Food n Fitness Thread #9837483 - Page 73

estranged4life · #**1081** 05-22-2007, 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by skcin

Meditation. Yoga. Walking. Relaxation techniques.

Just sayin'. I suppose a pack a week isn't too bad, but I know from experience that it becomes more too easily. Be careful.

I've smoke about that much off-and-on in the past, never got hooked and always quit 'cold turkey' after I felt 'less stressed'...

Will stop again when my current pack is up since Im not that stressed out now unlike the weekend of my birthday/Mother's Day (It's hard to explain, but I cant get addicted to cigarettes like most

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AliceLover · #**1082** 05-22-2007, 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by skcin

^ Good for you with the weight loss. But. Um. Brian? You're going to start smoking now? At age 30something?

Dude. That's just stupid.

I'm sore as hell right now. After 4 days of not doing my ball routine/weights, I did them last night & I'm paying for it today. Not to mention that I did my Cto5K this morning. Ouch. It's a good sore, but still. Ouch.

Ouch! Once I lose the weight from the couch to 5k program, I need to find out exercises to tone my stomach/pecks without getting a gym membership. You guys will have to help!

I got postponed because of rain for the couch to 5k because of 5 days straight of rain. So I had to do 2nd workout of week 4 last night. It was amazing seeing how much farther I could run!!!

Someone told me the best time to weigh yourself is in the morning after you pee, naked....Is this true?

carrie721 · #**1083** 05-22-2007, 08:35 PM

^yep, it's true!

good job, jimmy! i'm so happy for you!!

amber · #**1084** 05-22-2007, 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by AliceLover

Ouch! Once I lose the weight from the couch to 5k program, I need to find out exercises to tone my stomach/pecks without getting a gym membership. You guys will have to help!

Um...like...push ups and sit ups?

That's what I do - and I'm a fat ass right now, like, hella chub, but you can still see my stomach muscles and arm muscles outline. Seriously

And if I didn't have "boobies", you could see my peck muscles, too.

I also bought some cheap 10 lb weights a long time ago to use with my arms - you could do that, or get one of those big weight resistant rubber band thingies, I have that too, and it was cheap. I prefer weights.

But push ups and sit ups should do you just fine for stomach and pecks.

I try to do 4 sets of 25 sit ups, and four sets of 10 various arm things (mostly push ups, a couple sets with weights) just at home at night, while I'm watching TV. I also do calf sets and butt sets and back sets, but you didn't ask about those.

Then there are the variations on sit ups and even arm exercises, if you want to get all technical. And you can do a lot of different kinds of lifts with hand weights.

congrats on the faster running!

I'm perpetually sore from the vertical hill hikes I've been doing intermittently (sp), where I run a bit, but probably shouldn't - and biking 60 blocks every morning and afternoon (to get to and from work).

And my VCR broke, so no yoga tapes for me, and the yoga DVD I just bought won't play in my computer DVD - I got to do it twice before it crapped out - So I'm a crabby, stiff, sore ball of muscly fat right now - I swear if someone put me on a rack and stretched me, ostensibly for torture, I'd actually be really happy - but at least I'm exercising. The no yoga is killing me. I do some of the stretches, but it isn't the same. Ow. Ow. Dammit, Ow.

If this "no yoga", "biking excessively to get to work" keeps up, pretty soon I will literally be a round ball of muscle, curled up tightly, unable to extend my legs and arms for fear of snapping tendons...with a delicious layer of fat around it, in case someone wants to deep fry me...mmm, deep fried ball o' Amber (crunchy inside!)....

Not that anyone asked, but WC?

JazmenFlowers · #**1085** 05-22-2007, 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by AliceLover

Someone told me the best time to weigh yourself is in the morning after you pee, naked....Is this true?

omg...that's exactly what I do.

my morning ritual: roll out of bed, turn on shower really hot, take of clothes, pee, weigh, get in shower, etc...

skcin · #**1086** 05-23-2007, 01:14 PM

Go Jimmy!

Let me know when you're ready for toning exercises & I'll try to help you out. I kind of developed my own workout over the past few months & I can't believe the results I've seen. It's a combo of basic common sense things (crunches, bicep curls, lunges, etc), moves using an exercise ball, and Core Secrets exercises. Seriously, until now I've never been able to se my ab muscles - NEVER. Didn't think I had any.

I do it in the evening while I watch TV too, 3 days a week, for about 30 min.

Went for a nice bike ride this morning. Gorgeous here, supposed to be up near 80 this afternoon.

DrummerDeanna · #**1087** 05-23-2007, 01:21 PM

^^

Crunches, bicep curls and lunges are my friends. It's funny - I've still got a bit of weight to lose, but damned if my abs don't already look good so far (I don't have a "pack" yet, but there is definition and not just gut) and I've got wicked nice arms muscles...the butt still needs work - but I get lazy with the lunges and squats...

There are so many varieties of crunches that one can do to target different areas of the stomach - and there was recently a great article on MSN that had great information about form and how to do the crunches correctly for the best results...I'll try to find that article, it really helped me.

I'm down a clothes size. It's official. I bought a pair of pants that was my old "fat" size and in an hour they were falling off...so yeah...had to go a size lower...

I'm losing the gym in a month since I'm moving - so I've started biking to work, right now it's 3.6 miles each way, it'll be less when I move but still a good alternative to gym....I'm buying some free weights and then that horrid-looking "bottom's up" book will help with non-cardio things....I'm excited and still feeling good.

skcin · #**1088** 05-23-2007, 01:25 PM

^ The size smaller thing is the biggest ego boost EVER!

Bottom's up! I mean, congrats!

danax6 · #**1089** 05-23-2007, 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by JazmenFlowers

omg...that's exactly what I do.

my morning ritual: roll out of bed, turn on shower really hot, take of clothes, pee, weigh, get in shower, etc...

Me too.

It's depressing if you weigh yourself at night before you go to bed.

I bought a brand new skipping rope today. The lady at the cash register asked me whether I wanted it gift wrapped. I got the weirdest look when I told her it was for me.

It's red with wooden handles. Very cute.

skcin · #**1090** 05-31-2007, 10:56 AM

Yeah, like I'm going to let this thread die.

Beautiful weather here. I just finished week 3 of the Couch to 5K running plan. And on Sunday, I even got Mark to go on a bike ride with me - 7.5 miles.

Not to mention all the yard work & gardening I did - I was pretty sore.

As a side note, a coworker recently turned me on to Turkey Hill fat free cherry fudge ripple ice cream. I normally don't do anything "fat free" but this is damn good.

JazmenFlowers · #**1091** 05-31-2007, 11:07 AM

^^^
I'm with you on the fat free stuff...plus, I've heard that "generally" low fat is better than fat free...healthwise. I can't remember why that is, but I remember it made sense. lol.

I just started Southbeach Diet Tuesday to try to get over this hump I'm in. this makes plateau #3. after this one, I'll be pretty much at my goal. then, I need to start toning up a lot.

skcin · #**1092** 05-31-2007, 03:35 PM

^ Well, you need some fat in your diet, but many people are seem to be terrified of it.

The fact that something's fat free certainly does not automatically make it healthy - and it doesn't mean you can eat as much of it as you want, lol. Not necessarily better for you either - many things that are fat free have more chemicals in them.

I heard once (and I'm sure I've posted this before) that margarine in 1 step away from being plastic - it's not really food, if you leave it in the sun for days it won't spoil or rot or anything - that grossed me out. So now I use actual regular butter (actually, Olivio, which is butter with some flaxseed oil in it) in small amounts rather than fat free margarine - that stuff is hydogenated crap.

DrummerDeanna · #**1093** 05-31-2007, 03:50 PM

^^

Scary. I use Brummel and Brown....I wonder how that compares.

I'm doing well, still on the exercise routine, but will see what happens when I move and no longer have a gym. By the end of the summer I'm hoping to buy an elliptical machine, and in the meantime keep biking to work and whatnot.

My diet is getting back on track, I'm eating better and finally making an actual effort to balance things out, get more veggies and fruit etc.

JazmenFlowers · #**1094** 05-31-2007, 04:05 PM

you mean you bitches aren't using coconut oil! argh!!!

amber · #**1095** 05-31-2007, 04:40 PM

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Originally Posted by JazmenFlowers

you mean you bitches aren't using coconut oil! argh!!!

Tug me, wanker.

Before I noticed your smart ass, I was writing to say I just started South Beach phase 1, too. But for a kickstart rather than the last of many pounds.

It's not too hard, I like it. It has worked well before. I had a serious Now and Later addiction going, too, that I need to break.

And I am using coconut oil. I stopped using it last weekend and I gained weight. Coincidence? Probably.