Wolverines update:: eating only 1 bagel with cream cheese for breakfast (with vitamin supliment) and am now down to 215 and had to cut a hole in my belt to keep my pants up. 8D
Just checking in. Scheduling lately has been hellish (like having to work until after 8 last night with no warning) so I haven’t been ablt to make it to the gym. Even so I have been mostly continuing to work on eating better. I have also been working at walking stairs normally. I have a history of injuring my knee which has really habituated me to hobbling up the stairs only ever bending one knee. My knee isn’t hurt now and is capable of it - I just need to get used to it again. So thats me. Hope everyone else is keeping at it.
Wolverines update:: eating only 1 bagel with cream cheese for breakfast (with vitamin supliment) and am now down to 215 and had to cut a hole in my belt to keep my pants up.
Xero1
That’s awesome!
I’ve been making it to all my workouts lately, and even though my knee is giving me a few twinges it seems okay. I’m trying not to let little things get me down, sometimes it doesn’t take much, but I keep thinking about the others here and it helps me get off my butt. I’m not where I want to be yet but I’m still in the fight. Wolverines!
So where do I start, I’ve gone up about 5-6lbs since my last major appearance here and the food is ok and I’m slowly getting back to eating properly. I haven’t stepped inside a gym for a while now but I’m still doing the handstand pushups and running 3 times a week. The weight is slowly coming off but the good news is that I haven’t gone up in terms of trouser or shirt sizes. So yeah me.
Apart from that, nothing much to report, I’m learning how to cook a bit better so that’s quite exciting learning how to pair flavours together and combine different foods and learn new techniques. I did make a bit of a bomb yesterday when I tried to season a chicken in the slow cooker but the smell and taste of it was not to everyone’s liking. Whoops.
Son is really coming along now, he’s doing football on saturdays which he loves and he’s really developing in terms of character and sentence construction. You can really understand his wants and needs a lot better than before.
Anyway, next week it’s going to be run, swim and gym again because once I’m in the groove, I actually enjoy it. Felt good to get back into the handstand pushups :).
way to go Xero!
glad to hear Bishop!
personal update for me: hell week at work is over so now starting Monday I intend to start the P90X 90 day cycle again :eek: wish me luck!
Solai: Thanks! I appreciate it 
Xero 1 and BishopMontabha: congrats on your weight loss!
Nike: great job on keeping up with your workouts
Darth_Revan: good luck with P90X
I’m still watching my food and working on that running goal. It’s getting cold here so I’m going to have to look at proper cold weather running wear.
Part of my strategy to accomplish my fitness goal is to have a daily caloric budget of 1,500. I use Loseit app to track and log and have had a great deal of success. Some days, usually Fri / Sat I go over budget and I am cool with that. Yesterday I completely fell down and I am completely guilt free about it which I feel is the healthy approach. I am not beating myself up or feeling like a failure. I went to my brother’s house at which a great deal was eaten and drunk. All in all I went 1,520 calories over for a net calorie intake of 3,039. How did I do it? Slice of pizza, Chicken Marsala and Chicken Francaise, Wine, Beer, hor d’oeves of chips and guac. Chocolate covered oreo for desert. I got home and had two shots of tequila. All of this added up to my debaucherous 2,500ish calories. Oh, and no exercise. None. I can’t even say I walked.
Best part of all of this is I am completely at peace with it. I look at that and realize this kind of behavior has become the exception, not the rule. More importantly I am aware of it, made the choice and am good with it. I won’t have as large of a net weekly calorie reduction, but I am living my life and not sacrificing stupidly. Also, ironically if I wasn’t so hyper aware of calories and nutrients right now I can only imagine how many calories I would have consumed. I think a safe bet is simply double the total.
Anyway, just wanted to share this with my peeps as an example of how maybe to handle when we fall off the fitness wagon. Laugh it off and keep moving forward. This is a long distance race! Keep it up!
WOLVERINES! <burp>
There are times when I feel like the biggest failure because I did not eat the way I should. But Solai is right, it has become the exception not the rule. WHen I go back & add it all up, yes it’s bad but no where near as bas as I thought it was. I also rarly eat as much as I used to in binge situations like that. A) I feel guilty B) I just can’t eat that much anymore. Uncomfortable after a ton of food is no longer a “good” feeling for me.
That’s fantastic! Hooray for you. I actually walked out of a pair of pants recently. It’s a pretty good feeling. Haven’t had too many good feelings on the fitness and wellness front lately. Meh. So gotta celebrate this one.
Awesome again! That’s great work, Nike.
To respond to both of you at once: le sigh. In the 8 or 9 days before the LSAT, I stress ate my way through half a bag of tortilla chips, a bunch of chocolate, a bag of cheddar rice cakes, and larger-than-ideal servings of the healthy foods I normally eat. In part, my body and brain needed the extra fuel, because I was pushing myself beyond the red line. But a significant portion was just stress-alleviating comfort eating. As a result, I gained weight for two weeks in a row–the first time that has happened in more than 6 months. It’s only 5 pounds, and I’ll get moving in the right direction again, but it is hard not to get really down on myself. Why couldn’t I have stress-eaten my way through an extra 3 pound bag of sugar snap peas? Ugh. So I’m feeling your pain, BishopMontanha.
On the other hand, Solai, your advice is wise. I need to make peace. And then I need to get ready to eat healthy this week even though I have another business trip. I’ve already checked out the gym situation and figured out when I will make time for 2 workouts while I am gone. I’m going to skip the usual Tuesday weight check in and just concentrate on the future. Wish me luck, kids.
well I wasn’t able to start the P90X this week, woke up Monday with a tweaked shoulder and thought better of pushing it
so instead I’ve just been doing walking on the treadmill getting healed up to start this coming Monday
Well, hey gang. None of you know me yet, but that’s cool. I lurk and read more than I post. About to kick off the P90X thing again myself. Did it for about a month earlier in the year…ouch! Job got in the way (I deployed) and kept me from continuing. Looking forward to getting back into shape with ya’ll!
-Trey
I don’t know if you did or didn’t, but it’s a good opportunity to remind everyone about stretching before and after. Four months into my Return To Fitness, knock on wood, my back is holding up pretty well. But I still spend as much time stretching as I do working out. Probably more.
Welcome aboard, Spad.
Thanks Ferris!
-Trey
Trey, welcome! I just did a quick lookup of what P90X is, good luck and let us know how it goes. You will quickly find here on the forum and on Twitter we have quite the support and cheerleading group here.
Very true. I spend at least 10 minutes stretching before a run, usually more like 15. I stretch for a minimum of 10 minutes every day in the middle of the afternoon, too, to relieve the misery of sitting at a desk all day. My physical therapy sessions have really strongly emphasized stretching out my calves, which are always ridiculously tight. Stretching, for me, feels really good. But I was talking with some of you who said it hurt. At first I thought it was because I’m such a young’un but I checked with Samantha and she says stretching hurts her, too. What’s with that?
My update for the week: I ate healthfully while at a conference in Tennessee, which is pretty remarkable. I didn’t even have ribs or anything. I had almost enough veggies every day. Sadly, I did not get to work out as I planned. I knew that it would be tough, because my day started at 7:30 a.m. and the dinner wasn’t over until 9 p.m. But I had thought that I’d have enough energy for something short. Nope! So I’ll push extra hard tomorrow night.
Also, my feeling gross and eating too much and stress-eating last week before the exam? Turns out it was PMS. I was just so consumed by exam-prep that I forgot. I no longer want to EAT ALL THE THINGS. Thank goodness.
looks like we’ll be going through the same pains very soon 
kick some bootay Trey!
well I didn’t tweak the shoulder doing the exercise, I woke up Monday morning with it hurting, I had helped move a bunch of packages of roofing shingles the day before and must have over extended myself at some point
P90X has a whole warm up/stretch portion of the video before you get into the actual strength training
Zombie apocalypse runners app for iphone and droid!! Of course, I don’t have either of those but I love the app and if I did have one I would play this. I just pretend I am being chased by zombies on my night runs. It’s motivating!
http://laughingsquid.com/zombies-run-a-fitness-app-and-zombie-game/
Welcome Trey! Good luck with your P90X!
Thanks gang! OUCH! I’m done with day 1. I can’t finish the Ab Ripper X workout after doing the first disk. I’m pretty confident those people are genetically engineered and CGI inserted. No way anyone can do that. I call shenanigans.
shakes tiny fist
Ready for day 2 tomorrow!
-Trey