussion was helpful and took off the last 5-10 #. Then the binging started–one soda won’t kill me, one piece of birthday cake won’t hurt etc and now I am up 10# since Mother’s Day. This is my life long pattern lose 50# and then gain it all back but I am determined not to do that again this time so here comes a couple of difficult weeks of carb detox and mental ‘no you do not need to eat/drink that and yes you do need to go do that workout’. I found a drop in ballet class nearby and think I will do that 1x/wk and I signed up for a summer fitness challenge and talk about triathlons at work. These things should help get me back on track. I can already feel the withdrawal head ache comng on. Thanks for listening. One day at a time and sometimes one hour at a time :)</p>
<p>My opinion on food is that you need to treat it somewhat like AA or smoking-cessation. A little bit can do major damage unless you have the willpower to keep things in check. I often don’t have the willpower so I do tracking to supplement it. If I slack off, things can go south in a hurry and fixing it can take a while.</p>
<p>Absolutely Busyparent - one day, one hour, one hand pulled back out of the cupboard of snacks!!!</p>
<p>Kudos for losing 50 pounds - many who need to never reach that success. </p>
<p>IMO, success is a three fold method.
What you eat. Face it, you can’t have the soda, the cake, the handful of chips - on a regular basis and expect results that hold. Find substitutes for these items so that you aren’t depriving, just making better choices. A Crystal light instead of the soda. A sliced banana (or strawberries) with a little milk and a dollop of whipped cream instead of the cake. Crunchy vegs dipped in ranch instead of chips.</p>
<p>How you exercise. The ballet class is a great idea if that is something you will enjoy! What can you do other days of the week? Is there any reason you can’t find 20 mins everyday to do something - even just a walk in the neighborhood? My opinion is that you need to find an exercise that you can do right from home - that you don’t have to get in the car to do (too easy to just not go!). So do a youtube exercise video, go for a walk, a jog (if that’s your thing), do some core exercises, walk the dog - you get the idea. I say you need to do a minimum of 4 times a week.</p>
<p>Get on board mentally. The biggest challenge, but perhaps the most effective. Commit mentally. No excuses. If you fall, get back on. Make decisions for yourself not based on what others are doing. (Everyone at work is ordering sandwiches - good for them but you brought food from home so eat that while you socialize with them) When you win the mental challenge - knowing that you are in control and feeling the GREAT feeling of knowing you are making a little stride everyday - you are more likely to succeed. Realize that the joy of eating that piece of birthday cake is temporary - but the feeling of losing a pound or not feeling bloated lasts ALL DAY! </p>
<p>This is your journey to succeed at or not - no one elses. You have to make your own plan, keep your own promises to yourself, find time to make yourself committed to your plan. </p>
<p>Oh, I forgot the 4th important piece. Come to this thread on CC for support and suggestions. We truly have all levels of dedicated people here - we are a good balance of love and tough love here. :)</p>
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