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#1041

hey Trey just a tip for what I always did because I was the same, there was no way I could do the AB Ripper X right after doing the strength routines, and if you do it right before your abs will be too tired to do pull-ups decently

so what I did was I’d get up 20 minutes earlier than usual and do the AB Ripper X in the morning, then do the weight routine when I’d get home from work, or if your working out early the weight stuff in morning and ab at the end of the day

good luck! (also my first couple times in general I had a hard time finishing the AB Ripper X even with doing it early and hours apart from the main workout so don’t feel so bad)

#1042

A quick update: The first months of focused exercise have given way for an easier approach. My knees began to protest against all the running so I’m currently swimming as well. Just to vary the workout. Still manage to exercise three times a week.

Hope you all are making progress and manage to keep the momentum up as we head in to darker months (Sweden have less than 11 hours of daylight now and it’s getting darker fast).

#1043

I update on Twitter a lot but I haven’t checked in here in a while. I started with a personal trainer this week and oh my gods! I love him and I hate him but he is awesome. I hurt everywhere. EVERYWHERE. But I feel GREAT too. I had my physical assesmment today and I have lost 90lbs since Feb. I want to lose another 70-80 to get where I want to be but I want to keep muscle and tone up all my jiggly bits. I’m on a 1500 cal a day diet, with a cardio burn of 300 cal a day (on top of the strength training) to make a 1000 cal loss per day. I honestly can’t remember the last time I had this much energy, I don’t think I looked like this in high school. I would do a fraggle dance right now if I could, but I’d probably fall over from the pain.

WOLVERINES!!!

#1044

Woohoo! That is awesome. Combining working out and reduction of calories is a highly effective approach I have found, I am also holding myself to 1,500 a day. I love responding to my wife’s question, “Is this ok to eat?” with, “Sweetie, I’m not on a diet, I can eat whatever I want. I just need to be aware of the overall picture.” For example, went out to lunch today with the family and and a pork burrito. There were more healthy things on the menu, but that is what I felt like. Had a light breakfast, had a light dinner and net-net it is all good.

Keep it up!

#1045

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!
Spad31

Welcome Spad! Good luck with the P90X, I think I might try it one day, but today is not that day.

I update on Twitter a lot but I haven’t checked in here in a while. I started with a personal trainer this week and oh my gods! I love him and I hate him but he is awesome. I hurt everywhere. EVERYWHERE. But I feel GREAT too. I had my physical assesmment today and I have lost 90lbs since Feb
Kirokai

Ninety pounds is fracking amazing! Good luck with reaching your goal.

So last week I missed a bunch of workouts because my work schedule changed a bit, but I’m still feeling upbeat and motivated. But the only thing that’s going to stop me from making it to all my workouts this week is if the Rapture finally comes.

#1046

I’ve come to the conclusion that because of the finger injury earlier this year and not having really done any regimented weight lifting in months that jumping into P90X isn’t a good idea

so new plan is to do lesser weight routines for a month or so to get myself into good enough shape that I can actually make use of the P90X again

#1047

Thing got crazy for a bit, there. I’ve been nipping in to read when I can.

Work has been dicking with my schedule, working me past my cut-off time (and I never signed the waiver to allow that). So I’ve been putting in loooong feeling 12 hr days.

The hub and I have been missing portions of our bootcamp, sometimes only getting in 1/2 hour’s worth. It’s been sucking. But I’ve noticed I’ve been pushing myself harder to make up for the lost time. Making it into a Dirty 30 workout. I’m still wiped at the end.

It’s getting dark outside with a gorgeous Harvest Moon to work out by. Lovely.

I feel like a noodle. A loose, fwumpy noodle. slither-fwump

#1048

Wow, Aimee, I had no idea you had lost so much weight. That is AMAZING! Also, getting in 300 cal/day of cardio is impressive. I just can’t do it every day–good for you.

I bet you’re a sexy noodle…

#1049

LOL!! hubba-hubba (someday!)

Aimee = Ossimsauce!! #WOLVERINES !!

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#1050

So I have changed my workout routine a little bit as I kept mildly hurting myself on the treadmill. Sore knee, sore calf muscle, I could go for a while but I always ultimately felt pain somewhere. This led me to the elliptical.

I hated the elliptical when I first tried it. I didn’t get it and wrote it off. When I first hurt myself on the treadmill I needed a cardio substitute and thus tried it once again. I immediately noticed a difference in how I felt after…worked out but with no pain. What started out as something to do while I couldn’t use the treadmill has become my primary. I go for an hour on it now which equals about 6 miles and I burn up to 760 calories and do this four times a week. I occasionally do my 10 minutes of rowing which adds another 100 calories and then mix arms and legs strength training.

I seriously can’t believe what a difference this has made in the month and a half I have been working out and paying attention to my eating. I have almost lost twenty pounds, feel great and just feel proud of myself. Gone is the stress of reaching for a button-down shirt and being worried that I won’t be able to button the collar. I look in the mirror and I just smile.

Thank you all for your constant support. You really made this all possible. #wolverines

#1051

Immense praise, Solai, it’s a beautiful thing to hear. In fact, all the triumphs and cheers in return are great to see here, such a positive trend that I’m really pleased to see so many jumping on board. Now, as the weather cools, and my runs outdoors bece more treacherous, I may actually have to renew a gym membership just to maintain, else face the dreaded ‘holiday food and cold weather sluggishness’ double-whammy that always takes its toll.

(Or at least, DID take its toll in years past when I was dealing with it alone…strength in numbers!)

#1052

That is an excellent point. Last year I did pretty well with nutrition throughout the holidays but I am a little more concerned, because we’re spending Christmas with Samantha’s parents. It’s my first time going out there with her. I am not sure I’ll be comfortable being like, “oh, thanks for offering to cook me breakfast, future mother in law, but that’s alright. I’ve got breakfast already–I packed a bunch of foods that meet my needs just in case you didn’t have anything for me.” Yeah, not a great way to win friends and influence future relatives.

#1053

I have almost lost twenty pounds, feel great and just feel proud of myself . . . Thank you all for your constant support. You really made this all possible. I have almost lost twenty pounds, feel great and just feel proud of myself. Gone is the stress of reaching for a button-down shirt and being worried that I won’t be able to button the collar. I look in the mirror and I just smile. Thank you all for your constant support. You really made this all possible.
Solai

You are awesome, and I’m so glad that you said that. So this means that when others comment on your hotness, I can take credit?

Someone will walk up to you all, “Solai, you look great! How—” And then I jump into the middle of your conversation, “I’m sorry, I believe you should be talking to me. Wolverines!”

#1054

Solai congrats!

#1055

You can spin it with the truth: Let them know (via you or Samantha) you are on a regimen in preparation for the wedding and subsequent honeymoon and healthy future. That it’s been a hard road but worth it for the eventual results. You’ve been making changes you can live with and want to proceed sensibly, but a good support network would really help! Make them a part of your team, not the opposition.

You’ll suffer setbacks during the holiday visit, but this may lessen the overall damage points.

#1056

+1 to what BKitty said. I used to be squeamish about getting the foods O need, but now I just lay it out. You’ll always run into people who have different food issues/ideas than you, so if you don’t start speaking up you’ll just end up on a roller coaster ride of other people’s problems.

The way I approach it now: I’m nice about it, but firm. Most people handle it pretty well. If they don’t, well, they don’t. Either way I take care of my health!

#1057

So Samantha just saw this over my shoulder and was like, “you’re worried about that?” Ah, oops.

She’s going to talk to her mom, who is much more likely to notice if S and I make a run to the grocery store to get some Fage and apples or hard boil a bunch of eggs for me. And I’m going to bring oatmeal packets and some home-made fruity-oaty bars so if I need healthy snacks I have them.

We’re also going to offer to cook a few meals. This will be a challenge, but a fun one. One of Samantha’s sisters is INSANELY picky. Making a healthy meal that she will eat will be tough, but I am convinced it can be done. And we shall do it.

On Christmas eve I won’t worry about food. I’ll eat her grandmother’s Swedish meatballs, despite the beef (and so will she, vegetarian or no) and eat the pie, drink a glass of wine, and just enjoy myself. If I have a plan in advance for the rest, that won’t be a problem at all.

Thanks for the advice, guys!

#1058

After a very long (months and months) period of repeated impediments I just got back from my first day at the Gym. I took it easy of course, my goal at this time is simply to get my body and mind used to the idea of going on a regular basis. To re-instill the habit of going there, it will be at least six months or more before I can get anywhere close to what my old workout used to be. I have lost all of my mass and am in sickly shape. But I hope to change all of that.

Recap:

After losing my job at the bakery I went through a bout of depression and stopped going to the gym. When I finally got a job at the club the wacky schedule made going to the gym rather impractical, I then went through one debilitating sickness after another the worst was probably the ‘shingles’, really hated that one… And it was not just me, a number of employees at the club kept getting sick too. So I believe it was something there, anyways when summer hit it only got worse. The kitchen had no air conditioning. If I had been working in Mooseballs Alaska this may not have been such a problem, but in Phoenix Arizona it was a serious one. It was like working in a smoky/greasy sauna, I lost a lot of weight over the summer and was constantly tired, this was compounded when they fired one of my cooks and did not replace him and I wound up working every day for 5 weeks straight.

Back to present:

I have recovered from the ordeal and my new job has a schedule which for now at least makes going to the gym again feasible. And yes it has air conditioning.:slight_smile: If this new business grows as I hope it will, it will grow into full time and then I may be able to afford all of the supplements I used to use. And then gain my mass back. But that is a long ways away right now, for now I just need to get healthy. Once I have my health back I believe it wll help with all of the other issues in my life right now. I need balance, and I need a more structured routine. Enough with the frakking chaos. I want order.

Enough rambling. Baby steps, that is all I can do now, but it is at least something…

#1059

Hey Omra, great to have you back in the fitness forums! Crappy to hear about the trials and tribulations over the summer, but you’ve made the commitment to yourself, and we’re all here to back you up! I find that in rough spots, the big struggle is to always get back into it, but once I’ve started, just as you’ve suggested, it brings some semblance of order, and the feeling of having triumphed over a hard workout continues into the day, and lets me triumph over other adversities.

“Wolverines” buddy, one day at a time.

(BTW, holy crap - did I use enough commas in that paragraph!)

#1060

Huzzah and kudos to you!