<p>Nice job Teri! I got the same comment about arm definition from my PT…who I only went to 3 times (it was a gift). I have decent arms because I spend an abnormally long time in downward facing dog pose in my yoga class. I get lots more than stretching from that class. And I do it at home too! (BTW, cut is just another way of saying you have clearly visible muscles!) </p>
<p>Haven’t weighed myself today. A little worried cause I had TWO glasses of wine last night. After all, it was THURSDAY. Also had a small scoop of light ice cream with caramel sauce. My sweet tooth is coming back…uh oh.</p>
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<p>OK, then why do they call it being cut? :eek:</p>
<p>This is encouraging as I’m only doing weights three times max a week.</p>
<p>ok, teri…here you go…</p>
<p>“Cut -Having extremely well-defined muscles, appearing as if your body has been cut or carved to perfection.”</p>
<p>You know, like Robert Downey Jr in Iron Man. He works HARD to get that way. And he’s no spring chicken either!</p>
<p>What would I do without you guys on CC?!?</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>This is a new experience for me - I’m not used to men my age commenting on my physique, although that’s basically what I’m paying the guy to do!</p>
<p>I wonder what term they use for the fat that’s still on my tummy, on top of the toned muscles we know are hidden in there somewhere!</p>
<p>Belly fat? I’ve heard it called a “spare tire” </p>
<p>What I’m trying to get rid of are the fatty areas that are on my mid/upper back. They are starting to go away with my recent weight loss.</p>
<p>Oh I’ve heard spare tire. I figured there was some ‘code’ word I hadn’t heard of (of course, to me, it’s code if I’ve never heard of it… has nothing to do with my ignorance!).</p>
<p>I thought it was “keg” rather than “six pack” but maybe that’s just the younger generation lingo?</p>
<p>“Love handle”, “spare tire”, “beer belly”… Never heard of it being called “keg”, but it seems to be a very appropriate term. :)</p>
<p>Teri - congrats! Soon you will be able to score easy wins in arm wrestling with Madonna :p</p>
<p>Way to go teriwtt! No muscle definition here except in my legs…not from recent biking but years of dance, marching, tennis…really the only nice part of my body. :o</p>
<p>Weighed in today…down 3 more pounds! Finally! You have no idea how motivated this makes me! Wonder if it is finally from the recent addition of the weight program and adding the extra time to my old hour workout routine.( Or maybe not eating as much???) I am meeting an old friend in Chicago in August. Now I have a mid-range goal instead of the wedding in a year. I cancelled on the trip last summer because I was unhappy how I looked. Sad, but true.</p>
<p>D1 is home this weekend and we are doing wedding planning. Was proud of myself for getting up really early so I could get my workout in and still make the photographer interview apointment at 10:00. Just wish D1 was as motivated to workout. :(</p>
<p>Oh, and I have way too much belly fat! That’s what I am trying to get rid of! And sad to say there are no well toned muscles underneath. :o</p>
<p>NMinn, there will be. There will be. Patience and perseverance!</p>
I’m back and I’m bad…
I missed a whole week with a flu bug. Lost weight, but no exercise. Then, all last week I spent trying to get back in the saddle. I walked every day. I pushed a fertilizer spreader for four bags of fertilizer (which is very good workout, BTW). I did a short iPod nazi circuit and intervals on the Airdyne last night. But, I just was gassed all week from the lingering congestion. Even without getting my heartrate up, I was breathing heavy and not in a good, sustainable, workout way. Just gassed. Very frustrating because I had started to feel – dare I say – a little “athletic” before I got sick.
Just got back from my standard hilly river walk route. 87 degrees out with bright blue sky. I took off easy, figuring the heat would probably wear me out. To my pleasant surprise, I felt strong the whole way. Without trying to push at all, walked it in my second fastest time ever. Heart rate was up there, as it usually is in the heat on those hills, but it was probably easiest breathing I’ve ever had on this walk. Nice steady workout breathing on the hills, but not gassed.
Thank god. It was hard to stay enthusiastic when exercise felt like it did three months ago! Feeling some little progress is so important, I think, to motivation for working out.
Big family restaurant dinner tonight. Going to have to choose wisely to keep from wolfing down eight gazillion calories. Probably won’t order the 14 ounce sirloin on white rice with garlic mashed potatoes with hollandaise sauce! Definitely lay off the dinner rolls. That’s 1000 calories I don’t need, particularly because I’m just 2/10ths of a pound away from my next target: 35 pounds.
<p>idad- I know exactly what you mean. When it feels so HARD to exercise (for me- run) it is hard to be motivated and feel progress. Glad you are back!</p>
<p>Now on what NOT to do. Ran 5 miles before my volunteer job (finish line chip clipping) at the Moon Pie 10 Miler. Hot, tough day, but it was fun to see all my friends finish. The little town of Bell Buckle is home to a prep boarding school called The Webb School, which has an awesome campus. HOWEVER, by 10:30 am I had eaten a Moon Pie, 2 sausage biscuits and an ice cream cone! Geez. This special flavor of Purity (our local dairy) ice cream is only available in Bell Buckle- white chocolate raspberry! It was awesome. Since I had to get up at 4:30 today, it felt like lunchtime by 10am.</p>
<p>nMinn:</p>
<p>Congratuations on the three pounds this week. That’s a big week.</p>
<p>I’ve learned, from tracking my weight daily, that if you are going to weigh in regularly, you have to accept some ups and downs, without rhyme nor reason. For whatever reason, weigh loss seems to occur with a day or two of big losses followed by several days of treading water before another dip down.</p>
<p>Sausage biscuits would be the end of me. How bout some sausage gravy biscuits. Wow. I make a mean white sausage gravy. That’s only about 2000 calories for breakfast.</p>
<p>My daughter is getting a Bojangles in Union Station on her commute to work. I sent her the calorie counts for all those bisquits. The country ham biscuit is the least damage calorie-wise, although I read that the government is going to ban country ham because it’s too salty. Virginia might seceed from the Union if that happens!</p>
<p>These sausage biscuits were part of the post-race food. They had all sorts of stuff- none of it healthy except the bananas and grapes. I guess if you run a 10 mile race you can justify some of that, but still… The food you could BUY at the Moon Pie Festival was even worse, as you can imagine. Fried Moon Pies, funnel cakes, kettle corn…corn dogs…</p>
<p>Biked about 30 miles today…mostly flat…but I’m wiped. Hot out there. </p>
<p>Stopped at a Farmers Market and got some organic Scottish Salmon and quinoa/spelt bread for dinner. Will fetch some greens from the fridge and I’m all set. I really should just toss out that light vanilla ice cream and jar of caramel sauce though. </p>
<p>Sausage biscuit…hmmm…don’t think I could eat that. Especially for fuel during or after exercise. Gravy or not. I would bring my own stuff!</p>
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<p>I’ve got a solution for that…</p>
<p>Remember when I started pressuring H to get a bike helmet? Now it’s time to get a waterproof fanny pack. </p>
<p>He was out for a ride today, and decided to follow signs for a different path (he was about 18 miles from home). Somewhere along the way, he thinks he missed a turn to keep him on the path, and then began to suspect he was on a small service road, that eventually turned into barely a walking path. We’d had a lot of rain yesterday and he went through a few puddles, ranging from 1-3". He was riding slowly and saw another puddle coming up which looked like it might be 6" or so, but he went for it… well, ends up it was 4.5’. He and his bike ended up in the water hole, with his phone and iPod strapped to the back of him in his fanny pack. He said he was in water up to his neck! </p>
<p>When he got out of the ‘puddle’ the gear shift on his handlebar was frozen and he was stuck in 1st gear! I don’t know how far he had to ride until he got to a McDonalds and could call me from a pay phone. I was at the gym and he left a message, and when I got home I listened to it, but I could barely even tell it was him, except I detected a couple of words that said, “Bike… problems.” By the time I called the pay phone number back, he was gone to the next place with a pay phone. He reached me about 30 minutes after the first phone call and told me where he was so I could go get him. It was a good 45-minute drive to where he was. I asked him what he would have done had he not been able to get a hold of anyone (he doesn’t really know any numbers since they’re all saved in his cell phone), and he said he would have kept slowly (because he could only ride in 1st gear) working his way toward home. I then suggested that he might have called a cab and he said, “Oh, I didn’t think of that.” He does know one daughter’s cell phone number, so I told him he could have called her and asked her for other phone #s of people to call and he said, “Oh, I didn’t think of that either.” </p>
<p>So we dropped the bike off at the bike shop and they will have it until Tuesday or Wednesday. His iPod and cell phone are sitting in a bag of rice right now, with hopes of them drying out so that they might work again without sending them in. </p>
<p>Now that’s a sucky bike ride!</p>
<p>I was pretty good at dinner tonight. Two drinks. No appetizers. No snacks. No bread. A salad and roast duck with veggies. Just a couple bites of the white rice. </p>
<p>It’s amazing how easy it is to turn down the snacks and the dinner rolls when you have the mindset to eat less, move more. It would be nice if restaurants would bring the salad a little quicker rather than leave you sitting there watching everyone pig out on the rolls and butter.</p>
<p>I probabably avoided at least 1000 calories I would have wolfed down in pre-dinner snacks and bread, plus I choce an entree with no garlic mashed potatotes. All and all, a successful evening of “eat less, move more” philosophy.</p>
<p>It’s amazing. My wife and I used to eat out three nights a week. Now, it’s maybe three times a year as it’s hard to find restaurants that can cook better than I can at a third the price.</p>
<p>Good job, idad. I agree that the rolls and butter are a real trap. Business dinners where everyone gets all the courses AND dessert are my downfall.</p>
<p>I was really pleased that I could lay off the chips and dip and doritos and spinach brownies and other finger foods my sister-in-law worked hard to put out before dinner. In the old days, I would have been wolfin’ that stuff down.</p>
<p>My attitude is that laying off all the junk like that is a small price to pay for enjoying really good meals and still losing weight. I could throw down 500 calories a day in that stuff easy. Heck I could throw down 500 calories in dinner rolls without blinking an eye. That’s a pound a week. 50 pounds a year. When you look at that way, giving up the dinner rolls is no-brainer in exchange for grilled pork chops or pizza every once in a while.</p>