<p>Running total for Jan-Jun ~276 mi.</p>
<p>“I got my chinny-chin-chin over the bar, but I could only do four…”</p>
<p>That’s about 5 more than what I’m able to do. :)</p>
<p>No meaningful exercise for me today. The heat wave got the better of me!</p>
<p>^What BB said!</p>
<p>Unintended “rest” day for me yesterday…in the am, was headed into the pool for the aquajogging and mch reminded me the pool guy was coming to fix the light. Since I’ve habituated myself to doing same in the raw, I instead made a beeline for the house to cover up :)</p>
<p>Then, intending to leave work at a “civilized” 7 pm to have time for dinner, bike ride and aquajogging, a friend on vacation called concerned that an unexpectedly early and large shipment from a 31 Bag party we jointly hosted was now sitting on her lawn unattended. So instead I found myself sorting through five huge boxes that indeed had been deposited at her house to begin to figure out the distribution of the goodies, storing the rest in her garage. So it was dark and cold by the time I finally ate and my motivation to make up the skip had set with the sun.</p>
<p>This kind of scenario is where the tracking is useful…while I don’t generally “eat the difference” entirely in exercise calories burned, I do ratchet down my caloric budget a bit if I haven’t “earned” my more generous budget 
So even though dinner was idiotically late, I’m still down a bit this a.m. Sure feels more like maintenance mode than active weightloss this month…but I need to get good at maintenance mode too, because historically, its my downfall.</p>
<p>Stupid rain is scuttling the aquajog again so it will have to be treadmill or hill for me this morning…intensity of rain is having me lean toward treadmill :)</p>
<p>Welcome back, CJane! I hope you enjoyed your trip. </p>
<p>Looking at my weight trajectory over the past month, KMC, I feel like I’m in maintenance mode as well. That is a good thing as historically it’s where I’ve failed in the past. I’d like to lose about ten more pounds, but I’d also like to work on building some muscle; I’d be happy with losing some pant sizes rather than actual pounds. Friday is going to be a rest day for me and then I’m going to be rethinking my workouts. </p>
<p>D reported that she got up yesterday and did her C25k run for the first time in D.C.; she advised that she felt like a good enough runner and not a “fatty” that people didn’t look at her funny! I told her she looked a lot better than the people who were doing nothing.</p>
<p>Target + 19 (average of three weightings). </p>
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<p>Perhaps you are PG. The scale does not lie and I did gain about 2 lbs from yesterday morning. The brownie it self might not weight much, but food liek that traps a lot of water with it. </p>
<p>Many a times I have noticed that my weight gain is more than the weight of my intake including the water. As the case the other day, I weight myself before going to bed and then in the morning. With no intake what so ever and some water out, my weight went up. </p>
<p>Yesterday’s gain is expected because it was also a resting day - w/o the sweating effect.</p>
<p>Yup, sounds like we’re walking a similar path. I am 2 lbs from my second goal of -40 and 12 lbs from my year-end goal of -50, but I’m not entirely convinced my body wants to go there 
What my body DOES seem interested in is tone, which the aquajogging seems to foster, and it makes me feel like doing other things and in the end, that’s my true goal – energy and lifestyle to match my enjoyment of meals and goid times in balance.</p>
<p>As much as I <em>think</em> I’m toning, that kettlebell routine of iDad’s unnamed doofus source kicked my butt after one set each side…and I was using a lame weight. The weight itself didn’t give me any trouble (I felt the whole thing would have been more meaningful with a heavier kettlebell, the latter of which I don’t curently own.) but my knee just doesn’t like the squats and I was worried about blowing the knee before the treadmill and burning my legs.</p>
<p>While I am jogging a little, eg maybe two minutes at a time, I notice that said knee doesn’t cotton to anything much faster (and I use the term loosely) than 4 mph. I’m short, but that’s slow in any book, so its a good thing I have the low impact of the pool available. I’m pretty certain running is not for m. The only reason I do the little jogs on the treadmill with my walking is to get my heart rate up a bit…straight walking with incline and hand weights desnt do that so much anymore, which I suppose is a good thing.</p>
<p>It’s just weird that I can truck up and down the hill or jog at a slow incline without any knee trouble but that squats seem to aggravate it.</p>
<p>DadII, can I ask why the weight “number” is so important to you?? It seems that you are making some real positive gains - the insanity program, the group meetings/workouts, running, etc. - but those positive gains are being fully overshadowed mentally by you due to the number on the scale??? I’m wondering what your state of mind might be if you did NOT get on that scale for a week or so but keep your exercise program and nutrition going. Exercise and eat well for a week, no weighing. </p>
<p>I’m a “glass half full” kind of person - perhaps to a fault. But the majority of what I’m reading from you is “glass half empty” - yet you have so much to be feeling good about! Just something to think about. :)</p>
<p>I can do zero unassisted push ups. I think my current setting is a 40 pound assist for a set of ten.</p>
<p>Do you mean pullups or dips?</p>
<p>I don’t think that I could do any at the moment but I’m afraid to try. Basically many bouts of tennis elbow over the years results in a certain fear factor in putting a big load on the forearm to test it out. I’ll get there some day, with a little at a time.</p>
<p>I think that doing pullups on a regular basis puts you into a relatively small percentage of people overall. The last time I did unassisted pullups was in my 20s.</p>
<p>Yeah, I’m with mathmom on the pullups. I don’t even know if I want to make them a goal, because unassisted pull ups for women over 100 lbs. are really, really hard. Probably should though, for that reason…</p>
<p>Came across this page and thought it had some good info on activating the glutes. This is always a challenge for me because my quads are quite strong and really want to take over. I would like to put on some muscle in the glute zone for both strength and aesthetic reasons, so I will be focusing intently on glute activation over the next weeks to see if it makes a difference.</p>
<p>[Awaken</a> your dormant glutes!](<a href=“http://eatercise.com.au/?p=515]Awaken”>http://eatercise.com.au/?p=515)</p>
<p>I don’t do any exercises that involve squats. They are simply too risky for me with past knee/hip issues. I do think they are good for people- but the risks for runners are very high, especially if your form is not perfect. That rules out a lot of exercises, but there are plenty left! :)</p>
<p>DadII is very quantitative and goal oriented. He has to see the numbers, whether it is a drop on the scale or a drop in running times. I understand that, but you need to get past it after a point.</p>
<p>“Many a times I have noticed that my weight gain is more than the weight of my intake including the water. As the case the other day, I weight myself before going to bed and then in the morning. With no intake what so ever and some water out, my weight went up.”</p>
<p>DadII, if this was my scale, I’d toss this useless piece of junk in the garbage! A scale can be off by up to a half a pound, plus or minus, but when it makes you mysteriously gain 2 pounds just by sleeping, there is something wrong with it!! Is it perfectly level? Does it sit in one place all the time?</p>
<p>I quit weighing myself with my digital scale. I’d have 5 pound swings stepping on and off the scale.</p>
<p>Walked 3.1 miles today–it’s a course for a local 5K race that I’m going to walk on the 13th. Walking is OK in this race (its a fundraiser for the local conservation trust that’s billed as a run/walk) so I won’t be the very last person at the finish line. I’m a pretty fast walker --as far as senior walkers go and I can manage 12-12:30 minute miles.</p>
<p>Speaking of squats–I went to a new sculpting class early this AM and the first 20 minutes consisted of various types of squats. Good thing I can’t run because by the end of those squats my form was shot. Rest of the class was fine.</p>
<p>My digital scale is really accurate. I could weigh 5 times in a row and it would be to the exact 10th. Not sure why it’s so good, but it is.</p>
<p>Mine is too… If I don’t move it.</p>
<p>3.35 mile walk with 13 minutes of running thrown in. Daily planks, girlie pushups and now some of those glute exercises too (thanks CJane). I know that when you run you are supposed to try to use your glutes, but I haven’t figured out how to make that happen. I can do it when walking, but how do you make sure you are doing this when running?</p>
<p>5.49 mi treadmill run, 10:34 pace</p>
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<p>Well, there’s your problem! You are supposed to take the lowest of three weighings! 
I’m pretty sure it’s in official “Daily weighing for fat loss motivation” rulebook…</p>
<p>Yeah, I agree with that…^^^</p>
<p>Deb, what do you do to “occupy” yourself through those 5.5 miles on the treadmill - music? watch tv?? That just sounds like TORTURE to me right now! When there is the option of outside, running on the treadmill for that long I would need entertainment!!!</p>