<p>Peaceful mom, that hijacking phenom is why I do at least the hike or walk in am before breakfast. My evening strength routines are much more subject to hijacking but to get around that I try to do my sets while cooking dinner.</p>
<p>Btw, idad, the trees and the ski say hi back </p>
<p>Kudos, mrs college, on all those 5 pound parties we missed!</p>
<p>Re music, I used to always use the iPod on the snowshoe hikes, but the extreme cold meant the battery would usually die on me about half way. I started hiking without and in a way I enjoy the cadence if the crunching more in its own right. I donāt think I could stand the dreadmill without however :)</p>
<p>Thanks everyone! Since my D is a senior in college now, I figured it was time to lose the baby weight. ;)</p>
<p>How I did it? Wellā¦</p>
<p>Someone here told me about the MyFitnessPal app, which really helped me count my caloric intake and exercising output. I was very disciplined in keeping my net intake under 2500/day and I lost a slow but steady 2 lbs per week. </p>
<p>Iām walking a lot and doing 30 mins of hard cardio or weight training every day. I used to do an hour, but someone here (idad?) said 30 mins was plenty especially if I walked a lot (I do 65 miles per week), and he was right. I usually burn 1000 cals/day which meant I could eat 3500 cals/day which was doable because I love food and wine.</p>
<p>Oh, and I cut out carbs (except wine). That was the hardest!</p>
<p>I snack on raw cashews and almonds and cheese squares.</p>
<p>Iām in maintenance mode now, so I donāt count calories anymore, but I still donāt eat carbs, eat healthier choices, and Iām still exercising a lot.</p>
<p>I love exercise DVDs like Jillian Michaels and Bob Harper and P90X 1, 2, and 3. </p>
<p>Mrscollege - wow, you need to stick around! Those are the things that I believe get preached over and over on this thread - and a good many of us would absolutely agree are key to weight loss, toning, new lifestyle!
tracking calories through an app/program/old fashioned paper
exercise at least every other day, crosstraining even better!
<p>4 miles walking on dreadmill. No real problems with knee today. Yay!</p>
<p>Made quinoa and added low sugar spaghetti sauce, turkey sausage and mixed in Laughing Cow garlic and herb triangles for dinner last night. Heat and sprinkle with Parmesan. Very satisfying and great taste. Wish there was left overs for lunch!</p>
<p>I encourage everyone to <em>support</em> people as they make progress, not try to knock them down. That gets old quick. It also discourages people from sharing tips that might be helpful.</p>
<p>Mrscollege - I have followed this thread for a long time, but have never posted until now because I am an exercise DVD enthusiast and no one else here appears to be into that. I like P90X and Bob Harper as well as Insanity and several more. I have always wondered how many calories I burn with these workouts. Does your fitbit give you an estimate? I know I eat waaay more calories than a typical 55 year old lady with a desk job, but I never believed the claims that some DVDs make of burning 1000 calories per workout.</p>
<p>Iām glad somebody is getting outside! I keep wistfully checking the weather, but weāve gotten rain every other day all week, including in the mountains. That means big freeze/thaw cycles. Looks like NH returns to periodic snow and consistently colder temps this weekend, so Iāll have to figure out somewhere to hike next week.</p>
<p>Trainer and swim. Spin to come. Trying to be more mindful of what I eat. The eating is the hard part for me. I am amazed at folks like mscollege who can watch what they eat for more than a few days.</p>
<p>1.8 miles outside with my running partner, then 4.7 miles on the treadmill. Gosh, Iām feeling good! Yesterday, my husband said, āThose are new pants youāre wearing, right?ā and I replied, āNo, but they fit a lot looser now!ā</p>
<p>Oh, I wish I could convince some of my friends to start running! I really think it is a key to feeling younger and happier. Even if youāre like me and run 13-minute miles! You donāt have to be an athlete!</p>
<p>I have been going to water aerobics about 4x week in the morning, but have found that some of the instructors are not challenging enough any more.</p>
<p>So I tried the classes at night (830pm) to see if they were any different,and I discovered not only one of my favorite instructors teaches at that time, but I slept * so much better!*</p>
<p>KMC- Thank you for the tip to exercise first thing in the day.
MaineLonghorn- Iāve done all my walking without a walking buddy. Itās actually easier. Tomorrow Iāll walk with an old walking buddy who is faster than me. I appreciated your post about running outside with your running buddy and finishing the job inside by yourself!
Mrscollege- Congrats and thanks for sharing!</p>
<p>I walked first thing this morning. 3.5 miles at a fast pace including some hills. I wore my fitbit that arrived yesterday evening. I am excited to clock 10,000 steps a day for at least 5 days per week. I am excited to reach my first lifestyle goal this weekend and to set additional goals!</p>
<p>Headlights done. New foglamp arrived today. Took all of five minutes to plug the bulb in, click the new housing into the bumper (no tools), and snap the chrome trim on.</p>
<p>To the basement to sling some weights aroundā¦</p>
<p>The fitbit only tracks walking running stairs and sleeping not track, so we had to use a heart rate monitor to track the calories burned during other types of cardio and weights. My husband and I got really into it and we always burned 800-1000 calories during the hour-long Bob DVDs and p90x plyometrics. I have caloric burns for all our DVDs in a diary from last year. Iāll dig it out and give u more specifics tonight.</p>
<p>Iām impressed u can do Insanity! Thatās gotta be the hardest one weāve ever tried. We never made it through. Iām guessing itās a 1200 cals/hr burn.</p>
<p>Btw the caloric burn on intense cardio and weights were higher than expected for us because you keep burning cals even after u r done exercising. At least accordion to our hr monitor.</p>
<p>Not to doubt, but that seems awfully high calorie burning !! Seriously. Please correct me if Iām wrong, but when I run 3 miles - so maybe 32 mins straight, My apps tell me that I burn about 350. I canāt imagine what youād have to do to burn 1000+!!! I understand faster would be more calories, heck running and lifting weights at the same time would be more - but are people really doing that?!! </p>
<p>Just want people (including me) to be properly informed. How do you determine calorie burning based on a DVD besides the claims on the box??</p>
<p>If the DVD is an hour of fairly intense exercise, I could believe 1000 calories. It probably isnāt though. Running is roughly 100 calories a mile, so abasket, your app is pretty darn close. It varies some by speed, but then you arenāt doing it as long. :)</p>
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