@colorado_mom, good work! Yes, I’ve found that it takes both exercise and dieting to lose weight. If I try to leave either one out, I don’t lose much.
Yea, I knew I’d need to eventually do both to loose weight. (I lost those same 15 lb about 15 years ago, when the fitness center opened at work… and I started eating healthier lunches). But my higher priority this time was improved fitness level.
Goal -15
Loss -4
exercise- 5.5 hiking mountain trail
calories 1625
@oregon101 - hiking a mountain trail sound fun! (We can do it around here, but DH is not very interested, sigh).
Day trip to visit SIL & her kids, who after ten minutes of sibling squabbling over choosing a restaurant took us to a greasy spoon where the “veggie burger” consists of lettuce & tomato on a bun with swiss cheese, and what I thought was a harmless grilled chicken sandwich came with oily grilled onions and mayo. Home, heading for the Tums, and happy to be an empty nester!
Goal -25
Loss 5
Calories 1300
Exercise one set kettleball swings, kettle ball squat, rows and 3 minutes on the bike, one set of squat to shoulder press and a plank. Better than nothing, but not what I had planned.
Goal -15
Loss -4
Calories 1400
Exercise 30 minutes Kettlebell
Goal -25
Loss -5.5 (so steady for the weekend which is fine with me)
Calories 1300
Exercise yesterday - 3 mile walk to and from train stations plus whatever credit you get for 5 hours of looking at art.
Goal: -15
progress: almost none so far
Calories: 1700 *
Exercise: 6000 steps
- That is more than I'd like, but it included 2 glasses of wine with guests, It still was a good progress day because I actually downloaded an app (MyNetDiary) for official tracking. Typically I eat a lot more, and even with just with minimal exercise (in recent years mostly walking) only gained about a pound a year. So it's taken me a while to get excited about more exercising / dieting.
Goal: -15
progress: almost none so far
Calories: 1200
Exercise: 5K morning run (plus about 4000 more steps at work etc)
Goal -25
Loss -6
Calories, didn’t track yesterday probably 1250
Exercise - measured a house, but mostly a rest day from Sunday where gym day was followed by strenuous gardening.
Goal - 100
Loss - 25.5 (includes previous weight loss)
Calories - 1600
Exercise - Treadmill at the gym
We were on vacation the 2 last weeks, and I didn’t track anything I ate. I still lost 1.5 pounds. Happy about that!
Goal:-17
Loss: -.8 since Friday! (total 11.4)
Calories: WW 30 points per day
Exercise: lots, mainly biking, spin, body pump and barre. Body pump was yesterday and I’m headed to the bike shop this afternoon to pick up my newly tuned up bike to hit the road–very excited!! Has anyone tried pound? I may give it a try.
I might be past the plateau?? I am not going to count on it but it was exciting to see that loss so soon after last week’s loss.
Goal -15
loss same 4
exercise --does playing Mahjongg count?
no calorie count
am going to try to get going again
Goal: -15
progress: tbd (using scale at work, for occasional weigh-ins)
Calories: 1250
Exercise: 5K morning run,
Starting weight: 250
Goal: 150
Progress: -52 (-1.5 this week)
Calories: 1400/day, tracking macros with My Fitness Pal app
Exercise: 4 spin classes (twenty minute beginner ones, modified to meet my current UNfitness level, but still pretty dadgum proud of myself). Adding Pilates or yoga next month.
Goal -25
Progress -6 (same as yesterday)
Calories 1150
Exercise - 13 minutes bike 20 minutes with kettle ball and dumbells and a couple of planks
Goal -15
Loss -3
Calories 1460 (again, seems to be my new struggle)
exercise-zero
weighed -5 when I went be and was up 2 when I woke up. Go figure.
@oregon-
That is because bathroom scales are all made by the equivalent of the Acme manufacturing company (aka purveyors of instant tornado, do it yourself rocket car, etc). It is amazing the way that works, 7 pounds would represent either you at like 21000 extra calories or retained a gallon of water!
It can be frustrating, I have plateaued even though I definitely have lost fat around my body (my waist has gone from barely fitting a 42 to a 38 fitting just right), I don’t know whether my body is turning fat into muscle or if I am doing something wrong. It certainly isn’t the kind of food I am eating, this is a very low fat way of eating and I am pretty certain calorically I am 1500 or under, but it won’t budge (and yep, been recording what I eat and am careful to even over estimate calories). Hopefully it is just a plateau, this isn’t a rapid weight loss kind of thing (anti inflammatory diet is the technical term), but if I ate like this when I was younger I likely would have lost double what I have:).
Goal - 15-17
Down 7
Calories- sticking to under 1200 Monday- Thursday. I am going on straight 1200 not adding in extra for exercise
Exercise-45 minutes on the stationary bike at a brisk speed.
50 minute weight class that had about 15 minutes of cardio( we had a sub who varies from our regular instructor)
Averaging about 30 bicep chair push-ups and 20 step ups at home. I can see a real improvement in my upper arm definition.
Key for me is meal planning and not eating out.